ROTOR – Fabian Lanzmaier | Daniel Haas – Kraken

FABIAN LANZMAIER
electronic instruments
Fabian Lanzmaier is a musician and sound artist living in Vienna. He is currently focusing on live performances that incorporate real-time audio synthesis and multichannel speaker setups, as well as site-specific audio installations, which often emerge from collaborative processes. He is interested in the possibilities and surprises that arise when working with systems and situations involving chance and unpredictability.
fabianlanzmaier.com
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DANIEL HAAS – KRAKEN
audio/light system
Kraken is an experimental software instrument, a chaotic cross-feedback modulation system built from multiple oscillators. Together they form a complex synth voice that continuously reorganizes itself. The interaction emerges by shaping how much modulation flows between the voices and which parameters are affected. Even the smallest adjustment can trigger dramatic shifts, since every element is intertwined.
Rather than aiming for stable or predictable results, Kraken embraces instability as a creative force. It can be approached as a tool for live improvisation, an autonomous sound-generating entity, or as the core of an installation that evolves continuously without direct human control. Its sonic output shifts between dense noise textures, fragile microtonal clusters, and rhythm-like patterns that emerge and collapse in unexpected ways.
The project explores the boundaries between instrument and organism, performer and system. By setting initial conditions and steering relationships between oscillators, the performer initiates processes that take on a life of their own. Kraken becomes less about playing sounds and more about tending to a living sonic ecosystem.
DANIEL HAAS
Daniel Haas – mostly known as Sturmherta – is a musician, sound artist, and experimentalist who focuses on related fields such as digital sound synthesis methods, chaotic systems, and the translation of sound waves into different domains, making them visible, tangible, or experienceable in other forms.