ETT SKEPP

The experimental music group Ett Skepp has recently finalized several years of sonic research resulting in their first soundscape. Ett Skepp consists of Jonas Bulow and Mathias Josefson, both holding MSc degrees in Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Together they have explored generative algorithms in the field of sound creation and manipulation. After three years of extensive work at different locations in Stockholm, the initial release called Kommer lastat, has now been completed. The project started in early 2003 at the Institute for Electroacustic Music in Sweden (EMS), Stockholm, and continued at the Royal Institute of Technology with live performances at Fylkingen, Stockholm, and at the open air theater in Rålambshovsparken, Stockholm. Phase patterns and methods of evolution were the main instruments to generate sound structures. Driving forces were to explore the impact of generative methods and pattern interactions in a predefined parameter space. The implementation framework was continuously updated given the feedback from the evolving system. Sound structures were rendered into concrete sound materials using transformations in the analogue and digital domains. The material was classified and grouped into separate sets, categorized according to similarities found in the animal kingdom. The final assembly was based on self-contained ecology systems where animals interacted according to given set of rules. Ett skepp December 2006