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slicnaton, Mahlon Hoard, VLT_BLK Sunday @ Pyramid Atlantic

Sunday December 27 Doors 630pm Music 7pm SHARP $7 PYRAMID ATLANTIC 8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910 301.608.9101 located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line) Free parking in gated lot out front DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org slicnaton is Nicholas Slatons’ electronic improvisations and electro-acoustic compositions. The results are steeped in drone [...]

Ventus

This week I premiered two new video pieces at a performance event at the University of Michigan’s MFA Open Studios Night. For the performance, I projected the pre-edited videos and performed the soundtrack live, allowing the video to guide me in subtle improvisations and interactions with the visuals, unlike this “fixed” version, which combines a [...]

Week at Roulette! 9/14.11.09

Kaufmann – Gratkowski – De Joode Mon Nov 9 – 8:30 PM “The three spontaneously weave compact pieces full of intricate, multi-threaded interaction. (…) The group can construct spare, riveting music from the quiet hush of bristling detailed textures. They can also shape improvisations that build to a full-bore rush of heated intensity. But what [...]

Symbiosis on Overlap – Episode 31 – James Wyness

Scottish artist James Wyness joins us with some of his sublime location based sound this week. He tells us: “In the podcast I set out to give an illustrated account of one of my two long term and large scale projects – how I develop and exploit my digital sound archive of field recordings from the [...]

QUIET MUSIC II

New England Phonographer’s Union das kleine Field Recordings Festival – in conjunction with the festival in Berlin Rick Breault, Michael Bullock, Derek Hoffend, Ernst Karel, Jed Speare, Asher Thal-Nir Friday, October 9, 2009 8pm suggested donation $5-$10 at Thompson Design Group 35 Channel Center St., corner The New England Phonographers Union is a fluid congregation [...]

Ten Berge & Van Weelden : Turntable Music Night 6

STEIM@40! presents: Turntable Music Night 6 Set 1: Fedde ten Berge / Luc van Weelden AI Lego robots, extended hardware for turntables and mixers, real-time video processing 15 March 2009 Turntable Music Night 6: Ten Berge & Van Weelden from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo. http://steim.org If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to [...]

04.10.09 framework:afield

in this edition we heard /*framework250*/ tracks from *peter cusack*, *thomas tilly* (aka *tô*), *rie nakajima*, and *chris watson*. these are all new exclusive tracks in celebration of framework passing its 250th edition, which aired in september. a selection of the clebratory tracks (as many as will fit on two cds) will be published towards [...]

Arts Electric: Soundset Salutations

Four electronic musicians from Europe— Francisco Meirino, Alexei Borisov with Anton Nikkilä and Pekka Airaksinen— make their first appearances in New York City, joined by local musicians Suzanne Thorpe, Richard Garet, and Ben Owen Monday, September 21 @ 8pm Francisco Meirino, aka Phroq (Switzerland) Improvisations with computer, contact microphones and acoustic devices Suzanne Thorpe (New [...]

3 NIGHTS: SKELETONS @ ROULETTE

SKELETONS’ usual quartet is expanded here for three nights of new compositions, ideas, and improvisations. A rare opportunity to hear the band explore the outer limits of their work! Featuring excerpts and new arrangements from a collection of songs in progress “PEOPLE” , “To Slow the Pathsweepers” a long form piece based around conversations in [...]

Ethernet Orchestra Ensemble Live @ UTS, Sydney.

Refraction Sound night at the UTS studio. Bon Marche Studio, 755 Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney. Curated by Emily McDaniel. 7pm, 2nd September 2009 So far it’s me on horns and loops and Yavuz Uydu – on Turkish Bendir & Oud and Mark Francombe on guitar live from Oslo paying in pre set keys based on [...]

Piano! – Ross Bolleter’s Ruined Pianos GOLD COIN DONATION

1pm, Wednesday 12 August A ‘ruined’ piano is one that has been abandoned to all weathers with the result that few or none of its notes sound like that of an even-tempered ‘uptight’ piano. Ross Bolleter’s improvisations on ruined pianos evoke the ghostly past lives and histories that lie sleeping within his dilapidated instruments. Download [...]

02.08.09 framework

originally aired on 28.11.03 a couple of new releases from bernhard guenter’s trente oiseaux label this week, and a return visit from several of our favorites of recent history: quiet american, rob mullender and janek schaefer.  we also featured material from two fellow resonance fm program makers, viv corringham and john wynne, and polish artist pawel grabowski, who impressed us last week [...]

A SESSION ON SPATIALISATION – REPORT FROM BALTAN GOES NATLAB 3

Friday, May 29, 2009 saw the third in our BALTAN goes NATLAB series of presentations, this time devoted different strategies of spatialisation in audiovisual art and how this alters our understanding of technology-driven forms of art. This evening was moderated by Lucas van der Velden from the collective Telcosystems. Norwegian artist HC Gilje explored how audiovisual technology can [...]

NINE LIVES: vol.2

Wednesday 10th & Thursday 11th of June, 21hs NINE LIVES: vol.2 Two nights of spontaneous music, featuring collaborations, improvisations and compositions. Ausland – Lychener Straße 60, 10437 Berlin In March 2009, three fantastic improvisers from Chicago happened to be in Berlin on one night, six of their favourite colleagues also happened to live here and [...]

20/23.05.09 AT ROULETTE: MIXOLOGY FESTIVAL!

ROULETTE presents 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St) Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242 http://www.roulette.org/ Check out our NEW BLOG www.roulettenyc.wordpress.com for interviews of upcoming performers, sound clips, pictures and more! ~ MIKEY IQ JONES Wed May 20 – 8:30 PM Vocalist/percussionist/composer Mikey IQ Jones (of Brown Wing Overdrive) presents an [...]

MIXOLOGY FESTIVAL NYC BEGINS NEXT WEEK!

Roulette’s annual Spring festival focusing on new and unusual uses oftechnology in music.  Presenting work that builds upon theinteractivity of sound and image made possible through such programs asMAX, JITTER, and LISA, and goes beyond the prescribed frameworks of thesoftware to explore the possibilities of technical and artisticimprovisation. Sound activates and morphs image; imagetransubstantiates sound; [...]

MACHINE IMPROVISATIONS AT WOOD STREET GALLERIES, PITTSBURGH

MACHINE IMPROVISATIONS AT WOOD STREET GALLERIES, PITTSBURGH Telcosystems & Martijn van Boven curated the Machine Improvisations exhibition. For the opening they invited some of the finest Dutch audiovisual performers to show their latest works live. Produced by Wood Street Galleries in collaboration with Sonic Acts. Machine Improvisations brings together a body of work created by an [...]

MIXOLOGY FESTIVAL @ ROULETTE NYC!

MIXOLOGY FESTIVAL Roulette’s annual festival focusing on new and unusual uses of technology in music has arrived again!  Presenting work that builds upon the interactivity of sound and image made possible through such programs as MAX, JITTER, and LISA, and goes beyond the prescribed frameworks of the software to explore the possibilities of technical and [...]

Warren Burt, Virtually Live at Logos

On Tuesday, March 17 (Belgian time) (6 am Wednesday March 18, Australian Eastern Time), I participated in an intercontinental improvisation using the computer controlled acoustic musical instruments at the Logos Foundation in Gent, Belgium. Organized by Kristof Lauwers, the participants were Kristof Lauwers and Yvan Vandersanden at Logos, Simon somewhere else in Gent, but not [...]

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