2012 is the year of anniversaries. Nam June Paik 80, John Cage 100, Fluxus 50, Art 1,000.049 and – Kunstradio 25! Gifts to all can be left here: http://kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2012/presents-pool.php. (This is a pool, where sounds, images and other files can be uploaded for the 2012 edition of Art?s Birthday. Find all details and background information [...]

A través de una producción de doce programas en un formato de 60 minutos, la Fonoteca Nacional presenta Monumentos del Arte Sonoro, la primera serie sonora que difunde en México la historia del Arte Sonoro. Disfruta de un nutrido y generoso recorrido por las raíces del Arte Sonoro a través de grabaciones históricas de 1918 [...]

We have scheduled in this series core works and authors to understand the birth and evolution of Sound Art. Although this term appeared in the seventies to describe the activities of visual artists with sound, its origins must be sought in statements and proposals of the First Avant-garde of the twentieth century. Already surpassed the [...]

THE FIRST ISSUE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE END OF NOVEMBER 2011. TACET is a new research publication dedicated to experimental music. Published annually and bilingually (French and English), its ambition is to create an interdisciplinary and international space of reflection for this music, in all its aesthetic diversity : from noise to improvisation, via [...]

Imaginary Landscapes is obviously a reference to the groundbreaking compositions by John Cage. His Imaginary Landscape #4 is probably the first composition to exclusively use pre-recorded and electronic sounds. But Imaginary Landscapes refers to any landscape conjured up for our senses by artistic or technological means. It refers to abstract two- and three dimensional spaces, [...]

An important innovator in contemporary music, British guitarist Keith Rowe has been called “the godfather of electro-acoustic improvisation.” Rowe has been a major influence, with a radical approach to his instrument and performance in general. Starting his career playing jazz in the early 1960s, Rowe was deeply influenced by abstract painters (Mark Rothko and Jackson [...]

“Donde quiera que estemos lo que oímos más frecuentemente es ruido. Cuando lo ignoramos no molesta. Cuando lo escuchamos lo encontramos fascinante”. John Cage En el transcurso de los últimos meses la vasta fonografía que respecta al compositor norteamericano John Cage se ha visto notablemente enriquecida con cuatro excepcionales registros que documentan cuatro momentos estéticos [...]

TALLER DE IMPROVISACIÓN SONORA impartido por Alfredo Costa Monteiro. Fechas: Sábado 11 y Domingo 12 de Junio de 2011 Horario: Sábado 11, de 10 a 14 horas: aproximación a los instrumentos / objetos Sábado 11, de 16 a 20 horas: desarrollo y práctica Domingo 12, de 16 a 19 horas: desarrollo y práctica Plazas limitadas [...]

[ar023] SEIJI MORIMOTO & OLIVIER DI PLACIDO Live at ExperimontagVISIT RELEASE SHEET | DIRECT DOWNLOAD LISTEN TRACKS 1.Live at Experimontag ……………… 24:49 min READ MORE: AUDITION RECORDS Seiji Morimoto & Olivier di Placido “This duo is focused on avoiding interaction in improvisation. We use headphones, listening to some John Cage tunes while we are playing [...]

The third episode in the series examines the use of determinacy and indeterminacy in music. It looks at how chance has been used in a variety of ways in the composition and performance of musical works – from works derived from the tossing of coins, to more rigorous explorations of the laws governing probability. The [...]

Dag in de Branding Festival: Alvin Lucier in Den Haag Music for Solo Performer (1965) for enormously amplified brain waves and percussion. May 29th 2010, Korzo 5HOOG/Theaterzaal. Den Haag (The Netherlands) Performed by Alvin Lucier with the assistance of Nicolas Collins and Anne Wellmer. Loudspeaker-percussion-instruments designed by Michael Schunior, Alberto Novello, Juan Cantizzani, Aurimas Bavarkis, [...]

SCÈNE 11/ PRISE 1/ MOTEUR/ ACTION/ L’image animée et le son font-ils bon ménage ? Comment se noue ce lien subtil entre l’ouïe et la vue ? Sommes-nous capables de percevoir chacun d’eux sans que le champ de l’un ne réduise le “chant“ de l’autre ? Dans un moment où la circulation numérique des objets [...]