Workshops
7. Juli 2023 // 14.30–17.00 Uhr // Kubus
Wax & Wane – Exploring Sounds in Beeswax Records
8. Juli 2023 // 15–17.30 Uhr // Studio C
Stefanie Egedy – Low Frequency Sound Workshop
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Workshop 7. Juli 2023
14.30–17.00 Uhr // Kubus
Wax & Wane – Exploring Sounds in Beeswax Records
Access to the workshop is limited to 8 – 10 participants.
in englischer (z. T. deutscher) Sprache / in English
Admission: 6 € / Free for Holder of Day Ticket or Festival Pass.
Experiment with beeswax and participate in making a beeswax record – either as a negative imprint of an existing record or with a ›toy record cutter‹. The workshop will provide you with practical information on this process while exploring new sonorities by giving voice to the material itself. We will question the common material for records – polyvinyl chloride, short PVC –, and share the sonic ideas that have led us toward malleable materials that can be sculpted, molded and recycled. The grooves in this unstable material are extremely transitory which, in fact, makes the whole endeavor about decomposition. Another focus of this workshop will be on honey bees within their urban surroundings in Berlin, which contributes to the wax’s unique olfactory, optical and tactile qualities. The workshop will also cover field recordings and experimental turntable practices. We will show how to record the sounds of bees in relation to their context and various techniques for mixing beeswax records.
Wax & Wane is a collaboration between JD Zazie and Karin Weissenbrunner. JD Zazie is an avant-garde turntablist, experimental DJ, sound artist and curator and completed her master’s degree in Sound Studies at Berlin University of the Arts. She focuses on experimental electronic music, constantly expanding the conventions of turntablism, musique concrète, free improvisation and composed music. She is art director of MuseRuole – women in experimental music festival, a member of the Reanimation Orchestra and the label Burb Enterprise. Karin Weissenbrunner has a doctorate in music from City, University of London. She follows her interests in sound art, broken media, DIY, materiality, and post-human concepts as a curator. She is also active as an experimental turntablist in the duo Sage Thrashers with Stefanie Loveday, propelling conjunctions of synthesized and concrete sounds into spheres of mimetic transformation.
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Workshop 8. Juli 2023
15–17.30 Uhr // Studio C
Stefanie Egedy – Low Frequency Sound Workshop
How To Listen With Your Body
Access to the workshop is limited to 30 participants.
in englischer Sprache / in English
Admission: 6 € / Free for Holder of Day Ticket or Festival Pass.
In this workshop, particpitants are invited to explore the acoustic and tactile perception of low range sounds. The session begins with an introduction to the concept of sound, before delving into the specifics of low frequency sound waves and their behaviour. The focus will be on the properties of low frequency sound, subwoofer arrangements, and how to listen with your body. Stefanie Egedy will provide relevant information regarding subwoofers, alongside some examples of classical arrangements, and how to optimize your home and event setup. Following the space dimensions and subwoofer type, these measurements can create ›living zones‹ (with higher or variations of acoustic pressure) and ›dead zones‹ (no acoustic pressure). The liveliness of an area is determined by the expression of the acoustic pressure throughout a region, where bodies can or cannot perceive the acoustic signal with their skin/body parts. At the end, Egedy will lead an experiential exercise of listening with your body.
Stefanie Egedy is a composer of conceptual pieces and electronic music, and investigates sound in both installations and live performances. She is focused on researching the potential of low-frequency sound, bodies, and subwoofers— including bass, sub-bass, and infrasound—and their spatial presence. Egedy co-runs the label COISAS QUE MATAM (THINGS THAT KILL), researches light-sound relations with Camille Laurent, and worked with Chris Salter on his latest spatial production. She has worked with and exhibited in Berlin at CTM Festival, Berghain, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art as well as at Harvard University in Massachusetts, Kunstfest in Weimar, and Zentrale in Vienna. Egedy is part of Creative Europe’s SHAPE+ artist roster for 2022-2023.