The Nanaimo Arts Council, Lulu Performing Arts and the Xenographic Society present
The Summer 2010 Youth Sound Camp
August 17-20, 9:30am to 4pm, Parents Sound Walk, Wednesday, Aug.18, 12:15 -1pm.
Sonic Extravaganza & Potluck: Friday, Aug.20th, 5-7pm.
Ages 13 to 17, Suite11, 10 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, (across from the Vault)
With Leah Hokanson, Tina Pearson, and Andreas Kahre
Are you intrigued by sound? Do you find it overwhelming at times? Do you want to learn new ways of working with sound–for your garage band, as an instrumentalist, or perhaps as a budding filmmaker?
In Sound Camp, you are invited to explore how sound works–in us, around us and between us. Discover the fascinating world of the audible– from blinking eyelashes, to underwater crustaceans, to the patented (!) roar of Harley-Davidsons. Learn how sound works, using new ideas and games in listening, sound making, sound recording and singing, and create your own sound pieces.
Sound Camp is led by three artists with extensive experience in contemporary music, world music and sound art, and who have a long history of curating, teaching and writing about sound and new developments in music.
Leah Hokanson (Gabriola Island) has a background in both symphonic and contemporary music, choral conducting, and teaching, that spans over twenty five years. She is the founder and artistic director of the Lulu Performing Arts Society which has been producing concerts and community events involving sound, including The Elements: A Festival of Nature in Performance, for the past five years. She is a devoted improviser, conducts several choirs, and is director of the Gabriola Chamber Ensemble. (http://www.leahokanson.com/)
Tina Pearson (Victoria) is a composer and musician who performs with flute, voice, accordion, glass and electronics. Her projects with other musicians, dancers and visual and new media artists often explore the nature of sound, and human interaction through sound. She taught Sound Studies at Ontario College of Art and Design and was the editor of the Canadian New Music journal Musicworks. She is the director of the Victoria new music ensemble LaSaM, a member of the virtual reality ensemble Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, and director of the Victoria Complaints Choir. (Tina Pearson at Myspace)
Andreas Kahre (Vancouver/Gabriola Island) is an interdisciplinary artist and musician whose work encompasses images, sound, and text in many different configuration, including contemporary music, theatre, dance and media projects, audio installations and video games for Electronic Arts. He has taught sound design for theatre and live performance at UBC, and was one of the program directors of the Western Front artist-run centre. His work, has been presented across Canada and internationally, most recently on CBC Radio and Deutschlandradio Kultur. (www.xenography.org)
No musical training is necessary to participate, and no instruments or equipment is required. To speak to us directly, please call 250.247.9854
Sound Camp is Sponsored by the Nanaimo Arts Council, the Lulu Performing Arts Society, and the Xenographic Society
Fee: $200 ($240 if you register after August 7)
Structure
Daily Schedule: 4 sections
Section 1: 9:30-10:30
Section 2: 10:40-12:15
Section 3: 1:00-2:30
Section 4: 3:00-4:00pm
Each day
Grounding in Sound
--Open with a centering / grounding exercise (focus on listening, awareness of self, safety, and getting out of frontal lobe)
Information
--Each day, something revelatory (ie. hearing, structure of sound, sound in the ocean, inner sound, soundscape, composition, sound art, difference tones, throat singing, harmonic series, harley sound, etc. etc.) that can also be experienced (via Grounding, Group experience, Play, Create, Listen.)
Group experience / Individual experience
--Make room for individual experience each day
Play with sound
--voice, movement, listening, making sound from found objects, body, recording, instruments, etc.
Create something
--based on the theme/info/exercise/listening of the day
Curriculum Topics:
INSIDE-HEARING:
breathing
listening with ear plugs
vibrating bones with vocal chords
learning about the ear and body sounds
movement while making sound
MAP your body's sounds
Duos (back to back, feeling bone resonance)
LISTENING
Global, focal, selective
subjective/objective (difference between recording and listening)
Human, other mammal, insect, bird, whale, etc. listening
Tape recorder listening
"Noise" or not noise, changing one's mind
SOUNDSCAPE
Sound mapping:
Mapping body, inside room, sounds outside room
Various environments in city
Field trips
Ocean
Collaborative sound map of small section of nanaimo
Historical sound
Imagined sound
PLAYING
Sounding Bodies: vocal and body sound in a group
Sound games: Hocketts, Call and Response, Sonic Meditations.
Making songs from group talk (ie complaints, poems, what you had for breakfast, etc.)
Mimicry: mimicking sounds heard around, engines, appliances, water, being as specific as possible.
Organizing sound (high, low, man-made, naturemade, loud, soft, elemental, metal, wood, machine, pitched, etc.
HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH AND VIA SOUND
Inuit
Hunters
Shepherds
Gamelan
Languages
Classical Music of Europe, India, etc.
Games
Improvisation
Political Forces
Muzak
Computers
ipods
Headphones
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Sound walks
Late night sound walks
Sound Field Trips:
Ferry
Recycle Organizations
Stores/Businesses
Parks
etc.
Sound Art Projects:
Theme based: engines, birds, nature’s night life, water music, etc.
Technology: learning sound programs, editing, etc.
Sound Choir
Vocal sounds, body sounds, etc