LEA rekindled 1 is the first historical comparative issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac on the history and contemporary developments at the intersection of art, science and technology. For this first issue of LEA rekindled, our editorial intention is to re-open a dialogue with those who participated and contributed towards building the history of contemporary art interactions with science and technology as well as with the new generations of artists, critical commentators, scientists and technology experts. You can find out more information on: http://ow.ly/3pA9D

We are asking to the community at large to consider LEA rekindled not only as an academic publication outlet but also as a repository for images and documentation (photographic, audio and video). If you have images from some of the art, science and technology events of the past 20 years that you would like to contribute for publication, please do get in touch with LEA staff by sending an email to: info@leoalmanac.org with the subject ‘LEA rekindled 1’.

We look forward to the opportunity of working with you in re-contextualizing, publishing and archiving these images, artworks and documentation in stable formats.

LEA is also delighted to announce that for the rekindled issues the Senior Editorial and Curatorial team is composed of: Lanfranco Aceti,
Paul Brown, Beryl Graham, Craig Harris, Errki Huhtamo, Stephen Jones, Terrence Masson, Frieder Nake, Christiane Paul and Bruce Wands.

Archival Records intends to articulate the Archive’s physical and material space through the medium of sound, and establish a new connection between the Archive’s ‘voices’. It focuses on the realm bridging textual readings (of printed material) and their vocal counterparts, through multilingual audio recordings of excerpts from the collection, supplemented by ambient sounds at the Archive. This sound installation not only aims at exploring the idea of the Archive, but also rediscovering the mechanics of sensory experiences and aural cognition through a composed technological mediation of experience.

Archival Records focuses on the reading of selected texts found in the Archive, which deal with sound or its particular vocabulary, either directly or indirectly. The collection of recordings will be continued during the exhibition with texts read by: Anthony Yung / Mary Lee / Asako Nishikado / Enoch Cheng / Kathy Mak / Angela Su / Janet Chan / Erika Kobayashi / Nadim Abbas / John Batten / Judith Pernin / Juliette Chen / Cedric Maridet / David Boyce / Rachel Catanach / Nana Seo / Angela Su / Xue Tan.

Cédric Maridet is an artist based in Hong Kong since 1999. He received his PhD in media art at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2009. His research aims at clarifying fundamentals in the heterogeneity of listening intentions in order to frame essential connections for sound art in a holistic, perceptual and theoretical approach.

Through sponsorship from the Agency for Cultural Affairs Japan and in partnership with the School of Sound, London, Non Profit Organization Image Initiative Yokohama and Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media will host Sound Continuum, an international conference for recording arts and sound archives. This conference will focus on exploring the art of sound in moving image.

The field of sound recording and sound design is relatively new and therefore has not been researched extensively within Asia. In the past, recording and designing sound were regarded as subordinate to music and cinema. In this conference we will discover and discuss the philosophical and creative aspects of sound design, rather than sound design as just a by product of music and cinema. We would also like to explore the possibility of broadening the understanding of sound recording and sound design by inviting participants from Europe who posses detailed knowledge in this field.

Concept :
1: Exploring and interpreting the art of sound in film and new media.
2: Understanding the working process of artistic creation.
3: Exploring in depth new ideas for the relationship between sound and media.

Participants:
-Michel Chion [Professor of Paris 3 University / Film Sound Researcher / Composer]
-Richard Ranft [British Library, Head of Sound Archive]
-Larry Sider [Director ofSchool of Sound / Former Head of Postproduction NFTS]
-Kiyoshi Kurosawa [Film Director / Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts]
-Junichi Konuma [Professor of Waseda University]
-Minoru Hatanaka [Curator ]
-Keiko Torigoe [Professor of Aoyama Gakuen University / Sound Scape Researcher]
-Ho Tzu Nyen [Visual Artist / Film Maker from Singapore]
-Tomomi Adachi [Composer/Voice Performer ]

We are looking forward to hearing from you for interview appointments and further questions. Detailed information and artist biographies will be accessible soon on our website: http://www.facebook.com/l/abda4; www.the-concrete.org

Press Contact
Yasuhiro Morinaga
Mail: register@the-http://www.facebook.com/l/abda4; http://www.concrete.org

Formed in 1977 in the San Francisco Bay Area, The League of Automatic Music Composers (John Bischoff, Jim Horton, Tim Perkis, Paul DeMarinis, Rich Gold, David Behrman) is considered to be the world’s first computer network band/collective.

‘ARCHIVE 1978-1981‘ features over 12 hours of previously unreleased archival tapes, documents, interviews and video from these electronic music mavericks. Compiled and edited by Jon Leidecker and presented in a lush limited edition wooden USB flash drive. 968.301.735 bytes worth of computer music history.

More here.

thanks to potaxpotax

The Library announced that 2,000 hours of material — just a fraction of its entire catalogue of sound — are now available on its website. The material represents everything from children’s skipping songs to rare recordings of Ugandan royal musicians, who stopped performing in 1966 when the country’s king was exiled.

“It’s more than putting the flesh on the bones; there are recordings that don’t exist in any other form,” the library’s curator of world and traditional music, Janet Topp Fargion, told BBC News. “They give you sound; they give actual events.

“We are being transported all over the world, back in time to different places, different cultures, different peoples.”

The oldest recordings date back to 1898 and consist of wax cylinders recorded by Cambridge professor Alfred Cort Haddon on his anthropological expedition to the Torres Straits, which lie between Australia and New Guinea.

Many are traditional British music recordings, from pub sessions, to music hall ballads, soldiers’ songs and intimate creations made in musicians’ homes.

International offerings include nose flutes being played and recordings of calypso and blues music.

The British Library Sound Archives holds more than 1 million discs and 200,000 tapes.

Xchange is a pioneering streaming audio and sound art project on the Internet. It was launched in 1997 by Riga based artists group E-LAB (Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Jaanis Garancs) in collaboration with various other emerging net.radio initiatives from all over the world. The Xchange mailinglist for information exchange and communication was started in December 1997. The Xchange community reached its’ highest activity in 1998 and 1999 - when the most dynamic experiments with collaborative streaming possibilities took place during X-Open Channel sessions. Co-sessions were facilitated by E-LAB net.radio Ozone weekly webcast-programmes, during which live stream loops were created for connecting two and more participants from different locations of the network. In 1998 Xchange project received the PRIX Ars Electronica “Award of Distinction” in the net.category.

Now a nearly full archive of Xchange activities dating back to 1997 is available at the Xchange website, including:

1. a full mailinglist archive 1997-2007

2. a list of net.radio links from 90ties with short descriptions (there might be still incomplete/incorrect info,we are still improving texts! any corrections are welcome!)

3. and a more interesting part - audio archive, with realmedia recordings from Xchange collaborative streaming experiments and loops in 1998 (also available for listening in mp3)

They are accepting all (unprocessed) audio recordings (past and present) of Montreal’s sound environments. As they gather submissions, they will be placing them into a browsable tagging system based on criteria including: Sound Source (characteristics); Location (borough, neighbourhood, municipality); Date (time of day, month, day of week, year, season); Environment Type (park, metro, indoors, outdoors, etc…); Equipment (recording device, microphone, etc…). Files can be uploaded through the form on the ‘Uploads’ section of the website.

The Concordia Electroacoustic Studies Student Association (CESSA) was established Fall of 2007. Our focus is primarily in spreading awareness of electroacoustic matters throughout Concordia and Montréal via projects and events, expressing particular interests in health, environmental, and social issues pertaining to sound.