Reconstructing Harald Bode
Festival Synthie Lovers
Vendredi 25 et samedi 26 avril 2025
- Sprache
- Deutsch
- Englisch
Harald Bode (1909-1987), ingénieur allemand et pionnier des instruments de musique électroniques, a exercé grâce à ses nombreuses inventions une influence majeure sur la musique électronique.
Ses vastes archives, contenant de nombreuses notes, plans de construction, schémas électriques et documentations de prototypes, font partie du ZKM depuis 2019. Sur la base de ces archives, le SYNTH-Werk de Munich, conjointement avec le ZKM | Karlsruhe et la HfM | Hochschule für Musik de Karlsruhe, a reconstitué le dernier instrument achevé de Bode, le fameux Barberpole Phaser, une unité d’effets qui n’a été construit que trois fois. Celui-ci est désormais à nouveau accessible au public et disponible pour les artistes et musicien·nes du monde entier.
Pour aborder l’important travail de Harald Bode sous différents angles et célébrer la réussite du Barberpole Phaser reconstitué, le ZKM et la HfM organisent un festival dédié aux synthétiseurs analogiques et aux convertisseurs audio électroniques.
Le festival s’adresse aux artistes et musicien·nes, aux spécialistes et scientifiques de l’histoire des arts électroniques, à toutes celles et ceux qui se passionnent pour les synthétiseurs analogiques, mais aussi aux personnes intéressées et curieuses.
L’événement débutera vendredi par une table ronde au ZKM Medientheater, accompagnée d’interventions et présentations, d’un point de vue scientifique et artistique, sur la vie et l’œuvre de Harald Bode, ses inventions, compositions et coopérations avec des musicien·nes.
Le soir, la manifestation se déplacera du ZKM à la HfM. Des concerts et des performances exploreront, en lien avec les propres compositions de Harald Bode et à l’aide du Barberpole Phaser reconstitué, les possibilités sonores nouvellement créées ou redécouvertes.
Le samedi, de nombreux ateliers permettront de travailler soi-même avec les instruments et les synthétiseurs analogiques, d’expérimenter, de bricoler et d’échanger avec des personnes partageant les mêmes idées.
Le soir, un grand concert avec Afrorack et Siri Thiermann au ZKM Kubus clôturera le festival.
Le festival présente des œuvres, des conférences et des concerts de :
Program
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Symposium on Friday, April 25, 2025 / Location: ZKM | Karlsruhe
at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
10:00 – 10:15 am Welcome and opening words
Margit Rosen (ZKM), Matthias Wiegandt (HfM)10:15 – 10:30 am Personal Address
Peer Bode (Son of Harald Bode, Videoartist)10:30 – 11:10 am The Harald Bode Archive at ZKM
Felix Mittelberger (ZKM)lecture
11:10 – 11:30 am A Closed Circuit, Harald Bode
Rebekkah Palov (former Archivist of Harald Bode, Sound-/Videoartist)performance
11:30 – 01:00 pm Lunchbreak 01:00 – 01:30 pm On Reconstructing the Barberpole Phaser
Felix Mittelberger (ZKM), Christoph Seibert (HfM)lecture
01:30 – 02:00 pm Towards an experimental performance of Harald Bode’s Phase 6
Juan Parra Cancino (Orpheus Institute)lecture performance
02:00 – 02:30 pm Illusion in Non-linear Space
Luís Antunes Pena (HfM)lecture performance
02:30 – 03:00 pm Working on Harald Bode
Gerhard Mayrhofer (Synth-Werk), Luís Antunes Pena (HfM), Juan Parra Cancino (Orpheus Institute)
Moderation: Felix Mittelberger (ZKM)panel discussion
03:00 – 03:20 pm Break 03:20 – 03:30 pm My Dialog with Harald Bode
Suzanne Ciani (Artist)video
03:30 – 04:00 pm Harald Bode – Instrument to Studio
Florian Zwissler (HfM Köln)lecture performance
04:00 – 04:30 pm Working with Harald Bode
Senta Hirscheider (Artist), Svetlana Marasz (FHNW), Florian Zwissler (HfM)
Moderation: Christoph Seibert (HfM)panel discussion
05:00 – 07:00 pm Break -
Concerts on Friday, April 25, 2025 / Location: HfM | University of Music Karlsruhe
at HfM | University of Music Karlsruhe
07:00 – 07:30 pm Listening through the Archive: Harald Bode and Suzanne Ciani
Senta Hirscheider (Artist)performance
07:30 – 08:15 pm Parallel Realities
Julian Brandhofer, Francisco Durán Del Castillo, Joanna Friedrich-Sroka,
Felix Horn, Andres Kaufmes, Negin Mozafari, Luís Antunes Penaconcert
08:15 – 08:30 pm Break 08:30 – 08:50 pm Harald Bode's Phase 6: An Experimental Interpretation
Juan Parra Cancino (Orpheus Institute)concert
08:50 – 09:10 pm LIJN 14 and new work (no title)
Marieke van de Venconcert
09:10 – 09:30 pm Live Performance
Mapping Ambiguities: Florian Zwissler (HfM Köln), Luís Antunes Pena (HfM)concert
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Workshops on Saturday, April 26, 2025 / Location: ZKM | Karlsruhe
11:00 am – 2:00 pm »Theremin@ Synthie Lover Festival«
with Max Kosorić
37 €
Meeting Point: 10:45 am at the Information desk11:00 am – 3:30 pm »Making: Midi Madness«
with Michelle Vossen
30 € / for one 2-person team
Meeting Point: 10:45 am at the Information desk11:00 am – 4:30 pm »Resonant Networks: Ideate, Code, Build, Perform«
with Chris Spatschek
15 €
Meeting Point: 10:45 am at the Information desk2:00 pm – 5:15 pm »The BODE Barberpole Phaser and a legendary MOOG sound source...«
with Gerhard Mayrhofer & Uwe Rottluff
free of charge
Meeting Point: 1:45 pm at the Information desk -
Jamsession on Saturday, April 26, 2025 / Location: ZKM | Karlsruhe
1:00 – 4:00 pm Jamsession: Open Circuits – Share, Stack, Sync
with Paul Erhardt & Dr. Lea Luka Sikau
free of charge
Music Balcony -
Concert on Saturday, April 26, 2025 / Location: ZKM | Karlsruhe
5:00 – 6:00 pm Artist talk with Afrorack & Siri Thiermann
English
Free entryMedia Lounge 7:00 – 9:15 pm TURNS x Synthie Lovers Festival: Sonic Kinships – Patch, Plug, Mod
Preact: Siri Thiermann
Main Act: Afrorack aka Brian Bamanya10 € / 7 € (reduced)
Kubus
A festival with artworks, workshops, lectures, concerts and an artist talk with:
Records by Harald Bode
Who was Harald Bode?
Harald Bode was a physicist and engineer. After working at the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Oscillation Research at the Technical University of Berlin, he emigrated to the USA in 1954. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern synthesizer. His Modular Synthesizer and Sound Processor of 1961 and its concept formed the basis for the later Moog synthesizer. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Bode designed and built numerous instruments, electronic sound generators, and organs, including the Melochord, Europe's first postwar electric musical instrument, which was used by Karlheinz Stockhausen and others. In the 1960s, Bode developed ring modulators and his Frequency Shifter, followed by his famous Vocoder in the 1970s. The Barberpole Phaser in the early 1980s combined many concepts and ideas from previous instruments and aimed to revolutionize the musical landscape.
What is a Barberpole Phaser?
The Barberpole Phaser is based on the psychoacoustic principles of the Shepard scale and the Shepard-Risset glissando discovered in the 1960s. A note or sound fed into the Barberpole Phaser appears to have an eternal glissando up or down as long as the note is played. Harald Bode decided to create a device that would produce this effect and add useful filters like fuzz. He called it the Barberpole Phaser because of its acoustic resemblance to the look of a barber pole outside a barbershop, which seems to go up and down indefinitely. Only three Barberpole Phasers have been built. The first was completed in 1981, the last in 1983, at the dawn of the PC era. However, their memory and processing speed were too limited for Bode's sound ideas. Nevertheless, he later attempted to emulate the principle on a Commodore personal computer, but this was never presented to the public.
