Sound and Movement Interaction
Workshop Eva Reiter & Marie Goudot
Workshop with selection process
When: 20-27 July 2025, 3 hours each day
Who: This call is aimed at musicians, composers, dancers and artists researching on movement in general.
Application deadline: 1 March 2025
After having been selected for the workshop, participants must register regularly for participation in the Darmstadt Summer Course (either for composition, for one of the instrumental studios or for a Wildcard). Online booking will be opened afterwards to the chosen participants. For instrumental studios, the respective conditions of participation apply.
Dancers who wish to participate exclusively in this one-week project will receive a 50% reduction of the Summer Course participation fee.
Sound and Movement Interaction
Shared Perspectives – Echos and Friction of Translation
The workshop provides composers, instrumentalists, performers, dancers and choreographers with the opportunity to work together in the creation and performance of new experimental works.
The participants may position themselves in a multiple function as composer/performer/dancer/choreographer or in interdisciplinary connections. They are invited to collectively create compositions, sketches, choreographies and improvisations for the various line-ups that can be formed within the group. We hereby emphasize the conception of these workshops as „experimental systems“, embedded in a more discursive form, placing the encounter as the primary moment for unfolding potential.
In this sense this workshop week is to be understood as a performative, situation-bound event between different actors, which is documented in its processuality and not primarily result-oriented. We rather focus on the creating collective as a competence in sharing and shifting perspectives between corporeal musical articulations and movements in sound.
We question the topicality of sound material / “enacted sounds” / movement in general, aim to research on our traditional instruments and their extensions, experiment with alternative resonating bodies / objects and eventually will develop new contact surfaces to explore new material based on the experimental collaboration. This approach encourages transformation, reinterpretation and/or translation.
We hereby understand translation as a continuous process situated between sensory qualities, causing friction, echoes and potentially undiscovered material with distorted meaning.
We explore the communicative and social aspects of ensemble playing, give space to a collective competence /collective resonance and aim to create a respectful space for feedback and critics.
Application
To apply for this workshop, please submit One PDF file (LASTNAME_Firstname_SoundMovement2025.pdf) containing the following:
- CV
- 1 or 2 links to share a recent important work (audio files and/or videos, scores, YouTube, vimeo links)
- A short motivation letter explaining your interest in being involved in a transmedial workshop
and e-mail it by 1 March 2025 to:
sound-movement@darmstaedter-ferienkurse.de
Please note that we cannot consider any remarks, links, or information outside the PDF!
Applicants will be notified in March 2025.
Important: Please take note of our data protection policy and the conditions for participation for the Darmstadt Summer Course before submitting your application.