SOUND PAINTING

Course Description

Interested in making a piece of performance art in the moment, collaborating with and responding to your peers in an improvisational and inclusive environment? Open to any and all majors, "Soundpainting" is the universal multidisciplinary live composing sign language for musicians, actors, dancers, speakers, and visual artists. One can bring any instrument, art form (visual art, dancing, acting), their speaking/singing voice, etc. and we will all learn the language of soundpainting in order to create a large form work to be performed at the end of the quarter. Join Sarah Gibson, the Soundpainter, as she leads the group in a series of signs using hand and body gestures indicating specific and/or aleatoric material to be performed by the group. The gestures of the Soundpainting language are signed using the syntax of Who, What, How and When. There are many types of gestures, some indicating specific material to be performed as well as others indicating specific styles, genres, aleatoric concepts, improvisation, disciplines, stage positions, costumes, props, and many others. 

If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Gibson: sarahgibson@ucsc.edu      ALL MAJORS WELCOME!