June Workshop: The Sound of Finding

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Workshop Description

Merge with the word and sound environment to create a multimedia experience.

This workshop explores writing as a multi-media entity, offers exciting ground for collage, remixing, experimentation and is, in a Dadaist sense, a portrait of the writer and the times. Explore hybrid, multi-media texts by twentieth- and twenty-first-century writer-performers, social justice activists, musicians and installation artists. Grow your audio and video assemblage practice by experimenting with found language, found sound and cross-genre collaboration. Play with possibilities of music-text-video interaction.

Increasingly, the collection of digital media is a daily practice. How can these digital findings both aural and visual, inspire inquiry, conversation or become writing? Explore digital writing and performance as a personal and cultural audio-visual assemblage art.

Materials: Participants will need smart phones or devices of choice for recording audio and video. They also need to use a freely sourced daws program for audio editing like Garageband or Audacity, as well as a video editing program such as iMovie or Photo Editorpaper. Other materials can include writing tools and any additional art materials you'd like to work with.

Janice Lowe

Janice A. Lowe, composer-poet and pianist, is the author of LEAVING CLE poems of nomadic dispersal and SWAM. Her poems have been published in anthologies including Callaloo, Best American Experimental,The Hat, Renga for Obama, Boog City, Radiant Resisters, (Pre) Conceivable Bridges and RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music. Lowe is the composer of Desegregation Remix: 3 Women Sing the Borders, a multimedia theater collaboration with Lee Ann Brown. Her musical theater compositions include Somewhere in Texas, libretto by Charles E. Drew, Jr.; Lil Budda, text by Stephanie L. Jones and Sit-In at the Five & Dime, words by Marjorie Duffield. Lil Budda has been presented at the National Alliance For Musical Theater’s Festival of New Works and at the Eugene O'Neill Musical Theater Conference. Lowe was commissioned to compose the score for The McKoy Sisters’ Syncopated Sonnets in Song, a song cycle based on Tyehimba Jess’ OLIO. She has composed music for numerous plays including Liza Jessie Peterson’s Chiron’s Homegurl Healer Howls (New Black Fest) and 12th and Clairmount by Jenni Lamb (Stage Left-Chicago). Currently, Lowe performs and records with the band Janice Lowe & NAMAROON and will release an album this fall. A recent Creative Capital Awardee, she has received fellowships from the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania and The Rauschenberg Foundation. She is a co-founder of The Dark Room Collective. Lowe holds an MFA in musical theater composition from New York University. She has taught Multimedia Composition at Rutgers University and in Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program. www.janicelowe.com

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Statement

[forthcoming]

Logistics:

This workshop runs from June 1, 2021 - June 30, 2021.
Workshops consist of one video per week for each week in the month. Videos are 30-60 minutes long.
Readings, creative prompts, and shared artwork will be exchanged on Podia in the designated section for each week.
Discussions will be held on Podia.
All workshops are designed for you. Dedicate as much or as little time to the workshop per week as you'd like.
This workshop is taught in English, but collective.aporia offers subtitles for the workshop videos in over 60 languages. If you have questions about language accommodations, please feel free to email us at collective.aporia@gmail.com.