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In Proto_gabber 3.11 by Dutch artist Peter Luining you can move the five squares. The motions are recorded and each square continues repeating it, generating patterns of motion as well as sound. Neat in all its simplicity. And fun.

Peter Luining is an Amsterdam based artist, curator and theorist. He studied contemporary philosophy in the mid 80’s. After his study he became active in the Amsterdam vj-scene. He started fiddling with computers, and made 3D animations in commercial jobs. Continue reading

Another Protest Song :: CALLING ALL ARTISTS, SONGWRITERS, MUSICIANS… What does a 21st Century Protest Song sound like? Given the continuing political climate, we feel it is time for another protest song to be sung. Upload and share your jam today!

Politically engaged music is not only a consequence of history or nostalgia, but can be timely and pertinent commentary on our contemporary world. Another Protest Song is a collaborative project which uses the social networking space of the internet to archive and debate contemporary protest music. The project went public in late May and has become a daily/weekly growing archive with a number of original protest songs uploaded and shared by you the user, and other ideological persuaders. Fine tune your power chords, generate new lyrics and poetry, and set your protest to song. To upload, listen, and comment, check out >> Continue reading

(image: a graphical visualization of the electronic score Artikulation by György Ligeti from 1958)

The music predates the modern analog synthesizers of the late 60’s & early 70’s, as the sound sources are a combination of generated sound and tape manipulation. The score is based on a timeline measured in seconds, using shapes & colors instead of notes on a staff. Dots represent impulses & combs for noise. Colors stand for variations in timbre & pitch.

The resulting movie can also be seen here.

Thanks to information aesthetics.

Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art – A buzzword of new media under scrutiny :: September 4, 2008 :: Part of Ars Electronica – A New Cultural Economy, Linz, Austria :: Organized by Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.

Interaction: The relation between two or more relatively independent things or systems of change which advance, hinder, limit, or otherwise affect one another – (Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901) Interactivity has become virtually a magic word for the promotion of new media and the media arts alike. The term refers not only to a certain technology, it also stands for social concepts and visions ranging from grassroots democracy all the way to consumer freedom. This imbues the term with its broad-ranging impact, but also contributes to its dilution. Continue reading

LoudNoise + Beyond Signal #1 – Peter Wright, Julien Ottavi, Nigel Wright, Ben Spiers, Cheap Machines, London Concrete, and The Radioactive Ensemble :: July 24 + 25, 2008 :: London.

July 24, 2008; 8:00 pm – Peter Wright, Julien Ottavi, Nigel Wright, Ben Spiers and The Radioactive Ensemble :: The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1 0AX :: This event is a rare chance to see a meeting of New Zealand and UK sound artists in one night. It will be an adventurous mix of electro-acoustic, improvisation, found sound and noise.

July 25, 2008; 8:00 pm – FIBRR RECORDS presents Beyond Signal #1 with Nigel Wright, The Radioactive Ensemble, London Concrete, Julien Ottavi, Cheap Machines, Ben Spiers :: Area 10 Project Space, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JT. Continue reading

TONEWHEELS :: August 1, 2008 at Access Space:: 1 Sidney Street, Sheffield UK.

TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound. This all-analog set is performed entirely live without the use of computers, using only overhead projectors as light source, performance interface and audience display. In this way, TONEWHEELS aims to open up the “black box” of electronic music and video by exposing the working processes of the performance for the audience to see. Continue reading

[image: Manuel Gottsching] Joshua Light Show with German electronic musician Manuel Göttsching :: Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park :: Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival :: August 15, 2008; 6:00 p.m.

The Joshua Light Show, known by many a New Yorker for creating the iconic psychedelic imagery that set the stage for musicans such as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Grateful Dead, The Doors and Frank Zappa at Bill Graham’s legendary lower-east-side rock palace, the Fillmore East, performs this summer at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park alongside German electronic musician Manuel Göttsching for the American concert premiere of seminal minimalist composition, E2-E4. Continue reading

Gil Alterovitz, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School is developing a computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music. In his acoustic translation, harmony represents good health, and discord indicates disease.

Searching for a more simplified way to represent the complex library of information inherent in gene expression, Alterovitz decided to represent those changes with music. He hopes that doctors will one day be able to use his music to detect health-related changes in gene expression early via a musical slip into discord, potentially improving a patient’s outcome. From Technology Review Continue reading

FILE Sao Paulo 2008 :: Fiesp Cultural Center :: August 5 – 31, 2008 :: Opening: August 4.

The program occupies the Fiesp Cultural Center’s Art Gallery, Theater and Mezzanine, which host the exhibition, performances and lectures. FILE, the major art and technology festival in Brazil and Latin America, as well as one of the most renowned events in the world in this area, for nine years has inserted the country in the global context of art and technology, or media art, performing a compilation of the artistic productions in the fields of electronic and digital arts, and working as an indicator of those productions’ plurality. Continue reading

Call for Sound Artists and Musicians: European Sound Delta – LE PLACARD (traveling / open mike / festival for headphones) :: August 8-9, 2008 :: V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam.

LE PLACARD is a headphone concert festival. As part of the European Sound Delta project, over a hundred of these festivals will take place in different cities along the Rhine and Danube. LE PLACARD is an /open mike/ program, providing headphone spaces for any artist or musician that would like to perform in the programme. Interested performers should register online on forehand, using the project website. Rhine-Danube Placards consist of series of 30 minutes performances, open to the participation of local art or musical acts. V2_ in Rotterdam will be the fourth stop of the European Sound Delta traveling festival, featuring the following two-day program: Continue reading