Reverberation Lab:
The site-specifity of sound - Helsinki incubator

Prof. Caspar Stracke
with Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, Eero Pulkkinen, Jonas Olesen

May 27th - May 31th. 2013, KUVA Helsinki, Finland

The second Helsinki module of the 2012/13 Nordic Sound Art cycle will include a lecture and workshop and investigate various aspects of the notion of reverberation, defined as both, an acoustical phenomenon and a conceptual strategy in sound art.
We will research on specific projects by Max Neuhaus, Phill Niblock and listen / discuss  various case studies by Andy Graydon, Richart Garet and Helsinki sound artist  Eero Pulkkinen.

The workshop part will take place ...

"Sonic Materiality", Feb 4 - 15th, 2013
Academy of Fine Arts, Bergen Norway.



The course aims to deepen understanding and experience in working with recorded sound, audio processing, spatialization techniques, and sonic composition. This will include experimentation with different processing techniques, sound dynamics and manipulation, and approaches toward editing and final presentation. Conceptualization of "sonic signification" and listening experience will be further emphasized.
Course taught by Maia Urstad - http://www.maia.no/

"Language and Sound"
(Language and Listening - Language as Sound - A language for Sound)
Text-Sound-Art and the language as sound. This is a workshop that explore the
language and how we can use that as base for art and sound.

A workshop held by Imri Sandström (http://www.imrisandstrom.com)
at Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University, Sweden Dec 10 – Dec 14, 2012
http://www.art.umu.se/english/

Nordic Sound Art course Nov. 26th - Nov. 30th 2012
at KUVA - The Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki.

Lecturers:

Petri Kuljuntausta
'History of Sound Art up to the present'

The lecture provides an overview of the history of Sound Art, from the early pioneers to the present practice of sonic art. These areas include, cinema for the ear, sound poetry, soundscape, acoustic ecology, silence, concrete music, environmental sound, sound installation, sound sculpture, lo-fi, recycling, found sound, turntablism, alien instruments, circuit bending, sonification, to name only a few.

Caspar Stracke:

image-to-sound/sound-to-image

The course/workshop investigates a particular set of relationships ...

Neanderthal Electronics

The first course in the new cycle of the Nordic Sound Art programme, takes place at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Denmark Oct. 22 - Nov. 2nd.

8 new students are in the programme, representing  four nordic fine art academies: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Bergen Academy of Fine Arts and Umeå Academy of Fine Arts.

The main theme of the course is ' Neanderthal Electronics' an instrument building workshop with american sound artist Derek Holzer. See :http://macumbista.net

Course documentation and pictures

A number of former NSA students (2010-2012) are featured with installation and performanceworks at the new danish festival for nordic sound art, and experimental music: LAK Festival.

 The festival takes place at Prags Boulevard 43, 2300 Copenhagen from Sep. 6th - Sep. 9th.
See the full lineup at http://www.lakfestival.dk

 Soundings 2 - Nordic Sound Art Graduate Show



The second cycle of the Nordic Sound Art programme is concluded with an graduate exhibtion, at the Museum of Contemporeary Art in Roskilde, Denmark.

Exhibition opening: April 27th.
Exhibtion period: 28/4 - 3/6 2012

SOUNDINGS 2 – NORDIC SOUND ART GRADUATE SHOW will display works by the second generation of students from the MFA-programme ‘Nordic Sound Art’, established in 2007 as a collaboration between varying fine art institutions. This time the participating academies are: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Malmö Art Academy, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Trondheim ...

Nordic Sound Art workshop, KIT/NTNU Trondheim Norway March 5th - March 9th.

 A series of lectures by Carsten Seiffarth from Gallery Singuhr, Berlin, and the sound artist Erwin Stache.
http://www.singuhr.de
http://www.erwin-stache.de

The Nordic Sound Art joint study programme (MFA level) will again be open for applications in mid april 2012.
The specifics and exact application deadline will be announced on the website www.nordicsoundart.com.

The Nordic Sound Art programme is a two-year, MA level, education in sound art.
The study programme is arranged as a series of 12 intensive courses or workshops. One course-module of the programme will typically have one or two weeks duration.
The individual course-module takes place at one of the participating art academies.
Students beginning their MA in art in 2012 can apply. The names of ...

Installation, site specificity, gardens and expanded architecture
- Workshop/seminar by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman

InterArts Center, Malmø Sweden. Dec. 5th - Dec 16th 2011

Funded by Nordplus programme and KUNO network.

Partner academies: Malmö Art Academy (Sweden), The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Norway).

Content:
-Series of lectures.
-Close readings in groups of assigned texts.
-Project: students will choose and occupy a space.
-Group critiques with Rebecca Mazzei, director of MOCA Detroit.
-Group critiques with Trine Friis Sørensen, curator currently pursuing a PhD at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at ...