Sandra Volny Stéphane Claude Magali Babin Audio Art / Recent Investigations and Becoming of Sound Art 02
OBORO
Workshops (intermediate-advanced)
January 29, 30 and February 5, 6 and 12, 2020 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Registrations
From December 12, 2019 to January 28, 2020
What happens to sound art, audio art and sound installation which is deployed in multiple disciplines and constantly develops new tools to infiltrate new fields of research and creation?
In this workshop, we will look at recent history, current trends and particularly at the potential future of sound art with artist Sandra Volny.
Sound art is more present than ever in contemporary art biennials, public spaces, festivals and international exhibitions. it appears in many varied forms of performance, installation, sculpture, video or robotics.
What are the strategies, protocols and technologies implemented by artists working with sound and/or thinking their works through sound? What are the remanent and persistent traces that haunt artists’ practices in sound art and what types of experiences do they probe? What do these current sound art practices teach us about our relationship with the world, about the current issues that preoccupy the artists? Can we build a new type of collaborative creativity by listening in a collective and interdisciplinary way?
Through the diversity and multiplicity of points of view and hearing points of our guests, we will be guided by our ears, listening to the practices in sound arts from the recent past and the present and to the tracks of reflection and action that they induce for the near future.
These sessions will be accompanied by bibliographies and links prepared by the guests as well as a selection of audio works to listen in a fitted listening room.
Through the diversity and multiplicity of points of view and hearing points of our guests, we will be guided by our ears, listening to the practices in sound arts from the recent past and the present and to the tracks of reflection and action that they induce for the near future.
Emphasis will be placed on the following themes:
• What are the main actants (individuals and technologies) of audio art.
• The singularity of approaches from different countries in time, university research, the contribution of women, the inventions of the underground, the effects of the presences, the intuitive, animistic and spiritual practices.
• The intersectorality and interdisciplinarity that characterizes sound art practices.
• The sound space and the effects of sound art on audiences.
• The relationship between sound art, the environment and ecology through the physics of sound.
• Acoustic applications and transductions between physiology and electronics in sound art.
Guest artists:
4 sessions welcome guests specializing in different perspectives and approaches:
Magali Babin (Jan. 30), Jean-Pierre Aubé (Feb. 5), Anne-Françoise Jacques (Feb. 6), Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre (Feb. 12).
Number of participants: Minimum 8
Registration period: from December 12, 2019 to January 28, 2020
Call or email the New Media Lab: 514-844-3250, ext. 230 or lab@oboro.net.
Cost: $100 (taxes included)
* The workshop will be offered in French, both instructors are bilingual and will answer questions in English.
Prerequisites
– Be a professional artist, creator or cultural worker; this workshop is designed specifically for sound artists, architects, scenographers, sculptors and electronic musicians;
– Attend every workshop session;
– Be a self-employed worker or a salaried employee in an enterprise not subject to 1 % Training Investment. Two spots available for employees of companies that are subject to the 1% Law. Please contact us for more details.
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Workshop Cancellation
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Sandra Volny is an artist-researcher, founder of Sound and Space Research. Her research in contemporary and sound art has led her to develop and deepen, in the recent years, a set of theoretical works, artistic experiments and group workshops. She has led research groups in Chile, Greece and Canada in collaboration with artists, scientists, architects, anthropologists, choreographers and musicians.
Stéphane Claude is an electronic_acoustic composer and sound engineer. His research is based on integrating a conceptual and physiological framework of audio recording and sound installation for different diffusion contexts in the electronic arts.
Magali Babin is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice in sound art. Exploring space as sound material, Babin draws her materials from haptic proximities, acoustic landscapes, and real-life contexts to create environments composed of sequences, textures, and perspectives. Her works explore imperceptible aspects that create alertness and attention through listening. In recent projects, Babin has examined perception and memory by investigating the ways we identify sounds. Babin has performed in international festivals in Canada, USA, and Europe.
