Ernst Karel makes electroacoustic music and experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, and collaborates with filmmakers and artists in making audiovisual work. Video with multichannel sound collaborations include Ah humanity! (with Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel) and Single Stream (with Toby Lee and Pawel Wojtasik). Recent nonfiction films on which he has done sound work include The Iron Ministry, Manakamana, and Leviathan, all produced in the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University, where he teaches a class in sonic ethnography.
Glyphs (Music from Martin's Tape Archive)Glyphs (Music from Martin's Tape Archive) is a new quadraphonic concert work comprised entirely from unreleased and rarely heard reel to reels from the archive of electroacoustic composer Martin Bartlett, which were digitized by Luke Fowler as part of his research process in making Electro-Pythagorus. The works included in this composition cover Bartlett's entire career highlighting the diversity of his electronic compositions; beginning initially in the 60s with homemade analogue devices, working with Buchla boxes from the 70s, and from the 80s onward dedicating his energies to FM synthesis using self-designed software environments exploring microtonal tunings tables and the interaction between computers and performers. Martin taught electronic and world music at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Bartlett was a founding member of the cross-media artists run space The Western Front, He was part of an international live computer music scene and also wrote and performed shadow plays across Europe with the Canada Shadows.
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The programme for Sunday 26 February is built around the premiere of Luke Fowler’s new film Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett, a co-production of Sonic Acts and Stedelijk Museum.Workshop by Ernst Karel - Through Sonic Ethnography
Tue 21 Feb - Wed 22 Feb
10:00 - 18:00
STEIM
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This two-day workshop will focus on what we might consider an ethnographic approach to the yoked practices of recording and composing.
SIMILAR ARTISTS
Fri 24 Feb
Stedelijk Museum
Amy Cimini is a historian and performer of music from the 20th and 21st centuries. She earned her Ph.D. in Historical Musicology in 2011 from New York University.
Amy Cimini
Sun 26 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Luke Fowler is an artist, filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee.