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)