Call for papers for Sound as Art – Sound in History. Sound as Culture – Sound in Theory Conference :: organized by Ansa Lønstrup, Morten Michelsen and others :: to take place September 23–25, 2010 at the University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark :: Call for papers :: submission deadline:April 1, 2010 ::

Today, sound studies provide an important framework for furthering cultural research related to a broad range of historical and contemporary issues. Also, sound studies contribute to the understanding of currents in social and global activity increasingly determined by auditory, sonic, and communicative materiality. At the same time, the exploration of auditivity and auditory cultures raises a series of significant aesthetic, medial, historical, cultural, and theoretical questions. Continue reading

ResoNations Panel Access Grid Video Teleconference :: April 9, 2010; 4:00 - 5:30 pm EDT :: 35 West 4th Street, 6th Floor Conference Room, New York, New York (see additional sites below).

Presented by the Music Technology Program Lecture Series, Steinhardt School, New York University, ResoNations Panel Access Grid Video Teleconference is an international videoconference on the groundbreaking international telematic music concert for peace, ResoNations. Panelists will make presentations on the ResoNations concert and the ongoing project. Performance highlights will be shown. Local and online international audiences will participate in discussion.

ResoNations was an international telematic music concert for peace November 21, 2009 performed by twenty-six renowned musicians in five international locations: Continue reading

MUSICfor.one [byTEN] is a live “concert” improvisation created for the Chatroulette social network. Audio in the performance is generated from screen grabs taken of the first 10 people that appeared during a previous visit to the website. These pictures in turn became the graphic notation that loosely scores the work. Through this process Jason Sloan becomes the conductor while the anonymous Chatroulette users become the unaware orchestra.

The individual scores are created using software that reads the RGB pixel information across the X axis of the image and assigns a unique tone to each colored pixel. Two 20 minute movements of MUSICfor.one [byTEN] will be performed live on the Chatroulette network March 20, 2010 at 10:00 pm EST [-5GMT]. Click through and see if you can find the performance. Documentation of MUSICfor.one [byTEN] will be made available.

LISTEN IN with Threscwald: John McGill, Max Abeles, Pierce Warnecke :: March 19, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York City (at Houston St) :: free ::

Threscwald brings together three musicians working in the realm of digital audio and the performative arts. Brought together by a similar love - building software to create unique sound and imagery - they share creative processes that bear diverse yet homogenous results.

John Mcgill’s Lightning, Lizards of the Sky is a piece that attempts to harness various FFT-based effects originating in the Max/MSP environment. A sonic duality is conveyed using live audio signals to cut into saturated ‘noise’ textures. Using complex algorithms and generative techniques, Mcgill’s sound is born from a place of sensitivity towards abstract design and phrasing. Continue reading

No Images, a performance in the dark :: April 6, 2010; 7:00 - 8:00 pm :: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON.

Developed by curators Pablo de Ocampo, Jacob Korczynski and Christof Migone, No Images features the work of Ryan Driver, Annie MacDonell, Alexis O’Hara & Mary Margaret O’Hara and Alex Snukal. Imagine a pitch-black space. Immersed in absolute darkness, you cannot see your own hand, you have no idea of the size of the space that you are in, and your sense of time is completely lost. One’s typical dependence upon an encounter anchored by eyesight is replaced by an amorphous and immersive environment. This presentation strategy is not only ideally suited for sound art, it is also a radical engagement of the senses by way of complete deprivation of the visual. Continue reading

Tremorrag with Angie Eng (music/ digital video) and Pascal Battus (music, analog video) :: March 20, 2010; 8:30 p.m. :: IRL Soirées - Centre Mercoeur, 4 rue Mercoeur 75011 M° Voltaire/Charonne Paris, France.

Vibrations of motors, tiny gestures, the hum of energy- How does movement look and sound? Tremorrage is a duo with sound artist, Pascal Battus and video artist, Angie Eng who take you on a audio visual journey with mini-cameras, contact mics and drawings in real time. Battus holds pen on paper that moves by vibrating motors. Line is created by rotating machines that vibrate the paper. Continue reading

IHME 2010: Susan Philipsz’s, When Day Closes — a sound installation at the Helsinki Central Railway Station :: March 12 - April 11, 2010.

IHME is an annual Contemporary Art Festival in three parts: the IHME Project, a new, commissioned work in a public space; the IHME Days discussion forum; and the IHME Editions.

The IHME Project 2010 is a sound installation in Helsinki designed by Scottish sculptor Susan Philipsz. She creates sculptures using sound, and is interested in the values associated with space and in how sound can define architecture. Among the key elements of Philipsz’s approach are the psychological effects of songs and the way that songs can evoke immediate emotions and memories. Continue reading

Informelles Radio — Join a Radio Art Tram Ride through Vienna: on air (FM4 fm4.orf.at) - on line - on site :: March 14, 2010; 11:00 - 11:45 pm (CET) :: Vienna, between the following tram stops: start at Alserstraße - U6, Lange Gasse, Schottentor, Salztorbrücke, Hintere Zollamtsstraße, Ungargasse, Südbahnhof, Schwarzenbergplatz.

A tram equipped as an art space and radio studio, informal radio is a live on air multi-channel radio performance, including nine radio stations based throughout Austria.

informal radio is a project by students of the Digital Art class at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts, supervised by Nicolaj Kirisits and Klaus Filip. The tram becomes a mobile exhibition space for twelve time-based installations by Kathrin Stumreich, Viktoria Wöß, JoaKnierzinger, Mara Bloom, hpl, Johannes Muik, Daniel Gyolcs, mths, Miriam Mone, conny zenk, Karl Salzmann, Jan Perschy and Conny Zenk + mths. Continue reading