code | exploration | sound | electronics | device | performance

Efterklang

By: Marinos Koutsomichalis
A state-of-the-art reverberation unit is under scrutiny: sustaining and manipulating hundreds of resonant impulse responses by means of bespoke software.
code | exploration | sound | electronics | device | performance

Efterklang

A state-of-the-art reverberation unit is under scrutiny: sustaining and manipulating hundreds of resonant impulse responses by means of bespoke software.

By: Marinos Koutsomichalis

Materials:
0dbfs audio impulse, t.c. Electronic system 6000 mk2, bespoke software, serial controller, PA system (stereo or quad)

Duration:
Variable, ~20-50m

Produced by:
Marinos Koutsomichalis

Produced at:
Visby International Center for Composers, Visby SE

Produced in:
2014

Documented by:
Marinos Koutsomichalis, Giorgos Frangiskos

A single digit with the nominal 0dbfs value has been used to drive all the factory presets of a t.c. Electronic 6000 mk2 system (a state of the art multichannel mastering reverb unit).  All of its triggered impulse responses have been meticulously recorded, edited and classified into a database of a few thousands of audio snippets of raw digital reverberation. Spectra from this database are selectively sustained and juxtaposed in situ to immerse the listener into an ever-reverberant and highly transcendental sonic environment. Listen to an excerpt of a live recording below.

Marinos Koutsomichalis has designed and developed a DIY dedicated hardware controller and bespoke software to facilitate Efterklang performances. Employing the device, it becomes possible to stochastically choose up to five simultaneous reverberations and to selectively sustain spectral snapshots thereof.

exploring uncanny states of digital reverberation

Events
  • Performance, HeadQuarters. Århus, DK. (2014)
  • Performance, Electric Nights festival; Vyrsodepseio. Athens, GR. (2014)
  • Performance, Timely International Conference on Timing and Time Perception; Polytechno. Corfu, GR. (2014)
  • Performance, Sparkling Sound Festival; 6 D.O.G.S. Athens, GR. (2014)
  • Performance, Φ­öΡΒΙΡΡΙΝΓ 2 extreme electronic music fesival, Fylkingen. Stockholm, SE. (2014)