Our research team visited Denmark, Western Australia to participate in Brave New Works, a creative arts festival that encourages experimentation and champions local performers, providing opportunities for artists to test out new ideas and share experimental works. We collaborated with local artists to run two workshops and a performance.
Lo-fi Sampler Workshop
Participants in the Lo-fi Sampler workshop built a simple sampler based on old answering machine components. Although this sampler can only play one sound at a time, looping options and a pitch knob, make it a fun instrument to play with.
Manipulating the Sound Workshop
Local collaborators ran this complementary workshop which looked at the history of sound manipulation across a variety of mediums and gave hands-on experience editing sound with the audio software Reaper.
Found Sound performance
Six participants from the lo-fi Sampler workshop performed on stage at Brave New Works Festival, led by a visual score written by a local musician. This non-traditional way of creating a musical composition allows for a response to the score without a music background.
Brave New Works is a unique festival that celebrates creativity in Denmark with a diversity in age and gender. It was wonderful to see a festival fostering talent and community and we were very lucky to be involved.