4 WEEKS TO GO! Workshop Sign Ups + More!

Hopefully by now you’ve hit BUY TICKETS on our website due to being sufficiently wooed by our spectacular line-up featuring: Anna Von Hausswolff live at Town Hall, NAWA Showcase of the Arab world’s finest experimental musicians, avant-rock giants OXBOW with live choir, master Saxophonist Colin Stetson and genre-fluid critically acclaimed Jenny Hval…to name but a few. But if you haven’t already hit BUY TICKETS then here’s even more Supersonic delights to entice you to hit that button. If you have already hit BUY TICKETS then congrats, you win.
Love being a Supersonic spectator but itching for a chance to get your hands dirty? Well, alongside our fine array of music, markets, food and film, no Supersonic would be complete without a range of hands-on leftfield workshop activities to mix things up and stretch your brain.

YOGA IN BLACK
17/18 June Sat + Sun 12-2pm
Centrala, Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, B5 5RT Birmingham
Sessions are for up to 12 people | Mats are provided on request.
Tickets must be purchased in advance: £15 from SAT I SUN

To celebrate the Summer Solstice and Supersonic Festival, Yoga In Black are holding two sessions of their unique take on yoga over the Festival weekend, in collaboration with electric cellist Rotten Bliss.

Yoga In Black offer sessions of Dru Yoga, with a twist – leading you through the graceful and strength-enhancing exercises of the yogic tradition, to a soundtrack of metal, gothic rock, drone, doomjazz and dark ambient music.

Dru Yoga features the use of visualisation and affirmation in its practice, and these workshops engage imagery from pagan, Voudon and Thelemic traditions to invoke a sense of inner strength and peace.

Expect big sound, and sound teachings: a workout for your mind, body and ears. It will be intense, magical and fun!

SYNTH BUILDING WORKSHOP WITH FARMER GLITCH
Saturday 15:00 – 17:00
Included in Supersonic Ticket – Sign up

Farmer Glitch (a.k.a. Stephen Ives) guides participants through making their very own Atari Punk Console – a standalone, palm-sized synth with built-in amp and speaker for portable noise-goodness. A great project for beginners and young people, or just those who love to make noise, spend a little time soldering and walk away with a lovely little addition to your sonic armoury.

For this workshop, we need you to sign up in advance – places are limited please e-mail [email protected] with ‘Synth Building Workshop’ in the Subject line to book your spot.

‘UCHIWA’ FAN WORKSHOP WITH BUNNY BISSOUX
Sat 17:00 – 19:00 I Sun 16:00 – 18:00 Marketplace
Included in Supersonic Ticket – drop in

In Japan, music fans & concertgoers commonly make uchiwa – paper fans emblazoned with band names, pictures, slogans and words of admiration, to send a message to their idols or as a memento of a live experience. Tokyo-based artist, illustrator and hardcore fanatic Bunny Bissoux presents drop-in workshops in the Marketplace for you to decorate your very own uchiwa – show your support for the festival acts, proclaim your adoration for your all-time favourite band or create a Supersonic souvenir to treasure forever!

HUMAN SEQUENCER WORKSHOP – SNAPPED ANKLES
Sunday 14:30  – 16:30 Centrala
Included in Supersonic Ticket – Sign Up

Take techno back to forest floor with Snapped Ankles and join the circle to become part of the human sequencer! Using the band’s own customised ‘log synths’ (analogue percussion synthesisers), participants will create a Synth Drum Circle, exploring rhythmic interplay and traditional bell-ringing techniques – and ultimately collaborate as a group to create a new piece of pulsing and percussive sound art.

For this workshop, places are limited, we need you to sign up in advance –  please e-mail [email protected] with ‘Human Sequencer Workshop’ in the Subject line to book your spot.

BLACK METAL LIFE DRAWING with RUSSELL MACEWAN (BLACK SUN)
Saturday  I Marketplace
Included in Supersonic Ticket – Drop In 

“When it’s cold and it’s dark, the freezing art can obsess you!”

Join Russell MacEwan (Black Sun Drum Korps) in exploring the brutal and beautiful art of black metal, in a two-hour introduction to life drawing, presented in the context of heavy metal and black metal art, music and history. Ritualistic in form, carbon in soul, unleash your creative potential and inner darkness in two hours of demonically fun life drawing. No previous experience required. Participants may bring their own sketchbooks if they wish.

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CREATIVE CODING FOR LIVE VISUALS WORKSHOP

Saturday 12:00 – 17:00 I Vivid Projects

Tickets £5 for Supersonic Tickets holders / £10 for general public

BAFTA-winning digital artist Dan Hett brings his computational creativity crash-course to Supersonic! Aimed at complete beginners, this course will take attendees on a colourful and interactive hands-on journey into making noise and colour with a computer. The course will firstly look at livecoding visuals and noise in the browser using the amazing LiveCodeLab, and then heads into creating unpredictable and colourful drawing tools using Processing. No previous coding experience is necessary, but you will need to bring a sparkling can-do attitude and a willingness to experiment.

Hosted by Vivid Projects

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