May 5, 20090
FITC reMIX.
Feb 22, 20091
Spallation Project.
SPALLATION
In general, spallation is a process in which fragments of material (spall)
are ejected from a body due to impact or stress. In nuclear physics, it is
the process in which a heavy nucleus emits a large number of nucleons as a
result of being hit by a high-energyparticle, thus greatly reducing
its atomic weight. In the context of impact physics it describes ejection or
vaporization of material from a target during impact by a projectile.
In planetary physics, spallation describes meteoritic impacts on a planetary
surface and the effects of a stellar wind on a planetary atmosphere. In the
context of mining or geology, spallation can refer to pieces of rock
breaking off a rock face due to the internal stresses in the rock; it
commonly occurs on mine shaft walls. In the context ofanthropology,
spallation is a process used to make stone tools such
as arrowheads by knapping.
Ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spallation
As an a/v performance. spallation is based on visual and sonic fragments -
broken-off instances of the commonplace and the extraordinary reconfigured
as a reconstruction of a memory (the reconstruction of a reconstruction).
the audio is comprised of fragmented field recordings - layers of pixelated
instances sourced from empty commercial spaces, ice fields, VHF and
shortwave recordings, as well as the more familiar soundscape of daily
life.
The video portion uses algorhythms programmed to respond to the
characteristics of the audio signal, the output of which is then further
manipulated using custom software and real-time coding.
The end result is a hypnotic meditation on the structures and rhythms that
re-appear from these reconstituted fragments, an investigation into the new
networks that are created in the spaces between.
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Music:
Michael Trommer
Michael Trommer is a Toronto based producer and visual artist who has recorded for such top electronic music labels as Transmat, Wave, Truffle, Stasisfield, Interchill, Monocromatica, Thinner and con-v. He records under his own name, as well as aliases such as ’sans soleil’, ‘minidisco’, ‘Hydraulic’,and ‘Manitou2′.
Broad-minded in his approach to electronic music, Michael also creates gallery-based audio installation work. 2005 saw him creating a site-specific sound installation for Australia’s ‘Liquid Architecture’ exhibition. Another of his recent works was a net-based audio-manipulation project which was part of the ‘from 0 to 1 and back again’ exhibition at Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt; this became the subject of many radio specials on both Deutsche Welle and Hessischer Rundfunk. In 2000, his work was nominated for the Prix Italia for experimental music. His field-recording based material has been featured on London’s Resonance FM, www.vagueterrain.net, www.insine.net, www.monocromatica.com, and www.stasisfield.com. A site-specific field-recording based installation is being exhibited in New York state’s upper Catskill forest (www.restlessculture.net/deepwoods) from the end of May.
Contact:
trommer@sympatico.ca
http://www.myspace.com/mtrommer
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