[spectre] a=v#2 Workshops. Munich: THEREMIN-SENSOR NETWORK + RADIO HACKING/ORCHESTRA

Tue Oct 2 23:46:37 CEST 2007

This year a=v#2 lab-/mini festival is organizing two 5-days  
creative-performance-oriented workshops:

1. THEREMIN-SENSOR-NETWORK/KRUJOK + LAPTOP ORCHESTRA by Andrey  
Smirnov, Guy van Belle
2. RADIO HACKING + RADIO ORCHESTRA by Sarah Washington, Kurt Aufermann

a=v#2 is hosted and supported by Department of Arts and Culture of Munich.
Curated by Natalia Borissova.

The main focus of both workshops will be on creative tasks, instead of  
pure technology.
Both groups will be working towards networked performances, one with  
computer networks and one with fm radio networks.

_/Public live performances:
There will be 3 kind of performances: one from each workshop group and  
the final
jam-session when both groups improvising together.
24.11.07 from 20:00 - 22.00

_/Location of both workshops:
Kunstarkaden, Sparkassenstr. 3, 80331, Munich
U+S Marienplaz

_/On-line Registration form:
http://www.aa-vv.org/?av_02010101

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1. THEREMIN-SENSOR-NETWORK/KRUJOK + LAPTOP ORCHESTRA
workshop aims at introducing \'Theremin-sensors\' as a new concept  
towards physical
computing. The computer group of Andrey Smirnov + Guy van Belle will  
be building unique audio/visual body-related instruments and create a  
network in order to experiment with sharing sounds, images & data.
The main purpose of the workshop is to build an audiovisual Theremin  
orchestra and
perform with it on the last day of the workshop as a live public event  
(24th November).

_/Date:
November 20 -> 24.11.07 from 12.00 to 17.00

_Registration deadline:
October 31, 2007

_/Participants profile:
This will be certainly of interest to any dancer, musician, visualist,  
theater player,
video artist or whoever is toying around with technology for fun.
Bring your laptop, skills and let\'s turn it all into new instruments  
to perform
with together.
The participants should be able to take part in all workshop sessions
(20th to 24th November from 12.00 to 17.00) and performing on the last  
day of the workshop (24th November from 20.00 to 22.00)
The maximum amount of participants 15.

_/Fees:
The cost of the workshop is 50 euro.
For students, female artists and those who are taking part in the  
second workshop is 40 euro.
Digital USB sensors for testing, experimenting and performing will be  
provided by
instructors.

_/Language:
English

_More info & registration:
http://www.aa-vv.org/?av_020102

_/About facilitators:
Andrey Smirnov is an independent researcher and developer of  
electronic music techniques, with a particular interest in design and  
development of both hard- and
software sensor technology with complex relationships between the  
performer\'s actions and the interpretation of this information in  
non-linear methods using custom software.
He is a founder of the Theremin Center for Electro acoustic Music  and  
Multimedia in Moscow, where he gives lectures and workshops on the  
basics of electro acoustic music, musical acoustics and  
psychoacoustics, resent computer music technologies and multimedia.
http://asmir.theremin.ru

Guy van Belle is a net sound artists. Since the early 1990s he has  
been developing
network based multimedia technology for music and sound art. As an  
independent artist and networker he works with changing partners on  
projects such as \\An`a*tom\"ic\\, mXHz and Society of Algorithm  
investigating different forms of collaborative work. He is also a  
freelance curator, reviewer, lecturer and had been managing  
international research projects for education and arts at the  
electronic studio IPEM/Ghent.
http://mxhz.org, http://www.okno.be/, http://societyofalgorithm.org,  
http://karasssuite.net.

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2.RADIO HACKING + RADIO ORCHESTRA workshop.
The radio group of Sarah Washington and Kurt Aufermann would have  
radios to play as instruments.
Everybody will be able to use their own individually modified radio as  
a musical
instrument. The workshop will introduce different techniques of  
conducting the group with all the participants being encouraged to  
bring an idea for pieces and to experience conducting the group.
The goal of the workshop is the formation of an orchestra of  
electronic musicians and
performing live on the last day of the workshop.

_/Date:
November 20 -> 24.11.07 from 18.00 to 21.00

_/Participants profile:
The participants should be keen to dismantle radios and take part in a  
collective musical performance.
No prior musical or electronics knowledge is needed. The participants  
should be able to take part in all workshop sessions
(20th to 24th November from 18.00 to 21.00) and perform on the last  
day of the workshop (24th November from 20.00 to 22.00)
The maximum amount of participants 15.

_/Language:
English. Translation into German is possible, if and when needed.

_Fees:
The cost of the workshop is 35 euro.
For students, female artists and those who are taking part in the  
first workshop is 30 euro.
Additional costs for materials (Toggle switches, Crocodile clip test  
leads , Variable
resistors, Capacitors, Battery clips) which you can keep after the  
workshop is 15 euro.

_/About facilitators:
Sarah Washington is an instrument-builder, improvising musician and  
radio artist who
works all over Europe on varied projects. She helped to set up the  
radio station
Resonance104.4fm in London and has been commissioned to make a series  
of radio works for the Tate Modern.
http://mobile-radio.net

Knut Aufermann is a musician and radio artist working across Europe.  
He is a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra and co-founder of  
the European radio art network Radio.
Together with Sarah Washington he performs in the radio feedback and  
circuit bending duo Tonic Train.
http://knut.klingt.org

_/More info & registration:
http://www.aa-vv.org/?av_020101

_/Accommodation:
we can suggest accommodation for about Euro 29/33 (single) including  
breakfast.

E-mail: info at aa-vv.org
Tel: +49 089 30749611
http://www.aa-vv.org
http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/referate/kult/37585/

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