Art.on.Wires: A Laboratory for Live and Interactive Art & Technology :: May 10 – 13, 2010; 10:00 am – 11:00 pm :: Kanonhallen, Oslo, Norway.

Art.on.Wires is an open laboratory for live and interactive art where researchers, engineers and practitioners from various fields collaborate to explore and create a new generation of media technology for artistic performances and mixed-reality spaces.

We invite choreographers, dancers, singers, actors, musicians, composers, DJs, VJs, visual artists, programmers, set designers, light engineers, sound engineers and interested researchers to join our laboratory. The four-day event will feature workshops on artistic programming tools and interactive technologies, dorkbot talks and experimental performances. Art.on.Wires takes place in an old industry hall which will be equipped with interactive technologies to serve as a space for artistic and scientific experimentation. Continue reading

DEADLINE EXTENDED Upgrade International 2010: Soft Borders :: October 18-21, 2010 :: Sao Paulo, Brazil :: Call for Participation — Deadline: May 7, 2010.

We invite proposals of papers, posters and workshops for Soft Borders – the 4th Upgrade! International Conference & Festival on New Media Art, that will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Oct 18th to 21st.

All the information about submitting proposals and the event can be also found online at the conference official website.

A brief summary only is required for the selection process. This should be submitted electronically via the online submission system, by 30/April/2010. You will be asked to create an account with the system before uploading your summary. Continue reading

Sound & Television: Transmission Art Series :: Six Tuesday evenings; April 27 – June 15, 2010; 9:30 – 10:00 pm (see schedule below) :: on “i mellemtiden” (“meanwhile”), tv-tv, Copenhagen.

From glitches and disrupted audiovisual flows to scrambled signals and noise via avant-retard aesthetics and live montage — Sound & Television offers you artistic re-imaginations of the future (and past) of live digital-TV broadcasting. As a Transmission Art series, Sound & Television invites artists who work with the materiality of audiovisual flows to realise performances exploring the performativity of television: not live on TV, but live as TV. Continue reading

STEIM Concert :: May 8, 2010; 7:30 pm :: Electronic Music Lab, Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street New York, NY.

STEIM, the Amsterdam-based music laboratory of experiments in electronic sound and instruments, lands in New Amsterdam!
STEIM’s Artistic Director, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, has assembled a lineup of groundbreaking international artists from its roster, including:

• Yutaka Makino (Japan/Germany): A composer and technical wizard who has pioneered the blending of music, sculpture and architecture

• ABATTOIR: A duo comprised of Audrey Chen (U.S.) — vocalist, cellist and analog electronics musician/composer and Robert van Heumen(Netherlands)—a composer and tinkerer equally at home with a keyboard or a joystick Continue reading

SLorktastic Chamber Music 2010 :: April 29, 2010; 8:00 pm :: CCRMA Stage, Stanford University, 660 Lomita Dr., Stanford, CA.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) presents all new works for electronic chamber music, by members of the SLOrk ensemble and seminar and featuring special guest Jordan Rudess of Dream Theatre. You are cordially invited to join us in exploring new sonic spaces + musical places with performances crafted for humans, laptops, iPads, and hemispherical speaker arrays!

For details go here or visit Stanford Laptop Orchestra on Twitter or Facebook.

Art Kill Art Label Night with Repulsive Society / Presbyacusis 2 2 20 000 HZ; Yann Leguay / Wireless; Valentina Vuksic / Trippin Through Runtime; Schwarzes Loch (silent loop streaming) by Carl Y :: May 8, 2010; 7:00 – 11:55 pm :: NK PROJEKT BERLIN, Elsenstrasse 52, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.

Repulsive Society / Presbyacusis 2 2 20 000 HZ is a sonic performance based on the frequencies commonly used by sonic weaponry technology (LRAD, Mosquito, Sonic Nausea, Mind Molester), the performance explores the outer limits of human hearing and is not recommended for children, pregnant women and people with heart disease. You have been warned. Continue reading

From Nano-Wiki :: Music of the Nano-Spheres by Roger Malina, April 15, 2010:

There is a several thousand year history of associating music with cosmic phenomena, the famous “Music of the Spheres” created from the regularities in the astronomical universe. Even though of course there is generally no sound in outer space, because the conditions of pressure and density to allow acoustic waves are very rare.

The same urge motivates artists and scientists interested in sonifying

Sound Artist Peter Gena has a large collection of DNA Music and other sonifications of molecular structures: http://www.petergena.com/DNAmus.html
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Sirbed: Aural Inversions of Debris:: April 22, 2010; 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. :: P.P.O.W Gallery, 511 West 25th Street Room 301, New York, NY.

This one-night exhibition presents three newly commissioned experimental sound compositions by artists from across the country. The two-hour exhibition, occurring two days before the closing of P.P.O.W’s concurrent three artist show Debris, seeks to invert the ways that the viewer traditionally perceives an exhibition through positing sonic manipulations of its visual, written, and social material. The three new works will be presented to viewers in the darkened gallery-turned-theater, synthesized under the dislocating darkness, an additional empirical inversion and mediator between the visual gallery experience and the reconfiguration of this experience through sound. Continue reading

Pratt Digital Art Lecture Series: dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) + STEIM: Electronic Music Lab :: April 29, 2010; 12:30 – 2:00 pm :: Digital Arts Lecture Hall E2, ARC Building, Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, NY.

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Cornelius Cardew and the freedom of listening :: May 8 – June 25, 2010 :: Culturgest Porto Edifício da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Avenida dos Aliados, 104, 4000-065 Porto, Portugal.

Culturgest is pleased to announce Cornelius Cardew and the freedom of listening, an exhibition and program of events curated by Dean Inkster, Jean-Jacques Palix, Lore Gablier, and Pierre Bal-Blanc.

The English composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) is undoubtedly one of the major composers to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. His radical approach to composition and his political reflection on the status of music making led him, in the late sixties, to instigate one of the most important attempts to establish the democratic claims of avant-garde culture. Continue reading