[Microsound-announce] Robert Lippok In Toronto Sept / Oct

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Sat Aug 25 21:36:34 EDT 2007


Robert Lippok Concert & Radio Play

Presented by The Goethe Institut Toronto & Yatra Arts

Thu, 4 Oct / 2007:

Robert Lippok (Berlin) on electronica in concert with Debashis Sinha (Toronto) on multi-percussion. Details to follow soon at www.goethe.de/toronto and via Yatra Arts.

Robert Lippok is one of the co-founders of Berlin cult electronica band To Rococo Rot, about to go into the studio to record their 6th album, afterthe international success of Veicolo and The Amateur View. He is a trained theatre set designer, currently designing "Tosca" at famed Volksbühne Berlin. Lippok, born in Berlin in 1966, is a sought-after solo performer and sound creator from Europe to Japan.

 Also credited to To Rococo Rot are collaborations on radio plays and composing a new soundtrack to Walter Ruttmann's classic Weekend. Ruttmann's (1887-1941) piece is a pioneering work from the early days of radio. In an 11 minute collage of words, music fragments and sounds, the filmmaker and media artist presented in 1930 an avant-garde and radically innovative radio piece: an acoustic picture of a typical Berlin weekend. 68 years later, To Rococo Rot sought acoustic equivalents to Ruttmann's elements. Their version is, in film terms, a remake, in musical terms a cover version, and at the same time an homage to Ruttmann and Berlin. Other artists working on this Weekend Remix radio art project were Toronto's John Oswald, British musician Mick Harris and New York's DJ Spooky. Last year Lippok was invited by Brown University, Providence, to lecture on radio plays and media art, based on Weekend and his drama-based pieces.

 To Rococo Rot create sound recordings for other artists, such as Olaf Nicolai (Bonn Kunstverein, 2000), Doug Aitken (Serpentine Gallery, London, 2001) and Takehito Koganezawa (Montevideo, Amsterdam, 2000). As a visual artist, Lippok's works consistently confront architectural spaces, e.g. participating in the exhibition Space to Face (Westfalen Kunstverein, Münster, 2004). Lippok had solo exhibitions at Wohnmaschine Gallery in 2003 (Field Recordings) and 2001 (Steady).

www.myspace.com/robertlippok 

www.myspace.com/torococorot



Theatre ? Radio ? Play!

A theatre/sound workshop and public presentation with Berlin electronica star Robert Lippok

Artist statement:

Since the early days of radio plays, many artists have been fascinated by the art form and have experimented with it in many different ways, taking it away from the narrative, from story telling to a multifarious, lively genre in its own right.

 In the 90s, German radio stations pushed the envelope further and invited young writers, DJs, theatre directors, and musicians to work together to bring spoken word, music and sound together. Boundaries faded away, and you started to hear the results of these fruitful collaborations in hipster clubs. Now, the radio play scene is big in Germany beyond the radio stations and has its own independent festivals around the country. And it has much to offer internationally

Workshop approach & objective

The workshop will take excerpts of Berlin playwright Rainald Goetz' play "Jeff Koons" (in an English translation) as its starting point. "Jeff Koons" is an ideal source material for the workshop because the text is open, fast, sharp, with very precise language. Old genre definitions do not apply to Goetz' work, an artist who came out of, then transcended Berlin's creative rave scene. We will create an audio piece of between 10-12 minutes. We will explore the possibilities the medium provides, experiment with language and sound, try out the impact of music and noise.  We will get to know different recording techniques from hifi to lofi, from studio recording to field recording, environments from the park to the club.

Methodology & technology

Our radio play will be recorded, mixed and mastered on one central Mac with Logic Pro software. The computer is the interface for the different elements: text passages, sound, music, ambient noise.The participants' creative input can be diverse: If you have sound editing experience and your own preferred software, bring your laptop along to feed into our setup. We will have a microphone for text recording. You can, but don't have to, bring your portable recording devices, e.g. an old dictation machine with its special sound quality.

Call to participants

The workshop is targeted at:

Theatre Artists (sound designers, directors, dramaturges) with some sound/music experience and

Sound and Radio Artists (ideally with theatre experience). The text will be provided to the participants in advance.

No major tech knowledge is necessary since this is a creation workshop, not a software training course (although you will certainly pick up a few new tech tricks along the way).

Program

Sat, 29 Sep, 11am-4pm

Introduction to turning cutting-edge contemporary drama into a sound art project. Discussion of Goetz and his play. Listening to some radio plays.  Finding out expectations, interests and talents of each workshop member. Brainstorming. Exploring Nuit Blanche at night. Making some recordings.

Sun, 30 Sep, 11am-4pm

Having a closer look at the text. Finding possible acoustic environments for it. Looking for a rhythmical structure. Listening to our recordings so far and recording some text.

Mon, 1 Oct, 10am-5pm

Working hard Part I.

Tue, 2 Oct, 10am-5pm

Working hard Part II.

Wed, 3 Oct, 11am-4pm

Working very hard Part III. Postproduction. Preparing the presentation.

Wed, 3 Oct, 6pm

Free public presentation of the radio play, and open discussion with Robert and the workshop participants.

Workshop and presentation venue

Hub 14 Performance Space, 14 Markham St., just north-west of Queen St. W. & Bathurst

www.hub14.org

Register early, space is very limited.

First come first served. Workshop fee: $80.

Contact

Jutta Brendemühl

Project Manager, Theatre & Literature

Goethe-Institut Toronto

Tel. +1 416 5935257-17

arts2 at toronto.goethe.org

Thanks to Yatra Arts and HUB14 for their support.


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