[spectre] WORKSHOP: Extended Instruments

[Tom Holley]

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WORKSHOP: Extended Instruments
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FREE

19th 20th and 21st April 2005
10am - 4pm

The Hebden Bridge Trades Club
Holme Street
Hebden
Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 8EE

To book places contact Linda Whiteley on
[01484] 471091

This workshop, led by members of ixi-software
questions how new digital technologies can help
and inspire us when working with music. Extended
Instruments investigates how open source software
tools [such as Pure Data and Supercollider] can
extend acoustic instruments and become part of
their being as well as how real-time software
interfaces can be seen as musical instruments.
The computer can perform many more functions than
just being an audio effects toolbox: it can learn
about the musician, respond and improvise with
the musician, and inspire him or her to take new
turns into unknown territories through new
musical environments.

The workshop will explore the audio and visual
qualities of the computer for multimedia work;
communication between visuals and audio has
become increasingly relevant for live
performance. Participants are invited to bring
along an instrument or instruments of choice and
explore how that instrument can take on new
musical meanings in this context.

ixi-software will be joined by musicians working
with African drumming, gamelan, tuned instruments,
percussion and circuit-bending [hacking
electronic circuits in toys and electronic
instruments].

The workshop is limited to fifteen participants
who will each have access to a laptop for the
duration.
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Tom Holley | Creative Director | Media Centre Network |
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