Testing Testing Testing Workshop

This is a free adult workshop. Spaces are limited, booking is required. Please read the workshop specifications in full.

Jaki Irvine, in collaboration with Izumi Kimura (piano), Lina Andonovska (flute + voice), Matthew Jacobson (drums), Cora Venus Lunny (violin/viola), and Tuula Voutilainen, leads a workshop exploring improvisational techniques and ways of thinking around making sound in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios' Atrium.

This is conceived as a day's workshop including active listening, play, testing and experimenting with sounds and silence between invited participants, across studios and media, and the floors of TBG+S. The workshop will culminate in a performance of improvisation to a public audience at TBG+S later that day and workshop participants are invited to take part if they wish.

This workshop is for artists and creative practitioners working in any medium and aims to open up conversation around music, sound, visual art and space, and the relationship between them. It is not about identifying as a musician––virtuoso or otherwise––although the musicians leading the workshops are outstanding. This is a day for trying out and encountering different ways of imagining, of testing possibilities, with the aim of learning and changing relationships though opening out sonic spaces and visual practices. The day will explore movements from noise to music... sounds, samples, silences of different textures and shapes, and generative connections.

Day's schedule: The workshop will run 1–5pm (with an hour break) and will be followed by a performance from 6–7:30pm.