Workshops
Binaural/Nodar’s program of workshops defines a diversity of reflexive and artistic practices, in which sound has the role of aggregator and both the technical and technological information are introduced in a contextualized (and not too obscure) manner. Our assumption is that anyone interested can quickly grasp the techniques and technologies taught, without requiring any special previous training.
These workshops form a modular array of artistic training, that can either attract young students to the sound arts or complement the training path of artists from other areas or of stage technicians.
The laboratories are organized in partnership with several hosting spaces in Portugal and Spain and both dates and venues are regularly announced.
Tuning Your Ears and Composing the World
Participants will be guided to “re-tune” their ears to actively pay attention to the rich aural world around them, to listen actively and imaginatively, and not just passively hear. They will then use their ears, creativity, and new set of tools to create an audio composition using the world around them as instrument. [...]
Voice and Body in the Electroacoustic Space
The main objective of this intensive laboratory is to develop the necessary skills for a collaborative and multidisciplinary performance, through theoretical research and practical work, in which the use of voice, body, the acoustical and physical space and of sensorial amplification techniques intersect and concur to a contemporary artistic practice enriched in its expressive possibilities. [...]
Analog Flows
The workshop hours will be pretty much filled with working on the analogue (in tape) recordings made by the participants. The participants will listen to the recordings and Rinus Van Alebeek will comment these recordings and help the participants to compose a series of sound piece, offering critics, comments, nonsensical remarks, allusions, accusations, proposals, predictions, alternatives, help and honour. [...]
Hardware Hacking
A sound experimentation workshop based on building homemade sound devices. Motors, photo-resistances, microphones, oscillators and sound recycling in general will serve to spend a good time around cheap and innocent electronic scrap. The purpose of this workshop is to facilitate an environment of knowledge interchange with the participants and to explore some “DIY” possibilities applied to sound creation electronics. [...]