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Locative Sound Workshop presentation

Posted by Richard on 1 June 2009⋅ Comment⋅ Share⋅  Email ⋅  Print
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The result from Richard’s Locative Sound Workshop is presented on Monday June 1st at Gallery Muu in Helsinki at 5 pm CET. Listen to the live audio stream at www.muu.fi/sound/

Locative Sound June, 1 2009 at 6 pm

Just in time for summer, Muu is opening up a new channel for listening and broadcasting sound experiments on Internet. The first transmission can be heard at June 1st, either live in Muu Gallery or at www.muu.fi/sound.

The event is a presentation of the Locative Sound workshop at Medialab at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki

The essence of the locative sound workshop is about listening to the world around us and work with modes of listening and soundscapes consciously and creatively. Environment, acoustic ecology, noise, city planning, sound objects, music, situationism, maps and locative media are examples of themes that are discussed from a sonic perspective during the workshop. Listening walks in both nature and sound intensive urban areas takes place. The participants are involved in making field recordings, develop concepts, installations and sound design as well as sound compositions during the workshop. These works will be performed and presented during the Muu Monday presentation.

The participants in the workshop are:

Alexandra Jones
Reetta Nykänen
Martti Mela
Dimitri Paile
Juhana Virkkunen

The workshop is held by sound artist Richard Widerberg at Medialab at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. Some of the workshop participants are students at the Sound in New Media Master’s programme.
http://mlab.taik.fi