[resource-net] 21+22.02 :: Workshop :: William “Bilwa” Costa :: Un/natural Field Recordings//Natural Overdubs

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D_Ear followers, Liebig12 is pleased to invite you to join the upcoming
sound_workshop


*FRI. FEB. 21, 11:00 – 17:00SAT. FEB. 22, 11:00 – 17:00*

Workshop will be in English.
Suggested Donation.
Please ask for details & pre-register via email, spaces are limited:
williambilwacosta at gmail.com

with:* William “Bilwa” Costa *
soundcloud.com/bilwa | williambilwacosta.com

*Un/natural Field Recordings//Natural Overdubs* is a workshop which
utilizes urban, architectural, and natural spaces as a source for
cultivating, processing, and over-dubbing sound. This workshop is open to
artists of any medium (sound art, experimental music, performance, dance,
visual art, etc.) who are interested in
experimenting with sound. We will work individually and collaboratively, as
an entire as well as in small groups.

GOAL
The goal of the workshop is to experiment with unorthodox methods of
recording and processing sound; and to
create personal sound palettes which can be used for experimentation,
composition, and performance.

*Un/natural Field Recordings//Natural Overdubs* Workshop is based on
Bilwa's personal practice, Un/natural Fields, in which he cultivates
human-made, digital, analogue, and mechanical sounds, as well as many other
incidental sounds which make up a city’s soundscape.
Bilwa has recorded on metros and other indoor and outside public spaces,
throughout Europe, N. America, and E. Asia. These found sounds, which are
referred to as un/natural field recordings, are over-dubbed (played back
and re-recorded) in different locations, with various sonic qualities
following time-based or site relative scores.
This technique offers a means of effecting, or processing, the original
recordings as well as combining sounds which are unique to the different
locations.
The result is a palette of complex sounds which contain various qualities
as well as cultural references, combined by both choice and chance.

These recording are arranged in multi-track sound palettes which, combined
with sine-tones, are used for experimental compositions; employing
techniques associated with Musique Concrète, electronic music, generative
music, and auditory illusion including: phasing, oscillation, binaural
beating, cancellation, etc. Using no plug-in effects, sound processing is
achieved by multi-track playback and spatialization.
Un/natural Field Recordings Audio recordings comprised of man-made,
digital, analogue, and mechanical sounds, as well as many other incidental
sounds, which make up a city’s soundscape in public spaces. This process
can be done systematically, intentionally, or at random; using various
quality levels of recording devices.

During the workshop we will create and execute scores, structures, and
choreographies for recording.
Natural Overdubs Recordings are played back, in the same space as the
original recording and/or in various spaces with different
sound qualities, using the recording device, phones, and portable speakers;
essentially “overdubbing” the recording with the sound event happening in
the current space. We will experiment with recorder – speaker
relationships, alternating the foreground and background sounds; as well as
utilizing a spaces sound qualities
(reverberation, reflection, echo, noise, etc.). This process can be looked
at as a sound intervention/concert and/or a recording session which
utilizes public spaces.

DAY 1: RECORDING
We will:
– travel on public transportation to various locations around Berlin
– record a series of Unnatural Field Recordings according to time and
space-related scores and structures
– record a series of Unnatural Field Recordings using sine-tones from smart
phones
– record a series of Natural Overdubs in spaces with interesting acoustic
qualities and incidental sounds

WHAT TO BRING:
– METRO PASS day / week / or month pass for Berlin AB is required
– AUDIO RECORDER / Accessories /windscreen/small tripod/ sd card/etc)
– BATTERIES
– HEADPHONES (preferably over-ear, but if you only have earbuds, please
bring them)
– METRO PASS day/week/or month pass for Berlin AB
– SMART PHONE / sound generator app (sine waves)
– BOOK sketchbook /graph paper/ pens
To share (if possible): extra recorder, extra over-ear headphones, and
batteries.
NOTE: We will spend most of the time traveling, so please bring ONLY what
you need need in a small rucksack.
You will NOT need laptops, controllers, etc. on DAY 1.

DAY 2: PALETTES AND SCORES
We will:
– share recordings and create a personal sound palette of recordings
– each build our “instrument”, or means of playing back the recordings in
real-time
– experiment with playback options through loudspeakers, hand held
speakers, phones, etc.
– create scores (graphic, time-based, thematic, etc.) based on research
during the workshop
– experiment with ways of utilizing individual sound palettes to perform
these scores
– Bilwa will explain his personal multi-track playback technique in Ableton.

DAY 2)
– LAPTOP/TABLET / audio software (i.e - Ableton, logic, audacity,
quicktime, vlz)
– ACCESSORIES to transfer recordings from recorder/phone to laptop or tablet
– EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE / SD CARD READER
– ACCESSORIES controller/sound card/ + CABLES - mini to stereo jack or jack
to jack (as you need)
– HEADPHONES (preferably over-ear, but if you only have earbuds, please
bring them)
– BOOK sketchbook /graph paper/ pens
– AUDIO RECORDER / Accessories (BATTERIES /windscreen/small tripod/ sd
card/etc)
– HEADPHONES (preferably over-ear, but if you only have earbuds, please
bring them)
– SMART PHONE / audio recording app / sound generator (sinewaves)
– BOOK sketchbook /graph paper/ pens
– To share (if possible): extra recorder, extra over-ear headphones,
Batteries, mini – jack cables.

The workshop culminates in realizing scores, performed by small ensembles
for the other participants, using palettes created during the process.

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Un/natural Field Recordings//Natural Overdubs: Workshop began in Kaunas, LT
and has since taken place at Kirtim  kult  ros centras,Vilnius,LT Liepaja
University, LV, and in Berlin, DE at Liebig12, Euphonia Festival, and
Backsteinboot, Spandau.


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