“As part of Sonic Acts Festival 2019, Keith Fullerton Whitman will lead a one-day workshop, Sub-Conscious Decision-Making while Performing Live Electronic Music, focused on the challenges posed by an orchestral approach to electronic instrumentation. The workshop will take place on Wednesday 20 February, 13:00 – 17:00, at STEIM, and combine an expanded lecture and demonstration and will be followed by a discussion.

Over the past decade, Keith Fullerton Whitman has developed a unique method for composing and performing with early analogue synthesisers by using algorithmic and generative processes implemented in the hardware. In this one-day workshop, Whitman will discuss the challenges one must face when approaching electronic instrumentation in an orchestral manner. His ​‘Redactions’ and ​‘Generators’ setups will be on hand, and the choices made while designing and implementing their specific topologies over a decade will be demonstrated. 

While a familiarity with experimental electronic music and analogue synthesisers will be helpful, the workshop will centre on a broader discussion about how and why to implement chance and improvisational concepts within rigid compositional frameworks, and how to delineate risk and humanistic performance tendencies to simple, algorithmic systems.”