May 2007

Research seminar and concert in honour of artist-in-Residence, Tao Vrhovec-Sambolec

An open workshop with ICMuS artist-in-residence Tao Vrhovec-Sambolec, a Slovenian composer, installation artist and performer currently based in Amsterdam, and Culture Lab residents on sound and the visual arts. This half-day event involved presentations, discussions and questions from the floor. The themes of the workshop concerned how physical and musical gestures inform and are mediated by technologies, the role of sound awareness in installation works, and the porous boundaries between installation, composition, improvisation and performance. The workshop was be followed by an open research seminar where Tao presented some specific examples of his work, in discussion with Will Schrimshaw and Bennett Hogg, followed by an open discussion.

On the following day Tao, in collaboration with ICMuS and Culture Lab staff and students presented a public concert of new electroacoustic and improvised work in The Recital Room, Armstrong Building.