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Gray
Stefanie Grawe aka Gray is a
Cologne-based artist, designer and musician with a passion for graphic design, music production and audiovisual media.
The Hacking Orchestra
Misusing everyday things, forming a band, producing music and performing live.
What is the audiovisual character of a thing? How can it be sensually invented, re-interpreted, and transformed within the context of a band? In a ten-day short-term project, participants formed together as dialoguing futurists and bizarre musicians, delving into the »principles of misuse« of objects to explore pitch singularities and through modes of »instant playing«, formed The Hacking Orchestra.
Our live performance at Köln International School of Design (9.12.2016) centered on a wired sound park of found objects, including blenders mixed in automated percussion, effected razors and power tools, synthesized marbles, amplified water, a stroked radiator, a sensorized referee stand, and a destroyed TV.
Invited to perform again at NODE17 Forum for Digital Arts – Designing Hope (07.2017 in Frankfurt), four participants of us committed to continuing the project, redesigning the format for a smaller ensemble and meeting regularly to hack together acoustic and electronic instruments, improvising music through unconventional hardware and software inputs and outputs.
Band
Stefanie Grawe, Kyosuke Ishii, Alejandro Juarez, Dieter Pilger, Jakob Plöns, Martin Simpson, Dino Jin Tanaka
Supervised by
Prof. Nina Juric, Prof. Andreas Muxel
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