Friday 2nd October 2020

09:30am Guests wishing to have a tour of the ZHdK campus please contact andre.bellmont@zhdk.ch

11:00am – 1:00pm Kino Toni moderated by Yati Durant (UK)

IMMSANE Opening and General Assembly

Keynote speakers: Rens Machielse (NL, HKU Utrecht) and Bryan Minghui BI (CN, PKU Beijing) 

1:00pm – 3:00pm 

Lunch 

3:00pm – 4:30pm 3.K17 Dolby Atmos moderated by André Bellmont (CH), COLLABORATION WITH SOUNDTRACK ZURICH 

1. Case Study: “Not Me - A Journey with Not Vital” D: Pascal Hofman (CH) with composer Marcel Vaid (CH)

2. Case Study: "Jagdzeit” (D: Sabine Boss (CH)) to “Orchestral Spaces” with composer Michael Künstle (CH) and sound engineer Daniel Dettwiler

3:00 pm – 4:30pm Kino Toni moderated by Yati Durant (UK) 

Film Music Competitions Panel with George Christopolous (GR, Oticons Faculty), Pierre Funck (CH, Intl. Film Music Competition), Michael Lyczek (PL, FMF Krakow) and Michael Aust (DE, STC European Talent Award) 

4:30pm – 5:00pm Kino Foyer 

Break (refreshments provided) 

5:00pm – 6:30pm 3.K17 Dolby Atmos moderated by Pierre Funck, COLLABORATION WITH SOUNDTRACK ZURICH 

1. Case Study: “Nostromo” (D: Fisnik Maxhuni) and “Le Milieu de L’Horizon” (D: Delphine Lehericey with composer Nicolas Rabaeus (CH) 

2. Case Study: "Immer und Ewig" (The Journey - A story of love) with composer Olivia Pedroli (CH) and director Fanny Bräuning (CH)

5:00pm – 6:30pm Kino Toni

Atmospheres of Uncertainty - Music and Sound in Film noir and Sci Fi noir with Steffen Schmidt (CH) 

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Dinner

8:00pm 3.K17 Dolby Atmos   

Live Sound Art performances:

Yati Durant (UK), Nicola Baroni (IT) "Saundaryalahari 3"

Eleni-Ira Panourgia (GR) "Schíma – morphḗ – íchos"

Roger Alsop (AU) "Some Quiet Moments" (Screening) 

8:00pm Kino Toni moderated by Steffen Schmidt (CH) 

Film screening “Miller’s Crossing” (1990) with live commentary 

Saturday 3rd October 2020

9:00am Kino Foyer 

Coffee and refreshments provided 

9:30am – 11:00am Kino Toni     

Holistic Approaches in Soundtrack Composition: SoundDesign Panel with Rens Machielse (NL) and André Bellmont (CH), Guests: Composer (Michael Künstle), Sound Designer (Gina Keller), Editor (Noemi  Preiswerk), Director (Tom Gerber) 

9:30am – 11:00am 3.K17 Dolby Atmos moderated by Eleni-Ira Panourgia (GR) 

Sound Art Practice and Collaboration: Roles, Media and Technology: SoundArt Panel with Joseph Hyde (UK), Roger Alsop (AU), Martin Parker (UK) and Germán Toro-Pérez (CH)  

11:00am – 11:30am Kino Foyer 

Break (refreshments provided) 

11:30am – 1:00pm Kino Toni moderated by Yati Durant (UK)         

IMMSANE Discussion Panel on International Pedagogy and Collaboration Topics, Agenda TBA 

11:30am – 1:00pm 3.K17 Dolby Atmos moderated by Olav Lervik (CH) 

Tikal - The Sound of Virtual Reality with Jacob Eisenbach (CH) 

1:00pm – 2:00pm 

Apéro riche / lunch 

2:00pm – 4:00pm Kino Toni Moderated by Yati Durant (UK) 

IMMSANE Closing and General Assembly

Speakers

Thursday 1st Oct 4:30pm – 5:30pm ZFF Festivalzentrum 

Marco Biscarini, Luca Leprotti Conservatorio di Musica Francesco Venezze Rovigo 

The studio as a musical instrument: Soundtracks, Sound Design and Audio post production 

Abstract 

Marco Biscarini is an italian composer, best known for his work with director Giorgio Diritti (Il vento fa il suo giro, L’uomo che verrà, Un giorno devi andare). In his work, the wider concept of “soundtrack” has always included music, sound design and audio editing as well. Luca Leprotti is a sound designer and Marco’s longtime collaborator. Volevo Nascondermi (Hidden Away) is an example of how music and sound design coexist and blur, giving birth to an organic environment. The movie won a Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlinale 2020, the Movie of the year award at Italian Nastri d’Argento and boasts 7 nomination at the Italian Golden Globes, including Best Soundtrack. Marco and sound designer Luca will show clips from the movie, commenting and analyzing the relation between music and sound design.  

Friday 2nd Oct 3:00pm – 4:30pm 3.K17 Dolby Atmos

Michael Künstle (CH)

“Jagdzeit” to “Orchestral Spaces”

Abstract

Spatial composition: What are the possibilities, difficulties & techniques, when treating the room as an additional compositional element and how important is a composer’s understanding of the required sound engineering skills? We’ll dive into Michael’s AIR studio recorded score for JAGDZEIT as well as his upcoming compositional research project ORCHESTRAL SPACES, which will be recorded at Abbey Road with an 80-piece orchestra.

Friday 2nd Oct 5:00pm – 6:30pm Kino Toni  

Steffen A. Schmidt  Zurich University of the Arts 

Atmospheres of Uncertainty - Music and Sound in Film noir and Sci Fi noir Abstract 

The paper deals with the question, how music and sound are organized in the genre of film noir. The idea is, that music and sound create an atmosphere of uncertainty, to involve the audience in a blurring situation of the real and unreal. Following philosophical and aesthetic discussions around Slavoy Zizek and Gernot Böhme, aspects of sound and music compositions are discussed on films of the neo noir from the 90ies and SciFi noir films in comparison of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.  

Friday 2nd Oct 8:00pm Kino Toni Film screening with live commentary 

Film title: Miller’s Crossing, USA      

Directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Music: Carter Burwell USA 1990 

Synopsis

Declared as a neo noir film, the Coen brothers had problems to show the independence from Hammet’ s novels like The Glass Key and Red Harvest. In short, the plot tells the situation of a gangster, who proves his loyalty, but no one understands this. Although there are some clear connections to the famous writer’s stories, the atmosphere of the Irish mafia is completely a Coen creation and gives lots of folkloristic atmosphere through the music, composed by Carter Burwell. But it is not only the music, which delivers a strong impact of the whole cineast pleasure, also the sound design contributes very prominently a sort of audible perspective, which is sometimes so tricky and subtle, that it seems necessary to take a closer look and listening, to discover it in full. Steffen A. Schmidt, musicologist and teacher of film music history of the ZHdK will give a commented stop and go presentation, to highlight the crucial moments of this highly praised audiovisual movie.   

Saturday 3rd Oct 9:30am – 11:00am 3.K17 Dolby Atmos 

Joseph Hyde Bath-Spa University 

Seeing Sound - music beyond the auditory domain 

Abstract 

This presentation will discuss ways in which musical ideas can be explored in multimedia and interdisciplinary contexts. It will acknowledge historical precedents but focus on contemporary trends, framed around the Seeing Sound symposium convened by the author since 2009.

Joseph Hyde is interested in music’s place in an interdisciplinary landscape. In particular, he has engaged with audiovisual performance and visual music since the mid 1990s, as an artist and a writer. He has undertaken a project on the unique musical notation used by Oskar Fischinger, and in his creative practice he has focused on the use of ‘obsolete’ technologies: cathode ray tubes, oscilloscopes and analogue (audio and video) synthesisers. Since 2009 he has run a symposium on visual music at the Bath Spa University, Seeing Sound.  

Saturday 3rd Oct 9:30am – 11:00am 3.K17 Dolby Atmos 

Roger Alsop University of Melbourne 

Loops within loops: Performance, Practice, Improvisation, Creativity, Studio 

Abstract 

This paper looks directly at the terms “Performance, practice, improvisation, studio, and creativity” from the last dot point topic in the call. Each of these terms is discussed separately, outlining various understanding of the terms and how each becomes an interacting/interactive element in the development of a creative work continuously informing the development of a creative artwork. The collaborative music/sound work 13:12 (working title) will be used as an exemplar through which these interactions are considered. While this work is currently in its most nascent stages two rendered works that are built from the inspirations of 13:12 and as processes in developing the work to be shown, this will offer insights to how the inspiration(s) causing 13:12 are interpreted and developed within the creative team.  

Saturday 3rd Oct 9:30am – 11:00am 3.K17 Dolby Atmos 

Eleni-Ira Panourgia Université Gustave Eiffel 

Schíma – morphḗ – íchos: form, structure and playability across sound and sculpture 

Abstract 

This presentation discusses material and performative aspects of sound art through the combination of sculptural objects, sounds and a sensing system. Our work ‘Schíma – morphḗ – íchos’, offers itself up as a sound installation, a sculptural ensemble and a live performance where form, structure, playability and the background system are brought together to identify new ways of composing, making and participating across artistic disciplines. Audiences and performers explore a multidimensional theatre of sound and sculpture through touch, response, negotiation, listening and physical engagement. The system exists in a state of constant re-configuration and this sense of bewildering options responds very directly to the research of new forms of performing with sound, visual media and technology. This work offers a radical shift in focus from precomposed forms and structures to those which are both emergent and responsive.   

Saturday 3rd Oct 9:30am – 11:00am 3.K17 Dolby Atmos 

Germán Toro-Pérez Zurich University of the Arts 

Generative Sound Synthesis in Contemporary Music Theater

Abstract

This talk offers an account of the multidisciplinary collaboration process that led to the music theater piece «Journey to Comala» (2017) and discusses a specific technical device based on generative sound synthesis conceived as an adaptive stage design of sorts. The complex performative layers underlying the different versions of the piece are reflected as a genuine collaborative, evolving artistic process.  

Saturday 3rd Oct 11:30am – 1:00pm 3.K17 Dolby Atmos 

Jakob Eisenbach 

Tikal - The Sound of Virtual Reality 

Abstract 

Jakob Eisenbach will give some insight into his work behind the score production, sounddesign and audio implementation of TrueVR Systems virtual reality experience 'Tikal - Night Of The Bloodmoon'.