Inter(me)zzo 0.2 17 - 18.04.09

The second in a series of two workshops took place with 12 students from NewVic College - Newham Sixth Form College - on a multi-discipline media course. The workshop was expanded over two days to accommodate work experience requirements necessary for the course. Consequently, the editing and music/ sound making elements were explored more deeply than in Inter(me)zzo 0.1. Here, we constructed a Logic station with 62key midi keyboard; a GarageBand station with a mini midi keyboard, as well as the usual Audacity software. In addition a recording 'studio' was created on a ad hoc basis.



The students had to be interactive, individually uploading and assigning in Max MSP their edited sounds to the sound sensor patches being used for the sound installation. They also had to physically construct the installation, ensuring adequate coverage and in accordance to Health and Safety directives.



This two-day workshop highlighted the underlying facet of Inter(me)zzo, which is its educational and life skill benefits. The primary aim of Inter(me)zzo beyond the exploration of 'Liminals' themes was to use audio/ sonic interaction as a segue to engaging with the visual technological art making processes and conversations. In essence by making art - engaging with art. However attendant with this conceptual/ intellectual intervention is practical learning, making the participant better skilled and more employable.

Inter(me)zzo 0.1 04.04.09

The Inter(me)zzo series of workshops serve as a gentle invocation of the line enquiry explored by the Liminal exhibition, produced by Iniva at Rivington Place, London, that concerns itself with conveying a sense of alienation and dislocation associated with the modern city through the prism of new visual technologies.


Inter(me)zzo, rather than interacting with experimental moving image forms instead references kinetic audio forms and technologies associated with music culture.


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Inter(me)zzo: Connecting Thresholds, seeks to engage people of all ages in exploring their experiences of migration, particularly feelings of alienation and dislocation associated with the city. Every group in the city, whether citizen or new arrival, or what is regarded as indigenous immigrant is affected by this movement of people, culture, tradition and memory.


What our group discovered during workshop Inter(me)zzo 0.1 was that along these overlapping lines from departure to arrival, if all this experienced is illustrated and evinced by sound what is created finally is - music! An amalgamation of single notes.