The Mixer Project

The mixer project invites the audience to listen to familiar and unfamiliar sounds/ field recordings and make their own mix composition using only the Controller. They can take home the result immediately on a thumb key or have it sent by email.
The Mixer Project allows you to mix 4 audio channels in real time and record the result – similar to a DJ-Mixer or a mixing desk in a recording studio.
The mixing process is intuitive and easy even for people who never used a mixing desk before.
Depending on the space the mixing can be done with headphones or a pair of speakers.

The first realisation was at the Ultima festival in Oslo 2023 where people could create their individaul soundscapes, mixing the electromagnetic fields of their city.
An advanced version was realized in 2024 for the exhibition “Oscillations Capetown-Berlin, Sonic Enquiries and Practices” at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. The audio material to be mixed consited exclusively of field recordings made in South Africa in the autumn of 2023. This version included as well photos of various recording locations and a series of LED panels at the wall. Besides mixing yourself one could sit down at a listening station with headphones and enjoy mixes that were done by other visitors before.
A choice of mixes were played in the garden of the Akademie der Künste, the program changed every day.
The mixes were all very individual and of an unexpectedly great variety, although they all shared the same sound material. Full of interesting variations, surprising processes and musical structures. Every participant thus became the composer of an unique piece which they could take home.

Some examples of mixes created by visitors of OSCILLATIONS