ISEA 2015 Disruption – Vancouver, BC
AUGUST 15th, 2015: 2-5pm
HALF-DAY TUTORIAL: The Soundwalk as an Art Form
LECTURER: Sound Artist, Andrea Williams; PhD Candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Board member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE)
SUMMARY: The Soundwalk as an Art Form presents an overview of the history of the participatory walk as an art form, including the soundwalk and its key concepts and development at Simon Fraser University, while providing a theoretical tool box for creating ones own soundwalk as a transformative art experience. When leading a soundwalk we are combining the perceiver and the perceived, the participant and observer in an improvisatory way in the physical environment. Soundwalks may disrupt a once familiar sense of place, and instead guide us on a path created by our ears rather than by the imposed visual cues of the urban environment. Sound artist, Andrea Williams, will lead a brief half-hour soundwalk around the still controversial Woodward Building to provide one of many examples of how one might begin to work within a community to create one’s own soundwalk. Following the walk, there will be an hour of break-out groups for discussion. Notes will be posted on the URL provided as follow-up.
TIMELINE:
2-3pm: Intro and History of the Participatory Walk and the Soundwalk as an Art Form.
3-4pm: Overview of the Woodward's Building area. Map handout.
Interactive Listening Exercise and the Woodward's Building (neighborhood) Soundwalk (half-hour).
4-5:30pm: Return to the room for journaling about the soundwalk experience.
Break-out groups formed for Discussion. Summarized notes posted on laptop/url and projected for all to see.
POWERPOINT for INTRO and OVERVIEW 2-3pm ---PROVISIONAL, will be updated:
HALF-DAY TUTORIAL: The Soundwalk as an Art Form
LECTURER: Sound Artist, Andrea Williams; PhD Candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Board member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE)
SUMMARY: The Soundwalk as an Art Form presents an overview of the history of the participatory walk as an art form, including the soundwalk and its key concepts and development at Simon Fraser University, while providing a theoretical tool box for creating ones own soundwalk as a transformative art experience. When leading a soundwalk we are combining the perceiver and the perceived, the participant and observer in an improvisatory way in the physical environment. Soundwalks may disrupt a once familiar sense of place, and instead guide us on a path created by our ears rather than by the imposed visual cues of the urban environment. Sound artist, Andrea Williams, will lead a brief half-hour soundwalk around the still controversial Woodward Building to provide one of many examples of how one might begin to work within a community to create one’s own soundwalk. Following the walk, there will be an hour of break-out groups for discussion. Notes will be posted on the URL provided as follow-up.
TIMELINE:
2-3pm: Intro and History of the Participatory Walk and the Soundwalk as an Art Form.
3-4pm: Overview of the Woodward's Building area. Map handout.
Interactive Listening Exercise and the Woodward's Building (neighborhood) Soundwalk (half-hour).
4-5:30pm: Return to the room for journaling about the soundwalk experience.
Break-out groups formed for Discussion. Summarized notes posted on laptop/url and projected for all to see.
POWERPOINT for INTRO and OVERVIEW 2-3pm ---PROVISIONAL, will be updated: