LP13 – Harte Echtzeit
Harte Echtzeit
Harte Echtzeit (HE) is the artistic project of scientist Christopher Taudt, who recently moved from Germany to Naarm, Australia. He works predominantly with algorithms, scientific data and live coding. HE’s interest is in the interplay of abstract sounds and concrete, rhythmic structures. His music is driven by scientific data which seems to have no history or imagination on a human scale but rather on larger more complex scales in space and time. He co-founded futur AAA live coding festival (Germany) and the newly established Live Coders Naarm collective. Besides his artistic work, he organizes algoraves, workshops and other events.
Thursday July 16, 2026, 5:30 for 6pm
Black Box Multichannel AV Space
Room 12.02.103
RMIT City Campus, Naarm/Melbourne
Harte Echtzeit’s work centers around scientific data – e.g. gravitational waves – and utilises coding as well as algorithms to explore uncharted territory in sonic creation and reception. Gravitational waves emerge from the depths of space, carry energy and information about the history of the universe and hit us on a daily basis. In his current practice, he uses audio samples of detected gravitational waves and transforms them into musique concréte inspired pieces of sonic art. Within these pieces, he encourages the audience to travel through space and time with experimental structures, mysterious sound textures and even rhythmic patterns. He attempts to explore space and time in a minimal yet sometimes dreamy as well as danceable way. One of the major questions surrounding his work is how space, time and space-time are influencing our perception of the world. He’s particularly interested in how non-cultural, technical sounds trigger emotions as well as associations in a listener and how his own cultural imprint -e.g. of German minimal/dub techno artists- influences the communication between abstract and rhythmic compositions. Besides utilising scientific data, his practice is based on live coding and the algorithmic manipulation of structures, patterns and samples.
https://callitanythingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ji-k-kan
Entry near the RMIT tram stop on the eastern side of Swanston st, at Little Bang Cafe’s location – enter through the glass doors on street level near the ‘Building 10’ sign and head straight down the half set of stairs, the Black Box is straight ahead
Elevator available nearby the cafe entrance for those with accessibility requirements
Listening Practice is a monthly gathering of listeners open to all, where sonic research and practice is shared in a dedicated listening environment, with informal discussion encouraged afterward.
Organised by the DSP research group
Free by RSVP with attendees added to the DSP mailing list