OscikTowicZ
lab equipment | electron acoustics | sonic waves
OscikTowicZ is a performative sound installation featuring obsolete laboratory analogue function generators. This primitive electronics orchestra contains numerous oscillators, sine waves, frequency sweeps, and various analogue modulation devices, generating all possible waveforms transmuted to sounds. Scientist-Artist Daniel Maszkowicz explores vibrations, tickles space resonances, and installs oscillating breathing beats, for a short or very long out-of-body-and-space sound experience.
Function Generators Solo Events
- June 9th 2024, “OscikTowicZ premieres at CERN” Guerilla series by James Beacham, CERN, Genève CH
installation and live recording performance - May 14th 2016, “Lectures de la quatrième dimension” Sonorectures, Zona Mutante, Genève CH
installation and live reading performance, vimeo - March 4th 2016, Live at Cern feat. SYNKIE and Bilblioteq Mdulair, Gathering for Open Source Hardware, CERN, Genève CH
audiovisual installation and live performance, vimeo, event
Biblioteq Mdulair
primitive electronics | hypnotic noise | brain dance
Biblioteq Mdulair is an orchestra of analogue function generators for four hands played by polish/swiss/french duet Emma Souharce and Daniel Maszkowicz. With its various oscillators, sine waves, and frequency sweeps, this lab installation produces all possible sounds, generating waveforms, exploring vibrations, tickling resonances, and installing breathing beats. These primitive electronics machines fill the space with a magma of sound waves for a dizzying sonic experience.
Fundamental acoustic waveforms are to be experienced by the body and mind, each performance has a storyline with a specific narrative still allowing the two artists to freely improvise from one chapter to another. The public that enters this intense and fascinating sensory laboratory is drown to various atmospheres from soft meditative strolls to massive earthquakes.
Biblioteq Mdulair is a duo playing function generators, but they often appear as an audiovisual installation with the analogue modular video synthesizer SYNKIE, driven by its creators Michael Egger, Max Egger and Flo Kaufmann from collective [ a n y m a ]. This massive double installation creates a total audiovisual symbiosis, with dozens of CTR televisions in the space. Expanded TV and has been shown in Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and through eastern Europe while touring in 2017.
They released their first LP in may 2018 with label Copypasta Editions and Aussenraum Records.
https://biblioteqmdulair.wordpress.com/
Press review: Biblioteq Mdulair ´s primitive electronics brain dance in Neural
Press review: Biblioteq Mdulair ‘s Primitive Electronics Brain Dance featured in The Sound Projector Radio Show from 23rd November 2018
More press and quotes: https://biblioteqmdulair.wordpress.com/about/
« (…) la quiétude tranquille des sons synthétiques, du circuit électrique que l’on n’ose déranger, comme laissés à eux-mêmes, emporte l’écoute, particulièrement à la fin de la face A où le sillon fermé laisse le son prendre son envol, perdre les repères, devenir musique et partir, s’en aller en liberté, pure électricité (et mécanique) qui échappe au contrôle de ses créateurs et en vient à imposer sa durée, son état du monde. »
Kasper Toeplitz in Ring Modulation 28
Revue & Corrigée
Podcast: Radio International: Episode 1
The sound is clearly primary, w/ Biblioteq Mdulair and Synkie
- July 10th 2021 – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR at H.o.Me. Heim für obsolete Medien, Kunsthaus, Langenthal CH
music performance and installation - December 20th 2019 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, By Repetition You Start Noticing Details in the Landscape, Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva CH
audiovisual performance, album release - November 2nd 2019 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, [ a n y m a ], Fribourg CH
audiovisual performance for the 20th aniversary of [ a n y m a ] - December 11th 2018 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, reiheM, Köln DE
audiovisual performance - November 20th 2018 – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR, makaronic pem#9 – réflection/s, Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva CH
sound live performance, vimeo - October 24th 2018 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, Marseille underground Film & Music Festival, Vidéodrome 2, Marseilles FR
audiovisual performance, youtube - October 23th 2018 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, 102, Grenoble, FR
audiovisual performance - May 6th 2018 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, Primitive Electronics Brain Dance RELEASE PARTY, Cave 12, Geneva CH
audiovisual installation and live performance, release - April 19th 2018 – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & Wolken by Ultra Produktionen, Südpol, Lucern, CH
sound live performance with cloud machine - January 19th 2018 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, MuseumNacht, Klappfon präsentiert:, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel CH
audiovisual installation and live performance, event - December 10th 2017 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, Kino Climates Melting Pots, Cinéma Nova, Bruxelles BE
audiovisual installation and live performance, Kino Climates, event - December 3rd 2017 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, lokal-int, Bienne CH
audiovisual installation and live performance, soundcloud, event - September 2017 – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE
EASTERN TOUR 2017
Total audiovisual symbiosis brought to Leipzig, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Moscow, Kiev, Warsaw, Gdańsk and Berlin.
Produced by COPYPASTA éditions & [ a n y m a ]
Suported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Moscow, tour page - → August 29th, Swag Han Hop, Leipzig DE
- → Sept 1st, Akusmata, Sound Festival 2017, Helsinki FI, youtube
- → Sept 2nd, MimStuudio, Tallinn EE, youtube
- → Sept 3rd, Bolderāja, Riga LV
- → Sept 6th, Stynislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow RU, youtube
- → Sept 10th, Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev UA, video
Part of : Gray Cube – Art on corruption, radio interview - → Sept 11th, Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki), Kiev UA, soundcloud
Welcome reception for 19th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE’17 ECCE Europe - → Sept 16th, Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk PL, soundcloud
- → Sept 18th, Madame Claude, Berlin DE
- July 31st 2017, BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR Bruit ne se taira pas, Malagnou, Genève CH
sound installation and live performance, soundcloud, event - May 29th 2017 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, Urgence Disk, L’Usine, Genève CH
audiovisual installation and live performance, youtube - May 21st 2017, BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR Frode Café – Forde, L’Usine, Genève CH
“The World Question Center”, live soundtrack performance, soundcloud, event - May 5th 2017, BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR one gee in fog, Genève CH
“ROBOTA ! ROBOTA !”, reading live performance, soundcloud, event - March 30th 2017, “BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR feat. Dmitry Golubovskiy joue TITIN” Trou de Ver – Archives du futur, Galerie Topic, Genève CH
vernissage, installation and live soundtrack marathon performance, vimeo, soundcloud, event - November 16th 2016, BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR Musik & Biblioteq, Écurie, Genève CH
installation and live performance, soundcloud - October 27th 2016, BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & D.C.POndulor#16, Walden, Genève CH
installation and live performance, soundcloud, event - October 19th-22nd 2016, BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR Lausanne Underground Music & Film Festival (LUFF), Lausanne CH
four days installation and daily live reading performance transmitted on LUFF.FM, soundcloud, youtube, event - November 6th 2015, “DAS MDEL – soundtrack by Biblioteq Mdulair” Das Model Night, Cave 12, Genève CH
film screening, soundcloud, vimeo - June 17th 2015 – EXPANDED TV – BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR & SYNKIE, Cave 12, Genève CH
audiovisual installation and live performance, vimeo, event - May 31st 2015, BIBLIOTEQ MDULAIR Goûter Merveilleux, Zoo – Usine, Genève CH
installation and live performance, soundcloud, event - April 1st-5th 2015, “Lit sonore” Deviant Art Festival (DAF), Genève CH
four days installation and continuous live massage performance marathon, event