KARL HEINZ JERON (DE): Serendipity

Multichannel video installation with digital picture frames, 2013

Serendipity deals with the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. This project is about true coincidence. As opposed to Pseudo-Random Number Generators a Zener diode is used to create true random numbers. It is easy to use the diode noise as a source of true randomness and inexpensive to construct. The data collection is equally simple through a computer sound-card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_diode. All output (texts, images, sounds) of this project is based on true random numbers. According to the random numbers, the sound, the colour of the sound and the volume of the sound are varied. Thus, an improvised piece of music is created. The sound installation refers to the concept of aleatory music, based on aspects of chance and improvisation, as used by John Cage, Pierre Boulez, and Iannis Xenakis.

http://jeron.org/happy-accident/