Sound in the Margins: Drawing audio on 16mm film with Ajunie Virk
Tuesday, April 14, 6:30–8:30 pm
Free or $10 suggested donation; open to ages 16+.
Limited seats available; register below
Join artist resident Ajunie Virk for a workshop that teaches participants how to create experimental audio by drawing directly onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film, a technique the artists uses herself to personalize sound and generate abstract audio layers within her own video works.
This hands-on workshop methods in mark-making, sound reading, and editing to craft unique sonic textures. Participants will be introduced to historical and artistic antecedents, including the work of Daphne Oram and Arseny Avraamov, and learn analog and digital tools – including 16mm projectors, the Photosounder software, among others.
Attendees: Participants are welcome to bring their own laptops, but can also request one in the registration form. You can install the Photosounder software here. Additional materials will be provided. We’ll be ordering a pizza for everyone. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm.
Funding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency, Alicia Hawkins, Donte McFadden, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here.
Biography of the artist
Ajunie Virk is an Indian-American writer-director and animator whose work investigates the relationship between surveillance, identity, and paranoia in a diasporic middle-America, conjuring up narratives that force viewers to face uncomfortable truths only apparent after objects of nostalgia are stripped of their familiar contexts. An alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University, Virk was an artist-in-residence at Bunker Projects, Brew House Arts, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Yale Norfolk School of Art. A recipient of the Anne Dowden and Samuel Rosenberg awards, she has recently screened works at the Coaxial Art Foundation, Roski Mateo Gallery, and Light Matters Festival, among others.
