Gabriel Vogel
PUR SIGNAL

Performance with invented Instruments

Fri. 10. Sept, 01:00, STWST Main Venue (Friday Nightline)
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Sun, 12. Sept, 17:00, Maindeck

‘Pur Signal' process consists of live orchestrations of sets of Piezo, pickup-type microphone sources, installed on rotating machines and modified record players.

The rotations of the machines provide linearity of signals and loops. Non-digital sound. The power of signals without limits requires control and moderation. Mechanical rotations generate loops that are subtly different from each other, although similar in appearance, due to belt drive. The almost imperceptible irregularity of the turns results in a singularly random sound at each loop, provoking a state of calm amongst the audience.

The signals result from shocks, friction, vibrations and magnetic fields picked up by the Piezo microphones, directly connected to two mixing desks. Spontaneous orchestration is played from these tables using pure signal. Pure signals are sent to the sound system. The power of the speakers, the intricate nature of their sound projection, the massiveness of the bass, all participate in the final orchestration in Pur Signal. The performance can be played on either stereo or on quadraphonic systems.
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The work shown is one of several parts of this year's exchange between APO33/Nantes and STWST/Linz.




Gabriel Vogel - Based in Nantes since 2000, Gabriel Vogel is a sound artist, drummer and painter. He explores the musical field in a meticulous way. He records, shapes and creates his sound pieces like a sculptor. The movement is important, the precision indispensable, the imagination at the rendez-vous. He also designs his own instruments, built from recycled elements, recycled in a sonorous way. An automatic percussion, a new instrument that invites you to let yourself go. To lose oneself ever more deeply in the shades of light of the materials. And to listen, again and again, to the rubbing, the tinkling, the beating of metal against metal.