Philip Leitner is an austrian musician and computer nerd born 1981 in Styria. Using piano as well as all day household equipment, Leitner's work focuses on the combination and layering of computerized post-processing, micro-sounds and extended piano. His works are often aleatoric concepts which means that they are based on unpredictable events, or plainly chance. For him entropy is a source of inspiration, a base material he works with.

Elektrosmogsonifikation
The Electromagnetic (EM) wave is a carrier medium. It provides us with long range communication and is the base transporting layer of so called modern communication. But it is also masqueraded: although we use it all the time, we access it using tools provided to us by the cooperation of our choice, which brings up another point of EM waves. I would describe it as a territory. Frequency ranges are licensed to "providers" and national borders are marked by messages informing us of the transition to one of their "roaming" partners.
"Elektrosmogsonifikation" translates the equivalent of the human audible range of low-frequency EM radiation into sound. This means that the frequency range in between ~ 20Hz and 20KHz of the EM spectrum is directly translated into sound. These waves are multiple kilometres long, as they propagate with light-speed. Within this range of frequencies strong sources of interference are very common. Neither interference nor information matter within the installation. It is providing a generic view on raw EM radiation, the sum of signals and interferences as the electrical power supply, the schumann resonances and EM emissions of electric devices are simply translated.
The installation consists of a 400 meter air-core coil working as a low frequency antenna. The signals induced into the coil are amplified and set to music. Spectators can listen via this system to the EM emissions of their mobile devices, sources nearby (as tramways or relay stations) or long wave transmitters. It is meant to provide direct access to EM radiation without filtering, demodulation or heterodyning.
"Elektrosmogsonifikation" translates the equivalent of the human audible range of low-frequency EM radiation into sound. This means that the frequency range in between ~ 20Hz and 20KHz of the EM spectrum is directly translated into sound. These waves are multiple kilometres long, as they propagate with light-speed. Within this range of frequencies strong sources of interference are very common. Neither interference nor information matter within the installation. It is providing a generic view on raw EM radiation, the sum of signals and interferences as the electrical power supply, the schumann resonances and EM emissions of electric devices are simply translated.
The installation consists of a 400 meter air-core coil working as a low frequency antenna. The signals induced into the coil are amplified and set to music. Spectators can listen via this system to the EM emissions of their mobile devices, sources nearby (as tramways or relay stations) or long wave transmitters. It is meant to provide direct access to EM radiation without filtering, demodulation or heterodyning.





