In conjunction with Experimental Sound Studio and the CLEAT Series we continue our series of artist-led introduction workshops exploring spatial audio.
The workshops are approximately 2 hours and will begin with a demonstration and discussion of each individual artist’s approach to multichannel sound. In the second half of the workshops, participants will have an opportunity to experiment with multichannel sound techniques on the 16-channel CLEAT system installed at Elastic.
No prior experience with multichannel sound necessary! You will need to bring your own laptop to actively participate in the second half of each workshop, however you are also welcome to simply listen and observe without a laptop.
Tonight we’ll hear from Veronica Anne Salinas. The workshop explores listening as both a spatial and perceptual practice. Through Deep Listening exercises, participants will cultivate a heightened awareness of sound, moving between the roles of receiver and transmitter. By attuning to the surrounding environment, we will engage with sound as a dynamic presence, deepening our sensory connection to working with multichannel music.
The workshops are FREE but space is limited. Come to one, or come to all!
Artist Guests
May 13: Ishmael Ali
May 20: Haruhi Kobayashi
May 27: Veronica Anne Salinas
June 3: Matt Test
This program is supported by the Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation
Artist Bio
Veronica Anne Salinas is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, writer, and Deep Listener based between Chicago, IL and Texas. Her creative research is rooted in sound, exploring compositions, soundwalks, multichannel sound, improvisation, text scores, field recording, writing, walking practices, and performance. Engaging with themes of perceptual shifts, meditations, slow processes, intersections of visual and sonic landscapes, Deep Listening practices, and ecologies, they use ambient and noise music to attune to subtle transformations in environment and perception. She has studied at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. WEATHERING is their solo ambient noise project.
She has presented work at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, National Museum of Mexican Art, New Music Gathering, Experimental Sound Studio, Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain, Omaha Under the Radar Festival, Museum for Contemporary Art Chicago, Empty Bottle, Nameless Sound, and many others.