Heather Andrews and Louise Barrington host a day-long sound and 16mm film workshop at the Pier Arts Centre on Saturday 9 November, following a screening event at The Phoenix Cinema on Friday 8 November. This workshop concludes Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps) Season 2, programmed by Heather and Louise.
This workshop explores visible and invisible traces experienced within the present and remembered from the past. We partake and witness the world around us knowingly and unknowingly, interweaving with a tapestry of people and place. Geology and Memory form the centre of the workshop explored through sonic textures and movement. Experimenting with how sound and drawing inform fragments of stories and myths, captured with light, dust and duration.
The day-long workshop will be split into two halves, the morning will focus on sound recording and editing and the afternoon will focus on working with 16mm film.
Admission is FREE but spaces are limited and booking is essential. To book a place click here >
Preparation
There will be a limited number of handheld zoom recorders available however we encourage participants to bring their mobile phones with a sound recording function.
If you can also please bring with you a poem, some notes or even a strong memory you have connected to a landscape.
Schedule
Sound Workshop 10am – 1pm
Lunch break 1pm – 2pm
16mm workshop 2pm – 4:30pm
4:30pm – 5pm Screening of the films that have been made during the day
Sound workshop
Participants will work with artist, sound designer and foley artist, Heather Andrews, to create field recordings and constructed sound and build them into an experimental score.
16mm workshop
The second half of the day will begin with showing examples of handmade films which centre mark-making.
Margaret Tait, Calypso, (1955) 4 min
Len Lye, Free Radicals, (1979) 4 min
The participants will then make a film using 16mm film responding to, and combining with, the experimental soundscape they created in the morning. Using personal responses to the score through notes taken during the morning session participants can either work individually or collectively working onto 16mm leader film and found footage. Participants will experiment with scratching into film using repetitive marks or a more organic approaches, add colour with markers, and create cuts using splicing techniques.
To conclude the day we will combine the resulting images together with the soundscape created in the morning for a screening.
This workshop is coordinated by LUX Scotland