Vitamin s presents improvisation workshops

Sunday August 3 Mark Trayle
6PM Wine Cellar Back room $5

Collector/Emitter
Listening and Performing with Electronics

A workshop for anyone using electronics to make improvised/experimental music, and their friends.
On the way to making an evening concert we'll work with gesture, texture, and timing in an ensemble of electronic instruments.
Bring your own laptops, analog synths, effects pedals, home-brewed circuits, hot-wired mixers, MP3 players, bent toys, and what the hell, radios. And some amplification, too.

Mark will also perform Sat 2nd August solo, and with Richard Francis, and Paul Winstanley.
Supported by group V – Luke Munn, Jim Gardener, Joe McCullum, John Bell and Derek Tearne

$5 wine cellar back room
8:30pm

BIO

Mark Trayle has been playing live electronic music since the late 1970s.
Recent collaborators include Muhal Richard Abrams, Boris Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians, David Behrman, Jason Kahn, Toshi Nakamura, Wadada Leo Smith, and The Hub.

http://music.calarts.edu/~met

Improvisation is an exciting, and highly valuable tool within the performing arts disciplines to generate new ideas and possibilities for new work.Â

Vitamin S Improvisation Workshops are for anybody who wishes to engage and learn about the practice of improvisation.

Whether you are a dancer, sound artist, musician, designer, painter, puppeteer, sculptor theatre practitioner or graphic artist, etc - if you are interested in improvisation these workshops are for you. We also welcome anyone to attend as an observer. If you are interested in what it is all about, then please do come along.

These workshops are open forums promoting dialogue between the host and those attending. This is an awesome chance to develop concepts, exercises, and ideas introduced by the host and performed within the group; as well as inviting discussion and feedback.

Whatever level you are at from the novice to the expert, the workshops offer everybody the chance to swap ideas and practice this largely misunderstood form.

Amazing results occur regularly.

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