Jonas Vorwerk

design - digitale technologie - geluid - interactief - Licht


Music Forest - Music Forest takes a form of a collaborative instrument that inspires people to create music with the intensity of movement and touch. Eighteen posts with different sounds form a unique sound landscape and influence the context of the place in which it stands. The artwork becomes an excuse for the artists to break the daily rhythm and pace of the city by inviting the public into the imaginary world of Music Forest. The work encourages a moment to pause and to form an orchestra together with others. The forest is both a reference to the spatiality of the work and the idea that you can get away from the monotone, the routine and the individualism of the city. It is a forest in which every tree has its own sound, but only together they can make a concert. Jonas Vorwerk and Chantal Vos started collaborating in 2016. Together they integrate technology, light, sound, movement, form and space within the sociocultural context in interactive installations. The installation Music Forest is the first result of that joint effort.
Loops - In Loops Jonas Vorwerk comes back to the idea of creating new spatial and collective interfaces for music making. A concept he has already addressed in earlier works such as the Lightbox Sequencer, Windorgel and Musical Forest, but this time focusing on a different aspect – audio loops. Almost as if he was taking contemporary music apart, Vorwerk explores its elements in isolation and builds devices that introduce them to a wider audience. This installation acts as a highly intuitive apparatus that allows anyone to play around with loop-based musical compositions. As it were Loops pay a tribute to the music lab of the 50’s and 60’s where experimentation with analogue magnetic tapes built the ground for modern music making. Vorwerk’s lab, however, is not an enclosed studio full of experts. It is out in the open, anywhere in the public space. His inconspicuous circular sound machines can be operated by anyone, and even though they are primarily digital their interface is purely kinetic and manual, allowing the user to quickly understand how to use them. The speed and playback direction of the preprogrammed samples are manipulated by a steel controller-wheel. Its material properties such as weight and resistance consciously introduce a hand-operated element to sound control, at the same time making the artwork play with both the digital and the analogue realms. Its simple and elegant form together with vibrant light animations create a corresponding visual reflection of the soundscape lab created by the public and form an unusual audio-visual spectacle.
Lightholders - This installation acts as a highly intuitive apparatus that allows anyone to experience loop-based musical compositions. As it were Loops pay a tribute to the music lab of the 50’s and 60’s where experimentation with analogue magnetic tapes built the ground for modern music making. Vorwerk’s lab, however, is not an enclosed studio full of experts. It is out in the open, anywhere in the public space. AUDIO LOOPS ARE, JUST LIKE SEQUENCERS AND SYNTHESISERS, THE MAIN INGREDIENTS FOR TODAYS ELECTRONIC MUSIC. The light artwork “Lichthouders” was based on the gasholders, formerly located on the NRE site in Eindhoven, in the shape of large, round storage spaces. Round, metal constructions of light elements placed on top of their historical ‘footprints’. These circulair elements display sound loops. The concept of using sound loops and making them visible is inspired by the sound experiments done by Philips in the 60’s by artists like Dick Raaijmakers. We created three “Lichthouders”, two with a diameter of 15 meters and one with a diameter of 21 meters, all have the same 3 meters height. Each object contains several hundreds of led pixels. Every circle contains several audio loops and play in random order but within their sound composition. The audio loops are in sync with light animations so the movement and sound is directly visible. Using a circulair 6 speakers setup, the sounds are all moving around the public, creating a spacial hearing. THE AIM IS TO CONNECT PEOPLE IN THE REAL WORK, IN THIS TIME, IN THIS PLACE AND CREATE A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. Its simple and elegant form together with vibrant light animations create a corresponding visual reflection of the soundscape lab created by the computer algorithm, and form an unusual audio-visual spectacle.
Metronome - Metronome is an installation that connects light and sound with one another through and age-old principle: the metronome. It is a spatial, kinetic work with light and sound that is about rhythm, balance and synchronicity in an aesthetic image summarized by the combination of technology and human interaction. Metronome brings light, sound and movement together through a combination of esthetics and innovative technology. It is not only an art installation but also a means of contact: it challenges the visitor to interact with the work and with other visitors. In this way you can work together with others to arrive at a collective composition. Metronome is characterized by interactivity with the user, attractive aesthetics, timeless design, state-of-the-art technology and interaction between light and sound.