Sub-Conscious Decision-Making While Performing Live Electronic Music

In this one-day workshop, Keith Fullerton Whitman will discuss the challenges one must face when approaching electronic instrumentation in an orchestral manner. His Redactions and Generators setups will be on hand, and the choices made while designing and implementing their specific topologies over the course of a decade will be demonstrated. While a familiarity with experimental electronic music and analogue synthesisers will be helpful, the workshop will centre on a broader discussion about how and why to implement chance and improvisational concepts within rigid compositional frameworks, and how to delineate risk and humanistic performance tendencies to simple, algorithmic systems.

Participants are required to have a basic knowledge about analogue synthesis and digital sound production. Applicants are asked to submit a short motivation and CV to workshop@sonicacts.com. The deadline for applications is 8 February 2019. The participation fee is €25.

The workshop takes place in STEIM Amsterdam, Schipluidenlaan 12, during one day (13 –17).

The workshop is a co-production of Sonic Acts & Paradiso and part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.