Nordic Sound Art programme 2012-2014
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
Installation, site specificity, gardens and expanded architecture
- Workshop/seminar by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman
InterArts Center, Malmø Sweden. Dec. 5th - Dec 16th 2011
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 University of Copenhagen.
-Lectures by Rebecca Mazzei, director of the Museum of Modern Art, Detroit US, and an improvised concert with Joel Peterson, a Detroit based sound artist ...
Installation Practices
Installation Practices / with Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Nordic Sound Art workshop at the Academy of Fine Art, Bergen Norway nov.14 - nov. 18
The course aims to explore sound installation as a particular artistic practice.
Moving away from the sound studio and into a diversity of spaces and
environments raises key questions fundamental to sound art practices:
how does sound impart meaning toa specific space?
What technical challenges are encountered when
locating recordedor live sound into a given architecture?
How does sound installation operate to address a listener?
Engaging such questions, the course will be structured as alaboratory where students ...
Theory & Graphic Scores Workshop
The next Nordic Sound Art workshop takes place from oct. 31st - nov. 4th at the Inter Arts Center, Malmø Sweden. The workshop is centered around general theoretical lectures given by Rune Søchting and Gertrud Sandqvist. A walk-trough of key historical sound art works are given by Jonas Olesen.
Finally the swedish composer Stefan Klaverdal is giving a lecture about experimental graphic scores.
http://www.stefanklaverdal.com/
Inter Arts Center
Bergsgatan 29
214 22 Malmö
Sweden
Workshop documentation here
Interaction with MAX/MSP
MAX/MSP workshop at KUVA - The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.
Oct. 3rd - Oct. 7th.
The workshop will explore the programming language MAX/MSP and it's possibilities in creating interactive installtions. Different sensors will be used and the WII Remote controller will be used to gather environmental information. This data i sent to computers to create response. In the workshop the students will get hands-on guidance in realizing interactive installations that incorporates sound.
The workshop teacher will be the finnish artist Juhani Räisänen - http://www.sormina.com/
The workshop will also feature two lectures:
'The history ...
Rainforest - Berlin
The students from Nordic Sound Art are realizing David Tudors 'Rainforest IV' at Gallery Singuhr, Berlin.
The installation is created in collaboration with the artist Matt Rogalsky, former asistant of David Tudor, and Carsten Seiffarth from Gallery Singuhr.
Opening: 26th May 2011 vernisage with performance at 7 p.m.
long night: 19th June 2011 until 12 p.m.
The Nordic Sound Art students are giving a live performance on the evening of the opening.
The installation is exhibited from May 26th to the 19th of June 2011.
http://www.singuhr.de
http://www.mrogalsky.net/
See workshop documentation here
Nordic Sound Art at SPOR
Artists from the Nordic Sound Art programme are featured with site-specific works at SPOR Festival, Denmark.
Works by Cecilia Jonsson, Elin Øyen Vister, Martinka Bobrikova, Joonas Siren
The audio pieces are produced specifically for Joel Cahen's Wet-sounds Project - an underwater sound system, installed at Lyseng Svømmebad, Århus Denmark. The peices will be presented May 8th from 15-17 pm.
Spor Festival
Wetsounds Project
See documentation here
Field recording and site-specific sound
Nordic Sound Art workshop, Trondheim, Norway - 28.04. - 06.04.11
Photo: Jana Winderen.
The workshop will take place at NTNUs seminar location “Hopsjø” which is located on the island Hitra, Norway. Through a series of excursions, sound walks and on-site experiments, we will investigate different auditive environments. We will cover different methods of field recording and present a historical overview of works by artists working in this genre. The students will produce works and the workshop will culminate with a public presentation in Trondheim.
Pictures and documentation here
Instructors
Jana Winderen, sound artist, Oslo
Carsten ...
Nordic Sound Art Radio Show
March 6th, Elin Øyen Vister, Christian Mastrup a.k.a Flopper and Jonas Olesen visited SILAKKA Radio Show, 100,3MHZ FM, Helsinki, as live studio guests. The show featured live improvisation, and general talk about the programme. A pre-recorded piece by Joonas Siren, was also played.
Listen to the archived program at
http://silakkaradio.fi/
NSA Workshop, Helsinki
Improvisation Workshop
Improvisation workshop with Shinji Kanki, at The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki - http://www.kuva.fi
A two week workshop centered around improvisation strategies.
The workshop is concluded with a joint concert, featuring The RANK Ensemble.
The Rank Ensemble is a Helsinki based young ensemble focusing on new and improvised music.
Shinji Kanki is a japenese born, Experimental music composer, Producer, Educator & Representative of SILAKKA Productions. http://silakka.fi/
Free Improvisation Evening
on March 10, Thursday 19:00
at the entrance lobby of Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
Kaikukatu 4, Helsinki
Performers:
RANK ...