plates. Contact microphones are in these works to explore the resonant acoustic characteristics of the object. A contact microphone senses vibrations through solid objects rather than through the air. The one-day workshop “Touch some noise” will teach how to make your own contact microphone, then work to develop ideas on how to use it, and finally take part in a small sound performance using your sounds.

If you would like to participate in the workshop on the 19th of March, 11 a.m., at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, you don’t need any previous music or electronics experience to join in, just curiosity to try things out. Once you build your microphone, we will give you a small amplifier and speaker to attach to it, which you can then use to explore sounds in the objects around you. These might be footsteps on the floor, the sound of water in a glass, or the blowing of wind across a piece of fabric. Finally, we will gather in a group to share our sounds through a small performance event which we will organise using stop watches.

Rees Archibald is a sound based artist from Australia who just moved to Lithuania. Originally a saxophone player, he spent several years in Japan studying traditional Zen music. Later, working with composers Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila and David Behrman, he studied electronic music composition. Rees makes work in which body, object, movement and resultant sounds act with the intention of “tuning psychology”. The artist is increasingly focused on notions of negotiation. Of working between ideas of control and uncontrollability, of performance (being a performer) and audience (being a listener), between processes which allow a piece to run independently, and action he might take to interrupt a system.