BUILDING A SPEAKER-INSTRUMENT
with JENNY GRÄF SHEPPARD
07.-09.02.2025
Agerupgård, Samsø

Are you working with sound art, experimental music or sculpture, and would you like to experiment with building a sculpture that can also work as a speaker? Now you have the opportunity to participate in a 3-day workshop with sound artist and researcher Jenny Gräf Sheppard, where we build unpredictable sounding speakers out of found materials like tree branches, bark, stones, wood, metal or other.

Objects with the following properties are especially suitable: firm but flexible like large pieces of bark, very thin but firm plastic sheets, things that have a sound already like large seedpods or thin porcelain or metal. We will also provide some materials to choose from, should you prefer.

At the start of the workshop, we will learn about the historical development of the speaker and its different applications as well as the history of transduction, where one form of energy is converted into another (such as electronic signal to audible sound). In addition we will discuss notions of control and dialogue with energies in instruments, which Gräf herself is invested in.

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BYG ET HØJTTALER-INSTRUMENT
med JENNY GRÄF SHEPPARD
07.-09.02.2025
Agerupgård, Samsø

Arbejder du med lydkunst, eksperimenterende musik eller skulptur, og kunne du tænke dig at eksperimentere med at bygge en skulptur, der også kan fungere som højttaler? Nu har du mulighed for at deltage i en 3-dages workshop med lydkunstner og forsker Jenny Gräf Sheppard, hvor vi bygger uforudsigeligt lydende højttalere af fundne materialer som trægrene, bark, sten, træ, metal m.m..

Genstande med følgende egenskaber er særligt velegnede: faste, men fleksible som store stykker bark, meget tynde, men faste plastikplader, ting, der allerede har en lyd som store frøstande eller tyndt porcelæn eller metal. Der vil også være nogle materialer til stede, hvis du foretrækker det.

VINYL CUTTING WORKSHOP
28.-30. NOVEMBER 2024

Are you working with sound art or experimental music and would you like to experiment with the record medium? Then you now have the chance to take part in a 3-day workshop with composer Jonas Olesen, where we cut sound in CDs, plastic, professional laquer discs, etc.

Together we experiment with which materials soundwise and visually suit the sound being cut. At the start of the workshop, we briefly review the historical development of the vinyl format and the various techniques that can be used. Please note that we work with lo-fi equipment. The focus is on the artistic work with the medium, rather than purely technical.

Jonas Olesen works as a composer with electronic music, sound and installation art. He runs the record company BIN and is a co-founder of the association Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi.

The workshop costs DKK 100 for materials. Please bring sound files on a laptop or usb stick.

Duration: Thursday + Friday from 10-16h (with breaks) and Saturday from 10-12h, after which we finish with a shared lunch. Accommodation and transport for participants from outside Samsø are not included. You can for instance book a room at Agerupgård B&B.

Send a short motivation incl. introduction of yourself and a description of which sounds you want to bring no later than October 27th to terraform.island@gmail.com
Terraform and Sound Art Lab select 10 participants – answers will be received the following week.

The workshop is offered by Terraform and Sound Art Lab, and part of the project “Sounds of the Future”, which is supported financially by Region Midtjyllands Kulturudviklingspulje.

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Vinylskæring workshop

Arbejder du med lydkunst eller eksperimenterende musik, og har du lyst til at eksperimentere med plademediet? Så har du nu chance for at være med til en 3-dages workshop med komponist Jonas Olesen, hvor vi skærer lyd i CD’er, plastic, professionelle laquerdiscs m.m.

Sammen eksperimenterer vi med hvilke materialer der lydligt og visuelt passer til den lyd der skæres. I starten af forløbet gennemgår vi i korte træk den historiske udvikling af vinylformatet, og de forskellige teknikker der kan benyttes. Vær opmærksom på at vi arbejder med lo-fi udstyr. Fokus er på det kunstneriske arbejde med mediet, frem for rent teknisk.

Jonas Olesen arbejder som komponist med elektronisk musik, lyd- og installationskunst. Han driver pladeselskabet BIN og er medstifter af foreningen Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi.

Workshoppen koster 100 kr til materialer. Medbring gerne lydfiler på laptop eller usb stick.

Varighed: torsdag + fredag kl. 10-16 (med pauser) og lørdag kl. 10-12, hvorefter vi afslutter med fælles frokost. Overnatning og transport for deltagere udefra Samsø er ikke inkluderet. Der kan f.eks. bookes i Agerupgård B&B.

Send en kort motivation inkl. introduktion af dig selv og en beskrivelse af hvilke lyde du vil tage med senest den 27. oktober til terraform.island@gmail.com
Terraform og Sound Art Lab udvælger 10 deltagere – svar modtages ugen efter.

Workshoppen er tilrettelagt af Terraform og Sound Art Lab, og er del af samarbejdsprojektet “Sounds of the Future”, støttet af Region Midtjyllands Kulturudviklingspulje.

TERRAFORM 2023

TERRAFORM – IN KNUD VIKTOR’S SOUND TRACKS was a residency program in connection with the exhibition PUT YOUR EARS TO THE GROUND – Sound Painter Knud Viktor on Samsø, where a group of contemporary artists participated in a joint work stay at Agerupgård, Samsø and in Bang & Olufsen’s former research studios at Sound Art Lab, Struer. The four invited artists worked during three weeks with Knud Viktor’s oeuvre and working methods, as a starting point for their own contemporary practice.

Participating artists:

MELISSA VAN DRIE (FR)
is a researcher, performer and writer from France who works with how sound, hearing and listening are important aspects of world-making: how different humans and non-humans use sound to sense and understand their respective environments.

NANNA ELVIN HANSEN (DK)
is an artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, whose practice often focuses on issues related to feminism and migration politics. She often investigates these questions through a collective and collaborative process of film, video and sound production.

SARAH SIKORIE (NO)
is an artist from Oslo who works with sculpture and installation, with a particular interest in the processual formation of our kinship and coexistence with other species. Her works are based on site-specific interactions.

LIEVEN MARTENS (BE)
is an artist from Antwerp, Belgium. He creates conceptual music that hovers between field recordings, ambient, musique concrète and modern composition. He investigates the “sound of islands”, where he has been inspired by the rhythms of archipelagos.

05.08.2023, 6pm
Agerupgård, Agerup 6, 8305 Samsø
Knud Viktor: IMAGE IX – L’ARMOIRE – quadraphonic concert + Akvarel / Boblerne – short film + lecture by Jan Stricker (Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi) + TERRAFORM – I Knud Viktors Lydspor – premieres + Jonas Olesen DJ set and book presentation

Knud Viktor’s quadrophonic work ‘IMAGE IX – L’ARMOIRE’ and short films ‘Akvarel’ and ‘Boblerne’ are this evening going into dialogue with premieres of the four artists’ new sound works. The program is introduced by Jan Stricker, radio host at The Lake and co-founder of record label Institut for Dansk Lydarkæologi, who have published and reissued some of Knud Viktor’s works. This same evening, sound artist and author Jonas Olesen will present his book Pionerer & Outsidere – Dansk Elektronisk Musik 1928-1980 and play music samples with a special focus on Danish electronic composers who have used nature and animal sounds.

Terraform – In Knud Viktor’s Sound Tracks is a collaboration between Sound Art Lab, Samsø Municipality’s Art Council and Terraform.

Curators:
Jenny Gräf Sheppard
Jan Stricker

More info about the Knud Viktor exhibition: https://knudviktorsamsoe.dk

The residency was funded by The Danish Art Foundation, Sonning-Fonden and Art Music Denmark.

TERRAFORM 2021

ADA VAN HOOREBEKE (BE)
ALEXANDER HOLM (DK)
CHRIS SHIELDS (US/IR)
EEVA RÖNKÄ (FIN)
GIJS DEDDENS (NL)
JANI ANDERS PURHONEN (FIN)
WILFRED WAGNER (DK)
ZOË C. MILLER (US)

[EN] Eight international artists have throughout 2021 had the opportunity to live and work on the island for two weeks. They have explored and worked with the island’s resources to experiment, produce and develop new works and publications. A special focus has been put on serial works and multiples, artworks that are produced in several copies and thus can be easily distributed.

In their meeting with the island, technology has served them as a sensory tool, as the artists have used instruments such as metal detectors, surveillance cameras, microphones, scanners and photographic exposure to highlight and document a number of elements specific to the life and nature on Samsø. The results range from original artworks, texts, video and audio recordings to multiples made of different materials such as screen prints, wine, ceramic sculptures and more.

The project received support by Statens Kunstfond and Samsø Municipality.

[DK] Otte internationale kunstnere har i løbet af 2021 haft mulighed for at bo og arbejde på øen i to uger hver. De har udforsket og arbejdet med øens ressourcer for at eksperimentere, producere og udvikle nye værker og udgivelser, hvor der er lagt et særligt fokus på serielle værker og såkaldte multiples, kunstværker der er fremstillet i flere kopier og dermed nemt kan distribueres.

I mødet med øen har teknologi tjent kunstnerne som sensorisk værktøj, idet de har brugt instrumenter som metaldetektorer, overvågningskameraer, mikrofoner, scannere og fotografisk eksponering til at fremhæve og dokumentere en række elementer specifikke for livet og naturen på Samsø. Resultaterne spænder fra originale kunstværker, tekster, video- og lydoptagelser til ​​multiples lavet af forskellige materialer som serigrafiske tryk, vin, keramiske skulpturer m.m.

Projektet har modtaget støtte fra Statens Kunstfond og Samsø Kommune.

About

[EN] TERRAFORM is an artist-in-residency program on the island of Samsø in the danish Kattegat sea. TERRAFORM wants to convey and support innovative artistic practice that is both sustainable and communal. The perspective of the project is to establish permanent workshops for art production with an associated residency program on Samsø, where international artists have the opportunity to enter into dialogue with the island community. In close collaboration with local actors and institutions, the project wants to create a framework in which work can be done in solidarity and art produced locally, with available materials, methods and techniques.

[DK] TERRAFORM er et artist-in-residency program på Samsø. TERRAFORM ønsker at formidle og understøtte en nytænkende kunstnerisk praksis der både er bæredygtig og fællesskabsfremmende. Projektets perspektiv er at etablere permanente værksteder for kunst produktion med et tilknyttet residency program på Samsø, hvor internationale kunstnere har mulighed for at træde i dialog med ø-samfundet. I tæt samarbejde med lokale aktører og institutioner vil projektet skabe rammer hvori der kan arbejdes solidarisk og produceres kunst lokalt, med tilgængelige materialer, metoder og teknikker.

Contact us here:
terraform.island@gmail.com

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