2023
2020-
2021
2019
Annual program
Synth Lab 2023
A year of workshops, Ableton Group Meet Ups, and for the first time, artists residencies. Enesi M, lutz boglárka and Winona Hudec were the artists selected. They worked with our equipment on a project for two months each.
Funded by the city of Vienna.
Ars Electronica Festival 2023
We participated in the festival as part of Create Your World exhibition with a booth where we brought our Synth Lab and encouraged people to make music and share.
SYNTH LIBRARY
Free rental service of musical equipment. This project was running from October to December 2021.
SYNTH LAB
Online program of workshops covering a wider range of topics, with the collaboration of many invited artists. Thanks to our online workshop you can learn about Musik Produktion with Ableton Live, Musiktheorie, Modular Synths, Stage Performance, Songwriting, Pioneers in the electronic music... Check all our program here.
This is a project supported by the city of Vienna and the BMKOES.
Exhibition at Format.strk
Interactive, collective and unexpected. The sound installations exhibited were prepared by the students during one of our workshops. Using what is at hand, DIY ethics and referring to participant’s own, embodied experiences, the group created an experimental sound collage - exhibition. Who and how it will sound like is yet to be determined, but it will tackle collectivity, vulnerability and using the body to compose music.
Sounds Queer? Festival
In January 2019, SQ? hosted a 5-day festival of workshops and jams. Already as a collective, SQ? prepared an exciting and extensive set of the skill-sharing session in hopes to inspire new electronic musicians. The workshops covered DIY electronic circuits building, introductions to working with hardware synthesizers and sequencers as well as music productions techniques using DAW. As always, Sounds Queer? invites femme, women, non-binary and gender-nonconforming and non-conformative nerds to join them in exploring queer sounds. The festival was topped with collective jam-session performance and a cozy networking get-together.
DIY Synth Lab 2019
We presented whole program of workshops covering a wider range of topics, with the collaboration of many artists that answered our open-call. A group of artists willing to share their knowledge in the fields of: circuit-bending, Sound synthesis, digital and analog Synthesizers, MIDI-Implementation, Field Recording and Music production and performance with Ableton Live. We also put at your disposal an open studio equipped with a synth library and everything you need to record and mix your album. This is a current project and you can check the calendar here.
2018
2017
Sounds Queer? Workshop semester at Praha
(Brno, Czech Republic)
SQ? was invited to curate and facilitate a semester of workshops at an art space in Brno. Workshop topics included: introduction to sound synthesis, unexpected sound experiments on budget, Ableton Live and DIY electronics.
Sounds Queer? Workshop at Museum Quarter during Electric Spring, in collaboration with ZVUK Synth Library Prague.
Nothing Less! 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, VBKÖ (Vienna, AT)
Sounds Queer? Installation (including video from the performance and a small DIY synthesizer) was shown at VBKÖ (Vienna, AT), Nothing Less! 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, curated by Aline Lara Rezende & Julia Hartmann.
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Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna, AT), Rundgang 2018, Sound Underground, curated by Franz Pommasl.
HEAR ME! International Festival of Contemporary Music and Performing Arts (Švestkový Dvůr, CZK), curated by Elia Moretti.
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Sounds Queer? Video was shown at Fabryka Sztuki (Łódź, PL), Border of (im)materiality: Listening Through the Noise, curated by Magda Hamdy, Adrienn Lestyán, Alifiyah Imani.
Queer Synth Laboratory
Sounds Queer? had offered space, tools and opportunities to learn about electronic music. In collaboration with Mz. Baltazar's Laboratory, a feminist hacker space, Zosia Hołubowska curated and organised a series of workshops introducing the participants to the basics of playing electronic music. She invited several artists that facilitated more in-depth and focused sessions and led introductory workshop herself. The workshop topics included: decolonisation of sound, sampling, basics of sound synthesis, working with Ableton, introduction to modular synthesizers, working with Fruity Loops, connecting plants to Makey-Makey and Ototo synthesizers as touch-sensitive controllers and Atari Punk Synthesizer. After months of workshops, participants of the Queer Synth Laboratory took over Prospekthoft at Semperdepot. Collectively they were exploring noises, harmonies, and dissonances, latency and synchronisation to create a performative sound installation. They invited the audience to experience a living library, a maze of our sound projects and the sound-scape they conjured.
Invited artists: Martyna Hormańska (Zdrada Pałki), Masha Dabelka, Conny Frischauf, Sharmi Basu (Beast Nest), Sabine Moore (Waterflower), Karolina Karncewicz (Morgiana Hz), Aja Ireland, Carlin Dally, Violeta Gil Martínez.
The project was generously funded by Kultur Gemma scholarship and assisted by Project Funding of Student Union at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE - OUTCOME OF QUEER SYNTH LABORATORY 2017 - Six months of workshops and skills sharing on topics of electronic and computer music, prioritizing femmes, queers, and non-binary people. Footage: Autarchy Editing: Zosia
Performance participants: Nicole Sabella, Verena Schwab, Miña Tarilonte Rodrígues.Hołubowska
DIY ELECTRONICS: BUILD YOUR OWN SYNTHESIZER - PRAHA, BRNO 2018
AUDIOLABOR - PARQUE DEL SOL 2019, LAMES
SOUNDSYNTHESIS - PRAHA, BRNO 2018
SOUNDSYNTHESIS - PRAHA, BRNO 2018
INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHESIZERS - MZ BALTAZARS LABORATORY, VIENNA 2017
CIRCUIT BENDING - MZ BALTAZARS LABORATORY, VIENNA 2017
SOUNDSYNTHESIS - PRAHA, BRNO 2018
SOUNDS QUEER FESTIVAL - SSTR6, VIENNA 2019
SOUNDS QUEER FESTIVAL - SSTR6, VIENNA 2019
INTRODUCTION TO ABLETON LIVE - PRAHA, BRNO 2018
CIRCUIT BENDING - MZ BALTAZARS LABORATORY, VIENNA 2017
SOUNDS QUEER FESTIVAL - SSTR6, VIENNA 2019
PERFORMANCE QUEER SYNTH LABORATORY - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, VIENNA 2017
PERFORMANCE QUEER SYNTH LABORATORY - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, VIENNA 2017
PERFORMANCE QUEER SYNTH LABORATORY - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, VIENNA 2017
PERFORMANCE QUEER SYNTH LABORATORY - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, VIENNA 2017
PERFORMANCE QUEER SYNTH LABORATORY - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, VIENNA 2017