My Mix, Our Mix

with Emma Bortolon-Vettor

Wednesday, April 22, 10 am – 12 pm

ImprovLab (MCKN 108)
University of Guelph

If you were to frame complex social practices and rights discourses, what would this sound like?

If given the agency, how would you mix it?

Most importantly, how would you re-mix it?

This is a workshop where participants will collectively set up a PA system, start to work with the basics of live sound, and then engage with these principles in getting weird and inward. With these questions in mind, I ask that you hold on to them while you engage in learning this new practice, giving mindful thought to how the sounds we make and hold on to shape the larger factors of how we exist together.

Who: We invite everyone who is interested in participating to join the creative workshops. We aim to make these events as accessible as possible, and they are open to everyone regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, religion, language, sexual orientation, gender identity, political beliefs, or status. Folks with children are also welcome to bring them along and their participation will not be part of the study.

To confirm participation and/or for more information, including about consent forms, please email sharon.engbrecht@uoguelph.ca.

If you decide to join us spontaneously, please do. Doors will be open 30 minutes before each event. There will be coffee, tea, and light snacks provided.

Bios

Mx. Emma Bortolon-Vettor (they/them), is a PhD Student in the Critical Studies in Improvisation program at the University of Guelph. They are a musician and the production coordinator for the ImprovLab. Outside of the university, Emma is a guitarist and multidisciplinary researcher whose work involves live sound technology and improvisation; they are exploring the process of mixing as a research methodology to sonify invisible labour—​asking the question: is invisible labour improvised? ​

Dr. Sharon Engbrecht (they/them) comes from a background in theatre and visual arts, narrative theory, and critical studies in gender and sexuality. They have a knack for event planning and facilitating group events focused on storytelling and improvisation. Their research investigates questions of embodiment, identity, and relationality.

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