The Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music 2012 (with Keynotes by Susan Kozel and Benjamin Knapp) :: March 22-27, 2012 :: Call for Paper and Music Submissions — Deadline: November 28, 2011. Continue reading

Frozen Music presents Awning by Rene Barge, David Dunn, and Gustavo Matamoros as part of Sleepless Night :: November 15-16, 2011; 6:00 pm – 2:00 am :: Artcenter, South Florida’s Facade, 800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach :: Free (always).

For Sleepless Night, the Listening Gallery will feature the world-premiere of Awning alongside of their live performance of Plaza, with guest sound artist Russell Frehling, only a block away at the civic plaza, on the corner of 17th Street and Meridian Avenue. The live performance will begin at 6:00 p.m. and continue uninterrupted until 2:00 a.m.

And in December, stay tuned when SFCA’s Listening Gallery will open full blast during Art Basel with a new multichannel sound piece by Miami sound artist Russell Frehling and with Face2Face, a dual screen lab for the exploration of synchronized video created by Charles Reche. Continue reading

Call For Papers :: ICAD 2012 :: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia :: the deadline for submission of papers and posters will be on or around February 3, 2012; other deadlines will follow ::

Preliminary Announcement and Call for Participation – ICAD 2012 :: The 18th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2012) will be held June 18-22, 2012, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the heart of midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The event will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1st International Conference on Auditory Display. Since 1992, ICAD has been the premier international venue for the dissemination and discussion of work related to the science, art, and practice of sound as a communicative display. Continue reading

Nathalie Miebach is a Boston-based artist who translates weather data into complex sculptures and musical scores.

“Recently, I have begun translating weather data collected in cities into musical scores, which are then translated into sculptures as well as being a source for collaboration with musicians. These pieces are not only devices that map meteorological conditions of a specific time and place, but are also functional musical scores to be played by musicians. While musicians have freedom to interpret, they are asked not to change the essential relationship of the notes to ensure that what is still heard is indeed the meteorological relationship of weather data.” (Scroll down for the Call for Composers.) Continue reading

Practical Sound Analysis :: with Fredrik Olofsson :: October 28-30, 2011, 18:00-22.00h :: Hangar. Passatge del Marquès de Santa Isabel, 40. Barcelona. Metro Poble Nou. :: Price: 90€ (or cheaper as part of the whole course) :: prior knowledge of basic sound synthesis is assumed ::

This seminar will give an overview of several sound analysis techniques and guide participants on how to apply them to control sound or music processes. We will experiment with techniques for pitch detection and envelope tracking and will also cover more advanced algorithms, such as event and chord identification. We will also look at the importance of filtering and mapping the resulting data prior to using it to drive various synthesis parameters in realtime. Continue reading

Composer Mary Jane Leach at the Stone, Avenue C & E. 2nd St., New York, NY :: From 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Friday night, October 28, 2011 :: You’ll get to hear the US premiere of her new piece for 10 flutes – Dowland’s Tears, with video provided by the flutist, Manuel Zurria :: There will be a 10pm set afterwards featuring the music of Annea Lockwood :: Admission is $10 per set :: All admissions are at the door.

Also in the set will be some older pieces leaning heavy on sound phenomena, with new computer-generated visuals replacing the old ones that used slide projectors and dissolve units.

This is part of the series: Experimental Intermedia / XI Records at the Stone, curated by Phill Niblock October 18 – 30 2011. See: calendar.

Call for submissions of new or existing audio works of all aesthetic persuasions, and/or articles, on the issue of radio and love, for the second issue of Radiauteur :: Deadline for submissions: 5th of December 2011 :: The selected works will be included in the second issue of Radiauteur, to be published online on the 9th of January 2012 and broadcast at a surprise venue. Continue reading

Call for Submissions :: Worldmaking as Techné: Exploring Worlds of Participatory Art, Architecture, & Music:

The editors of this book project were drawn together by a common outlook that the creation of work is the creation of concepts, joining the efforts of theory and praxis in one process (techné), and that the results of our works are the expression of an ontological proposition (worldmaking). This connection was the catalyst to host the panel discussion, The Volatility and Stability of Worldmaking as Techné, at the Inter-Society of Electronic Arts conference 2011 (ISEA 2011). Continue reading

Sensing Shared Places: Designing a mobile audio streaming environment by Rui Chaves and Pedro Rebelo :: This paper addresses mobile audio streaming in the context of sharing a sense of place. This action is mediated by the network, the body and remote listening. These elements are essential in the concept and design of a platform for audio transmission ( liveshout ), that aims at intersecting mobility within the realms of radio, network and transmission art.

The paper is available for download here . Continue reading

Sound Tossing

image: First Sound Tossing activities in Japan by Daich

The project was inspired by so-called Shoe Tossing or Shoefiti, the practice of hanging shoes which have been tied together on overhead cables such as power or telephone lines. Sound Tossing operates in a similar way to the visual codes used in Shoe Tossing; Small sound generators hooked up to loudspeakers are thrown onto overhead electric wires, buildings and trees, from which they emit acoustic signals. They are solar powered and their sounds are
pretty much like crickets. Continue reading