Saturday, March 22, 2014

Sonic Mmabolela 2014





2nd Annual Workshop/Residency for sound artists & composers

Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa
17-30 November 2014 / 2 weeks


Conceived and directed by  
Francisco López

Coordination and logistics by  
James Webb 


‘Sonic Mmabolela’ is a 2-week workshop/residency for professional and semiprofessional sound artists and composers with previous experience in the area of sound experimentation and field recordings. 
It takes place at Mmabolela Reserve, in the Limpopo province of South Africa, right at the border with Botswana. 
It involves field work, studio work and theoretical/discussion presentations. 
The workshop/residency has a special focus on creative approaches to the work with field recordings, through an extensive exploration of natural sound environments. It does not have a technical character but is instead conceived and directed towards the development and realization of projects of sonic creation by the participant artists/composers with the field recordings gathered.

‘Sonic Mmabolela’ draws from previous experience of an equivalent workshop / residency, also conceived and directed by Francisco López, in the Brazilian Amazon (“Mamori Sound Project” 2005 2011), which has been attended by 70 artists from all over the world, who have produced to date dozens of releases, sound installations, exhibitions, films, publications and public presentations worldwide, based on the sound materials and experience gathered during that workshop / residency.

The activities of the workshop/residency include:

• Introductory theoretical/discussion presentation sessions on field recordings and sound creation, with a historical/philosophical/critical perspective.
• Field trips (both diurnal and nocturnal) for extensive listening and recording of sound environments.
• Sessions of studio work (with laptop) using these materials.
• Artists’ presentation/discussion sessions on sound creative work / field recordings.
• Development and realization of a sound piece by each participant with the original sound materials gathered in the field work.
• Presentation of the finished pieces by the participant artists.

All these activities are organized in a daily schedule according to the changing sonic environments of Mmabolela Reserve.
This typically involves many hours of field and studio work but there is also flexibility to allow participants to choose from several schedule options.
The language for the workshop/residency is English. The director also speaks Spanish and has conversational levels of French, Portuguese and Italian.

Dates workshop/residency: November 17th - 30th, 2014
Deadline for registration: July 15th, 2014

Detailed info
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Sonic Mmabolela






1st Annual Workshop/Residency for sound artists & composers

Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa
November - December 2013 / 2 weeks


Conceived and directed by  
Francisco López

Coordination and logistics by  
James Webb 


‘Sonic Mmabolela’ is a 2-week workshop/residency for professional and semiprofessional sound artists and composers with previous experience in the area of sound experimentation and field recordings. 
It takes place at Mmabolela Reserve, in the Limpopo province of South Africa, right at the border with Botswana. 
It involves field work, studio work and theoretical/discussion presentations. 
The workshop/residency has a special focus on creative approaches to the work with field recordings, through an extensive exploration of natural sound environments. It does not have a technical character but is instead conceived and directed towards the development and realization of projects of sonic creation by the participant artists/composers with the field recordings gathered.


Dates workshop/residency: November 19th - December 3rd, 2013
Deadline for registration: September 1st, 2013 [but open only until filling the limited maximum capacity of 12 participants]

Detailed info
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Links: 
Francisco López
James Webb

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Julia Kent + Parallel_°41




Naples-New York. So far apart. Parallel_°41.

Parallel_° does not exist. It is a broken line, never drawn all the way but only thought.. dreamt perhaps like in a mountebank's dream maintaining a precarious balance on a chimerical wire..."lived and forgotten".
Actually this line does exist on the maps. It indicates an illusory path without a point of departure, without a point of arrival.
Music arises out of the cues that landscapes suggest to us accidentally, like a spice surprisingly added to our usual ingredients.
Improvisatory performances therefore; the audio/video each time identified with the space and the atmospheres of this or that latitude, in a constant dialogue with the environment and the shapes that characterize it.


Parallel_°41 are:

Julia Kent: cello, looping
Barbara De Dominicis: electronics, voice, field recordings
+
Davide Lonardi: visuals, photo/video reportage, graphics


Julia Kent + Parallel_°41 @ Riot Studio, Napoli (Italy)


Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 7:30PM - Entrance: 8€
Riot Studio
Via S. Biagio dei Librai, 39
Napoli (Italy)
Contact: +39 081 790 1166


Info
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Links:
Parallel_°41
Julia Kent
Barbara De Dominicis
Davide Lonardi
Riot Studio

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Parallel_°41 (Julia Kent & Barbara De Dominicis)





Naples-New York. So far apart. Parallel_°41.

Parallel_° does not exist. It is a broken line, never drawn all the way but only thought.. dreamt perhaps like in a mountebank's dream maintaining a precarious balance on a chimerical wire..."lived and forgotten".
Actually this line does exist on the maps. It indicates an illusory path without a point of departure, without a point of arrival.
Music arises out of the cues that landscapes suggest to us accidentally, like a spice surprisingly added to our usual ingredients.
Improvisatory performances therefore; the audio/video each time identified with the space and the atmospheres of this or that latitude, in a constant dialogue with the environment and the shapes that characterize it.


Parallel_°41 are:

Julia Kent: cello, looping
Barbara De Dominicis: electronics, voice, field recordings
+
Davide Lonardi: visuals, photo/video reportage, graphics


Parallel_°41 @ Teatro Kismet, Bari (Italy)


Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 9:30PM - Entrance: 10€
Teatro Kismet "Aqua Vitae festival", Bari (Italy)
(special guest: Mirko Signorile)


Info / Booking:
Wakeupandream / Marco Stangherlin ph/+39 3497702287
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Links:
Parallel_°41
Julia Kent
Barbara De Dominicis
Davide Lonardi

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Activating The Medium XIV




Each year, 23five curates Activating The Medium around a specific theme that seeks to underscore the connectivity between artists working with various methods and materials. Previous festivals have explored field recording, mimesis, the architectural impact from sound, and many other concepts and themes.
The 2011 festival explores the use of radio through composition and new media presentation. Looking back to the seminal works of Stockhausen, Cage, and Tenney through the culture jamming theatrics of Negativland and into the psychological minimalism of John Duncan, radio has served an invaluable and expressive tool within the continued history of avant-garde composition.
Hence, 23five will present works including Richard Garet's grey-noise constructions mined from radio interference and electromagnetic disturbances and Byron Westbrook's multichannel diffusion of live transmission and reception of radio signals.


Activating The Medium XIV : Radio

Chapter One

Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7:00pm
San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Richard Garet (New York)
Jim Haynes & Allison Holt
(Berkeley)

presented in conjunction with SFCinematheque


Chapter Two
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 8:00pm
The Lab, San Francisco, CA 94103

Wobbly (San Francisco)
Ensemble Economonique
(Arcata, California)
Robert Piotrowicz
(Poland)
Thomas Carnacki
(Berkeley)

made possible with the generous support of the Polish Cultural Institute


Chapter Three
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 8:00pm
The Lab, San Francisco, CA 94103

Gregg Kowalsky (Oakland)
Vertonen
(Chicago)
Byron Westbrook
(New York)
Zachary James Watkins
(Oakland)

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Links:
23five
The Lab

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Live/Film





Live/Film: Richard Garet with Kamran Sadeghi + David Linton


New York artist Richard Garet presents an evening of sound and light works by himself, Kamran Sadeghi and David Linton.
The three make audio-visual art using analog and digital means to create both music and video simultaneously, presenting pieces that contrast while complementing each other.
According to Garet, this will be a night ‘with a strong emphasis on process, light as material, concreteness, kinetics, and physically of both sound and light.’


January 14, 2011, 7:00 pm
International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater
3701 CHESTNUT STREET | PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104 USA
phone: 1.215.895.6530| fax: 1.215.895.6562

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Links:
International House Philadelphia
Richard Garet (web) (myspace)
Kamran Sadeghi

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Areal




Issue Project Room in conjunction with 23five Incorporated presents:

AREAL (2010)

A new work by ISSUE PROJECT ROOM Artist-in-Residence
Richard Garet

This upcoming presentation anticipates the publication of Richard Garet's Areal by 23Five Incorporated in early 2011. It is not only the first time that this composition is being presented but also the starting point for this performance installation. Garet will utilize fog to fill the Issue Project Room's performance area and an overhead projector will display colored light and activate the atmospheric space by changing over time color dynamics. The projector will be directing light to the floor creating a cone of light. The visitors will find themselves inside of the work actively listening and viewing. This piece will emphasize the experiential, the sensorial, and the active-reception of the body and mind.




Areal as a composition, is a work that focuses on surfaces, gestures, differences, and distances among material and its phenomenology. It focuses on activating and amplifying expressive sonic manifestations of electromagnetic waves utilizing radio technology. All sounds used to make this piece emerged from interacting with objects, exciters, and extended techniques to activate sounds within the perimeter of the working table space. The outcome emerged from physical modulations and from establishing relationships that simulate social and spatial interactivity in the form of conversation, where what is voiced out is the result of colliding effects that are vacuumed by electromagnetic receivers from within the atmosphere of the working area.

Richard Garet works interweaving multiple media including moving image, sound, live performances, and photography. He completed his MFA at Bard College, and was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Grant in 2006. He currently has an artist residency at Issue Project Room, NY, and previously completed a residency at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona in 2006. Recent exhibitions and performances include: Never Can Say Goodbye at the former Tower Records store; Sonochrome: an exhibition of recent works by Richard Garet, at the Public Trust Gallery, Dallas, Texas; Leervoll, Diapason Gallery; and previous exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Biennial Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; el Museo del Barrio, NYC; and more. His sound compositions have been published through sound based labels such as And-Oar, Non Visual Objects, Winds Measure Recordings, Unframed Recordings, Con-V, Leerraum, White_Line Editions, and Contour Editions. Additionally Garet currently directs the independent media label Contour Editions publishing works that explore the various possibilities of sound and light. Garet also co-curates with Louky Keijsers Koning, the monthly performance event LMAKseries, which integrates film, video, sound art, and media performance into the gallery's mission at LMAK Projects in the L.E.S, NYC.


November 20, 2010, 8:00 p.m - FREE
Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215


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Links:
Residency page
IPR Profile
IPR Interview
23five
Richard Garet (web) (myspace)