WAVEGUIDES – a sound site-specific installation in GAMU

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Subject guarantor:

Sara Patrícia DA SILVA PINHEIRO

Name of lecturer(s):

Sara Patrícia DA SILVA PINHEIRO

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The participant of the workshop will gain first of all new first-hand know-how regarding the fundamentals of site- specific approach. Second of all, the workshop will demonstrate that when it comes to sound site-specificity, it is not just a matter of “going there” and “record the space”. On the contrary, there is a study of the space to be done and a strategy to be defined. In that sense, this proposal aims at changing the general idea that field- recording is a rather simple technique. In fact, it is a technique that needs development, practice and dedication. The participants will be encouraged to develop their own situated approach.

Mode of study:

hands-on, practice on site

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No previous experience required.

Course contents:

1. Site-specific installation/Site-responsive

2. Particularities of space

-acoustic properties and spatial dimensions,

-physical infrastructure,

-entanglement with surrounding (social, political, economic, cultural and technological)

3. Site-extractions/Recycling noises

4. Radio transmission & sound recording

Recommended or required reading:

- Spaces Speak, are you listening? By Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter

Assessment methods and criteria:

Capturing, processing and spatially distributing sound waves and inaudible vibrations (infra-/ultrasound) transmitted through different physical media (physical structures and air/ether) in GAMU.

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Note:

Donia Jourabchi (BE) is a sound explorer of contextual relations between body and space within the materiality of sound — an experimental approach towards a spatial practice of sound by designing spatial and sonic trategies that can be potential mechanisms of engaging the social within the physical space. She was involved in numerous collaborations, such as sound system design, public interventions, experimental music, dance and choreography, electroacoustic sound techniques and improvisation, sound registration, spatial amplification, installations and compositions, self-made instruments, radiophonic art, and graphic design. Her works question situated knowledges manifested in the physicality of sound, reflecting on the social conditions in the context-dependent and community-based articulation of site-specificity.

Taufan ter Weel (NL) is a sound explorer of contextual relations between body and space within the materiality of sound — an experimental approach towards a spatial practice of sound by designing spatial and sonic strategies that can be potential mechanisms of engaging the social within the physical space. She was involved in numerous collaborations, such as sound system design, public interventions, experimental music, dance and choreography, electroacoustic sound techniques and

improvisation, sound registration, spatial amplification, installations and compositions, self-made instruments, radiophonic art, and graphic design.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
11.04.2018		09:00–20:00	Sara Patrícia DA SILVA PINHEIRO		Lecturers: Donia Jourabchi and Taufan ter Weel. GAMU April 11-17	paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans: