Make a noisy chip toy! :: December 16, 2009; 4:00 – 9:00 p.m. :: 9-15 Wyckoff Ave., Queens, NY (Directions).

Want to make your own chip toy? For $15 in parts, you can. We’re going to open up Babycastles at 4p for an open lab with the Loud Objects kits. Make it if you can, and bring soldering iron(s). (We’ll keep soldering kits right on to close at 9p!) We’ll also have other custom creators; got some project you want to bring, or just want to fiddle with your Game Boy? Bring it on!

Party with Indie Gamers and DIY Chip Musicians, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m., Free! The party starts at 6:00 p.m., with independent games to play in the arcade and their creators, geeky greet + meet, noisy things to hear, stuff to see. All artists and art lovers welcome. Ends at 9:00 p.m. so those in Blip Fest can get back to Manhattan.

Vortex, Part 2: a search for time distortion :: December 16, 2009; 7:00 – 9:30 pm :: Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Vienna, Austria.

Vortex is an interdisciplinary music project by composer / pianist Belma Beslic (AUT/SLO) and Viennese composer / sound artist Bernhard Gál (AUT). It deals with different aspects of temporal perception, and its implication for our human sensory and cognitive apparatus.

PROGRAMME: * B. Gal: 88 (for piano and light projection) * B. Beslic: Utopia Planitia (audiovisual composition) * B. Gal: relive (laptop performance) * B. Gal: textur#4 (audiovisual composition) * B. Beslic: Expanse (for piano and sound projection, premiere). Annelie Gahl – violin (Utopia Planitia)

Introduction to Ardour FLOSS Manual is now online.

Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.

The Introduction to Ardour FLOSS Manual is a free (gratis/libre) tutorial-style book, which introduces the program without expecting a vast knowledge of computers or sound editing from the reader. This FLOSS Manual was largely written by workshop participants learning the software themselves, over a one week period during a session led by Derek Holzer at the moddr_lab/WORM in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Continue reading

Analogous Interactions @ International Computer Music Conference :: June 1-5, 2010 :: New York City :: Call for Works — Deadline: December 31, 2009.

Analogous invites proposals for presentation at Analogous Interactions events for the International Computer Music Conference, taking place at Stony Brook University, in association with New York University, and the Electronic Music Foundation of New York City. Works should explore the intersection of computer music and emergent phenomena — including, but not limited to, generative sound- and video-works, performative ecologies and installations, live-coding and musical improvisation, reality-based games and social experiments, biomedical hacking and new technology, artificial intelligence and chaordic systems. Continue reading

Hans Tammen & Thrid Eye Orchestra: Anagenesis :: December 7, 2009; 8:30 pm :: Roulette, 20 Greene Street, New York, NY.

Featuring: Mari Kimura (vio), Jason Hwang (vio), Stephanie Griffin (vla), Tomas Ullrich (cel), Marty Ehrlich (bcl, as, fl), Briggan Krauss (as, bari), Herb Robertson (trpt), Robert Dick (fl, cbfl), Dafna Naphtali (voice, live sound processing), David Simons (theremin/gongs), Denman Maroney (p/kb),Ursel Schlicht (p/kb), Stomu Takeishi (b), Satoshi Takeishi (perc), Hans Tammen (composer, live arrangement, concept). Continue reading

The Blackest Flux featuring Yutaka Makino:: December 10, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 pm :: AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media, 141 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA.

The Blackest Flux is an experiment toward abstraction of space/body. By using acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena, it creates a state of disorientation and a series of tactile movement of sound masses over space.

Yutaka Makino is an artist and researcher currently based in Los Angeles. He seeks to amalgamate the historic precedents of computational composition and science, involving research in non-standard sound synthesis, spatial perception, acoustics, collective behavior, complex dynamical systems and emergence. Continue reading

Merkur by Roberto Paci Dalò :: Live from Studio RP4, ORF Funkhaus Wien :: Broadcast in 5.1 Surround Sound :: December 6, 2009; 11:03 – 11:45 pm (CET) :: live streaming; shortwave broadcasting.

A performance based on the invisible architecture of sound and electric dust. A farewell dealing with the space through resonance, reverbs, echoes. A chemical laboratory where thin acoustical textures are developed through revolving layers and abstract forms. Moving on the threshold between broken melodies (coming in part from John Dowland’s vocal fragments), loops, soundscapes, and noise.

Some of the Merkur’s materials have been developed by Roberto Paci Dalò and Alexandra Purcaru through a residency at Hotel Pupik (Austria) during Summer 2009 and premiered in New York at Experimental Intermedia (October 09). Continue reading

Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality by Martha Mockus — a new book from Routledge Press ::

From the author: This book selects important compositions by Pauline Oliveros from 1960 to 1985 and listens to them sounding out lesbian messages of creativity, community, love, and sexuality within Oliveros’s specific social and conceptual milieu. I am inspired by her observation, quoted on page 1, that “it’s funny to listen this way” precisely because it enables a closer engagement with the material and ideological conditions of Oliveros’s music. With each piece I seek to get inside the sounds—how they are produced and their guiding aesthetics—and articulate how I hear them within North American feminist and lesbian contexts of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Work in lesbian theory by Terry Castle, Audre Lorde, Sue-Ellen Case, and Teresa de Lauretis as well as lesbian fiction by Dorothy Allison, Jane Rule, and Monique Wittig provide the reverberant spaces within which my listening takes place. Continue reading

VORTEX – a search for time distortion :: December 8, 2009, 7:00pm – 9:00pm :: Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, Vienna :: Free admission ::

Vortex is an interdisciplinary music project by composer / pianist Belma Beslic (AUT/SLO) and Viennese composer / sound artist Bernhard Gál (AUT). It deals with different aspects of temporal perception, and its implication for our human sensory and cognitive apparatus.

PROGRAMME

* B. Beslic: Hibernation (audiovisual performance, 2009)
* B. Gal: textur#3 (audiovisual performance, 2008)
* B. Beslic: Echo (composition for piano and video projection, 2008)
* B. Gal: textur#5 (audiovisual performance, 2009)

Sonic Arts @ GASP proudly presents Freex 2 Geexs V :: December 11, 2009; 9:00 pm :: Gasp at 362-4 Boylston Street, Brookline, MA 02445 :: 617.418.4308 | galleryinfo [at] g-a-s-p.net :: $10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID.

Live interactive visuals and circuit bent sound alterations by wizards of the Electronic Production and Design department of Berklee College of Music: Neil Leonard, Jason Adams, Evan Sutton, Joel Darling, Ricardo Kondo, Jin Ku Kim, Seiya Matsumiya, Michael Korch, Nicolas Marinelarena

GASP is one block from the Brookline Hills stop on the MBTA ‘D’ Riverside line. Directions/Info: here.