Solar sound modules
Presented by Ralf Schreiber and Pascal Glissmann (Cologne Academy of Media Arts, Germany)
I am working with oscillations, interferences, feedbacks, chaotic processes, auto active systems and silence. I understand myself as scientists, my motivation is driven by curiosity, a desire for knowledge and for playing so I develop minimal autonomous robots and pseudo robots. These small bots move and generate soft ever-changing sounds. All my creatures get their energy completely from small solar cells.
I would like to demonstrate my work with the solar bots and I would like to offer a practical workshop for maybe twenty (or more) people. The participants can build their own solar sound module or their own solarbot. The bots and the sound modules are based on simple electronic circuits (the same I use in my installations), which are supplied by solar cells and imitate biological systems. The bots move under the influence of light and the sound modules generate quiet and variable sounds. Electronic know-how isnšt necessary. The participants can make their own experiments with these special electronic structures.