[spectre] Social Acoustics & Media Reverberation, July 19-24, Cluj (Romania)

[richardson joanne]

Social Acoustics & Media Reverberation, July 19-24, Cluj

A week of audio workshops, sound performances and film screenings

>From July 19-24, Paul Fyvolent, a radio activist, artist and writer,
and Daniel Gorman, an electronic music composer, will host an
interactive workshop for artists, musicians, DJs, students and other
participants from Cluj interested in acoustic experiments and radio
art. The workshop is organized by D Media (http://www.dmedia.ro) in
collaboration with AltArt, La Gazette and Tranzit House. It is part of
radio.territories (http://www.radia.fm), a year-long project of radio
art and urban interventions in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Germany, Romania, Slovakia and the UK. 

The workshop focuses on using do-it-yourself media for social change,
using radio to build bridges from the media world to physical spaces,
and using “cultural jamming” to deconstruct existing media. Workshop
participants will create site-specific acoustic portraits of Cluj -
mixing the sounds of urban spaces with interviews, stories and
fragments that capture (or distort) its culture and politics. The
completed works will be played at clubs and public spaces in the city,
broadcast on local radio and uploaded to radio.indymedia.org. 

>> Program:

> 19 July, 16:00: Tranzit House, Str. G. Baritiu nr 16
Intro to radio.territories project & workshop. Presentation of do it
yourself media practices, the history of cultural jamming, the
experimental use of acoustics by artists and free radio projects in the
US and Europe.
> 20 July – 23 July, 11:00 – 18:30: Binar Center for Digital Culture,
Str. Universitatii nr 2. Workshop for registered participants.
> 21 July, 22:00: La Gazette, Str. Clinicilor nr 16
Screening of “Sonic Outlaws,” a film by Craig Baldwin about cultural
jamming. The term “jamming” comes from the practice of amateur radio
pranksters who interfered with broadcasting signals. “Sonic Outlaws”
documents examples of jamming from Duchamp and Warhol to Negativland -
who gained underground notoriety when they were sued by copyright U2’s
copyright lawyers for parodying their songs.
> 22 July, 22:00: La Gazette, Str. Clinicilor nr 16
DJs Podp (San Francisco/Berlin) and Dan Seizure (Edinburgh) mix up
electronica, d+b & world beat with visuals
> 23 July, Works produced during the workshop played in Cluj and
broadcast on FM – times & places will be announced. Look for updates on
http://www.dmedia.ro and http://romania.indymedia.org

>> About the invited artists:

Pod p, aka Paul Fyvolent, is a media activist, artist, writer, DJ and
the host of Pan Optic Radio (a mix of audio composting and interviews
with activist artists). He has worked primarily in San Francisco and
Berlin, contributing audio, texts and films to Ars Electronica, Next 5
Minutes, Noborder.org, Borderland Film and Arts Festival, Resonance FM
and Radio.Indymedia.org. Pod is also a writer for Faultlines and The
Journal Of Aesthetics and Protest, a co-founder of the Soundlab at
Cellspace in San Francisco (http://www.cellspace.org), and is active
with Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org). His latest
production site for media interventions and community organisms is
http://www.xlterrestrials.org. 

Danseizure, aka Daniel Gorman, works in Edinburgh as an experimental
composer, creating hypnotic music by sampling and distorting sounds
collected from everyday life
(http://www.theforest.org.uk/music/Danseizure). In 2004 he was awarded
a Grant from the Scottish Arts Council to work in a dome of an
abandoned American military base in Berlin, where he reversed the
dome’s original constructed purpose (to listen) to produce abstract
sound compositions. The recordings were featured at Transmediale 2005
on the Soundscape Website (http://berlin.soundscape-fm.net). Dan
performs at The Forest, a veggie cafe/self-organized art space in
Edinburgh. For the past year he has worked in Bosnia Herzegovina as
Director of Firefly International, organizing exchange projects and
youth workshops.


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