DIY: Do It Yourself !
Hands-on three-day workshop for building “DIY” sound generators
04/10 – 06/10, Medienkunstlabor Graz
With Gert-Jan Prins (NL) & Winfried Ritsch (A)
Final public concert
Tue 07/10, 7.30 pm, steirischer herbst festival centre
Composers Gert-Jan Prins and Winfried Ritsch provide instructions
for building your own electronic sound-generating circuits and for
handling and building “robotic instruments”. Relevant concepts such as
open hardware (“algo_dsPIC” and “algo_fets” developed at the
Algorhytmics studio) and control protocols such as Open Sound Control
(OSC) are explained in a practical context. The workshop finishes with
a joint concert featuring all participants.
For many years
Gert-Jan Prins
has been working on compositions and live electronic performances that
use DIY, usually analog circuits primarily in the sphere of radio / FM
modulation. He is a member of the electronic improvisations supergroup
“Mimeo”, among others, and runs the “Synchronator” video and audio
research project with Bas van Koolwijk.
Winfried Ritsch has been
working in a wide range of musical fields since 1984, including
computer music, interactive music, radio, networks, and on the
development of DIY electronic music devices and cybernetic control
models. He founded the “Algorythmics” studio and the
Graz-based “mur.at” network, among others he is member of the “Tonto” label and FOND, and ###
works at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at Graz University of Art.
A basic understanding of computer-controlled instruments and/or
any kind of background in electrical engineering is an asset but not
essential for taking part in the workshop.
Contribution towards expenses for material is €40
Please send your registration including CV not later than August 30, 2008, to
steirischer herbst, attn. Bea Dermond
Sackstr. 17, 8010 Graz, Austria
dermond@steirischerherbst.at
The workshop is taking place as part of the series of concerts “Devices, Suitable for (Almost) Every Purpose”
Devices, Suitable for (Almost) Every Purpose
curated by Heike Schleper & Bernhard Schreiner (“feld” label, Frankfurt):
Tue 07/10, “INTENSIFICATION: Get High!” with
Russell Haswell (GB)
Tue 14/10, “INVESTIGATION: Explore!” with
Jana Winderen (N)
Tue 21/10, “IMPROVISATION: Merge!” with
Thomas Ankersmit (NL) &
Phill Niblock (USA)
Each: 9.30 pm, steirischer herbst festival centre