bike-mike

sketch by Kushima

"FEEDBACK LOOP" by Stefan Kushima

under administration of Wolfgang Fadi Dorninger
Musicians: Ra]va[ge, Karin Steinbinder, Aka Tell, Mes

In the corridors (approx. 50m x 50m) of the Artuniversity in Linz/Austria, we installed 4 speakers (1 in each corner) as a loop.
Microphones was placed directly before the speakers, plucked in a small mixer with EQ, and directly into the next speaker in the corner on the opposite.
On each mixer stands one person witch plays with the volumes, EQ's, the distance from the microphone to the speaker and with the microphone itself. Every person heard mainly the work of the musician placed on the other speaker and the mix of all outputs. If one musician did a significant sound, or put the feedback into a other frequence it took a few seconds till the sound turned one round so that the person could hear it.
This short-circuit of the room enabled a very interesting interaction with a very simple equipment and a impressive, noisy output. 

Recorded by Wolfgang Dorninger with a Soundman OKM walking twisted through the corridor to get the binaural effect (26.6.2007).  The whole recording is about 23 minutes. This recording is the final 8 minutes. Enoy!