Creation as experiment – Poiesis as research
„Philosophers until now have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
| birth – death | learning new things |
- strange, forgotten and speculative musical instruments
- ‘obsolete’ media and technologies
- patents of the 19th and early 20th century
- generative systems for sound and visuals
- inclusive and non-abstract approaches to music
- pragmatic philosophies of ‘artificial intelligence’
- The case of tampico at Oxford University: Materiality and Meaning of Musical Instruments – june-27-30-2024 (talk)
- Rückkopplung als Material und Methode at EvH RWL Bochum – june-4-2024 (talk/workshop)
- Poiesis as research at IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Art and Sciences – february-13-2024 (talk)
- Ungehörte Geschichte(n) – Streichklaviere des Deutschen Museums at Deutsches Museum: Arbeitskreis Forschung – february-06-2024 (online talk)
- ki macht schule?! at KHM: other minds – lecture series #2 – june-29-2023 (seminar)
- feedback sounds at KHM: ground zero – summer semester 2023 (seminar/workshop)
- lofi sampler/looper at KHM: ground zero – summer semester 2023 (seminar/workshop)
- cassette loop…cassette loop…cassette loop… at KHM: ground zero – winter semester 2022/23 (seminar/workshop)
- meta matter(s) no. 5 at ZKM: next generation 9.0 – june-22-2022 (talk/performance)
- experiments and/as improvisations at KHM: Artistic research – in the wild – may-27-2022 (seminar)
- hidden sounds at KHM: ground zero – winter semester 2021/22 (seminar/workshop)
- (20.5.-20.7.2024) Scholar in residence at Deutsches Museum Munich (residency + scholarship)
- (5.2.-3.5.2024) Guest researcher at IAMAS Institute for Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (residency)
- (15.9.-15.12.2023) Scholar in residence at Deutsches Museum Munich (residency + scholarship)
- (2.7.-4.8.2023) Reverse engineering and experimental archaeology at Greifenberg Institute of Organology (residency)
- (3.7.-15.7.2022) The poetics of making at Palazzo Ricci – European Academy of Music and Performing Arts (residency + workshop)
- (in preparation) Baudet – The Piano-Quatuor and its maker in 19th century Paris, DM Studies, Munich: Deutsches Museum Verlag.
- (2025) Rediscovering Dr. Richard Eisenmann – A Microhistory of the Electrophonic Piano, (doctoral thesis), Cologne: Academy of Media Arts.
- (2025) “Max Ainmiller und sein Orpheon,” Musik in Bayern Band 89, Jahrgang 2024, München: Allitera Verlag, pp. 119-132.
- (2025) “What is it like to create a bow – Poiesis as research,” in Trogemann G. (ed.) The Unknown in Design, Art and Technology, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 103-125.
- (2024) “Wilhelm Uebelacker – (Nicht nur) Erbauer eines neuen Musikinstruments,” Deutsches Museum Munich.
- (2023) “meta matters no. 5,” KHM Magazin #1, pp. 95-100.
- (2022) “Creation as experiment – A pragmatic approach to being in the world,” in Trogemann, G. and Butz, K. (eds.) In the making. Cologne: Academy of Media Arts, pp. 17-47.
- (2022) “Experiment and expectation – Exploring the social life of ink dots,” in Trogemann, G. and Butz, K. (eds.) In the making. Cologne: Academy of Media Arts, pp. 49-56.
- (2022) “The end of copyright,” Montepulciano Journal – The poetics of making, pp. 99-105.
Christian Rust
c.rust@khm.de