The Carxofa Electric Band

What is the The 'Carxofa' Electric Band?

2009-06-29T11:20:00.001-07:00

The 'Carchofa' Electric Band (McCurdy-Climent) - Education Workshop in Valencia, Spain.

* The 'Carchofa' (*) Electric Band: an Electronic Worlshop for 300 children between 12-14 years old, using local vegetables fruits, sensors, electronics and computers by composers Iain McCurdy and Ricardo Climent.
* Where/when: Friday, 29th May, @ 10 am. Biblioteca Suecana, Claustre, Sueca, (Valencia), Spain. Festival: 5th Muestra Sonora de Sueca. Participants will need to bring a piece of fruit or veggie from home. Alongside this workshop, McCurdy will present his sound installation Pendulum, already presented at MANTIS 08 and Spanish trombonist Carlos Gil will perform Climent's works Gyrosbone (2005) and Trombonsis (1999).

(*) Carchofa means artichoke in Valencian language.

NEW: VIDEO of the workshop - it made echo on the news at the Spanish national TV Antena 3 Noticias TV-

* - Original Note from the Festival (Spanish)
The Carchofa Electric Band: TALLER SONORO ELECTRONICO CON FRUTAS Y HORTALIZAS (Iain McCurdy / Ricardo Climent). The Carchofa Electric Band es un taller para niños que deseen iniciarse en el mundo de la creación sonora usando frutas y hortalizas. Para ello harán uso de tecnología de sensores, computadoras y sonido surround! Se mostrará a los participantes como se pueden crear música y diseñar sonidos nuevos utilizando objetos cotidianos de nuestra cocina, como son; frutas y verduras, un zumo de naranja, un trozo de papel de aluminio o el corazón de una alcachofa. Los participantes crearán una orquesta de frutas y hortalizas con mucha marcha y experimentarán con formas de interacción musical en grupo. Requisitos: para niños de edades comprendidas entre 12 y 14. Cada participante deberá llevar una pieza de hortaliza o fruta a su elección. Los asistentes al taller no requiren ninguna experiencia musical, electrónica o gastronómica. Nota: El taller es totalmente seguro y apenas utiliza el voltaje de una pila pequeña para dar un sinfín de alegría y sonidos a los productos de la huerta. Ningún alimento sera ingerido como parte de taller.

VIDEO OF EXAMPLE OF INSTRUMENT

People: McCurdy-Climent

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Iain McCurdy (right) and Ricardo Climent (left) in Valencia (May 2009)

McCurdy and Climent met for the first time in Belfast in 97, where they obtained a Master of Arts in Electroacoustic Composition and also a PhD composition using audiomedia technologies. More than 12 years after, still keep working in projects together. Musical and technology skills are common language for both, even though they have their own areas of expertise.

For more about Iain check this out >>iainmccurdy.org
For more about Ricardo you may want see this >> electro-acoustic.com

The Carxofa/Carchofa Electric Band is born!

2009-06-26T12:09:00.001-07:00

The 'Carchofa' Electric Band (McCurdy-Climent) - Education Workshop in Valencia, Spain.

Pre-worshops videos, testing ideas and instruments

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Workshop at the Mostra in May 2009

Green beans and garlic windchimes (Climent), performed by McCurdy

Cucumber theremin- climent testing it. Special attention to his terrible t-shirt!

Cucumber theremin idea - Iain is having a go!

Doepfer Analogue to Digital converter and theremin module on the floor (climent corner)

Video of The Carxofa Project on Spanish TV (2)

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For more about this TV station (Libertad digital) follow this link: >>link

Mostra de Sueca, Valencia

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Video on Spanish TV

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Excerpt of the Video aboce.
Click here to see the the full video from Antena 3 Noticias >>here

Synthecumber instrument

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Above the Synthecumber,, our new organic/electronic prototype for a synthesizer

Carrimba or Carrotophone: Carrot + marimba + Electronics

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Pictured above, Iain McCurdy performing some of his so-called 'organic e-instruments'

Carxofa workshop - some cool pictures

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Preparatory session in Valencia (Iain's corner)

Original logo by Iain

Iain with some of the kids in Sueca, Valencia

Preparatory session in Valencia (Ricardo's corner)

Iain having a siesta during sessions. Too hot weather for the Belfast man!

The Carxofa/Carchofa Electric Band is born!

2009-06-25T01:49:00.000-07:00