[spectre] N.K. workshops: Field Effect with Martin Howse // Noise As Input, Noise As Filter/ A Compositional Approach by Kasper Toeplitz

[Manuela Benetton]

Oct 21, 22, 23 2011/ 12:00-19:00 daily

 *Field Effect with Martin Howse*

A three day workshop actively exploring the effects of electromagnetic
fields on living systems; on the human body and the human psyche. The
effects of complex field interactions with such systems, particularly with
the psyche, are largely unknown and open to debate. Field Effect proposes to
obtain first-hand,experimental knowledge of these relations, using DIY
technologies. Experiments already suggest links between low frequency
electromagnetic emissions and experiences of hauntings and UFO sightings.
The first two days will be devoted to the construction of devices to both
generate and measure magnetic fields and to examine the effects of these
fields on living systems (such as plants or moulds), and on the body and
psyche (measuring skin temperature, skin resistance, heartrate). In
parallel, a series of experimental situations will be constructed to provide
insights into the interactions between complex spectral ecologies
(communication technologies such as wireless networks, mobile phone bases,
TV, radio, power lines, motors, all electronic devices) and life.

Participants will learn how to construct simple devices to measure heart
rate and skin resistance, how to interface these to software and
log/interpret results and how to intervene within electromagnetic space. No
previous knowledge of fields required.

Date: Oct 21, 22, 23 2011
Time: 12:00-19:00
Maximum nr. of participants: 12
Fee: 45 (participation) + 15 (material)

Location: NK
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin DE

Instructor Martin Howse
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/

Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to
info at nkprojekt.de. If you dont get a response within 3 days to your
registration mail please call us under +49(0)17620626386 to make sure that
we have received your mail.

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October 26, 27, and 28 2011

*Noise As Input, Noise As Filter/ A Compositional Approach by Kasper
Toeplitz*

Not so much, or not only, a software workshop, but rather a composition
course in electronic music which takes as its starting point the use of
noise, similar to the (white) canvas of a painter or rather to the block of
stone of a sculptor. Considering the noise as the sole input, more attention
will be paid to its internal structure as well to its different shapes and
colors, including way to manipulate it from the inside, starting the
composition on the input material itself rather that only on its
transformations. The noise can of course be created by strictly digital
means but can also be “extracted” from the “real world” – and one way to do
so without simply recording what’s “outside”, is to use webcams to bring a
digital version of the world – vision being transformed into (noisy) sounds.
Noise, as in white noise, pink noise, black, fractal, etc, as the prime, or
even only source for real-time composition/synthesis; then we work on blocks
of sound and not on pitches, have “clouds” of sound with more or less
precise limits – “uncertain limits” -, different textures of different
densities. Close to the orchestral ideas of people such as Ligeti,
Penderecki, Xenakis or Scelsi. The examples will be given in Max/MSP and
Jitter, but other softwares are welcome, as the workshop is much more about
the “why” than the “how”, and the goal is to create a composition based on
the ideas explored there. Kasper Toeplitz

Requirements:
* Own Computer (Mac OS X/Windows) IMPORTANT: with an authorised Max Msp or a
running Demo

* Basic knowledge in computer based music creation
* Headphones
* If possible bring your own MIDI Controller/Keyboard (plus
iPhone/Android-based Phone, iPad/Android-based Pad, Lemur, wii, joystick and
webcams).

Date: Oct 26, 27, 28 2011
Time: 12:00-18:00 Wed. and Thurs, 12:00-15:00 Fri.
Maximum nr. of participants: 10
Fee: 100 Euros

Location: NK
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin DE

Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to
info at nkprojekt.de. If you dont get a response within 3 days to your
registration mail please call us under +49(0)17620626386 to make sure that
we have received your mail.

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Kasper Toeplitz is a composer, electric bass player and musician who has
developed his work in the no man’s land between “academic” composition
(orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic “new music” or “noise music”.
Has won several prizes and distinctions: 1st prize for orchestral
composition at the Besançon Festival, 1st prize at the “Opéra autrement /
centre Acanthes” competition, Villa Médicis Hors les Murs (New York), grant
Leonardo da Vinci (San Francisco), Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto), DAAD (Berlin).
Got numerous commissions from the French Governement, the radio and from
electronic studios such as Ircam, GRM , GMEM, CRFMW, EMS. Works with
experimental or unclassifiable musicians such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Tetsuo
Furudate, Dror Feiler, Art Zoyd, Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Ulrich
Krieger, Stevie Wishart, Z’ev, among others. Some of his long-term groups or
projects are LE DEPEUPLEUR (with Zbigniew Karkowski), KERNEL (a trio of
computer players), Basstaarang (with Philippe Foch playing taarang),
Ephémérides (bass & image by Strom Varx). Has definitively integrated the
computer into the very heart of his work, as a tool of thought and
composition, and as a live instrument, hybridising more traditional
instruments if necessary, or working on the sheer electronic noise.

http://www.sleazeArt.com <http://www.sleazeart.com/>
http://www.youtube.com/user/sleazeArt



 N.K. Elsenstr. 52/2. Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin-Neukölln
www.nkprojekt.de
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