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Wovon Maschinen träumen - Ars Electronica im Automobil Forum Unter den Linden der Volkswagen AG
(Berlin, 7.7.2011) Nach der erfolgreichen Schau „Poesie der Bewegung“ im vergangenen Jahr ist Ars Electronica diesen Sommer erneut zu Gast im Berliner Automobil Forum Unter den Linden. In Kooperation mit der Volkswagen AG wird diesmal die Ausstellung „Wovon Maschinen träumen“ gezeigt. Vierzehn Werke von elf international renommierten KünstlerInnen sowie dem Ars Electronica Futurelab sind dabei von 7. Juli bis 28. August 2011 zu sehen. Der Eintritt ist frei. Read more
![DEUS CANTANDO](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/5726359256_3be55005a4_m.jpg "“DEUS CANTANDO” plays with the interpretive capacities of the human brain. Transcription software makes it possible to reconstruct the frequency spectrum of a spoken text by means of a piano. Winfried Ritsch’s computer-controlled piano performs the “composition” with consummate precision. Each one of the 88 electromechanical fingers is capable of up to 16 keystrokes per second. The interpretive capacities of the human brain then transform what were initially abstract musical structures into a sequence of words in a human language. The result is an emphatic plea to save the Blue Planet and to protect human existence on Earth—the text of the 2009 Declaration of the International Environmental Criminal Court that was founded at the World Venice Forum pursuant to an initiative of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and the Dalai Lama.
"DEUS CANTANDO (God, singing) for computer-controlled piano and screened text" is a work by Peter Ablinger, Winfried Ritsch, Thomas Musil (AT). The work was developed at the Intitue for Electronic Music Graz
credit: Florian Voggeneder")