Kasper Toeplitz: Noise As Input, Noise As Filter - A Compositional Approach

Presented as part of the Electric Spring, Max/MSP Power Users Symposium 2015 Kaspar Toeplitz talks about his work with noise processing as part of the Max Power Users Symposium at the 2015 Electric Spring festival of electronic music, held at the University of Huddersfield. Through the years my interest in music moved from working with sound to working on noise – when, at the same time (but it took years) my position in the (musical) world evolved from being a “contemporary“ composer, writing symphonies, operas, string quartets or pieces for (mostly acoustic) ensembles to becoming a “noise“ musician, a “noisician“, or at least a musician deeply involved into (working with) noise and the electronics. Maybe as a paradox this quest for noise made me collaborate with contemporary dance projects, up to the point of sometimes using dancers as the only musicians for some compositions (Capture and Dés