Culture Lab and the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University are inviting you to a series of events with Italian artist, composer and director Roberto Paci Dalò (Giardini Pensili - Rimini / Berlin), taking place between 14th and 17th February 2011. These include a music and video workshop, two live music events, a lecture and a radio show, all open to the public. Please see below for more details.
1) Urban Compositions Workshop - 14th-16th February
In this 2.5-daysworkshop, Roberto and the participants will explore means of creating musical and video compositions using sounds and video collected from the city. The participants will learn how to use editing software, will go on soundwalks to collect sounds and video footage from Newcastle, and create sonic and visual compositions, either in groups or individually. The resulting compositions will be shown to the public in a public performance and will also be broadcasted on Culture Lab Radio.
No prior knowledge required!
Please register for this workshop as the number of place is limited!
Place: Culture Lab and all over Newcastle
Time:
· Monday 14th from 10am: lecture, tutorial, brainstorming, soundwalk and material collection, editing
· Tuesday 15th (exact times scheduled around participants availability): editing and possibly extra footage
· Wednesday 16th: final editing and public presentation at 12:00
Projects presentations:
· Public event: Wednesday 16th 12:00-13:00, Culture Lab, Space 4/5
· Radio broadcast: Thursday 17th, as part of a radio show taking place between 13:00 to 16:00
Equipment: Bring a laptop and/or recording device if you have it. Editing suites and recording devices will also be available.
Registration: To register to the workshop, please send an e-mail to lalya.gaye@ncl.ac.uk
2) KIRA KIRA キラ☆キラ:: Performance Night - 16th February
Performance night with Roberto and local sound-artists and musicians from the KIRA KIRA music scene (Newbridge Project) and the Culture Lab andMusic department community.
Place: Space 4/5, Culture Lab
Time: 20:00-Midnight
Line-up: Roberto Paci Daló, Alessandro Altavilla, Domestic Violence, Adam Parkinson, Ben Freeth, Ben Thompson, Marie Thompson and you.
Free entrance. No bar. BYOI (Bring Your Own Instrument)
3) Lunch Bite: Sensorial Cartographies - 17th February
Roberto Paci Dalò will be presenting examples of his works created through art, cinema, sound, performing arts, radio, and media; a body of works which are often based onurban explorations and expanded cartography. Especially through sound and projection (light, video, film) Roberto's worktends to re-design (and remix) the perception of usual (and sometimes forgotten) places. From opera houses to industrial archaeologies, from radio to telecommunication systems, these projects deliberately work on media strategies, tactic, subliminal information, "sonic warfare", and memory layers. The second part of the presentation will be the screening ofAtlas of Emotion Stream. This work – originally an audio-video installation commissioned by the PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli 2009 – is inspired by Giuliana Bruno's book Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film.
Free entrance
Time: 12:00
Place: Space 7, Culture Lab
More information: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/events/item/lunch-bites-roberto-paci-dal-sensorial-cartography
4) Culture Lab Radio - 17th February
This radio show with Roberto will be broadcasted on Culture Lab radio. It will feature a broadcast of his work "Atlas of Emotion Stream" (also being screened at Lunch Bite), and compositions created by the Sonic Geographies workshop participants.
Time: 13:00-16:00
URL: http://culturelabradio.ncl.ac.uk
Bio
Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian artist, composer and director of international recognition. A pioneer in the use of digital technologies andtelecommunication systems in art, Roberto is the director of Giardini Pensili group and Velvet Factory space (Rimini, Italy). He is a member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft Berlin, and recipient of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD award. His work – drawing, installations, music, film, theatre, radio, performance – has been presented throughout North and South America, Mexico, Russia, Middle East, and Europe, in such spaces as Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Opera House, The Western Front Vancouver, Ars Electronica Linz, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Biennale di Venezia, Locarno Film Festival, Charlottenborg Copenhagen, ZKM Karlsruhe, SKIF Saint-Petersburg, MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele. He has been several times recipient of awards at Ars Electronica. Recent publications include the books “Millesuoni. Deleuze, Guattari e la musica elettronica” (2006, 2008), “Electro Scene” (in collaboration with Enrico Pitozzi, 2010), and the record "Alluro". Roberto Paci Dalò was born in Rimini and spent his childhood on the Lake Garda. He lived in Naples andRome with residencies in Vancouver. He currently lives and works in Rimini and Berlin.
http://www.giardini.sm/rpd
http://www.giardini.sm
http://www.velvet.it
http://lettera27.org
