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MAY WORKSHOPS facilitated by Ableton x Sound Queer? x Hyperreality

Jung An Tagen – How to game yourself with dicing 

Thursday, 18th of May, 2:30PM – 5PM

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jung-an-tagen-how-to-game-yourself-with-dicing-tickets-631336122337

Simple aleatoric/stochastic (random) systems in the spirit of “Cut-Up” to reach beyond intention. From polyrhythmics to MIDI-arrays, instruments and effect chains. I will take a look at the random/chance possibilities in the vanilla version of Ableton 11 and use them to build an acid track and do some noise synthesis.

This workshop is aimed towards intermediates.

Please bring a Laptop with Ableton 11 and headphones! If you work with Live 10 we encourage you to get the test version of 11 since most chance tools were introduced here.
Backed up by 2 decades of discographic activity under diverse pseudonyms and multiple collaborations on labels such as Editions Mego and Diagonal, Stefan Juster performs tirelessly at Festivals like Unsound or Sonic Acts, researching the boundaries of techno and dissociative computer music. Testing strategies of physical disorientation and forceful sonic phenomena, encouraging minds and bodies to calculate and intuit their own place in spacetime. It’s addictive music. Music in constant explosion.

Ableton User Group Meet up with Zosia Holubowska
Thursday, 18 of May , 6 PM - open ended
Hotel Ruby
free admission

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ableton-user-group-meet-up-w-zosia-houbowska-gentle-feedback-session-tickets-631330154487

Last year thanks to Hyperreality, Ableton Live, and Sounds Queer? joined forces to establish a queer-centered user group. The idea is to create a safer space for nerds and geeks to exchange tips and learn the software in a more horizontal way. This session will
focus on gentle feedback, a practice developed by the SQ? collective to help fellow artists get inspired and finish their tracks. The idea is to bring an unfinished project and get constructive criticism and encouragement from peers and the facilitator. The session will be run by Zosia Holubowska, founder and curator of SQ?; a self-thought producer and composer who strives to share their knowledge and become a certified trainer one day.

Sounds Queer? is a Vienna-based collective working on the intersection of electronic music, sound art, and queer activism. They share knowledge and tools because they believe music can create a safer space to exchange experiences and express yourself. A synthesizer can be a feminist spaceship to challenge rules in music and social norms. They organize workshops, collective jams, performances, and shows.

Zosia Holubowska is a non-binary sound artist, queer music activist, researcher, and producer. They work on topics of queering archives, healing practices, and interspecies intimacy. They create performances, sound installations, and radio works and compose soundscapes for dance performances. In 2022 together with Julia Giertz, they premiered an immersive audio ritual Community of Grieving, commissioned by Unsound and Elevate Festival. They have completed residencies at MONOM (DE), U-Jazdowski Castle (PL), Kuomo Turku (FI), and Tanzfabrik (DE). Their work has been presented at Mumok (AT), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (ES), and la Gaîté Lyrique (FR). Since 2016 they curate Sounds Queer? a project dedicated to empowering marginalized groups through electronic music. They live and work in Vienna.

❗OPEN CALLL ❗

SOUNDS QUEER?: KINDNESS

Hybrid residency for Vienna-based emerging sound artists

SQ? Collective invites applications for our first artist residency. We are looking for 3 emerging sound artists based in Vienna, who would like to produce a max 20 min piece responding to the topic of KINDNESS. We are interested in various interpretations of the theme, related to individuals, communities, plants, animals, soil, water, and fungi. Final pieces can be in either stereo or binaural format. Sounds Queer? will then create a collective podcast and pitch to different community radio as well as present the works as a sound installation during Sonic Territories in November.

We offer three slots:

Slot 1 01.06 - 15.07

Slot 2 15.07 - 31.08

Slot 3 01.09 - 15.10

during which the artist in residence can lend anything from our equipment (different synthesizers, monitors, sound interface, it might be possible to organize a computer with Ableton Live too). We also offer a 700 euro fee (brutto, on an Invoice basis) for each artist.

The selected artists are obliged to attend a kick-off meeting on 01.06. They can also ask for a support/ feedback session with the curator of the project Zosia Holubowska.

We invite applications from Vienna-based artists, who identify as female, femme, queer, trans, non-binary, agender, intersex, or gender non-conforming. We specifically welcome applications from people who experience intersectional discrimination based on ethnicity, country of origin, legal status, mental health, race, disability, working-class background, unemployment, and impoverishment. No age limit.

Deadline for applications: 30.04.2023

Decision: 15.05.2023

Application link:

https://forms.gle/7HXN9A9YKF31SBMg9

We ask you to write a short bio, motivation to applying with a few thoughts on the topic as well as send us one link to a 5-10 min work that best represents your practice now.

Workshop with Mary C and AGF — HOW TO BE IN THIS WORLD

Organising otherwise - access, care and mutual help in music

WHAT?

Workshop with Mary C.

Marie Čtveráčková aka Mary C is a musician and DJ, curator and co-founder of Synth Library Prague. She is interested in the possibilities of music education and the social and political context of music and sound in general. Her selections focus mainly on rap, edgy electro, house and various experimental sound art and melancholic to dark undertones.

soundcloud.com/maryc

instagram.com/sugarcubist

WHEN?

07.04.2023  at 6 pm

WHERE?

Vienna, exact space will be announced when you are registered

HOW TO JOIN?

Send an email with your name & email subject: workshop 0704 to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com

We will send you the details to pay the fee of 10 € and then a follow up confirmation.

WE ARE BACK

After coordinating and organizing for the past months we are back and happy with an amazing program full of different workshops and residencies for 2023!
We are starting with the first workshop and open call beginning of April, so stay tuned for more info ^^.

Ableton User Group

Join us at Lazy Life at 17:00h

Our goal is to create a safer space to share tips and tricks and give each other constructive and gentle feedback. The project prioritizes women, girls, femmes, queers, trans, intersex, gender-nonconforming, and non-binary people but there's no identity policy. Everyone is welcome! We encourage you to reflect upon your own privileges regarding access to knowledge and tech tools. Our philosophy is to hold the space for others and their experiences and of course "sharing is caring"! There will be a Bluetooth speaker and a projector in case you want to share what you are working on and a bunch of Ableton merch ;-)

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Benefit Compilation Tape 2019

We have prepared a very special tape compilation with odd, weird and queer and mostly unpublished tracks by former SQ? teachers and supporters: Aja Ireland, Masha Dabelka artist, Zdrada Pałki Waterflower, Qeei and Carlin Dally, and the three of us, Mala Herba, Matte/Glossy and Krach. All profits are directly supporting our project. You can get it at our space or sending us an e-mail. You can listen to it here in our bandcamp.

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Benefit Compilation Tape 2021

We created the tape to showcase new ideas on electronic music inspired by queer practices. Bookers of the world, listen to these new talents and get them a gig! :)

It was released on the 12th of May at Central Garden with the performances of Selin Karaman, Daphne Xanthopoulou and Sounds of the Slaughterhouse. You can get a copy at our events and listen to it in our bandcamp.

This project was founded by the city of Vienna.