Transducción – TRIAC Collective

TRANSDUCER: device that transforms a type of energy into another, receiving the signal of a mechanical, electromagnetic or acoustic system and retransmitting it: microphones and speakers are transducers. Other examples are electromagnetic transducers that evidence sounds produced by electromagnetic fields.

 

Through this workshop, it was sought to amplify the soundsphere inherent to a specific environment, amplifying to the audible field physical phenomena that surround us like electromagnetism, evidencing its sonority through handmade building of transducers, devices that will enable the electromagnetic mapping of the city, identifying its many radiation focuses and its translation into sounds.

COORDINATORS:

Triac is a project for experimental music and visual exploration with analogous and digital technologies, approaching different types of tools in the production of real time propositions, thus elaborating a range of events and sequences pre and post programmed in the treatment of sound and its translation to the visual field, aiming to promote in the receptor a diegetic reading.

The initiative is based in self-taught research and exploration of physical and virtual sources of information, for that purpose visiting places to buy and sell recycled electronic material and acquiring many devices for posterior manipulation or alteration, in such a way to result in objects either out of context or far from its original functions, such as: the infrared sensor of remote controllers and its sound translation; intervention in radios and video recorders [circuit bending]; elaboration of homemade devices such as oscillators, sound effects, electromagnetic sensors and contact microphones; use of motion and light sensors and processing of audio and video signals in real time through the use of programming environments such as Max/MSP.

The Peruvian collective is formed by Rolando Apolo, Gabriel Castillo and Omar Córdova.

OBSERVATIONS

Workshop in Spanish with no translation.

DATES AND TIME:

10th to 12th of December of 2010, from 14 to 18h

Duration: 12 hours

PLACE:

Marginalia+Lab: Avenida Brasil, 75, conjunto 3 – Santa Efigênia, Belo Horizonte – Brazil

 

CREDITS:

Investigation and conceptualization:

Colectivos ALOARDI – Peru – Gabriel Castillo, Christian Galarreta and Felipe del Agüila.
Colectivo APO33 – France.
Transducción – Electromagnetic

Omar Cordova – Peru
Transducción – Infra-red

Thanks to:

Colectivo Azucrina – Brazil – Vanessa De Michelis and Manuel Andrade