Von: Luc Döbereiner
Datum: Sat, 17 Aug 2024
Betreff: „Speculative Sound Synthesis“ Workshop @ impuls Academy 2025 – Call for Participation
„Speculative Sound Synthesis“ workshop at the impuls Academy 2025 in
Graz, Austria from February 17-23, 2025.
https://www.impuls.cc/academy-2025/special-programs
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The „Speculative Sound Synthesis“ workshop is intended for sound
artists, computer music composers, and performers who are committed to
critical, speculative approaches at the intersection of art and
technology. It is conceived for those engaged in practices that
question, challenge, criticize, deconstruct, recompose, reformulate,
shift, dislocate, endanger, or reject established standards of sound
synthesis and (music) technology.
The workshop is part of the artistic research project „Speculative
Sound Synthesis“[1]. The project aims to recompose the relationship
between technology and artistic practice in an attempt to unleash
aesthetic potentials of sound synthesis that would otherwise remain
hidden within the technological apparatus. In this aesthetic
destabilization of sound technologies, speculation is the primary
method.
Participants are invited to bring a small „Speculative Synth“ – an
instrument, software, hardware, code, or idea that is translatable and
open to external signals. The workshop will involve presentations,
collaborative experimentation, and exploration of each Speculative
Synth (applicants may find examples on the project’s webpage[1]).
Thus, the workshop provides a platform for exchange and reflection on
personal approaches.
Two participation options are available:
– Group A: Active participants presenting work and experimenting
(daily 10:00-18:00)
– Group B: Listening participants attending sessions as observers
The workshop will take place at the Institute for Electronic Music and
Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
(KUG), utilizing their multi-channel sound system and technical
infrastructure. It will culminate in a public exhibition/performance
at the Impuls Festival.
To apply, please register to the impuls Academy 2025 and then submit
the following to office@impuls.cc and speculative@iem.at by October 1,
2024:
– Statement of interest in the workshop
– For Group A applicants: Description of your work, letter of intent
(max 500 words), and description of your Speculative Synth (max 500 words)
For the complete call text and further information on the application
and registration modalities, please visit the website of the impuls
Academy 2025[2].
The „Speculative Sound Synthesis“ project is funded by the Austrian
Science Fund (FWF) within the program for Arts-based research PEEK (AR
713-G).
Best regards,
The Speculative Sound Synthesis Team
[1] https://speculative.iem.at/
[2] https://www.impuls.cc/academy-2025/special-programs
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// Luc Döbereiner
// http://www.doebereiner.org