AJ Cornell Fili 周 Gibbons Hybrid Sound Creation Systems for Multidisciplinary Performances and Environments
© AJ Cornell / Fili 周 Gibbons
This training program is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Quebec government, via the Intervention-Compétences program, managed by Compétence Culture, and REPAIRE.
The cost of the training is $130 + tax.
Requirements
- Be a professional artist, creator or cultural worker
- Have experience working with sound creation and production. The workshop is conceived for intermediate or advanced participants.
- Commit to be present at all stages of training.
The workshop aims to share knowledge of audio art applied to performance and the construction of soundtracks for multidisciplinary environments. The aim is to equip participants with basic technical knowledge of signal processing and audio connectivity. As a result, they will be able to design and set up their own sound production systems in order to create a stand-alone work, a hybrid audio performance, or a soundtrack for theatre, dance, live video, film and more.
This workshop deals with sound as a raw material and a source of ideas for purely sound or multidisciplinary creations. It uses methodologies that aim to demystify the field of sound through an approach that is rooted in play. There will be exploration and development of a personal toolbox for creation privileging tactile manipulation, and the design of physical, portable and modular systems. The workshop will conclude with a series of presentations of current projects or those developed during the workshop in the form of performances, installations and listening sessions.
Co-creative work sessions will integrate the design of compositional systems conducive to DIY broadcast architectures, with a view to sound ecology. Over the course of 24 hours of training, we'll cover the following topics:
- Creating your own sound workspace (positioning of loudspeakers, soundboards, acoustic divisions, etc.)
- Discovering methodologies for the genesis of compositions: chance operations, using text as a starting point, moodboards, improvisation, soundwalk, sound meditation
- Creating a spatial composition scenario with elements from the sound dispositif, including activation of sound objects, voices, real-time signal processing, loopers, delays, samplers, etc.
- Sound consoles: gainstaging structure, auxiliaries, equalization, outputs to different destinations and broadcast loudspeakers
- Experimenting with any combination of electronic, mechanical or acoustic connections
- Working with graphic scores, videotapes, soundtrack recording and accompaniment devices using Ableton Live software.
The workshop is conceived for intermediate or advanced participants.The workshop will be given in French, but all instructors are bilingual and can answer questions in English.
© AJ Cornell / Fili 周 Gibbons
AJ Cornell is a sound artist and musician. Improvisation and happenstance reside at the core of her sound practice that seeks to create moments of suspended time and infinite possibility. Cornell is a member of Le fruit vert, a hymnotic duo founded with Marie-Douce St-Jacques in 2011. She composes and mixes soundtracks for experimental films, videos and moving image installations for Allison Moore, Sabrina Ratté, Mike Rollo, and Erin Weisgerber. Holding an MA in Media Studies, with a focus on soundscape and acoustic communication, Cornell has hosted dozens of hands-on sound-centric workshops in community and art spaces. An active member of Montreal’s experimental music scene from 2007-2015, Louisville Kentucky from 2015-2020, she is currently based in Portland, Maine.
Fili 周 Gibbons (we / you / they) are a musician and sound engineer of mixed Chinese and Canadian ancestry based in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. Their artistic practice is a synthesis of cello performance, audio creation, embodiment, and traditional memory systems — employing these as potencies for the expression of plural identities, and the transmission of cultural memory. Drawing from many years of practice in cello performance, improvisation and audio production, they frequently collaborate across genres with artists Canada and abroad. Deepening their connection to sound further through recording studies (M. Mus, McGill University), they founded the audiovisual production company Studio Apothicaire in 2018 and continue to explore audio practice through a blend of professional projects, interdisciplinary collaborations, and community-oriented sound projects.
Stéphane Claude is an electronic_acoustic music composer, sound engineer, specialized consultant and sound designer. Since the birth of the New Media Laboratory, he is Head of Research of the Audio Sector at OBORO. His research focuses on the development and integration of conceptual and physiological structures in installation and performance contexts. His interests include the communication of formal and physical aesthetics as transductive experiences through digital audio processing, acoustics parameters and sound spaces.
