Concepts are texts



Basic questions

Basic questions


About the project Basic Questions…

Author: Borut Savski

The project is a paraphrase of the title of the painting by Paul Gauguin (Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, 1897/98), that (seemingly, at least to me) wanted to move the pivot of art from aesthetics to ethics. After more than a hundred years it looks like art has managed to get rid of the beautiful and is now dealing with questions of human existance.

Although it may seem that the te... more


Distributed body

Distributed body

[Original at https://www.turborebop.net/borut_galerija/index.php?folder=installations/Distributed%20body&d=d.html]

Distribuirana telesa / identitete / sistemi

21st December, one-day long sound installation Distributed body at Mala galerija in Ljubljana (part of the one-month of events called Oscillations). Two computers playing algorithms made in Pure Data and a number of interconnections (audio feedback, midi-control, contact-sensors,…). Here are parts of identities as sound&#... more


Dancer

Dancer

[Original at http://www.3via.org/index.php?htm=plesalec/index
also at https://www.turborebop.net/html.php?htm=plesalec/index]

Borut Savski – tretja od treh miniatur iz serije Zvok kot metafora

Borut Savski – third of three miniatures from the series Sound as Metaphore

Dancer / Plesalec

Dancer was presented at Kapelica Gallery/ Ljubljana on 17th of February, after a delay of a week, when an uncontrollable rotation tear out the ... more


Eye = I

Eye = I

[Original at https://www.turborebop.net/borut_galerija/index.php?folder=performances/Eye=I]

Eye = IPerformance on 20th April 2005, P74 gallery, Ljubljana Šentvid
First version of performance in september 2004 at Merano, Italy

all photos by Črt Majcen

What is the joke (the yoke)?

One eye (the b/w video monitor) is the input (on the right) and the computer generated eye is the output (on the left). The small video camera is attached to my head and transfers the... more


Electric Jesus 2

Electric Jesus 2
[Original at https://www.turborebop.net/borut_galerija/index.php?folder=objects/Jesus]

Electric Jesus IIFirst occasion of Electric Jesus appeared at the TURNING SOUNDS 2 seminar, Warzsawa, may 2004. Check this link http://absurdevidence.radiostudent.si/borut/zvok_kot_metafora/ or here ../zvok_kot_metafora/.

Ideas are more or less the same, only that in this new materialization some more relations emerged. Together with some new reveletions related to the (conceptual)... more


Bowlfuls of Sound

Bowlfuls of Sound

[original at https://www.turborebop.net/borut_galerija/index.php?folder=performances/Bowlfuls_of_Sound]

Bowlfuls of Sound | Posodi polni zvoka

Posodi polni zvoka je bila predvidena struktura nastopa v Moderni galeriji v Ljubljani (september 2005). Kljub (ponovno) problematični izvedbi (gibljiva objekta – dve posodi, nista bila končani pravočasno…), pa sama struktura drži tudi za prihodnost.

Bowlfuls of Sound is the name of the structure of event at the Modern gallery in Lj... more


Problemloss Orchestra

Problemloss Orchestra

[Original at https://www.3via.org/index.php?htm=problemloss
also at https://www.turborebop.net/html.php?htm=problemloss]

PROBLEMLOß ORCHESTRA = PMS (PRINČIČ / MANČEK / SAVSKI)
2005 – 2006 (r.i.p….)

– an experimental sound performance (=concert?) project group from Slovenia…
– experimenting with sound (and objects as instruments) as metaphore…
– oth... more


Oracle

Oracle

[Original at http://www.3via.org/index.php?htm=orakelj/index
also at https://www.turborebop.net/html.php?htm=orakelj/index]

Borut Savski – Orakelj / Oracle

Žanr: Interaktivna zvočno-vizualna instalacija (postavitev)
Interactive sound&visual installation


as built & presented in december 2004/ january 2005 at Kiberpipa, Ljubljana

As seen during the building process in december 2004 What is mis... more


Sound as metaphor

[Original at http://www.3via.org/index.php?htm=zvok_kot_metafora/index
also at https://www.turborebop.net/html.php?htm=zvok_kot_metafora/index]

Zvok kot metafora = Sound as Metaphore

object as concept – space as context
formation of an object (construction of conceptual body)
when does an object become a context (-> object is a space)
story as object translated back to time
Myth = meat
God = good
Man = mean
R... more


Arms & Weapons

Arms & Weapons

[Original at https://www.3via.org/index.php?htm=orozje_orodje/index]

Borut Savski – prva od treh miniatur iz serije Zvok kot metafora
Borut Savski – first of three miniatures from the series Sound as Metaphore

OROŽJE, ORODJE

at the SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, february 2004

ARMS & WEAPONS

(in Slovene it was more meaningfull to use Tools & Weapons -> Orodje, orožje; one letter of difference; in both cases there is a strong... more


Spectrum Ecology

[written for the occasion of ART & COMMUNICATION 2004 festival  in Riga / Latvia https://rixc.lv/04/en/participants/savski.html]

Spectrum Ecology
Looking from below – Seeing from above

Abstract
It looks like the main point of this text is methodology of finding (one or more of) the complementary “views/ images” of the same topic. The new point of view has no absolute value. It however widens the horizon (-> looking/ seeing from above…). The complementary principle... more


Electric Jesus

Electric Jesus

[Original at http://www.3via.org/index.php?htm=electric_jesus/index
also at https://www.turborebop.net/html.php?htm=electric_jesus/index]

Borut Savski – druga od treh miniatur iz serije Zvok kot metafora

Borut Savski – second of three miniatures from the series Sound as Metaphore

ELECTRIC JESUS

This concept (->story) was built on the basis of the above reasoning on objects and contexts. Again it resulted in deliberate use of existant symbolic field, but hopeful... more


Samoanaliza = samo-organizacija+misli …

Samoanaliza = samo-organizacija+misli …

Poslušali smo nekaj primerov dosedanjih “ad-hoc zvočnih tkanj” in poskušali ugledati nedopustne vzorce, ki nas držijo stran od “zadovoljstva”. Domačo produkcijo bomo primerjali s tujo, pri tem bomo skušali ostati stran od “ploščate” (post)produkcije, ker je ta pač nekaj podobnega kot onanija – autoerotika skratka …

Posnetki:
– Nastop v klubu Gromka pred enim letom (Dario Cortese, Borut Savski in Miha Kunšič) … Posnetki ... more


Sonic Point of View

Sonic Point of View
Sonično gledišče = Sonic Point of View
avdio-vizualna instalacija
by B. SAVSKI

SONIC POINT OF VIEW is a modular installation, that was supposed to “connect Heaven and Earth” with very simple means. The emphasis is on creating “an image of wholeness”. Therefore, every possible “connection” that would arise needed to point out to this elementary dualism of “Heaven and Earth”. A number of other similar interpretations, from various sys... more


Aesthetic of Machines

POVZETEK

Estetika strojev je esej, s katerim se skušam približati razumevanju ločnice med stroji in ljudmi, vendar na način afirmacije nekaterih lastnosti stroja (avtomata), kadar ta ni uporabljen ali zgrajen povsem običajno – kot linearni odzivnik (reakcijsko), ampak ima vgrajeno določeno mero avtonomnosti (nepredvidljivosti) odločitev, torej se odzivajo nelinearno (oz: interaktivno). Na ta način tudi uvedemo kompleksnejše razumevanje pojma interaktivnosti. Kompleksni stroji sicer š... more


Round table

Round table

[Original at http://www.3via.org/index.php?htm=okrogla_miza
or at https://www.turborebop.net/html.php?htm=okrogla_miza]

Na Kunstradiu, Dunaj junija 2001 http://www.kunstradio.at/2001A/24_06_01.html

Okrogla miza / Round Table

Ali je okrogla miza glasbeni ali socialni instrument? Okrogla miza je mesto komunikacije, debate, poslušanja in dejanja (dajanja?). Tako vsaj načelno velja za okrogle mize v elektronskih medijih. No, mi smo vzeli okroglo mizo dobesedno…

Be... more


Secret Life of Blobs

Secret Life of Blobs

[Original na https://www.3via.org/records/index.php?opt=item&id=6]

The Secret Life of Blobs
by Borut Savski

The Concept

Blobs are short-lived sound creatures, which reproduce in synthetic environment & in real time. I am talking about a synthetic “biotope”, where the musical (the aesthetic) qualities give place for something which is more close to communication qualities. To speak and to be heard. Sometimes wild and sometimes quiet. I try to find and link togethe... more


TURBOREBOP & RANDOM ACTIVITIES

Idejno-filozofsko-estetska zasnova:

Računalniški glasbeni algoritmi so bolj ali manj kompleksni zbiri ukazov, ki med velikim številom možnih odločitev z računalnikovo zmožnostjo velike hitrosti odločanja in z veliko mero variacij (zmožnostjo hitrega računanja) v realnem času proizvajajo muzikalične dogodke. Tej zvrsti glasbe se v sodobni glasbi od sredine stoletja pravi tudi aleatorična glasba (ko še ni bila neposredno vezana na računalniško okolje).

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Turborebop

Turborebop

[Original at http://www.3via.org/records/index.php?opt=item&id=9]

Borut Savski – Turborebop
Year of production: 1999, 2000



About the music
The edition should be one of the more interesting historical records in the area of computer algoritmic music, since it transfers the aleatorical principals of contemporary music in the seemingly more popular area of techno music (the subtitle of the records is also “tehne” – written as Greek).... more


Infrastrukture | Infrastructures

Infrastrukture | Infrastructures

Original at https://absurdevidence.radiostudent.si/borut/infrastructures.html
and
https://www.turborebop.net/infrastructures/infrastructures.html

INFRASTRUCTURES
/are chosen excerpts from radio- and related activities I was heartily involved in. The authorship is of course of the people involved/

june 15th 1999: excerpt from the opening of the BIOTOPE installation @Kapelica Gallery Ljubljana
https://www.3via.org/records/index.php?opt=item&id=8

april 199... more


Internet radio = nadomestek in prava stvar

Internet radio = nadomestek in prava stvar

Internet – pretežno prazen prostor neskončnih prostranstev, neizvedenih idej in izziv za domišljije polne. Skratka (navidezni=virtualni?) novi Novi svet. Med raznoliko množico dejavnosti bom poiskal tiste, ki se zdijo, da imajo kaj skupnega z radijskim medijem, oziroma splošneje – komunikacijske (informacijske, estetske,…) kanale.

Občasno se kaj internetovsko medijskega dogaja celo na valovih Radia Študent, v popolnočnih urah, pod ozna... more


Internet kot novi medij

Internet kot novi medij in internet kot nadomestek za klasični medij

Zelo blizu začetka komunikacij je bil telefon. V osnovi prav tak, kot je danes. Telefonu nihče pri zdravi pameti ne pravi masovni medij. Je dvosmerni komunikacijski kanal med dvema točkama. Telefonski sistem tvori množica takih kanalov – je torej paralelni sistem. Sodobna različica telefonskega sistema je – Internet! Vendar je Internet več kot to. Lahko je tudi distribucijski sistem po vzoru običajnih medijev!

A je ... more


Midi Conversions – Midi2Happy

Midi Conversions – Midi2Happy
Original at https://www.3via.org/records/index.php?opt=item&id=19
Borut Savski: Midi Conversions – Midi2Happy

Year of production: 1997 / 1998

Borut Savski – Midi2Happy – Soft (02:58)
Borut Savski – Midi2Happy – Bells (03:02)
Borut Savski – Midi2Happy – Hard (07:26)
Borut Savski – Midi2Happy – Carribean (03:56)
Borut Savski – Midi2Happy – African (03:47)

Concept:

Midi Co... more