Atelier d'expérimentation sonore des fréquences radio "Roger Roger, do you copy ?... une introduction à l’art radio" avec Martín Rodríguez à TOPO - Centre de création numérique. Crédit de l'image : Laura Criollo Carrillo
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Radio Frequency Experimentation Workshop

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Dates

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Place

5445 Avenue de Gaspé, space 608

Length

4-5 heures

Price

Free

Level

Beginner

Places available

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Cet atelier a eu lieu dans le cadre de l’exposition en vitrine La Ofrenda.

Radio Frequency Experimentation Workshop

Roger Roger, do you copy ?… An Introduction to Radio Art

On Saturday, December 7 at 1pm, artist Martín Rodríguez, whose installation La Ofrenda is presented in TOPO's Vitrine until December 21, will be offering a sound experimentation workshop on radio frequencies entitled Roger Roger, do you copy ?… An Introduction to Radio Art.

Combining theoretical and practical skills, this workshop aims to familiarize participants with the idea of radio as an instrument or material for sound creation, and invites them to experiment with transmission and reception devices.

Participants are invited to bring along exploratory material such as texts, poems, sound instruments (electric or acoustic), recordings (music, sound recordings), radios and transmitters, etc.

Workshop Program

13h : Introduction to Radio Art

History, works and artistic approach of Martín Rodríguez.

14h30 : Visit the showcase installation and its relationship to radio art

15h : Demonstration and exploration

Presentation and demonstration of different transmitters.

Explore the possibilities and collaboratively create a transmitter from the components.

Exploration with the following equipment  : Transmitters, crystal radio, VLF (very low frequency), etc.

Portrait de l'artiste Martin Rodriguez

Martín Rodríguez

Using unconventional performance techniques, Martín Rodríguez explores resonance in combination with transducers and his electric guitar to expose the rhythms, harmonies, and melodies that are found in the cracks of the radio spectrum, creating emotive soundscapes which are living, listening, and engaging in the present. As the son of a Mexican immigrant and Polish-American, identity has always played a central role to Rodriguez's artistic explorations. Projects such as Open La Puerta (2013) explore fragmented memories of his heritage; and after a surgery from a brain tumor left him temporarily paralyzed, Rodríguez began exploring new ways to play his guitar as a copping mechanism that led to Radio Therapy (2015). In June of 2019, he was featured in a group show entitled Los Subrogados simultaneously presented by the The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, The Musée d'Art Contemporain à Montréal, and The Darling Foundry. In addition to producing his own work Rodriguez has recorded 2 EPs with the microtonal psychedelic synth collective Chienvoler as well as explored free electronic hardware improvisation with his duo Data Slum. From 2014 to 2018, Rodriguez worked as Technical Director, Lab Director, and Co-director of Eastern Bloc, an artist run centre dedicated to presenting emerging media artists in Montréal, Canada.

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