Electroacoustic Sound Art Production for Female Identified
- Level: beginner / medium
- Costs: 50€ (5h / 1day)
- Max number of participants: 15 people
- Min number of participants: 10 people
- Sign-up: For registering to the workshop you have to do a bank transfer including name of the workshop and date. You have to show the payment confirmation at the workshop. For bank details and further infos please write to:
veromota.urbanartsberlin@gmail.com
- Contact: Verónica Mota, veromota.urbanartsberlin@gmail.com
- Software needed: Ableton Live / can be the free trial version, also headphones + laptop
In this workshop hosted by Spektrum & Urban Arts Berlin female identified participants will learn how to produce their own sound works, using their own recordings (recorded in the workshop), and further processing. The mentor will focus on Musique Concrète techniques mixed with electronic sound production. This electro-acoustic workshop uses Delia Derbyshire and John Cage’s works as intellectual and sonic reference points.
We will learn how to record professional audio samplers, the world of field recordings and audio formats including also the more accessible ways to record on your own sound using your cellphone. After this comes an introduction to Musique Concrète techniques and sound art production, and the first view of Ableton Live software.
Break
In the second part we will explore Ableton Live in more detail. Audio Effects, Instruments, Recording, Audio-Editing and audio mixdowns.
At the end all participants will create a 10 minute sound art composition by themselves using all the elements learned in this workshop including self made audio and field recordings as well as audio software and sound art creative techniques.
Each participant will get a certificate of participation which can be included in their CV.
THE MENTOR
Verónica Mota - Berlin
Professional sound artist currently working in Berlin. Her works encompass analogue and digital synthesis, field recordings and Musique Concrète techniques, often displaying her proficiency at playing a variety of instruments. She has produced a large body of soundtrack work for Radio, film and performance, and, with Cubop & Espectra Negra, as a solo artist in her own right.
Verónica Mota is also the founder and curator behind Urban Arts Berlin, a non-profit arts organization based in Berlin, Germany. She works at bringing together excellent talents from all over the world. Her experience and hard work have found a fantastic global resonance in the field of sonic art. She has become one of the most important curators for supporting international female composers and musicians in Berlin. She does not, however, exclude male artists.
Urban Arts Berlin Radio has become a new of her current projects where she presents and promotes the work of sound artists she has released under the Urban Arts Berlin label. Particularly relevant for her radio show is her excellent project Synthesis with two Volumes and a total of 75 sound works by professional composers -with a strong female presence- from all over the world. Urban Arts Berlin Radio is streamed in three platforms including Radio Resonance Extra in the United Kingdom, The Pi Radio Verbund Network and Urban Arts Berlin in Germany.
Since 2016 she also became member of The Ready Orchestra which brings together 21 female soloists based in Berlin with a Classic, Electronic, Electro-acoustic and Experimental background. http://veromisscubop.wixsite.com/veronicamota