Synapse Knowledge 2019

June 4 & 5, 2019 at MeetFactory

A two-day event aimed at creativity with masterclasses and workshops on music production and music career development.

Only for registered or invited participants. All lectures in English.
Register here (Deadline May 15; all participants will be contacted after that day about their participation)

The programme is supported by Czech Ministry of Culture, SoundCzech and SHAPE platform.
SHAPE platform is co-financed from Creative Europe programme by the European Union.

Complete programme

TUESDAY, JUN 4

10:00 - 10:15
INTRODUCTION
MARY C & STEIN BJELLAND

10:15 - 11:15
LISTENING SESSION
PREPARE/BRING YOUR TRACKS ON USB STICK

11:15 - 12:45
PERFORMING WITH HARDWARE
VACLAV PELOUSEK

Designing balanced live set is an elaborate task. Each musician can handle only specific amount of things during live performance. Balancing this “bandwidth" with other aspects of performance is a common challenge and instruments and tools play major role in the process. Václav Peloušek - hardware designer (Bastl Instruments) and musician (Toyota Vangelis) looks at ways of how musicians can extend themselves with self-designed semi-autonomous musical systems.

bastl-instruments.com
https://bastl-instruments.com/lifestyle/we-are

11:15 - 12:45
MUSIC IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
LONGYEAR // STEIN BJELLAND

Stein Bjelland has been working in the ever changing international music industry for over 20 years, focusing on the US and the Nordic markeds. He is specialised in entrepreneurship and business development within music, arts and culture. Working on a vast array of projects in the intersection between art and money. In his lecture he will focus on strategies for music in the digital world.

https://longyearunited.com/our-team/stein/

___ LUNCH TOGETHER AT MEETFACTORY ___

13:30 - 15:00
ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPOSITION AND MUSICAL NARRATIVE
BORN IN FLAMEZ

Electronic music composition, music theory, musical narrative and progression with Born in Flamez, Berlin based musician, composer, mastering engineer subverting genders and genres.

https://infinitemachine.bandcamp.com/album/im068-born-in-flamez-impossible-love

15:00 - 16:30
HOW TO SET UP A LABEL (PART 1)
LONGYEAR // TROND TORNES

Trond Tornes, previously Marketing Director and CSO of Phonofile AS and Phonofile LLC. During his time here he helped builded Phonofile from Norway to become an internationally expanding music and tech player for independent music from the Nordics, to central European countries, USA and the African continent. Trond’s experience is hands on, often well networked with a good fun factor to it. 15 years experience with digital distribution, company development and branding.

https://longyearunited.com/our-team/trond/

16:45 - 18:30
MIXING AND MASTERING
LUKAS TURZA

Understanding the final sonic touch with producer and mastering engineer who worked for Amon Tobin, Machine Drum as well as big brands.

https://www.snapmastering.com/
http://lukasturza.com/

16:45 - 18:15
HOW TO SET UP A LABEL (PART 2)
LONGYEAR // TROND TORNES

https://longyearunited.com/our-team/trond/

__ GET A DINNER __

19:30 - 21:00
AUDIO POST PRODUCTION AND FILM SCORES
SOUNDSQUARE STUDIOS

Lecture on audio post production and film music plus a tour around acclaimed Prague studios Soundsquare lead by their composers an audio engineers.

http://www.soundsquare.cz/

20:00 - 00:00
GET ON THE BOAT
DRINKS / CHILL @ Klub AVU

Open dj-set, bring your favorite tracks on a USB stick.

WEDNESDAY, JUN 5

10:00 - 11:30
DIGITAL MARKETING (LECTURE)
LONGYEAR // PERNILLE D. HOLDEN

Pernille’s experience includes 5 years as digital marketing manager at Phonofile. This work involved advising and executing digital marketing campaigns for labels and artist. In her lecture she will focus on Digital marketing and music and tools like Google Ads, Facebook and Instagram.

https://longyearunited.com/our-team/pernille/

11:45 - 13:15
MACHINE LEARNING FOR INTERACTIVE SOUND ART
MOISÉS HORTA VALENZUELA

Mexican-american sound artist, composer, music technologist and performer from Tijuana, México, who crafts compelling sonic experiences through the use of sound design, computer programming, data sonification, bio and neurofeedback, databending and electronic music technology, both software and hardware, as a means to create sound-only, audiovisual and multimedia artworks.

http://moiseshorta.audio/

___ LUNCH TOGETHER AT MEETFACTORY ___

14:00 - 15:30
VOICE AND LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC PERFORMANCE
LYRA PRAMUK (ARTIST LECTURE)

American singer, composer-producer, and performance artist, Lyra Pramuk's work is far-arcing by necessity, accomplishing a remarkably broad practice with a brevity of movement. She collaborates often with artists such as Holly Herndon, Colin Self, and Donna Huanca. She is committed to empathy and listening as the central pathways to self-actualization and affirmative collective action, using fictive play to summon a kinder future. Lyra Pramuk fuses classical vocalism, pop sensibilities, performance practices and contemporary club culture in what can best be described as futurist folk music. Lyra Pramuk will present her live performance and composition process as it currently unravels. Focusing on personal and historical background,live, improvised singing, sampling, resynthesis, and FX processing, this presentation will posit a model for embodied improvisation between human and computer leading to an ultimately shared and sensual music experience rooted in a folk practice.

15:30 - 17:00
DIGITAL MARKETING (WORKSHOP)
LONGYEAR // PERNILLE D. HOLDEN

Pernille’s experience includes 5 years as digital marketing manager at Phonofile. This work involved advising and executing digital marketing campaigns for labels and artist. Practical follow up of the lecture focused on how to set up Facebook and Instagram ads with Facebook Business Manager, and how to set up Google Ads with Google Ads.

For Facebook and Instagram ads you need to have a Facebook page and a Facebook Business Manager account. Set up your Facebook Business Manager Account here: https://business.facebook.com/ To set up a Google Ads account, go to this link, choose «Start now» and follow the steps: https://ads.google.com/home/ If you have a YouTube account use the same log in here. When setting up a Google ads campaign you need a landing page, preferably a website.

17:30 - 19:30
SPATIAL SOUND AND LEARNING TO LISTEN
A SPACE EXOTIC (WORKSHOP)
JOHN CONNELL

Spatial concepts underpin not only our experience of music, they strongly shape our perception of reality from moment to moment. In a listening-based workshop, composer and writer John Connell outlines a personal perspective on spatial theory in sound design, and how blurring the lines between spaces, both real and surreal, can invite new states of awareness in the mind and body of the listener.

https://www.johnconnell.xyz

___ GET A DINNER __

21:00 - open end
AFTERPARTY
@ MEETFACTORY

Line-up:
avsluta (live) - https://soundcloud.com/avsluta
Bear Bones Lay Low (live) - https://soundcloud.com/bearboneslaylow
OD Bongo (live) - https://soundcloud.com/omar-di-bongo
Violet (dj-set) - https://soundcloud.com/violet