November:

16-11-2016 — 30-11-2016

Bang Spring Time (2009-2016)  at the  XXIII FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL PUNTO DE ENCUENTRO, organized by AMEE  at the Centro del Carmen, Valencia.

 

and  16-11-2016 première of Último Esfuerzo Industrial IV (Bosch & Simons + Liberovskaya)

 video Último Esfuerzo Industrial IV (2016)

First collaboration with Katherine Liberovskaya at the XXIII Festival Punto de Encuentro,

Museo Centro Del Carmen (Valencia), organised by AMEE, 16-11-2016.
Peter Bosch & Simone Simons: Live sound
Katherine Liberovskaya: Live Video and live plasma light.

Full programme of the festival:

XXIII FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL PUNTO DE ENCUENTRO

More about the works:

https://www.boschsimons.com/bang-spring-time/

https://www.boschsimons.com/ultimo-esfuerzo-industrial-i-and-ii-2012-2014/

June:

02-06-2016 —  05-06-2016:

Radical dB Festival at

Etopía

Avenida Ciudad de Soria, 8, 50003 Zaragoza, Spain.

Friday,  June 3 we gave a concert with Último Esfuerzo Industrial II together with Marco Ferrazza and the winner of the competition, Juan Antonio Nieto.

Sound recording of concert with Último Esfuerzo Industrial II, 03-06-2016:

Full programme of the festival at

https://radicaldb.es/artistas-2/2016-2

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/radicaldb/

 February-May:

10-02-2016 – 21-05-2016: Mirlitones at exhibition

Arte sonoro en España (1961-2016), Museo Fundación Juan March,

Carrer de Sant Miquel, 11, 07002 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Curators: José Iges and José Luis Maire. Artists (among many others): Mikel Arce, José Manuel Berenguer, Xabier Erkizia, Ramón González-Arroyo, Concha Jerez and Javier Maderuelo.

 

New video, recorded at the Museo Fundación Juan March, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2016.

For this occasion we changed lots of things like the types of valves we use (the work works with compressed air), the software, the length of pipes and, being the most important change, the type of membrane that produces the sound.

 

New article:

https://econtact.ca/18_2/bosch-simons_mirlitones.html

 Bosch & Simons, Mirlitones, 2012-13

Links:

https://www.march.es/arte/palma/exposiciones/arte-sonoro/?l=1

https://www.hoyesarte.com/evento/2016/02/la-gran-exposicion-sobre-el-arte-sonoro-espanol/

https://masdearte.com/arte-sonoro-e-informalismo-en-2016-en-la-fundacion-march/

April:

11-04-2016 – 15-04-2016: Art and Science Festival,

9 Evenings Revisited: seminar, first phase.

Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Germany.

Workshop “Vibration Motor” for refugee kids, together with  Angela Straube, Sergey Kostyrko and Ina Schulze.

Video of the workshop by Hagen Wiel:

https://www.facebook.com/candace.a.goodrich/videos/10154111186174244/

Web page KunstKraftWerk

January:

15-01-2016, 19:30 h: The Wrong Biennale,

concert with Último Esfuerzo Industrial II

at “Altered Search Results” with

David Quiles, Belén Gache, Gustavo Romano, Julio Sosa y Moisés Mañas

Organised by Cristina Ghetti.

Plutón CC
c/ en Plom 5 Bajo Izq.
46001 Valencia, Spain.

https://thewrong.org/Altered-Search-Results

https://www.pluton.cc/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1510048785957584/

Complete list below the picture gallery. 

 

Cantan un Huevo

19-09-2015 – 13-12-2015: Musiques/Machines,

Fort du Bruisson, Francheville, France.

Other Works:
Musicamobile: Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou
Sonik Cube: Trafik & Yann Orlarey
Mandala (D’Ore et d’espace): Denys Vinzant
Ici même, le temps des traces, longtemps: Pascal Frament, Jean-François Estager, Henri-Charles Caget
Air Machine 1 & 2: Ondřej Adámek

Curator : James Giroudon

meer over “Musiques/Machines”

 

Mirlitones

22-10-2015 – 25-10-2015: Festival INTRAMURS,

Museu de l´Iber, Valencia, España.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1700353003518365/

 

Último Esfuerzo Industrial III

18-09-2015 — 14-11-2015: A.N.T. Technological art and natures.

Galería Punto, Valencia, España. Con

José Antonio Orts, Hugo Martínez-Tormo, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Solimán López and Enrique Radigales.

meer over A.N.T.

 

IVAM, Valencia, Spain.

29-10- 2015: A.N.T: Discussion with José Ramón Alcalá, Hugo Martínez-Tormo, Bosch & Simons, Solimán López and Enrique Radigales.

https://www.facebook.com/IVAMonline/photos/a.192318397458067.41003.186907584665815/965592706797295/?type=3&theater

 

Último Esfuerzo Rural II

29-08-2015 – 20-09-2015: Eufònic,

Museu de la mar de l´Ebre, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Spain.

https://www.eufonic.net/inauguracio-ultim-esforc-rural-ii-de-bosch-simons/

 

Mirlitones, workshop and talk at Sound Travels festival, NAISA, Toronto, Canada.

15-08-2015 – 22-08-2015:

meer over NAISA, Toronto

 

El Teixit de Somnis

27-07-2015 – 31-07-2015: Instalation for Fibres Campus. Mas de Barberans, Spain.

With Carles Alcoy, Joan Farré, Mònica Guilera, Tim Johnson y Josep Mercader.

https://www.facebook.com/racodelsartesans/posts/1665292053706882

 

Krachtgever

12-07-2015 — 25-10-2015: CHV/Noordkade, Veghel, Netherlands.

meer over Cultuur Haven Veghel

 

Performance with Llorenç Barber and our dancing robots

13-05-2015: 3^rd floor of hostal Barraca, Valencia.

organised by BARACCA, the Netherlands. Exhibition with Maurice Bogaerts, Rob Bothof, Tuan Gizmotron, Ibrahim R Ineke, Yvo van der Vat, Bosch & Simons.

https://www.baracca.nl/

 

Concerts with Último Esfuerzo Industrial II

21-01-2015: Centro Cultural Puertas de Castilla, Murcia, Spain.

23-01-2015: CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain

https://audiopoliscentrocentro.wordpress.com/?s=bosch+simons

Integrale opname van de performance van Peter Bosch en Llorenç Barber met de dansende robots van Bosch & Simons in Hostal Barraca, Valencia. Tentoonstelling in Hostal Barraca, georganiseerd door Baracca, Dordrecht/Den Haag, mei 2015.


Woensdag 13 mei, 2015 vond er een door BARACCA georganiseerde tentoonstelling plaats op de derde verdieping van hostal Barraca, Valencia, onderdeel van een serie tentoonstellingen en performances op plekken met dezelfde naam. Met Maurice Bogaerts, Rob Bothof, Tuan Gizmotron, Ibrahim R Ineke, Yvo van der Vat, Bosch & Simons. Performance van Llorenç Barber en Peter Bosch.


meer over Baracca….


Foto´s: Yvo van der Vat

Último Esfuerzo Industrial II, shot in our studio, October 2014

 

Último Esfuerzo Industrial II was premiered at the MEM festival

at November 7, 2014.  It was shown there  until November 29 at the

MEM Exhibition Hall, Harrobi Plaza 4, Bilbao, Spain 

More about the MEM Festival

January 2015 UEI II was performed in two live concerts, together with Matteo Marangoni:

-Wednesday January 21st, 2015, at 9 PM: Centro Puertas de Castilla, Murcia

-Friday January 23rd, 2015, at 8 PM: CentroCentro, Madrid

 

programme:

Bosch & Simons: Último Esfuerzo Rural II

Matteo Marangoni: Echo Moire and Lampyridae (in collaboration with Dieter Vandoren)

links:

Puertas de Castilla, Murcia

CentroCentro, Madrid

 

Pictures from concert with Último Esfuerzo Industrial II, MEM festival, November 7, 2014 and in Murcia and Madrid, January 2015.

 

Sound recordings:

At the concerts in Bilbao the sound was being amplified only with the four bass amps while in Murcia and Madrid the sounds were sent to a mixer from the line outputs of the amps and then distributed with a bigger sound system with more spacial and dynamical control. The first 2:30 of this recording comes from Murcia, while the following 10 minutes is an excerpt from  Madrid. The concerts lasted 30 minutes.

Excerpt from concerts in Murcia and Madrid, 21st and 23rd of  January, 2015. Press at the left side of the bar for play/pause

Recording of private concert, MEM Exhibition Hall, Bilbao, November 8, 2014. Press at the left side of the bar for play/pause

Último Esfuerzo Industrial II (2014)

 

Último Esfuerzo Industrial II consists of four electric motors, four frequency controllers, four contact microphones and four bass guitar amps that amplify the signals captured by the mics. The motors are mounted on ancient moulds for the production of cast iron from Puerto de Sagunto, an industrial town north of Valencia, founded at the beginning of the 20th century. These wooden moulds are not just pedestals they also function as sound chamber for the microphones. Together with the old second-hand motors with reduction gear and cogwheels they evoke the aesthetics and dreams of the futurist movement of an age ago. At that time, sound design and control were very limited, but now contemporary laptop performers enjoy almost infinite sonic possibilities. Último Esfuerzo Industrial II builds a bridge between these two eras with simple and direct means. The contact microphones do not only capture mechanical noise, but also the electromagnetic interferences caused by the pulse width modulation that is used for the speed control of the motors. The motors are being used as variable pulse width oscillators that produce a more dynamic and complex sound spectrum than the oscillators normally used in analogue electronic music. Their frequencies are being controlled with a computer when shown as autonomous installation and manually with analogue control units in concerts. At the MEM festival in Bilbao, November 2014, the work was exhibited during three weeks. At the opening concert only the four bass amps were used for amplification. In January 2015 two concerts were given in Murcia and Madrid. Here the sounds were sent to a mixer from the line outputs of the amps and then distributed with a large sound system with more spatial and dynamic control: an intense and immersive experience lasting 30 minutes. In future performances the work may be expanded to 5 or 6 motors.

Special thanks to FCV Patrimonio Industrial Puerto de Sagunto for providing us with cast iron moulds from their collection.

 https://fcvsagunto.wordpress.com/

During 14-18 August, 2013 Mirlitones was shown as part of the ICMC 2013 and the Totally Huge New Music Festival at the Kidogo Art Institute, Fremantle, Australia. For the occasion we made a new computer program based on data taken from seven planets. The length of the pipes is related to the diameter of these planets and the elapse in time of the dynamics for each pipe is deduced from day and night cycles. Each pipe is treated differently  resulting in a slow, hypnotizing, ever changing sound mix. A new phase in the development of the work.

Another, practical novelty is that the pipes were bought in Australia while all other essential materials were brought in the plane as personal luggage. A formula that can be performed worldwide with little transport costs.

August 17 bass clarinet player Krista Martynes improvised together with the installation after a short introduction on the work by Peter Bosch.

Sound recordings: (play/pause at the left part of the bars)

The 1^st track is a recording from the centre of the space when working as an autonomous installation, the 2^nd is an excerpt of a recording made by Johannes S. Sistermanns of the live improvisation.

Mirlitones at Kidogo Art Institute, Fremantle, Australia, 14-18 August 2013

Links:

http://thnmf2013.tura.com.au/shows/mirlitones/

http://icmc2013.com.au/

http://www.kidogo.com.au/

http://www.lontanomusic.com/review-of-notable-works-from-icmc-2013/   (Mirlitones at the bottom)

http://www.dordtyart.nl/

http://www.kristamartynes.com/

http://www.sistermanns.eu/

Mirlitones was commissioned by DordtYart, Dordrecht, Netherlands for the exhibition Kunst Werkt, April-September 2012.

Special thanks to Günter Geiger for his assistance in the development of the software.

financially supported by Performing Arts Fund, the Netherlands

Wilberforces at Winter Sparks, FACT, Liverpool
From Dec 13, 2012 until  February 24, 2013

Opening times:
Weekdays and Sunday: 12pm – 6pm
Saturday:                        11am – 6pm

Participants:
Edwin van der Heide Evolving Spark Network
Alexandre Burton      Impacts
Bosch & Simons         Wilberforces
Daksha Patel              Diffusion

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)

88 Wood Street
Liverpool,  L1 4DQ
+44(0)151 707 4464

 

Wilberforces is a new work within our long series of vibratory projects. The title refers directly to a phenomenon from science, the Wilberforce Pendulum. This pendulum is nothing more than a hung metal spring with below it a central weight plus eccentric weights for calibration. The secret of the system lies in conceiving a calibration in such a way that the resonant frequencies of vertical movement and rotation of a spring are so near to each other that once set in motion its movement can change gradually from vertical motion into rotation and vice-versa without adding energy from an external source. It is an example of a coupled mechanical oscillator, often used as a demonstration in physics education.

In Wilberforces three long springs are used for generating video and audio data. The springs have a length of around six meters, a size normally not found in physics laboratories and resulting in spectacular large and slow movements. Each spring is hung from above and attached to a pneumatic actuator that sporadically adds energy to the system. Below one of the springs hangs a video camera and microphone, below the other two hang tiny loudspeakers. Signals from the moving camera, mike and speakers provide the basic material for the sound and images produced by the work, obviously influenced by everything occurring in and around the FACT Atrium. The irregular motion of the springs can be tracked and experienced through a real time projection of further processed sound and image within a purpose-built dark space at the rear of the building.

Read more at http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/winter-sparks/bosch-simons-wilberforces/

This first version of Wilberforces has been produced by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). The preliminary research for the project was made possible with a grant of Fundación Arte y Derecho/VEGAP, Madrid.

Acknowledgements: Günter Geiger (software development) and Peter Van der Hoogt  (scientific research)

Mirlitones is gemaakt in opdracht van DordtYart, Dordrecht en maakte deel uit van de tentoonstelling “Kunst Werkt” april-september 2012 samen met de Krachtgever (1994-98). Zie www.dordtyart.nl

Mirlitones (2012)

Mirlitones is gemaakt in opdracht van DordtYart, Dordrecht. De titel verwijst naar  een familie van primitieve muziekinstrumenten die op vele plekken in de wereld voorkomt. Al deze instrumenten bestaan uit een holle vorm waarin geblazen of gezongen wordt en een erop bevestigd membraan dat hierdoor in trilling wordt gebracht. Het bekendste instrument uit de familie is de kazoo, tot in de huidige tijd gebruikt in de popmuziek.

Het startpunt van dit werk was het spectaculaire lawaai geproduceerd doorkinderen met minuscule plastic mirlitones in de optocht van de Begrafenis van de Sardien, het slot van het belangrijkste feest van de Spaanse stad Murcia. Net als in 2004, toen we reusachtige rommelpotten bouwden voor Último EsfuerzoRural creëren we een nieuwe context voor al eeuwenlang bestaande oerinstrumenten. Ook nu hebben de instrumenten veel grotere afmetingen dan hun voorgangers en produceren ze een geluidenwereld die nauwelijks bekend is in wat we muziek noemen. De installatie bestaat uit verticaal hangende pijpen, één tot drie meter lang, met aan de bovenkant een trillend membraan. De lucht, nodig om de membranen in trilling te brengen, komt uit een compressor en een netwerk van slangen en kranen dat wordt bestuurd door een computer. Kleine fluctuaties inde luchtdruk veroorzaken subtiele veranderingen in het geluid, dat veelal bestaat uit zeer lage frequenties, boventonen en fenomenen als zwevingen en verschiltonen die ontstaan door combinaties van geluiden uit verschillende pijpen. Doordat alle pijpen de lucht moeten delen van dezelfde, niet onbeperkte bron beïnvloeden ze ook elkaar, wat een fragiel en complex geluidssysteem oplevert, onvoorspelbaar tot in de kleinste details.

Mirlitones (2012)

Mirlitones is gemaakt in opdracht van DordtYart, Dordrecht. De titel verwijst naar een familie van primitieve muziekinstrumenten die op vele plekken in de wereld voorkomt. Al deze instrumenten bestaan uit een holle vorm waarin geblazen of gezongen wordt en een erop bevestigd membraan dat hierdoor in trilling wordt gebracht. Het bekendste instrument uit de familie is de kazoo, tot in de huidige tijd gebruikt in de popmuziek.

mirlitones-2012.mp3

Het startpunt van dit werk was het spectaculaire lawaai geproduceerd door kinderen met minuscule plastic mirlitones in de optocht van de Begrafenis van de Sardien, het slot van het belangrijkste feest van de Spaanse stad Murcia. Net als in 2004, toen we reusachtige rommelpotten bouwden voor Último Esfuerzo Rural creëren we een nieuwe context voor al eeuwenlang bestaande oerinstrumenten. Ook nu hebben de instrumenten veel grotere afmetingen dan hun voorgangers en produceren ze een geluidenwereld die nauwelijks bekend is in wat we muziek noemen. De installatie bestaat uit verticaal hangende pijpen, één tot drie meter lang, met aan de bovenkant een trillend membraan. De lucht, nodig om de membranen in trilling te brengen, komt uit een compressor en een netwerk van slangen en kranen dat wordt bestuurd door een computer. Kleine fluctuaties in de luchtdruk veroorzaken subtiele veranderingen in het geluid, dat veelal bestaat uit zeer lage frequenties, boventonen en fenomenen als zwevingen en verschiltonen die ontstaan door combinaties van geluiden uit verschillende pijpen. Doordat alle pijpen de lucht moeten delen van dezelfde, niet onbeperkte bron beïnvloeden ze ook elkaar, wat een fragiel en complex geluidssysteem oplevert, onvoorspelbaar tot in de kleinste details.

Último Esfuerzo Industrial was premiered at the festival Nits d´Aielo i Art , Valencia, 14-03-2012. More info about the festival at

http://www.sportingclubrussafa.com/index.php?…

Último Esfuerzo Industrial (2012)

Our work Último Esfuerzo Rural (“Last Rural Effort”) was premiered in Valencia at the Ensems festival of contemporary music in May 2004. It is composed of two complementary installations. Together these produce a poetical ode dedicated to rural life and its people with an independent and creative state of mind that is disappearing in our globalised world. At the time we combined three periods in the project: The rural, industrial and computerized eras. Now, eight years later, it is about time to dedicate a work to the mechanical and analogue era, before nobody remembers how real things work and interact.

Último Esfuerzo Industrial-2012.mp3

Último Esfuerzo Industrial is a simple and effective work. It consists of three electric motors, three frequency controllers, three contact microphones and three bass guitar amps that amplify the signals captured by the mikes. The motor speeds may be controlled with a computer or manually with analogue control units.

Its sound is extremely dynamic with frequencies parting from humming basses and pleasant mids up to acrid trebles.