Open Call: "Creative exploration: co-creation in the digital era"
Open Sound Performance Workshop @ Festival BLAUES RAUSCHEN
06.06.2024 – 08.06.2024 in Essen
Submission deadline: 08.04.2024
Announcement of participants: 18.04.2024
Workshop days: 06. - 08.06.2024
Final performance: 08.06.2024
Location: Grillo-Theater, Theaterplatz 11, 45127 Essen
Day 1: Get together / gear check / thematic introduction
Day 2: Composition and collaboration
Day 3: Run-through and public live performance
This year's Blaues Rauschen workshop offers artists, coders, dancers and musicians the opportunity to explore the possibilities of co-creation, open innovation and user-generated content. The focus is on self-confident machines, analog and digital synthesizers and current social discourses. Under the direction of Sarah Belle Reid, a 20-minute performance will be developed over the course of three days.
Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have led to autonomous systems being able to make decisions on their own. While this can improve efficiency and comfort, there are also concerns that humans could lose control over critical processes.
The workshop will therefore focus on the following questions:
- how much freedom is left for our own creative ideas in a world dominated by technology?
- how can we accept the momentum and unforeseen output of technical tools and integrate them into our creative work?
The workshop offers the opportunity to explore innovative approaches and discover new ways of artistic expression together. Participants will delve into the realm of collaborative composition and make use of the unpredictable reactions of sound tools. Modular synthesizers and radical circuits, sound plug-ins and algorithms gone wild, bizarre glitch and harmonic noise can merge into an innovative performance.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have gained valuable insight into the possibilities of co-creating compositions using technological tools, as well as practical experience in integrating unpredictable machine responses into their creative process. Sarah Belle Reid will demonstrate and share some of her skills and experiences with electronics, algorithms and musical expression.
Date: 06.-08.06.2024
Location: Rehearsal stage/room in the Grillo-Theater, Theaterplatz 11, D - 45127 Essen
Participants can bring own equipment if required.
Who can apply:
- Musicians/composers
- Coders
- Dancers
- Video artists
8 Participants will be chosen from all applications. From 06.-08.06 we can supply rooms in a nice hostel nearby.
A daily expense rate of € 50,- will also be provided.
And of course you will get gree admission to all festival events.
We are really looking forward to exciting applications and some great experience together at BLAUES RAUSCHEN.
About the artist:
Sarah Belle Reid is a performer and composer playing trumpet, modular synthesizers and handmade electronic instruments. She explores the intersections between contemporary classical music, experimental and interactive electronics, visual art, noise music and improvisation. Reid holds a doctorate in musicology from the California Institute of the Arts. Her research focuses on the development of new electronic instruments and musical notation systems as interfaces for the exploration of temporal perception and co-creation. She also teaches online courses for professional and amateur musicians in sound synthesis and electroacoustic composition. https://sarahbellereid.com
