BERLIN - Sound Studies Lecture No11

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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
ich würde mich sehr freuen, Sie bei der nächsten Lecture begrüßen zu dürfen am

Montag, den 8. Februar 2010 - 19:00 Uhr

Universität der Künste Berlin
Sound Studies - Akustische Kommunikation
Zentralinstitut für Weiterbildung

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Berlin-Wilmersdorf
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Mit herzlichen Grüßen
--- Martin Supper

Sound Studies Lectures

John Richards
Finding the Dirt in the Machine

Since 2003, John Richards has been exploring the
idea of 'dirty electronics' through performance,
writings and workshops. Dirty electronics refers
to an approach in electronic music that is
directly opposed to those found in mass produced
digital culture and includes some of the
following characteristics: designer trash, ugly,
cheap, heavy, hand-made, designed to be handled
or to come in contact with the body, ready-mades,
hacked, bent, fedback and kitsch. Can the idea of
'dirt' be seen as a critical ingredient in the
process of creating electronic music?

John Richards' work explores performing with
self-made instruments and the creation of
interactive environments. He has worked with many
leading improvisers and musicians in the field of
live electronics, and is a founder member of
electro-noise improvisers kREEPA, and the
post-punk group Sand (Soul Jazz Records). Since
2005, he has directed the Dirty Electronics
Ensemble, giving workshops and performances
internationally that has included collaboration
with Japanese noise artist Merzbow, Pauline
Oliveros, Howard Skempton and Chris Carter from
Throbbing Gristle. He performs regularly with Nic
Bullen as Black Galaxy and kREEPA, as well as
releasing solo material on Bullen's label monium.
In 2007, he released a piece on Gabriel
Prokofiev's nonclassical label for piano and
electronics performed by GéNIA with re-mixes by
Vex'd and Max De Wardener amongst others. Recent
work includes collaboration with Tim Wright as
sevenlegspider developing systems for live
performance, installations, and music for
Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara.

He has written numerous articles on hybridity,
post-digital theory and dirty electronics: DIY
and bricolage approaches to working with sound.
John Richards completed a doctorate in
electroacoustic composition at the University of
York in 2002, and he is currently part of the
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre
at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Was sind Sound Studies? Die öffentlichen Sound
Studies Lectures geben einen Einblick in die
künstlerischen, wissenschaftlichen,
gestalterischen und konzeptuellen Fragestellungen
der Akustischen Kommunikation, die am
Masterstudiengang Sound Studies - Akustische
Kommunikation erkundet und gelehrt werden.
Internationale Expertinnen und Experten
beleuchten historische Strömungen und
gegenwärtige Arbeitsweisen.

http://www.jsrichards.com