Composition beyond Music – Workshop with Peter Ablinger (Darmstadt, DE)

After his workshops in Graz (AT) for the impuls academy and festival, and in Vitasaari (FI) for Time of Music, the 47th International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt (DE) will be the next place where Peter Ablinger will work with young international artists on new works using sound, in situ.

After a first encounter with Peter Ablinger in Darmstadt in April 2014, in order to prepare the summer course, the participants will come back from 2nd to 16th August 2014.

Please have a look at some photos from their public presentation, including installations and performances.

You can discover the video shooted by Christine Schörkhuber during the workshop on our youtube channel.

“Composition beyond Music” by no means excludes “music”, but above all it is an opportunity to reflect on presentation forms for acoustic works, for sound compositions that go beyond the classic concert setup. This is a course for artists representing different disciplines, who will work together in creating installations or performances at different locations in Darmstadt.

Field recordings, site-specific compositions and installations, the presentation of sounds, sound production as a social pattern, the essentials of sound and music, music without sounds, technology and research into source material, the body in music, archaeoacoustics, sound and other media, perception and reality – these are just some of the potential themes to be explored, elaborated, and presented by the participants in their own works in this workshop series that combines theory and practice. The direction and focus of each workshop will ultimately be determined by the individual concepts and ideas of the participants and also depends on the available venues.

The workshop is meant to encourage the critical analysis of musical preconditions and practices so that the participants will be inspired to discover alternative forms of sounds and listening through the aesthetic examination of such practices.

Consequently, the workshop is not only open to composers, sound artists and musicians but also to participants from other disciplines, provided that they are interested in making reference to or integrating sound into their work. (Peter Ablinger)

The workshop is a special project developed by impuls and set up within the EU project and network Ulysses and will be organised also by four partners of impuls (Gaudeamus Muziekweek, NL, Utrecht / IMD, DE, Darmstadt / IRCAM, FR, Paris / Time of Music, FI, Vitasaari) during the upcoming three years (with different participants in four different places of course). The results of all workshops will then be compiled (for documentation use respectively further presentations in the format of videos respectively other formats being developed during the process) and represent different perspectives on the topic by approximately 40 international young composers/artists taking into consideration also the site-specific conditions of each place respectively specifics of each workshop and organisation.

In cooperation with :

Christine Schörkhuber – video documentation

Daniel Seitz – production manager