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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Wendy’s Subway present a four-evening series of lectures, listening sessions, and performances exploring contemporary practices and historical approaches relating to text-sound poetry, a genre of spoken word poetry emphasizing the sound of speech over textual meanings, often combined with use of new media. The series features performances by an array of international artists including Anton Bruhin (CH), Anne-James Chaton (FR), Ian Hatcher, Swantje Lichtenstein (DE), Marc Matter (DE), Stine Motland (NO), and Antje Vowinckel (DE), as well as presentations by Charles Bernstein, Edwin Torres, and Steve McCaffery. The history of spoken poetry incorporating technology, from microphone and recording-technique to sound-effects and digital-sound-processing, is around 100 years old. The french poet Guillaume Apollinaire encouraged poets to make use of the gramophone to manipulate recorded language, Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov did artistic research on spoken words, voice, and machine-noises, and the German composer Ernst Toch performed his “gramophone-music” while manipulating recordings of voice and speech. After the second World War, a vivid scene of sound-poets evolved with the rise of Concrete Poetry, many of them experimenting with media-machines, as did most authors of “Neues Hörspiel” and “Ars Acustica” in the 1970s and 1980s. Tracing these 100 years of history, this series attempts to identify the unique voice of contemporary experimental sound poetry, asking to what extent contemporary artists working in this field today are inspired by its history, and whether the tradition itself has developed, or something completely new has evolved from it.   Event Schedule Saturday, November 7 – 5pm (Free) at Goethe-Institut: 30 Irving Pl, NYC, 10003 LECTURE AND LISTENING SESSION:        Introduction: Lawrence Kumpf, Marc Matter, Rachel Valinsky, Macgregor Card        Charles Bernstein: PennSound@11: Close Listening to Poetry Recordings        TBD Followed by reception from 8-9pm. Sunday, November 8 – 3pm (Free / Suggested Donation $10) at Wendy’s Subway: 722 Metropolitan Ave., 2nd Fl., Brooklyn 11211 LECTURE AND LISTENING SESSION:        Steve McCaffery: Language, Rematerialization, and Expenditure: the 20th Century Sound Poem        Edwin Torres: POETRY IS POW: The Body Politic as Sound        Marc Matter and Swantje Lichtenstein: Conceptual Sound Writing and Sample Poetry Monday, November 9 – 8pm ($15-12) at Wendy’s Subway: 722 Metropolitan Ave., 2nd Fl., Brooklyn 11211 PERFORMANCE:        Antje Vowinckel (DE)        Marc Matter (DE)        Swantje Lichtenstein (DE)        Ian Hatcher (US) Tuesday, November 10 – 8pm ($15-12) at Wendy’s Subway: 722 Metropolitan Ave., 2nd Fl., Brooklyn 11211 PERFORMANCE:        Anton Bruhin (CH)        Anne-James Chaton (FR)        Stine Motland (NO) The Wendy’s Subway library will be open for browsing before and during the festival, featuring books, documents and related listening. OPEN HOURS: Saturday, October 31, 12-5pm Sunday, November 1, 12-5pm Saturday, November 7, 12-3pm Sunday, November 8, 12-3pm

 

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