Shift KV 594

Achim Bornhoeft, Marco Döttlinger
2023
video, fixed audio (2ch)
00:08:00
18.07.2023
Textiles Zentrum, Haslach, Germany

Spot on MozART:
Release announcement from 19.07.2023

Shift, a project by teachers from the Department of Fine Arts and Design and the Studio for Electronic Music, is based on the equivalence of binary coding: The spectral analysis of Mozart’s Adagio in F minor (KV 594) for an organ work in a clock is translated into a weaving cartridge that controls the fabric production in the format of a pixel file on a digital Jacquard loom. As an instrument, the loom interprets Mozart’s composition; at the same time, as a weaving machine, it produces a piece of fabric designed by the composition. The weaving process thus organises the materialisation of the sounds and translates the composition into a textile score.

Shift continues with shift+, reinterpreting fabrics from Mozart’s era and realising them on a digital Jacquard loom. The compositions use the sounds of the loom to interpret the visual content of the woven fabric. The weaving process thus organises the sonification of the textile processes.
(Text taken from from the publication Spot on MozART)

Team:
Achim Bornhöft, Julia Burgholzer, Marco Döttlinger, Emma Ebmeyer, Lisbeth Freiss, Alfran Garcia, Pia Geisreiter, Thomas Gschoßmann, Frauke von Jaruntowski, Julia Kirnich, Tibor Kovacs, Christina Leitner, Elena Lengauer, Leonie Lindinger, Valerie Magnus, Judith Musil, Susanne Roittner-Nething, Nicolas Speda, Lukas Stangl, Elisabeth Stötzler and Wen-Cheng Wei

Video production: Feikind

Research MAK: Museum of Applied Arts

Cooperation partners: Textile production support and development Textiles Centre Haslach