Productive: An Interactive Audio Workshop

Productive:
An Interactive Audio Workshop

Led by sound designer Norm Scott and director/choreographer Martha Williams

• for curious artists, dancers/choreographers, video-ists; students of all of these who want to interface their medium with sound or want to learn about sound making process
• for productivity specialists who want to understand productivity by exploring the dimension of sound
  
• for lay people who are interested in the compositional process

In this interactive workshop, students will have an opportunity to actually be a part of the recording and compositional process. They will go "out into the streets" to record that will later be contributed to a short score. Prior to the field trip portion of the class, we will discuss the formulas and limits for sound collection and the meaning and relevance of intention and limits in the creative process. We will especially look at how we can infuse the theme, which is "productivity," every step of the way. Upon collection of sound, we will return to engage in the interactive compositional portion of the day concluding with a real live useable score that will (in some form) be a part of The Movement Movement's full length evening contemporary dance piece premiering at the Joyce SoHo in June 2008.

Sunday April 6, 10 AM to 4 PM - $50 (12 person limit)

Harvest Works
596 Broadway, Suite 602 (between Houston and Prince Streets)

Pre-payment required. Space is limited to 12 participants. To register, click here (classes/audio).

For questions about content, please email Martha Williams at info@themovementmovement.org or call 917-531-1171.

Funded in part through the Meet the Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.

Norm Scott

Norm Scott has been recording and archiving sound since he was five years old. After touring the world for a year with Up With People, he received a B.S. in art from James Madison University in 1999, specializing in sculpture and interdisciplinary work. Combining a unique brand of visual language with a fondness for electronic tinkering, Norm believes that the combination of blue-collar work and art production were inextricably connected, in often synchronous and magical ways, and the "art/career" connection has been a subject of fascination ever since. From 2003 to 2004, Norm attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Tempe, Arizona, and subsequently moved to New York. As studio manager at Harmonic Ranch, a post-production facility in Tribeca, he worked with a number of artists and filmmakers, including Lee Ranaldo, Gerard Malanga, Henry Hills, Martina Kudlacek, Ivy Nicholson, Lea Rekow, and Rev. Billy. He was also privileged to collaborate and work with choreographers including Karen Bernard, Aspa Yaga, Jeanette Stoner, Martha Williams, Jonathan Hollander, Jane Comfort, Douglas Dunn, and Noemie Lafrance. In 2005, Norm collaborated with composer Brooks Williams to create a multi-channel musical score for Noemie Lafrance's Agora.

Martha Williams

Training in New York City since 1998, dancing and acting with various artists and working as an independent choreographer since 2000, Ms. Williams creates theatrical, site-specific and filmic dance works. Ms. Williams was inspired to do film after seeing Bones in Pages by Saburo Teshigawara in January 2005. Shortly thereafter, she began to create the choreography for
Broken Rose Portal, then called Shattered. Ms. Williams is drawn to the visual control of film, its potential penchant towards abstraction and the prospective reachability of film to more audiences. Ms. Williams' most recent non-film creation includes site-specific work, Stacked, performed by eleven artists around the architecture of an old 7,000 sq ft retail store in lower
Manhattan. The audience moved through a series of nine intimate dressing rooms and into a main retail space where live steaming/mixed video and sound from the changing rooms filled the space. This project included 9 dance artists/choreographers including: Scotty the Blue Bunny, Eric Bradley, Clare Byrne, Alberto Denis, Jen Kosky, Amy Larimer, Peter Sciscioli, Vicky Virgin and Luke Wiley; 2 visualists, Chris Jordon (ceej), Zarah Cabanas (firefly) and 1 sound artist, Daniel Smith (newclueless). In 2005, Ms. Williams also created Dancing Gates Project a large-scale, impromptu, dance installation with 50 dancers at the Gates, Central Park. Ms. Williams most significant theater work (co-created with Pascal Rekoert) was the socially-minded and humorous Burger Nation (2004) inspired by Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. Since 2000, 13 smaller works have been presented locally at Joe's Pub dancenow/dancemOpolitan, Catch Series/Gallapogos Art Space, Chashama Deli Dances, The Flea Theater, The Photographic Gallery, The Puffin Room, Dumbo Dance Festival, WAX Works, Dance New Amsterdam Works in Progress, HATCH Presenting Series Jennifer Muller/The Works, SWEAT Modern Dance Out of Doors, The Bridge for Dance, The Construction Company & Art X Festival. Abroad, she has been presented at Sage Club, Berlin, Germany, working in collaboration with fashion artists Showroom XS. Before officially heeding her call as an artist, Ms. Williams was studying anthropology and gathering ideas on the basketball court at George Washington University as a Division 1 scholarship athlete and professionally in Turkey and France.