2024 events:
Bowed Electrons (BE) @ Langa and !Khwa ttu 2024: 9 - 16 June 2024
Bowed Electrons (BE) @ UCT 2024: 23 August - 2 September 2024
2025 events:
Workshop: Circuitry-Based Sound
Part of the Intercultural Media and Music Practice (inside-sonic.de) collaboration with Bowed Electrons and the SAE Institute Cape Town
Date: 2025_11_24 to 28
Venue: SAE Institute Cape Town
Bowed Electrons @ SAE Institute Cape Town
a BWS HfG Beyond Culture Inside Sonic IMMP SAE Institute Cape Town UCT collaboration​​
Date: 2025_11_28 to 29​
Venue: SAE Institute Cape Town
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Workshop: Lineages of the non- and anti-racial
the London Universal Race Congress of 1911 and its contemporary relevance
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Bowed Electrons @ SAE Institute Cape Town
a BWS HfG Beyond Culture Inside Sonic IMMP SAE Institute Cape Town UCT collaboration​​
Date: 2025_11_28 to 29​
Venue: SAE Institute Cape Town
Programme, stream: below, forthcoming​
intercultural media and music practice
is an initiative of the Media Art Department of the University of the Arts, Karlsruhe to collaborate with the music technology section of the South African College of Music (SACM) of the University of Cape Town (UCT). Funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation the current IMMP page is here
Workshop: Circuitry-Based Sound
Part of the Intercultural Media and Music Practice (inside-sonic.de)
In collaboration with Bowed Electrons and SAE Institute Cape Town
Workshop: Circuitry-Based Sound
Part of the Intercultural Media and Music Practice (inside-sonic.de)
In collaboration with Bowed Electrons and SAE Institute Cape Town
“Circuitry-Based Sound” is a transdisciplinary workshop focusing on DIY electronics and group performance. It introduces participants to self-built circuits as a simple and direct way of creating custom-made electronic music and programmable microcontrollers with sensors to create augmented and extended instruments.
The workshop combines hands-on experimentation with conceptual discussion. Participants will explore breadboarding, circuit hacking, and sound generation through simple electronic systems. Alongside the practical work, we will reflect on topics such as the relationship between tradition and technology, material, and artistic process.
Participants will design and build their own small-scale electronic sound devices and develop them into performative setups. The workshop concludes with a collective live presentation of the works created during the process.
No prior experience with electronics is required. All materials will be provided.
Venue: SAE Institute Cape Town
Dates: November 24 – 28, 2025
Further information: https://inside-sonic.de
Lineages of the non- and anti-racial: the London Universal Race congress of 1911 and its contemporary relevance
Prof. Ari Sitas has invited five exceptional composers to workshop responses to the above from 24 to 30 November 2025 at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town.
The five composers are:
Prof. George E. Lewis, Columbia University
Prof. Wang Lu, Brown University/Chinese Conservatory Beijing
Prof. Natasha Loges, Music School, Freiburg
Prof. Sumangala Damodaran, IDEAS Network, Mumbai and Institute of Human Development, Delhi
Dr Sazi Dlamini, Musicology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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The final day's events will be streamed from Milestone Studios
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the music technology section of the South African College of Music (SACM) of the University of Cape Town (UCT) hosts tech talks, posters here