Wind Throb (Sharing) [Excerpt and audience playing]
2025

at Conduction, 251 Barkly Street, Footscray 3011
Saturday 2nd August, 5-7pm

Conducted by Benjamin Woods with Emily Zou, Jacqui Gordon, Ria Soermardjo, Vanessa Chapple, Yongping Ren, Debris Facility Pty Ltd and more +

Photo and video documentation by Ross Coulter

Workshop and Event Details

Wind Throb (Sharing)

at Conduction, 251 Barkly Street, Footscray 3011
Saturday 2nd August, 5-7pm
0$/ Free/ All welcome.

Following our two-part "Wind Throb" instrument building workshop, we will open to the Conduction audience to share some collective sounds and installations of our instruments. Handmade ceramic ocarina, and beeswax flutes will be casually performed and demonstrated. Audiences are also welcome to test out these instruments.

Conducted by Benjamin Woods with Emily Zou, Jacqui Gordon, Ria Soermardjo, Vanessa Chapple, Yongping Ren, and more +

Some selected ceramic instruments by Benjamin Woods will be for sale during this event via card and cash.

Some complimentary tea and snacks provided.

Conduction is led by Debris Facility Pty Ltd.

Access: There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. Free performance will have some beverages and snacks available. See full access information on our website. Questions through DM or email conduction3011@gmail.com

Wind Throb
Two-part workshop

WHAT: Workshop including drawing, writing, breathing, sounding, clay ocarina making (+ firing), and beeswax flute making.

WHEN:

Workshop part A - Saturday 26 July, 12-5pm

Workshop part B - Saturday 2 August, 12-5pm

Performance (group devised) - Saturday 2 August, 5 - 6.30pm

WHERE: Conduction (251 Barkly Street Footscray, 3011)

Apply: via short E.O.I. before 18th of July.

Cost: Two-part Workshop is $80 / $120 (max 12 participants)

Further Workshop Info:
You are invited to participate in an instrument-building and sounding workshop called Wind Throb, which will culminate in a collectively devised performance at Conduction. Ben Woods will lead everyone through the process of making both beeswax flutes and clay ocarinas, considering the emergence of their particular voices in relation to our own multiple voices. We will work with breath-based techniques, drawing, writing-scoring, simple beeswax casting, clay hand-building, and contact and hydro microphones. Ben will introduce notions of body schema, resonant bodies (via Lygia Clark and Suely Rolnik), and active and reactive forces, in order to assist in collectively organising an approach to a public performance event one week following the workshop. All instruments will be the participant’s own (clay ocarinas will go through a kiln firing between part A and B of the workshop).

Outcomes for participants: Fired ceramic ocarina, beeswax flute, group-devised free public performance facilitated by Benjamin Woods, drawings, writing, performance documentation (audio, video, images).