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