Workshops

The session will begin with an introduction to the philosophy behind live coding and Algoraves, followed by practical exercises on using samples, synthesizers, and combining them in algorithmic performances. The workshop will also include collaborative tools to enable participants to share code and develop performances together. No prior knowledge about coding is needed, some basic knowledge in music can help.

Participants should bring a laptop and headphones.

Lina Bautista (Linalab) is a musician, artist, educator and developer who combines synthesizers, DIY electronics and computers to make music and engage new audiences in the technologies of sound. She studied music composition in Bogotá, Colombia, and composition and new technologies, Interactive Music Systems Design and Sound Art in Barcelona. With her musical project Linalab, she has produced several recordings and performed on stages around the world. From 2020 to 2022 she co-directed the Creative Europe funded project “on-the-fly” about live coding, and she has been part of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Live Coding in Madrid 2019 and Utrecht 2023. She is currently a member of various collectives such as Toplap Barcelona and Axolot and teaches at several universities in Barcelona.

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We will learn about aesthetic traditions and principles before the computer era (like Dada and Fluxus) and will skip the AI hype.
To process and display our texts we will use p5.js (a JavaScript library developed for artists, designers and beginners). The course is beginner-friendly, prior knowledge in computer programming is helpful but not necessary.
Our conversations and examples will be mostly in English but it is encouraged to work with other languages. We will work on individual laptops: Please bring your own laptop or get in touch if you need one.
Each participant will develop an individual way of reading, presenting or sonifying the resulting text pieces for the final presentation.

Jasmin Meerhoff, born in 1985, writes and produces prose, poetry and other works ― with a particular interest in the means of production of technology and its conditions of use. Her work encompasses a variety of formats such as concrete poetry, audio experiments, live coding performances and small computer programs.
She studied Media Culture at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. From 2014-2018, she was a research associate at the Department Arts, Media, Philosophy at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She works as a lecturer in the field of Media and Technology Studies.

The workshop proposes the construction of oscillating instruments from scratch to investigate the multifaceted history of electronic parts, semiconductive stones, their presence in electronic devices, and environmental decay. Inspired by early 20th-century radio discoveries, we will create sounding electronic instruments out of scrap metal pieces and stones.
The participants acquire knowledge in both technical and historical aspects of electronics to understand the methods of reinforcing communication networks out of leftovers. They will be guided to construct, bend, drill, solder, and reinvent circuitry. Heavy manual work is implied. 

Prior experience in electronics is warmly welcomed but not necessary.

Ioana Vreme Moser (b. 1994) is a Romanian sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation.
In her practice, she uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli. From these collisions, synthesized sounds emerge to carry personal narrations and observations on the history of electronics, their production chains, wastelands, and entanglements in the natural world. 
Amongst others, she has performed and exhibited at the National Gallery of Denmark (DK), singuhr (DE), Klang Moore Schopfe (CH), Fonderie Darling (CA), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE); Vancouver New Music (CA)

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Everyday is a day to reflect on your whole being – a radio body that you are, born to transmit spooky noisy stuff. Throughout the Sound Days we will together arrange transmissions of ongoing sound projects and work on personal/group artworks. Practice will be guided by radio artists who have different approaches in radio: Tata Frenkel (musician, educator, entrepreneur) and Jan Glöckner (researcher in artistic biotechnology). And Dana Scully, who warned us all that “The truth is out there [Mulder], but so are lies.”

Tata and Jan are an electroacoustic duet and are sharing some labels in work: radio artist, thereminist, researcher of artistic biotechnology and educator.

Jan Georg Glöckner is an artist and a researcher. Currently a doctoral candidate at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Research interest – choreographic potential of fungi and humans, with a focus on biotechnology, deep tank fermentation, radio and dance.

Tata Frenkel is an artist and educator living in Vilnius. In 2022, she received her master’s degree from the Photography and Media Art Department of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Frenkel researches “Unseen Arts”, a term she coined herself, which encompasses performative speaking, storytelling and other forms of articulation and sonification.

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From technical aspects of the program to discussions on how visuals and sound work live, we will explore different formats that aim to open creative possibilities to think about a scene as a whole. The goal is to build a prototype, i.e. design a live performance – from improvisation to previously thought out and designed projects; from venues with bands or DJs to Algoraves.

No previous knowledge is required. The workshop will be held in English. Participants should bring their laptops – mouse, webcams and MIDI controllers are recommended to bring but not mandatory.

Florencia Alonso (Flor de Fuego) is an argentinian digital-craft artist based in Germany. She mainly works with programming and live coding in order to create performative experiences. Her research revolves around concepts like the body, space, code and chaos/cosmos. She has taken part in several international and local festivals in collaboration with other artists as well as individually. She is an alumni of the Akademie für Theater und Digitalität and part of the Koproduktionslabor team, an artistic media lab that works in co-production with artists and the Akademie, as well as KiU Lab from Dortmunder U (Dortmund, Germany).

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Together we will play around with code snippets to experiment with interference patterns and discover ways to incorporate them into live performances, installations or fixed media. The workshop will include a very brief introduction to the SuperCollider audio programming language. No prior coding experience is required, but a basic comfort with numbers, math, and physics is helpful.

Participants should bring a laptop and headphones.

Patrick Borgeat (born 1985) is a live coder, code-based artist, and programmer from Germany. Since 2010, he has been active in performances, exhibitions, talks, and workshops across Europe. As an artist he is mostly invested in procedural generation and the interactive control of sound and visuals. Patrick’s work revolves around processes of all kinds and the superposition of patterns, primarily through algorithms. He also enjoys incorporating organic structures and textures, both simulated and sampled from nature. From 2016 to 2021, he taught computer music and creative coding at the Karlsruhe University of Music. As part of the live coding ensemble Benoît and the Mandelbrots, he received an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2012.

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Participants will learn tools and methods for creating generative art, gathering various types of data and using the data to create audiovisual art. 

Participants should bring their own laptop with Windows operating system. It is advisable for participants to have previous experience in any programming language.

Rihards Vītols is an artist whose practice is based around the relationship between nature, technology, and science. Since 2011 he works with nature-related themes, and lately not only he depicts nature, but also works specifically in nature.
Rihards’ artistic practice revolves around the interaction between human and nature, using technology – he creates speculative artworks, as well as gathers and visualizes data from nature in various ways.
In 2021, he received a PhD in Digital Art and Experimental Media from the University of Washington. His works were exhibited in Dutch Design Week, Latvian National Museum of Art, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, and many more. Vītols often collaborates with musicians and other artists, making live visualizations.

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Explore the art of crafting compelling narratives through interviews and live experiences, with a focus on interviewees’ strong engagement with sound art in the digital media environment. Participants will develop skills for finding stories, conducting impactful interviews and using recorded sound as powerful storytelling tool. Still photos and sound bites will enhance the multimedia side of the coverage. At the end of the workshop, all stories and visuals will be shared on an online platform.

Györgyi Rétfalvi Ph.D. is a media researcher and documentary editor currently teaching at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. She was one of the editors of the documentary Silêncio – Vozes de Lisboa. Rétfalvi specializes in non-fiction film, media history, and new media, and her teaching also covers sustainability as a topic in media. Her work explores the intersection of media production, social issues, and environmental concerns.

During the workshop I will present examples of what can be done with inexpensive addressable LED strips and microcontrollers. We will delve into different designs of light sculpture and ways it can be animated, programmed and sequenced. We will also explore how to sync light and sound in the context of algoraves and hands-on create lighting setups for Sound Days concerts and algorave. The practical focus will be on live experimentation and discovering creative ways of custom lighting for e.g. a rave setting.

Kaspars Jaudzems is a digital artist who mainly works with code – by creating and composing works using algorithms and numbers. He uses his experience in engineering to create complex technological art installations, interactive works, and user interfaces, attempting to explore the mathematical and physical fundamentals of existence in connection with technology. Inspired by the style of cyber art, he reflects on the threats we face, as well as hypothetical utopias and dystopias of the future. He uses code and cybernetic feedback loops in order to create generative audiovisual compositions and new experiences.