[NetBehaviour] Field Effect with Martin Howse

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Oct 21, 22, 23 2011/ 12:00-19:00 daily

Field Effect with Martin Howse

A three day workshop actively exploring the effects of electromagnetic 
fields on living systems; on the human body and the human psyche. The 
effects of complex field interactions with such systems, particularly 
with the psyche, are largely unknown and open to debate. Field Effect 
proposes to obtain first-hand,experimental knowledge of these relations, 
using DIY technologies. Experiments already suggest links between low 
frequency electromagnetic emissions and experiences of hauntings and UFO 
sightings. The first two days will be devoted to the construction of 
devices to both generate and measure magnetic fields and to examine the 
effects of these fields on living systems (such as plants or moulds), 
and on the body and psyche (measuring skin temperature, skin resistance, 
heartrate). In parallel, a series of experimental situations will be 
constructed to provide insights into the interactions between complex 
spectral ecologies (communication technologies such as wireless 
networks, mobile phone bases, TV, radio, power lines, motors, all 
electronic devices) and life.

Participants will learn how to construct simple devices to measure heart 
rate and skin resistance, how to interface these to software and 
log/interpret results and how to intervene within electromagnetic space. 
No previous knowledge of fields required.

Date: Oct 21, 22, 23 2011
Time: 12:00-19:00
Maximum nr. of participants: 12
Fee: 45 (participation) + 15 (material)

Location: NK
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin DE

Instructor Martin Howse
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/

Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to 
info at nkprojekt.de. If you dont get a response within 3 days to your 
registration mail please call us under +49(0)17620626386 to make sure 
that we have received your mail.

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October 26, 27, and 28 2011

Noise As Input, Noise As Filter/ A Compositional Approach by Kasper Toeplitz

Not so much, or not only, a software workshop, but rather a composition 
course in electronic music which takes as its starting point the use of 
noise, similar to the (white) canvas of a painter or rather to the block 
of stone of a sculptor. Considering the noise as the sole input, more 
attention will be paid to its internal structure as well to its 
different shapes and colors, including way to manipulate it from the 
inside, starting the composition on the input material itself rather 
that only on its transformations. The noise can of course be created by 
strictly digital means but can also be “extracted” from the “real world” 
– and one way to do so without simply recording what’s “outside”, is to 
use webcams to bring a digital version of the world – vision being 
transformed into (noisy) sounds. Noise, as in white noise, pink noise, 
black, fractal, etc, as the prime, or even only source for real-time 
composition/synthesis; then we work on blocks of sound and not on 
pitches, have “clouds” of sound with more or less precise limits – 
“uncertain limits” -, different textures of different densities. Close 
to the orchestral ideas of people such as Ligeti, Penderecki, Xenakis or 
Scelsi. The examples will be given in Max/MSP and Jitter, but other 
softwares are welcome, as the workshop is much more about the “why” than 
the “how”, and the goal is to create a composition based on the ideas 
explored there. Kasper Toeplitz

Requirements:
* Own Computer (Mac OS X/Windows) IMPORTANT: with an authorised Max Msp 
or a running Demo

* Basic knowledge in computer based music creation
* Headphones
* If possible bring your own MIDI Controller/Keyboard (plus 
iPhone/Android-based Phone, iPad/Android-based Pad, Lemur, wii, joystick 
and webcams).

Date: Oct 26, 27, 28 2011
Time: 12:00-18:00 Wed. and Thurs, 12:00-15:00 Fri.
Maximum nr. of participants: 10
Fee: 100 Euros

Location: NK
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin DE

Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to 
info at nkprojekt.de. If you dont get a response within 3 days to your 
registration mail please call us under +49(0)17620626386 to make sure 
that we have received your mail.

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Kasper Toeplitz is a composer, electric bass player and musician who has 
developed his work in the no man’s land between “academic” composition 
(orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic “new music” or “noise 
music”. Has won several prizes and distinctions: 1st prize for 
orchestral composition at the Besançon Festival, 1st prize at the “Opéra 
autrement / centre Acanthes” competition, Villa Médicis Hors les Murs 
(New York), grant Leonardo da Vinci (San Francisco), Villa Kujoyama 
(Kyoto), DAAD (Berlin). Got numerous commissions from the French 
Governement, the radio and from electronic studios such as Ircam, GRM , 
GMEM, CRFMW, EMS. Works with experimental or unclassifiable musicians 
such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Tetsuo Furudate, Dror Feiler, Art Zoyd, 
Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Ulrich Krieger, Stevie Wishart, Z’ev, 
among others. Some of his long-term groups or projects are LE DEPEUPLEUR 
(with Zbigniew Karkowski), KERNEL (a trio of computer players), 
Basstaarang (with Philippe Foch playing taarang), Ephémérides (bass & 
image by Strom Varx). Has definitively integrated the computer into the 
very heart of his work, as a tool of thought and composition, and as a 
live instrument, hybridising more traditional instruments if necessary, 
or working on the sheer electronic noise.

http://www.sleazeArt.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/sleazeArt



N.K. Elsenstr. 52/2. Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin-Neukölln
www.nkprojekt.de