A workshop for building a device for listening to electromagnetic waves.
Introduction to electronics, soldering and audio for beginners, no prior knowledge required.
The workshop runs over two days from 29 April - 30 April 2025, 18:00 - 21:00.
If you're curious about the sound of electromagnetic fields, want to start soldering and learn about electronics, then this course could be for you. Electromagnetic waves are everywhere in the urban landscape where there is electricity, it is also a phenomenon that can be observed in nature, for example during powerful solar storms when you also get the Northern Lights. Electromagnetic waves, translated into sound, have been used by artists such as Christian Kubisch (DE) and Magnus Bugge (NO). Their explorations of natural and man-made environments reveal an unknown and alien world, which is around us all the time and accessible via a small electronic circuit.
Goals for the workshop
The aim of the workshop is for you to learn the basics of soldering and take home a small circuit that you have soldered together yourself. You will also have a basic understanding of how the circuit works and have tested listening in practice. At the end of the workshop, you will have a listening device that enables you to listen and record electromagnetic activity.
About the teacher
Christian Blom (1974) is a Norwegian artist and director of Notam. Blom works with composition, sound art, installations and performance, often with electronics and mechanics at the core. Blom works alone and in collective processes. His most important collaborators have been Verdensteatret, Winterguests and Ellen Røed.
Blom has shown works at Ircam, Empac, National Art Museum of China, Guangzhou Art Museum, Audio Art Festival Krakow, Lydgalleriet, Metamorf, PS122 New York, Ultimafestival, TEKS, Steirischer Herbst, Bozar, Theatre Der Welt, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Nordic Music Days, World Music Days and several other national and international institutions.
Blom received the Edvard Prize in 2014 and the Spellemann Prize in 2017 for his collaboration with Ensemble Ernst.
Price
The course fee is NOK 1300,-. Components are included in the course fee.
Enrolment
Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music