Create interactive music with Claudia Molitor
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has teamed up with composer Claudia Molitor and locally based internet station Two Valleys Radio to offer young people the chance to create a unique piece of music. Playback is a new workshop-based project for instrumentalists aged between 13 and 18 in which games and web interactivity will be used to shape a composition, to be broadcast live by Two Valleys Radio.
It’s free to take part in Playback and instrumentalists of any level are welcome. Participants need to be able to attend two workshops during hcmf// 2010, on Saturday 20th November from 11am–4pm and on Sunday 21st November from 3pm–7pm, both in the Creative Arts Building at the University of Huddersfield. Part of hcmf//’s Learning and Participation strand, the project is funded by the Community Media Association working with the Arts Council of England, under the Connect programme.
The workshops promise both experimentation and fun in the course of music-making. Brighton-based Claudia uses not only sound, but video, visual art and social networking in her work. She plans for the composing process to include games and unconventional sound sources such as paper. The piece may also be shaped by its audience, with comments from listeners on the Two Valleys Radio website affecting how the music unfolds as it is broadcast live at the conclusion of the second workshop, at 6.30pm on Sunday 21st November.
Two Valleys Radio is run by volunteers and grew out of Colne Valley Radio, which broadcast during the Slaithwaite Moonraking Festival in 2009. Since then the station has covered a range of stories and events in the Colne and Holme valley areas, including Marsden Jazz Festival, and will be broadcasting reports and interviews from hcmf// 2010 during the festival. To listen online, visit http://www.twovalleysradio.co.uk.
To take part in Playback contact either Heidi Johnson at hcmf// on 01484 471116 or h.johnson@hud.ac.uk, or Taru Sinclair at Two Valleys Radio on 07826 516474 or taru@headstogether.org.
Claudia Molitor will also be appearing in a free concert alongside Oceans of Silver and Blood and The New String Theory on Monday 22 November. Click here for more information about the event.
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