CONTEMPORARY TEMPORARY:: SPATIAL SOUND STUDIO SESSIONS #2
November 11 – 17 2015
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Ave
Maspeth, NY 11378
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Lectures: Presentations: Workshops: Experiments: Studies: Concerts: Exchanges:
After the Summer Sessions at Fridman Gallery, the Sessions will find a new home at Knockdown Center. For one week in November, CT-SWaM will provide an experimental environment for sound artists, composers, and students, who want to expand their current practices and explore spatialization as a creative element.
Under the guidance of Daniel Neumann, CT-SWaM founder and an accomplished sound engineer, you are invited to develop a project using high-end equipment, follow the group lectures, listen to pieces, read from the library, and book one-on-one individual work sessions.
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There are two ways to participate:
A) Book a session. The full week includes three group sessions and one individual work session for $175. Hourly individual sessions are $65.
B) Volunteer, trade, barter – in approximate exchange rates.
Please get in touch here: contact.ctswam@gmail.com
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SCHEDULE:
Wed, Nov 11
10a-2p: group session 1
3p-6p: individual sessions
Thur, Nov 12
10a-2p: group session 2
3p-6p: individual sessions
Fri, Nov 13
10a-2p: group session 3
3p-6p: individual sessions
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PRESENTATIONS:
SAT, Nov 14
4p-6p: presentations by participants
6p-8p: Pedro Lopez (Berlin), lecture and performance
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SUN, Nov 15
12p-6p: presentations by participants
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TUE, Nov 17
7p:: performances by participants
8p:: Jennifer Grossman:: multi-channel pieces
9p:: Woody Sullender:: “Variations on Furniture Music”. Furniture Music is a series of multi-channel electronic music performances utilizing arrangements of modular cardboard forms outfitted with audio transducers :: Woody Sullender is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work encompass a variety of media including music, sculpture, performance, theater, installation, architecture, origami, and even sonic weaponry. Among other activities, he is founding co-editor (will Bill Dietz) of the sonic arts publication Ear | Wave | Event (earwaveevent.org).
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The group sessions will outline the history of spatial sound works while providing a technical understanding, and explore the aesthetics and techniques for spatialization. Listening will be practiced as a phenomenological activity: the listener immersed in inner spaces; distance and continuity; sound as intersubjective space. A central question thereby is how to dramatize the distinctions between interior, exterior, and the interior beyond the exterior space.
“Personally, as a sound artist as well as a professional live sound engineer, I understand a loudspeaker in a certain space as an instrument, as my main instrument. The speaker is the resonating exciter – like a string; and the space is the resonator – like the wooden body of a violin for example. Every space and every speaker system will act differently.” DN
Guest presenters and performers are invited to bring a range of approaches to spatial sound and to make use of the Temporary multi-channel sound setup.
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