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Saturday at 10.30am
Malcy Duff Workshop The Dog Walking Technique

Saturday at 3.30pm
SoundShoppe

Sunday at 3pm
Fabio Roberti: Failure and the Technology of the 21st Century

Saturday at 10.30am
Malcy Duff Workshop
The Dog Walking Technique

'When we meet a dog walker out with his/her dog all our attention goes onto the animal. The walker disappears. Now we are getting to know the person through their dog. Our conversation continues but all we see is the dog, and the person who we talk to now has become something else physically. We can start seeing ripples in the dogs brow that remind us of the person's clothes, the collar begins to look like the person's house and the spots on the dogs back is the job that the walker goes to 5 days a week. And then we look into the eyes of the dog, and there is the person we met staring right back at us. We have just got to know this person through looking at an abstract form and yet we are learning something about them, something much deeper than when we look up from the dog and see a human being wearing clothes holding a piece of string attached to four legged beast.'
As part of the COOS exhibition cartoonist and musician Malcy Duff will present an all ages workshop aimed at unleashing your creative comic strip potential - and having fun too. Malcy will take you through some basic comic book techniques, including drawing exercises and character creation. You'll be following a simple exercise: Using a double page spread of comic panels, tell a simple story of a character you already have in mind. This could be a person going for a walk down the road, cooking some food, tying their shoelaces, something that may seem inconsequential, an everyday activity like a sneeze. Storyboard this tale out, but leave one panel empty on the right hand side page. This panel is the dog walking panel...
Please bring along your own sketchbook and pens/paints. All ages welcome!		  

Saturday at 3.30pm
SoundShoppe


Soundshoppe is an informal, intermitent gathering for the Los Angeles experimental sound community, a means by which artists can meet and informally explore their medium together. As well as a space for experienced sound musicians to experiment with different instrumentations / approaches outside of their comfort zone, soundShoppe is always open to those new to the scene. Three of LA's finest experimental musicians - Joesph Hammer, Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia will introduce and participate in the workshop...the rest is up to you. There'll be a small PA, so bring instruments, leads, anything you think you might need.

 

 

Sunday at 3pm
Fabio Roberti: Failure and the Technology of the 21st Century:


Fabio Roberti (aka Jim Sharpe) has been a dj at New Jersey's WFMU for 23 years with his program "Strength Through Failure". Listener supported and non commercial WFMU is the longest running 'freeform' radio station in the USA. Fabio is also been involved in Directart Productions Ltd, a media collective that has produced films, videos and records since the mid '80s. After having worked in the grey compounds of the corporate world for many years, he decided that he'd had enough and invested in a record store which still operates today in Brooklyn, NY: Earwax Records.
He'll be joined on the panel by musicians Leif Elggren, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Sten Hanson and Scott Mckeating and Ed Baxter of Resonance FM and Scott Mckeating of Rock-A-Rolla.

PANEL:

An open discussion on the survival of various audio medias (ie cassettes, vinyl, cds, etc) and how they compare with the currently popular trends of downloading and web-based distribution. We will also discuss the ways in which the experimental, independent avant garde and noise scenes relate to these technologies and why they are increasing in popularity with a wide range of artists.

 

 

 
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