Interested in sound recording and composition techniques?
Are you 13-19 yrs and live in Southwark?
Then this workshop is for you! Join artist and musician Paul Purgas to explore sound recording compositions and collage techniques realised through audio gathered within Southwark Park and the surrounding area.
Across the two days you will learn the basics of field recording using microphones, underwater recording methods and mobile phones as well as digital audio production and arrangement using a composition software, where the sounds will be collaged using mixing and audio processing techniques.
The workshop will give you foundational skills in microphone recording and the use of a sound composition software.
Bring a friend along with you and sign up now to this free course!
Workshops are held at Southwark Park Galleries // Dilston Gallery
Southwest corner of Southwark Park, London SE16 2DD
Programme //
Saturday 11 May 2024, 2-5pm
Audio recording in Southwark Park
Importing sounds to a composition software and making a basic arrangement collage
Discussion about the work so far, decide what sounds might be missing from the collage
Sunday 12 May 2024, 2-5pm
Additional sound recording in Southwark Park
Finalise collage in the composition software
Biography //
Paul Purgas is a London based artist and musician. Originally trained as an architect, his research based practise explores the plurality of Modernism’s development and expansion across South Asia through the fields of design, music and spiritual philosophy. He has presented exhibitions and installations at Tramway in Glasgow, Camden Art Centre, CTM/Transmediale and Kunstverein Gartenhaus in Vienna and performances with South London Gallery and Tate Modern. His recent work has uncovered the history of India’s first electronic music studio and its role within the nation’s utopian visions for art and culture post- independence, further examined through the essay collection Subcontinental Synthesis published by Strange Attractor/MIT Press and the documentary Electronic India for BBC Radio 3 – which he has been followed by a series of BBC documentaries including Krishnamurti in England investigating Eastern spiritual influences within radical pedagogy and Recording on the Nomad’s Trail a reflection on the life and legacy of Deben Bhattacharya, India’s pioneer of recorded sound. He has curated visual art and performance programmes with Tate Britain, ICA, Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge, the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, Somerset House and Spike Island.
Young People’s Short Courses are generously supported by Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund
