Distributed Arts Collective: Multimedia, Sound Art, and Performance in Aggregated Creative Practice
Constantin Basica and Alex Chechile
SUMMER 2020: All workshops offered will be done remotely, due to attempts to limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The status of this workshop is still pending. Please check back here for further details as they become clear.
The Distributed Arts Collective brings together artists of any background to develop new works disseminated in a joint online exhibition. As a networked collective, we will meet each day for lectures, discussions, demos, and improvisatory sessions. The heart of the workshop involves the creation and development of special topic artworks that will be presented simultaneously on the final day of the workshop. The audience is free to navigate the multilayered experience as they choose.
The workshop consists of both online and offline components. We will meet regularly from 10am-12pm PDT, with additional materials provided for developing projects throughout the week. The workshop will address various topics regarding multimedia practices, including:
- performance practices
- improvisation and listening
- music and video performance software
- networked performance and online broadcasting
The workshop is open to musicians, visual artists, programmers, designers, writers, dancers, actors, or artists of any discipline.
Apply for a Diversity Scholarship HERE by June 16.
Constantin Basica is a Romanian composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area (CA), whose work focuses on symbiotic interrelations between music, video, and performers. His works have been performed in Europe, North America, and Asia by artists and ensembles such as Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Liminar, ELISION Ensemble, Distractfold, Mocrep, JACK Quartet, Spektral Quartet, RAGE Thormbones, line upon line, Fresh Squeezed Opera, Séverine Ballon, Tony Arnold, Karen Bentley Pollick, and Olga Berar. He received the ICMA Award for Best Submission from Europe at the 42nd ICMC in Shanghai (CN). Constantin earned a DMA in Composition at Stanford University under the guidance of Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Applebaum, and Erik Ulman. He holds an M.A. degree in Multimedia Composition from the University of Music and Theater Hamburg (DE), and two B.A. degrees in Composition and Conducting from the National University of Music Bucharest (RO). As an educator, Constantin has taught courses and conducted workshops at Stanford University, Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City, the 2016 Sound and Music Computing Summer School in Hamburg, and the International Center for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies in Bucharest. Currently, Constantin is a postdoctoral scholar and the Concert Coordinator at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
