Toy Instruments, Sound Sculptures and Audio Elements as Music Compositions

For over a decade, I have been obsessed with exploring new sounds, not produced by familiar musical instruments - all this in order to investigate the instruments, their sources, and their influence on my music. This research has led me to work with TOYS, naked elements of sound, and anything else audible, but not for playing music.

These tools and new elements (for me), integrate into the music I write, as well as into in my installations, performances and video works. The idea was to create music using tools that originally were not created for this task. My goal was to provide fresh and unfamiliar sounds, and to allow the technical elements of sound to participate in the creative process itself, thus, contributing to sounds and the visual aspect.

In my presentation, I will introduce self-built musical instruments and sophisticated toys (Circuit Bending). I will explain and demonstrate the various uses of these tools and show videos of installations and performances I have held over the years.

Biography

Ilan Green, also known as GREEN, is a well-known Musician in Israel. Having been more than 20 years in the field, Green was involved in many projects and events, from being a member in a leading rock-band (The Tractor's Revenge) for 15 years, through his solo albums, to taking part in a wide variety of art-forms like Performance events, Video Art, Theatre live music, music for Ballet etc. etc.

Another field is Instruments designing and building. From acoustic inventions to electronic manipulations, made of beautiful woods or pieces of found junk, from well-tuning systems to a total noisy audio experiments, Green designs, builds and uses his own instruments in many of his projects.

For the last 10 years Green entered the world of education, first as a teacher (Acoustics and Instrument Building, Synthesis Theory & Practice, Ensemble Direction, Internet Design), and since 2003 he founded and runs the New Music department at the Musrara School in Jerusalem.

Personal Website

http://www.greenet.co.il/

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