Composing Sounds through Digital Apps | 2019-20

Suspended due to safety measures

The sounds of Athens are turned into music through a workshop that will urge you to hit the streets of the city. With sound as your guide and together with your classmates, you will design maps of the area, as you make your own, unique electracoustic compositions.

You will learn the meaning of field recording and how useful it is to record surrounding sounds. You will see how easily you will manage to build the compositions you want, by using the sounds you have collected and compiling them on “Compose with Sounds” (an open-source software created in the framework of the European program “Interfaces”). At the same time, by using the maps of your neighborhood as creative composition tools, you will see how easily you can orientate, trusting your hearing as your main guide.

In the end, you wll share your compositions with schools from different areas in Athens, listening to sounds of each neighborhood and presenting sounds you made on your own.

The program will culminate in a final presentation for friends and family members, at Onassis Stegi.

As an initiative of the Onassis Stegi and with the support of the Creative Europe Program, pioneer project “Interfaces” brings together nine different partners from eight European countries, and aspires to disseminate contemporary music among a broad spectrum of young audiences around Europe.

This program is part of the European program Interfaces.

Software developed by the Music, Technology and Innovative Research Centre of De Montfort University.