TEAMS workshop at 97KoboLab
SONIC VENTURES: listening and making

a hands-on workshop on sound exploration and creative listening, presented by the Thai ElectroAcoustic Music Society (TEAMS).

electroacoustic music has thin documentation and little public visibility across southeast asia. this session opens it up — for artists and for anyone curious, no experience required.

Curriculum (expanded)

Lectures (1HR)

History

Historical periods covered:

pre-canonical works (Telharmonium), tape works (El Dabh), Musique concrète (GRM, Schaeffer), Elektronische musik (WDR3 Köln, Stockhausen), in the States (Cage/Tudor, Ussachevsky, Lucier, Subotnick, Oliveros, et al.), Computer Music (Mathews, Chowning, Risset, et al.), “Sound Art” branch, Alternative forms, Contemporary Practices, 21st Century, Important Places, Thailand

Sources: Ishkur’s Guide, Personal Knowledge, Computer Music Tutorial (Roads)

Listening

Reduced listening + Acousmatic Situation

Temporal Perception (“Stopwatch Exercise”, Lopez)

Sources: Lopez’s Walden School Method, Schaeffer’s Trait des objets musicaux

Composition + Performance

Break down the composition process of Time Slip (2025) and Sailing to Byzantium (2018)

Conceptual framing -> translating into sound + Audio Excerpts + Show transformation process

Material’s context + “spatial thinking”

Diffusion performance

Sources: Time Slip (2025) - Sippapas Thienwiwat

Activities (1HR)

Composition Analysis & Demonstration

Composing Fixed Medium with a DAW

Making textures in Pure Data

Modular synthesizer in VCV Rack

Computer Sound Transformation

Basic audio processing

Fast-Tracked Learning in Sound Transformation:

Source: Computer Sound Transformation: A Personal Perspective from the U.K.

led by Sippapas Thienwiwat — Bangkok-based composer and digital artist, founder and president of TEAMS.

sat 15 august 2026 · 12:30 — 14:30
97KoboLab · RoW9 Building, 1st floor (loading area)
Blok M, Jakarta

donate to register: IDR 99K
DM @97kobo.lab or WA +62851-7158-8508 to reserve a spot