The second day we will perfect your doll and the sets will become proper. Bluescreen can be used.

Two teams will be build for the shooting and then it starts!. The dolls start to dance and sing to the beat, things are happening, i.e. psychedelic patterns in the sky , all parallel to the waveforms of the sound file.

the third day will be for shooting the film. you will shoot a lot of rhythmical loops, which means less work.

A one minute musical video clip will be the result.

I am looking forward to innovative and experimental ideas.
There will be FIMO modeling clay, feel free to bring some.

Times: Fri May 11th 12h-18h
Sat May 12th 12h-18h
Sun May 13th 12h-18h

fee: 60 €

Location: NK / Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin

Minimum number of participants 6, maximum 10 Please Pre-register for this workshop by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de with the subj line VIDEOCLIP STOPMOTION.

For Technical questions please contact schmacke@fakemasters.de

Michael Schmacke Born 1965 in Neukölln.
Since twenty years an animator, has worked for TV in the past.

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/hauptnavigation/startseite/#/beitrag/video/503044/In-welchem-Film-willst-Du-der-Star-sein?
http://schmacke.info
workshops for kids and adults in animation.
http://www.trickfilmreporter.org

Discover the hidden sonic qualities of objects from our everyday world in this workshop, combining the arts of electronics, noise, sculpture and collage. The basic elements of this workshop are a wooden box, a speaker, a small audio amplifier, and a contact microphone. To this, brave box-builders will add their own found objects, graphics, images, memories and ideas to create a unique electroacoustic cabinet of
curiosities.

No previous electronics experience is necessary for this workshop. Each participant is required to bring several items to the workshop, please see below.

TIMETABLE

Day One: Introduction to simple noise/electroacoustic electronics, circuit soldering.

Day Two: Box-building, decoration and collage, experimentation with found objects as sound sources.

Final Presentation: All participants will present their finished soundboxes to the public at the end of the second day!

WHAT TO BRING

I will provide most of the tools and materials necessary for constructing the box, however there are a few things you should bring yourself:

1) A BOX: This should be made of thin wood or very strong cardboard. Plastic can be also used, but it doesn’t sound very good. And please, no metal! It is too difficult to cut and drill with the tools we will have. This box should be a minimum of 10x10x4cm, or bigger if you want to use a larger speaker or have more room to decorate and add objects. Cigar boxes, small suitcases, instrument cases or jewelry/silverware boxes are all good things to look for. At least one side of the box should be no more than 5mm thick, to allow the hardware to be mounted.

2) A SPEAKER (OPTIONAL): I will have a selection of speakers for participants to use. However, if you have something special please bring it along, but please make sure it fits in the box you have chosen!

3) FOUND OBJECTS: Please bring as many found objects as you can to decorate your soundbox or use as a sound source via the contact microphone. Bones, shells, small sticks, bells, strings, wires, springs (especially!) or anything else made out of solid yet resonant material make great sound sources. Photographs, cloth, leather, paper or any other kind of material can be useful for covering the box and making collages. Paint, markers and pens may also be useful.

4) EFFECTS PEDALS (OPTIONAL): Any kind of battery-powered effects pedals, such as distortions, filters or delays, can be very useful in creating more nonlinearities in the feedback loop.

FURTHER INFO:

You can see videos and photos from previous SoundBoxes workshops here:

http://macumbista.net/?page_id=1897

Or use the “soundboxes” tag to see all posts related to SoundBoxes:

http://macumbista.net/?tag=soundboxes

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist based in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught workshops in noise art technology, across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.

http://macumbista.net/

BASIC INFO:

Fee: EUR 35 (participation) + EUR 10 (materials) Registration is required and can be done by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de with the subject line “SoundBoxes”

Number of Participants: Minimum 6/Maximum 14

Location: NK Projekt Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin
+49(0)17620626386

The participants develop for themselves short films that will be key to learning about set recording. Also the basics of film theory will be introduced to give a base of communication on a film set with the director and cameraman. Therefore this workshop is based on set sound recording but will touch the whole picture of film theory and practice.

schedule:

DAY 1 emphasis:
Theoretical: history/study of sound techniques. miking/material and technical approaches to set recording.
DAY 2 emphasis:
Hands On: film making, recording. Production of a one minute short film.
DAY3 emphasis:
Introduction to linux based Post production with Harrison Mixbus and xjadeo , editing, montage- presentation in the evening.

Number of participants: 8

PreRegistration is required please send an email to info@nkprojekt.de to reserve your place.

Fee: 45€ (workshop) 20€ (equipment)

Location: Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin

Christoph “Kris” Limbach (born in 1978) is a sound artist living in Berlin. He works for both film makers and artists as set recordist and sound mixer / sound designer. He works for artists like John Bock and for commercial adverts films and broadcast series as well (check www.crew-united.com). He graduated in applied physics from FU-Berlin and his physical knowledge merges into his sound and art work. His emphasis is always on exploring sound and image in an experimental way. Although his focus has always been on sound art, he is involved in film projects since 1998, exploring always formats and aesthetics of cinema. His first experimental film, “Cuento Incompleto” was published in 2005 in a book project in Madrid (Mundolavapies). Therefore this work for film has an outstanding influence on his current sound-art works, using film-editing techniques and film sound aesthetics for his sound pieces like the ongoing begin_ if _ () sound project and live performances. He runs, together with Pierce Warnecke , the emitter19 studio in Berlin.

Purified Electroworld offers a two day introduction to the very basics of electronic theory and practice, through practical tuition and hands-on experimentation.

Participants will learn about the material basis and simple physics of basic electronic components, and how these materials and parts function within larger assemblages embedded in the physical world (electromagnetics, noise, sound, the body).

We’ll also find out how to read electronic schematics, and translate these into working circuits using a variety of well-documented techniques, how to inventively hack everyday consumer devices for creative mis-use and re-use, and how to troubleshoot and fix our own built circuits.

Purified Electroworld focuses on basic principles and simple construction methods which can be adapted to suit the participant’s temperament, and which can form the foundation for future discovery and active construction. Purified Electroworld is designed to provide a good basis for any future workshop which involves an electronics component.

No prior knowledge whatsoever is assumed. On the second day participants will construct and adapt a simple scratching transmitter instrument, or can choose to start working on their own projects.

About Instructor: Martin Howse
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/

Fee: 35 (participation) + 10 (materials) Registration is required and can be done by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de with the subj line Purified Electroworld Nr. of Participants Minimum 6 Maximum 13
Location: NK Projekt Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin
+49(0)17620626386

Reinhold Friedl
Born in Baden-Baden, lives in Berlin. Studied piano in Stuttgart with Renate Werner and Paul Schwarz, in Berlin with Alan Marks and Alexander von Schlippenbach. Composition with Witold Szalonek and Mario Bertoncini. He also studied pure mathematics (set theory, logic and topology). Scolarships in Paris, Rome, Marseille, Amsterdam. Concerts in Europe, North-America, Australia and Japan. Numerous CDs and broadcasting recordings, as well as professional articles and radio features (WDR Cologne etc). Reinhold Friedl is founder and artistic director of zeitkratzer. As a composer he got commissions a.o. from the Berlin City, Wien Modern Vienna (Xenakis[a]live!), the BBC London (1st string quartet), Berliner Festspiele & ZKM Karlsruhe (“Neo-Bechstein”), the French State (2nd String Quartet). He developed new techniques of playing a grand-piano on the strings and invented for that the term “Inside-Piano”.

www.reinhold-friedl.de
www.zeitkratzer.de

Schneider TM / Dirk Dresselhaus – short bio:
Dirk Dresselhaus was born 1970 in Bielefeld, Germany. Since the late 80’s he is active in different musical fields. From 1989 until 1997 he played and sang in indie-noiserock- and pop-bands like Locust Fudge or Hip Young Things before he became more active in electronic music around 1997 with his project Schneider TM, which is responsible for a couple of experimental electro-freak-pop albums and mini-hits like ‚Reality Check’ or a coverversion of a song by The Smiths called ‚The Light 3000’ (w/ Kptmichigan). Next to many one-off projects like composing and recording music for movies (1. Mai, 66/67, Polnische Ostern etc.), theater (The Scorpionfish, Louis & Bebe w/ Joanna Dudly) or radioplays (Release, Hochhaus w/ Paul Plamper), he plays & records with freeform noise-projects like Angel (w/ Ilpo Väisänen of Pan sonic), Mr. Schmuck’s Farm (w/ Hildur Gudnadottir of Lost In Hildurness / Mum etc.) and Real Time (w/ Reinhold Friedl of Zeitkratzer) on a regular basis. Since quite a while he frequently plays improv concerts on varying instruments like guitar, electronics, balaphon or using fieldrecordings, sometimes solo and other times together with Jochen Arbeit (of Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut), Damo Suzuki (ex-Can), the japanese dancer Tomoko Nakasato and others. In 2007 Dirk Dresselhaus and Michael Beckett started their own (online-) label MirrorWorldMusic.

www.schneidertm.net
www.mirrorworldmusic.com

-FAKE SISTERS
-MANGROVE KIPLING
-LIFELOOP IN KNIFEMODE
-CRUST
 
INSTALLATIONS:

- MICHAEL SCHMACKE
-OLIVIA PILS
-JULIAN BONEQUI

THE FAKE SISTERS – working for eleven years now the fake sisters cannot decide what they are called. They played as FAKE VIRGIN in a pornokino, as FAKE MASTERS in the cabaret voltaire (feat. scribble sr2) or as FAKE FAMILY in King Kong Klub.

- beats and noises produced by SCHMACKE
- voice and electronics by FAKE MISTRESS

presenting the abyss of your flowers in a´jar

MANGROVE KIPLING on guitar presents: “Virgin” A videosonic recollection of memories, a rapture, in a parallel continuum, water under various forms, and your memories to complete it. Think back, you know it all.

LiFeLooP In KnifeMode The sound of objects (often selected on the day of the performance) are relayed, through contact microphones, to a multi track looper and digital delay. From these sources and with these devices the sound ways of these elements are discovered and exploited. The materials themselves are not what is important but the procedure that their sounds are put through. “The resulting quale, whatever it may be, has its meaning wholly determined by reference to the hearing of the sound. It is that experience mediated.” (John Dewey) With this in mind the work process will be an open one. The frankness of the techniques shown in the work enables the audience to easily understand the relationship between the physical and the sonic. And so enhance the subjective perception of the moment.

Séamus O´Donnell (LiFeLooP) works as artist and organiser on different sound art projects since 1999. Solo or collaborative projects (for performance or installations) can include FM radio experiments with receivers and self built mini-transmitters; reel-to-reel tape machine loop or relay set ups; or a live set with a any mix of manipulated field recordings, self made devices and other more traditional instruments and machines. As an organiser he works mostly with Salon Bruit e.V., an association for audience and composers interested in experimental music and video works.
http://lifeloop.org/

CRUST
ANY [Us] – Koba [Fr] – Dr. Nexus [Bln]

Deep inside the molten chambers of a blast furnace, the key of abyss opened its mouth wide and all that was left was unknown kicking and twisting matter.
It is to this tune we play.

ANY – Abyssal vocals
Koba – Bended HR16, miscellaneous electronics
Dr. Nexus – Suitcase of Chaos

Each member of CRUST has his own long year work backround. Any comes from dance and performance, Koba from instrumental improvised music and noise music, Dr. Nexus soundart, installation, noize and industrial music.

MICHAEL SCHMACKE – “ROTTEN WONDER”  An analog slide show in collaboration with germs and the process of decay. The colourful side of death. Since 1988 Michael Schmacke’s installations deal with nature, who we really are and where we really might be.

http://schmacke.info

OLIVIA PILS presents her latest sculpture Soundtrack für verschreckte Maschinen which translates into : ‘soundtrack for frightened maschines’, consisting of three arduino controlled electric knives and voice. The human voice and the sound of the maschines fuse into a musical composition. Olivia Pils a.k.a. FAKE mistress is an artist and performer living and working in Berlin since 1992.
www.fake-mistress.de

JULIAN BONEQUI (MX) – “mentaler Lärm”

Digital animation and illustration projected on a small monitor (wip).
http://www.julianbonequi.com
http://www.auditionrecords.com

Other Salon Bruit artists’ info and web:
https://www.salonbruit.org/artists

Salon Bruit eV. is a Berlin based non-commercial forum for both audience and artists interested in experimental music and video works, as well as installations and workshops. Salon Bruit started in 2002 in Berlin as an open platform for international artists of various backgrounds who experiment with sound, art, music and noise in unconventional ways. Salon Bruit continues to organize concerts in Berlin while, at the same time, building its European network in order to travel and interact with other artists at co-organized projects across Europe. A unique quality of the association is its open, interdisciplinary and independent approach with continuous presentations in the form of regular concerts and performances, independent radio projects and exhibitions in Berlin and other European cities. The club sees itself as a cultural ambassador as well as an intermediary in cultural exchange. Outside of Berlin the most extensive contacts have been made so far in France, Ireland, Czech Republic, Denmark and most recently Poland. This summer, Salon Bruit will be celebrating its tenth anniversary with event all around Berlin throughout the month of June.
https://www.salonbruit.org/about

CHRISCHRISMIKE
CHRIS ABRAHAMS On PIANO
CHRIS HEENAN On ALTO SAX + CONTRABASS CLARINET
MIKE MAJKOWSKI On BASS

Artist Links:
SPILL (MAYAS/BUCK)
http://soundcloud.com/monotyperec/spill-magda-mayas-tony-buck

ABRAHAMS/HEENAN/MAJKOWSKI
http://soundcloud.com/chrisheenan/sets/abrahams-heenan-majkowski/

Many of the films discussed will be accompanied by Detailed Film Viewing Sessions.

Some of the workshops aims include:
Introducing participants to a detailed overview of Avant Garde Film production; its concepts, aesthetics, techniques and ideologies.
Exposing the participants to rarely seen avant garde films.

Through discussions about and viewing sessions of these Avant Garde Films that this exposure may act as a creative catalyst to encourage participants to create Avant Garde work of their own.
The workshop will not be conducted in a chronologically linear fashion but will instead focus in on and make thematic connections between particular critical sub genres of the Avant Garde film movement. This approach will assist in clarifying the connections or otherwise between much earlier produced avant garde film production and more contemporary Avant Garde practice today.

Some of the Avant Garde sub genres to be discussed will be:
Futurist Cinema Manifesto
The Revolutionary Russian Avant Gardists
Surrealist Cinema
European Avant Garde Filmmakers of the 1920s and 1930s
Experimental Animation
The Post War American Avant Gardes
Experimental Documentary Forms
The US avant gardes of the 1950s and 1960s
Metaphoric Cinema
The European Avant Gardes of the 1960s and 1970s
Underground Film
Found Footage and Collage filmmakers
Expanded Cinema
Structural Film
Feminist film
The Cinema of Transgression
Avant Garde in the 21st century – where are we now? – The digital revolution

Films, Filmmakers and Film movements will be further explored under these headings:
Avant Garde Art movements and their influence on the Avant Garde Cinema Aesthetic
As a counterpoint to the traditional and established mainstream Hollywood narrative – D W Griffiths
Approaches and Technical processes in making Avant Garde films and its expressions thereof.

The historical, social, cultural, political, economic, technological and philosophical aspects of Avant Garde Films.
Key Movements, Films and Filmmakers in Avant Garde Cinema
An indepth exploration of essential Avant Garde Filmmakers.
Technology and the Avant Garde
Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde
Subversive Cinema
Left and Revolutionary Cinema
New Approaches – what is happening in Avant Garde Cinema today?

Some of the filmmakers to be discussed including many film viewing sessions:
D W Griffiths,Fernand Leger/Man Ray/Marcel Duchamp/ Luis Bunuel/Jean Epstein/
The Russian Revolutionarys – Sergei Eisenstein/Dziga Vertov/Sergei Yutkevich/Vsevolod Pudovkin/Alexander Dovzhenko/Lev Kuleshov/
Walter Ruttmann/Hans Richter/Oskar Fischinger/Viking Eggeling/Len Lye/Joseph Cornell/Norman Mc Claren/Whitney Brothers/Robert Breer/Jan Svankmajer/Yoji Kuri/Harry Smith/
Stan Brakhage/Maya Deren/Hollis Frampton/Kenneth Anger/Chris Marker/Jonas Mekas/Andy Warhol/Jack Smith/Ken Jacobs/James Broughton
John Smith/Patrick Keiller/Peter Greenaway/Derek Jarman/Michael Snow/
Kathy Acker/Chantal Ackerman/ Gillian Wearing/Pipilotti Rist/
Bruce Conner/Craig Baldwin/Adam Curtis/Abigail Child/Peter Tscherkassky/Su Friedrich/Dietmar Brehm/Aldo Tambellini
Bruce Naumann/Jordan Belson/ Paul Sharits/Lewis Klahr/Ian Hugo/Larry Jordan/
Kurt Kren/Peter Kubelka/
Richard Kern/Nick Zedd/
Fernando Arrabal/Mikhail Kalatozov/Nagisa Oshima/Oushane Sembene/Fernando Solanas/Santiago Alvarez/Miklos Jancso/Volker Schloendorff/Guy Debord/Gillo Pontecorvo/Alexander Kluge/Robert Kramer/Andrei Tarkovsky/Alexandro Jodorowsky/Haskell Wexler/

Paul Prendergast is an experimental filmmaker and a lecturer of film and video production. He has worked successfully in varied strands of the film and video production field including commercial videography, documentary, live theatre, independent experimental, artist films and music video production. He has taught in universities and educational institutions in both Ireland and Germany. His theoretical fields of expertise includes Avant Garde Cinema and Documentary film. He also organizes workshops on the practice of creative film and video editing and motion graphic design. Paul divides his time between Ireland and Berlin and is a member of the Berlin based music, art and film organizations Salon Bruit and Labor Berlin.

Times:
Friday 20th April – 4pm – 8pm,
Saturday 21st April – 12pm – 7pm,
Sunday 22nd April – 12pm – 7pm

Fee: 65 euro

Please Pre-Register for this workshop by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de
Minimum number of participants 10, maximum 18

Location: NK
Elsenstr.52, 2HH 2Etage
12059 Berlin

There is also a fair amount of experimentation involved in much of his string-work which can lead to audio realms rarely visited by others. Attentive listeners may hear shades of Jimmy Page, Django Reinhardt, Sonny Sharrock, and Ali Akbar Khan in his playing.

He is perhaps best known as a founding member (along with brother Alan Bishop) of experimental ethnic-improv pioneers and underground tricksters Sun City Girls, who for nearly 30 years have produced an extensive discography of over 50 full length albums, 20 one-hour cassettes and a dozen 7” records. Sun City Girls formed in 1981 after the Bishop brothers’ stint in the group Paris 1942 which also featured J. Akkari and former Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker.

Richard has put out music on his own on such labels as John Fahey’s Revenant (his debut Salvador Kali), Locust Music, Drag City, Southern Records, and ever since 2005 began performing relentlessly as a solo artist, playing throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. He has not stopped since.

In May of 2010, Drag City released the album False Flag by Rangda, a new group featuring Bishop, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire), and Chris Corsano (Flower-Corsano Duo, Flaherty/Corsano, Jandek, Bjork, etc).

Richard was also a co-founder of the Sublime Frequencies label (with Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayet). The label, whose mission is dedicated to acquiring and releasing obscure sights and sounds from Africa, India, S.E. Asia and beyond, began in 2003 and currently has over 65 releases to its credit.

He is coming back to Europe after several successful european tours, prior to the release of his new album on Drag City Records.

http://www.sirrichardbishop.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bishop_(guitarist)

BIO:
http://www.sirrichardbishop.net/bio.htm

RECORD LABEL:
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/sir-richard-bishop

PRESS:
“Freak of Araby” Album review
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13057-the-freak-of-araby/

VIDEOS:
Live 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtIIFFd0iR0

Live at Bottom Lounge, opening for Swans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrDUlhKISm8
Live in Tokyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMZ9WIxIDl0&feature=related

with Devendra Banhart for a French Tv Station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5WeSlPEUQo
DISCOGRAPHY:

Salvador Kali (1998, Revenant Records) Improvika (2004, Locust Music) Fingering the Devil (2006, Southern Records) Elektronika Demonika (2006, Locust Music) While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (2007, Locust Music) Polytheistic Fragments (2007, Drag City) God Damn Religion DVD, (2008, Locust Music) The Freak of Araby (2009, Drag City)

URGE NYX

“A savage psycho-acoustic audio-visual collaboration from Berlin, is known for their persistent and intense, but magnetising appearances. They will present their specific vision. (Cunt=Cunt records)”

http://urgenyx.bandcamp.com/

HARMONY CHEYENNE FLYNN MOLINA

Pablo Andres Molina (Born 3 December 1980), better known by the stage name Harmony Molina, is a chilean singer and songwriter. His music is frecuently minimal in style, many of his songs consisting merely of vocals accompanied by either drums or guitar, which he mostly plays himself. He is known for his intimate live shows. He is currently living in Berlin, Germany.

http://harmonymolina.bandcamp.com/

DELMORE FX

// Delmore Fx is the solo Project of Elia Buletti. “Altogether, let`s call it just bedroom tribalism.” (Recent Music Heroes) //

http://soundcloud.com/eliab-1/delmore-fx_conil

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Delmore_fx/No_Ideas/