[microsound-announce] Fifth Wall Sound Art Workshops @ LAK Festival Copenhagen

[Derek Holzer]

Feel like listening closer to the sounds of your surroundings or making 
audio interventions and sound art installations in the city? Do you want 
to build your own sound box, an acoustic computer or sew your own 
synthesizer? Or feel like loosing yourself in audio improvisation and 
intuitive composition or transforming old toys into unique instruments 
with a soldering iron? Then read on!

LAK Festival for Nordic Sound Art 2013 proudly presents 8 different 
workshops directed by acknowledged Nordic sound artists. Internationally 
acknowledged sound artist Derek Holzer (US/DE) has curated the workshop 
series The Fifth Wall, which are workshops inspired by the concept of 
“the fourth wall”. The so-called fourth wall signifies the imaginary 
wall between a stage and the spectators: the expression derives from the 
idea that action on stage takes place in a room with four walls, where 
the wall turned towards the spectators is invisible. Artists today often 
try to break the fourth wall, for instance by involving the spectators 
in the action on stage to play an active part in the performance.

Curator Derek Holzer uses the expression the fifth wall to describe the 
boundary between members of the audience, when they share an artistic 
experience at a festival. The workshops in The Fifth Wall-series focus 
on the possibility of breaking the fifth wall through creative 
co-operation between festival participants at LAK. His workshops give 
you food for thought about the role the fifth wall between us plays in a 
world, where practically everybody has the chance of becoming 
independent and individual digital art producers.

The workshops emphasize participatory situations, which transform the 
festival participants from passive recipients into active creators of 
sound art. The concepts “artist” and “wall” will be dissolved and the 
responsibility of presenting the results of the workshop will be given 
to the participants themselves.

http://www.lakfestival.dk/workshops.php?l=en

WORKSHOPS/ARTISTS:

Sensing Sonospace/John Grzinich (EE)
Circuit Bending Pavilion/CEO Bendorama (DK)
Acoustic Laptops/Tore Honoré Bøe (NO/ES)
Creative Improvisation for Untraditional Instruments/Christian Skjødt (DK)
Sonic Interventionism/Mads Bech Paluszewski-Hau (DK)
Electro Squeak Club/Kristina Andersen (DK/NL)
SoundBoxes/Derek Holzer (US/DE)
Syntjuntan/Ann Rosén & Lise-Lotte Norelius (SE)

Workshop registration is now open via the LAK Festival page!--
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