Adam Pultz: Self-oscillation – creative uses of feedback

Adam Pultz will demonstrate and discuss their work with hybrid electro-acoustic feedback systems, in particular the FAAB (feedback-actuated augmented bass).
Combining the often unpredictable and non-linear behaviours of electro-acoustic feedback systems with signal processing allows for the creation of adaptive and self-organising processes that gives rise to autonomy at different levels and nodes in the network. This affords dynamic human-machine interactions, but also opens up new compositional possibilities. Importantly, working with (semi-)autonomous systems raises important questions around control, mastery, and failure in music-making and sound production.
For the workshop part, Adam will bring some simple SuperCollider examples for participants to work on. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of their own work (finished as well as in-process), for demonstration and discussion.

If you would like to run the SuperCollider examples, please install SuperCollider as well as the sc3 plugins ahead of the workshop.

Adam Pultz is a double bass player, composer, creative coder, and instrument builder. For more than 20 years they have performed and exhibited work internationally in music venues, galleries, soil ecology labs, churches, bio-art spaces, museums, festivals, and squats, while appearing on 50 releases, four of these being solo efforts. Adam holds a PhD from Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast and is currently in residence at IEM, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz.

The visit is made possible through the STIP-4 stipend from Musikfonds Germany and is additionally funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut.