Instrument design competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta (US) and a window concert for 1 visitor

Preparing the stage for the 'Instrument Design Competition' at Georga Tech Atlanta, department Music Technology as well as a window concert for 1 visitor. Both with the same instrument, I called Splashbox. Camera: Robert (my friend from Germany).

To let my instrument fit in a suitcase I had to cut it into pieces. Although I was not nominated for a prize, one of the panel-members David Zicarelli, (the founder of Pure Data software. (By the way this opensource software is the base of this instrument)) mentioned that I should receive a prize for getting my stuff through the US customs. He wouldn't be surprised at all if the ingredients of my instrument were considered to be suspicious, and that my suitcase just got lost, which it didn't fortunately. This was not just stupid luck. I sticked a friendly letter to the customs in the inside of my suitcase, with a picture of my instrument in an assembled state, a list with too complicated technical details and the official invitation to George Tech, and some funny jokes.

SPLASHBOX enables vibrations to become audible underwater. 2 bassins of water are put in motion by a remote controller and made audible by using underwater microphones. In my live performances I make compositions with the resonance of selected daily objects under water by adding or removing them. During this wet dance a minicamera is connected. Moving images of the soundsoup are projected on a big screen, so the audience can have a look into the source of this soundkitchen. This mini-laboratorium shows a real time research with the sounds of daily objects around us, mixed together with the sound of (under)water and very low frequencies..