1. & 2.3.2027, time tba
DIY Performative Systems - Light, Sound, Objects, and Interactive Scenography
Workshop 4: Light, Stage, and Spatial lnteraction
UdK Berlin, Probensaal, Bundesallee 1-12
Led by composer and light designer José del Avellanal Carreño, focuses on approaches to light design from the perspective of musicians and performance makers. The workshop combines lecture, practical workshop, and showcase. Participants are introduced to basic theatrical lighting workflows, DMX systems, and accessible digital tools that allow artists to work with light without requiring extensive experience with lighting consoles. Through examples from the artist's own projects, the workshop explores how sound and light can be integrated with varying degrees of synchronisation in different performative contexts.
The practical workshop focuses on the development of individual or collaborative projects. Participants will create their own sound-and-light compositions, using pre-recorded audio material of their choice as their starting point, such as fragments of music, radio plays, field recordings, or spoken text, and developing a synchronised light design for it. The workshop culminates in a public showcase in which the projects are presented as looping audiovisual installations or performative presentations within an open stage setting.
About
This interdisciplinary workshop series, developed collaboratively between composition and stage design, explores performative systems in which sound, light, sensors, objects, instruments, and electronic media are approached as active spatial and performative elements. Through collaborative experimentation, participants develop small-scale interactive environments combining electronics, sound, light, and scenographic interaction within concert, theatrical, and installation contexts.
The workshop series is structured around four interconnected areas: Kinetic Sound, Wireless MIDI and lnteractive Systems, Light, Stage, and Spatial lnteraction, and Electronic Scenography. Participants experiment with motordriven sounding objects, sensor-based interaction, responsive lighting systems, electronic stage environments, and the extension of instruments through electronics and kinetic systems.
The workshops combine artist-led sessions, collaborative lab formats, peer learning, and independent experimentation. Technical knowledge is taught through hands-on practice, and no prior technical experience is required. Participants are encouraged to develop individual or collaborative performative systems according to their own artistic interests and disciplinary backgrounds.
Li He & Soli Jang & Hye Young Sin & Thomas Geissl & Jose del Avellanal Carreño
MA Komposition & MA Bühnenbild
Registration via email at li.he@stud.hfm-berlin.de.
The number of participants is limited to 15 per workshop, and advance registration is required.
Further information: DIY Performative Systems - Light, Sound, Objects, and Interactive Scenography – Universität der Künste Berlin
Workshop-Reihe im Rahmen von INTER (Interdisciplinary Navigation and Transformation as Educational Reform), gefördert von der Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre.
