Slide Slide 1/x
slices of a light cone

Experimenting with and experiencing the simple Multiplicative Inverse function 1/x that reveals a tricky time causality. The events that appear first are generated by causes that happened after the causes of the events that appear after. Hyperbola: a slice of a double cone. A slice of a light cone. Time. Hyperbola: a path followed by the shadow of the tip of the sundial. Hyperbola : asymptotic coordinations - subatomic scattering trajectories - planetary escape velocities - gravity assisted swings. A swing in time. A fraction. A flash of light. A single event. Slide “1/x” is a sound and light art-science installation based on the singularity character of the 1/x function. A system of weighted reciprocal functions generates light flashes and sonic events, while establishes a second singularity point that reverses the system's causality time space. Around the singular points of those functions, an intensive experience is created and the visitor immerse himself into a dramatic environment developed through micro and macro time scales of sound and light. Slide title: 1/x
when: 2020
where: Athens
exhibitions:
at A dela? Is It Working? festival
by Društvo LJUDMILA - Ljubljana

a project by: oneContinuousLab
with the support of EASTN-DC 1/x

Slide Slide Slide Slide 01101110: An Audiovisual Installation
Based on the Cellular Automaton Rule 110
view research paper
SMC2020.Torino
the 17th Sound Music Computing Conference Slide 01101110 is light-music installation echoing and celebrating the simplest mathematical model of computation. A series of light/shadow paintings depict instances of the evolution of Rule 110 one-dimensional cellular automaton (Rule 01101110 in binary) accompanied by a music layer based on the same process. Slide The paintings are created by digitally fabricated perforated panels and white light LED beams; the panels diffract the light and project it on blank canvases hanged on the wall of the exhibition space. Each painting offers it's one unique light and sonic space. The automaton Rule 110 is the simplest known Turing complete system and therefore it is capable of simulating any computer algorithm. This piece offers an immersive experience of this remarkable property and reflects on the duality of complexity/simplicity. Slide Slide title: 01101110
year: March 2019
creation place:
Društvo LJUDMILA, Ljubjana
+ oneContinuousLab, Athens
exhibition place: Društvo LJUDMILA
art-science laborotary, Ljubjana

research paper: SMC2020, Torino

author/composer:
oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k) 01101110

Slide Slide person : p3:sn is a light-sound installation that questions the concept of self by utilizing its linguistic dimension and shadows. The work creates an interactive environment which looses its meaning and becomes indifferent when nobody is in there. The visitor becomes a person only by will. And when the person becomes a visitor again, the shadows are gone. Slide title: person : p3:sn
what: audiovisual installation
when: January 2023
where: Athens Conservatoire
at EDEN event by plinssken
author/composer:
oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k) person : p3:sn

Slide Slide Waiting for Response is part of the light and sound installation res·o·nant created by Mischa Kuball for the Jewish Museum Berlin. “As an important element of the installation, several loudspeakers, distributed through the room loop a series of 60-second-long sound clips - so called Skits - which were composed specially for res·o·nant by more than 50 musicians. Slide Waiting for Response is a sound clip - Skit - which interacts directly with the acoustics of the space revealing and being revealed.
8 impulses were designed and placed on a timeline according to geometrical transformations created by the artists. Slide title: waiting for response (sound composition)
instrument: code, sound
author/composer:
oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k)

place: Jewish Museum, Berlin
exhibition: res·o·nant - Mischa Kuball
curator: Gregor H. Lersch
year: October 2017

More on "res·o·nant"
- Mischa Kuball's exhibition: here title: waiting for response (sound composition)
instrument: code, sound
author/composer:
oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k)

place: Jewish Museum, Berlin
exhibition: res·o·nant - Mischa Kuball
curator: Gregor H. Lersch
year: October 2017

More on "res·o·nant" - Mischa Kuball's exhibition: here waiting for response

Slide Slide fractions

is an audiovisual entangled Dj-Vj live performance, where music and a 25 year old ongoing archive of videos, photographic slides, photographs and audio recordings of spaces are interwoven to create an almost familiar but distant spatial reality. The cross-modal interactions between image and sound play with memory and construct an environment that suggests the elimination of time by bypassing any given narrative and by enhancing the spatial impression. Within the continuous live editing, the unsettling film experience never really takes a complete form and duration. Slide title: Fractions
when: 2021
where:
14th Audiovisual Arts Festival 2021, Avarts, Corfu, Greece
Música Viva Festival 2021 / EASTN-DC Festival Lisbon, Portugal

a project by: oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, george kontos, odysseas-k)

with the support of EASTN-DC fractions

Slide Slide The Haptic Fader enclosure was designed and fabricated in Berlin for a workshop that took place at Ableton's Loop festival 2017. It is a continuation of the FireFader project (Edgar Berdahl / Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos) focused on the form and the materials of the device. More information about the FireFader research on programmable haptics for music can be found on the publication here Slide Slide Slide Slide title: haptic fader enclosure
(design & fabrication)
materials: alluminium, wood,
rubber, microcontroller
year: November 2017
workshop: Ableton Loop festival 2017
author/composer:
oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k) haptic fader enclosure

Slide view research paper

Temporal Transformations and Spatial Explorations in Sound-Light Art Slide title:
Temporal Transformations and Spatial Explorations
in Sound-Light Art
what: paper
conference:
International Computer Music Conferene - ICMC 2021
place:
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
when:2021
researcher: oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k)
 Slide This paper presents two art installations from an aesthetic, technical and art-science point of view. Both artistic works, Waiting for Response (2017) and 1/x (2020) employ mathematical rhythmic transformations for the generation of sonic and light events in time. Two algorithmic processes, one graphical and one algebraic, are used for the creation of the pieces presented. The two pieces are in “dialogue” with the materiality of Slide the exhibition space, expressed acoustically in Waiting for Response and optically in 1/x. Time and time’s reflection in space are the basic concepts these works have been developed upon. The approach discussed in this paper, originates from a broader interest of the authors to express time articulation in space using simple formal devices in their artistic research. ICMC 2021 - paper

Slide Slide Skin Air | Air Skin

a rhythmical exploration of air pressure on our skin. Skin Air | Air Skin has two auras. The silent one, where the body becomes the ear, pointing to new sensoperceptual experiences. And the noisy one, where the ear enjoys the sound of the formative power of air on our bodies. Slide Skin Air performing as Anarchivists for FM Einheit’s "Erklär mir bitte, was beunruhigend sein soll am Einlassen von Badewasser!" at Transmediale/conversationpiece 2016 , HKW, Berlin, Germany,
Slide Slide title: Skin Air | Air Skin
when: 2015
where:
GLOBALE: Tangible Sound, ZKM, Karlshure
#AST2015, ACROE-EASTN, Grenoble
CF24 project, EASTN-CSAD, Cardiff, Wales

a project by: odysseas-k
with the support of EASTN Skin Air | Air Skin

Slide Slide Slide - Air of Thoughts - is based on "Skin of Air" prototype, an air blowing instrument for rhythm sensing and creation, where rhythms can be heard, seen or pressure felt. "Skin of Air" has two auras: The silent one, where the body becomes the ear, pointing to new sensoperceptual experiences. And the noisy one, where the ear is enjoying the sound of the formative power of air on our bodies. - Air of Thoughts - is based on "Skin of Air" prototype, an air blowing instrument for rhythm sensing and creation, where rhythms can be heard, seen or pressure felt. "Skin of Air" has two auras: The silent one, where the body becomes the ear, pointing to new sensoperceptual experiences. And the noisy one, where the ear is enjoying the sound of the formative power of air on our bodies.

The instruments was created by Odysseas Klissouras during the EASTN residency program (http://www.eastn.eu/EASTNPiece/skin-air), where he was invited by Dr. Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos. Later on in 2018 they co-founded oneContiuousLab. - Air of Thoughts - is based on "Skin of Air" prototype, an air blowing instrument for rhythm sensing and creation, where rhythms can be heard, seen or pressure felt. "Skin of Air" has two auras: The silent one, where the body becomes the ear, pointing to new sensoperceptual experiences. And the noisy one, where the ear is enjoying the sound of the formative power of air on our bodies. Slide title: Air of Thoughts - session 1 :
Mário Gomes - Hartwig Mayer
when: 2015
where: Berlin
project by: odysseas-k
with the support of EASTN-DC air of thoughts

Slide Slide title: Elastic Transformations
place: Berlin - Athens, oneContinuousLab
what: a graphical rhythm transformation process
implementation: max4live device
when: 2016 - 2021
researcher: oneContinuousLab
 Elastic Transformations

Slide
audio clip from live performance at MADE gallery . The networked haptic devices time-stretch a sample from Bach's Cello Suit 1 audio clip from live performance at MADE gallery . The networked haptic devices time-stretch a sample from Steve Reich Drumming live performance
at MADE Gallery The networked haptic devices time-stretch
a sample from Bach's Cello Suit 1 The networked haptic devices time-stretch
a sample from Steve Reich's Drumming Slide audio clips from live performance at MADE gallery, Cardiff. haptic device network time-stretching Bach's Cello Suit 1 haptic device network time-stretching Steve Reich's Drumming Slide Mechanical Entanglement is a musical composition-improvisation for three performers, composed and programmed by the Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, George Sioros and Odysseas Klissouras. Three haptic devices each containing two haptic faders are mutually coupled between them using virtual linear springs and dampers. During the composition, the performers feel each other’s gestures and collaboratively process the music material. The physical modelling parameters of the interaction are modified during the five sections of the composition. Slide A time-stretching algorithm, developed specifically to simultaneously process three stereo channels, is stretching in an out-of-sync- three copies of the same music clip. The performers are playing with the stretching algorithm and an amplitude modulation effect which are both mapped to the haptic physical model and are applied to recognisable classical and contemporary music compositions. Each of them is substantially time stretching the same music clip and simultaneously affects subtly or often abruptly the gestural behaviour of the other performers. Slide At various points in the composition, the music becomes gradually in sync and the performers realign their gestures. This phasing “game” between gestures and sound, creates tension and emphasises the physicality of the performance. The modelling coefficients often take values impossible to occur in nature such as negative damping between the interaction of the performers, thus creating very unfamiliar interaction sensation. Moreover, instabilities that occur due to the long feedback control delays makes the gestural and sonic dialogue very difficult and quite often unpredictable. Slide Mechanical Etanglement : a collaborative Haptic-Music Performance
A. Kontogeorgakopoulos - G. Sioros - O. Klissouras view research paper
SMC 2019, Málaga - the 16th Sound Music Computing Conference
http://smc2019.uma.es/ + proceedings (pdf) Slide title: mechanical entaglement
(musical composition improvisation)
instrument:
3 networked haptic faders,
LED lights, code,
computers, speakers
place: M.A.D.E. gallery Cardiff, Walles
year: June 2016
research paper: SMC2019, Málaga
author/composer:
oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k, g-Sioros)

title: mechanical entaglement
(musical composition improvisation)
instrument: 3 networked haptic faders, LED lights,
code, computers, speakers
place: M.A.D.E. gallery Cardiff, Walles
year: June 2016
research paper: SMC2019, Málaga
author/composer:
oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k, g-Sioros)

 mechanical entaglement

Slide Slide A MIDI processing device has been implemented for the Arduino UNO board, in order to control and program the lights of The Black Cheetahs concerts directly from the drum machine of the musicians. This implementation automates the stage lighting, previously performed live on stage by Odysseas Klissouras. The device made its debut at the Black cheetahs concert at Ableton Live 10 Release Party - Berlin - March 2018, since then the device is used in all their concerts. Slide title: midi lights
materials: code, arduino, drum machine, dmx lights
year: January 2018
author/composer: oneContinuousLab
(alexandros-k, odysseas-k) midi lights

Slide individual projects of oneContinuousLab members individual projects of core members

Slide Slide Slide Metronom, which stands for metronome in Welsh, is a live audiovisual composition for a custom designed haptic interface. The interface consist of four haptic faders, and a digitally fabricated transparent acrylic structure, etched and cut according to the requirements of the music and the visual content. The performer interacts hapticaly with the moving faders, which behave like metronomes, at various tempi and rhythmic motifs. The faders' mechanical sounds are recorded and processed in real-time by digital signal processing algorithms and projected sonically back into space. Moreover the positions of the faders, driven by automated procedures and altered mechanically by the performer gestures, are controlling various compositional parameters affecting the timbre, the rhythm and the movement of various projected words and phrases. Slide A gradual interplay between the shadows of the physical interface's structure, the human gestures and the light refraction from the acrylic surfaces shapes equally the visual elements of the composition. The present inter-media performance, is an interactive audio-visual composition and a dance between the hands of the performer and the movements of the haptic interface. Slide title: metronom
when: 2013
who: alexandros-k

link: alexandros-k.com metronom

Slide Slide title: Light as Space
when: 2004
where: University of Wismar, Germany
who: Kiki Kelesidou

master thesis installation
in architectural lighting design:
mentors: Prof. Matthias Ludwig
Prof. Valentine Rothmaler

link: atectonics.net Light as Space

Slide Slide series title: Fractional Mathematics
 Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide title: Fractional Mathematics
instrument: earth
when: August 2015
where: Athens
researcher: odysseas-k

link: atectonics.net Fractional Mathematics

Slide Slide Slide Talandon, is a live composition for a custom designed electroacoustic musical instrument and light. The music is developed around a basic rhythmic pattern radiated directly from the body of the instrument and from a set of physical models simulating various vibrating structures. The interplay between the rhythmic gestures [form] of the performer and the resonance of the physical and virtual bodies [colour] is enriched, transformed and amplified by the presence of the light component of the composition. The novelty and the significance of the piece can be identified in the interaction and also in the interplay between the physical and the simulated sounds. Moreover the body of the instrument has been designed and developed using digital fabrication methods that reflect the rhythmical elements of the structure composition. Therefore the rhythmical patterns appear on the physical form, on the triggered light pulses and on the sonic component of the piece. Slide title: talandon
when: 2015
where: ZKM,
who: alexandros-k
(concept, instrument design, interaction design,
interaction and sound programming, composition)
+ Olivia Kotsifa
(instrument design, digital fabrication)
GLOBALLE: Tangible Sound Festival

link: alexandros-k.com talandon

Slide Slide - airhythmics -
are experiments based on "Skin of Air", an air blowing instrument for rhythm sensing and creation, where rhythms can be heard, seen or pressure felt.

In - hand series - oneContinuousLab examines the direct alteration of the airhythmic enivronment by hand gestures. The action happens just when hand and air meet. Slide Europa Tour 2013
19.4 Altes Finanzamt - Berlin, Germany
22.4 Club Eufemia - Warsaw, Poland
23.4 Mayhem - Copenhagen, Denmark
24.4 Hörbar - Hamburg, Germany
25.4 Sala Siroco - Madrid, Spain
26.4 León, Spain
27.4 Café Uf - Vigo, Spain
28.4 CAAA - Guimarães, Portugal
3.5 Pasos Manuel - Porto, Portugal
4.5 Teatro Do Bairro - Lisbon, Portugal
x.5 Berlin, Germany [LP Release] Slide Europa Tour 2013
19.4 Altes Finanzamt - Berlin, Germany
22.4 Club Eufemia - Warsaw, Poland
23.4 Mayhem - Copenhagen, Denmark
24.4 Hörbar - Hamburg, Germany
25.4 Sala Siroco - Madrid, Spain
26.4 León, Spain
27.4 Café Uf - Vigo, Spain
28.4 CAAA - Guimarães, Portugal
3.5 Pasos Manuel - Porto, Portugal
4.5 Teatro Do Bairro - Lisbon, Portugal
x.5 Berlin, Germany [LP Release] Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide title: pique dame (visuals / live)
instrument: custom video mixer software
year: 2012/13

visuals/live: odysseas-k (a|tectonics)
assisted by Y.Efstathiou, K.Kelesidou,
G.Kontos, A.Soula, D.Resdnikova
music composition/live:
Mario Gomez & Graf Schreks
graphics: Marco Ugolini pique dame

Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide Slide title: Lines on Blue
when: 2016
where: Berlin
who: odysseas-k

link: atectonics.net Lines on Blue

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