Braun Tube Jazz Band by Ei Wada // Berlin - Transmediale 2011

Braun Tube Jazz Band live with Ei Wada // Berlin - Transmediale 2011 // Unter dem Motto RESPONSE:ABILITY lud die diesjährige Transmediale den jungen Japaner Ei Wada mit seiner Performance Braun Tube Jazz Band ein. Der Transmediale Text erklärt seine Arbeit folgendermaßen: “One day, a spectacular vision popped into Ei Wada`s mind. It was the image of abandoned electrical appliances being played as musical instruments in the streets of a city. Some time later, he accidentally plugged a sound cable into a composite video connector port and the sound was rendered as an image. Seeing this he realised that re-recording the image with a camera and outputting it as an audio signal might reproduce the original sound. With this technique as a starting point, he set up pairings of tube televisions and PC-controlled video decks to correspond with the number of notes in a musical scale, creating a set of gamelan-like percussion instruments. Tapping the TV tubes produces primitive, cosmic electrical mus