Summer Film Festival 4 Elements
UŠAMI / Field Recording Workshop within the 4 Elements Film Festival
The workshop comes out of the cooperation of the mappa music label and 4 ŽIVLY festival. It’s designed for a broad spectrum of people with a focus on beginners without age restriction. No previous experience with music production or sound design is necessary.
Date: 8th – 10th 2019
Participants: max. 10
Course fee: 30 EUR / 45 EUR (including a the 4živly festival pass)
Apply through: mappa.editions@gmail.com
The fee includes a three-day access to the course. The course is designed for a group of ten people. We strongly advise you to attend the whole course.
What you need to take»
Headphones (ideally closed back or semi open back ones). In case you have a pocket recording device / recorder / dictaphone, pack it along.
Tutors»
Stanislav Abrahám (CZ)
Jara Tarnovski, Šárka Zahálková (CZ)
TBA – more info soon
Lectures:
Pavel Klusák (CZ)
Open-air mining museum – a commented tour
Organiser»
mappa / mappaeditions.com
4živly / www.4zivly.sk
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What is the sound of Banská Štiavnica? Can we capture the atmosphere of the city luring tourists from all over the world by means of sound? And how about the symptoms of the city that generate the very tourism? Can we track them by means of close listening? Can we make a sound map of Štiavnica and compare it with the past or foretell its future? Is there a typical sound of Banská Štiavnica and if so, how does the sound of the historical centre differ from the one of Drieňová housing estate or from the sound of Štefultov former settlement (now a part of the city)? What would it be like if we used our ears and eyes in equal measure?
The workshop aims to present different faces of field recording against the backdrop of the city of Banská Štiavnica. Sound recording in the field is an ever more used approach in art (music, film, theatre, radio), sociology, architecture, ecology or in various forms of games focused on discovering new interactions with a city. Over three days, we will present the background and context of field recording, recording techniques and possibilities of sound processing. We will be exploring the sound field and then doing post-production of the collected material.
The workshop will mainly take form of the sound walks led by selected tutors. We will focus on active listening and various approaches that will help us experience the city more actively with our ears. We will explore the centre, periphery, hills over the city or the underground shaft. And after the workshop, we will still have time for films, presentations, concerts or some night parties within the 4živly festival programme.
The workshop will also include a public lecture by Czech music publicist Pavel Klusák (Radio Vltava, Radio Wave, Lidové noviny newspaper) who will show sound displays of the most vital works and concepts of field recording in contemporary music or acoustic ecology.
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8th August (Thursday) / Stanislav Abrahám
10am-11:30am __ theory, context, sound and video displays
1am-3pm __ recording in the field
3pm-4:30pm __ sound recordings postproduction
Stanislav Abrahám is a Prague-based audiovisual artist whose activities span an ambient, folk and club music, field recordings, radio documentary, sound installations and video art. Graduated from audiovisual arts at FAMU, he is now working as a sound designer in the Czech Radio. He is also a member of ZVUK, an independent platform for music education in Prague. Abrahám’s portfolio includes a wide spectrum of experimental sound approaches. Apart from all the above-mentioned activities, he is also a bold figure in making sound for a variety of theatre and dance collectives. His radio documentaries are of a more conceptual nature: they are an attempt at sonifying various everyday events from the streets of Prague. The works made in this vein are his composition Řeknu vám co vidím... (I’ll Tell You What I See..., 2009) or Žezlo (Sceptre, 2017), a documentary film in which he sonifies the Prague stone pavement with help of a hazel stick. And it is the Prague cobblestones that play the main role in Prague in a Nutshell – Sound Mosaic about the Prague Pavement (2017), a documentary film that bonds oral and sound history into a compact whole.
stanislavabraham.cz
Pavel Klusák / Bees Buzz Between A and G #: Music of Climate
(lecture, sound displays)
A feedback between the climate and musicians drawn by the Earth situation. Music critique, essayist and script writer Pavel Klusák introduces the music of the melting Arctic massive, bee communities, plastic waste and extreme places to which the artists decided to listen.
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9th August (Friday) / Jiří Slavičínský
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10th August (Saturday) / Jara Tarnovski, Šárka Zahálková
12:30pm-3pm __ recording in the field
3pm-5pm __ sound recordings postproduction
Jara Tarnovski is a sound artist and producer. He plays solo, in a duo with Laura Luna, and with bands such as Gurun Gurun, IQ+1 or Wabi Experience, having toured with them many centres of experimental music. He is a part of the AV project Telekinetic Assault Group and he is soon to release an album in the star formation with Takako Minekawa / Haco / Dustin Wong. He is also active in field recordings (under the moniker of Prosoxi Skylos), making radio documentaries and remixing. At the same time, he is in charge of the Jipang music label. Recently he takes interest mainly in musique concrète, working with computer deconstruction and using the principles of directed coincidence.
http://www.gurunas.net/tarnovski.htm
Šárka Zahálková is a member of the Offcity collective, an independent platform at the intersection of visual art, architecture, community work and artistic production with a base in Pardubice, Czech Republic. She is currently curating GAMPA, the Pardubice’s city gallery. Her artistic work involves public space, perception and memory, with the focus on sound, conscious listening and walking. She presented her intermedia approach within her residencies in New York, Berlin, Maribor, Linz or Topoľčany.
https://160cm.me/
Supported using public funds by Slovak Arts Council.