image: David Dunn J.A. Deane and David Dunn in “an evening of expansive sonorities” :: May 8, 2010; 8:00 pm :: SF_X (Santa Fe Complex), Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Utilizing new electroacoustic instruments of their own design, J.A. Deane and David Dunn present an evening of expansive sonorities that explore leading edge improvisation and scientific sonification. Combining their unique skills ‘as significant figures in multiple contemporary music traditions (jazz, free improvisation, classical new music, electroacoustic composition, sound art, biomusic, early music, world music, and microtonal performance), this duo presents music that draws upon new understandings of both ancient and modern insights into the fundamental nature of sound to effect human consciousness. Continue reading

New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival :: March 25, 2010 to March 27, 2010 :: at CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave), Galapagos Art Space (16 Main St., Brooklyn), Issue Project Room (232 3rd St., Brooklyn) :: All events at the Graduate Center are free and open to the public. Shows at Galapagos and Issue Project Room are $10-15/person ::

The second New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival presents composers, performers, and media artists from the US and abroad in three days of experimental sound art and multimedia. NYCEMF will showcase over 120 new works and installations, demonstrating the fascinating and wide range of artistic invention that occurs when musicians work with computers, electronics, and new media.

Festival Concert Schedule (http://www.nycemf.org/schedule/
Galapagos Arts Space show – a marathon evening of works 3/25 7:15 – midnight! (http://www.galapagosartspace.com/)
Issue Project Room show (http://issueprojectroom.org/) Continue reading

Upgrade! Warsaw: Electro-acoustic Concert — Sindre Bjerga, Nils Rostad, Thaw – Hubert Napiórski, CADAVeR – Piotr Olczak :: February 22, 2010; 8:00 pm :: 2.0 Gallery, The Academy of Music, 58/60 Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warsaw, Poland.

Sindre Bjerga has been wiretapping the secret frequencies of ghostly drones for years now. Though a steady flow of releases on numerous labels around the world he has been channeling the spectral transmissions from the grey void… Expect psychedelic drones that sometimes collide with snippets of found sounds from half-demagnetized tapes and concrete sounds from wrecked kitchen utensils… Recent releases: “Crystal cranium, diamond head” (Blackest Rainbow) and “Black Cobweb mind” (Klang und Krach). Continue reading

Florian Hecker :: February 12 – March 28, 2010 :: Lecture: March 18, 7:00 pm :: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ.

Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham. Hecker’s new commission continues his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space, employing idiosyncratic psychoacoustic propositions in order to examine and disrupt spatial perception.

At Chisenhale Gallery Hecker will present a series of four independent, electro-acoustic works that lead the visitor around the gallery space, where each work exposes a fault line in the traditional categorizations of auditory events, auditory objects or streams. Continue reading

Loud Objects and Tony Conrad :: January 8, 2010, 10:30 p.m. :: at Monkey Town, 58 North 3rd Street (between Whythe and Kent Ave, L to Bedford), Brooklyn, NY :: Reservations.

From art galleries to noise venues, the Loud Objects stage their physical approaches to the construction of sound. Regular staples of the New York City experimental scene, they create music that spans electroacoustic, improvisation and noise. Their performances, focused on sound from programmed microchips, have ranged from live circuit constructions on overhead projectors and slide projectors, to soldering atop a 24-light bulb fluorescent podium, and later with modified fluorescent light guitars. Continue reading

30 Seconds off an Inch: Shared Frequencies with Kabir Carter:: November 22, 2009; 2:00 – 5:00 pm :: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York, NY.

As part of the Museum’s current exhibition 30 Seconds off an Inch, come experience the synthetic sounds of Shared Frequencies (2009) performed by artist Kabir Carter. The work moves between sound, performance and installation by converting architecture to sound and vice-versa. Using radio scanners and synthesizers to process an array of street reverberations and noises, Carter creates an electro-acoustic chorus of urbane life and an urban landscape.

Hans Koch/Andrea Parkins Duo :: November 11, 2009; 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. :: Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, 495 Broadway 3rd Floor, New York City.

Swiss musician Hans Koch integrates saxes and clarinets with sampling, sequencing, and electronic sounds. He has worked with numerous musical groups in Switzerland and worldwide including the Barry Guy New Orchestra, the London Improvisers Orchestra, and in the group Koch-Schütz-Studer.

Andrea Parkins is a New York based composer, electro-acoustic instrumentalist and sound artist especially acclaimed for her uniquely gestural/textural approach to her electronically-processed accordion and inventive use of live sound processing. Her work has been presented both worldwide and in NYC; at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, and Diapason Gallery for sound.

For the 5th compilation of Plastic People, they have chosen to illustrate how visual/conceptual artists use sound as a component of a mixed media work or a texture directly worked on with conceptual tools. Depending on the position of the listener, this snapshot can be interpreted as a cliché.

Artists can occasionally show contempt towards the reactionary concerns of ‘experimental’ or electroacoustic music. In the meantime, listening with a composer’s ear will reveal the banality or ‘déjà entendu’ nature of sound used by a fine artist. Hedonistic pleasure of hearing or Kantian reward of understanding? Continue reading

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (TES) :: August 7-8, 2009; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm :: Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie #170, Toronto, Canada.

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community and New Adventures in Sound Art are pleased to announce the 2009 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. The symposium presents a selection of refereed papers and presentations as well as a keynote lecture by internationally acclaimed scholar Annette Vande Gorne. This is your opportunity to find out the latest in sound art activity around the world. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC’s online journal, eContact! More info here. Go to here and click on on-line registration to register.

Kaffe Matthews :: July 15, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Cafe Oto, 18 – 22 Ashwin Street, London.

Kaffe Matthews was born in Essex, England, and lives and works in London. Since 1996 she has been making new electro-acoustic music through a system of self designed software matrices through which she pulls and pushes different sounds live. The variety of sounds, things and places she has worked with have ranged from self played violin and theremin, sounds of spaces, kite strings on an uninhabited Scottish Island, flight data from NASA scientists, Scottish and Irish pipers, melting ice in Quebec, Continue reading