on wearing a mask, and the bare limits of representation, pt. 2.

“blind monks examining an elephant” by itcho hanabusa. (found here) here finally is the second part, documenting the event of last january 30. barry chabala and michael pisaro in this recording perform pisaro’s composition rapport abstrait at the winds measure event that ben owen organized to celebrate their new release, black, white, red, green, blue (voyelles) (wm 17). the dynamic of the evening moved through a long arc, introduced read more

CFP Symposion on Music/Sonic Art, Baden Baden, August 2010

International Symposium on Music/Sonic Art< In conjunction with InterSymp 2010: 22nd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics August 2-6, 2010 Markgraf-Ludwig Gymnasium, Hardstrasse 2, Baden-Baden, Germany CALL FOR PAPERS: We are pleased to announce the International Symposium on Music/Sonic Art: Practices and Theories, an interdisciplinary two-day event to be held in Baden-Baden, Germany. The provisional dates of the Symposium are August 2-3 in order read more

AVANT #11 . Juan Hidalgo

The first instalment of the monographic dedicated to PJuan Hidalgo features interviews with Esther Ferrer, Rubén Figaredo and Henar Rivière. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy defines “Ockam’s Razor” as a philosophical principle according to which simple theories are preferable to more complex ones—also known as the principle of economy or the principle of parsimony. This concept, attributed to the Franciscan Friar William of Ockham, is a read more

Jacob Coles . Brainstorm

la nit èPICA

SUPPORTING FEST FOR RÀDIO PICA MACROMASSA · BÈSTIA FERIDA · 25 HOMBRES · MOTOR COMBO · ANKI TONER · NÉBOA · ZA! · MARTÍ SALES · DAVID CASTILLO · USTED ES UN COLECTIVO · MIL PESETAS · TORNASOL + PEPINO · LE PETIT RAMON · ACCIDENTS POLIPOÈTICS · ANNA BLUME FAN CLUB · JAUME BALAGUERÓ & SOL LAGARTO Friday 5 March from 8 pm to 2 read more

Sounding Landscapes – March 6th, Regina SK

Sounding Landscapes is a multichannel, surround-sound audio concert using four to eight speakers arranged throughout the Shu-Box theatre. The artful and creative use of this multichannel setup will create senses of alternate space, heightened interactions with places, inviting the audience to engage with sound art as “sonic geography”. The evening will feature works by artists residing both in Saskatchewan and artists from other countries, including live read more

ciclo de acción improvisada en la sociedad odontológica de la plata

ciclo de acciones escénicas con base en la ciudad de la plata, argentina. principalmente enfocado hacia la abstracción, partiendo de propuestas que se propongan opuestas a la realidad del entretenimiento y el espectáculo en música, danza, performance, cine. acción #2 domingo 28 de febrero a las 21 horas sociedad odontológica de la plata 13 #680 entre 45 y 46 ciudad de la plata werner dafeldecker contrabajo read more

Contenedores: Décima muestra internacional de arte de acción de Sevilla (Ars Sonora)

Programa dedicado a la décima edición de “Contenedores”, muestra de arte de acción y performance de Sevilla que se celebra entre el 18 de febrero y el 6 de marzo de 2010. Incluye un diálogo con Rubén Barroso, artista, teórico y director de “Contenedores”, y con Antonio Murga, artista sonoro y director del programa “El Musicántropo”, que se emite en Radiópolis. Junto a trabajos de ambos, read more

JUNKO live in Berlin

Art and Science Fair – Call for Submissions

Calling all dreamers and inventors, original thinkers and adventurous tinkerers, mad scientists and misunderstood artists, anyone with an over-active imagination and a love/hate relationship with the so-called “real world”… we want to meet you and your pet project at the Too Cool For School Art & Science Fair. Submission Deadline: Friday, March 26, 2010 How to participate Step 1: Don’t be shy! We are interested in read more

Loudspeaker @ Corsica Studios

Sringing together electroacoustic legend Zbigniew Karkowski, extreme computer sound and image artist ILIOS and instrumental and electronic composer Antoine Cheesex, The Loudspeaker is a trio that performs exclusively with tone generators and sub bass frequencies. This is The Loudspeaker’s first UK performance. You should expect a visceral and powerful physical sound experience. This show is a rare treat for fans of extreme infrasonics. Support comes from read more

Paul Clipson & Gregg Kowalsky – Berkeley Art Museum

KALX DJ Citizen Zain spins in the lobby starting at 6 p.m., when wine and beer are available for purchase. At 7:30 p.m., PFA curators Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid present a program of film artists in performance. Paul Clipson builds an ecstatic ecology of interdependent visual improvisation and equally inventive electronic music, the latter performed live by Gregg Kowalsky. Keith Evans, along with a crew read more

IMPRO_31

Auteur : Adrian Beentjes Titre : This one is for Dov [sic] > 4 contacts, bent-circuit(snore-box), dictaphone micro-cassette, big toe on contact, prepared sponge-bob ukelele/spoons, hot-tip 1/4 jack, wooden object, 2 dc motors, pedal fx, mutli-track recorder – mud-pat farm, northwest / UK Audioblogs ARTE Radio

Handmade Music in Minneapolis Feb 25th, 2010

Our friends at the Hack Factory in Minneapolis are hosting their first Handmade Music Event on Thursday Feb. 25th at 7:00 PM. On agenda is 555 LED throwies, cultivating of the DIY Music, and SN76477 chip exploration. The factory is only a few blocks down the street from Hexagon Bar. More Information Here.

0es3 (Cero Stress)

//0es3 (Cero Stress) viernes, 26 de febrero 2010, 2000hs niu bcn // Almogàvers, 208. Barcelona. http://www.niubcn.com/ Temporal de Santa Rosa // Interferencia Radiostáticas. Brian Mackern Performance SonoroVisual. Manipulación de la atmósfera sonora recreando la presencia electrostática del Temporal de Santa Rosa. http://34s56w.org/xtcs pank.tv Patricio Proverbio, artista argentino residente en Berlín, presentará ”DNA Live”, proyecto en el que secuencias de ADN y Proteínas de distintos genes son pasadas a MIDI, read more

Spanish Presidency: Towards digital Inquisition?

A disturbing document on Internet policy written by the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council has been published. While asking Member States to detail their guidelines for the repression of illegal activities on the Internet, the Presidency amalgamates child pornography, xenophobic and racist speech and copyright infringement. Elaborating on this unacceptable confusion, the document goes as far as saying that “the Internet becomes an instrument of read more

Copinage : 27 février : Soirée exceptionnelle autour des musiques libres et improvisées

Le plateau réunira huit magnifiques artistes des musiques libres et inventives. Huit improvisateurs remarquables, pour deux concerts qui, nous en sommes sûrs, raviront les amateurs de musique et de sons. L’affiche réunit plusieurs générations, plusieurs cultures, et offrira un large aperçu de la poésie qui se déploie depuis plusieurs années, à travers le monde, dans le champ de ce qu’on appelle la free music. Pour les néophytes, nul doute que ce read more

adrian beentjes & david cunliffe ‘no concept’

Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) Call for Works

Deadline: May 1, 2010 Deadline type: receipt Entry fee: none Open to: no restrictions KcEMA is currently accepting submissions for its 2010-11 concert season. KcEMA will present three to six concerts during the 2010-11 season in non-traditional venues that will feature compositions selected from this call for works. For consideration, applicants must complete an online submission form available at http://www.kcema.net/submit.html. Further submission guidelines are available upon read more

Microsound/Sound Design: PI Day 2010

March is rapidly approaching, heres two entries celebrating PI Day 3.14 2010 Microsound PI Day 2010 PI Stars is the first leg of a sonic journey, inside a radio wave. PI Stars PI Washed Radio PI Washed radio was recorded using a quad input head spaced dipole microphone. The virtual micrphones were panned selecting the ‘most interesting bits’ from the car wash field recording. It also read more

Berghain / Elektroakustische Salon Am Wriezener Bahnhof 10243 Berlin – Friedrichshain

DUST – Komposition für drei Violinen, Tonband, Elektronik und Quadrofonie. Ekkehard Windrich: violine Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir: violine Steffen Tast: violine Valerio Tricoli: reel to reel tape recorder + MIKA VAINIO SOLO Der erste Elektroakustische Salon im neuen Jahr widmet sich der Geometrie des Klanges als physischem Erlebnis. Der Schweizer Komponist Antoine Chessex präsentiert DUST, Komposition für drei Violinen, Tonband, Elektronik und Quadrofonie. Die Grundlage des Stückes read more

locus sonus. Sonification (what, where, how, why)

The purpose of this symposium is to conduct a state of the art review of the use sonification* within art projects, with a focus on the use of data taken from our surroundings (in a broad sense) as opposed to gestural interfaces or electronic instruments. a) What distinguishes sonification from other forms of data mediation ? b) What are the different ways in which sonification is read more

‘Aus den sieben Tagen’: Karlheinz Stockhausen y la música intuitiva (Ars Sonora)

Dedicamos este programa a la ‘música intuitiva’, una forma de improvisación musical preconizada por Karlheinz Stockhausen a finales de la década de los años sesenta del pasado siglo. Como muestra ejemplar de esta práctica, escuchamos dos versiones de “Verbindung” (“Conexión”), una de las piezas que integran el ciclo “Aus den sieben Tagen” (“De los siete días”), del propio Stockhausen. La partitura de esa pieza se compone, read more

Travelogue – Mvt. 1

ciclo de acción improvisada . ACCIÓN #2

werner dafeldecker : contrabajo lucio capece : saxo soprano sergio merce : saxo soprano federico lanchares : cine expandido improvisado josé de diego : ? domingo 28 de febrero , 21 hs. sociedad odontológica de la plata, calle 13 e/45 y 46 puerta $15 / anticipadas a $12 en : la disquería 8 # 835 entre 48 y 49, la plata. werner dafeldecker (austria/alemania) werner dafeldecker read more