Sound jams: resister at worm
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intro
The research of Supisara Burapachaisri, Ål Nik and mitsitron will meet at a Sound Jam at WORM. We are happy to invite you to join us at #Wunderbar or online at Radio WORM - we will be part of Expanded Radio’s session with spotlight is on RE#SISTER, WORM’s very own studio community run by and for female and non-binary musicians!
Our performance will be an improvisation based on a visual score we’ve been working on during the last week. The three of us were experimenting by asking ourselves questions, connected to our current researches, part of our master programme of Experimental Publishing at the Piet Zwart Institute. We created and collected images that resonate with our research queries and turned them into cards. Those cards will serve as a visual score of our performance.
We have been questioning “performing” as a concept, oftentimes associated with perfection, pressure and preparedness. What if we focus on the process instead? Is there a way to embrace slowness, latency and even failure? To put our attention on the small scale instruments and sounds, play with the basics. To be fully present in the current moment and space. Our sound jam will explore these questions.
Where: Radio WORM & Wunderbar
When: doors 14:30, start 15:00 h // 12-02-2023
More info: https://worm.org/production/expanded-radio-16-resister/
process
For this Sound Jam, i proposed a process that creates a visual score as a base of our improvisation performance. In order to come up with a concept, i wanted us to explore topics, questions and things that have been bothering us recently. Each of us had different needs and inputs in this sound jam, thus there should have been space to address and explore them and yet still have a meeting point.
[steps] we started with a session to explore possible (mini)research questions. We started with 10 minutes of free writing - putting on a blank page our most intuitive thoughts and explore how we feel at the moment; what has been on our minds. Afterwards, we had some more time to read it and extract a question - something that is present in our writings and we would like to explore during the upcoming few days. We wrote this questions on a small piece of paper, a piece we could carry around with us.
After that we did three interviews to elaborate more on the questions and help each other narrow them down, understand them better and think of a process to explore them. Each of us had 10 minutes - one was asking question about one's interest, they were answering and elaborating more, and the third person was taking notes. This activity we borrowed from our Thesis seminars at Experimental Publishing master course at PZI.
Finally, we had a homework: during the next several days we had to create visuals or take photos of things that we somehow connect to our research questions - either sketches that help us explore it; or photos of tools and experiments; or whatever helps us work on the matter. Everyone had to select 10 of them and send them to me. With them, i made a small 4-editions publication in the medium of cards.
At our next session, we talked about the visuals and why we had chosen them. We shuffled them, connected them, and chose 3 images to use as a visual score of our jamming session.
▶ wip pad is here
▶ interviews pad is here