Category: Tools
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Workshop exercise: Gesture imitation
Gesture imitation; In pairs; B makes a gesture with one arm, while A watches and memorises; A now imitates B’s gesture. A and B swaps roles and repeat 1.1 and 1.2 Gesture imitation version B; enhanced by sound; Same drill as above, this time the gesture maker will accompany the gesture with sound, voice, hissing,…
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Barefoot Sound Kitchen
Composer Casper Hernández Cordes is facilitating three workshop, where you will be guided through a creative process working with sound as a means of expression. We are using sound recorded from the musicians in Barefoot Records, and will explore hitherto unheard combinations of sound. During the workshop we will create some unique composition, that you…
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All work and no play? Not anymore!
These are images and sounds from a street intervention in Cali, Colombia in June 2014 made by composer Casper Hernández Cordes during his time as an artist in residence in Lugar a Dudas. The performance concept “The Work and the Play” is build up in two parts: 1) WORK. In this part, a participant is…
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Telling a story through sound – a workshop concept for 0 – 3 grade
It’s a dilemma when working with sound as a means of expression, how to use the visual . It will almost always be a rather risky marriage – the visual being a very dominant partner, that tend to take control of the agenda. AT THE SAME TIME , we can use the visual as a lever…
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Bikestruharp, – former bike now instrument
A streetimprovisation using the bikestruharp, – a streetstrument build using bike parts. Related articles Help I’m a bike. Curate me ! (akutsk.wordpress.com) Construction site interacts musically with neighbors (akutsk.wordpress.com) Building streetstruments: paint-bucket-bass, drain-trombone and sewer-chimes (akutsk.wordpress.com)
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Ceci n’est pas une pub. This is not a commercial.
This qr code links to a recording of a street improvisation by ordinary passers by, facilitated by Akutsk, using the Anthropomorfer. Sound graffiti you may call it, I use the name fonografiti. When using a qr code, we embark on the colonisation of the still rather virginal web based virtual track of the street. Although…
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Building streetstruments: paint-bucket-bass, drain-trombone and sewer-chimes
First workshop: constructing streetstruments _ _ _ Second workshop: Collective improvisations on electrified streetstruments After the workshops: The streetstruments are left in their street, inspiring passers by to make their own street improvisations Related posts: Construction site interacts musically with neighbors Quotation: Lefebvre about the living disorder of the street The street sound activist’s toolkit
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Construction site interacts musically with neighbors
Concept: During a street art decoration of the wall around the local metro construction site, akutsk is making a ‘streetstrument’ workshop. The workshop is going to be in two parts: a streetstrument building workshop. In these weeks, I’m collecting debris from the construction. At the event August 11, these objects will be the material for…
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Giantophone
During my trip to Stockholm where I am participating in a workshop about forum theatre methods, I discovered this …. thing in the neighboring museum of modern art: a “Gigantophone”. Made of tubes, ladders, pieces of wood, this I-don’t-know-how-long instrument stood there, outdoors in a lawn, accessible to anyone. Of course I had to test…
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Anthropomorfer – a tool for intercontinental collective sound art improvisation?
The objective is to develop a web-based application, Anthropomorfer, allowing global sound art improvisation. Participants can record or select sounds, manipulate them, and collaborate remotely. Targeted use includes fostering creativity in children and enhancing communication in organizations. Users can save and discuss their collective improvisations online.
Building Sound Collectives 