Von: Manuela Benetton
Datum: 11. Oktober 2011 18:27:40 MESZ
Betreff: N.K. workshops: Field Effect with Martin Howse // Noise As
Input, Noise As Filter/ A Compositional Approach by Kasper Toeplitz
Oct 21, 22, 23 2011/ 12:00-19:00 daily
Field Effect with Martin Howse
A three day workshop actively exploring the effects of electromagnetic
fields on living systems; on the human body and the human psyche. The
effects of complex field interactions with such systems, particularly
with the psyche, are largely unknown and open to debate. Field Effect
proposes to obtain first-hand,experimental knowledge of these
relations, using DIY technologies. Experiments already suggest links
between low frequency electromagnetic emissions and experiences of
hauntings and UFO sightings. The first two days will be devoted to the
construction of devices to both generate and measure magnetic fields
and to examine the effects of these fields on living systems (such as
plants or moulds), and on the body and psyche (measuring skin
temperature, skin resistance, heartrate). In parallel, a series of
experimental situations will be constructed to provide insights into
the interactions between complex spectral ecologies (communication
technologies such as wireless networks, mobile phone bases, TV, radio,
power lines, motors, all electronic devices) and life.
Participants will learn how to construct simple devices to measure
heart rate and skin resistance, how to interface these to software and
log/interpret results and how to intervene within electromagnetic
space. No previous knowledge of fields required.
Date: Oct 21, 22, 23 2011
Time: 12:00-19:00
Maximum nr. of participants: 12
Fee: 45 (participation) + 15 (material)
Location: NK
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin DE
Instructor Martin Howse
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/
Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de
. If you dont get a response within 3 days to your registration mail
please call us under +49(0)17620626386 to make sure that we have
received your mail.
October 26, 27, and 28 2011
Noise As Input, Noise As Filter/ A Compositional Approach by Kasper
Toeplitz
Not so much, or not only, a software workshop, but rather a
composition course in electronic music which takes as its starting
point the use of noise, similar to the (white) canvas of a painter or
rather to the block of stone of a sculptor. Considering the noise as
the sole input, more attention will be paid to its internal structure
as well to its different shapes and colors, including way to
manipulate it from the inside, starting the composition on the input
material itself rather that only on its transformations. The noise can
of course be created by strictly digital means but can also be
“extracted” from the “real world” – and one way to do so without
simply recording what’s “outside”, is to use webcams to bring a
digital version of the world – vision being transformed into (noisy)
sounds. Noise, as in white noise, pink noise, black, fractal, etc, as
the prime, or even only source for real-time composition/synthesis;
then we work on blocks of sound and not on pitches, have “clouds” of
sound with more or less precise limits – “uncertain limits” -,
different textures of different densities. Close to the orchestral
ideas of people such as Ligeti, Penderecki, Xenakis or Scelsi. The
examples will be given in Max/MSP and Jitter, but other softwares are
welcome, as the workshop is much more about the “why” than the “how”,
and the goal is to create a composition based on the ideas explored
there. Kasper Toeplitz
Requirements:
* Own Computer (Mac OS X/Windows) IMPORTANT: with an authorised Max
Msp or a running Demo
* Basic knowledge in computer based music creation
* Headphones
* If possible bring your own MIDI Controller/Keyboard (plus iPhone/
Android-based Phone, iPad/Android-based Pad, Lemur, wii, joystick and
webcams).
Date: Oct 26, 27, 28 2011
Time: 12:00-18:00 Wed. and Thurs, 12:00-15:00 Fri.
Maximum nr. of participants: 10
Fee: 100 Euros
Location: NK
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin DE
Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de
. If you dont get a response within 3 days to your registration mail
please call us under +49(0)17620626386 to make sure that we have
received your mail.
Kasper Toeplitz is a composer, electric bass player and musician who
has developed his work in the no man’s land between “academic”
composition (orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic “new music”
or “noise music”. Has won several prizes and distinctions: 1st prize
for orchestral composition at the Besançon Festival, 1st prize at the
“Opéra autrement / centre Acanthes” competition, Villa Médicis Hors
les Murs (New York), grant Leonardo da Vinci (San Francisco), Villa
Kujoyama (Kyoto), DAAD (Berlin). Got numerous commissions from the
French Governement, the radio and from electronic studios such as
Ircam, GRM , GMEM, CRFMW, EMS. Works with experimental or
unclassifiable musicians such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Tetsuo Furudate,
Dror Feiler, Art Zoyd, Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Ulrich Krieger,
Stevie Wishart, Z’ev, among others. Some of his long-term groups or
projects are LE DEPEUPLEUR (with Zbigniew Karkowski), KERNEL (a trio
of computer players), Basstaarang (with Philippe Foch playing
taarang), Ephémérides (bass & image by Strom Varx). Has definitively
integrated the computer into the very heart of his work, as a tool of
thought and composition, and as a live instrument, hybridising more
traditional instruments if necessary, or working on the sheer
electronic noise.
http://www.sleazeArt.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/sleazeArt
N.K. Elsenstr. 52
2. Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin-Neukölln
http://www.nkprojekt.de
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