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Subject: [spectre] CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: SONIC ACTS MASTERCLASSES, 18–24
February 2013, Amsterdam
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: SONIC ACTS MASTERCLASSES, 18–24 February 2013,
Amsterdam
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DEADLINE for application: 5 February 2013

MASTERCLASS LEADERS: Tony Conrad, Goodiepal, CM von Hausswolff & Mike
Harding, Trevor Paglen, Steina & Woody Vasulka

In collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, STEIM, Muziekgebouw
aan ’t IJ and EYE, Sonic Acts will host a series of masterclasses as part
of this year’s festival – The Dark Universe.

The masterclasses provide a unique opportunity for artists, musicians and
other creative professionals to work with five internationally renowned
artists. In a concentrated and intimate setting, participants will gain
insight into the artists’ concepts, work processes, and methods of
composition, production and research through hands-on workshops,
discussions, and seminars.

TO PARTICIPATE
The masterclasses are aimed at professional artists, musicians, composers,
film makers, academics and advanced students. Deadline for applications is
5 February. Please send a biography and a short motivation outlining why
you would like to take part in a specific masterclass to:
masterclass@sonicacts.com.
Attending multiple classes is possible. Late or incomplete applications
will not be considered. You will be informed about the result of your
application by 10 February. A detailed schedule as well as more information
about the preparation for the masterclass will be sent to successful
applicants with this notification.

FEE
There is a fee of € 35,00 to participate per masterclass. Catering will be
provided. Masterclass participants will receive reduced admission for the
festival (professional accreditation for € 65,00).

DATES & LOCATIONS
The masterclasses take place at Stedelijk Museum, STEIM, Muziekgebouw aan
’t IJ and EYE in Amsterdam
18–19 February: Goodiepal
18–21 February: CM von Hausswolff & Mike Harding
19 February: Tony Conrad
19–20 February: Steina & Woody Vasulka
24 February: Trevor Paglen

ABOUT THE MASTERS AND THE MASTERCLASSES
Tony Conrad (US) is an avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker,
musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. A pioneering force
behind the evolution of minimalism, Conrad introduced the idea of Eternal
Music, a droning, mesmerising performance idiom which employed long
durations, amplification and precise pitch to explore new worlds of sound.
Conrad’s masterclass will be an extended lecture performance about his
work, artistic concepts and thoughts, touching on both his film work (The
Flicker), and drone music.

Goodiepal (Gæoudjiparl) (FO/DK) is a controversial musician and composer of
his own kind of radical computer music. He declared intellectual war
against the stupidity in modern computer music and media art when he quit
his job at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. He performs and lectures
about his work and ideas worldwide and travels on his special bicycle,
which enables him to produce the electricity he requires. In this way he
gets closer to mechanics and experiments with transhumanism. His recent
book El Camino del Hardcore features his graphic notation work. His
masterclass, aimed at DIY artists, composers and media artists will be an
exchange of thoughts, in which also the work of the participants will be
discussed.

CM von Hausswolff (SE) is a composer and a conceptual artist. Sound
recording devices are his main instrument as a composer; as a conceptual
artist he works with performance art, light- and sound installations and
photography. Mike Harding (UK) is a curator, producer, lecturer and music
publisher. He runs the Touch label together with Jon Wozencroft. In the
masterclass led by CM von Hausswolff & Mike Harding, participants will work
on their own version of freq_out.  For freq_out – a concept by CM von
Hausswolff – twelve participants are allotted ranges of frequency within
the audible sound spectrum. Participant number one will be allotted 0–25
Hz, number two 25–65 Hz, and so on. Over a period of four days, the task of
the participant is to compose one sound work each. The work cannot contain
any sounds beyond the allotted frequency range, but can be of any length
and is played back as a loop. The final work consists of 12 smaller works
joined together into a whole.

Trevor Paglen (US) is an artist and geographer. His work deliberately blurs
lines between science, contemporary art, journalism and other disciplines
to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and
interpret the world. He is the author of five books, including Blank Spots
on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, and numerous
articles on subjects such as experimental geography, state secrecy,
military symbology, photography, and visuality. His most recent book, The
Last Pictures, is a meditation on the intersections of deep-time, politics
and art. His masterclass focuses on his methodologies and different ways of
conducting research.

Steina and Woody Vasulka (IS/CZ/US) are major figures in video history –
technical pioneers who have contributed enormously to the evolution of the
medium and who continue to be major practitioners of video as art. The
Vasulkas’ technological investigations into analogue and digital processes
and their development of electronic imaging tools, which began in the early
1970s, place them among the primary architects of an expressive electronic
vocabulary of image-making. Their masterclass will be a discussion of the
development of their practice and working methodologies, and will reflect
how the change of technologies and interfaces influences the presentation,
documentation and archiving of their work.

THE FULL PROGRAMME OF SONIC ACTS  – The Dark Universe (21-24 February 2013)
is online on www.sonicacts.com

ALL INFO ON THE MASTERCLASSES can be found online:
http://2013.sonicacts.com/masterclasses-call-for-participants/


The Sonic Acts Masterclasses are made possible with the support of the
Mondriaan Fund (www.mondriaanfonds.nl) and from the European Commission.
This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the
Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein.

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SONIC ACTS
www.sonicacts.com
Weteringschans 6-8 1017 SG Amsterdam (NL)
t +31 20 6264521
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*DON'T MISS: The Dark Universe exhibition at NASA - 13 Jan-24 Feb 2013
COMING UP: Sonic Acts Festival - The Dark Universe 21-24 February 2013
SAVE THE DATE!  Kontraste 11-13 October 2013, Krems (AT) www.kontraste.at*
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