Philip Beesley (CA) + Rob Gorbet (CA)

A Hybrid Soundscape

August 8th – August 14th 2021

The Workshop

In a manmade environment that we have equipped completely with appliances, our organic antennas are losing their abilities to detect, filter, and orient information. Staying outdoors in nature has become an exception and when we escape the overflow of information from our fellow humans, the outdoors are taking effekts like a massage, shower, or nap. We certainly need both, the natural and the artificial parts of our world. But how can the two spheres approach each other? What can we learn from natural patterns and how can we, in reverse, introduce artificial structures to nature?

This workshop is about sound, manmade and natural sound. We’ll experiment in order to create a hybrid soundscape in an installation that achieves to bridge nature's orchestra with our artificially created sounds and tones. It's not about imitating but about listening, understanding and answering. We are going to develop a new acoustic situation, operated with the support of technical and digital devices and installed at the interface of Boisbuchet's unique architecture and nature.

Please bring your smartphones as well as any available laptops, microphones, or taperecorders. You’ll also need your ears and hands - it’ll be learning by doing for all of us!

Workshop Categories

Philip Beesley Canada

Philip Beesley is a practicing visual artist, architect, and Professor in Architecture at the University of Waterloo and Professor of Digital Design and Architecture & Urbanism at the European Graduate School. Beesley’s work is widely cited in contemporary art and architecture, focused in the rapidly expanding technology and culture of responsive and interactive systems.He serves as the Director for the Living Architecture Systems Group, and as Director for Riverside Architectural Press. His Toronto-based practice, Philip Beesley Studio Inc., works in numerous collaborations including longstanding exchanges with Iris van Herpen.

www.livingarchitecturesystems.com

Rob Gorbet Canada

Rob Gorbet is a key member of Gorbet Design, a design firm and consultancy specializing in public interactive artwork and experiences, and also collaborates with other designers, artists, and architects including within the LASG. Gorbet’s LASG collaborations have been exhibited across the world and have won several awards, including the international FEIDAD and VIDA 11.0 first prize, and being selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. His work has been featured in major print and online media, and on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. 

Rob’s teaching includes courses on microcontrollers, control systems, museum exhibit design, and technology art. Formally trained as an electrical engineer, Rob is an interdisciplinarian, a mechatronics specialist, an award-winning teacher and a technology artist.

Visit his Website

Housing

  • Accommodation & food are included

  • We can accommodate for special catering

  • All participants sleep in dormitories

  • To book a private room or bring additional guests, get in touch: workshops@boisbuchet.org

Education

  • Our staff are available to help you conceptualize & produce your designs

  • Tools & materials are provided by Boisbuchet

  • All workshops are taught in English

  • The number of participants is limited to 22

Activities