Projects SI 28/Writing Machine Ensemble
Writing Machine Ensemble
Participants: Ema, Daan, Robin, Thijs
Currently working on:
Description
Writing Machine Ensemble
Explorations in Potential Musicality
With the Writing Machine Ensemble, rythm and repetition will be experienced in a radically new form. Explorations in Potential Musicality is a musical journey through the sonic qualities of printers—with a strong emphasis on improvisation, yet promising dramatic intensity.
Writing Machine Ensemble
The Writing Machine Ensemble, co-founded by it's current members, is an international group of experimental musicians from around the XPUB Studio. Independent and idealistic, they focus on blending the role of 'instrument' and 'musician' in an assemblage of artistic creation, striving to find the essential musical quality in tools of writing. Since its debut in September 2025, the ensemble has performed once on WORM Radio, for the 5th edition of XPUB's Special Issue Radio show, where the group's unique live scoring method was born.
Members
Emanuele Arrigoni, Daan Princen, Robin de Haan,Thijs van Loenhout, Monica Olympia, Erika Model, N.E.C. (Dottie) Parson, Taxan X.Y. Plotter
Medium/Media
Performance (not naming the printers as medium is part of the concept)
(or, if possible, change formatting to that of a concert announcement, so no mention of medium)
Conversations with the curators
Keywords: Technical Assemblage, Live Scoring, Scores, Notation, Sound, Performance, Writing Machines, tools shape practice practice shape tool
-> Input -> Output ->
INPUT: Finger movements that originate symbols and letters onto electronic devices.
OUTPUT[S]: the same input text BUT on long continuous sheets of paper, thanks to the use of ink that is both being sprayed onto the paper thanks to the marvellous technical engineering of a head that moves horizontally, and imprinted, thanks to the mechanical movements of engraved metal rods hitting the paper. --> This sums up into Printing, and those types of printing techniques produces noises. --> Together, noises and symbols on paper, leads people to wander into stuff called semiotics, thoughts and imagination through the use of interpretation.