The interactive installation 'The Hum Mantra' will be premiered on saturday 15th of july (17.00-22.00) in Topolò-Grimacco (Ud), Italy, during the 'Stazione Topolò' festival.
'The Hum Mantra' has been inspired from the Pauline Oliveros sentence: 'The Mantra of electonic age is Hum rather then Om' (On Sonic meditation-Software for people)
The hum is the one originated from 50 or 60 hz electricity driven engines or similar devices...
This frequency has been proven to be the 'inner' base of our tuning (R. Murray Schafer-The tuning of the world).
So the pitches will be tuned on 50hz and a just intonation tuning is used.
It will be a long mantra tuned on the Hum (not really on the Hum but tuned on 50hz multiple frequencies).
Using an external device the electric will be scanned and the deviations from the 50hz sinus will be passed via midi to the linux pc running pd so that new sound events will be generated.
Many thanks to Miller Puckette for pd, Guenter Geiger for ggext library and support, to Karl W. MacMillan for the tmtof object, to Winfried Ritsch and to Pauline Oliveros and R. Murray Schafer a never ending source of inspiration.
Additional info about the festival can be found at http://www.friul.it/topolo
Regards
Alessandro Fogar
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