Masterclass (FR/EN), 19:30 > 20:30
Performance, 20:45 > 21:30
During this masterclass, followed by a performance, Charo Calvo focuses on the relationship between sound and image. This complex and fascinating relationship that is not limited to audiovisual media but manifests itself in everyday life. Starting from biological listening, we move on to the possibilities of electronic amplified listening, which has become part of our daily lives and changed our perception of the world. Sounds create mental images in our brains; we see images behind our eyes when we listen. Through training, we can further develop this innate ability and learn to listen in a creative, active, poetic and musical way.
In the audiovisual arts, careful listening is essential, because we use sound as a creative material. In today’s technological era, we have access to an incredible variety of sounds, through recording or instrumental production, but increasingly through access to libraries in the ever-growing digital cloud. Making and finding sounds for cinema, radio or dance no longer requires large budgets, but imagination and creativity are put to the test to maintain originality in our sound creations.
A sound is often difficult to describe with a single word – or even with many. There are far more sounds than words to represent them. Moreover, sounds evolve over time and our mental image of them shifts when they are associated with other sounds. Through this encounter, let’s try to invent new sounds together – sounds that speak to us, move us and challenge us, far beyond those we can find using search engines.
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Charo Calvo is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer and teacher, living in Belgium. After having performed as a dancer with the influential Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, she started her studies on Electroacoustic Composition in 1992 with Annette Vande Gorne at Brussels Conservatory (now ARTS2 Mons) and graduated in 1999.
Since 1992 her work as composer has evolved through different media and has widely been presented at international venues and festivals including dance, theatre, film and radio. She has received several important awards such as the Palma Ars Acustica 2014 (EBU); Phonurgia Nova Awards 2017 and 2023 (Paris); Prix Marulic 2018 (Croatia), Grand Prix Nova 2019; Grand Prix Nova Binaural Category 2023 (Bucharest), and was shortlisted for Prix Europa (Berlin) and the Hearsay Prize (Ireland).