The ECPNM – European Conference of Promoters of New Music hosts the fifth European competition for the composition and interpretation of live-electronic music projects. The organising partners of this competition are members of the ECPNM such as: EULEC in Lüneburg / Hamburg, Germany; MISO Music, Portugal; Gaudeamus Muziekweek, the Netherlands The organizers of this competition [...]

26, 27 + 28 September: Patterns + Pleasure Festival New adventures in live electronic music and beyond We’re organizing the Patterns + Pleasure Festival on 26, 27 and 28 September at Frascati Amsterdam. A three-day festival presenting the latest and most adventurous contemporary electronic music from today There will be lectures, workshops, debates and performances [...]

NEW SERIES OF LIVE SET TO DOWNLOAD: First issue of the reductive concert series: Kevin Drumm: Emerging from the city’s improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world’s pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and [...]

The laptop orchestra has been a unique emerging phenomenon in the world of live electronic music over the last few years. Stemming from the early efforts of laptop pioneers who took to the stage in the late 90′s and early 2000′s claiming the laptop as a new modern real-time digital instrument, the laptop orchestra concept [...]

KVSwalk_SOLO aims to research the possibilities and limitations of physicality and embodied musicality in computer music performance. The musical structure is centered around the metaphoric imaginary, as well as sonic derivatives of the Karman Vortex Street phenomena. For its ensemble version, a set of ‘high-order parameters’ were defined for each performer, favoring timbre variation and [...]