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MusraraMix, Jerusalem

julian — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:17:16 +0000

We just started packing for our first trip to Israel! We’re very happy to be invited to this year’s MusraraMix Festival in Jerusalem. The festival is organized by The Naggar School and takes place from 22.–24.05.2012.

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The Wild

michael — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:50:59 +0000

On 21st of June 2011, Berlin.

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Corner Shot, Live Painting Performance with Klub 7

michael — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:55:07 +0000

On the 1st of July 2011, Klub 7 celebrated the publishing of the first book about their art-collective at Schaufenster, a gallery for contemporary art in Kreuzberg. Klub 7 invited us to join in for a collaborational live Printing/Painting-Session at the opening. We both enjoyed the contrasts between our physical computing and Klub 7′s fine manual skills.

All evening we felt like beeing part of this Stylebattle of RUN DMC and Aerosmith in ‘Walk this Way’. When we all stepped back to see were we ended up, Diskorobot from Klub7 said: “To me that’s grafitti in 2011!”. Let’s go back to the future.

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Cheshire Cat, Warsaw

michael — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:01:18 +0000

It was our old collegue Michael Okraj from designerdeutsch who brought us to our first printing-action in Poland. For Goethe-Institut Warszawie he curated the exibition ’Design in Aktion’ in Mokotowska Street, Warsaw. On 9th of June we performed at the opening in a beautiful backyard.

Cheshire Cat: But I grin and bear it!
Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland.

Thank you very much Katarzyna Bialousz for organising this exibition so perfectly.

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ELECTRIC, a Workshop with Apparatjik

michael — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:51:43 +0000

From 23th to 27th of May 2011, Sonice Development was invited to join the workshop ‘ELECTRIC’ at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design in Halle. An amazing recipy for 5 days: car-parts, the band Apparatjik, SOME art-design-magazine, Proessor Sven Voelker, a handful of extremly motivated students and us. Alltogether we were looking for an interpretation of Moholy Nagy’s artwork ‘Light-Space-Modulator’. Professor Sven Voelker and his Students release the SOME-Magazine twice a year. The next issue will deal with the topic ‘ELECTRIC’ and show the workshop and it’s results. Here you see a preview.

Magne Furholmen and Jonas Bjerre from Apparatjik gave a short lecture on the first day. Reporting about their ways of working together as a band, about their gig at Neue Nationalgallerie Berlin and about quantum physics.

Brainstorming, discussing, trying out and finally choosing the ways to go: We´ll build a rotopainter, a water-light-experiment-box, a complex shadow arrangement of car-parts and some poems.

‘Electric Dream’. “We’ll be together– together in electric dreams.”, quote taken from the movie-picture ‘Bladerunner’. Machine-parts having the ambition of being beautiful and human.

‘Multi Aqua Dimensionator’ a kinetic Light-Sculpure after Moholy-Nagy’s Light-Space-Modulator. The sculpture, its shadow and and its reflection show a synchronised multiplication of the moving water. Like a magnifier it gives us the chance to see.

Thank you everybody for the good times!

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“Leave!” Pièce de Résistance, Amsterdam (Update)

michael — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:01:00 +0000

On saturday, 24th of April 2011, we were invited to join the opening of the exibition “Pièce de Résistance” at Mediamatic in Amsterdam. We flew over and contributed a quick and dirty 10min print-performance quoting the arabic word: “Leave!”. A direct imperatif of the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen to their dictators: Beat it!

Moataz Nasreldin in front of his work ’25th of january’, an arrangement of handwritten protest-signs from the egyptian revolution. To the right Mike Ballards ‘whose coat is the jacket you’re wearing’. (Photos by Mar-Ina Uhrig)

Saron Paz‘ work ‘story store’ on the left side. The ‘perpetual story telling apparatus’ by Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus to the right. The exibition Pièce de Résistance runs from April 24 to June 25 2011. Location: Mediamatic Bank, Vijzelstraat 68 Amsterdam. Opened daily from 13:00 to 19:00.

Leave! Egyptian Protesters in January 2011 photographed by Zeinab Mohamed.

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Prägung

michael — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:02:59 +0000

A percussive working process as spacial installation, a cooperation of Harald Christ and Sonice Development.

When our friend Harald asked us some months ago, if we would like to get involved into a spacial-accoustic installation we did not guess where it would take us to. Shooting onto metal.

Sheet metal membranes, similar to an orchestral thunder sheet, are transformed physically and acoustically by our kinetic-pneumatic robot. The installation offers two distinct perpectives:
First the objectroom: Facing the membrane, you experience a multisensoric energetic transformation. You are visually attracted, physically protected and accoustically repulsed by the membrane.
Second the machineroom: The cycle-process is revealed, the membrane is now perceived as merely being one part of a more complex system, consisting of the pneumatic robot, the polyamid projectiles and the conveyer for returning the projectiles. From both perspectives the materiality is drastically tangible while opening a surface to spatiality, the membranes remain as storage media of the process.

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Embossing – A Percussive Working Process

julian — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:47:01 +0000

A robot forming a membrane from physical distance, as part of a sound-emitting-cycle in continuous change.
Cooperation of Harald Christ and Sonice Development.

The installation is part of the exhibition “Aufhörn!” – the masters presentation of the program “Sound Studies” of the UdK Berlin.

Opening on saturday, 19.03.2011, 7-10pm in the “Salon zur Wilden Renate”, Alt-Strahlau 70, 10245 Friedrichshain. S Bhf. Ostkreuz.

The exhibition will also be open on sunday (20.03.), wednesday (23.03.) and thursday (24.03.) from 6pm to 10pm.

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Freedom of Speech

michael — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:41:47 +0000

On Saturday, December 11th, we waded through mud up to our ankels to prepare the promised Freedom of Speech wall. During our trip to Sweden we learned our lessons about printing under bad weather conditions. So we brought a fully taped and professionally trashbag-wrapped Facadeprinter with us. It handled the snow much better than our feet the wet shoes and so we came up with a trouble free 1.4m to 12m lettering. It somehow gave a certain rush to see the word “FREE” growing dot after dot on this wall so close to the former inner German border, opposite the newly constructed building of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (German intelligence service).
A handfull of die-hard spectators and friends welcomed every letter and finally we toasted to the “fragile freedom” with hot wine punch. Thanks for the pleasant afternoon to everone at the set, the writers whose pieces we painted over and Artitude e.V. for the permission.

Wishes for the coming year?
Write them on the wall.

All the best for 2011!

Michael, Martin and Julian
Sonice Development

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Freedom of Speech

julian — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:14:25 +0000

We believe in freedom of speech. See some live-printing-action tomorrow at 2pm behind the Tape Club in Berlin. Come out and join us. Bring spraycans and markers if you like.

To the citizens of Berlin:
Freedom is fragile.
Let us keep in mind that these achievements
need our caring.

There will be (a small amount) of hot wine punch, so the cold Berlin winter cannot be an excuse for not joining us.

Saturday, 11.12.2010, 2pm
Heidestraße 14, 10557 Berlin
Behind the Tape Club, Map

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