The second week of the residency. On monday we met Iris Garrelfs http://irisgarrelfs.com
At this session we started to work on and shape some several audio files and to find the opportunities that may happen during the process of forming sounds and use them. It's not like what you listen in your head and you make it practical. It's about what happens during this process which inspires and impresses you so you may form a completely new sound than what was in your head.
The software we were working with was Audacity which is free and everyone could download it. In the start the limitations and the basic form of the software may be unpleasant. But after a while this limitations may let you hear some new sounds you make. I know it may be a bit difficult to understand but try it and you will see. just keep workin and you will have a completely different sound than what you used to have before in the end. At the end Iris mixed all of our 5 projects and this is it:
https://soundcloud.com/iris-garrelfs/six-pillars Thank to her.
In the evening we met Chris Weaver https://twitter.com/cjohnweaver which runs the radio channel Resonance FM http://resonancefm.com which is a radio channel that broadcasts back the Experimental and kinda more avant guard form of the musics and has a great role in distributing this kind of music. It did support the residency too. Chris just told us how to make a noise device. It was just like crazy. We all built some devices which had 3 to 6 knobs to be controlled and could make a wide range of noises controlling the nobs! There was some map and some electronical stuff and we all build them up with his guidance. I just asked him and This device could be more complicated and could make much more noises. You just gotta keep digging it. I will try to find the info and map in details and post them on the blog.
After that we just went to Resonance FM christmas party which was SUPER FUN! Free drinks and many lovely people who we met and talk. Even we just met many guys from the Vortex. Such an exciting night it was.
On tues 17th we had a session with Tamina Mir http://www.linkedin.com/in/taminam About social networking. She just talked about several networks which one could introduce him or herself through them. Twitter, Facebook, Soundcloud, LinkedIn and even a website to control them all together which was very handy: Hootsuite.com
This session could be very useful indeed. Cause if one wants to be heard social networking is one of the best ways.
After that in the evening we met Ehsan Ziyaeddiny who is kinda expert in many musical software like Abelton and Max and... He talked about some randomization in music and the thing that many time the computer could do this hard job automatically for us. Actually the software which were used in the session was Abelton and he thought us how to work with several of its options and randomize the Drums and LFOs and... It was quite useful.
Later in the night we went to Cafe Oto http://twitter.com/cafeoto where John Tilbury did one of Samuel Beckett`s. He just read it and played it on piano. Amazing! After that he played another piece of music on piano which really impressed me. Honestly I liked it more than the first part. I sometime could guess what's coming on and It was just like I was floating in the music. Fantastic.
On wed 18th In the morning we had a session with Doug Shearer who is a known mastering expert and had worked with (Kasabian, Gorillaz and Jamelia). It was the thing that many musicians in Iran were seeking for. I did note every word so I could tell my fellows in the workshops how to do this. We worked with logic and some of Its own plugins. The interesting thing is in the software part of the mastering, in Iran we have everything and there is no lack of the softwares (Despite the analog hardwares which have a huge difference and are so expensive). He used many of the softwares that I or my fellows used to use before in Iran which was really surprising for me. Thought he just did some great explanations about the sound and how to control and make it better which was really professional and helpful. I really enjoyed this class.
Ok, In the end I gotta say that there are so many things to talk about. So there is gonna be more posts. I just don't wanna make this one too long and boring. Look forward for the upcoming ones!
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