Announcement | Live-Electronics Workshop at HMTM-Hannover (19.-22.11.2024)
Written on October 7th, 2024 by AH
Image: Re-interpretation of the Hugh Le Caine “Touch-Sensitive Organ Based on an Electrostatic Coupling Device” (1955); Image by Alexander Mayer
Workshop Call:
From 19.-22.11.2024 we will hold a live-electronics workshop at HMTMH Hannover within our PEEK ‘Études for Live-Electronics’ Project. Workshop Presenters will be:
- Constanza Piña aka Corazon de Robota, guest composer hardware hacker, performer from Chile
- Dustin Zorn, mdw/Hfm; project staff
Title: Ghost Tones Captured in a Khipu
This Live-Electronics Workshop is a 4-day event that focuses on the intersection of performance, composition, and artistic research in the field of live-electronics.
Khipu, a pre-Hispanic textile computing system, is interwoven with a live-electronic setup used to re-create “I of IV”, an early electronic tape piece by Pauline Oliveros from 1966. In the four-day workshop the collaborators Constanza Pina and Dustin Zorn will share their insights into the historical references of the tape piece by Oliveros and present their creation of two different live-electronic interfaces. One interface is a re-interpretation of the Hugh Le Caine “Touch Sensitive Organ” (1955), whereas the other interface has links to the Khipu textile computing system. This collaboration involves several artistic practices, such as physical computing, DIY instrument making, and coding to create these new live-electronic interfaces and the related performance practices. Tactile, technological and cultural perspectives on the interfaces will be explored by and discussed with the participants in the workshop.
Participants will gain hands-on knowledge about the performative potential of the different interfaces and are encouraged to develop their own artistic perspective through the experiments with live-electronics. A final concert will conclude the workshop, showcasing the artistic outcome of the collaboration and the workshop.
Goals:
- Acquire insights into composition techniques and the fusion of pre-Hispanic textile computing system with live-electronics.
- Perform in Kammermusiksaal (Uhlemeyerstraße 21, Hanover) or compose for live-electronic performers (LEP).
- Build live-electronic setups.
- Encourage performers to expand their repertoire and composers to explore new approaches for live-electronic performances.
- Foster exploration and innovation in the field of live-electronics.
Method
Participants will collaborate in smaller groups on specific projects, including:
- Reviving Pauline Oliveros composition ‘I of IV’ through live performance
- Building live-electronic setups, providing hands-on training and sharing valuable insights
- Rehearsing and performing Metastasie by Dustin Zorn
Target Group
HMTM Students – The workshop is open to individuals from all backgrounds who are interested in live-electronics. The target group includes:
- Performers: Musicians, sound artists, and live-electronic performers who want to expand their repertoire and enhance their skills.
- Composers that want to explore new approaches and techniques for live-electronic performances and create own pieces.
- Artists and practitioners in the field of live-electronics
Presenters:
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Constanza Pina: Visual artist, dancer and researcher, focused on experimentation with electronic media, free technologies and DIWO methodologies. Her artistic proposals are presented in various formats integrating dance, installation, sound performance and social practices. Her work explores noise as a sound, political and cultural phenomenon. She reflects on the role of machines in our culture and the human/non-human technological units, questioning the academy, capitalism, anthropocentrism and techno-heteropatriarchy as opposition to open knowledge, autonomy and enhancement of technical manual work.
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Dustin Zorn (mdw) is a composer, artistic researcher and lecturer at HfM Berlin. His works include instrumental and live-electronic pieces in which he is also a composer-performer.
Be part of the mdw-based FWF-PEEK project “Études for Live-Electronics” and shape the future of live-electronic music!
Registration: To register, please submit the following information:
- Full name
- Contact details (email, phone number)
- Short CV (background and experience)
- Short motivation letter (why are you interested in participating in this workshop)
Application should not be longer than max. 1 page in total.
Limited capacity: 6 participants (full time commitment 19.-22.10.2024, see Timeframe)
Please send your registration to hofmann-alex(at)mdw.ac.at by November 1st.
Timeframe (preliminary):
- Tuesday 19.11.2024 2pm - 6pm (Workshop)
- 20.& 21.11.2024 10am - 6pm (Workshop)
- Friday 22.11.2024 from 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM: Showcase Concert (start 7:30 PM) including Soundcheck and Setup
Location
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Elektronisches Studio (Room: E60) Emmichplatz 1, 30175 Hannover, DE
References
- Le Caine, H. (1955). Touch‐Sensitive Organ Based on an Electrostatic Coupling Device. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 27(4), 781-786.
