Jonas Hammerer


lives and works in Vienna
as a musician and sound artist

is part of the ÆSR Lab - Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory, Tangible Music Lab, Heavy Traffic Radio80000, Kulturverein Rosalia and FLOP

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upcoming: 


Post IDS - Sound Objects, Hauptplatz 23, Linz 2024

past activities:


STWST48x10 NOPE, Linz 2024
Relief / Terrain, Salzkammergut 2024ÆSR-Lab @Lange Nacht der Forschung, Wien 2024
Prospect Sessions, Akademie der bildenen Künste, Wien 2024
FLOP @Tangent, Linz 2023
ÆSR Lab Kick-Off, Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab Wien 2023
FLOP @Sound Campus, Ars Electronica, Linz 2023
Ars Electronica Campus, Linz 2023
Elak Werkstattkonzert, Zacherlfabrik, Wien
Syndiacte of Sound and Space (SSS), Spatial Sound Insitiut, Budapest 2023
Velak Gala #123, Chateau Rouge, Wien 
Drängende Gegenwart w/ Jennifer Posny, EMOP Berlin, 2023
KIN w/ Jennifer Posny, Improper Walls, Wien 2022
OTTOsonics Festival, Ottensheim 2022
PARALLEL VIENNA w/ Jennifer Posny & Neslihan Yakut, Wien 2022
Installationen w/ Jennifer Posny, Galerie Kras, Wien 2022
Vienna Design Week w/ Rust.ag, Wien 2022
FLOP @Braille Satellite w/ Marius Neuner, Villnius 2022
Supplies Supplies!, Back to Athens 9 – no apocalypse now, w/ Jennifer Posny, Athen 2022
Radioshow, Red Light Radio, Amsterdam 2019
Monthly Show for Radio80000 w/ Dennis Bernhart, München seit 2018

compressed memory


installation, 2024 
headphones, raspberry pi, oled screen

Compressed memory explores the fragility of human perception and data memory through digital sound compression.  Like most lossy compression formats, MP3 utilizes psychoacoustic principles—taking advantage of how the human ear perceives sound. It recognizes that we can only distinguish between different tones if there's a sufficient pitch difference, and that softer sounds often go unheard immediately before or after a loud noise. Thus MP3 compression retains only the audio components that we can seemingly perceive.

In this installation, an a cappella version of Suzanne Vega’s Tom's Diner undergoes an extreme compression process. A Python script re-encodes the track in an endless feedback loop over the entire exhibition period, progressively degrading the audio quality. Only the difference between the compressed version and the original track is played back through headphones, creating an eerie, procedural transformation where listeners hear only the parts the algorithm typically removes—sounds we’re conditioned not to notice.

Participation in the following exhibitions:

Post IDS - Sound Objects, Hauptplatz 23, Linz 2024
 






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