Where runs the border between digital and (northern) landscapes.
Use sound and words to create a place. How far can you take abstraction in this process. -- Jane Coppin
The piece is Liberosis and is a polytemporal experiment as part of my PhD research. It features a scrolling visual score followed by eye by all musicians, with each also having an independent click track in headphones, all at different tempi. The result of this (hopefully!) is the band staying harmonically consonant as the chords and structure is visible to all on the screen, however their interpretation of the harmony is determined largely by improvisation in their individual tempi. The piece has 5 tempi for 5 players, but is suitable for any instrumentation - I'd like to try different combinations out!
The effect of repetition in music versus image, or the repetition of images versus music. To what extent does an image intensifies music (or vice versa)? How can we give film / video installations a multidimensional character with sound ... or just with silences. How manipulates a repeating melody a (continuous) changing image ? And what tension may we create as we work with the contrast of silence and sound.
-- Julia Emmery In this workshop we will explore our surrounding with a very simple tool: adhesive tape.
Tape fulfills various functions: it wraps up things, it holds disparate elements together, it demarcates areas... As a visual element it creates lines, strips, ribbons... As sonic material, tape can also generate an interesting palette of sound. It can be stretched, ripped and crumbled... When peeled off a surface on one hand it reveals its resonance, depending on its length and material. On the other hand it sonically reveals the texture of the material that it was attached to. Using tape to generate sound also entails performative actions. In this workshop we will create a performance by using the properties of a room and various tapes. The tapes will be used as a visual element (possibly a score) which is demarcating and structuring space. By interacting with it, it will turn into an instrument. Aspects that will be employed are:
The workshop starts on Monday, November 2 and ends on Wednesday, November 4 in the evening with a short presentation. Concept JAM is an interactive music application which generates unique and personal musical responses on audio input and thus offers an inspiring environment for improvisation and intuitive musical experiments. More information about the application can be found on the website www.jazzperiments.com. In this 'interactive solo' workshop for singers the JAM application will be set to use live sampling and pattern matching. In this configuration the input and output are closely related, but sound at the same time familiar and strange ... like 'willful echoes' according to a recent user/singer. Hearing voices is a set of 4 small musical motives which all participants will include in their experiments. Apart from that, everybody is free to improvise, include other themes, add lyrics, etc. etc. Objective The objective of the workshop is a better understanding of musical interactivity using a state of the art software toolkit and ... the creation of some nice, personal 'songs'. Preparation Applicants for the workshop will receive the score of Hearing voices, a planning and more background information in advance. Follow up Anyone who wants to use the application after the workshop, can download it for free and run it on a pc or Mac (not on iPad or Android). For further experiments during LAbO #5 participants can get support from the 'helpdesk'. Workshop lecturer: Teun de Lange
MESSAGE FOR THE PARTICIPANTS OF LAbO #5
if you already have some ideas / proposals of projects you want to work on during LAbO #5 please let us know via mail ([email protected]) thanks! Should art be socially / politically engaged? Or can art escape this and only play a cathartic role ? Or is all art political by definition ?The Murder of Nadia Vera (1983-2015)
by Lucia Naser On 31 July 2015 five people were found tortured and murdered in an apartment in Mexico City: Alejandra Negrete, Nadia Vera, Yesenia Quiroz, Mile Virginia Martín, and Rubén Espinoza. Two came from Veracruz, one was a journalist and one was an activist—a very important member of the dance community in Mexico. Nadia Vera. |