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Save As: A Sonic & Collective Coding Workshop | Sustain-Delay 2025 (#2)

26 February, 2025 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

The Malta Society of Arts’ Performing Arts Programme 2025 – Sustain-Delay’s Second Edition

Save As: A Sonic & Collective Coding Workshop

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘏𝘛𝘔𝘓 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘚𝘚

The workshop will start off with a collective walk around Ħamrun, where we will have the opportunity to capture the sounds of the surrounding area.

Once the field recordings are completed, we will gather at ISSA to create our own digital soundboards.

Additional information will be provided upon registration, giving you time to familiarise yourself with the tools and concepts we’ll be working with.

By preserving the sounds of the village in a digital soundboard, we will explore ways of keeping these sonic experiences archived through the act of collective coding.

‘Save As’ is a workshop led by Martina Farrugia, a designer based between Malta and the Netherlands. With a background in art history, archaeology and digital art, her current artistic practice explores tangible cultural heritage and collective memory, translating her research and findings through clay-making. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Experimental Publishing at the Piet Zwart Institute, focusing on the exploration of different digital tools for publishing and archival practices.

Date: 26/02/2025

Time: 6:30pm

Workshop Duration: 2 hours

Location: ISSA (former Plant Thieves – 55, Triq Fra Diegu, Ħamrun)

Sustain-Delay 2025 is produced by the Malta Society of Arts and Artistic Director Kurt Buttigieg, in collaboration with Arts Council Malta.

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What is Sustain-Delay?

Exploration, interaction and sound.

In 2025, the Malta Society of Arts’ adventurous music programme, Sustain-Delay, returns to unite art forms, disrupt norms, and foster transformative dialogues. This year’s edition of Sustain-Delay presents an ambitious line-up of 14 distinct events, offering a diverse, intriguing and yet approachable selection of concerts blending electronic and classical music with experimental, jazz and folk traditions, alongside poetry and dance. Deepening its commitment to the community, Sustain-Delay 2025 also introduces engaging and enjoyable workshops designed to leave a lasting impact.

The 2025 programme unfolds over four dynamic seasons: Winter (February), Spring (April), Summer (July) and Autumn (November), with additional fringe events happening throughout the year. Each season carries its own unique concept, and the programme goes beyond concerts to include workshops and talks, hosted at the Malta Society of Arts and other venues across Malta.
Join us on this sonic adventure, and discover our programme HERE.

Sustain-Delay 2025 is a Malta Society of Arts project in collaboration with Arts Council Malta.

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[ Programme ]

14 distinct events unfolding over four dynamic seasons: Winter (February), Spring (April), Summer (July) and Autumn (November)

(Details to follow)

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[ Sustain-Delay Team ]

Artistic Director: Kurt Buttigieg
Marketing Manager: Kris Polidano
Site Manager: Francesca Zammit
Graphic Designer: Samwel Mallia

Kurt Buttigieg – Artistic Director’s Biography

Kurt Buttigieg is an “occasional artist and unwavering tinkerer”, with a perpetual organisational streak.

He read for a Master’s degree in Sound Art from the University of Barcelona and previously worked at the museum of the European Parliament in Brussels as curator for temporary and permanent exhibitions, and also planned spin-off museums in other EU capitals.

He organised numerous concerts, workshops and exhibitions in Malta and Belgium, as well as founding a small label called Complex Holiday documenting “inside-out ambient and sound art tomfoolery”. He is also a writer for several specialised magazines, including The Wire and New Noise.

As an artist and musician he released several works over that past twenty years, under his and other names, and created Malta’s first dedicated sound art installation in 1999.

A strong believer in community, Kurt is a committee member of the Banda Immakulata Kunċizzjoni (Ħamrun), Ħsus, Arsha Our and is active in other social, cultural and environmental projects.

Kris Polidano – Marketing Manager’s Biography

Kris Polidano (b.1999) teeters between the administrative side, creative and communal sides of the cultural sphere. Having graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in English with a Maltese minor from the University of Malta in 2020, she primarily focuses on the way language impacts the way we perceive and communicate as multilingual persons. Her interests range from audio-visual archiving as the Communications and Community Manager and a researcher for the Magna Żmien Archive (2020–) to project managing and promoting experimental electronic music alongside her closest friends with the Malta Society of Arts’ Sustain-Delay Programme (2024-).

Kris also works with Festivals Malta’s marketing team where she manages the communications of multiple festivals, including Ritmu Roots Festival, a festival which celebrates musical traditions.

She is also president of the newly established Kooperattiva Strati, a cooperative focused on the arts, its social function and wellbeing. In the past Kris has also published some of her writing in Maltese in the Għaqda tal-Malti’s Leħen il-Malti (2019) , Maltese literary journal Aphroconfuso (2024). She has recently also been commissioned to write a cycle of poetry for prominent Maltese sculptor Paul Scerri for his latest exhibition The Sound of You Dreaming (Jan-Feb, 2025).

Photo credit: Leo Chircop

Dates

Wednesday 26 February 2025

6.30pm – 8.30pm

Venue

ISSA Każin,
(Ex-Plant Thieves)
55, Triq Fra Diegu,
Ħamrun

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  • Date: 26 February, 2025
  • Time:
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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