The Forum is a public domain of reflection. Using a local network of microphones connected through a Max patch, the forum takes your voice and stores it in a pool of collective memories which then plays back in a generative fashion using the multichannel panels/transducers speakers as output.

Instrument credits:

Martin Lundfall: concept, production
Massimiliano Cerioni: concept, instrument sound development (RNBO/MAX)
Miguel La Corte: concept, production.
Stratos Bichakis: Lighting Design

Connected through an OSC network, the pendulum represented a physical interaction point of the online version of the instrument. Any changes done on the digital instrument would be perceived on the space @hauberlin and vice versa, changes on the pendulum movement would be perceived on the online instrument sound and interface.

It’s comprised of an accelerometer, projector, stainless steel chain, metal frame on bearings, OSC network, socket.io network, p5.js and Max MSP through RNBO.

The Pendulum has been conceived by:

Martin Lundfall: concept, visualisation, production
Massimiliano Cerioni: sound development (RNBO/MAX)
Miguel La Corte: concept, production
Santiago Burelli: pendulum design, concept & fabrication
Stratos Bichakis: interaction design, development and lighting design.

Both Perc and Pulse are two different variations of the same algorithm for mutual synchronization inspired by biological systems and adopted for sound creation by Stratos Bichakis. Head here to try it.

As a liberation from the locked groove that much of the music seems to have fallen into, the algorithm developed suggests a playful alternative to creatively explore the potential of the fragile states beyond fierce synchronicity and expand the temporal polyphony.

Video Demonstrates a live jamming dynamic occurring during the festival.

Stratos Bichakis: concept, algorithm design (RNBO/MAX)
Martin Lundfall: visualisation
Web app architecture: Attila Haraszti
Network infrastructure: Attila Haraszti, Martin Lundfall

Compendium of graphic design done by Miguel La Corte for Installation promotion and museography included:

• - 32 page CC0 Booklet design and writing
• - CTM 2023 Installation reference information design, printing and space curation
• - Hackathon and Exhibition promotion design and printing

As part of the installation’s programming, an event was organized and developed  in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Venezuela. Using the CC0 instruments, an international jamming session was facilitated with more than 20 remote participants, including children aged 10 to 12 from the San Blas community in Petare.

Since Petare is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Latin America, access to expensive electronic music equipment like iPads is very limited. With support from the Goethe Institute and the civil association Uniendo Voluntades (@uniendovoluntades19), the children were transported to the Goethe Institute library in Caracas, where they were provided with iPads to join the session online.

In addition to the jam itself, the workshop included an introduction to electronic music and a closing discussion about the shared challenges of playing together. Overall, the workshop aimed to show the children both the potential and the difficulties of making things collectively.

Through a process of collaboration in the form of a hackathon, CC0 emerges as a collection of instruments for collective creation.

Evoking tools and systems of social organization, 3 instruments were carefully composed: “The Forum, Pendulum and Pulse”.

By November 2022, we created an open call for the development of the exhibition, in the frame of a hackathon.

The development of instruments of collective creation was set as the core structure of the exhibition; the hackathon leveraged on the newly announced RNBO tool by @c74connect as the core infrastructure for the instruments to be developed upon.

It is within this context where CC0 (Collective Control 0) was created. Through a process of collaboration in the form of a hackathon, CC0 emerges as a collection of instruments for collective creation.

Evoking tools and systems of social organization, 3 instruments were carefully composed: “The Forum, Pendulum and Pulse”.

By August 2022, a full proposal and technical prototype was developed. The first concept (Proposal A), presented in September 2022, envisioned mobile devices equipped with RFID trackers, each offering a specific musical interface. As participants moved closer to one another, they would hear each other more clearly and could start jamming, while online participants would see a live view of the physical space and join in remotely. This proposal, which they intended to develop with the Berlin-based brand USOMO, was ultimately discarded due to data privacy concerns.

CC0 grew out of the 2022 workshop “Prototyping Sonic Institutions” organized by the Berlin collective Black Swan and CTM Festival.

In May 2022, Black Swan invited participants (selected via open call) to either propose music/sound projects or experiment with collective decision-making. Using Black Swan’s digital tools—especially Cygnet, a quadratic voting app—the group collectively decided how to allocate resources pledged by different partners.

After the voting round in June 2022, one of the successful projects was the Participative Audio Lab (PAL), which received a commission to develop an exhibition at HAU2 for CTM Festival 2023.