Götz Dipper

Musician, trained at the Higher Music Schools in Hannover and Salzburg (Mozarteum). His work is aimed at experimentation with computer music and computing. From 2001 to 2013 he worked at the Institut für Musik und Akustik of the ZKM in Karlsruhe. One of his interactive installations is Algorithmic echolocation (2003), created together with Ramón Guardans, Adolf Mathias, Götz Dipper, Martin Schüttler, Matthias Gommel and Renata Sas. The installation presents an analysis of an important trace of global metabolism, the Vostok core series. These data have been obtained from an ice column in Antarctica and contain information on the chemical composition of the atmosphere over the last 420,000 years. An analysis is performed at regular intervals with wavelets that are capable of dealing with data at irregular intervals, and the real and imaginary parts are presented in 3D bar diagram over a frequency range divided into 20 bands. The sound is produced in real time, using the original data and the results of the wavelet analysis, projecting these results into the parameter values of a sound generator implemented in Pd.

He participated in MediaLab with the interactive installation Algorithmic echolocation (2003), a tool that allows exploring the dynamics of signals of many forms and origins. It digests a landscape of data, of micro and macroscopic scales that encompass different magnitudes of space and time, and transforms it into a harmonious analysis. With this, it is possible to establish relationships between knowledge and contexts as diverse as the response of organisms and ecosystems to pollution and environmental changes, the confinement of free radicals in molecular biology processes that occur in thousandths of a second or the analysis of economic data, among others. Its applications range from scientific research and visualization to virtual and interactive installations in the fields of art and communication. The installation presents an analysis of an important trace of global metabolism, the Vostok core series. These data have been obtained from an ice column in Antarctica and contain information on the chemical composition of the atmosphere over the last 420,000 years. An analysis is performed at regular intervals with wavelets that are capable of dealing with data at irregular intervals, and the real and imaginary parts are presented in 3D bar diagram over a frequency range divided into 20 bands. The sound is produced in real time, using the original data and the results of the wavelet analysis, projecting these results into the parameter values of a sound generator implemented in Pd.