Hi there dancing Avalonians, this is a unique event in Holland! Cosmic particles will steer the music and who knows what....? The De Jong Team of the Radboud University of Nijmegen has won an Academic Yearprice with this. Such a nice merging of technology, cosmic signals and how should I call this.....spaced out people? A wonderful opportunity to connect with outer space....? Just to let you know this is happening amidst the fall of the Roman Empires in our world... Cheerio, Tint.

www.cosmicsensation.nl

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M2P5eTzZ_gU

Sounds

Cosmic Sensation will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard before! Music, lights and images will be triggered by cosmic rays which we detect on the spot. Every time our equipment detects a cosmic particle something in the music and images will change. The event will take place inside a huge dome, capable of holding up to 1000 people. And we promise: inside the dome you will experience something totally unique. You will be completely captured by the flow of music and images – everywhere you look and listen we will astound you with the most baffling effects modern technique can offer.

Totally new is the advanced translation of the cosmic ray information into sound and music in three layers:

Cosmic Composer
Information coming from the sensors is translated into notes that will be sequenced in a step sequencer. Pitch and timing is set by the universe, but placed in a grid, to adapt to our natural feel for music. Think about jazz meets elektro ! You can hear these live generated sound combinations at the entrance and near the restrooms.

Cosmic Ambient
Information from the detectors is used to steer ambient tracks in a directional manner. Eight loudspeakers in as many directions will produce infinite layers of ambient music, immersed in pleasant ambient background music. Once detectors are hit, new layers start to play from the same direction as the cosmic ray triggering it.

Cosmic Remix
Making music with a galactic conductor in the Cosmic Composer of Cosmic Ambient will end up in a result that we may not able to dance to. But with the Cosmic Remix you just can’t sit still.

Every evening the Kings of AM will perform a 2 hour live DJ set, built around tracks specially composed for Cosmic Sensation. The tracks are prepared in multichannel versions that are unmixed. Once the DJ decides to spin one of these songs, the universe determines its sound by mixing the different channels based on the cosmic ray information. While playing the sound keeps on changing depending on the cosmic ray information arriving. In other words, even if the DJ would play the same track ten times or more, it will never sound the same! The mixed-by-the-universe version of a song comes into the mixing deck of the DJ, who can mix these tracks like any other record. The whole DJ set is played out on high-end wireless headphones.

Click here to read an interview with musical director Peter Nijborn.

Acos Coolkas