What does Berlin sound like? You! Bring your robots, moo-cow toys, drums, rattles, harmonica or voice, and your super-bad self, and MAKE YOUR OWN TONE!

The artist will provide the technical know-how and recording equipment. Audio content must be copyright free (i.e., original compositions or sounds which exists in the natural world). Tone duration will be 30 seconds or less. Participants at this session will be photographed for possible inclusion in project exhibitions and archives. Tones will be made available to the public (as MP3s) by the end of September 2010 at www.locallytoned.org

Language: English

Places are limited. Please book in advance by sending an email to ricardo.climent@cross-disciplinary.org

Ignaz Schick: Turntablist, sound artist, performer & composer.
In his youth he studied the saxophone and performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines,record players and effect boxes and he started experimenting with many different instruments and sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistent for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl.

Since the late 1995 he works and lives in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called “Berlin Nouvelle Vague” and the blossoming “real time music” scene. From the middle of the nineties onwards his interest and activities almost completely shifted towards live-electronics and after testing various instrumentations (hard- & software samplers, signal processing, contact mics, field recordings, …) he developed his own and quite unique electro-acoustic set-up which he calls “rotating surfaces”. Various objects and materials (from wood, metal, plastic, paper or violin bows and cymbals) are played directly on the rotating metal plate of the turntable and the vibrations are simply amplified with a small condensator microphone. With this set-up he covers many different styles of contemporary experimental music – ranging from extreme reductionism via ambient, industrial, musique concrete, electronica to harsh noise.
www.zangimusic.de
http://www.myspace.com/ignazschick

MARIA CHAVEZ
Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Chavez’s work is focused on short solo electro-acoustic sound pieces using a collection of new and broken needles that she calls “pencils of sound” and a selection of records, which provide the palette. Many of her live sound installations have focused on the paradox of time and the present moment, with many influences stemming from improvisation in contemporary art.

Her work has been recognized by the Jerome Foundation, which awarded her the Emerging Artist Grant by New York’s Roulette Intermedium in 2008. In 2009, she became a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship which is generously offered to young sound artists by The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust.

She has traveled extensively, sharing the stage with Pauline Oliveros, Alan Licht, Phil Niblock, and Otomo Yoshihide to name just a few. She has performed in venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum in Bordeaux, France; the Akademies der Kunste in both Vienna and Berlin; and Sonoteca in Lima, Peru. She was an artist in residence in 2008 with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the DIA:Beacon Museum and recently performed for Christian Marclay at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC as part of Christian Marclay: FESTIVAL.

http://www.myspace.com/mariachavez
www.mynamelookslikeme.wordpress.com

A full-day workshop where participants will collaborate to create an interactive sound installation which will be exhibited on the evening of the workshop.
Participants will be introduced to a variety of sensors (pressure sensors, light sensors, bend sensors, velocity sensors etc.), will be shown how to make many of these from everyday objects and will be shown how to interface these with the computer programme Audiomulch (www.audiomulch.com).

Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop. No prior knowledge or expertise is required just imagination and enthusiasm! All required instruction will be given on the day.
Places are limited so please book in advance by sending an email to ricardo.climent@cross-disciplinary.org. For more information send email to iain.mccurdy@cross-disciplinary.org. This workshop will be in English. Workshop fee is 15€.

At 19:00 there will be a showcase of the works created during the workshop.

Rara Avis (informal sneak preview)
“Rara Avis” is a collective project about birdsong synthesis. The compilation, to be published by ALKU this fall, features contributions from Chris Brown (US), Oswald Berthold (AT), Anders Dahl (SE), Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (ES), Fredrik Olofsson (SE), and Peter Worth (UK). All of them wrote generative audio programs that imitate or recreate bird speech through various synthesis techniques. This is the first public preview of the records’ contents.

http://alkualkualkualkualkualkualkualkualkualku.org

A major focus exists on the exchange of methodologies and knowledge, to address similar creative questions, which will investigate ideas such as; the creative use of s/low technologies versus cutting-edge ones; the degree of speed built into the creative process/thinking, particularly in cross-disciplinary works; high-low cultural streams as experienced by participants coming from academic and non-academic environments; slow/fast environmental impact of art and artists producing art; and finally, it has additional scope for investigation around vocabulary such as; low-cost/ recycled materials/low-budget/open source and related grammar.

As the result of collaborations among practitioners and their interaction with the local community, expected outcomes will range from the creation of new works, to residencies, screenings, discussion of methodologies employed, workshops, performances, coffee roundtables, etc., which will take place from July 15th to August 20th, 2010.

For more info: http://s.low-low.org/
S.LOW calendar of activities: http://crossdisciplinary.blogspot.com/2009/11/slow-programme-provisional.html

A three hour sound-light performative broadcast installation.
Come anytime and stay as long as you like!
Snacks provided, drinks available.
www.chrisheenan.com
www.vorfeld.org