Abstract (Short paper)

Keywords: controller, computer interface, water, electronic music, video, mass inertia, fluid, potentiometer, switch, fader.

We have developed water based electronic elements which we built into electric circuits to control different parameters of electronic sound and video tools. As a result of our research we have constructed a complex controller whose main component is water. This tool makes it possible to control analog and software synthesizers as well as video software and other electronic devices, especially microcontroller based platforms like Arduino or Raspberry.

• Christoph Theiler & Renate Pittroff, wechselstrom Vienna, Austria.  “wechselstrom” is a label owned by Renate Pittroff & Christoph Theiler. Based in Vienna, “wechselstrom” runs a socalled “offspace”, which offers room for exhibitions, media activism and all art forms on the fringe of culture. Selected works: Piefkedenkmal – the construction of a monument for the musician Gottfried Piefke, who is also the namesake of the well known Austrian derogatory name for Germans (2009 Gänserndorf). Samenschleuder – a tool for environmentally conscious car driving (2009 Weinviertel, Lower Austria) bm:dna – the government department for dna-analysis (2005 Vienna). Tracker Dog – follow a (your) dog and track the route with a GPS, then print and distribute new walking maps (2008
  Mostviertel, Lower Austria). Community Game – a tool for distributing government grants using a mixed system of democratic vote and randomized control (2006 Vienna – distributing 125.000 Euro). whispering bones – a theatre play asking for the whereabouts of A. Hitler´s bones (2004 Vienna, rta-wind-channel). Reply – mailing action: resending Mozart´s begging letters under our own name to 270 people: to the 100 richest Germans and Austrians, to managers and artists of the classical music business, and all members of the Austrian government (2005/06 Vienna). Re-Entry: Life in the Petri Dish – Opera for Oldenburg 2010.   wechsel-strom.net,  piefkedenkmal.at   trackerdog.at

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