March 26- March 30, 2009
Directed by Tarek Atoui and Nicolas Cante (electronic musicians).
Organized by Seconde Nature and Beirut Art Center. |
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  About the event |
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This workshop is devoted to the use of the Ableton Live and MAX MSP softwares, which are essential tools of live computer music.
Its program is suitable for beginners as well as artists who are already trained in this field. The main aim is to take participants from their home studios to live settings and to introduce them to new techniques and methods in building and conceiving live sets and sound performances.
PARTICIPANTS’ PROFILE
This workshop is open to all artists who are already working with real time technologies or who wish to be introduced to them.
The workshop is also open to artists working in the fields of video art, installation and performance arts and who wish to make use of these techniques in the framework of their research and their discipline.
The workshop participants are divided in two groups according to level:
Introductory Level: This group will cover an introduction to the softwares LIVE and MAX in order to discover their main features and uses.
Number of participants: 5 to 10, per software.
Advanced Level: The first step is to concentrate on the issues of preparation and on the use of the software for live performances.
Participants will work with the supervisors on the development of a personal project (external hardware and controllers, real time treatments and sound effects, MIDI and Ethernet Synchronization…).
In this group, according to the interest of the participants, they will be able to choose their topics and develop their own tools such as plug-ins, sensor interfaces, …
Number of participants: 5 to 10, per software.
SCHEDULE:
March 26 at 7pm (common session for both levels)
Presentation by Tarek Atoui and Nicolas Cante of their approaches to work methods in real time music and sound performance, followed by a discussion and a Q&A session with the participants.
March 27 to March 30
- 5 pm to 7 pm : Introductory Level
- 7 pm to 9 pm: Advanced Level
Each participant should bring his/her own sound and equipment (laptop, machines…) to the workshop.
Participation fee: 50 000 LL
Deadline for registration: Tuesday March 24
For registration or more information please contact us on info@beirutartcenter.org.
Tel: 01 397 018
This workshop has received the support of Marseille Provence Capitale Culturelle 2013
"les ateliers de l'euroméditerranée" and Culturesfrance.
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Tarek Atoui was born in Lebanon in 1980 and moved to Paris in 1998 where he studied contemporary and electronic music at the French National Conservatoire of Reims. He currently works in the Netherlands as co-artistic director of the STEIM Studios in Amsterdam and has released his first solo album on the esteemed Mort Aux Vaches series of the Staalplaat label (Amsterdam/Berlin).
Atoui is an electro-acoustic musician who initiates and curates multidisciplinary interventions, events, concerts and workshops in Europe and the Middle East. He builds new software for each project he works on and specializes in creating computer tools for interdisciplinary art forms and youth education.
He has played and performed at many contemporary art events and festivals in the Middle East and Europe such as the Today's Art Festival (the Hague), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Arborescence (Aix-en-Provence/ Marseille) and Scopitone (Nantes), the Sharjah Biennial (UAE). Much of Atoui's work references the social and political and presents electronic music and new technologies as powerful tools of expression and identity. A major and pioneering project of this nature was the youth dedicated Empty Cans workshop that took place in summer 2007 in France, Holland, Lebanon and Egypt in partnership with the Today's Art Festival, STEIM, the European Cultural Foundation and the Scopitone festival among others.
Nicolas Cante, electronic orchestra-man, is all at once a pianist, keyboards player and a singer. He proposes energetic performance-concerts and defragmented lives solo ranging from acoustic hard-core waltz to excited electro-punk while going through digitalized jazz standards. His improvisations guarantee an original musical trip that evolves according to the audience, atmosphere and place. He obtained the French National Degree in Modern Music and was graduated from the Jazz Conservatory in Aix-en-Provence. He is also a composer, author, interpret and accompanist. (www.yovocorp.net)
Seconde Nature is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to new forms of creation in the fields of electronic music, digital art, and other cultural oddities.
Besides the festival and other events throughout the year, our activity involves workshops, artist residencies, public and professional seminars and conferences, and a program of intercultural exchanges that commenced in 2007 with the music and art scenes of Beirut.
Our music programming places cutting-edge experimental acts and electroacoustic performances alongside the most exciting and accessible developments in electronic music and left-of-centre headline artists. Multimedia arts presented at Seconde Nature take the form of interactive installations and performances, works exploring human/technology relationships, digital animation, short films and cinema, concentrating particularly on cross media hybrid works and collaborations.
Seconde Nature evolved from two festivals that grew up side-by-side in Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles. «Territoires Electroniques », and many other events since 1997, was produced by Biomix and principally focused on electronic music. «Arborescence» was initiated by Terre Active and was developed as a multimedia art festival. In 2007, the two sister organizations decided to join forces in order to form this new multidisciplinary project. (www.secondenature.org) |
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