Build an Electronic Bat Detector

Thursday, 2 June 2022 at 7:00 PM
This workshop is in partnership with the Art Gallery of Regina.

Spaces are limited!
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/build-an-electronic-bat-detector-tickets-337590411007

Ernie Dulanowski of holophon audio arts will guide you through the process of building and using an electronic bat detector. This workshop is suitable for those without electronics experience.

The cost of the workshop includes all the electronics components required to build a bat detector. The completed bat detector is yours to keep and track bats with!

Participants may choose to join the free Bat Sighting Nature Walk following the workshop from 8-10 pm. The walk is led by Mark Brigham, Professor in the department of Biology at the University of Regina. Professor Brigham counts bats among his research interests and will direct participants to observe the nocturnal animals with calls outside the range of human hearing.

EVENT: Build An Electronic Bat Detector

DATE: Thursday, June 2

TIME: 7-8 PM

LOCATION: Art Gallery of Regina, 2420 Elphinstone Street, Regina

COST: $40

All children must be accompanied by an adult who takes responsibility for children's safety and conduct.

Participants are encouraged to check-in at the Art Gallery of Regina (inside the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, 2420 Elphinstone Street) 15 minutes before the start time. NO special equipment is required. If you will join the free Balt Walk following the Bat Detector workshop, please dress for outdoor activity and wear walking shoes.

This walk is part of Linda Duvall and Jillian McDonald’s community-engaged art project for the Art Gallery of Regina, Messages from the Rocks – Stories of the Invisible. The artists invite people to imagine and share stories of the unseen forces that animate the land.

Nature walks direct attention to animals that we may not normally observe, spirits that live on the land and the un-observable slowness of geological change. Their project acknowledges non-Western systems of knowledge and the transformative power of imagination.

To learn more about free, creative and interactive ways to connect to Messages from the Rocks – Stories of the Invisible, visit www.artgalleryofregina.ca

Zoom Listening Session: Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnik

Silver Apples of the Moon is the debut album by American composer and musician Morton Subotnick, released by Nonesuch Records in July 1967. It contains the titular composition which is divided into two parts. A showcase for the Buchla 100 synthesizer, an early analogue synthesizer that the composer helped develop, it was the first piece of electronic music commissioned by a record company.

Upon release, Silver Apples of the Moon became a surprise success, selling well in the classical music category, and received critical acclaim. The record has since gone on to be considered a milestone in electronic music; it was the first album to feature a voltage-based synthesizer and the first piece of both classical and electronic music written specifically for the album format. The album's sequenced rhythms are credited with anticipating electronic dance music, and today the record is considered to be Subotnick's signature work. In a 1992 list, The Wire considered the album to be among the 100 most important albums ever, and in 2009, the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry.[3]

Join our ZOOM listening event of this classic album on April 19th 2022 at 8pm CST (see link below)

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/320355380567

We as waves - by Erin Gee

We as Waves will be presented as part of the Holophon listening station at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library Central Branch until Mat 16, 2022.

We as Waves is my poetic interpretation of ideas put forth by Tara Rodgers in her essay "Towards a feminist epistemology of sound: Refiguring Waves in Audio-Technical discourse." In this work, Rodgers pushes back against the Western ideal of the sine wave as the basis for all sound: instead she emphasises transduction and connection as fundamental to sonic experience. I collaborated with queer playright Jena McLean to translate these ideas into an evocative text for sensually layered electronic music I constructed through transformations of my whispers and gentle taps, crunches, and crinkles, grounding my exploration of feminist thought, sonic physics, hypnotism in sonic aesthetics of sensuality, vulnerability, transductive relationality, and dark humor.

Performing simple, engaging instructions and sonic "triggers," I consider the ways that audience bodies and the performance space itself extends my voice and hand-manipulated sounds into a shared sonics that are physiological and affective, drawing awareness to how music connects to the body and mind in playful and abstract ways. I consider psychosomatic practices of ASMR, hypnotism, EMDR gestures, and sensory reprogramming as a critical extension to the technologies of biofeedback: integrating performative and gendered acts of care, therapy, social interaction, intimacy, and unconscious sensory feedback into electroacoustic experience.

Bio

Erin Gee is an artist and composer born in Regina and currently based in Montreal. Through her work, Gee hybridizes new media, art-science and performance into unique artworks that foreground unconscious and affect-driven experience – the physiology of emotion, hypnotism, feminist theory and the placebo effect are her current inspirations. Working with the human voice as a conceptual object, she likens the vibration of vocal folds to electricity and data across systems, or vibrations across matter. She is a DIY expert in affective biofeedback, using sensors to implicate the body of the listener as part of her cybernetic systems in sound. Her work in vocal composition, networked performance, ASMR, VR, AI and robotics has been shown at venues such as MacKenzie Art Gallery (CA), Akousma Festival (CA), LEV Festival (ES), MUTEK (CA/ES/AR), Darling Foundry (CA), Toronto Biennale (CA), Elektra Festival (CA), FILE festival (BR), Ars Electronica (AT), NRW Forum (DE), and MediaLive Festival (US). 

https://eringee.net/

Matt Carr Workshop

WORKSHOP

Working within the theme of the unintentional, we will be using various machines to create and augment impromptu sounds that we will collect and sculpt in a digital environment. Our aim will be to sculpt the sound musically or, at the very least, rhythmically. We will explore the anomalous qualities of various machines including music gear, home audio equipment, and amateur recording equipment. 

 The core function of this creative process involves routing various machines together with cables and taking digital snapshots of the resulting audio. The route will finish at an audio interface to bring our sounds into a computer. Attendees may follow along with their own collection of machines including, but not limited to: mixing boards/consoles, home stereo equipment, guitar pedals, FM transmitters + radios with output capabilities, equalizers, and hardware compressors. Attendees will also need many cables on hand.

 Attendees will need an audio interface to capture any sounds created with said machines. If attendees do not have an audio interface, a sampler or tape machine can be used, but sculpting capabilities will be limited.

Register Here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/holophon-workshop-pedal-play-with-psst-shh-tickets-256228445177

BIO:

Matthew Carr is an artist, educator, tinkerer, songwriter, and aspiring storyteller living on Treaty 4 land in Regina, Saskatchewan. Matthew is a self-taught musician playing instruments and singing in various local bands. As a crucial part to his creative process, and as a means of meditation, he walks throughout the city for hours at a time as often as possible (with a guitar, when the weather permits).

 Since 2003, Matthew has been exploring and experimenting with various sound making and sound manipulation techniques, and publishing work under the name Psst Shh through small independent labels, netlabels, and independently. Works span from sound collage, noise, and ambient music to electronica, techno, and pop. The process of the music is of utmost importance, with unique approaches to creativity and collaboration being mandatory. Matthew is passionate about human rights, the environment, design, movies, sound art, and food, and he is working on untangling a very large ball of cables.