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Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 12:00 am
EXHIBITION OF EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONICS
Do you want to make an exhibition together with the Finnish artists group Association of Experimental Electronics (AEE) this summer? You will invent, design and build new musical instruments made from junk electronics. The exhibitions will take place in Gallery 21, Malmö – Sweden, Kunstlaboratoriet Vestfossen – Norway and Århus - Denmark .
“We will have an open audioelectronic workshop, where we will try to transform electronic waste into sound producing devices.Our medium is electronic waste. We collect old consumer and professional electronics, tear it apart or modify to produce or modify sound. In Malmö, Vestfossen and Århus we will concentrate on presenting this process. Process is open, anyone can participate. We call the process experimental electronics. With experimental we point more at tradition of experimental electronic music, than scientific repeatability. We want electronics to be creative, interesting, unpredictable and fun.”
AEE is a group of four artists/technicians/musicians. They work with old thrown-away electronic devices such as VCRs, tape recorders, toys etc. that’s used to construct new musical and visual instruments. These instruments are then put together in big installations called “sound systems” which partly are interactive.
Before each of the exhibitions a workshop will be held where you together with AEE will build the works for the exhibitions. No previous experience in electronics is needed – just an open mind!
If you can’t participate you can still help us – we will need tons of used electronic devices! AEE again:
> About electronics: VCR recorders, tape decks and boom boxes are good. It is good if things are at least 20 years old. All electronic toys that make some sounds are good, like toy keyboards. And if you find anything that looks good, you don’t have any idea what it does, that is good. Sometimes schools, hospitals or places like that throw away some great looking stuff.
So if you have any old stuff lying around – Please donate it to us!
Due to practical reasons we have to limit the number of participants for each workshop to 15 persons. Please apply below!
Dates for the Malmö workshop 15-19 of June. The workshop fee is 600 sek, which includes all material and a meal a day.
The workshop in Vestfossen between the 17th to 21st of August, the fee is set to 700 NOK including a place to sleep, food and material for the workshop. Please apply now!
Århus is yet to be announced, send in an application to stay informed. .