November workshop sign-ups, and Code of Engagement in London
Plus an NTS show and Funkhaus recap
Just got back from Berlin where I presented Noctian Airgap at Funkhaus as part of Spatial Festival. It was an interesting experience to hear this music ripped out of stereoland and sprinkled around an ancient GDR acoustic chamber across dozens of tiny omnidirectional speakers. So much stereo production logic, especially on the rhythm and low-end side, goes into creating a sense of pressure and density. There are definitely tradeoffs when translating this material to a gridded cube of sound nodes. Creating the perception of space across two speakers is psychoacoustic trickery compared to a massively multichannel speaker array where you can just throw a sound ‘over there.’ It was pretty cool.
The main agenda of this month’s Substack, though, is to invite you to my upcoming CAMP workshop series, Collaborating with the Unknown. There are 7 spaces left at the time of writing this, and if it fills up we’ll have twenty participants.
From the description:
Casting the DAW as a zone of unexpected encounters, we'll learn to protect the process of sound discovery and generation from our goal-oriented instincts, and we'll learn the creative mixing concepts that can turn our discoveries into convincing sonic entities in complex relationships with each other. From there, orchestrating these elements becomes a journey into the unknown in which our feelings and desires encounter autonomous sound-worlds with their own agenda.
Making music on a computer can be overwhelming, with the possibility to generate an infinite variety of arbitrary noises. In this workshop we'll embrace that openness and learn to compose from within it, finding ways to blend the mixing and arranging processes, and finally to work towards finding our own style by curating the unexpected.
Whether you are an electronic music producer, sound artist, audio poet, composer or whatever, if you want to hang out online with a group of like-minded people making music mostly with computers, come join us! I really love running these when the participants are coming from really diverse practices. There will be four 2-hour sessions in the first half of November.
At the start of October Hea Min Jung will be presenting her performance Code of Engagement at the Coronet Theater in London. I created the score for this last year for its initial version presented in Berlin and Seoul. This time, in London, it will be adapted for two rooms.
Using latex sculptures, elastic lines, Shamanic bells and layered sound, Jung is inspired by the playful rubber-band games of her childhood and early experiences of loss. Her elegant choreography and deep connection with the audience transforms simple gestures into a journey through childhood to maturity.
And finally, the recording of my recent NTS show is now available along with a photo of me by a door looking normal.
