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SOUND DEVELOPMENT CITY 2014 Artist Expedition: Riga - Helsinki PUBLIC EVENTS IN RIGA

"Rap Machine" by Moritz Wettstein (CH) 

daily August 28 – September 2

Press House / Preses Nams

Balasta dambis 3, Kurzemes rajons, Rīga

Lingual and vocal artists wanted!

During the Sound Development City expedition, Moritz Wettstein (CH) develops a generic voice looping machine based on the visual programming language Pure Data. The "Rap Machine" wants to be fed with words, sentences and outbursts in Latvian which will then be analyzed, deconstruced and reconstructed to become a new whole.

Moritz Wettstein invites you to join him in his studio in Riga to record your raps, whispers and talks.

Get in touch: moritz.wettstein@gmail.com

Friday, August 29, 13:00 – 19:00

Workshop with Moritz Wettstein:

"How to programm a loop-machine with Pure Data"

Press House / Preses Nams

Balasta dambis 3, Kurzemes rajons, Rīga

How to work with samples in Pure Data? How can a generic/random or interactive loop-machine be built?

An introduction workshop to Pure Data (aka Pd), an open source visual programming language. Pure Data enables musicians, visual artists, performers, researchers, and developers to create software graphically.

Details

requirements: own laptop with Linux, Mac OS/Windows

participants: max. 5

location: Studio "Riga-Ritms", Press House, Riga

time + duration: starts 13:00, ends 19:00

costs: free

registration: moritz.wettstein@gmail.com

Friday, August 29, 20:00

 „Black Holes“ – Sound Development City in collaboration with Totaldobze

Press House / Preses Nams

Balasta dambis 3, Kurzemes rajons, Rīga

On August 29th Sound Development City is teaming up with Totaldobze for one of their „Black Holes“ event at the “Totaldobze Art centre”, a temporary venue in the Press House. Several Sound Development City participants will perform on one stage with local artists. As usual, the “Black Holes” event will be an experiment full of surprises. In the first part, artists will performe their already-prepared works, while during the second part they will create a new piece of art by improvising.

http://totaldobze.com/

http://www.facebook.com/events/486815118122697/

Saturday, August 30, 18:00 – 04:00

„Sonic Adventures“

Kaņepes Kultūras centrs, Skolas iela 15, Riga

A night of sonic juxtaposition between local and international artists using all capabilities within modern composition and performance, contrasting the exploration of analog, acoustic and digital production from around the world.

On August 30, 2014, the Sound Development City seeks to establish new connections between experimental and electronic sound artists participating in the expedition, as well as artists from the Latvian scene. The „Sonic Adventures“ night takes listeners on a journey through the wide-open sound worlds and presents artistic positions and strategies beyond the known. The featured artists create undiscovered sounds using the self-made or traditional instruments, innovative technology as well as long forgotten tools to explore the connections between music and art. The night starts out with fragile, fine-tuned performances, and grows louder and denser as the light fades away.

Live: Bernu Rīts (LV), John Grzinich (US/EE), Lee Chapman (UK/LV), Andreas Oskar Hirsch (DE), Sound Meccano (LV), Richard Eigner (AT), Moritz Wettstein / MRZ (CH)

DJs: Selffish (LV), Bombey (LV), Luki + Nik! + Andaloop (CH)

http://www.kanepes.lv/

http://www.facebook.com/events/283000595235148/

Monday, September 1, 20:00

„Listening in Context “ – Final presentation by John Grzinich

Press House / Preses Nams

Balasta dambis 3, Kurzemes rajons, Rīga

“Listening in Context”, explores the intimate role sound plays in our perception and the connections we make to our surroundings through what we hear. The project frames this "audible relationship" through audio-visual portraits of citizens in the city in which they live.

John Grizinich (US/EE) presents his research results and first audiovisual portraits to an interested audience on September 1st at Press House, Riga.

http://sound-development-city.com/now/en/participants-2014/john-grzinich/

http://www.facebook.com/events/1527494977480605/

For more information:

http://sound-development-city.com/now/en/

http://facebook.com/sounddevelopmentcity

Sound Development City is a project by Sound Development (LINK: http://www.sound-development.com/en ), a platform for promotion of, networking of and exchange between artistic and cultural creators. Sound Development City is being developed and organized in collaboration with Heller Enterprises.

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