in the seminar room of the ECA

For fans of electronic music, the American sound artist Derek Holzer will transform graphic images into sounds using 20th century technologies in his impressive performance TONEWHEELS on a completely analog set.

Specially constructed transparent sound wheels and disks with different patterns and shapes are rotated via light-sensitive electronic circuits to create vibrations in sound and light and generate a live visual and acoustic experience for the audience.

The set will be performed live and entirely without computers in order to push the boundaries of “modern” technologies and open up completely new avenues in the field of electronic music. Overhead projectors are used as a light source to create sound from light. The working processes visible to the audience are intended to open up the “black box” of electronic music and video. The audience will experience a set of cables, speakers, mixing consoles, circuits, images projected onto the wall and sound, which has already become rather unusual in the age of computers.

Derek Holzer is a fellow of the Lower Saxony Foundation for Media Art 2014.

Artist homepage with videos: http://macumbista.net/

Derek Holzer (1972) is an American instrument maker and sound artist. In his work, he is interested in DIY analog electronics, the relationship between sound and space, media archaeology, and the intersections of electroacoustics, noise, sound, improvisation and experimentation. Holzer has been performing live, giving workshops and creating scores for unique instruments and installations throughout Europe, North and South America and New Zealand since 2002. Holzer currently lives in Berlin.