Purpose
Experimental Sound Studio is shifting its approach to education. This summer, we’re starting a new series of workshops focused on exploratory artistic process and direct creativity, led by local and visiting artists with extensive experience in a range of creative approaches to sound. These will be supplemented by a new initiative to offer individual tutorials on technical and production subjects: one-on-one sessions with experienced artist-engineers that can be scheduled at your convenience year round.
Upcoming Workshops
Writing through Voice
hosted by Lynn Book
Saturday May 31, 2008
1 PM - 4 PM
$90 / $80 for members and full-time students
This workshop with vocalist and intermedia artist Lynn Book is for performers, writers, poets, vocalists, and anyone interested in exploring dynamic relationships between text and voice. It will focus on the relationship of ‘voiced bodies’ to language production. The burden of ‘making sense’ in writing and speaking – especially through shopworn narrative structures and imperatives for efficient communication – often delimits imagination. When ‘voiced bodies’ are engaged, there is a new indeterminacy at play challenging the stability of rules and roles of words, meaning and being. We will explore short-circuiting, shock as well as surplus methods through vocal and writing improvisations aimed at plumbing distances between impulse, feeling, image and utterance. Writing becomes physical, voicing becomes textual, and the immediate and unpredictable circulation makes possible new assemblages of desire in the making.
Lynn Book has a vibrant stream of interdisciplinary artistic practice that traverses boundaries between performance art, dance, theater, language and new music forms. Her belief that a rigorous creativity is the most essential ingredient in the vitality and sustainability of contemporary culture has led her to develop dynamic programs and projects based on her engaged interdisciplinary approach to teaching, such as Voicelab, an educational and cultural center in New York, 1999-2005. Her performance work has received citations, fellowships and awards from the Franklin Furnace Fund and New York Foundation for the Arts among others, and she has performed internationally, including Roulette, NY, Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Bourges, France and Vienna, Austria. Lynn lived and worked in Chicago for many years, then relocated New York in 1995; currently, she lives in Winston-Salem, NC where she is Visiting Associate Professor in Theatre and Dance and Program Director for Creativity and Innovation for the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts at Wake Forest University. She also serves on faculty with the Transart Institute, an international low-residency MFA program in new media based in Europe.
General Public:
ESS Members and Full-Time Students:
Tutorials
$175 / $150 for members and full-time students.
ESS offers hands-on, one-on-one tutorials year-round. Each tutorial is 4 hours in length, and can be scheduled to best fit the schedule of the participant and the instructor. We offer tutorials in Pro-Tools, Recording and Mixing, and Max/MSP. Please contact us if you would like a tutorial in another field, and we will try to find a suitable instructor.
Previous Workshops include:
Improvised Music Workshops (conducted by members of the Peter Brotzman Tentet), Studio Composition and Recording Studio Uses and Abuses (conducted by Michael Zerang), Radio Documentary Production for Beginners (in association with the Third Coast International Audio Festival), Max/MSP & Jitter (in association with Cycling 74), Circuit Bending, Microphone, Mixing, and many more.
