Gamut Inc
Gamut Inc is an ensemble for computer-controlled music machines, founded in 2011 by the musician Marion Wörle and the composer Maciej Śledziecki . The ensemble consists of a small number of self-playing acoustic music machines specially developed for Gamut Inc, which are controlled live by the computer. In terms of appearance, the live performances by the ensemble are reminiscent of automatically playing orchestrions . The name is based on the tone system of the Guidonic hand (gamut).
Technical
One of the music machines is the computer-controlled 16-part carillon , another is reminiscent of an accordion and is called the physharmonica . With the Physharmonika, the computer not only intervenes in the tone structure of the machine, but also addresses the registers, creating effects reminiscent of an electronic filter. The BowJo, which is excited by electromagnets, is a double-choir stringed instrument with pickups driven by stepper motors.
When the ensemble performs live, the sounds are usually fed back into the computer and processed further (feedback), so that it is no longer possible to distinguish which sounds originate directly from the music machine and which are manipulated live by Wörle and Śledziecki. This creates a variety of constantly changing sound surfaces, with the acoustic machines in the tonal center.
Marion Wörle and Maciej Sledziecki live in Berlin. With Gamut Inc they have received compositions for the Cologne Eight Bridges Festival and invitations to the New Music Festival Montreal.
Web links
- Official website
- Gamut Inc in SWR 2 on December 3, 2014: [1] , and in Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 15, 2015: [2]
- Tagesspiegel from January 12, 2015: [3]