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29/03/2025

25/03/2025

Thanks A Closer Listen for including "Aura Trans" by Andreas Lutz in the Ambient Spring Music Preview 🙏

Stay calm; there is still beauty in the world. One can glean this message in this season’s ambient releases, many of which draw inspiration from springtime, the great outdoors, the environme…

16/09/2024

Andreas Lutz Interview "A sign is just a metaphor" with Glissando

>>> CONTENT ALERT >> INTERVIEW > ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE // LANGUAGE

💻 In his works, he refers to alternative human / machine interaction and creates integrated, universal communication systems. He analyzes phenomena of perception versus reality as well as principles of abstract aesthetics with stunning audio-visual installations. The creator of experimental soundscapes, a programmer, a semiotician – Ladies and Gents, please welcome Andreas Lutz, this time in the conversation with Natalia Glinka-Hebel, which took place just after last years’ Open Source Art Festival (link in the comment).

➡ 2024 edition of the Festival starts this Friday, so if you want to expand your music horizons, check the lineup and buy your tickets here: http://osafestival.pl/

🦾 Now immerse yourself in the reading and enjoy the world of linguistics, machine learning, ChatGPT and... music. (red.)

11/09/2024

Andreas Lutz at Un Singe en Hiver in Dijon / France

08/07/2024

Andreas Lutz upcoming performance in South Korea

12/05/2024

Abstract Language Model (Sync) by Andreas Lutz at Sónar Istanbul

Image credits: Mete Kaan Özdilek, Sonar Istanbul, Zorlu PSM

12/04/2024

Available again in the shop: Wutbürger — German Rage in Thirteen Acts

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German / English
19 x 30 cm
216 pages with 200 color images
Hardcover
February 2016
DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin

Christoph Grünberger and Andreas Lutz’s video installation Wutbürger explores the personal rage and individual failure of a German man. Looking back on his life, the protagonist Stefan W. — played by Andreas Genschmar — relives various episodes that eventually led him into the dead end, effectively a prison of his own making, in which he now finds himself. A five-hour performance set in a custom-made box was recorded to produce images that give the viewer the feeling of being confronted with a live action that addresses him directly.

With a preface by Prof. Morihiro Satow and essays by Andreas Genschmar, Andreas Lutz, Dr. Frauke Nowak and Christoph Tratberger.

27/01/2024

13/11/2023

Review from Soundrive on "Abstract Language Model" by Andreas Lutz

Niepozorna czarno-biała okładka przedstawia szesnaście okręgopodobnych, rozlanych kształtów, umieszczonych w jednakowych odległościach od siebie. Zarówno tajemnicze kształty, jak i sam album Andreasa Lutza to efekt ciężkiej, tytanicznej pracy i śmiałego konceptu. Aby stworzyć "Abstrac...

25/10/2023

Musique Machine on Abstract Language Model by Andreas Lutz

Andreas Lutz’s Abstract Language Model is merely the auditory component to a much larger work of the same name, encompassing visual as well as aural modes of representation. With that information in mind, there might be an expectation that the album version of this material could be lacking, or missing parts, or whatever, unable otherwise to stand on its own. Nothing could be further from the truth, though, and this is a credit to the degree of control (or lack thereof) that Lutz asserts on his machine-learning neural network (read: computational) model, trained in the fine art of Unicode: a quasi-universal characterset, incorporating nearly all forms of written communication. Such heady experiments often fall flat in their ex*****on, failing to deliver the sonic goods with their performative conceits, but not here.

The album is divided into seven commands, what I assume were the protocols that directed the network to respond as it did. It’s nearly impossible to know exactly how much mixing and altering Lutz did with his source material, but the results lead me to believe it was more than a little. The album is a study in concentrated ambient washes, each track moving with a similar, android animation. Subtle harmonics occasionally emerge and are then swallowed up by the blackhole of language, which, like reason, defines the ineradicable horizon of human understanding. All the better to leave the human behind, then. When we arrive at “Transformation”, one of the two longest tracks on Abstract Language Model, the feeling is one of sign systems having their lives snuffed out, a transition to the role of the network now as both producer and audience. What remains palpable among the metallic drone of machine intelligence is the rise and fall of degrees of emphasis, the structural sine qua non of any system of utterances. One thing has to be louder than another, mark space or distance between what is spoken and what is said. “Language”, the last composition, makes no bones about its mode of emphasis, filling the sonic spectrum with noise, glitch, and even a strangulated keyboard putting out its own version of code, familiar and alien at the same time.

For fans of rich, ambient soundscapes with decidedly machine-like overtones – think of Windy & Carl or Grouper fed through a ring modulator the size of a city – this is a deeply nuanced and resonant work in the genre. Highly recommended!

— Colin Lang via Musique Machine

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