BUGS(Z) International workshop on audio documentaries

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
300MBUGS credit 6 180 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 15 to 45 hours of self-study English winter

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Johana OŽVOLD, Martin OŽVOLD

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BUGS(Z) (Short stories expressed by sound)

International workshop on audio documentaries in cooperation with universities ENS Louis-Lumière, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Film and Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).

Bugs around us: ants, spiders and flies, or system bugs, glitches and noises. Short documentaries about living in metaphors and audio adventures that play with language or with words that have a meaning different from what they normally mean.

Five students from each of the three universities from different departments, five groups of participants and five short audio documentaries (with maximum duration of 10 minutes each). Students in master’s programmes will be preferred. Participants will be grouped into teams where each team will have one student from each country and from a different department, although if anyone prefers to work individually, this will also be possible. It is all about communicating with the people involved. There will be five audio shorts, thematically linked, so that together they form a larger whole.

Virtual activity (designed as as joint and in-person classes):

October 4th 09:30 – 11:30 Welcome and introduction, each student (15) & professor presents her/himself, presentation of the BIP project & the topic, discussion on the topic, each professor is presenting a piece of work she/he likes (15min each)

October 11th 09:30 – 11:30 Different basic structures of storytelling focusing on diary and technique In-camera editing, listening “Wochenende” (1930, Walter Ruttman, length: 11min), listening Christo's choice, FAMU students individual presenting the audio ideas (each has 5min), AUTH students individual presenting the audio ideas (each has 5min), ENSLL students individual presenting the audio ideas (each has 5min)

October 18th 09:30 – 11:30 ENSLL students individual presenting the micro-projects (each has 5min), AUTH students individual presenting the micro-projects (each has 5min), FAMU students individual presenting the micro-projects (each has 5min), “Grizzly man” by Werner Herzog, scene when director listening the tape – video, space for Alan's choice and talk about iconic piece Iam sitting in the room by Alvin Lucier FAMU

November 22nd 09:30 – 11:30 masterclass, lecturer Fréderique Pressmann, title: Writing with Sounds + Q&A

November 29th 14:00 – 16:00 masterclass, lecturer Ariana Martinez, title: The Lake's Deepest Point: sound, the environment, and you + Q&A

December 13th 09:30 – 11:30 masterclass, lecturer Seán Street, title Sound, Silence and the Imagination: the Poetics of Active Listening + Q&A

December 20th 09:30 – 11:30 discusion on the progress of the 5 projects

Physical activity:

13 – 17. January 2025 at FAMU

one week in Prague. This face-to-face activity of the project focuses on networking and teamwork: brainstorming, editing, developing the final narration, recording the voice-over and fine tuning – all done together. The final presentations will be held as an event at FAMU in Prague.

Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) BUGS (Short stories expressed by sound) CODE NR.: 2024-1-CZ01-KA131-HED-000198358-2.

Lecturers:

Alan Blum / ENS Louis-Lumière, France

Musician and sound engineer. In 2001, in collaboration with Pascal Rueff and other sound engineers, he founded “OmniHead”. This association focuses on the then little-known binaural sound recording technique, and explores the sensation of natural feel or illusion of sound offered by this technique through a variety of mediums and sound creations. His productions were featured in the first editions of the “Longueurs d'Ondes” radio and listening festival in Brest. These experiments led him to join acoustic research teams at IRCAM and LIMSI-CNRS, working on sound spatialization techniques. His collaborations with Brian Katz, Olivier Warusfel and Rozenn Nicol focus on the development of immersive 3D audio techniques, and on the perceptual aspects of spatial hearing. Since 2011, he has been teaching “audio techniques” in the Sound Master Programme at ENS Louis-Lumière, and coordinating the “Sound Arts” and “Sonorisation” options. He is committed to bridging the gap between work in research laboratories and sound work “in the field”.

Eric Urbain / ENS Louis-Lumière, France

Sound Master coordinator at ENS Louis-Lumière. 
I started working for Radio France during my studies. At the same time, I recorded and directed classical music albums for various labels. My work as a sound recordist also took me to television as a chief operator, first at SFP and then at France Télévision. I currently teach stereophonic sound recording and documentary and radio fiction production at ENS Louis-Lumière. My work in sound brings me to collaborate regularly with radio directors such as Frédérique Pressmann and Charlotte Rouault.

Christos Goussios / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Film, Greece

Christos Goussios was born in Thessaloniki in 1973. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, AUTh and he received his PhD from the Department of Architecture, AUTh. He is teaching sound and music classes in the School of Film since 2005, where he is an associate professor. He has worked on the sound and sound design and also on the composition, performance and recording of music for short films, feature films, TV series, theater plays and podcasts. He has won two Iris Awards for Best Sound from the Hellenic Film Academy (2019, 2024). He is the head of sound at the studio Panorama the Sound of Film.

https://panoramafilmsound.com/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4038372/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Thodoris Papadimitriou / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Film, Greece

Thodoris Papadimitriou is an awarded composer, conductor and cellist from Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of Aristotle University and holds a master’s in orchestral conducting from Hull University, UK. He teaches film music classes in the School of Film of Auth since 2020 as assistant professor. He composes music for feature and short films, animation, theatrical plays and also symphonic music for educational purposes for youth orchestras. He was the conductor of MOYSA, Thessaloniki Concert Hall Youth Orchestra from 2015 to 2022, he conducts the youth orchestras of Thessaloniki’s New Conservatory, and also the Choir of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki. As a cellist he has performed and recorded with many artists and composers. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6955376/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_thodoris%2520papa

Johana Ožvold / FAMU, Czech Republic

Johana Ožvold graduated from FAMU, Department of Directing. She continues her studies at FAMU in the doctoral programme. She regularly collaborates with the theatre scene and alternative spaces, performing in theatre as an actress, improviser, writer, musician or director. She has created a series of radio plays, documentaries and podcasts. Her artistic work crosses the boundaries between fiction and documentary. Her student films have won numerous awards at national and international festivals. Her first feature-length documentary project, The Sound is Innocent, premiered at IFF Visions du Reél in 2019, in competition with Burning Lights. The Sound is Innocent has been screened at a number of film and music festivals such as Sheffield Doc Fest, Revelation Perth or Mutek. She is currently working on a feature film which will be her debut with Bionaut Films. At the same time she is making two time-lapse documentaries about the visual arts with production company Nyasa Films.

Martin Ožvold / FAMU, Czech Republic

Martin Ožvold holds a PhD in Composition from the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno. His work spans scoring, sound design for films, sound installations, radio, and podcasts.

He studied electroacoustic composition with Prof.Jonty Harrison and Prof. Scott Wilson at the University of Birmingham (MA), Sound Arts at the University of Middlesex London (BA Hons), Sound Engineering at the SAE Institute London (DipHE), and completed a one-year postgraduate research internship at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal College of Arts in The Hague. At FAMU Prague, he teaches sound art in the context of multimedia production. His scientific interests and research are the cultural history of sound design and electroacoustic sound production, the history of electronic music, and, last but not least, the methodology of teaching sound production and popularizing audio culture.

He works closely with Danish radio documentarist Brit Jensen. Their collaboration has been winning nominated at numerous international audio festivals, including

Third Coast International Audio Festival Chicago, Prix Marulic, Prix Europe or Prix Bohemia Radio. His most notable and acclaimed artistic achievements include music and sound design for the play Holly Roth for the Slovak National Theatre, improvisation with the Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research, and sound concept, music, and screenplay for The Sound Is Innocent, directed by his wife, Johan Ožvold.

Learning outcomes

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Evaluation methods and criteria

80% attendance at virtual and physical activity.

Proof of attendance by attendance sheets: attendance sheets from virtual activity and signing the attendance sheets during the phycical activites.

Note

Contact persons: Johana OŽVOLD, svarco02@st.amu.cz , Andrea PETROVIČOVÁ, andrea.petrovicova@famu.cz , +420 234 244 339

Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:

Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
04.10.2024 09:30–11:30 Johana OŽVOLD
Martin OŽVOLD
Classes dates according to the syllabus. Module for pre-selected students only. lecture parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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