Join Sound Artist Robin The Fog and Audio Producer Lisa (The) Hack for a workshop exploring the magic of composing with the sounds we find all around us.

Tape can offer us a remarkable gateway to new ways of sculpting sounds, performing and improvisation, through the basic techniques of musique concrète.

This two part workshop will include sound-gathering exercises and an informal ‘performance’.
First we’ll explore our surroundings searching for intriguing and unusual sounds; Then we’ll transfer the sounds to analogue tape, create tape loops and subject them to some basic manipulation unlocking secret sonic wonders!

WHAT WILL I LEARN?
A basic introduction to field recording for analogue manipulation.
Basic tape editing.
How to create the perfect tape loop
Methods for manipulating sound without any digital trickery!

WHAT WILL I NEED?
A sense of adventure, a recording device with headphones, and means to send your sounds to Robin and Lisa to be put onto tape.
Come and embrace the chaos and the unpredictability, and help us create a journey across town via the joys of tape delay, feedback and distortion!
NB Parts of the workshop may involve the use of sharp objects under supervision.

Robin The Fog is a Cumbrian-born composer, sound artist and audio producer based in London. He is the founding member of Howlround, an experimental project creating strange new sonic worlds by processing field recordings on a handful of vintage reel to reel tape machines, with all digital effects and conventional instruments strictly forbidden. Recent audio projects have included Radio 3’s Between The Ears,The British Library’s ‘Story Explorers’ and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to name but three. He is also the host of the weekly radio series ‘FogCast’, Wednesday evenings on Resonance 104.4FM. 
Robin the Fog

Lisa Hack began her audio career collecting vox pops on a Uher 4000 tape machine and learning the art of de-umming using a a razor blade. Having manipulated audio using a variety of media since, she is now a Senior technical tutor in audio, radio and podcasts at Goldsmiths, University of London and has run workshops for the London Podcast festival, UniPod Fest and International Women’s Podcast festival.
Lisa is one of the founders, and a trustee for Multitrack, a charity that creates career changing opportunities for emerging audio producers and seeks to create an audio industry that reflects the audiences it serves.

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