Quiet Fire Improvisation in Typography and Sound Weekend & Residency

Come experience a Quiet Fire Improvisation in Typography & Sound weekend session. We will fuse the handcraft of metal typographic composition with improvisational music and sound notation to create a  hand printed, limited edition score.

We will be working on creating an improvisational piece (single or several page), using sophisticated spacing techniques to fit varied size types onto line or page. Since it will involve improv, we will be receptive to the moment, and move to whatever direction the work takes us. We will critique the direction the design is going and make changes.

To emphasize the unexpected directions creative work can take as a group, we will also engage in improvisational music making as a small group…with awareness on the in-motion state of listening and intuitive gravitation toward the next sound.

This will inform our work for the next day. We will participate in group discussions about this creative process at intervals throughout the week. #

Instructor/Leaders: Julia Ferrari & Gahlord Dewald

Schedule: The first night we will have an orientation meeting & start the improvisatory music, followed by a full day(s) of typographic and musical work sessions (setting type, designing the form, printing, as well as music making). Last day: a.m. critique and clean up.

Schedule:

5 day: Monday 6-9 pm, Tuesday thru Thursday 9-5, Friday 9-noon.

August  5-9 2019
QUIET FIRE AUGUST SESSION

We will be working on creating an improvisational piece (several page piece), using sophisticated spacing techniques to fit varied size types onto line or page. Since it will involve improv, we will be receptive to the moment, and move to whatever direction the work takes us. We will critique the direction the design is going and make changes.

To emphasize the unexpected directions creative work can take as a group, we will also engage in improvisational music making as a small group…with awareness on the in-motion state of listening and intuitive gravitation toward the next sound.

This will inform our work for the next day. We will participate in group discussions about this creative process at intervals throughout the week. *

Max 5 to 6 students
Cost $495.*
Materials lab fee: $49.
(please note refund policy below under Other Details)

Fully enrolled student will receive one finished printed participant copy.
Students will range in experience.
Musical abilities or letterpress experience not necessary.

Materials list

Participants should bring the following:

Apron
Bone folder
Tweezers
Inch ruler
Pica ruler (plastic ok)
x-acto knife and blades
Rubber gloves

Optional:
Cutting mat (self-healing)
Sketchbook
Pencils
Glue sticks
Scissors

Lab fee provides for:
Letterpress equipment
Ink
Type
Project paper for broadside
Extra Cutting mats

Application deadline: July 31, 2019

*The week long improvisational typography and music Intensive can be combined with work/study commitment for fellowship (scholarship) students. Fellowship participants will engage with partial time in letterpress study and partial time in work-study projects around the press that may include gardening, carpentry, organizing etc.

Participants will be chosen and applicants will be contacted.

Submit  application via email ( babeanska(at)gmail.com )  with the following:

Reasons for interest in attending QUIETFIRE  study session

Photographs or examples of your recent work (typographic, art, poetry, music, other)

2 letters of reference from someone familiar with your work.

Orientation meeting Monday night, Tuesday-Thursday work sessions, Friday a.m. critique and clean up

musicians and non musicians welcome, bring acoustic instrument(s) if possible.

LODGING

There are accommodations in nearby Brattleboro VT. One can stay in the Latchis Hotel, or at motels just outside the edge of town there. Brattleboro is about 14 miles away or less, and there are lovely restaurants there as well.

(housing may occasionally be available on site here for a nightly fee).

Checks can be made out to:  Golgonooza Letter Foundry, when you’re ready to reserve your spot.
P.O. Box 111
Ashuelot, NH
03441

or through PayPal, contact us for info.
603-239-6830

Previous Letterpress experience not necessary.