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February 11, 2011 Converging Objects workshop at the Call & Response arts collective in London. 225 Location: 113 Dalston Lane, London Cost: £120 Please e-mail to hello@callandresponse.org.uk to reserve a place. Teachers are Anne LaBerge and Robert van Heumen. The workshop is on February 11 & 12, with a workshop presentation with participants on Februari 12.Download the Converging Objects workshop description. Call & Response is London’s independent sonic arts collective, serving as a focus for sound arts practice in the capital. Photo by Colin Chipcase This workshop is ment for acoustic musicians who improvise and use live electronics in their own setups, those who play with other musicians using electronics, or electronic musicians who improvise and work with acoustic players. As we proceed into the second decade of the 21st century we as composer/performers divide our time between conjuring up concepts, structures and scores and showing up on stage to play. We thrive on a precarious balance between creating and performing new works. That is not to say that we participate in every piece we make. But it does imply that the basis of our creative work is intimately tied to our individual playing, our instrument and our unique performing histories. A significant number of composer/performers is actively seeking for ways to use technology as an intimate and/or integrated partner for their acoustic instruments – some even design and build their own hybrid or purely electronic instruments. Their inspiration most often has its roots in their instruments and how they play them. It’s how they use their own bag of tricks: their talents, artistic passions, unique virtuosities, conceptual twists. And how they depend on their highly developed and unmistakable personal voices as performers. And last but not least, how they engage and integrate their bodies as real-time creative forces. That includes every body part, from their inner ears to their tapping feet. This real-time kinesthetically and intellectually driven music making lends itself well to improvisation as a handy tool in their work. Improvisation provides room for them to experiment and develop both as composers and as performers. And, considering the state of affairs in music technology, improvisation continues to be at the forefront as the favored performance mode. Interfaces, hardware vs. software, analog vs digital and dealing with communication codes are still up and running issues for us all. The Converging Objects workshop is a three-day hands-on workshop that will deal with these issues. We will introduce some ideas and concepts, the participants will play their instruments and together we will work on improvising skills as well as developing approaches to using live electronics. We will try to cater the workshop to the needs of the participants as much as possible. When you register for the workshop, please indicate what acoustic instrument you are playing, and/or what hardware and software you use in your setup. Also let us know if you’ll be participating with a regular collaborator, so we can work on duo or trio performances too. The level of knowledge in electronics can be anything between just simply amplifying yourself to using sophisticated computer programs such as Max/MSP, Pure Data, Abelton Live and SuperCollider.

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