Sound Creation / Improvisation / Music & Dance
Level: Open to musicians, dancers and all curious individuals with or without experience.
Location: USTP – University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten - AudioLab (1, 2 Day), Large Assembly Hall (Day 3)
Workshop description:
A workshop to explore the creation of sound, skills and body language to step into dialog with other genres in a playful exchange.
Over three days, seven international artists invite participants to explore sound and movement beyond fixed forms. In an open and protected space, we work with acoustic instruments, electronic sounds, voice and body.
The workshop is conceived as a laboratory for experimentation, resonance and collective composition.
This Workshop and all artists are part of the Free Forms of Arts meetings and an Interreg 2026 Cultural Project.
Content:
- Sound Safari / Creating Sounds / Montage
- Postproduction / Composing
- Live Sampling / Recording
- Music Improvisation / Dialogue
- Dance Workshop / Session
- Body language / group building
- Performance
Necessary Equipment:
You are welcome to bring your own instrument, electronic setup or just any recording device that you have.
Prior knowledge of DAW programs or experience with music and dance as well as comfortable clothing would be advantageous.
Lecturers:
Boštjan Perovšek
Is a Slovenian musician, composer and soundscape artist, composes experimental, electro acoustic music. He specializes in creating bio-acoustic music based on the sounds of animals, especially insects and spiders. He performs solo and with various groups, including Jata C and SAETA, the first Slovenian band engaged in experimental music. He plays also in duet BBtrem. He is also active in international Free Forms of Arts movement where artists of different artistic genres (musicians, dancers, poets, writers, philosophers,…) actively meet;
www.perovsek.si
Pavel Zlámal
Clarinetist, saxophonist, improviser, composer based in Brno. Graduate of the Conservatory in Teplice, master’s and doctoral program at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno. Two years studied at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki. Clarinet and saxophone teacher at jazz department of JAMU in Brno.
In addition to his education in classical music, he mostly focuses on contemporary, experimental and improvised music. He works with a wide range of musical practices and tendencies – from jazz, freejazz, through contemporary aestetics, to the sound experiments and free improvisation.
www.pavelzlamal.com
Cristiana Fusillo
is an Italian dancer and choreographer. She has collaborated with Cie Tatoo and Accademia della Follia, with Tristan Honsiger in Tic, various performances with Paolo Pascolo, Giorgio Pagorig, Clarissa Durizzotto, Boris Ianje, and with Giuliano Cesco on a work about the relationship to a space that was painted live.
Dance techniques: classical and contemporary dance, butoh, sensitive dance, theatre.
www.freeformsof.art/cristianafusillo
Radim Hanousek
Czech saxophonist focuses on various forms of improvisation, intermediality and projects on the border of jazz and contemporary classical music both as a performer and a composer.
He co-founded the Norwegian-Czech jazz quartet NOCZ and Prague Music Performance Orchestra with a focus on music of Anthony Braxton. Since 2013, Hanousek has been running his own project combining jazz, contemporary and improvise music Dust in the Groove.
www.radimhanousek.cz
Arthur Dennison
Emil Gross
Works as musician on numerous international projects, currently from Vienna, where he also is active as stage management for the RSO, drum teacher and organizer at the cultural organization Limmitationes. As an avowed live musician, he has been on tour in Europe, USA & Morocco in recent years, with musicians such as Joe Fonda, Oliver Lake, Paul Rogers, Mike Kindred, Abdeljalil Kodssi, Michael Jeffry Stevens, Richard Palmer James or Anupriya Deotale.
www.emilgross.com
www.limmitationes.com