colloqium48 - Steffen Krebber

Sinusoidal run rhythm is created by the addition of in-phase cosine functions in integer ratios. Their maxima are temporally and dynamically shifted in relation to corresponding notated rhythms and exhibit a physicality that is not present in discretely controlled rhythms. sinusoidal run rhythm models microtemporal grids with dynamic weightings that are singular for each underlying combination of partials, which are all very groovy.  sinusoidal run rhythm therefore defines rhythm as a wave and thus clearly sets itself apart from the conventional rhythm theory of a European musical tradition.

sinusoidal run rhythm is explicitly a supplement, specification and extension of existing rhythm models and rhythm theories and can integrate them.
The theory invites us to dissolve the boundaries between performance and performance, score and interpretation, man and machine and to search for applications in the genesis of music, music analysis, psychoacoustics or philosophy.

A book and code were published by Wolke Verlag in 2023.

About Steffen Krebber 

Steffen Krebber is composer, sound artist and researcher. His work oscillates between computer music, instrumental and electroacoustic composition, sound art, research, language, epistemology, sociology and media art. h Amongst others he has held scholarships from the Schloss Solitude Academy, the Schreyahn Artists Retreat. His music has been performed at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, the Witten New Chamber Music Festival, the ‘blurred edges’ Festival of Current Music (Hamburg), the ‘new talents’ Biennale (Cologne), Nachtstrom (Basle) and Piano+ at the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media. He has also exhibited his work at the KOLUMBA Art Museum of the Archbishopric of Cologne, the Cologne Arts Association and the Schloss Solitude Academy. His language installation Weissagungen (‘divinations’) entered the permanent collection of the KOLUMBA Art Museum. As a composer he has worked with a great many ensembles and performers.