apologies for the tardiness of this playlist and podcast – i have just returned to the land of the living from 10 days of glastonbury festival mud. i did manage to make one recording (and framework introduction) inside my tent at 4am, with pounding soundsystems in all directions. i’ll be gracing you with that one sometime [...]

(A) Paper / Music+Video Submissions – Paper submissions (10 pages maximum) will be accepted in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English. Please carefully follow the “Instructions for Paper Submissions” at the bottom of this link and send your paper proposal to Prof. Daniel Quaranta (danielquaranta@gmail.com) – For Video+Music submissions (of up to 10 min. in length), please [...]

The World Listening Project (WLP) and Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) invite you to participate in the 2011 World Listening Day on Monday, July 18. Here are several possible ways to participate: Organize a soundwalk.  What is a soundwalk? Start here Organize a performance event that explores soundscape and how we can listen to our sonic environment. [...]

Incontri di fasce sonore is one of Franco Evangelisti masterpieces. Recorded in 1957 at WDR, Cologne, it is one of the classic scores of the integral serial music era. This is a preliminary study to investigate the possibility of playing 1950s serial music with the Buchla synthesizer and Max/MSP. I’ve programmed 315 mixtures of 7 [...]

…for young creators, designers, students and art school or applied arts alumni, graphic designers, architects, animators, photographers, acoustic composers etc. Sound as a fundamental element of music composition can be widely used by contemporary artists within installations and constructions either accompanying two dimensional imprints (painting, photography, collage), performances, video art, or consisting  inspiration source for [...]

VERTEX Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne, Jerry Wigens, Zsolt Sőrés a.k.a Ahad Duration 56.36 | Released May 2011 THANOS CHRYSAKIS Max/MSP + electronics OLI MAYNE Vibraphone + electronics ZSOLT SŐRÉS Objects + Viola + electronics JERRY WIGENS Clarinet Electric Guitar Recorded June 3, 2010 By SZABOLCS PUHA AND CSABA FÜLE At L1 danceLab, BUDAPEST Editing and [...]

La Comunidad Electroacústica de Chile (CECh) invita a los compositores latinoamericanos a participar en el 2º Concurso Latinoamericano de Composición Electroacústica Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt. Podrán participar de este concurso compositores de cualquier edad, cuya nacionalidad pertenezca a alguno de los países latinoamericanos o sea residente en alguno de ellos hace más de tres años. El concurso [...]

[ar031] KIM MYHR, BURKHARD BEINS, KARI RONNEKLEIV & NILS OSTENDORF VISIT RELEASE SHEET | DIRECT DOWNLOAD LISTEN TRACKS 1.RIngve Concert I 12:31 min 2.RIngve Concert II 18:14 min READ MORE: AUDITION RECORDS Myhr|Beins|Ronnekleiv|Ostendorf Live at Ringve Museum. Trondheim 2011 This quartet came together when Kim Myhr was offered a carte blanche for a short residency and [...]

ANEMONE TUBE – DEATH OVER CHINA (CD by Topheth Prophet) PROYECTO MIRAGE – SLAVES OF CAPITAL (CD by Ant-Zen) THIS MORN’ OMINA – L’UNIFICATION DES FORCES OPPOSANTES (2CD by Ant-Zen) ARCHITECT – UPLOAD SELECT REMIX (CD by Hymen) ILLUSION OF SAFETY – FIN DE SIECLE (CD by Korm Plastics) * PSEUDO CODE – HUMAN FLESH [...]

Another big thank you to the excellent Polish Jazz blog for turning me on to another emerging artist on the global scene. Nestled somewhere between the works of Kronos Quartet and ECM’s “New Series” lies this rewarding and inventive piece of modernism by accordionist, Robert Kusiolek. Obvious Astor Piazzolla comparisons would arise when listening to [...]

Harley Gaber does “harrowing yet peaceful” like no one else. His richly sonorous spectral drones sweep the soul along on its darkest night towards a dawn forever just beyond reach. His latest voyage, In Memoriam 2010, is a postscript or coda to the end of the world. Beginning with an apocalyptic tempest and (re)building from [...]

[ar029] LLORENÇ BARBER RETROSPECTIVE 1994-2001 VISIT RELEASE SHEET | DIRECT DOWNLOAD LISTEN TRACKS 1.Manjar.1994 6:07 min 2.Aum Namah Sivaya.1997 12:09 min 3.Hoc donum.20019:07 min 4.Naumaquia a Cuatro Vientos15:05 min 5.Hoc donum6:23 min READ MORE: AUDITION RECORDS Llorenç Barber Text by Chema Chacón Besides being “allergic to electricity”, Llorenç Barber (Aielo de Malferit, Valencia, 1948) confesses his [...]