Workshops
Workshop and conference around the CityWall project
7 - 11 June
École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence
Workshop with the Master Media Design course at HEAD GENEVE (Haute Ecole D’art et de Design) devoted to “visualisation”, 7 -11 June at the École Supérieure d’Art in Aix-en-Provence.
This workshop will result in a conference/presentation of all the project partners on Thursday 10 June at 6pm at the École d’Art.
For professionals and multi-media artists only.
Information : contact@secondenature.org
The communicating wall, or CityWall, is a participative urban media project for the general public. It is a huge interactive screen. Thanks to its « multi-touch » system of sensors, one can literally touch the screen and thus modify its content. The wall collects data from a multitude of sources (telephone, Internet, video sensors, computerized data collecting units, etc.) and « re-transforms » this data into tactile visualisations. It is an urban wall/screen which creates data-based relationships adapted to the scale of the human body and which thus links the body to its environment.
« Sound Lights » Initiation Workshop
4 - 11 June
Seconde Nature, Aix-en-Provence
The « Sound Light » workshop run by Jean Philippe Renoult is a course that will study light as a source of sound. The participants « record » light using an electromagnetic system of sensors (the « telephone pick up »). The sounds gathered are then listened to and used for composing with during the workshop using loops, repetition, sound stretching, etc.
2 hrs
Prior reservation required : 04 42 64 61 01 orcontact@secondenature.org
Masterclass « Sound Postcard »
4 - 11 June
Seconde Nature
The « Sound Postcard » masterclass will record a subjective geographic reading of the town centre of Aix-en-Provence. The participants will be introduced to classical field recording techniques (microphones, digital recorders), as well as to other uses of them using electromagnetic sensors and contact microphones.
This workshop will include commented listening sessions, sound promenades and other listening exercises inspired by the teaching of R Murray Schafer, the initiator of the « soundscape » concept. There will also be a workshop to make contact microphones that the participants will be able to keep.
A group improvisation session will conclude this masterclass on Saturday 12 June at the Vasarely Foundation.
12 hrs
Sur réservation
Prior reservation required : 04 42 64 61 01 or contact@secondenature.org
