Open doors-electroacoustic music department@Arts²-April 29th

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Calendar Event: April 29, 2015

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During Arts² - Mons Royal Conservatory’s open doors on April 29th, the electroacoustic music department will let you discover the Master's degree in acousmatic composition through several activities:

1. An open course in sound synthesis techniques (from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.)

Come and discover how the students from first grade (B1) in acousmatic composition learn how to use sound synthesis software (course taught by Roald Baudoux).

“How do the modules of a synthesizer function ?”, “How to connect them in order to create sounds and sequences ?”, “How to connect a synthesis tool to a gesture control interface ?” are the key questions for this B1 course.

2. A non-stop demo of musical instrument-making with software (from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.)

Benjamin Thigpen will demo examples of instruments made by software (Max/MSP).

It’s about inventing and building “electroacoustic instruments” by oneself using (among other things) the computer’s unlimited potential. These instruments for the sound creation and transformation are totally personal, thus reflecting their inventor’s creativity and aesthetics. They can be used both for composition in studio and for performance in concert.

Examples will be chosen among projects developed during the Music computing, environments and languages, Electroacoustic instrumentation and Interactive techniques courses, and also from B. Thigpen’s own work as composer and electronic musician. They should give a good idea of those course’s contents for the master 1 and master 2 grades.

3. A presentation by Clément Parmentier, graduated with a Masters’s degree in acousmatic composition and currently thesis student in arts and sciences of art (5 p.m.)

Acousmatic composer as well electronic musician under the alias Clem Seiswork, Clément Parmentier obtained a Master’s degree in acousmatic composition from Arts². Afterwards he has begun to write a PhD thesis about the representation of specific mental states (delirium, hallucination) in audio-visual art. He will discuss the process that led him to the curriculum in acousmatic composition and to the writing of a PhD thesis.

Location:

Studios 4 and 5/6, 2nd floor, right wing of Carré des Arts’s building, 4a rue des Sœurs noires, 7000 Mons - BELGIUM.

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