Dennis Scheiba | Dennis Scheiba

An audiovisual experience in collaboration with Tsingyun Zhang which deals with the translation of physical decay to the preservation in digital space through technologies such as 3D scanning.

Western economics are driven by the promise of an never ending spiral to the top, of more consumption, more luxury and more convenience for everything. This contradiction of an infinite growth can be mapped to the auditory phenomenon of a sheppard tone, an ever ascending tone, but just as infinite growth in a finite world, this is just an illusion, a trick on our senses.

Responsible for the realization of the RAVE (Real time audio variational auto encoder) model of the exhibition RAVE in the Style of G.M. Koenig (Bucklige Welt) by Marcus Schmickler at the JUBG gallery.

Target vs. Label is one principal within machine learning - this duality and the connection in between is now imposed onto the society which created these very distinctions. AI algorithms are used to analyze or generate structured data. Use cases range from face recognition to speech generation to text generation. In order for such algorithms to "learn" structures, they are presented with a dataset that contains variations of structures through examples. In my work I want to visually contrast the duality of label and example, input and output, practice and perfection using 2 projectors and also question the associated normalized attributes.

In Soll- und Ist-Zustand I want to visually contrast the duality of label and example, input and output, practice and perfection using 2 projectors and also question the associated normalized attributes. Through the data sets an actual state of our society shall be shown and how little utopias play a role in the target state of data sets

Gencaster is a platform for building audio streaming experiences with dynamic and generative content. This allows for a unique stream per user instead of delivering the same synchronised stream to everyone (traditional radio broadcasting) or relying on on-demand interaction (current streaming/podcast platforms).

An hour long documentary about the Cologne based Asia supermarket Heng Long.

For this composition I wanted to take the characteristics of this abandoned boiler room into account and for this I took inspiration from the works by Maryanne Amacher - not only because of the use of otoacoustic emission but also the idea of fine tuning the acoustics of a place by adjusting the placements of each loudspeaker seemed to me a very fitting here as the reverberation of the place already tints the sound in specific ways and instead of ignoring this or try to tackle this one can see it as a gift which can be embraced and used for impact of the composition.

For Silicon Machine Music, I first generated and collected sounds and analyzed and sorted them according to their spectral content. This value was then used to generate form by using a virtual "valve" to control the spectral density at any point in the composition, allowing me to use a form-giving process that was new to me. The work is influenced by the feedback work "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed and the cybernetic compositions and writings of Roland Kayn.

At the end of 2021 I had the opportunity to see a performance of the film "Richter Patterns" at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Inspired by the effect of "floating" colored lines, I reprogrammed the effect in OPENRNDR the same evening, but then the question of the reproduction rights of such a generic work arose. The study therefore consists of 2 parts - a very faithful part and a second part in which the idea of Gerhard Richter's recursive decomposition into lines is implemented in an alternative way.

Remember the good times, but what happens with the bad ones? The fog of war in our head is sometimes no inconvenience but a practice to protect ourselves from our greatest fears that we have experienced - but have we actually experienced them or are they more an uncanny hallucination into which we project all of our inner horrors? These unreliable memories define what we are although we are rarely aware of them. This floating away from oneself as dissociation with the hope of a re-attachment and unification with oneself shall be the motivation for this piece.

Soundtrack for short animation study Pantha Rhei by Alexander Hahn at University of Arts Berlin.

Closures structure the spatial visibility of variables in programming. This idea served as inspiration to let sounds emerge, meet and interact in space. Through the encounter, new sounds are created by means of interferences whose friction is distributed in space and thus also suggest a kind of visibility and spatial influence. The composition works with concepts and ideas of spectralism.

Internet comments have a long history and have developed their own form and aesthetics. For the composition I was interested in the peculiarities of these text comments and used this as a basis for the visual component. For this I collected a dataset of comments from various platforms and de- and re-structured them using typical data science methods like tf-idf to get a different view on the comments. I was also interested in using the aesthetics of a statistical and automatic digital analysis of the comments in a visual work.

During the Corona pandemic, the notion of home has shifted even more to the digital - the term has been shaped there in many ways, through platforms, protocols, logins, forms of use, licensing agreements, physicality of infastructure and end devices, and is now being transformed from a once distributed to an increasingly centralized form. To reflect the importance and hegemony of this infrastructure and platforms like Zoom, I rented 40 computers in different locations around the world for the performance and had them communicate with each other. I condensed this communication into one space in the Tonhalle in the form of a sonification, creating a journey through the world-spanning digital space. The composition was implemented through OPENRNDR, SuperCollider, Ossia Score, a Modular Synthesizer, Python scripts and the Google Cloud platform.

Sound design for 3D animation BODY FACTORY by Qingyun Zhang.

Documentary movie about the *wash street* at my former work place.