[microsound-announce] February Live Electronics Workshop, London UK

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Call & Response presents:

Converging Objects

A set of workshops for musicians who improvise and use live electronics with
Robert van Heumen & Anne La Berge

11th & 12th February, 10am-5pm

Venue: 113 Dalston Lane, London. E8 1NH

Cost: £120

Converging Objects is a hands-on workshop aimed at acoustic musicians who
improvise and
use live electronics, those who play with other musicians using electronics,
or musicians and
programmers who improvise and work with acoustic players.

Participants will explore ways to use technology as an intimate and/or
integrated partner for
acoustic instruments, designing hybrid or purely electronic instruments and
ways in which
to engage and integrate performers bodies as real-time creative forces. The
focus will be on
improvising skills as well as developing approaches to using live
electronics.
It is anticipated that the range of participants using electronics will
encompass those just simply
amplifying themselves to those using sophisticated computer programs.
Software explored will include Abelton Live, Max/MSP, LiSa and,
Supercollider.

No previous experience of coding or use of programming environments is
necessary.

The course will conclude with a performance by participants and Anne and
Robert.

Bookings:

Please e-mail to hello at callandresponse.org.uk to reserve a place. We will
then e-mail you
payment instructions.

Please note places are limited to 15 and should be booked well in advance.
Participants should
bring their own laptops and instruments.

Information about the artists:

Robert van Heumen uses the laptop combined with various controllers to
create sound worlds.
As musician he uses STEIM's live sampling software LiSa and realtime
audio-syntheses software
SuperCollider controlled by MIDI controllers and a joystick. Van Heumen is
performing regularly
with Shackle (with electro-flutist Anne LaBerge), ABATTOIR (with
cellist/vocalist Audrey Chen),
the audio-visual trio SKIF++ (with Jeff Carey & Bas van Koolwijk) and
Davis/VanHeumen (with
bass clarinetist Gareth Davis). He worked for 9 years at the Studio for
Electo-Instrumental Music
(STEIM) in Amsterdam as project manager, curator of the Local Stop concert
series and member
of the artistic committee.

Anne La Berge's career as flutist/improviser/composer stretches across
international and
stylistic boundaries. Her most recent performances bring together the
elements on which
her international reputation is based: a ferocious and far-reaching
virtuosity, a penchant for
improvising delicately spun microtonal textures and melodies, and her wholly
unique array of
powerfully percussive flute effects, all combined with electronic
processing.

http://www.annelaberge.com
http://www.hardhatarea.com

http://www.callandresponse.org.uk
http://www.113dalstonlane.com
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