Workshop I: Open Cities
Instructors: David Gunn and Guillermo Brown
Incidental
Registration Fee: €20
Date: October 14
Time: 1-5pm–tentative
Presentation of work: October 16, PM
Location: University of Porto
Language: English
Summary: This workshop will operate as a collaborative recording session where we collect sounds to be used to create a show which will be presented by Gunn and Brown later in the festival schedule. It will be a loosely structured recording walk across a selected part of the city using mobile recording equipment.
David Gunn is the Director of Incidental, an organization specializing in cross-disciplinary work including websites, installations and performances. His work focuses upon using new media to explore notions of authorship, establishing forms of “diffuse creativity” where the lines between reading and writing, artist and audience are significantly blurred.
Guillermo E. Brown is a multidisciplinary performer (text, video, theatre), musician (drums, electronics, voice), and producer. Brown is featured on over 25 recordings, performing or recording with David S. Ware, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Dave Burrell, Anti-Pop Consortium, Anthony Braxton, DJ Spooky, Vernon Reid/DJ Logic’s Yohimbe Brothers, Mike Ladd, George Lewis, and Vijay Iyer, among others. His albums include “Soul at the Hands of the Machine,” “The Beat Kids’ Open Rhythm System,” “Black Dreams 1.0,” and “Handheld.” A graduate of Wesleyan University (BA) and Bard College (MFA), he is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music and Gallatin School of Independent Study.
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