{"id":3387,"date":"2014-09-02T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ima.or.at\/?page_id=3387"},"modified":"2014-09-25T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:58:58","slug":"die-battistini-methode","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/imanarchiv-residency\/die-battistini-methode\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battistini Method"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"J\u00f6rg<\/a>

J\u00f6rg Mager (quelle: de.wikipedia.org)<\/p><\/div>\n

ORF Kunstradiosendung 14 09 23:03 2014 by Norbert Math<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the past eight years, the IMA Institute of Media Archaeology has compiled a comprehensive image-sound-text archive. As part of the IMAnarchiv Residency, artists have been invited to inscribe themselves in this memory and to compare this with their own or other memories.<\/p>\n

In 2008\/2009 the Institute of Media Archaeology organised the exhibition \u201cMagical Sound Machines\u201d at the Kulturfabrik Hainburg where a huge range of inventions for generating, recording and transmitting electronic sound was not only on display but could be played as well. The exhibition, plus performances, sound recordings and publications make up the body of an archive. This archive, which can in part be accessed online at http:\/\/klangmaschinen.ima.or.at\/db\/<\/a> is the point of departure of Nobert Math\u2019s artistic explorations.<\/p>\n

On 13 December 1900 the British physicist William Duddell presented to the London Institution of Electrical Engineers an instrument which makes music with light: the singing (or \u201cmusical\u201d) arc is basically an electric arc which is tuned by means of a special switching so as to play music. It also produces a remote effect, since it turns out that nearby carbon arc lamps will hum along with the melody generated. Two years after the presentation of the \u201cmusical arc\u201d, Valdemar Poulsen was able to transfer this basic switching configuration to high frequency oscillations and thereby built the first efficient radio transmitter.<\/p>\n

This means, there was a short moment of transition of a musical instrument into the radio \u2013 a moment where one thing becomes another. \u201cWith radio, a new age of music begins.\u201d (J\u00f6rg Mager)<\/p>\n

In his explorations Math goes back in time to the point when the concepts of the new were still blurred \u2013 when the lines between terms such as \u201cradio\u201d, \u201ctelephone\u201d and \u201celectronics\u201d weren\u2019t drawn yet \u2013 when these terms, rather, were projection surfaces, vague visions of the future, of possibilities and wishful thinking. We know the outcome and it has become the world we live in. Still it is sometimes appealing to take a step backwards; to imagine \u2013 if only in a playful way \u2013 living at a point in time when everything was possible and nothing had been decided yet.<\/p>\n

Just as much as the above-mentioned utopias are projections of the future, so much they are based on the past. It is the photos of voices from an earlier time which are transmitted to us on a \u201cghost piano\u201d, so to speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could thus force Battistini today to perform melodies that were composed after his death by photographing for the instrument a single tone from a Battistini album and recording it on the disks.\u201d *)<\/p>\n

The electric arc of the radio\/electric music-making machine spans the dimension of time and assumes the voices of the dead.<\/p>\n

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\"aus<\/a>

aus dem Superpiano Patent<\/p><\/div>\n

*) Das Spielmannsche Lichtklavier, in: Radiowelt 1929, issue 3, p.73. Excerpted from: Peter Donhauser, Elektrische Klangmaschinen, Die Pionierzeit in Deutschland und \u00d6sterreich. Boehlau Wien 2007, p.60.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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