Intro to Soundpainting with Sam Day Harmet

Tickets-

Sliding Scale $15 to 30 - advanced purchase highly encouraged.

14 person cap for this


Program Description

In this introductory class, we will explore Soundpainting, an interdisciplinary composing sign language created by Walter Thompson. Originally developed as a way to shape large ensemble improvised music groups in New York’s downtown scene, Soundpainting has gradually grown into a large and internationally used system of hand signs for creating spontaneous compositions with musicians, actors, dancers, and visual artists. In this workshop, we will learn basic signs to construct layered compositions in real time using the improvisational offerings from the ensemble as our building blocks. Our approach will be hands-on, practical, and flexible, and all participants will act as both performers and composers/Soundpainters.

For this class the instructor is hoping to curate a group of students with a variety of roles--after registering students should complete this Google Form to indicate if you are a musician, actor, dancer, or visual artist.

Location

Private home in Bella Vista, Please email People's Music Supply for the Address

Equipment

A PA will be provided for singers, but bringing one's own amplification extension cords and powerstrips, is encouraged.

Instructor

Sam Harmet

Sam Day Harmet is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, producer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. A musician of diverse tastes, Sam's projects range from deconstructive folk and jazz, to free improvisation, to left field electronic music, to Soundpainting and beyond. He has performed in Soundpainting groups with Walter Thompson for over 15 years in the US, UK, France, and Spain. His own Sam Day Harmet Soundpainting Collective frequently performs in experimental arts spaces around New York.

http://soundpainting.org