a=v#2 Workshops. Munich: THEREMIN-SENSOR NETWORK /KRUJOK

Posted: 10/2/2007 10:26:39 AM
natabor

From: Munich

Joined: 9/18/2007

This year a=v#2 lab-/mini festival is organizing two 5-days creative-performance-oriented workshops, one of them:

1.THEREMIN-SENSOR-NETWORK/KRUJOK + LAPTOP ORCHESTRA by Andrey Smirnov, Guy van Belle

Organized by Natalia Borissova (Munich/Moscow)
a=v#2 is hosted and supported by Department of Arts and Culture of Munich.

_/Location:
Kunstarkaden, Sparkassenstr. 3, 80331, Munich
U+S Marienplaz

_/On-line Registration form:
http://www.aa-vv.org/?av_02010101

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1. THEREMIN-SENSOR-NETWORK/KRUJOK + LAPTOP ORCHESTRA
workshop aims at introducing \'Theremin-sensors\' as a new concept towards physical
computing. The computer group of Andrey Smirnov + Guy van Belle will be building unique audio/visual body-related instruments and create a network in order to experiment with sharing sounds, images & data.
The main purpose of the workshop is to build an audiovisual Theremin orchestra and
perform with it on the last day of the workshop as a live public event (24th November).

_/Date:
November 20 -> 24.11.07 from 12.00 to 17.00

_Registration deadline:
October 31, 2007

_/Participants profile:
This will be certainly of interest to any dancer, musician, visualist, theater player,
video artist or whoever is toying around with technology for fun.
Bring your laptop, skills and let\'s turn it all into new instruments to perform
with together.
The participants should be able to take part in all workshop sessions
(20th to 24th November from 12.00 to 17.00) and performing on the last day of the workshop (24th November from 20.00 to 22.00)
The maximum amount of participants 15.

_/Fees:
The cost of the workshop is 50 euro.
For students, female artists and those who are taking part in the second workshop is 40 euro.
Digital USB sensors for testing, experimenting and performing will be provided by
instructors.

_/Language:
English

_More info & registration:
http://www.aa-vv.org/?av_020102

_/About facilitators:
Andrey Smirnov is an independent researcher and developer of electronic music techniques, with a particular interest in design and development of both hard- and
software sensor technology with complex relationships between the performer\'s actions and the interpretation of this information in non-linear methods using custom software.
He is a founder of the Theremin Center for Electro acoustic Music and Multimedia in Moscow, where he gives lectures and workshops on the basics of electro acoustic music, musical acoustics and psychoacoustics, resent computer music technologies and multimedia.
http://asmir.theremin.ru

Guy van Belle is a net sound artists. Since the early 1990s he has been developing
network based multimedia technology for music and sound art. As an independent artist and networker he works with changing partners on projects such as \\An`a*tom\"ic\\, mXHz and Society of Algorithm investigating different forms of collaborative work. He is also a freelance curator, reviewer, lecturer and had been managing international research projects for education and arts at the electronic studio IPEM/Ghent.
http://mxhz.org, http://www.okno.be/, http://societyofalgorithm.org, http://karasssuite.net.

_/Accommodation:
we can suggest accommodation for about Euro 29/33 (single) including breakfast.


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E-mail: info@aa-vv.org
Tel: +49 089 30749611
http://www.aa-vv.org
http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/referate/kult/37585/


Posted: 12/8/2007 3:03:30 PM
Thereminator

From: Blaricum, The Netherlands

Joined: 10/24/2007

Did anyone attend this?
If so... How was is?

Rens

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