After finishing my bachelor degree in musicology, I'm now a student of Computer Science and Media at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. I have been working in many different music related contexts, such as taking music history, classical music training, programming, djing, playing electronic live music and producing music for theater and dance.
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This is an audio-video live performance in collaboration with Tommy Neuwirth and Max Neupert, where video samples of theater attendants were taken and played back in realtime.
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Live recording with my band THE! at fusion festival 2010.
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Platforms
OS X, Pure Data, Matlab, Ableton Live, Max for Live
Contact
skype: clemens.wegener mail: clemens.wegener a_t uni-weimar.de
Project Ideas
I'm was thinking a little about manipulating communication. I 'hacked' a small chat program, so that it would display related google search terms instead of the orignal messages:
feel free to try: Suggestive chat
I think it would be more impressive to use audio data, so that microphones and speech recognition software comes in place.
A slightly different idea is communicating through small dictionaries – meaning that the computer only recognizes a small amount of words, but uses them for triggering some action within an installation.