<div>Call & Response presents:</div><div><br></div><div>Converging Objects</div><div><br></div><div>A set of workshops for musicians who improvise and use live electronics with</div><div>Robert van Heumen & Anne La Berge</div>
<div><br></div><div>11th & 12th February, 10am-5pm</div><div><br></div><div>Venue: 113 Dalston Lane, London. E8 1NH</div><div><br></div><div>Cost: £120</div><div><br></div><div>Converging Objects is a hands-on workshop aimed at acoustic musicians who improvise and</div>
<div>use live electronics, those who play with other musicians using electronics, or musicians and</div><div>programmers who improvise and work with acoustic players.</div><div><br></div><div>Participants will explore ways to use technology as an intimate and/or integrated partner for</div>
<div>acoustic instruments, designing hybrid or purely electronic instruments and ways in which</div><div>to engage and integrate performers bodies as real-time creative forces. The focus will be on</div><div>improvising skills as well as developing approaches to using live electronics.</div>
<div>It is anticipated that the range of participants using electronics will encompass those just simply</div><div>amplifying themselves to those using sophisticated computer programs.</div><div>Software explored will include Abelton Live, Max/MSP, LiSa and, Supercollider.</div>
<div><br></div><div>No previous experience of coding or use of programming environments is necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>The course will conclude with a performance by participants and Anne and Robert.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Bookings:</div><div><br></div><div>Please e-mail to <a href="mailto:hello@callandresponse.org.uk">hello@callandresponse.org.uk</a> to reserve a place. We will then e-mail you</div><div>payment instructions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please note places are limited to 15 and should be booked well in advance. Participants should</div><div>bring their own laptops and instruments.</div><div><br></div><div>Information about the artists:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Robert van Heumen uses the laptop combined with various controllers to create sound worlds.</div><div>As musician he uses STEIM's live sampling software LiSa and realtime audio-syntheses software</div>
<div>SuperCollider controlled by MIDI controllers and a joystick. Van Heumen is performing regularly</div><div>with Shackle (with electro-flutist Anne LaBerge), ABATTOIR (with cellist/vocalist Audrey Chen),</div><div>the audio-visual trio SKIF++ (with Jeff Carey & Bas van Koolwijk) and Davis/VanHeumen (with</div>
<div>bass clarinetist Gareth Davis). He worked for 9 years at the Studio for Electo-Instrumental Music</div><div>(STEIM) in Amsterdam as project manager, curator of the Local Stop concert series and member</div><div>of the artistic committee.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anne La Berge's career as flutist/improviser/composer stretches across international and</div><div>stylistic boundaries. Her most recent performances bring together the elements on which</div><div>
her international reputation is based: a ferocious and far-reaching virtuosity, a penchant for</div><div>improvising delicately spun microtonal textures and melodies, and her wholly unique array of</div><div>powerfully percussive flute effects, all combined with electronic processing.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.annelaberge.com">http://www.annelaberge.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.hardhatarea.com">http://www.hardhatarea.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.callandresponse.org.uk">http://www.callandresponse.org.uk</a></div>
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