Synthsized Voices of the Revolutionary Utopia: Early Sonic Experiments in the Soviet Union

This book tells the remarkable story behind the pioneering experiments in audio synthesis and graphical sound that were being conducted in the early years of the Soviet Union by composer-theorists Arseny Avraamov, Boris Yankovsky and many others.
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Electronic and Computer Music Series :: with Jérôme Noetinger, John Wall, and Geoff Mullen (Type Records) :: Monday, May 28th 2012 :: at @ AUSLAND Lychener Str. 60 10437 Berlin :: Doors 21:00 – Concerts 21:30 Sharp! ::

Jérôme Noetinger is an improviser and composer of electroacoustic music based in France. Projects include his duo with Lionel Marchetti, eRikm and Quintet Avant. He is a member of the famed MIMEO ensemble, as well as a
member of Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine. Noetinger also runs the Metamkine label, distribution and mail-order service and is a key participant at the influential audio arts magazine Revue et Corrigée. metamkine.free.fr metamkine.com Continue reading

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk):: Thursday May 3rd, 2012 at 8pm :: CCRMA Stage, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, 660 Lomita Dr., Stanford, CA 94305-8180 USA :: tel: (650) 723-4971 :: free and open to the public ::

SLorktastic Chamber Music 2012 presents all new works for electronic chamber music, by members of the SLOrk ensemble and seminar. You are cordially invited to join them in exploring new sonic spaces + musical places with instruments and performances crafted for humans, laptops, iPads, and hemispherical speaker arrays.

For more details, visit: http://slork.stanford.edu/events/2012/slorktastic/

Vigilance Improvisations by Eric Laska :: January 28, 2012; 8:00 pm :: Vox Populii Aux Performance Space, 319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia PA.

This event will feature two pieces in the Vigilance Improvisations framework: “Mutability” performed by Bryan Eubanks and Eric Laska; and “Recursion” performed by Bonnie Jones and Reed Evan Rosenberg and presented by the Philadelphia Sound Forum.

Vigilance Improvisations is a series of structured frameworks for improvising electronic musicians. The archetypical design consists of two musicians, one working with computer and the other with non-computer electronics, improvising together while following unique visual scores. Continue reading

CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing presents ZVO.ČI.TI. so.und.ing Collection, a podcast collection of Slovenian sound artists, composers of electroacoustic, experimental, algorithmic, electronic, improvised and composed works. The DVD release of the ZVO.ČI.TI so.und.ing Collection represents the final part of the multi-year project devised to be a continuous production of thematic radio and podcast audio programmes about specific authors and works of theirs that were created in the studio or performed live.

The purpose of the project is to connect and highlight Slovenian authors who make contemporary music in the music performance, sound, intermedia, performing, online and other areas and to present them, using existing communication possibilities, into the wider arena of world contemporary sound creativity. Continue reading

NYU Electronic Music Performance class :: December 17, 2011; 7:30 pm :: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Room 602 between Houston and Prince streets :: directed by Dafna Naphtali :: admission is free ::

Some great new faces and sounds — improvisations and open form scores — live electronics, feedback, live sound processing, sample processing, theremin, homemade electronics. “i-semble” (iPhone / iPad ensemble), plus piano, violin, guitar, voice and even amplified water jug.

Featuring: Tycho Horan, Aimee Norwich, Alejandro Zuleta, Ryan Doubiago, Andrew Lection, Brian Bourque, Carson Grub, Douglas Moss, Eric Bergen, Douglas Roj, Andrew Stein, Patrick Deeney, Paul Wittschen, Rebecca Dole, Sarah Streit and Yuval Ronen. Visuals contributed by Brendan Reilley. & with special guest Slavo Krekovic..

Trampoline Berlin: Final Week of Tracing Mobility Exhibition :: Ends December 12, 2011 ::

The final week of Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space has begun, only one more week of the exhibition that has set out to examine how electronic networks and mobile media are transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance. Continue reading

E Q 2 0 1 1 – Equinoxygen Festival :: the Northeast’s premier concert series for electronic and experimental music :: Saturday, October 1, 2011 – 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. :: Wilson Auditorium, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 99 University Plaza Drive (off Hackensack Ave.), Hackensack, NJ 07601 :: 201.692.2000 :: Admission: $25 for advance/reserve seating / $35 at the door ::

One Thousand Pulses, the Northeast’s premier concert series for electronic and experimental music, proudly presents:
EQ2011 — Equinoxygen Festival — Featuring: Bernhard Wostheinrich :: Dean de Benedictis & Vic Hennigan :: The Electric Golem :: Ezekiel Honig :: John Hudak :: Jon Durant :: Mem1 & Stephen Vitiello :: Neil Nappe :: Richard Lainhart :: Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer :: Continue reading

STEIM (Studio for electro-instrumental music) organizes Patterns + Pleasure, Festival for Adventurous Contemporary Electronic Music :: September 26-28, 2011 :: Frascati, Nes 63, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Patterns + Pleasure presents the latest and most adventurous contemporary electronic music from today. There will be lectures, workshops, debates and performances by musicians and sound… artists from home and abroad. Starring Alex Nowitz, Tom Johnson, Jessica Rylan, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Steina Vasulka, David Toop, Moldover, Edison and many more.

STEIM is working with a growing international network of musicians, performers and visual artists for more than 42 years now. STEIM invites people for residencies and provides them with an artistic and technical environment to work on the development of unique instruments and new music. Continue reading

EarZoom2011 / ICMC2012 :: Friday, September 30 at 7:00pm – October 4 at 11:30pm :: Ljubljana – Slovenia ::

IRZU – Institute for Sonic Arts Research, is announcing the third edition of: EarZoom – Sonic Arts Festival, which will take place between 30th September and 4th October 2011 at different venues in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The main aim of the festival is to present a set of carefully selected works of multi-profile individuals (artists/scientists) and thus promote the interdisciplinary field of electronic music – the myriad of possibilities it has to offer – to artists and scientists (engineers) within our local community. Continue reading