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50 HZ (MAINS & OSCILLATORS) ; EARPHONES ; BANDSAWS ; AVELAS 0, 16, OCTET & QUARTET ; UNTITLED (NIMk & IBID PROJECTS) ; SEEBECK-SAVART SAW ; UNTITLED (WORD EVENT, FONS WELTERS & GRA LIBRARY) ; AQUELA MÁQUINA ; SNAILS

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-- 50 HZ (MAINS & OSCILLATORS), 2011 --

A system of translation where by the existing power sockets in the gallery walls are directly connected to speakers amplifying the frequency from the buildings power mains (50 hz). Clusters of electronics and cables are coupled in pairs with oscillators on the same frequency. These multiple pairs are installed in the space according to a logic determined by the existing architecture of the buildings power outlet network.

-- placement at Gertrude Contmporary, part of Feedback projected (Proposals towards an exhibition) --

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||    altered   9v adapter    9v adapter vcf/sweep   audio    ||
||      jaycar    on headphone on subwoofer generator generator ||
||          kit    speaker     Exact 126 Dick Smith ||
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||             12v adaptor ||
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||           | x=== 9v adapter      __________x___||
||           | | on headphone speaker     |_________x__x_
||           |_____x### HP 4936A    9v adaptor === ||
||                on speakers    ||
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||         generator MK2 ||__
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  12v on Monasch Univerity 9v adaptor Intek Electronics
  subwoofer    50hz square wave gen. on speaker Lab-Pak
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-- placement at Nederlands Institute voor Mediakunst, part of PLATTFORM 2 --

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|x ### Monasch Univ. 50hz square wave gen.     ||
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|x ### Altered Jaycar kit ===    ||
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_x_ electricity plug
### oscillator at ~50hz
=== power adaptor conncetd directly to a speaker

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-- EARPHONES, 2007-2011 --

1000 disposable earphones sre spread on the floor, 960 working as speakers, 40 as microphones, making a feedback loop you can control on the mixer. There is also a fair ammont of noise coming from the amplification. The earphones working as speakers are joined in 40 groups of 24 single pieces and connected to 10 outputs of the mixer. The ones working as microphones are joined in groups of 4 and connected to 10 inputs. Each microphone is placed around a pack of 24 speakers. Most lower frequencies are muted. The dimensions, volume and sounds are different in each instance.

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exhibited as part of the following shows:

Feedback projected (Proposals towards an exhibition), Gertrude Contempoary, Melbourne, AUS, 04-05.2011

The headphones show, Abrons art Centre, NY, USA

DNK at TAC, Eidhoven, NL

DNK post digital festival, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL

N-Event 22a, Tao Brewery, Stavanger, NO, 12.2007

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Gertrude Contemporary, AUS, 2011

the headphones show, 2008

DNK Post-digital festival

N-event 22a

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-- AVELAS 16, OCTET, QUARTET & ZERO, 2009 - PRESENT --

Collaborative aeries of works with composer Koen Nutters.

witch the exceprion of Avelas 0, as there are no performers.

For each consecutive period of ten seconds each player has a designated on/off state.

These states are generated by throwing the dice.

1-3 = on
4-6 = off

First ten seconds all players off for synching and getting ready.

AVELAS 16

Performed by the DNK Ensemble at DNK DAYS 180:

Andre Avelas, Seamus Cater, Koen Nutters, Martijn Tellinga, Maia Daw, Mike Ottink, Caetano Carvalho, Andreas Busche, Roos Blogg, Viljam Nybacka, Lot Meijers, Johann Kauth, Justin Gosker, Hannah F. Giese, Taylan Susam, Alexander Krone.

16 musicians playing small noise generators built by Andre Avelas.

AVELAS OCTET

performed at Night of the unexpected

performed at DNK

AVELAS QUARTET

Performed by The Avelas N quartet at :
for 4 players with small noise generators
André Avelãs, Koen Nutters, Morten J. Olsen and Anu Vahtra

performed at The floor

AVELAS ZERO

performed at DNK
performed at LONDON

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-- UNTITLED (NIMk & IBID PROJECTS) --

This work is based around the airflow of three large scale weather balloons, more commonly used by meteorologists and scientists to test atmospheric pressure and other environmental conditions. In this case, these imposing and potentially explosive objects were fitted to an automatic device that channels air to a series of discreet musical instruments connected by pipes. The result is a makeshift drone which references redundant technologies as well as setting up a network of sonic associations to do with the noises experienced in everyday life.

Inflated nightly, the weatherballoons in André Avelãs Untitled (NIMk), 2009, fill half of the installation space at the start of each day. Slowly releasing their internal pressure through sound-making devices the balloons deflate until they are left limp on the floor by evening. While this reading emphases the space occupied by the balloons themselves, visitors are forced to occupy the acoustic space between the balloons which expands over the course of each day and is compressed each night.

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