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Field Recording : listening to a sound
August 22, 2019 at6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$60 – $80
This workshop will give participants the opportunity to explore their own relationship with sound and gain a basic understanding of the equipment needed to record sound in the field or anywhere you can take a mobile recording device. The structure of the workshop will be shaped by the participant’s own artistic + technical experience/interests in field recording with the intention of making the content relevant to all as we learn to listen from new perspectives.
Dates: Thursday, August 22, 2019 (6pm-9pm)
Fees: $60 member / $80 non-member
Location: Video Pool Studio (300 – 100 Arthur St.)
Limit: 8 Participants
Instructor: Joel Mierau
About the instructor
Joel Mierau is a sound artist and recordist working with sound as composition, performance, improvisation, and documentation. They are an improvising non-musician as a member of the trio Existers. Joel’s solo performances/compositions are based around the use of field recordings, found sounds/objects, amplification, and silhouettes that weave between the conscious and sub-conscious worlds leaving traces of intentions + identity resting on an opaque blanket of sound.
As a sound recordist Joel has other professional experience in the roles of studio recording engineer, location sound mixer/recordist, instructor, and sound archivist, documenting sound for live performances. Joel is also a board member/treasurer of send + receive: a festival of sound and of Video Pool Media Arts Centre.
To sign up via Paypal please visit www.videopool.org
You can also Call: 204-949-9134 ext. 108 or visit our production facilities at unit 300, 100 Arthur St. Winnipeg, Manitoba.
For more information: Please contact the Education Manager at vped@videopool.org
