Noise Meetup Workshops 2024


Noise Meetup is a regular meeting place for the noise community in Linz - with workshops, sound performances and jams. The aim of the Noise Meetup is to get to know, present and exchange ideas among noise enthusiasts with varying degrees of prior knowledge.

Workshops, jams, sound performances: The workshops are about sound production and artistic strategies. The jams are about experimenting, practising and presenting. Overall, the focus is on direct and joint construction, creation, knowledge exchange, reflection, feedback and presentation. There will also be live sound performances and artist talks by sound artists.

The Noise Meetups will also take place at two locations in Linz in 2024: The workshops will take place in the STWST, the performances in the spaceship (More info about the performances there).


Upcoming Workshops

Thu 28.11.24 3pm-7pm
STWST / servus.at Clubraum
NOISE COLLIDER WORKSHOP
 
In this workshop, guided by Mascha Illich and Luis Tamagnini, you will learn to algorithmically control modular / DIY synthesizers with SUPER COLLIDER. Bring your PC and modular / DIY synthesizers to the workshop!

Workshop details: Modular Livecoding.
Algorithmic control of modular synthesizers w/ Supercollider.
The workshop proposes to explore the encounter between two universes as vast as they are usually isolated from each other. Sound design with modular analog systems dates back to the 60's and the experimental processes that motivated the origin of the synthesizer industry. At the same time, the development of computers and algorithmic thinking itself gave rise to a whole series of languages and techniques that we know today as part of what we call “computer music”. These ecosystems, with a priori antagonistic principles, can be integrated into an hybrid, homogeneous and effective system. In this course, we will learn to implement algorithms in Supercollider, a very powerful and open source music computing language. We will then use the generated signals to control and extend the functionality of a modular synthesizer to build a powerful hybrid digital / analog performance instrument.
 
Workshop topics:

LUIS TAMAGNINI. Computer audiovisual composer. Initiated in the late 90's in the composition of electronic and concrete music. His work is deeply intertwined with algorithmic processes and concepts. In the mid-2000's, he began to investigate programming languages and apply algorithmic techniques to computer music and computer graphics. His current work is attached to a number of -not only- computacional concepts such as generativity, noise, machines, fractals and algebraical processes; as well as others meta-structural concepts like modularity and hybridization in complex systems (digital-analog, man-machines, etc) and networks. He is also interested in live-coding and improvisation. His works include musical compositions, electronic audiovisuals performances, video art and digital draws, among others. He is professor and researcher at Rosario National University - UNR. https://www.unexcoder.com.ar/
 
Participation on donation basis.
Please register, as we have a limited number of spots: noiselab.linz@gmail.com

A cooperation of Noise Meetup, servus.at & STWST.

LUIS TAMAGNINI is giving a concert in Raumschiff
Tue 26.11.24 7pm Raumschiff : Mica + /unexCoder (ARG)



 
Finally, we close this year with our arbitrary soldering workshop.
 
Sat 07.12.24 2pm-6pm
STWST / servus.at Clubraum
DIY SYNTHS & CV INPUT / BABY 8 SEQUENCER
 
As in our last workshop, we offer a combination for beginners/ advanced.
If you want to try out soldering, the simplest synthesizers are presented and offered to be made:
555 Oscillator, Atari Punk Console, Optical Theremin, Chaos Nand, Echo Delay.
If you are interested, we can add a CV Input to your synth.  
Advanced participants are invited to build a Baby-8-sequencer, which will be sending the CV output to control the noise generators. 
 
The workshop lasts 4 hours.
Costs: 30 EUR for beginners and 50 EUR for advanced (including a synthesizer kit).
Bring your unfinished synths! 
 
Please register: noiselab.linz@gmail.com
 
A cooperation of Noise Meetup, servus.at & STWST.




Past workshops

Synth Soldering
With: Mascha Illich
Date: Sat. 12. Okt 2024, 14-19 Uhr
Location: Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz, in servus Clubraum
For: Beginners/Advanced

We continue with the topic of the last workshop about the CV-Input and offer a beginners/advanced mix.

Beginners are welcome to solder

555 oscillator, optical theremin, atari punk console or chaos nand and supply it with a CV-Input

Advanced participants are going to build their own

Baby-8-sequencer

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Workshop fee beginners: 30 EUR
Workshop fee advanced: 50 EUR (including a synthesizer kit)
Please register: noiselab.linz@gmail.com


Soldering Synths with CV Input
With: Mascha Illich
Date: Sat. 3. Aug 2024, 2 pm
Location: @ STWST/servus.at, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz
Workshop duration: approx. 4 hours

This time you will be offered to solder one of the lotech synths or you can bring your previously soldered synths and attach a CV(Control Voltage) Input to them. A CV input is useful if you want to connect your synth to a control device, like a sequencer, which is able to send different control voltages.

Synths, which can be enhanced: 555 oscillator, light theremin, atari punk console, chaos nand.

Workshop fee including one soldering kit: 30EUR, without soldering kit: 10EUR.
Please register at: noiselab.linz@gmail.com


Soldering analogue synthesizers
With: Mascha Illich
Date: Sat. 18 May 2024, 2 pm
Location: STWST
Workshop duration: approx. 4 hours

This is about the classic soldering of analogue synthesizers. Mascha Illich hacks small commercial synthesisers and creates simple instructions for re-soldering: www.cargocollective.com/noiselab

The basic knowledge about sound generation and soldering will be taught in the workshop.

Depending on experience, the following synthesisers are offered:
Beginners: oscillator, optical theremin
Intermediate: atari punk console, echo/delay, chaos nand
Advanced: atari junk console, cosmic echo

A soldering kit is included in the course fee (35 EUR).

Looking forward to seeing you at our workshops!



Workshop with SULE SUAREZ and MORITZ MORAST

ATTENTION, THE WORKSHOP WILL NOT TAKE PLACE +++ THE WORKSHOP HAS TO BE POSTPONED +++ DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED.

on 27.4. at 2pm
in der STWST/servus.at Clubraum
Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz

LIVE CODING with Tidal Cycles

In the workshop, Sule and Moritz will go through the installation of the required software packages and the setup of the live coding environment Tidal, Atom + SuperCollider together with the participants. In the further course of the workshop, participants will learn how to create patterns and how to transform them.
Tidal Cycles is a programming language for creating musical structures in real time that is connected to the global Algorave scene, which uses code as a musical interface. Tidal Cycles enables the playful use of algorithms, through its simplified language, to create electronic music in real time. Sule Suarez will talk about her creative process with Tidal Cycles. She will give a general context about the software and how it works as well as its potential for creation.

No previous programming knowledge is required for the workshop!

If you are interested to participate:
Please register via noiselab.linz@gmail.com
Workshop cost: 30EUR

Sule Suárez is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated by the intersections of art, technology, and culture. Her artistic practice revolves around creative code, visual and sound generation, allowing me to create immersive experiences that challenge the boundaries of different mediums. She works with live coding software such as Tidal Cycles, Hydra, and p5, using these tools to expand her artistic expressions and explore new creative territories.

Moritz Morast is a musician and artist currently residing in Vienna, Austria. In his works he explores non-linear musical systems through improvisational immediacy and playful spontaneity, unraveling their idiosyncrasies and self-organizing properties. He is interested in the artifacts, overtones, and hidden structures of sounds that are revealed when subjected to high gain distortion and feedback processes. He works solo, as well as in different formations, ranging from free improvisation, extreme metal, and avant-rock, to experimental electronics. He also composes for dance, theater, films and virtual reality. His musical work has been showcased on Festivals like Ars Electronica(Austria), Heart of Noise(Austria), Donaufestival Krems (Austria), Ars Musica (Belgium) and Meme Festival (Spain). http://www.morast.at

Workshop with Zosia Holubowska (Mala Herba)

on 6.4. at 2pm in
STWST/servus.at space
Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz

Working with archival samples

During this workshop, sound artist and producer Zosia Hołubowska will share their practice of working with archival samples. The artist specializes in working with Eastern European ethnomusicological archives and will provide both possible sources as well as an introduction to their own philosophy and methodology of research on traditional music. They will share their sources and creative ways to process what can be found online. The artists will focus on creating evolving, emotive textures, using both native effects of Ableton Live, as well as third-party plug-ins. As the meeting is designed as a hands-on workshop, it is advised to bring a laptop with installed Ableton Live and headphones.

examples:
https://exiles-electronics.bandcamp.com/album/singing-warmia
https://holubowska.work/siemieniec

Workshop fee: 30EUR
Please register: noiselab.linz@gmail.com


workshop will be given by Ben Wesch on

Saturday 9.3.2024
at 2pm
in STWST (servus.at clubraum)
UNFORTUNATELY HAS TO BE POSTPONED

Please register under: noiselab.linz@gmail.com

Ben Wesch is going to teach us sound synthesis with Pure Data:

1. give a short impression and examples of Pd‘s capabili-
ties (embedded devices, complex composition and
sound design/physical modelling/AI)
2. provide a basic intro and then
3. spend the main part on building a simple, but
complex-sounding synth with each participant.

Cost of the workshop: 30 EUR.
References

https://www.instagram.com/ben_wesch
Pure Data zero crossing grain module demo:
https://youtu.be/lnIAFSPxdLM
Shader + Pure Data Perlin noise granulation demo:
https://youtube.com/shorts/if-x1K1SoYg

First workshop:
Sat, 10th of Feb 2024

The workshop will be postponed due to illness!! The new date will be announced.

Soldering analogue synthesizers
With: Mascha Illich
Date: Sat. 10 February 2024, 2 pm
Location: STWST
Workshop duration: approx. 4 hours

This is about the classic soldering of analogue synthesizers. Mascha Illich hacks small commercial synthesisers and creates simple instructions for re-soldering: www.cargocollective.com/noiselab

The basic knowledge about sound generation and soldering will be taught in the workshop.

Depending on experience, the following synthesisers are offered:
Beginners: oscillator, optical theremin
Intermediate: atari punk console, echo/delay, chaos nand
Advanced: atari junk console, cosmic echo

A soldering kit is included in the course fee (35 EUR).

Registration at: noiselab.linz@gmail.com

The Noise Meetups are organised by Mascha Illich and Sophie Ardelt.
The Noise Meetups are supported by STWST and servus.at.