SEPTEMBER 8 – 9, between 10:00 — 14:00 & 15:00 — 18:00
AT THE NATIONAL CENTER OF DANCE BUCHAREST

Supported by Goethe Institut

Berlin-based Romanian artist Ioana Vreme Moser invites performers, musicians, visual artists, as well as others who want to experience a new way of creating sound to an intensive two-day workshop, which will end with a public presentation on September 9, at 19:00, at the National Centre for Dance in Bucharest.

Sizzling Semiconductors commences as a screaming tone at the precise touch of a radio-sensitive mineral. The workshop proposes the construction of oscillating instruments from scratch to investigate the multifaceted history of electronic parts, semiconductive stones, their presence in electronic devices, and environmental decay.

Following the path of Galena crystals from antiquity to the industrial revolution, we will observe how these crystals enabled the first communication network through their demodulating capacities and how our present computational devices became so dependent on rare earths. We will peak at crystal radio cults, amateur activities, and informational wars carried on waves, transmitted and received through stones.

The participants will acquire knowledge in both technical and historical aspects of electronics to understand the methods of reinforcing communication networks out of leftovers. They will be guided to construct, bend, drill, solder, and reinvent circuitry.

The workshop involves intensive manual work. Previous electronics experience is welcome but not required. By signing up for the workshop, participants commit to being part of the Screaming Minerals public presentation on September 9.

Registration

  • Participation fee: 200 RON

  • Maximum number of participants: 15 people

  • To participate in the masterclass, please send an email to contact@bidff.ro, with the subject “Workshop Ioana Vreme Moser”, in which you mention your full name, phone number and occupation.

  • The fee will be paid after the festival team will confirm your place, by bank transfer.

  • Registration deadline: September 3

 

About Ioana vreme Moser (RO/DE)

Ioana Vreme Moser is a sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation.

In her practice, she uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli. From these collisions, synthesized sounds emerge to carry personal narrations and observations on the history of electronics, their production chains, wastelands, and entanglements in the natural world.

Amongst others, she has performed and exhibited at the National Gallery of Denmark (DK), Fonderie Darling (CA), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE); Manifesta 14 (XK); SFX - Sound Effects Seoul (KR), Ars Electronica (AT), Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Krakow (PL); Simultan Festival (RO); Eigen+Art Lab - Transmediale, Berlin (DE).

For more information about her work, please visit www.ioanavrememoser.com.