Soft Noise Skillshare #3
Soft Noise Skillshare | Series #3: No-Input Mixing | Melon Sprout
Soft Noise Skillshares are open to women and gender-nonconforming participants of all skill levels, ranging from enthusiast to professional.
Limited capacity. Advanced registration is appreciated. Please review our full Covid-19 Policies before attending an in-person event.
The Soft Noise Skillshare is a series of bimonthly workshops highlighting women, trans, and non-binary sound artists and practitioners. These events, aimed at demystifying the sound-making process and addressing barriers to entry in the audio fields, are open to all skill levels and experience, ranging from absolute beginner to professional.
Melon Sprout will guide participants through a hands-on exploration of no-input mixing, otherwise known as feedback loops. Through the usage of digital and analog mixers, participants will gain a basic understanding of how to use such electronics as synthesizers and instruments with their own unique voicings. The goal of this skillshare is to encourage others to experiment with historically gate kept modes of music production without excessive financial barriers.
Please Note: Participants should bring a computer and/or a mixer, as well as something to write with. If you would like to attend but do not have access to these materials, please email Meredith at meredith.f.haines@gmail.com to make arrangements.
About Melon Sprout
Melon Sprout is a Chicago-based artist who uses ceramic instruments to extend their body physically and sonically. Material and body become a tangible space for the ephemeral. Sharing the extension of self in functionality, viewers are encouraged to activate, interact with, and extend themselves physically and sonically in the form of ceramic music-making. The objects themselves, retaining physical traces of their original soft clay state, go through many transitions when released into the world. They are performed, climbed, spun, recorded, edited, and altered. The ceramic instruments become a conduit of reciprocity, generating an animated environment where feelings and ideas are free to exchange.
About Soft Noise Skill Share
The Soft Noise Skillshare is a series of bimonthly workshops highlighting women, trans, and non-binary sound artists and practitioners. These events, aimed at demystifying the sound-making process and addressing barriers to entry in the audio fields, are open to all skill levels and experience, ranging from absolute beginner to professional.
Soft Noise Skillshares encourage inquiry, exchange, improvisation, and play for all in attendance in order to demystify the sound production process and address barriers to entry in the audio field for those who do not identify as cis-gendered male. With input from community members, curator Meredith Haines is bringing together women, non-binary, and transgendered hosts from many corners of sound, such as field recording, DAW operation, hardware hacking, synthesis, and more.
Artists will develop events around their own strengths, with each installment typically including elements of performance, artist talk, lecture, hands-on workshop, and experimentation session.
HCL Accessibility
The main building entrance requires the use of a small set of stairs. An entrance on the north side of the building has a double-wide entry ramp with a door operated by the lobby staff, reachable via intercom. The 4th floor studio is accessible via both stairs and an elevator. Within HCL’s studio, the dance floor has a 3” rise, accessible using a portable ramp stored in the studio. One of three entrances opens to a 200 square foot unraised cement floor. All studio seating is non-fixed, and includes chairs, stools, and floor cushions.
For any other questions or requests regarding accessibility accommodations, please contact HCL’s Accessibility Coordinator, Yolanda Cesta Cursach Montilla (yolanda@highconceptlabs.org).
Presented by High Concept Labs and the Monira Foundation in Joint Residency at Mana Contemporary.