Call For Participation: Workshop "ALMAT: Algorithms That Matter" Impuls, 10th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music 2017 (http://www.impuls.cc)

with David Pirrò, Hanns Holger Rutz and Agostino Di Scipio

February 11th - 19th, 2017 IEM, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Arts, Graz

Algorithms That Matter (ALMAT) focuses on the experimentation with algorithms and their embedding in live performances. Rather than conceiving algorithms as established building blocks ("live electronics") or the formalisation of a compositional idea ("algorithmic composition"), we look at them as performing entities whose consequences are irreducible to models. Algorithms "matter" in the sense that matter and meaning cannot be distinguished, they may be moulded and they may unfold material in an ecosystemic way: Materials become a new source for transformation.

This workshop seeks to attract computer music practitioners, sound artists and composers by offering a platform for exchange and reflection about their personal approaches towards algorithmic experimentation. The participants are enabled to further develop their approaches, where special emphasis is given to the reciprocal coupling of their respective systems. The workshop starts with an internal presentation of the participants for the other participants and tutors, followed by an in-depth analysis and discussion of the different approaches. The rest of the workshop takes a semi-structured form, open to adaptation to the interests of the participants. Focus will be on the mutual engagement and the production of connecting points between systems, using both data and sound links. At the end, concert slots within the impuls festival are allocated for the participants to present either existing works or new works developed during the workshop.

The workshop will be held at the CUBE performance space of the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM). The CUBE is equipped with a 24-channels periphonic loudspeaker setup for advanced sound spatialisation and an 18-cameras infra-red motion capture system allowing bodily motion to be used as input for sound synthesis and processing.

The workshop Almat was developed by David Pirrò and Hanns Holger Rutz (both IEM Graz) and will be realised together with Agostino Di Scipio.

http://www.impuls.cc/academy-2017/special-programs.html#c3426

ALMAT is part of the 10th international impuls Academy, taking place in Graz, Austria, from February 10th to 22nd, 2017. To register and find out more about impuls and the Academy please visit: http://www.impuls.cc/academy-2017.html

How to apply:

1. You have to register and be accepted as participant of the impuls Academy 2017 first. 2. Please name your interest in participating in ALMAT already with your application or by sending an E-Mail to office(at)impuls(dot)cc (concern: ALMAT). 3. Please send a description of your personal work in relation to the workshop's theme stating your previous experiences and describing employed computational approaches, their aesthetic motivation and possible ideas for connecting to other system (up to 500 words) and a Curriculum Vitae (again 500 words maximum). Please send both part __to office(at)impuls(dot)cc until October 1st, 2016__ at the latest. 4. The selection of participants will be announced by beginning of November 2016. 5. If selected please make sure you bring along your own computer, software, controllers and audio interfaces. 6. Please be aware that the participation at ALMAT requires a daily presence and is to be considered as one of the very intense special programs. This implies that ALMAT participants will not be granted the same amount of individual lessons with other tutors as regular participants.