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Provokalia Choirs

Provokalia Choirs
led by: David MOSS [USA, GER]

place: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
time: December 6 (Saturday), 4PM - 7PM
Short, intense vocal pieces, composed and led by David MOSS, for massed voices (between 20 and 100). The power and passion of the human voice is always physical, seductive and startling. Provokalia Choirs offers a new look at the sounds of many voices. Each Provokalia Choir performance is a kaleidoscope of phrases, loops, textures, timbres, chants and vocal dances.

After one rehearsal the participants will perform Provokalia Choirs at the closing concert of the festival.

Shaping your Solo

Shaping your voice
led by: David MOSS [USA, GER]

place: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
time: December 6 (Saturday), 11AM - 2PM
December 7 (Sunday), 11AM - 2PM
What is a vocal solo? Could it be an architecture of individuality – the momentary manifestation of personal timing and eccentric personality that occurs when you deal with your materials of choice: voice, body, momentum, movement, text, the musical thought, instrument, the 5th wall.

And where does a vocal solo come from? Truthfully, a solo is never pureMutations pop up everywhere: memory cells are shared and instant "habits" gain unpredictable momentum & shape. As in life, structures and frameworks act as diving boards, mixing memory, sounds, fantasy, history, desire, context, narrative and timing.

Using each person’s own work as a starting point, this workshop includes: singing together and alone– including surprises, limitations, exaggerations, duos, interruptions, pop-up performances, one-minute solos, habits, momentary transgressions, frustration fandangos, the attraction of opposites and elementary ecstasies. We will be together for 3 days in a performance-active workshop centered on the experience of shaping a solo with our voices!

Maximum: 16 participants; singers, non-singers, performers, actors, composers, musicians, dancers and poets are welcome to participate; some performance experience is necessary.

Sonifications

Stewart COLLINSON
Iain G. ARMSTRONG
led by:
__Stewart COLLINSON [UK] – video
__Iain G. ARMSTRONG [UK] – audio

place: Trafó Reaktor
time: December 4 (Thursday), 2PM - 5PM
December 5 (Friday), 11AM - 2PM
December 5 (Friday), 4PM - 6PM
December 6 (Saturday), 11AM - 2PM
December 6 (Saturday), 3PM - 5PM
December 7 (Sunday), 11AM - 2PM
The aim of the workshop is to create audiovisual works, where visual data can be used as the means of generating sound by applying different sonification methods. The participants will create hand drawn films, which will be manipulated and sonified digitally.
The workshop will take place in two locations and will be part of a new network collaboration project between University of Lincoln [UK] and University of Pécs [H].
The visual material created by by the participants can be sonified by themselves using a variety of methods, and strategies, and by the other group of participants through means of an exchange of the material via the internet during the workshop, in that way, sharing ideas and creating common pieces.
The works created will be presented at the closing concert of the Festival.

Quintet.net

quintet.net
led by:
__Georg HAJDU [GER]
__Johannes KRETZ [A]
__Kai NIGGEMANN [GER]
__Ivana OGNJANOVIĆ [SER]
__Ádám SISKA [H]

place: Trafó Studio
time: December 4 (Thursday), 3PM - 5PM
December 6 (Saturday), 11AM - 2PM
December 6 (Saturday), 3PM - 5PM
December 7 (Sunday), 11AM - 2PM
The workshop gives an introduction to Quintet.net, a networked multimedia performance environment developed by Georg HAJDU. Up to five performers, as well as a video artist and a conductor can participate in a performance. The participants of the workshop will work towards the goal of a performance on the closing concert of the Making New Waves Festival. The workshop will touch on aspects such as using controllers for sound synthesis, data mapping, how to control a network improvisation and developing modules for Quintet.net.