NO INPUT WORKSHOPS

Workshops about the no-input technique. Acoustic and electronic feedback as a sound source, a composition and a production tool.

After an historical introduction about the use of feedback in contemporary music (including a listening session of compositions and performances that involve this phenomenon), the partecipants explore self oscillating circuits and feedback in an audio mixer and how to use them in a sound design and musical context. Specifically, they work with the no input technique which consists in connecting the outputs of a mixer with its own input to create a feedback that can be played and used in many different ways. The so created instrument, not built for this purpose, generates unpredictable audio results and has an interface that requieres a new way of approaching to the performance and the composition. In the workshop we focus also on improvisation with this quite unpredictable sound source and its user interface.

In the pictures:
No Input workshop in Graz, with the students of the master degree in sound design at FH Johanneum University of Applied Science. Final performance during the Urban Art Festival Stirya 2020 and video by the students for the online exihibition "Union Reflection Assembly" ( http://uraexhibition.at/ ).