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

Workshop: Neuro Reality Check (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Performance: GenComp Collective Berlin & Book Launch: Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience :: December 2, 2011, 10:00 pm :: N.K., Elsenstr. 52/2, Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin :: Open to the public (register for the workshop here).

GenComp Collective Berlin: Chaotic, cybernetic, and hybrid systems — Neurological and cybernetic research techniques have been adopted by many experimental music protagonists, such as Louis and Bebe Barron, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and others. 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

The Association of Independents in Radio, Inc. (AIR) today launched the beta site for Localore, a new MQ2-inspired initiative designed to fuel public media’s innovation capacity. Gates are open for producers, stations to sign on.

Through Localore, AIR will recruit talented radio, TV, film, and online producers to lead 10 station-based projects blending approaches to broadcast and digital platforms. The range of radio and television stations signed on to Localore crisscrosses from Vermont to Alabama, Ohio to Arizona, Pittsburgh to the Pacific Northwest. Big stations in major markets have begun to throw their hats into the ring alongside small rural stations, public television dual licensees, and Native American stations out west. Launch stations will be announced at an event on September 22nd at the PRPD’s Public Media Programming Conference in Baltimore. Continue reading

CTRL+ALT+REPEAT :: Music by Morton Feldman and Christine Kubisch:: Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 8:30 p.m. :: 41 Central St. Providence, Rhode Island 02907 ::

CTRL+ALT+REPEAT is an experimental music series that focuses on cutting-edge electronic music, improvisation, contemporary classical music, and sound art. The Spring 2011 edition will feature Morton Feldman’s 1951 string quartet Structures and Christina Kubisch’s Vibrations for string quartet and vibrators, performed by the Community MusicWorks Players alongside performances by Ernst Karel, Lyn Goeringer and Mem1. This concert is presented in conjunction with Community MusicWorks and is made possible in part by a grant from the Brown University Creative Arts Council.

Lecture/Presentation/Discussion by C-drík Fermont :: on history of experimental/electronic music in Africa and Asia :: Thursday, June 9, 2011 from 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. :: NK, Elsen str 52 2HH (second backyard) Neukoelln 12059, Berlin, Germany ::

Halim El-Dabh composed his first experimental piece in Cairo in 1944, his work can be related to other pioneers such as Luigi Russolo, John Cage, Walter Ruttmann, and Pierre Schaeffer. The official history of experimental and electronic music is mostly centered around three starting poles : Paris, Cologne, New York and then everything seems to have spread all over the Western civilization. This is what C-drík learned when he studied electro-acoustic music at the conservatory. Most contemporary media introduces us to Western electronic music as if nothing else existed, the West is self-centered and consciously or not often denies the others the right to express themselves. Continue reading

Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR):: radio experiments :: First Thursday evenings during April, May and June, 2011 :: at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), 250 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 :: Free ::

First Event :: In Your Ear :: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:00 –10:00 p.m. :: MOCA, Grand Avenue :: Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) will harness the airwaves around the museum to transmit a collection of radio programs on local frequencies. MOCA visitors may tune into these programs via handheld personal transistor radios they either bring to or buy at the event for 2 USD. For “FMemory,” NPR will broadcast interviews with downtown Los Angeles’s communities about memorable experiences of MOCA as well as their perceptions of Bunker Hill’s evolving landscape. Continue reading

Certain Sundays is pleased to announce its 2011 spring-summer calendar:: Certain Sundays is a salon at SOWIESO, a monthly sound & music salon in Berlin. After a pause in Fall 2010, they have a very exciting program this year which they hope you will be able to attend! More details can be found on their new website: www.certainsundays.de

February 27, 2011 from 17:00-19:00 Uhr :: Peter Behrends: soundso and Hanna Hartman: The Importance of Getting Lost:: SOWIESO, Weisestraße 24, 12049 Berlin, U8 Leinestraße :: conversations in English or Deutsch :: complimentary coffee & cake :: Admission: 5€

Peter Behrendsen: From 1965 to 1972 studied Theatre Science, German language, and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne; self-studied electronic musician since 1972, member of Josef Anton Riedl’s ensemble, for ten years as collaborator with Klaus Schöning at the WDR-Studio für Akustische Kunst. Continue reading

Sonic Generator :: music on the boundary :: Monday, January 24, 2011 from 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. :: at the Woodruff Arts Center/Rich Theatre, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA :: Created by Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology/Sonic Generator :: free ::

Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble-in-residence, Sonic Generator, will explore open musical scores on the boundaries of composition, improvisation, and interactivity in a free exhibition and concert in partnership with the Woodruff Arts Center. The performance features music with unconventional and technologically-driven scores by Kaija Saariaho, Frederic Rzewski, Jason Freeman, Bill Ryan, David Kim-Boyle, and Akito Van Troyer. It takes place at the Rich Theatre at Woodruff Arts Center on January 24th. The exhibition opens at 7:00 p.m. and the concert begins at 8:00 p.m. Continue reading

1. Early music group New York Polyphony and new music composer/performer Bora Yoon present “My End Is My Beginning” :: Sunday, January 9th, 2010 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. :: Brief Q&A to follow :: at Actor’s Chapel, St. Malachy’s Church, 239 W. 49th Street, btw 8th and Broadway on the NE corner of 49th & 8th. :: RSVP: To attend, pleases reply by email with “RSVP 1/9″ in the subject ::

“My End Is My Begining” is a unique collaboration linking Medieval compositions with experimental new music, exploring the devotional and transcendental properties of sound. Continue reading