• DATURA presents Analog X Digital X Analog, a Workshop at ISEA 2015
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ISEA 2015 Workshop – Analog x Digital x Analog

Analog x Digital x Analog
DATURA is offering an interdisciplinary workshop on improvisation and performance on August 15, at ISEA 2015. The workshop is perfect for sound artists, real time media artists and movement artists seeking to expand their skills in real-time interdisciplinary performance practices. Members of the interdisciplinary performance ensemble DATURA will lead the session, with guest artist Julie Akerly from JAMovement.
Analog x Digital x Analog is a full day workshop based on interdisciplinary collaboration and improvisation used to create public performance works. This workshop is modeled on the Stramonium collaboration, the result of a multidisciplinary performance project consisting of dance, analog image processing, computers, sonic sculptures, and woodwinds.

The first phase of the workshop will focus on instrument building, including analog and digital musical instruments, analog media processing instruments, and improvisatory movement development. The second phase will deal with interdisciplinary group improvisation. We will explore the intersection of the physical, the analog and the digital spheres of experience. Our own bodies form lenses of experience, perception, cognition and disruption. In this workshop we will explore the essential role the body plays in negotiating physical habit, cultural experience and embodied sounds and images within the context of improvised performance.

Analog x Digital x Analog is a full day workshop based on interdisciplinary collaboration and improvisation used to create public performance works.

Participants can choose from four discipline/interest areas:

1.) CREATING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FROM FOUND RESOURCES: Joe Willie Smith 

2.) DIGITAL SOUND PRODUCTION: HEARING/CODING: John D. Mitchell and Tony Obr

3.) ANALOG IMAGE PROCESSING – SEEING/REACTING: Chris Ziegler

4.) MOVEMENT CREATION – EMBODIED EXPERIENCE: Julie Akerly

The afternoon session will include an improvisational performance experience.