+++ Playfully learn about Digital Sound Synthesis! +++ Listen to your environment with new ears! +++ No coding skills required! +++ Bring your own laptop! +++ Install SuperCollider beforehand! +++

In this Experiment, we will learn about +++Soundscapes+++ and +++live coding+++ by immersing ourselves into writing little code snippets that will create an artificial soundscape. We will temporarily fill Temporary with the sounds of a desert, a rainy forest, or a twirling extraterestrial city of ant-sized aliens.

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When Canadian composer and environmentalist R. Murray Schafer coined the term +++soundscape+++ in his book "The Tuning of the World" (1977), he described it as a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment.
A soundscape is a personal experience, it encompasses everything one hears around oneself. It is how an "environment is [sonically] understood by those living within it" (Truax (2011): "Acoustic Communication, p.11")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundscape

+++Live coding+++, on the other hand, is a direction in electronic music (and video) where practitioners expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music (or visuals).
https://toplap.org/

+++SuperCollider+++ is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound. It is free and open source software available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
http://supercollider.github.io/

+++ Playfully learn about Digital Sound Synthesis! +++ Listen to your environment with new ears! +++ Imagine an alternative sonic environment! +++

3-4h, one day in the week 8.5.–14.5. or week 22.–28.5.

Curious people that want to programmatically sketch out sonic environments