Heroines of Sound: Wax & Wane – Exploring Sounds in Beeswax Records
Workshop with JD Zazie & Karin Weissenbrunner
Workshop Festival
© Wax & Wane
Ticket Prices
6 Euros // Free admission for holders of Day Tickets or Festival Pass.
Due to limited capacity, we kindly ask day ticket and festival pass holders to register by phone at +49 (0)30 288 788 588 or by e-mail to ticket@radialsystem.de.
Experiment with beeswax and participate in making a beeswax record – either as a negative imprint of an existing record or with a 'toy record cutter'. The workshop will provide you with practical information on this process while exploring new sonorities by giving voice to the material itself. We will question the common material for records – polyvinyl chloride, short PVC –, and share the sonic ideas that have led us toward malleable materials that can be sculpted, molded and recycled. The grooves in this unstable material are extremely transitory which, in fact, makes the whole endeavor about decomposition. Another focus of this workshop will be on honey bees within their urban surroundings in Berlin, which contributes to the wax’s unique olfactory, optical and tactile qualities. The workshop will also cover field recordings and experimental turntable practices. We will show how to record the sounds of bees in relation to their context and various techniques for mixing beeswax records.
Cast
Workshop
JD Zazie
Karin Weissenbrunner
Biographien
Wax & Wane is a collaboration between JD Zazie and Karin Weissenbrunner. JD Zazie is an avant-garde turntablist, experimental DJ, sound artist and curator and completed her master’s degree in Sound Studies at Berlin University of the Arts. She focuses on experimental electronic music, constantly expanding the conventions of turntablism, musique concrète, free improvisation and composed music. Karin Weissenbrunner has a doctorate in music from City University of London. She follows her interests in sound art, broken media, DIY, materiality, and post-human concepts as a curator. She is also active as an experimental turntablist in the duo Sage Thrashers with Stefanie Loveday, propelling conjunctions of synthesized and concrete sounds into spheres of mimetic transformation.
Language
English
Credits
Heroines of Sound 2023 is supported by Hauptstadt Kulturfonds, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin.
In cooperation with Radialsystem, Errant Sound, Berliner Künstler*programm DAAD, Goethe Institut, Sonoscopia (Porto), Frequenz Festival (Kiel), Musica Electronica Nova (Wrocław), Spor Festival (Aarhus), female:pressure, Institut für Medienarchäologie (AT).
Media partners: Exberliner, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, Berlin Art Link.
Experiment with beeswax and participate in making a beeswax record – either as a negative imprint of an existing record or with a 'toy record cutter'. The workshop will provide you with practical information on this process while exploring new sonorities by giving voice to the material itself. We will question the common material for records – polyvinyl chloride, short PVC –, and share the sonic ideas that have led us toward malleable materials that can be sculpted, molded and recycled. The grooves in this unstable material are extremely transitory which, in fact, makes the whole endeavor about decomposition. Another focus of this workshop will be on honey bees within their urban surroundings in Berlin, which contributes to the wax’s unique olfactory, optical and tactile qualities. The workshop will also cover field recordings and experimental turntable practices. We will show how to record the sounds of bees in relation to their context and various techniques for mixing beeswax records.
Cast
Workshop
JD Zazie
Karin Weissenbrunner
Biographies
Wax & Wane is a collaboration between JD Zazie and Karin Weissenbrunner. JD Zazie is an avant-garde turntablist, experimental DJ, sound artist and curator and completed her master’s degree in Sound Studies at Berlin University of the Arts. She focuses on experimental electronic music, constantly expanding the conventions of turntablism, musique concrète, free improvisation and composed music. Karin Weissenbrunner has a doctorate in music from City University of London. She follows her interests in sound art, broken media, DIY, materiality, and post-human concepts as a curator. She is also active as an experimental turntablist in the duo Sage Thrashers with Stefanie Loveday, propelling conjunctions of synthesized and concrete sounds into spheres of mimetic transformation.
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