Sonicrobots.com

Sonicrobots.com is dedicated to robotic music instruments, autonomous tonal music machines, musical hacks and circuit bending.
The blog is run by me (Moritz Simon Geist), member of the artist group SCIENCE FICTION CHILDREN. I try to investigate on and spread electronic, mechanic and conceptual information on robotic music making. I see hacking – in this case music hacking – as a form of anti-passiveness, through which I think the individual can have an impact on his or her environment, status and state of mind. I like the idea of the individual forming its surrounding rather than consuming passively.

Moritz Simon Geist

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Tonal Hacking / Robotics / 8Bit.

Moritz Simon Geist, born in 1981. His projects range from tonal hacking to robotics and automated robotic instrument, adding a new perspective to the “man-machine-interface”. But his installations go beyond the basic physical and technical demand: the main theme is rather the transition from a deterministic (usually binary) system into the physical and mechanical world. This transformation entains an greater stress on the “error” of the physical world and lets the object be both more tangible and vulnerable. Moritz Simon Geist lives and works in Dresden, Germany.

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Portfolio

Music

Moritz Simon Geist at Soundcloud
Science Fiction Children (Robot Elektro Performance)
Pjetro Moki, Simon Geist (IDM)
Die drei düsteren Eichen (Noise)
The Dots

Projects

Sonic robots (Automated music robots)
Redquartett (Nerd-Quartette)
Akliebe (Musik für Bühne und Film)

Talks, Presentations & Publications

„Marvin und der Blues“ [29C3, 2012 CCH Hamburg]
„Schlaflos im Weltall“ [Republica, 2012 ]
“Hackerbrause Quartett” [Redquartett 2012]
OLED-Technologie [Fraunhofer IPMS, 2009]
OLED-Technologie and printed electronics [TPE 2010]

Releases (Audio)

11.06.2011 The Dots – Next Time We Shall Have It All Our Own Way [DKR094]
01.12.2008 The Dots – Fake Modern Love Songs [digitalkunstrasen050]
02.01.2007 The Dots – Fashion for the dressed and naked [digitalkunstrasen017]
05.12.2005 [neureal009] Die III Duesteren Eichen – Ein Kranz von Rosen
13.10.2004 [neureal004] Pjetro Moki – Endoskopia
07.05.2004 [neureal003] Simon Geist – Simon Geist
12.02.2004 [neureal001] Pjetro Moki – Neurogenica

Web

Haltetdenbeat.de
Sonicrobots.com
twitter.com/simongeist

Künstlergruppen

SCIENCE FICTION CHILDREN[2012 - NOW]
Volkswagen Soundfoundation [2009-2011]
Geräuschfreunde [2004-2005]
Kazoosh) [2011-2012]