Festival

Presentation of results of the Special Program

Speculative Sound Synthesis

coached by David Pirrò, Martin Rumori and Leonie Strecker

 

 

with participants of the impuls Academy 2025

Benedikt Alphart | Ted Apel | Francesco Dal Rí | Emanuele Grossi | Georgios Marentakis | Mike McCormick | Nicolas Speda | Justyna Tobera | Lars Fabian Tuchel composition, electronics

The Speculative Sound Synthesis workshop, set up at the impuls Academy 2025, is addressing sound artists, computer music composers and performers who are committed to critical, speculative approaches at the intersection of art and technology, and who are engaged in practices that question, challenge, criticize, deconstruct, recompose, reformulate, shift, dislocate, endanger or reject established standards of sound synthesis and (music) technology. The workshop is part of the artistic research project "Speculative Sound Synthesis". The aim of the project is to rethink and recompose the relationship between technology and artistic practice in an attempt to unleash aesthetic potentials of sound synthesis that would otherwise remain unknown or hidden within the technological apparatus. In this aesthetic destabilization of analog and digital sound technologies, speculation is the primary method.