| Create your own sound by sending an e-mail to robot@spess.com.
The scratchrobot will scratch your message and reply in
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| Stijn Slabbinck (1976) graduated from the Academy
of Fine Arts in Ghent where he studied 3d-multimedia.
Two years ago, he founded the company SPESS, which provides
technical support for events, film and theater productions.
Slabbinck has always been particularly interested in VJ-performances,
automation and special effects, which consequently exerted
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Scratchrobot
by Stijn Slabbinck (BE)
The Scratchrobot is an installation based on two turntables, a computer
and a robot-arm. When an e-mail is sent to robot@spess.com
, the message will be analyzed and then turned into signals that
control the robot. They make it “scratch” a series of
sounds, which are recorded and sent back to the sender of the e-mail.
The spectators are invited to interact with the system by activating
the robot with their personal input. Every e-mail results in a unique
sound.
Scratchrobot was invented while questioning different ways of communication,
its patterns and code systems. Building it was an attempt to “control”
the daily info-flow in a multimedia way.
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