For composers, the impuls Academy offers a variety of different programs, from individual lessons and several meetings with composition tutors (to be chosen amongst approximately 15 tutors per edition), group lectures, discussions and jours fixes for composers, meetings also with instrumental tutors for specific questions on instruments, notation, etc., general exchange up to various concrete cooperation possibilities with musicians and ensembles on spot (including programs for co-operative development of new pieces, reading-sessions of already existing ones, partly leading to public performances), as well as active participation in special programs

The Speculative Sound Synthesis workshop, set up at the impuls Academy 2025, addresses sound artists, computer music composers and performers who are committed to critical, speculative approaches at the intersection of art and technology, and who are engaged in practices that question, challenge, criticize, deconstruct, recompose, reformulate, shift, dislocate, endanger or reject established standards of sound synthesis and (music) technology. The workshop is part of the artistic research project “Speculative Sound Synthesis”. The aim of this project is to rethink and recompose the relationship between technology and artistic practice in an attempt to unleash aesthetic potentials of sound synthesis that would otherwise remain unknown or hidden within the technological apparatus. In this aesthetic destabilization of analogue and digital sound technologies, speculation is the primary method.

Benedikt Alphart and Lars Tuchel take part this year in the Speculative Sound Synthesis workshop as part of their Ulysses Journeys.

Date and venue: 23 February 2025, IEM Cube, Inffeldgasse 10/3, 8010 Graz

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