Neanderthal Electronics Workshop with Derek Holzer

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Neanderthal Electronics Workshop with Derek Holzer

Monday 4 May - Saturday 9 May 2009
12.00-18.00 daily
Final presentation Saturday 9 May, 19.00

Location: eNKa / ElsenStr. 52 (2.Hof) Berlin, Germany
http://www.myspace.com/enka52
Telephone: +49 (0)176 20626386

Course Participation fee: 120 euros
fee includes electronic parts used in the construction

Registration is required for this workshop and can only be done via
email to: eNKa_NK@gmx.de , www.myspace.com/enka52

Please register early to ensure a place. Places are limited to 10.

More than 40,000 years ago, our Neanderthal predecessors invented the
first music instruments from simple objects around them (bones and
stones, sticks and skins...), without reference to any existing music
history, and primarily for their own pleasure rather than that of others.
Nowadays, we use complex audio hardware and software which make it
"easier" to make music, so long as we channel our creativity into such
socially acceptable avenues as Western Classical or Minimal Techno. As
with any established genre, the results are often completely
predictable, and therefore quite boring.
But some of us, deep in our wild hearts, still long for the Stone Age
simplicity of pure noise!

This 5 day workshop is designed for 8-10 people, possibly with a
background in sound, but with no previous electronics experience. They
are shown how to use simple objects from our modern environment
(resistors, capacitors, transistors, LEDs, integrated circuit chips...)
to design and build their own personal, customized primitive noise
synthesizers. Each is a tiny world of its own, using primitive analog
computers in combination with feedback, sensors and audio inputs to
create a unique sound. Even from the same plan, no two are alike!

Participants are encouraged to use found materials for the construction
of their personal instrument. The workshop concludes with a group
performance and an invitation to the audience to experiment with each of
the instruments which have been created.

Videos from previous workshops:
http://www.vimeo.com/album/64426

About the instructor:
Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose
current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field
recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and
heavy metal music. He has played live experimental sound as Macumbista
or Derek Holzer--as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and
electronics--across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.
http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista
http://www.vimeo.com/macumbista
http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html

::: derek holzer ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista :::
http://www.vimeo.com/macumbista :::

---Oblique Strategy # 118:
"Make what's perfect more human"

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