Seminar Julia Eckhardt

Julia Eckhardt, born in Berlin, is altviolinist in the field of composed and improvised contemporary music. After her studies viola in Rotterdam and Brussels, she worked with several chamber music ensembles and was a member of the National Orchestra of Belgium. Since 1996 she is artistic responsible for Q-O2, first ensemble for contemporary experimental and improvised music and since 2006 workspace for music and soundart. Since 2001, Eckhardt is a member of Incidental Music (with Manfred Werder and Normisa Pereiera da Silva), an international ensemble for conceptual music. She lives and works in Brussels.   

Field Recordings: artistic use of environment sounds
-unpredictable and therefor in parallel with photography

History of recordings

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph
1877: First recording ever made 'Mary Had a Little Lamb
-people started to make recordings in studio's but field recordings was different they recorded field recordings of farmers and made composition
-the industrialization changed the sonic landscape very much
-sound composers tried to imitate the sound of machines
'Luigi Russolo - Veglio Di Una Citta'

Walter Ruttmann
'Berlin Symphony' - parallel of phonograph and photography
'Weekend' take the sound of one of his films and made some collages

Music Concrete

Sound artists:
Pierre Shaefler
Luc Ferrari
Hildegard Westerkamp
Annea Lockwood (soundsmaps -study in sociolofgy)
Bill Fontana
Kristina Kubish (electromagnetic soundrecordings)

Fluxus

George Brecht (polishing violin box)

Seminar Régine Debatty

Régine Debatty writes a blog called 'we make money not art' that includes interviews with artists, reports of festivals and art activities...

Gadget art:
Thomas Thwaites, The Toester Project.

Media Art:
Rafael Lozane Hemmer

Biothec Art
Tc & AP - Victimless leather jacket

Postopolis
BLDG BLOG
Book 'NEW ART/SCIENCE AFFINITIES'
(s)edition
neural

Art+Com, 1994
Joystick - trigger video, zoom in & out on maps..
Somethimes artist have ideas that might be adopted in the future.

Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension
Hack artist - 'shoot an iraqi'
He was shot 3000 times.

Contempory art:
Jeremy Deller, Baghdad, 5 march 2007
A car that was bombed during the war.
Wim Delvoye, Cloaca Original

Niklas Roy, Gallery Drive
Moking the art world and new media art.

Robotic art:
Rodrigo Derteano
Natalie Jeremijenko, Feral Robotic Dogs, 2006
Archangel Constantini, Nanodrizas
La Constrancia, Puebla, Mexico
France Cadet - ICB Robots
Frédéric Kaplan
Kevin Grennan, The Smell of Fear - The Smell of Control

Individual meeting - Jo huybrechts

Discussed artists:

Identity/places

Chantal Anne Akerman (born 6 June 1950) is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman was born to an observant Jewish family in Brussels, Belgium. Her grandparents and her mother were sent to Auschwitz; only her mother came back. This is a very important factor in her personal experience, and her mother's anxiety is a recurrent theme in her filmography.

Chantal Ackerman 'D'est'

 

Chantal Akerman, D’est (1993)

documentary, 35mm, color, 107 min.

Landscape films

James Benning (born 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker. Working as an independent filmmaker, Benning's films focus on a sense of place, and are often built from long, unedited takes. He used to work in Chicago but in recent years has been based on the West Coast. 

James Benning '13 Lakes'

Experimental

Frans Zwartjes is a very peculiar, extraordinary filmmaker. His film all seem to exist completely disconnected from the real world. While one can assume this is at least partially due to the fact that he almost exclusively shoots interiors, the few times that his camera deviates into the outside world his unique lens still shows the world in utter disconnect. I spent a weekend watching 14 of his films (thirteen shorts and one feature), and at the end I felt like I had experienced the uncanny. Often times while viewing a Zwartjes film one gets the feeling that they're not supposed to be watching the film, that their act of viewing is transcending simple voyeurism and actually attaining violation. And this is why Zwartjes is amazing.

Frans Zwartjes 'Spectator'

Seminar by Joost Fonteyne

Sound Art and the use of concrete sounds of the city.

Musique concrete or concrete music refers to sounds (objects, discrete sounds) derived from the world and from synthesis brought together into a collage or sound sculpture as a structure to be experienced through listening.

Pierre Henry is the inventor of concrete music.

Soundwalk Editions features artists and composers who use environmental field recordings as a point of departure in their work. By recording sounds outside of the conventional studio you are in the act field recording, audibly engaged with ears that gradually refine a sonic experience, like the eye looking through a camera lens. Field recording  is often synonymous with phonography, in which sound takes the place of image in documenting a location, physical act, or a natural occurrence. Drawing attention to the quality and experiential nature that can exist in the soundscapes of our environment, these works allow the viewer to have an intimate experience with the various compositional approaches practiced by each individual artist. Through listening to these recordings we have the opportunity to become aware of the various dialects that can exist in the language of field recording compositions.`

Joost Fonteyne:
'Sound become something 3 dimentional. 
It has an 'imaginary quality and a physicality.'

Binoral recordings are not exactly audio illusions in the sense that they do not ‘trick’ us into hearing sounds which are impossible or non existent. The recordings make it sound like you are actually there, in presence of what is making the sound. Binaural recordings are simply recordings of sounds using a special microphone setup which factors in the natural crossfeed and sonic shaping of the head and ear. This is what happens naturally when we hear a sound which is the reason why binaural recordings sound so realistic and immersive. Binaural recordings are only effective when listened to through stereo headphones.

Soundwalk artists:
Akio Suzuki
Christina Kubisch 'Binoral Recordings'
Janet Cardiff 'The Walk Book'
Bures Miller
Stephan Piat
David Helbich

Luc Ferrari composed works that have moved away, more or less, from purely musical preoccupations, some of which could be branches of the same tree - the problem being trying to express passing ideas, sensations and intuitions through different means, observing daily life in all its reality - social, psychological or sentimental - in the form of texts, instrumental scores, electroacoustical compositions, reports, stage works, etc.

Musique anecdotique est le nom donné au genre électroacoustique utilisant des sons reconnaissables plutôt pour leur aspect anecdotique ou narratif que pour leur potentiel abstrait. La première œuvre à porter ce son (Hétérozygote de Luc Ferrari).

Ferrari refers to as "anecdotal music," there are fragments of conversations, and other sounds and noises from nature and daily life presented in an organized and poetic, although non-plot oriented manner. He used three types of recordings:
- specific recordings in certain places
- used recordings of interviews with young women
- electronic sounds that he never used and he found it interested to combine with the other two kind of recordings

Luc Ferrari 'Unheimlich schön'

 

Chris Watson 'El Tren Fantasasma'

 

Jacob Kirkegaard 'Church'

 

At first time it is a kind of monotome sound but within this sound of undergrond tone there is something happening

First merging the sound of two cities. The story about Bill Fontana.

Heterozigot means having two different alleles (one dominant, one recessive) of a gene pair or bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring. 

A heterozigot sound refers to bring together things that do not match at all at first sight.

Joost Fonteyne:

'In sound you are able to create your own habitat, your own universe.'

Dominique Petitgand is a composer specialized in experimental and concrete Music. He has combined his musical aspects with visual works.

Dominique Petitgrand’s work looks diferent depending on the way it is diffused: Released music, sound installations or concerts in darkness. He defines his productions as “stories and mental landscapes”. His work is thus the result of the constuction, the cut and the mix of recorded voices, silences, breaths and music. He plays with the joint of elements creating a succesion of mental representations. 'Exhalaisons (Ville)'

Derek Jarman 'Blue'

Blue is at once Jarman’s most moving film and his most experimental and idiosyncratic. Visually, the film comprises of nothing more than a blue matt screen, over which Nigel Terry, John Quentin, Swinton and Jarman himself read passages from his diaries that poetically trace his struggle with AIDS, his increasing blindness, the loss of friends and loved ones to the disease and his own impending death. Blue actually began as a proposed project about the painter Yves Klein, whose monochrome paintings, often contemplations of pure blue, Jarman greatly admired. However, as Jarman’s health and sight deteriorated, the project began to evolve into something at once far more personal and universal. On one level, he simply lacked both the stamina and the eye-sight to shoot another film in the conventional manner; more importantly though, the format of Blue provided Jarman with a solution to the problems of effectively representing the nature of AIDS on film. As Jarman wrote, “[n]o ninety minutes could deal with the eight years HIV takes to get its host. Hollywood can only sentimentalise it […] the reality would drive the audience out of the cinema and no one viewpoint could mirror the 10,000 lives lost in San Francisco to date”. For Jarman, AIDS was not a subject for entertainment and he thought that to depict the “progress” of AIDS through characters, narrative and even images would immediately cheapen and debase it. Therefore, “Blue‘s rejection of artifice is an aesthetic decision inspired by specific political and ethical criteria”.

Links

medienkunstnetz.de

Workshop Webdesign by Stephan Bourdon

Responsive Web Design
Nowadays people are using different devices to browse the web. So the traditional fixed width design starts to be outdated. The layout needs to be automatically adjusted to fit all display resolution and devices. How this will be achieved ? The answer is simple CSS3 media queries.

CSS is used to control the style and layout of Web pages.
CSS3 is the latest standard for CSS.

MojoMotor embeds directly into your existing site, allowing you to edit and manage your content without having to log into a separate control panel. Your site is the control panel. Editing happens directly in your pages.

JavaScript is een scripttaal die veel gebruikt wordt om webpagina's interactief te maken en webapplicaties te ontwikkelen.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

A markup language is a modern system for anoting a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that text. The idea and terminology evolved from the "marking up" of manuscripts, i.e. the revision instructions by editors, traditionally written with a blue pencil on authors' manuscripts).

Workshop 'The Art of Listening' by Mike Harding & Benny Nilsen

 

Jack Donovan Foley (April 12, 1891; Yorkville, New York – November 9, 1967; Los Angeles) was the developer of many sound effect techniques used in filmaking. 

Foley is the reproduction of everyday sounds for use in filmmaking.

Touch. 
'The students selected samples from films which included sound elements which impressed them. Contributions included Jim Jarmusch's graduation film, Tarkovsky's The Stalker, Bonny and Clyde and other offerings from better known film makers, as well as some made by the students themselves. A Syrian documentary about how sound plays a part in the myth of power, Can Dialectics Break Bricks by René Vienet and Robert Cauble's reworking of Alice in Wonderland were also shown... BJNilsen introduced the students to the work of Walter Murch.'

This the last day, the students present their soundtracks for the film selected by Sandra Jasper,  

Weird Fancies (aka Le Danse du Diable)...' 

Individual meeting - Malcolm Le Grice

Exploration of areas of the 'horrific'

Hieronymus Bosch's pictures have always fascinated viewers, but in earlier centuries it was widely assumed that his diabolic scenes were intended merely to amuse or titillate, most people regarded him as "the inventor of monsters and chimeras." Philip II, though, collected his works more for education than for entertainment. A Dutch art historian in the early 17th century described Bosch's paintings chiefly as "wondrous and strange fantasies" often less pleasant than gruesome to look at'. In the 20th century, however, scholars decided that Bosch's art has a more profound significance, and there have been many attempts to explain its origins and meaning. Some writers saw him as a sort of 15th century surrealist and linked his name with that of Salvator Dali. For others, Bosch's art reflects mysterious practices of the Middle Ages. No matter what explanation and comprehension of his art might be, Bosch remains the most extravagant painter of his time.