1. Session Malmö

September 3-14 2007

Two weeks of workshops and lectures

Program

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Stefan Klaverdal

http://www.dynamik.se/

Tuesday September 4^th (10-12), Wednesday september 5^th (10-12)

Two lectures on the history of music and sound art

Music and Sound art history - listening sessions

1. We look into contemporary acoustical music history and relate this to sound art, what has been done and by whom. From Cage and Stockhausen to Sandström.

2. The electronic sound and music history is somewhat different, and depends much more thoroughly on technical innovations such as electricity. We listen to things from Russolo to Bünger.

Here is the PLAYLIST from Stefan's sessions.

Friday September 7^th (11-12)

Interactive music - an overview of sound editing in the digital domain.

What is interactive music? What kind of software is there to create or edit sounds in a creative way?

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FM3

Packaging and distribution of sound and music

Tuesday September 4^th, 13-15

FM3 (Christiaan Virant & Zhang Jian)

http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/

Presents the Buddha Machine

FM3, founded in 1999 by Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian, two active members of the Beijing music scene, are considered pioneers of electronic music in China. FM3’s sound installations have been featured at the 2004 Shanghai Bienalle as well as the Beijing-Tokyo Art Project, the Dashanzi International Art Festival and the Kulturhallen Dampfzentrale in Bern.
The mass-produced FM3 Buddha Machine loop box was named of the best “boxed sets” of 2005 by the New York Times and was one of the top selling electronic releases of 2005-2006.

Co-arranged with Full Pull and Interactive Sound Design.

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Jan Cardell

Sound Sculpture

Thursday September 6^th (9-16) på KKV

Jan Cardell & Mathias Holmberg

The results and experiences of an experimental workshop at NEON gallery in August 2007 will present ideas and hands on knowledge around sound sculpture. Jan Cardell has for long time been working with sounding objects and installations.

Co-arranged with Full Pull and Interactive Sound Design.

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Luca Francesconi

Perception tools

Friday September 7^th (13-16)

A three hour workshop/lecture on the theory of perceptual structures in music, with an offset in Paul Klee's The Thinking Eye

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Kim Cascone

The Grain of the Auditory Field

Monday September 10^th (13-15)

Borrowing the central idea from Roland Barthe's 'The Grain of the Voice' I will talk about the emerging intersections between microsound and field recording.

Kim Cascones website , also Kim is one of the founders of the .microsound website

Proposed reading and listening prior to the lecture:

reading:
'The Aesthetic of Failure' by Kim Cascone (http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/COMJ/CMJ24_4Cascone.pdf)
'Schizophonia vs. l'objet sonore: soundscapes and artistic freedom' by Francisco López (http://www.franciscolopez.net/essays.html)
Environmental sound matter by Francisco López (http://www.franciscolopez.net/essays.html)
'Location Environmental Performance: Some Dimension Theory and Considerations of Practice' by Dallas Simpson (http://www.phonography.org/writings.htm)

listening:
Eric la Casa - (mp3's, http://ascendre.free.fr/home2.htm)
'Far Afield' (compilation) – www.webbedhandrecords.com
Jacob Kirkegaard – 'Loop Tower' (mp3 at www.fonik.dk, http://www.fonik.dk/works/looptower.html)
toshiya_tsunoda – 'O respirar da paisagem' (SIRR Records - mp3 at SIRR website?, if not I have the cd so we can make a listening session in Malmö)

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Kristina Lindström & Åsa Ståhl

Audiowalks

http://www.misplay.se/

Two-day workshop

tuesdag september 11th-Wednesday september 12^th. Both days at 10am

They suggest the following texts for reading:

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00017.x
http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Soundwalk/Soundwalking.htm
http://www.konsten.net/arkivet/ljudstrak.html (in swedish)

Here is a link to their project “Omvägar i ljud”.

http://www.misplay.se/omvagar

Here you can download one or more audiowalks. You will also find a map of the walks. They suggest that you walk at least one of the audiowalks before the workshop.

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Eva Sjuve

Sound Art, Performance and Technology

Thursday september 13th (10-12)

http://www.moolab.net/courses/soundart.html

What is Sound Arts? What is the difference between sound art and experimental music? Is there a difference? Sound Art is used as part of sound objects, as installations, in performance, radio, television, and Internet art. Technology is in many cases driving the development in sound art, as the integration of computing, and the convergences of disciplines. Sound is part of research in various fields as ecology, telephony, physics, and zoology, which in turn feeds the sonic arts with
new findings. Artists have always been quick on picking up new technologies and integrating them in artist practice. We will examine how sound artists, both in performance, and as installations, have used technologies, but also how artists working together with technologists can form fruitful
research/artistic practice. Contemporary practices as Circuit Bending, Hacking, Sonic Interfaces using micro computing, Networked Sound, and Sound as Urban Practice will be introduced.

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LARM

Liv Strand and Maria Bjurestam

Thursday september 13th (13-15)

Liv and Maria will present the LARM project

http://www.larm-festival.se/

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Rune Søchting

The Acousmatic

Friday september 14th (10-12)

I will present the idea of the acousmatic as developed by Pierre Schaeffer within the theory of Musique concréte.

In this context I will emphasize the idea of pure sound (what Schaeffer calls sound object).