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Otvoritev videozvočne instalacije “Po zabavi” Francisca Tomsicha in Boruta Savskega v četrtek, 14. novembra, ob 19. uri v Galerijo Alkatraz, AKC Metelkova mesto.

Na ogled & posluh od 15. novembra do 6. decembra 2024 ob delavnikih med 12.00 in 18.00.

https://galerijalkatraz.org/?p=20692

Razstava Po zabavi je zasnovana posebej za Galerijo Alkatraz in njen metelkovski koncept. Slednje sporoča inštalacija pločevink piva, ki pripoveduje zgodbo o potrošnji in po... more

This system was made on order: have six diaprojectors (two pointing to one screen) and a computer controlled slide triggering sequencer.

Classic midi serial connection is used to cover long distances over normal cable.

A web based technology was used: XAMPP server and javascript & php combination. This makes it OS independent. Chrome browser natively supports midi on the web, others need certain  extensions. More details about that in DIAcontrol-schematics.pdf.

Some effort wen... more

This is some help on the level of electronics and arduino programming to bring NAME:’s idea of “policijska ura” (-> curfew) to materialization.

LED lights
Name: had a large number of LED lights taken from a Lidl’s dump. Each of these led strips originally used a separate constant current driver (42V / 300mA), which was useless for this project. In the end we used a simple current limiting resistor per led strip -> 39ohms / 0.5W and one PSU block with 43Vdc (to... more

TurboFlutes are midi interfaces / breathing – not blowing instruments. Two prototypes were built in 2020, additional work was done in the next years – along with the preparation of printed-circuit-boards, etc. – and concerts…

During the first steps of elaboration it was clear that normal tone intervals as for the flute will be used. This made up a 12-tone scale with seven buttons on top. On the bottom left-hand side one octave up transposition button was replaced by two &... more

Borut Savski – kasni radovi / latest works

A brief moment from the event…

Sprave i objekti predvidjeni za izložbu=sajam 3N u Palach Rijeka – 6+7.09.2019

1. SI_AI midi piano (2019)
https://www.turborebop.net/?p=979

AI_SI Piano stands for a midi trigger device based on a touchpad system found in any laptop computer – brought to a form of an oversimplified instrument that acts as piano.

Piano is one of the two model instruments of 19th Cent... more

AI_SI Piano stands for a midi trigger device based on a touchpad system found in any laptop computer – brought to a form of an oversimplified instrument that acts as piano. It was a fast idea from a recent real piece of a dream of mine – in dream i would just bang with my finger on a touchpad – and this sounded as a “veritable” piano…

So: again one of the projects that is not linked directly to some envisioned artistic output. But as an instrument it c... more

Twin Speaks je umetna dvojica v dialogu. Dialog je sestavljen iz gibov in glasov. Oboje izhaja iz telesa in je pri živih bitjih zlito v eno – gib povzroči glas in glas povzroči gib. Podobno je dialog abstrakcija na ravni vzajemnega odnosa, kjer zlitje poteka med dvema v dialogu vpetima stranema. Gib dobi protigib in glas dobi protiglas. Seveda se lahko v idealnem primeru glasova tudi združita v eno pesem. Ali razdružita v nepovezano besedičenje.

https://youtu.be/u10T9z7Vt4U

Opis ... more

Cirkulino 4 is a midi sequencer based on Arduino UNO R3 development board. It is an advancement from previous ones – and is final. The pcb’s were ordered to be made to professional standards.

A double boot option for arduino was found – to launch it as a native midi device -> https://diyelectromusic.com/2022/03/22/arduino-and-usb-midi/

mocoLUFA MIDI firmware for Arduino Uno -> http://morecatlab.akiba.coocan.jp/lab/index.php/aruino/midi-firmware-for-arduino-uno-m... more

Travel guitar is usually a short version of regular length guitar. In this case the strings are folded at the bottom and machine head is at the back. It is an electric guitar with a relatively wide fretboard (for my thick fingers) – basically a copy of the acoustic guitar that i have.

The final motive is simplicity and precision. Again the Cirkulacija 2 space proved invaluable for this project! CNC2 router was used throughout.

The idea came after a plan to have a performance of a p... more

It happens that experimental approaches have victims. These are amplifiers and especially loudspeakers. Two amplifiers and a couple of loudspeakers of Cirkulacija 2 are now dead. What was needed is an effective audio compressor/ limiter. This is it. After recent changes seems to work well.

The nature of limiter is that it instantly changes the amplification factor – the moment the input peak signal surpasses a certain voltage level – all the sound is than pushed down at the output. T... more

In 2017 I decided to finish building two pieces of “classic” theremin by using the two printed circuit boars that i etched five years ago. The circuit is basically the “etherwave” theremin by Robert Moog. The prototype was built and tried successfully at that time – but then the time somehow evaporated. So this now is the psycho-disciplinary action: finishing what was started – and: something to do in-between.

I was able to do the instrument building in the wo... more

For the Cirkulacija 2 project of Cultural Interfaces in 2015 i devised a spheric type of wireless interface called IBALL (the big ones) and iballs (the little ones). It is arduino based wireless midi controller of XZY position.

Originally it was used to control the turning of the XY loudspeakers which Stefan Doepner made for Cirkulacija 2 events. At the same time it was a controller to play directly on the midi input to various software.

It can be used as a transmitter/ receiver of midi t... more

Festival PixxelPoint 2015 – OBJEKT – 16. mednarodni festival medijskih umetnosti, Nova Gorica,  27. november – 4. december 2015
Pixxelpoint 2015: OBJECT – 16th International Media Art Festival, Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and Gorizia (Italy), 27 November – 4 December 2015
http://www.pixxelpoint.org/sl/

The claim b... more

Zvočna instalacija/ instrument

Prva postavitev:
MFRU-KIBLIX 2015
KIBLA PORTAL, Valvasorjeva 40
Festival 7.−9. oktober 2015
Razstava 7.−23. oktober 2015
http://mfru-kiblix.si/?cat=7

Opisno:

antena s šestimi aktivnimi kovinskimi kraki, občutljivimi na intenzivnost dotika – sočasno ali posamezno, kar proizvaja zvok, oziroma spremembo zvoka. Vsak krak je svoj senzor za dotik. Zvoke  igra obiskovalec, če pa obiskovalca ni, se dogaja osnovni ... more

DB50XG Yamaha daughter board bought years ago was finally used to make a stand-alone midi synthesizer – as it was envisioned. Arduino platform had to come my way – to be able to do all the little programming to be able to set the the instruments manually with rotary encoder. It is now used extensivelly.

The board can play back very high quality samples from the extended midi (XG) set of instrument sounds. While for artistic approach I prefer the co-called “de-naturized” s... more

In May 2013 there was a couple of events with Borut Savski in Switzerland: a concert performance at Klubi experimental music club in Zürich, a week spent at Anyma hackers’ week in Fribourg and a workshop on building Cirkulino midi sequencer at SGMK Zürich. Thanks to Dusjagr!

The Anyma week was interesting as a meeting place of various diy electronics related people from all over Switzerland. A bit of insight into what they do. The gnusbuino direct midi usb series is something to focus o... more