OSZILOT seeks to give forgotten and seemingly worthless found objects new meaning and significance. Suspended as pendulums and equipped with tiny sensors, these objects undergo a quasi-alchemical transformation, awakening to life through sound. They are transformed into animated, symbolic artifacts and given a soul that sonically expresses itself. As they swing at varying frequencies, they generate constantly shifting rhythms, soundscapes, and abstract musical structures.
The audiovisual pendulum ensemble represents a unique form of live electronic music performance, in which the act of sound generation is visualized in a physical way and becomes intuitively comprehensible. The idea that objects possess a spirit of their own serves as a guiding principle in our exploration of the relationship between humans, objects, and the environment.
The laws of pendulum physics were discovered in the 15th century by Galileo Galilei and are among the cornerstones of scientific description. From a musical perspective, what makes pendulums particularly interesting is their ability to swing in a steady rhythm, independent of the force applied. The tempo of this oscillation is determined solely by the length of the string from which the object hangs.
Using small motion sensors, we convert the pendulums’ movement into sound. Thus, the pendulum installation functions like a primitive, analog drum machine, whose rhythms we can change by adjusting the lengths of the strings. The imprecision of our various pendulums create constantly changing rhythmic patterns with a hypnotic quality. An archaic, physical world is connected with the possibilities of digital sound synthesis.
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In the digital cosmos of infinite musical possibilities, working with pendulum objects provides us with a stimulating creative framework. The limitations inherent to the project serve not as obstacles, but serve as guidelines that allow us to discover unexpected, surprising and sometimes strange audiovisual combinations.
The goal of our music and performances is to evoke a sense of sensitivity, wonder, childlike curiosity, and deceleration.
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