Text-ture
Intensive Workshop for Third and Fourth year
Two Weeks during Semester B
Tomer Damsky
Tomer Damsky is a sound artist, a graduate of the Department of New Music at Musrara, external studies at the School of Visual Theater, and the Department of Art, Film, and Theater at the Open University. She researches the philosophy of listening and social dissonance in the context of gender, performance, and existential boredom, and roams through the realms of voice, percussion, improvisation, electronics, and sculpture in amplified metals. Tomer is part of various musical and theatrical projects, a part of the audiovisual trio WACKELKONTAKT, co-founder of the Strauss collective, and a teacher at the Musrara School of Music.
In this intensive workshop, we will explore, deconstruct, and reconstruct together sonic and musical mechanisms, while examining how human voice, language, space and time intersect at the edges of performance creation. We will study the axis between the theoretical (thinking of sound as shaping our perception of space and time) and the practical (practicing and experimenting in sonic-vocal-perceptual spaces, where we will be both the scientists and the subjects of our study). We will leap between scientific-philosophical-artistic theories, developing sonic curiosity and skilled listening. We will learn about the relationship between the auditory system and the human voice system; we will playfully deconstruct and reconstruct choral and vocal mechanisms; we will practice techniques that activate the brain areas responsible for rhythm, synchronization, and auditory perception; we will perform scores from different traditions of text-ture based music; we will examine how sound and listening are forces of discipline as well as liberation, activating the senses and opening a channel to consciousness; and finally, we will attempt to deconstruct our perception of sound, and to question how it relates to the way we understand (or don’t understand) the world.
