Kate Moore Music

Workshops

Day 1

Hearing the invisible world

Introductions
coffee break 11.30
Listening exercises
1) Survey
2) Mesostics
Lunch 13.30-14.30
Creative work and field work
1)discussion
2) Field work
3) presentations withgroup

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1) Introduction and 10’ presentation
2) Lecture – presentation of Klepsydra and Fern

3) Listening session and sonification exercise – SURVEY – active listening (it’s really fun!!😁I’ll be asking you to listen to music and then answer a survey which will then be used to create a sonification piece)

John Luther Adams: Songbird Song 

Jennifer Walsh: Site of an Investigation

Liza Lim: The Heart’s Ear

Laurie Anderson: O Superman

Meredith Monk: Songs of Ascension

4) Sonification project – warm up

Observe

Habit

Ritual

Movement

Emotion

Aesthetics

Repetition

Cycles

Design

Statistics

Environment

Sensory

People

Creatures

Plants

Sound

Material

Weather

Colour

Texture

Touch

Taste

Experience

4a) gathering in teams to discuss subjects and ways in which to create a performance/ composition by observing the subject
5) Afternoon field trip – Nature/ The City – sketch ideas about observations
6) presentation of ideas about subjects, data and ideas about how to make it audible

HOMEWORK: Reading one chapter of The Sonification Handbook by Thomas Hermann, Andy Hunt, John Neuhoff
Chapter 7 by Stephen Barrass and Paul Vickers
https://www.dropbox.com/s/22x8nr1smpt27ag/Hermann%2C%20Thomas%3B%20Hunt%2C%20Andy%3B%20Neuhoff%2C%20John%20G%20-%20The%20Sonification%20Handbook.pdf?dl=0

Day 2
1) Lecture – The Audience at the concertgebouw https://wordpress.com/settings/general/sonicdna.wordpress.com
2) Listening exercise 1 – music by John Luther Adams and Jennifer Walsh and other composers concerned with the environment, social habit and sonification
3) Discussion about sonification and its implication – using sound as a platform for social comment
4) field work – in teams or individuals – observe and collect information about your individual subjects
5) Discussion and presentation about each project with the group

Day 3
1) presentation about Space Junk
2) Listening exercise – students bring music to share with group that they have found or know that demonstrate some form of sonification
3) presentation about the surveys – a sonified presentation
4) presentation and performances of the creative projects and field of the students
5) discussion and evaluation