Place: the digital realm/Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius Faculty
Teaching period: May 15-18, 2020 Teacher(s): Vygintas Orlovas (Vilnius)
ECTS: 1.5
Number of available place for KUNO students: 10
Level: BA/MA
How to apply
Please send a short motivation letter and a link to your portfolio or your
projects you find relevant for this course by filling out this form
(https://forms.gle/tbMxCaxSbj7QXCLd9).
-Please read below (under “Notes”) about the requirement of equipment.
The deadline to apply is the 8th of May.
Selected students will be informed about the further details on the 11th of May.
About the course
The course is aimed at exploring Vaporwave and publishing the results of the workshop
as an album. On the surface Vaporwave, is a microgenre of electronic music and a
meme, however, the ideas behind it are a statement and a position towards music
production and art in general. The course will provide extended knowledge on the
background, core ideas, strategies and methods for functioning applied in Vaporwave.
Organization of the course
The course will start with an introductory meeting on the evening of the 15th of
May to discuss the field where Vaporwave formed, the ideas behind it and the methods
and strategies applied in it. Afterwards, we will divide into groups depending on
the interests: source scouting, audio editing, image editing, video editing. On the
16th, we will start by having short introductions to using the basic features of
related free and cross-platform software: Audacity, Gimp and AVID Media
Composer|First. Afterwards, we will have a hackathon type workshop to create a
collaborative album and the relevant materials for it. Depending on how productive
we will be the workshop can last till the evening of the 17th - we will have to
finalize the release by then in order to do the final mastering and share the
results on the evening of the 18th.
Notes
* As this is a digital course, therefore, all participants should find access to a
computer with an internet connection and a microphone to be able to communicate. We
will be using google hangouts/meet for having the meetings and google drive for
sharing files. Those, who wish to work with video editing, should have 8 GB of RAM
in the computer or an alternative video editing software.
* The result of similar course hosted in 2018 was a project called “One Person
And” and the album “Flash Future 1997”
(https://open.spotify.com/album/0pCqTDsI4zOZXZJnxx2yPT?si=PzqtuOI8TQO4zsZydzGTeA),
which became rather popular and currently has over 2400 monthly listeners on
Spotify. The result could be a second album of this project, but if it ends up
being different, it could be a new project
KUNO support for digital mobility: if you have questions regarding KUNO support for digital mobility, please contact alma@lhi.is with your questions.
