KHOJ INTERNATIONAL SOUND RESIDENCY
(NOV 1- 30th, 2006)
'Sound art' has emerged as a media that challenges the defined categories of sound /art /visual art /music /science /engineering. Creative experiments with sound play on the fringes of our often-unconscious aural experience in spaces.
The four-week intensive KHOJ International Sound Residency between Nov 10 to 30, 06 is focused at exploring the nexus between technology, sound-scapes and creativity.
Sonic practitioners of divergent sensibilities, and different takes on sound are being invited and through the month will explore their work and the different sonic possibilities in India.
PARTICIPANT Artists ::::>
Michael Northam ( Shruti Baba ) - USA + Slovenial
His work is the continuation of more than 15 years active art-life-travel which has brought him to visit, work with, and learn from over 90 artists from over 50 locations in 25 countries. Currently using specially prepared instruments such as the Magnetic Table Harp as well as computer processing, prepared recordings (such as frying potatoes, roasting seeds and walks/climbing through various plants) and a range of sounding objects Michael explores the no-man's land between improvisation and acousmatic composition.
Sophea Lerner – Australia
Sophea Lerner is an australian sonic media artist and broadcaster currently working between Australia, Finland, and India. Her work brings together experience in group devised physical performance with 15 years of experimental radio and new media art into a collaborative art practice, which explores mediated temporal experience. Lerner's radio making encompasses intricately composed radiophonic projects as well as engineering and production and collectively devised, rapidly executed semi-improvised live broadcasts. Community and creative networks are integral to collaborative aspects of her practice.
Alexis Bhagat - USA /India
Alexis Bhagat is a sound-artist from New York and co-editor of SOUND GENERATION, a collage of interviews with 21 contemporary sound artists, forthcoming from Autonomedia.
Masta Justy - Chennai (India)
Jatin Vidyarthi a.k.a. masta' justy -DJ / producer and musical explorer- makes electronic music in a wide variety of styles - break-beat, ambient electronica, techno, hip hop, digital glitch, drone sound, dub and house. As one of the first DJ / producers to pump the underground music scene in India, Masta Justy experiments with novel, complexly textured sounds that evolve through Indian classical music, ambient electronica and Tamil film soundtracks from the 70’s and 80’s. Masta Justy’s soundcsapes encourage you to pay attention to how you listen, and to experiment with new ways of listening.
Cynthia Zaven - Lebanon
Cynthia Zaven is a pianist, composer and installation artist living and working in Lebanon. Zaven has composed music for internationally touring film since 1993 including, The Last Man by Ghassan Salhab (2005), 9 Years Later (2004) a short experimental film by Dima el-Horr, Van Express (2004) by Elie Khalifé and Noble Sacrifice, a documentary film by Vatché Boulghourjian. She also composed music for theater and video installations that toured among other festivals the Bilbao Theater Festival in Spain, the Zuercher Teaterspektakel in Zurich and performed live at the Klangturm (Sound Tower) with Andres Bosshard, live electronics.
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