sinusoidal run rhythm is a basic research in rhythm theory generated by adding up in-phase cosine functions in whole number ratios. These rhythms are temporally and dynamically shifted in their maxima compared to corresponding notated rhythms and feature a physicality and grooviness that is not present in discretely controlled rhythms. sinusoidal run rhythm thus conceives of rhythm as a wave and clearly stands out from the conventional rhythm theory of a European musical tradition. It opens up an inexhaustible variety of beguiling physical music.
The theory encourages us to unbound the borders between imagination and performance, score and interpretation, man and machine and search for applications in music-making, music analysis, psychoacoustics or philosophy.
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Steffen Krebber is composer, sound artist and researcher. His work oscillates between computer music, instrumental and electroacoustic composition, sound art, research, language, epistemology, sociology and media art. He has held scholarships from the Schloss Solitude Academy, the Schreyahn Artists Retreat, the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship from the City of Cologne. His music has been performed at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, the Witten New Chamber Music Festival, the ‘blurred edges’ Festival of Current Music (Hamburg), the ‘new talents’ Biennale (Cologne), Nachtstrom (Basle) and Piano+ at the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media. He has also exhibited his work at the KOLUMBA Art Museum of the Archbishopric of Cologne, the Cologne Arts Association and the Schloss Solitude Academy. His language installation Weissagungen (‘divinations’) entered the permanent collection of the KOLUMBA Art Museum. As a composer he has worked with a great many ensembles and performers, including the Thürmchen Ensemble, Ensemble Praesenz, radikal translation, the Sonar Quartet, hand werk, LUX:NM, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble ascolta and the Stuttgart New Vocal Soloists as well as Manos Tsangaris, Truike van der Poel, Sabine Akiko Ahrendt and Dirk Rothbrust.
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