"Reflection", sculpture, 2008
 
The data sculpture Reflection was commissioned in 2008 by the 5 Days Off Festival in Amsterdam and transcribes as a 3D object the 16-minute musical piece of the same name composed by Frans de Waard (Goem), which comprises 12 characteristic musical motives in a linear arrangement. The frequency range of the musical piece was analysed with the help of an FTT respectively Rapid Fourier Transformation and the values thus deduced were projected on a 3D coordinates system in order to illustrate the intensity of the frequencies as a temporal process. A CNC rotary cutter was then used to carve the resulting form from an MDF block.
 
Andreas Nicolas Fischer [ DE]
Born in 1982 in Munich, studied Digital Media and the University of Fine Arts/Berlin, lives and works in Berlin. Fischer is preoccupied with data visualisation, scientific information visualisation and programming generative systems. He uses data to create physical objects that reflect his interest in issues such as telecommunications, macroeconomics and experimental music.
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Benjamin Maus [DE]
Born in 1984 in Ulm, currently studying Digital Media at the UDK/Berlin under Professor J. Sauter and Professor J. Ängeslevä. Maus' interest lies in coding generative systems and in data visualisation.
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