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19 March 2023Expanded Listening, Sonic Performance and Soundscape
A workshop on sound exploration, making and co-creation
Coordination: BLIP (Yorgos Stenos, Yorgos Stavridis)
Duration: 30 hours
Hours: 10.00 – 14.00 & 17.00 – 19.00
Language: English, Greek
18 - 24 August
(18.8 arrival date / 24.8 departure date)
This workshop is a sonic exploration of the imperceptible and an experiment with the limits of the unheard. It focuses on musical creation through soundwalks, performance, making and active listening, uncovering the latent sound potential of our natural and artificial environment.
Using DIY microphones we will listen to microscopic and underwater sounds, chemical processes and changes in states of matter as well as geophysical and anthropogenic radio waves. We will focus on their characteristics and how they can define collective ways of musical interaction through graphic and verbal scores, improvisation, rule-based systems and group compositions.
By collecting and combining materials and objects we will make sculptural speakers and create a site-specific performance/installation. An imaginary sonic ecosystem where essential for the survival of each species is to be able to hear and be heard, each having their own place in the crowded soundscape.
We invite individuals of any background and discipline, interested in exploring sound through an explorative, experimental, experiential and playful approach.
BLIP
BLIP are Yorgos Stenos and Yorgos Stavridis. Together they explore the inherent sound potential of materials, objects and electronic circuits through making, on-site action and improvisation. Their communal musical practice focuses on gesture, texture, timbre and rhythm within a spatial, perceptual and physical approach, while addressing the relations between activities of listening, improvising and composing as inseparably connected and reciprocal. Τhey are both members of the experimental group Trigger Happy, KeDiMouRa collective and Loskop.radio radio platform.