WORKSHOP 2: COYOTE 
Friday, March 5  3pm  (until late)
Coyote  is an all-weather, mongrel sound-system, built to distributeunexpected  sounds in unusual places.Let loose from the exhibition for one dayand  carrying sonic materials from theGhost Acoustics exhibition, this  workshopseeks out other acoustic habitats.LOCATION: Various  sites, selected in discussion withworkshop participants, will become  sites for clandestine sonicintervention. Visiting these locations,  Coyote units will be setinto these surroundings and switched on…MATERIALS:  Participants are invited to work with the audioarchive from the  Ghost Acoustics exhibition, or to bring theirown sound in any  format.LISTEN: This workshop is concerned primarily with  listening and the effects of the spaces on the sounds themselves.  Differenttechniques of treating, editing, deconstructing sound will  bediscussed within the larger context of field recording.ARCHIVE:  These brief sonic installations will become field recordings  themselves, recorded in situ. These recording will become part of  the ongoing archive stored in the Coyote units asthey wait in the  gallery. As well, short videos of these installationswill live on in  online archive.PARTICIPATE:This workshop is open to all  interested participants. No previousexperience is necessary. Please  send an email with a shortexpression of interest to fofagall@alcor.concordia.ca or contact gallery staff.The maximum number of participants  will be 6.* For more information please contact gallery staff.

WORKSHOP 2: COYOTE

Friday, March 5 3pm (until late)


Coyote is an all-weather, mongrel
sound-system, built to distribute
unexpected sounds in unusual places.
Let loose from the exhibition for one day
and carrying sonic materials from the
Ghost Acoustics exhibition, this workshop
seeks out other acoustic habitats.

LOCATION: Various sites, selected in discussion with
workshop participants, will become sites for clandestine sonic
intervention. Visiting these locations, Coyote units will be set
into these surroundings and switched on…

MATERIALS: Participants are invited to work with the audio
archive from the Ghost Acoustics exhibition, or to bring their
own sound in any format.

LISTEN: This workshop is concerned primarily with listening and
the effects of the spaces on the sounds themselves. Different
techniques of treating, editing, deconstructing sound will be
discussed within the larger context of field recording.

ARCHIVE: These brief sonic installations will become field
recordings themselves, recorded in situ. These recording will be
come part of the ongoing archive stored in the Coyote units as
they wait in the gallery. As well, short videos of these installations
will live on in online archive.

PARTICIPATE:
This workshop is open to all interested participants. No previous
experience is necessary. Please send an email with a short
expression of interest to fofagall@alcor.concordia.ca or contact
gallery staff.

The maximum number of participants will be 6.
* For more information please contact gallery staff.

Posted 2 years ago

About:

AKVK is Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta and Douglas Moffat.

The exhibition GHOST ACOUSTICS is open from
February 15 to March 21, 2010
at the FOFA Gallery in Montreal.

STEVE BATES is a media artist, musician, and audio technician whose work revolves around improvised and composed music, radio, and installation projects. He founded and directed the Send +Receive Festival of Sound, now in its eleventh year. Bates is the Sound Coordinator at the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and is a graduate candidate in Studio Arts/Open Media at Concordia University.

JOSHUA BONNETTA was born in Oshawa, Ontario 1979. His body of work has exhibited cinematically, as installation and as live performance. He has shown in Russia, Columbia, U.K., Canada, Ireland, U.S., South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. In 2009 he was awarded the National Film Board of Canada award for Best Emerging/Mid-career Canadian Film and Video Maker at Toronto's Images Festival. His practice combines sound and various forms of animation to consider the construction of representation within the cinematic image. He has an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University.

DOUGLAS MOFFAT explores the relationship between sound and the built landscape. Working with field recording, electroacoustics and landscape architecture, his projects are spaces built for listening. Trained as a landscape architect, he completed his MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. His graduate thesis project, The Love Song Effect explored the sonic environment of the Las Vegas Strip. He has presented works at the Jardin de Métis Festival international de jardins and the Send + Receive Festival.

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