Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag. UOAEI

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uoaei - Helmholtz Voocaal : Kittlers Formant - a sound installation and at the same time the echo and the apparative traces of a discursive interconnection of central theoretical motifs from Hermann von Helmholtz’s On The Sensation of Tone (1862) and from Friedrich Kittler's Discours Networks 1800/1900, based on their experimental  apparative and sounding evidence.

During the Biedermeier period, Helmholtz had the first synthesiser built. In doing so, he not only laid the foundations for his theory, which to this day creates the physical and mathematical prerequisites for electronic music production, but - according to Sonntag - also anticipated the sound of the pioneers of electronic music: Stockhausen's sine-tone-mixture-reverberating Study 2, which has its technical roots in radio and in research into synthetic speech generation, predates the analogue synth soundscapes of the Floyds and Tangerine Dream or the electro beats of Kraftwerk.