As the second part of slowCooker series, organised by sonADA (Sonic Arts Days in Aberdeen), Dr Suk-Jun Kim offers a workshop on slowness and live coding.
WALKING SLOWLY ON UNION ST.
PERFORMING LISTENING AND LIVE CODING
A composer and sound artist who teaches composition and sonic arts at the University of Aberdeen, Dr Suk-Jun Kim introduces two seemingly different activities we can use for live (sound) performance: slow walking and coding.
On day one, Dr Kim will introduce slow walking as a tool for listening to a mundane place. The participants will use Aberdeen’s high street, Union St., as our target and perform an extremely slow walk on Union St., and during the walk. During the walk, the participants will listen to the sounds, strike conversations with fellow participants and people on the street. The goal is to take a walk from one end of the street to the other end as slowly as possible while listening to the place, people, and one's own making. The participants will also record sounds that will be used for the live coding performance.
On day two, Dr Kim will introduce a program language called Tidal. The participants will install the software on their computer and quickly learn to use it for live coding. In the evening, The participants will perform together in front of the audience. The evening concert will be free and open to the public.
Participants will learn how to listen in place, how to use slow walking as means of a performance, and also how to use Tidal for live coding performance.
For more information, visit slowCooker Website (slowcooker.sonada.org).
Theme: slowness and boredom
The theme of this year’s slowCooker series is slowness and boredom. These two ideas create an interesting contrast to quickness and immediacy which technology and urban life seem to engender, and excitement and fascination which are deemed to be key elements of the process and outcome of many arts practices and performance. The invited artist will design the workshop to help the participants question and challenge a range of relationships between arts, music, technology, creative process, city life, urban environment, internal and rhythms of individuals and the collective mind. Rather than being a separate and disjointed event, each workshop is designed to create a momentum of creative activities among the participants and all six slowCooker series will culminate in sonADA 2016, sonADA’s annual sonic arts festival in Aberdeen.