Following his workshop over the weekend on creative electronics and synth design, we’re hosting a discussion with Casper Electronics (Peter Edwards), founder and synth engineer at Bastl Instruments. Edwards will talk about the hows and whys of synth design, with a focus on the personal and emotional aspects of a traditionally technical medium. Doors for […]
Internal motivations is a workshop for new imaginations of internal martial arts through the perspective of sound. In this exercise we will explore different Taoist concepts in relation to sound and energy. Internal martial arts is a seemingly passive but internally vigorous form of martial arts that stresses on breathing, energy circulation, external and internal […]
Sheryl Cheung works with sound, installation and performance to explore a material concept of life. Perceiving life as a force, a mobility that drives our innate persistence to live, Sheryl is especially interested in the potential of vulnerable, ambiguous, and internal efforts that lead us to deeper awareness of the nature of being. Through ongoing […]
Our TidalCycles meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing on Alex McLean’s open source, accessible livecoding platform. They’re very loosely structured, with occasional short talks and performances. This meetup is for any self identifying women and nonbinary people, and will be hosted by Lucy Cheesman. Lucy Cheesman makes music under the name Heavy […]
In this workshop, the artist will share brief research on the formation of the inferno and its connection to society and sound/music culture. Following this, participants will attempt to produce the sound of the inferno, building a sculpture with a glass jar and several layers of copper speakers, designed with different patterns to represent the […]
https://youtu.be/abH6AX24cGU Taiwanese artist Yen Tzu Chang presents an artist talk followed by her Whose Scalpel performance. Whose Scalpel is a sound performance combined with visuals and a 3D printed installation, realised with a framework for medical image processing. Mixing several methods from art and science, it is an imagination of the future and presents […]
Lien-Cheng will teach participants how to build an audio-visual performance with Max MSP. Participants should bring a laptop, and are recommended to have a song and a video in mind that can be manipulated during the workshop. Max MSP is proprietary software but can be used for free for 30 days. It runs on Windows […]
Following his workshop, Lien-Cheng Wang will deliver an artist talk on his practice around generative art, as well as a performance, titled Horizon. Horizon is an audio-visual performance which is based on an interactive program. This program allows users to enter keywords and it can use the result of images from Google's engine into a […]
Learn to make music with code using SuperCollider, a powerful, open-source, cross-platform, audio engine and programming language, used not only to create music, but also for machine learning, audio/music reactive installations, performance, interactive systems, research, live-coding and much more. Requirements: Participants should bring a laptop (OSX / Windows/ Linux), and a pair of headphones. Please […]
In the first part of this workshop, Lu Yi will introduce Buddhist chanting machines. These are small sound players sold throughout Taiwan, China and Japan that play Buddhist chants on repetitive loops and are often used at religious ceremonies and on special dates. Lu Yi will talk about how people use these machines in both […]