KHM, Cologne 14-18 Dec 2009
I’ll be back in Cologne next week for my fellowship at KHM. Two lecture/workshops have been planned…
Tuned City:Sound+Architecture lecture
(Will Schrimshaw’s “Little Helpers”, photo by poportis)
11.00-13.00, Monday 14 December 2009
Klanglabor, KHM, Cologne
“Tuned City – Between sound and space speculation” was an exhibition and conference project taking place from July 01.-05. 2008 in Berlin which proposed a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the acoustic. In this lecture, we will see and hear some of the projects from the Tuned City event, as well as related projects covering the themes of Temporary Architecture for Sound, Buildings as Instruments and Composing the Cityscape. Following the lecture, from 14.00-18.00 the participants of the Materialize ISEA/Tuned City project will meet in a working group to discuss the projects and concepts shown.
The lecture is open to the public, however the working group is by arrangement with Materialize participants only.
Analog Synthesizer Workshop: Vocal Processing
(Frequency plot of Doepfer Vocoder module)
14.00-17.00 Thursday 17 December 2009
Klanglabor, KHM, Cologne
Building on the basic introductory workshop given in November, this special topic workshop will investigate using the Doepfer A-100 analog modular synthesizer for processing an external input–in this case the human voice. Modules such as the vocoder, ring modulator, envelope follower and various filters (voltage controlled & fixed frequency/equalizer) will be used to analyze and transform the sounds from a microphone. Previous knowledge of analog synthesizers, either from my earlier workshop or personal experience, is helpful since we will not spend much time explaining what was covered last time (voltage controlled oscillators, voltage controlled amplifiers, envelope generators, keyboards/sequencers, triggers/gates, etc etc).
Workshop instruction will be in English, and will be limited to 12 people. Preregistration required! Contact: derek AT THE DOMAIN umatic.nl
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