De Koog is a multi-media exploration that fuses together electronics and acoustics, light and sound, man and machine. It can be watched, touched, played, heard and experienced both as performer or audience. Its eyes and ears take in data from the surroundings and it responds to these stimuli with jittering visuals, harsh synthesis and animal screams. 4 TV screens glare out from it's 360 degree position changing and reacting to the sensory data drawn from it's surroundings. The human members of De Koog, at times performing with the machine and at times observing with the audience, work to tame this symbiotic creation of light and sound.

In the creation of De Koog we utilize the following sensory and sound generative processes/devices:
– Arduino sensors including; laser, light, sound, vibration and pressure used as triggers/controls
– Sound triggered visuals and visual triggered sound
– 4 TV screens display 4 independent live visual streams
– 4 way speaker system co-ordinates with the visuals
– 4 lasers control aspects of the visuals and sound
– Acoustic instruments (drums and woodwind) interact with the soundworld
– Electronic sound generated using DIY instruments (by Ciat-Lombarde), no-input mixer and analogue synthesis

http://vimeo.com/64406739

De Koog

Interactive installation featuring a typewriter, a crt tv and stereo sound.

Tesla Room

Die 12. Ausgabe des Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festivals (LUFF) wartet vom 16. bis 20. Oktober mit einem exquisiten Programm auf, bestehend aus 98 Filmen sowie 28 Konzerten und Performances, welche der Logik der Geldmacherei entsagen. Punkpapst Jello Biafra und Smegma reisen aus Kalifornien an. Aus Japan beehren uns Katsu Kanai - der Kaiser des Surrealismus - sowie die Super-Gruppe um Otomo Yoshihide und die Newcomer 
von Endon das Festival. 

http://vimeo.com/78163646

LUFF

Silla is the upcoming large scale installation of Tokyo Data Collective. It develops concepts and techniques first explored in the project De Koog, giving them a new dimension.

A floating matrix of bright white LED lights – each of them having its independent movement and height – hangs to the ceiling of the space, offering an impression of a big cushion floating in the air. To enable new lectures of the given informations, an sharp tridimensional structure made of mirrors will lay on the floor below the installation. The sound universe, made of avant-garde sound design combined with traditional musical elements, will be played on a surround system, helping to create a total immersion for the audience.

A tactile 27 inch terminal will be the interface creating communication between the public and the installation. Users will be an active part of the installation, influencing parameters such as light, positions, and sound in an intuitive and playful manner, becoming actors for a certain time. Most of the data used to give life to Silla will be based on environmental statistics, obtained amongst other by the World Meteorological Organization and the statistics department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation.

Silla has two goals. On one hand, the project wants to bring attention on environmental questions through a reflexive interpretation, making visible aspects of the environmental and urban landscape’s evolution. These statistics will be displayed on the interface guiding the most curious visitors within the installations‘ space, but as well out of it through media platforms of the collective. Lastly, these informations will be adapted to the geographical location of the current exhibition, as well as to latest news. On the other hand, the interaction between the public and the highly immersive installation is a symbol for the impact an individual – as well as the collectivity – has on his environment. It questions our responsibility and our lucidity. With Silla, the artists of the collective seek to inspire a positive and responsible attitude as well as curiosity toward our living environment.

The installation is intended for a large public, but with an accent on the younger generation who will likely be confronted to deep questions about environmental issues and the way a society is made up.

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