phase space

Last week I gave a sound workshop which was part of a summer theater camp for youth in Mooste. The camp was held for the first time so there was plenty to be learned especially when trying to collaborate with the other workshops (drama, art, film). For the sound workshop we concentrated on the ideas of “soundscape” and understanding how humans navigate with stereo perception of sound. Then I did a number of group sound exercises on listening, playing and synchronization using everyday objects (bottle caps, tin cans, paper tubes etc). Towards the end I took on a group of 5 to work on some “advanced” skills with basic recording methods, acoustic sound properties and improvisation with various objects. I should thank all the great young people for their attention and in particular Madle, Silver, Doris, Triin and Regina for their time and energy in the more focused exercises at the end.

Below is a short excerpt from one of the improvisation exercises made with my final group (I had them try 5, 10, and 15 minute improvisations to understand the effect of time duration).

youth sound workshop – group improvisation:

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