p/q @ SMC 2025

I had the chance to show p/q – rational number decimals as rhythmic pattern at the SMC 2025 in Graz/Austria. There I installed 10 solenoids and two screens in the staircase of the building where the Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik - IEM is located. A selection of rational numbers were played back while showing ...

p/q – rational number decimals as rhythmic pattern

In this project I use repeating decimal numbers to be used as rhythmic patterns. To do so an algorithm calculates the result of "1 divided by prime numbers". These patterns are then used as input to a rhythm machine. Rational numbers are numbers that can be written as a ratio of two integers: e.g.: 1/3. Some ...

urban needle – 48h-neukölln

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Exhibiting urban needle together with Ceren Oykut, Ibrahim Quraishi, Johannes Vogl and Kobakant at "Es war einmal in einer unbekannten Zukunft" (curated by Özgür Erkök Moroder, Kristina Kramer) - 48h Neukölln.

(umspannwerk hall, berlin, 2019)

(umspannwerk staircase, berlin, 2019)

urban needle is kindly supported by pepperl+fuchs

Tree-Area-Network

Working on a Tree-Area-Network at dinacon 2018:
At dinacon i was interested in experimenting with a near-field communication device in the wild to send data over a tree, or in the best case to send data from one tree to another tree. Is it possible to send data from one side of the jungle to the ...

Near-field intra-body Communication

Building a near-field intra-body communication device
Thrilled by the idea mentioned in "When Things start to think" by Neil Gershenfeld i started to build a near-field intra-body communication device to transmit data through a body by capacitive coupling.

Everything written down in this post is based on the original paper by Thomas Guthrie Zimmerman "Personal Area Networks ...

i.n.g.o. generator

A generator for the meaning of i.n.g.o.

http://ingorandolf.info/i-n-g-o/

Muzak Architectures @ [H:UMMMM]

Muzak Architectures is a work by Ingo Randolf and based on an adaption of his installation urban needle. How does it sound if the needle of a record-player is not put on a record, but plays back a room? Instead of a rotating record it would be the needle spinning in the room, turning the ...

urban needle – spektrum-berlin

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Exhibiting urban needle together with Aravinth Panchadcharam, So Kanno and Thomas O’Reilly at HUMAN ♥ ROBOT - spektrum-berlin.

(spektrum-berlin, berlin, 2015)

urban needle is kindly supported by pepperl+fuchs

movie’s average image

Hiroshi Sugimoto – Cabot Street Cinema – Massachusetts – 1978

In his book Hiroshi Sugimoto writes about his photographic series "Theaters":
"... One evening while taking photographs at the American Museum of Natural History I had a near-hallucinatory vision. My internal question-and-answer session leading up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? The answer: You get ...

ofxR2000 addon

Addon for openFrameworks for the R2000 Laser Rangefinder by pepperl+fuchs:

https://github.com/i-n-g-o/ofxR2000