Workshops
co-organized by CMCP (Centre for Music Composition & Performance) and EPHMEE (Electroacoustic Music Research and Application Laboratory)
curators: Andreas Mniestris / Maria Aloupi
Saturday 17 of May 2008
12.00 - Joel Chadabe "Ear to the Earth". (link: http://www.chadabe.com)
What are the functions of music and sound in our lives? Can music affect social change in environmental issues? What are the benefits of creativity? In 2006, Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) initiated a program called Ear to the Earth which includes an annual festival, events at various places throughout the world, and a network based in a website at www.eartotheearth.org. It is our idea that if we listen to the earth, we are also listening to the state of the earth, and we will be more inclined to become aware of the problems we face. As levels of engagement with the environment, we can (1) listen to the sounds of the world, (2) listen to the sounds of the world through the ears of sound artists, and (3) record the sounds of the world ourselves, becoming engaged at the most creative and thoughtful level as sound artists.
13.15 - Gerard Pape "Composing with Sound and Image".
14.40 - EPHMEE Presentation. (link: http://www.ionio.gr/depts/music/emral/)
15.00 - CMMAS: Presentation by Francisco Colosanto. (link: http://www.cmmas.org)
16.30 - IDKA: The force of creative energy. (link: http://www.idka.net)
The institute for digital arts is a nonprofit organisation for creative people in Sweden. Located north of Stockholm in the small town Gavle IDKA gathers 200 artists, filmmakers and composers of music. IDKA is four free studios where ideas can come to life and can be realised as digital art in all forms possible. IDKA does concerts and performance art on their own stage Kulturkiosken and exhibitions at their own artgallery. The founder of IDKA Thomas Bjelkeborn and the current manager Viktor Eriksson displays various projects and talk about the past and present at IDKA. For more about IDKA see www.idka.net, (in swedish). The talk is sponsored by Musik Gavleborg, Kultur Fritid Gavle and MIC/STIM.
Sunday 18 of May 2008
12.00 - "Interactive Enviroments: Tools, Design, Aesthetic", Consideration Presented by Iannis Zannos (Sponsored by the Department of Sound and Image Ionian University). (link: http://www.ionio.gr/depts/music/emral/)
14.00 - Lunch brake
14.30 - The Kyma Language for the Creation and Manipulation of Interactive Sound: Presentation by Carla Scaletti. (link: http://www.symbolicsound.com)
Abstract:
Kyma is a language for specifying, manipulating, and combining sounds. Sound designers and composers are using the Kyma environment to create interactive sounds for live musical performances, art installations, live theatre sound and other immersive environments like computer games and films.
The designer of the Kyma language will describe some of the inspirations and design goals behind the creation of Kyma as well as giving an overview and interactive demonstration of some of its synthesis, processing and live control possibilities.
Kurt Hebel, designer of the Capybara sound computation engine, will also be on hand to answer questions.
Bios:
Composer and software engineer Carla Scaletti (http://www.carlascaletti.com) is the designer of the Kyma language and one of the pioneers of data sonification (mapping data to sound for purposes of understanding the data). She is the president of Symbolic Sound and was for many years a regular guest professor at the CCMIX (Centre de Crιation Musicale Iannis Xenakis) in Paris.
Scaletti has a doctorate in music and a masters in computer science from the University of Illinois, a masters of music from Texas Tech University (Distinguished Alumunae Award), and a bachelor's of music from the University of New Mexico (Magna cum laude).
Kurt Hebel, designer of the Capybara sound computation engine, is an electrical and computer engineer dedicated to designing hardware and software for sound artists. For several years, he was a researcher with the CERL Sound Group and taught courses in computer sound synthesis and audio engineering before leaving the University of Illinois to start Symbolic Sound with Carla Scaletti.
He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on digital signal processing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he did his dissertation on automated filter design optimization.
All lectures-workshops will take place at the Apotheke-Art Factory, Lamias 6 & Peiraios str. --> where
