The Hacked Orchestra @ Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
| The Hacked Orchestra @ Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ | |
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| Name | The Hacked Orchestra @ Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij |
| Location | Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij |
| Date | 2023/10/13 |
| Time | 10:00 – 18:30 |
| PeopleOrganisations | Hackers & Designers, Ghenwa Noiré, Sonic Acts, SoundLAB |
| Type | Meetup |
| Web | No |
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On Friday 13 October, workshop collective Hackers & Designers will temporarily reside at SoundLAB inside Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ for a workshop and jamming session with guests (to be announced soon!). This program around sonic dialogue and DIY instrument-making is co-curated together with Sonic Acts.
Image description:Anonymized hands are engaging with electronics on a table, including cables, some solar panels, and a speaker.
Hackers & Designers is a group of artists/designers/toolmakers/technologists who explore technologies and their role in contemporary life by opening them up together, and experiment with learning by doing. In a series of events under the name Hacked Orchestra, the collective teams up with artist Ghenwa Noiré, SoundLAB and Sonic Acts to explore the radical social potential of active listening in the shape of informal, improvisational sonic dialogue sessions. During our first event at this iconic location in Amsterdam we will engage in intuitive forms of communication, listening and interacting with others, through sonic gestures. In a workshop and evening program we will explore how hacking and bending electronics circuits can distort, amplify, muffle, highlight or otherwise inform unspoken modes of communication.
Are you a (self-taught, aspiring or even professional) musician, performer, producer, great listener, vocalist, coder, circuit-bender or hardware hacker? Or are you just generally interested experimental sounds? Then join us for a 1-day workshop in active listening and sonic dialogue, and hack together your own sound tool to play with, using a Teensy board. We will co-host this workshop with performer and artist Ghenwa Noiré and SoundLAB jam facilitators. No prior electronics, coding or musical knowledge is required, genuine interest and some tolerance for noisy environments will suffice.
After a short break we will continue with a Hacked Orchestra evening program, co-curated with Sonic Acts and SoundLAB. Expect an evening of conversations about jamming as collaborative practice, and special guests who will demo their DIY musical instruments live. Explore some of the instruments at SoundLAB or bring your own to join a short jam session led by Ghenwa Noiré!
Location
The event will be held at the Atriumzaal in Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, 1019BR Amsterdam.
Program
Workshop + speaker program + jam
13 October 10.00 - 18.30
Fee € 25,- to be paid at the door (cash/card)
Language: English
Speaker program + jam only
13 October 16.00 - 18.30
Fee € 5,- to be paid at the door (cash/card)
Language: English
Sign-up
Please sign up by sending an email to [1] and filling in the blanks.
Sign up closes at 40 applications; that is, we welcome people joining last minute or without signing up, but we cannot ensure a seated spot.
We will only use your provided email address to contact you regarding information about the event.
Access notes
Both the workshop room and the Atriumzaal are wheelchair accessible. The building has a walking bridge that is quite steep, you can also enter the building from the ground floor and take an elevator up to the Atriumzaal. The building has a wheelchair-friendly elevator and bathroom. There are accessible - paid - parking spots below the building, in the Piet Hein parking. The workshop part of the event will be held mainly in English, but we can also facilitate in Dutch, Arabic and French. This will be a noisy workshop, so taking breaks and stepping out whenever needed is encouraged! The guest program, although less speech-heavy, will be held in English.
If you have any access needs that are not addressed here, please let us know via email. Tell us what you need to participate. We wish to reduce barriers!
Code of Conduct
We ask participants of our workshops to read the H&D Code of Conduct before attending the event. If you observe or encounter any behavior that violates the CoC, please reach out to Karl via email (karl@hackersanddesigners.nl) or phone number: +31 6 40433749. Unless you explicitly request otherwise, your report will be processed anonymously.
Documentation
The event will be audio recorded and the file will be made available shortly after on this page. An H&D member will also be present to take photos.
Credits
We would like to thank our partners Sonic Acts, Muziekgebouw and SoundLAB as well as all our invited guests for making this event a possibility.
The image on this page was made during the first Hacked Orchestra workshop at the Hackers & Designers 2023 Summer Camp.
This event is kindly supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Creative Industries Fund.