We will host the workshop “sound-material-time”, taking place November 8+9, 2018, at the Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz, Austria.

We are specifically targeting practitioners and theorists in music / sound art explicitly working with long time spans / obsolescence phenomena / explicit degradation.
In principle also other forms of time-based art are welcome if they are topical. Our focus is on digital media, but deviations are possible.

Since the workshop is within our artistic research project “rotting sounds”, its intentions should well resonate with your topic.
We would like to stress the fact that this is not a scientific workshop, but rather a gathering where we would like to discuss (personal) artistic practices and their contexts.

Central concepts are the following:

• Interaction of material (physical, analog, digital) and time
• What is “digital”? Where do physical and logical data interface?
• Identifying and working with degradation processes/artifacts in the (digital) medium
• What is the aesthetic impact of such processes?
• Aspects of presentation, preservation, distribution of artworks depending on degradation

Each of the participants should bring along material things of their work practice which could be instruments, data carriers, objects of interests and passion. You should also give a short introduction about this practice.
Our intention is to keep the number of participants low (select 5-8 or so) and to zoom in on each practice individually.
All three core members of the research project will be present (Thomas Grill, Till Bovermann and Almut Schilling).

Within the group, we will develop questions and experiments on deterioration specifically for each participant.
We will also ask the participants prior to the workshop about specific topics they would like to have addressed.

The work schedule is 10am-1pm and 2pm to 5pm on both days, tentatively.
There will be a possibility for public presentation (concert format) in the evening of November 9.

The deadline for applications is Sunday, October 21, 2018.
Participation is free of charge.

Please direct your applications to info@rottingsounds.org, including

• a CV
• a few relevant examples of your work (artistic or theoretical)
• a short motivation text about what you suggest to bring in and what you expect

Please distribute the call!