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Tactile Noise May 7th, 10am – 7pm
workshop on low-tech
touch-reactive synthesizers.
In this workshop participants built a small noise machine able to produce a variety unexpected tones and textures, depending on the position, humidity and pressure of the fingers touching the instrument's contact-points.
By the end of the
workshop, participants took home an instrument guaranteed to
put and end to the peace of canine, feline and human cohabitants, and a basic knowledge of electronics and circuit
building.
All ages and levels
of experience were welcomed.
About the workshop
leader:
André Castro (b.1983)
is a sound artist from Lisbon, graduated in Sonic Arts at Middlesex
University, where he studied, among others, with Salomé Voegelin,
John Dack, Thor Magnusson and Martin Robinson. He started his
artistic education in 2001 in the areas of contemporary dance and
performance arts at the performative arts centre c.e.m-centro em
movimento (Lisbon); since then he has been a regular collaborator of
this space.
André’s
practice has been shifting between two different universes. On the
one hand, the computer music world, with its meditative textures,
harsh noisy sounds, blips, and experiments with custom-built software
with SuperCollider. On the other hand, a phonographic activity,
in which he goes out with a microphone trying to capture the
incredible aural diversity of our world and the voices and stories
that hide in each person. Most of André’s work has in common the
evasion of visual elements, an acousmatic sound that aims to subvert
the dominance of the vision over the other senses. In recent
years he has nourished a growing interest for the radiophonic medium,
which has become a fruitful source of inspiration and for which he
has been creating pieces for 3 years.
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