Derek Holzer / TONEWHEELS
 
http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html
http://www.myspace.com/macumbista
Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and heavy metal music. He has played live experimental sound as Macumbista or Derek Holzer—as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics—across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR, Mandorla, Frozen Elephants Music and Gruenrekorder labels, and has co-initiated several internet projects for field recording and collaborative soundscapes including Soundtransit.nl.
"One of the central concepts of my work is that every object and space around us is a recorder. Each one has collected the resonances of its surroundings for as long as it has existed. You could call it an acoustic version of particle physics or genetics, because the idea remains the same--in the smallest details you will find a representation of the greater whole. My task as a sound artist is often just to listen, and to listen very closely, to the histories hidden inside our everyday world."
Holzer has performed live, improvised electronic music in many venues and festivals in Europe, the US and Brasil including FILE (Sao Paulo, BR), WRO (Wroclaw, PL), Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht, NL), Garage (Stralsund, DE), Videomedeja (Novi Sad, SCG), BEK (Bergen, NO), Transmediale (Berlin, DE), RAM6 (Vilnius, LT), Arts +Communication (Riga, LV), Kuda.org (Novi Sad, SCG), Earational Festival (S'Hertogenbosch, NL), Medienturm (Graz, AT), Kunstraum (Innsbruck, AT), Art Museum of Nantes (Nantes, FR), Montevideo (Amsterdam, NL), Kraakgeluiden (Amsterdam, NL), Denver University (Denver, USA) and others. Derek Holzer was supported during 2005–7 by Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten Vormgeving en Bouwkunst (Fonds BKVB) of The Netherlands.

TONEWHEELS workshop
TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions such as the ANS Synthesizer (Murzin USSR 1937-57), the Variophone (Sholpo USSR 1930) and the Oramics system (Oram UK 1957). Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound and light pulsations and textures. In this workshop, participants will learn to construct two different circuits: a simple light-to-sound converter and a variable motor speed controller, as well as how to design and print their own tonewheel patterns using the FLOSS software Inkscape.

Diana Combo/ EOSIN
 
Diana Combo / portugal
EOSIN started to work with deformed vinyl records trying to overcome the frustration of having an object that is not usable in a conventional way, letting the errors printed on the surface sound and join what is already recorded. In this way she creates different layers that combine into a new composition that changes the audiences perception about the music they are familiar with. Sometimes she tres to control the error, hiding it and sometimes she just manage to create a result that sounds like there is some kind of error, when there is none.This process involves the use of old and deformed records or old/new records she has or buys. She cuts and joins different pieces, burns or adds pieces of tape onto the surface to create patterns that superimpose themselves on the sounds that play.

TURN TABLE workshop
Working as usual, with a turntable and reconstructed vinyl records, but this time with no obvious connection with musical sounds, EOSIN (Diana Combo) will lead this workshop allowing for participants to make their own unique noise sounds and loops and create their own compositions, to play alone or together with others. The idea is to treat the turntable both as a synthesiser and a sampler - the sounds used in the compositions may be those achieved from the electric connections, such as feedback and other noises, or those created by the manipulation of records or even the turntable itself. Using one turntable only, recorded sounds will be fed to a laptop where they will be layered using ableton live, virtually creating more turntables and even more different sounds.
EOSIN will demonstrate record manipulation techniques and discuss how the turntable works, and how the understanding of a medium provides us with new possibilities of working and exploring them.

RYBn
 
http://www.rybn.org
http://www.artkillart.tk
RYBn / france
Jean-Marie Boyer + Kevin Bartoli
RYbN is a multi-field artistic collective based in Paris / Berlin (2000) and specialized in interactive & networked installations, performances and interfaces, by refering as well to the codified systems of the artistic representation (painting, architecture, counter-cultures) as to the human and physic phenomenas (geopolitics, socio-economy, sensory perception, cognitive systems). Their axe of research : the construction of a "convergence semantics", through the coupling, the diversion and the perversion of writing and formalization tools connected to communication, information and sensory technologies – networks, data flows, smell, surveillance, audiovisual, interaction, real time.

small gear, big noise workshop
Using very little amounts of gear and pens a and paper, RYBn (normally major gear fans), will make very big noise, with you.

Justice Yeldham a.k.a. Lucas Abela
 
http://dualplover.com/justice.htm
http://sonicbids.com/justiceyeldham
http://myspace.com/justiceyeldham
Justice Yeldham / australia
What's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is the unique work of Justice Yeldham who has an obsession with using sheets of broken glass as his musical instrument. Amplifying the sheets using a high end transducer designed for grand pianos, he presses his face against the surface whist employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries.

sharp workshop
A turntable workshop using different sharp ojects for styli including knives, surgical tools, broken glass, needles and unexpected round objects as "records".

RaumZeitPiraten
 
http://www.raumzeitpiraten.de/
RaumZeitPiraten / germany (cologne/dusseldorff)
The "RaumZeitPiraten" were founded in 2007 by Tobias Daemgen and Moritz Ellerich with an Overheadprojector and a little pink Toypiano. Within their intermedial realtimestudies and media-lab-situations the RaumZeitPiraten explore the artificial generation of multidimensionalities and possibilities of its perception, structuring and intermediation.
Beside traditional, digital sound and image generators they increasingly use analog, optic/acoustic self-constructions like the Haptonium and the Brummsel or complex apparat modifications like the MultiDimensionsProjektor and the Lightparasites. Their activities areaimed at playful, experimental connections of sound, image, object, space, time and music to an alternately self-expanding multimedia-performance-surround-spaceshiplaboratory-travel to somewhere between science and fiction.

Everything together workshop
RaumZeitPiraten will bring all their equipment and material and build an audio-visual-media-lab evolving and changing over the time of the camp. Within this working space they will invite visitors to explore the possibilities of simple analog sound and image production with tools like musical clocks, toypianos, overheadprojectors, diascopic projectors, magnifying lenses etc. Everybody is invited to bring their own optical and/or acoustic instruments and materials like foil and semi-transparent objects to participate in the process of space-time-bending experiments.

Robert Kondorosi
 
http://www.myspace.com/budzillus
Robert Kondorosi / de
born 1980 in Schwerin, Germany
1999–2006 Industrial Design at UdK Berlin (focus on Interface Design & Musical Instrument Design)
since 2000 Freelance Sound Designer & Composer/Producer
since 2005 Brainchild of Berlin based band BudZillus (performing with selfmade instruments)
since 2006 Freelance Interface Designer & Sound Engineer

SFM - the spontaneous feedback machine workshop
Over the course of this workshop, we will build an electroacoustic instrument from scratch, with several improvised soundmodules including strings, springcoils, magnetic and piezoelectric pickups. They'll generate and cacophonic soundfield by influencing and modulating each other. Everybody is invited to perform on the SFM in the end of the workshop to explore the various aspects of acoustic interferences found in modern and classic musical instruments.

curators

Kyd Campbell is a nomadic programmer and curator born in Montreal, Canada specialized in international collaboration, media and audio art and is also as a digital creator of public interactive situations and machines that make real rainbows. She has developed a number of cultural venues in Canada and Eastern Europe including collaborations with the Upgrade! International network, Public Art Lab's project Mobile Studios, the Pure Data community, the HTMlles festival, OKNO.be and CTRL_ATL_DEL festival in Istanbul. She is co-founder of tiny noise and contributes to digital communities and research groups focused on observing mobility and the emotional aspects of human-machine relationships. Remaining independent allows her some freedom to speculate and experiment, to welcome all forms of collaboration and information exchange. frontierlab is the name that she uses to group all of her curatorial and artistic projects together. The logo is a hot water bottle.