Omar Estrada Workshop

Monday, November 26, 2018 - 11:30
Alan Wildeman Centre for Creative Arts, NMPL Studio, 360 Freedom Way (across from Armouries)
 

The workshop is an introduction to Omar Estrada's methods and strategies using examples and hands-on exercises:

"We will look at the production of meaning, sound vs image and the importance of silence, referencing and deconstructing in order to make a point in visual/art strategies". (OE)

Workshop is open to SoCA Students only.


Omar Estrada is a Cuban visual artist who works with interdisciplinary installation, sound, video, interactivity, and narrative text. His artwork explores the tensions between Art, Science & Technology in the context of social structures, questioning the validity of political, cultural and knowledge approaches as absolute perceptions.

Since 1983, Estrada has had solo shows in Cuba, the Caribbean, South America and North America and has participated in group exhibitions in Cuba, France, Spain, Korea, Canada and the USA including the Havana Biennial and the Caribbean Biennial in Dominican Republic. Estrada received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba. He has taught Art at the bachelor and master degree level for more than 20 years.
He lives and works in Toronto, Canada. 

SOFTWARE

Composer Desktop Project -Sound Loom (transformations)

http://www.composersdesktop.com

Sound transformation Trevor Wishart

http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/

* timestretch or compression and its range
* segment density and its range
* segment size
* segment transposition and its range
* segment amplitude and its range
* segment splice-length
* segment spatial position
* segment spatial scatter and its range
* segment timing randomisation
* segment search-range in the source

Audacity
https://www.audacityteam.org

Davinci Resolve
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/davinciresolve/

 

BANKS

Community
https://freesound.org

History
https://archive.org/

Freebies
https://www.thefreesite.com

Sound search engine
http://www.findsounds.com/

Music beds
http://www.freemusicbeds.com/music/Up_and_Down.mp3

NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html

Internet Archives
https://www.archives.gov/research/databases

https://pressroom.rferl.org/p/6088.html

Declasified 
https://www.cia.gov/index.html

Declassified
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu

VIDEO

Free Stock
https://www.videvo.net

Library of Congress:

https://www.loc.gov/collections
https://www.loc.gov/film-and-videos/
https://www.loc.gov/film-and-videos/collections/
https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-screening-room/about-this-collection/

American Memory collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/updatedList.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Internet Archives
https://archive.org/details/stock_footage

Prelinger Archives
https://archive.org/details/prelinger/

Public Domain
http://publicdomainflix.com

Well known youtube

More References
https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/filmarchives

Sigi Torinus