In collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum and STEIM, Sonic Acts will host a series of masterclasses as part of this year’s festival edition Travelling Time.

The masterclasses provide a unique opportunity for artists, musicians and other creative professionals to work with 5 internationally renowned artists whose work critically reflects on time and timing. In a concentrated and intimate setting, participants will gain insight into the artists‚ concepts, work processes, and methods of composition and production through hands-on workshops and seminars.

TO PARTICIPATE

Deadline for applications is 12 February 2012. Please send a biography and a short motivation outlining why you would like to take part in a specific masterclass to: masterclass at sonicacts.com.

Attending multiple classes is possible. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. You will be informed about the result of your application by 14 February.

A detailed schedule as well as more information about the preparation for the masterclass will be sent to successful applicants with this notification.

FEE

There is a fee of 25 Euro to participate per masterclass. Catering will be provided.

DATES & LOCATIONS

The masterclasses take place at STEIM, SMART Project Space and De Balie, in Amsterdam
20 February: Olaf Nicolai
21 & 22 February: Catherine Christer Hennix
22 February: Peter Kubelka
23 February: Pauline Oliveros
23 February: Tino Sehgal

These masterclasses are made possible with the support of the Mondriaan Fund.

ABOUT THE MASTERS

CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX (US/SE) is a composer, philosopher, mathematician and visual artist. In the 1960s and 1970s she worked with illustrious figures such as La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath who were very important for her own work. She has frequently collaborated with the American anti-art philosopher, composer and violinist Henry Flynt. Hennix also drew inspiration from Japanese Gagaku music and the early vocal music of Perotinus and Leoninus. All her major compositions, including The Electric Harpsichord, are regarded as part of an ongoing, endless cycle.

PETER KUBELKA (AT) is a multifaceted artist and theoretician who has worked in film, cooking, music, architecture, speech and writing. He communicates through lectures, which also use non-verbal elements Œto free our world view from being the exclusive property of language‚. Kubelka‚s cinematographic work is short and highly condensed. His ŒMetric Films‚ preceded and laid the foundations for structural cinema. Kubelka will lead a masterclass on film & cooking.

OLAF NICOLAI (DE) is a German artist whose conceptual approach and use of diverse media question the way in which we view our everyday environment. He also translates theories from science and the arts into aesthetic-artistic idioms, rendering them accessible in a new context. His works deal with the perception of time in the reception of art. Nicolai has participated in international solo and group exhibitions. His works were shown at Documenta X, and at the 49th and 51st Venice Biennales. Several of his works can be found in public collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art / New York; Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary /Vienna; Friedrich Christian Flick Collection / Berlin and Migros Museum / Zürich.

PAULINE OLIVEROS (US), composer, performer and humanitarian, is an important pioneer in American music and electronic music. She has explored sound for five decades, breaking new ground for herself and others. Through improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation she has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly affects those who experience it. Pauline Oliveros will lead a Deep Listening session.

TINO SEHGAL (DE/UK) is a British-German artist whose works, which he calls Œconstructed situations‚, involve one or more people carrying out instructions conceived by the artist. What all of Sehgal’s works have in common is that they reside only in the space and time they occupy, and in the memory of the work and its reception. The artist himself describes his works as ‘constructed situations’, whose materials are the human voice, language, movement, and interaction, without the production of physical objects. His pieces are choreographies that are regularly staged in museums or galleries, and continuously executed for the entire duration of a show. In 2012, he will present a newly commissioned work for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London.

The *Network Music Festival* will take place in January 2012 in Birmingham (UK) in the heart of Birmingham’s creative community. Presenting a diverse programme of laptop performances, live coding, communicating home-made musical gadgets, sound installations, workshops and everything else in between, the Network Musical Festival boasts an international line-up including some of Birmingham’s best home-grown hi-tech musical performers.We are looking for proposals for performances, talks, installations, demos and workshops. http://networkmusicfestival.org/open-call/

Network Music Festival aims to showcase a broad spectrum of musical and sound related works, research and participatory activities which use networking as part of their aesthetic, creation or performance practice. Network Music Festival would like to invite submissions in the categories of Performance (Concert or Club), Installation, Talks, Demos and Workshops.

We are also open to other suggestions, where you are free to submit proposals that fall outside of the above categories but that you feel would be an appropriate addition to the festival programme.

PERFORMANCES: Performances where networking in an integral part of the aesthetics or performance practice. This could include: Laptop Ensembles/Orchestras/Bands, Instrumental and Electronic groups; Performances which use the internet as part of the performance; any performance that use networking in some form.

Proposed performances should be 10-30 minutes in length.

INSTALLATIONS: Sound installations which use networking as central to the aesthetic and/or creation of the work. Could include static installations or installations which explore the surrounding area.

TALKS: We will be accepting submissions for informal talks, accompanied by slideshow presentations. Talk topics should be suitable for the general public.

DEMOS: The Network Music Festival will include an interactive hands-on session where festival attendees can try-out or see your hardware or software network music device/installation/toys/etc in action. The session will be in the form of a market-place. You will be provided with a small space with a table where you can set up your tech for attendees to look at and have a go.

WORKSHOPS: Participatory workshops which cover topics related to sound and networking. May focus on technological and/or artistic aspects. Please note this is a submission to LEAD a workshop. Please state the experience level required in order to take part in the workshop and the length of time and resources required in workshop description.

OTHER: If there’s anything that you would like to submit that you don’t feel is covered by the above categories but would be an appropriate addition to the festival programme, please submit a proposal with as much information as
possible.

DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: 5 December, 2011. hhttp://networkmusicfestival.org/open-call/

The Sonorities Festival is the longest-running new music festival in Ireland and is one of the cornerstone Festivals in Europe presenting innovative new music. Run by the School of Creative Arts and the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, the Festival has always brought to Northern Ireland innovative ideas and sounds from across the world and the 2012 Festival is no exception in this regard. We are hosting a special event which has at its core the theme of The Body’s Music.

As digital technologies permeate and often dominate our daily lives, creative disciplines likewise become influenced, shaped and altered by those technological advances. The body’s relations to musical instruments, its connection and dis-connections with technological devices as well as the ways in which our bodies are being made audible (as well as visual) is a heightened concern for sonic arts practitioners. The grounding of music in / within the body can provide a familiar touchstone for listeners, and represents one of the strategies for engaging a broad spectrum of audience members with contemporary music. Practitioners continue to define and critically examine the threshold conditions between body and instrument and challenge continuities and discontinuities of body, as well as the changing role of the instrument itself.

The international symposia series, Two Thousand +, which has been running alongside the festival since 2006, will be dedicated to theme of The Body’s Music. For the symposium, we seek paper proposals from diverse performance practitioners (from music, dance, theatre and new media) and theorists that put the human body at the centre of their practices.

We are proud to announce dancer, choreographer and philosopher Susan Kozel and Ben Knapp as keynote speakers for the symposium.

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 ::

EQ2011 | EQUINOXYGEN FESTIVAL is the first large-scale event of its type ever to take place in the Northeast New Jersey area.

Hosted in the prestigious Wilson Auditorium on Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Teaneck/Hackensack campus, just 15 minutes north of New York City, Equinoxygen presents a single-day of provocative, experimental music.

With a roster of renowned artists from across the globe, spanning the bandwidth of electronic music’s genres, styles, and approaches, Equinoxygen 2011 is the opening salvo in an annual series of festivals to take place in the region, bridging the analog and the digital, & the audio and the visual, to yield a unique sensorium of sound and image.

This year’s lineup:

BERNHARD WOSTHEINRICH elicits meaning from abstraction in electronic music and media whether as an artist, musician, painter, graphic designer, small town bohemian, or failed control freak. Using a compositional approach akin to his work as a visual artist, Wöstheinrich usually begins by improvising abstract sonic structures which are subsequently developed into an increasingly detailed aural picture, both in his own solo project as The Redundant Rocker, and in collaboration with colleagues Markus Reuter (as Centrozoon), Ian Boddy, Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock, No-Man singer Tim Bowness, Thorsten Niestrath, and Synapscape’s Philipp Münch. He has released music on a variety of labels such as DiN, Burning Shed, Tonefloat, and Unsung, and continues to push at the boundaries of rock, electronica, and the avant-garde.
> www.centrozoon.bandcamp.com

DEAN DE BENEDICTIS is a Southern California-based musician who has utilized his interest in a variety of styles and cultures to enrich the quality of his musical expression. Beginning his deep exploration of music in the 80′s, De Benedictis has covered a wide gamut of sonic experience, moving through many jazz-fusion and progressive rock bands, music theory classes, and producing/performing source music for network television. Known to the electronic/ambient community as Surface 10 (as well as under his given name), De Benedictis has realized numerous recordings for labels like Hypnos, Lektronic Soundscapes, Spotted Peccary, DiN, and Cleopatra, founding the Fateless Flows Collective and its subsequent imprint in 2004. De Benedictis has spent the last few years refining his own idiosyncratic approach to rhythmic & non-rhythmic-based musics, to the effect that after a period of dormancy, he is actively reviving Fateless Flows as a ongoing conduit for his colleagues and his own future endeavors.
> www.fatelessmusic.com/deandebenedictis

EZEKIEL HONIG is a New York City native, founder of the labels Anticipate and Microcosm, who concentrates on his idiosyncratic brand of emotively warm electroacoustic music across a breadth of quietly insinuating recordings and performances. Using the loop as more of a tool than a rule, Honig paints outside the lines, nestling into a comfortable, shared space between muted techno, melodic, event-driven ambient, textural downtempo and slowmotion house, using them as reference points from which to stray, rather than as steadfast frameworks. Honig looks to incorporate a material nature into his music by imbuing it with a host of field recording/found-sound sources in the search for a balance between digital software innovation and the physicality of the world around us. His improvisational approach combines loops and elements from various songs with on-the-fly arrangements, editing and effects. Honig has performed in numerous galleries and alternative spaces worldwide including Montreal’s Mutek festival, the Plateaux Festival in Poland, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan, Italy, and the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
> www.ezekielhonig.com

JOHN HUDAK is a field recordist, sound collagist, and arch experimentalist, courting interests in sound and music from the age of four. At the University of Delaware and the Naropa Institute for the Arts, Hudak studied English, video, photography, creative writing and dance, and soon thereafter began to create taped soundtracks for solo performance art/dance and mixed media. Language has also been a predominant focus in his life and artistic pursuits, having studied and published haiku poetry, the literary equivalent of the reductive, minimal, and nature-based sound forms that consistantly fascinate him. Hudak’s current work focuses on the rhythms and melodies that exist in our daily aural environments; on his usually limited edition CDs, both self-released and found on such labels as Meme, and/oar, Intransitive, Alluvial and others, plus his web-based projects, mixed-media installations and performances, Hudak reframes and transforms sound in our environment so it can be noted, admired, and valued. > www.johnhudak.net

JON DURANT is a guitarist who brings a unique sense of texture and melody to his instrument. His distinctive “cloud guitar” soundscapes and engaging lead work have graced numerous CD recordings and film soundtracks. Either solo or in a group context, his myriad influences reference such colleagues as Fripp & Eno, Steve Tibbetts, David Torn, and the early work of Bill Frisell and Andy Summers. As executive producer of Alchemy Records, he produces recordings for internationally acclaimed artists in his small Massachusetts-based studio. In addition to longtime collaborators Tony Levin (bassist with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel), percussionist Vinny Sabatino, pianist Michael Whalen, and guitar/synth master Randy Roos, Durant has recorded with Colin Edward of Porcupine Tree, electric violinist Caryn Lyn, and many others. At EQ2011, Durant will perform with his son Harrison accompanying him, as the duo interface their liquid guitars within the labyrinthine environment of the iPad.
> www.jondurant.com

MARCUS FISCHER is a musician and multimedia artist currently based in Portland, Oregon. While drumming in various bands in and around his prior residence in Olympia, Washington, Fischer discovered new opportunities arising for him to further experiment with sound using tape loops and electronics. Field recordings, chance, and DIY instruments, coupled with acoustic instrumentation and visual art, define what has become Fischer’s minimal signature. Fischer curates vision+hearing, a series of audiovisual events that bring musicians and filmmakers together for collaborative performances, and is the co-curator of SIX, an annual six-speaker surround sound performance series, and has had the opportunity to score various short films and multimedia performances. Past musical releases include his recent Monocoastal on 12k, Arctic/Antarctic (Luxus-Arctica), contributions and remixes to various compilations and net labels as map~map, various untitled 3” CDRs, and two CDs as part of the duo Unrecognizable Now.
> www.mapmap.ch

MEM1, the husband and wife team of Mark and Laura Cetilia, seamlessly blend the sounds of cello and electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities in their improvisation-based performances. They use custom hardware and software in conjunction with a uniquely subtle approach to extended cello technique and realtime modular synthesis patching, which results in the creation of a single voice rather than a duet between two individuals. Their music moves beyond melody, lyricism and traditional structural confines, revealing an organic evolution of sound blending harmony with cacophony. The duo have taken part in residencies at Harvestworks in New York, STEIM and Kunstenaarslogies in the Netherlands and USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. In 2009, they created a site-specific installation for the Museums of Bat Yam (Israel); their collaborative works with media artists Kadet Kuhne and Liora Belford have been screened and installed at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Fringe Exhibitions (Los Angeles), and the Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen). Throughout their career, they have collaborated with a variety of artists including the Penderecki String Quartet, Steve Roden, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, and Stephen Vitiello, amongst many others.
> www.mem1.com

NEIL NAPPE is an accomplished guitarist and synthesist whose pioneering work dates back to the 80s and his seminal release on Larry Fast’s Audion label, July. Spending years refining and applying numerous approaches, techniques and disciplines to the performance capabilities of synthesizers and interactive guitar playing, Nappe’s keen ear for texture and nuance has set him on a course that breaks with any established genre boundaries or confines. His dazzling work with guitar synths, generating loops and triggering samples to yield intensively immersive waves of undulating notes and frequencies, have rightly drawn comparisons with like-minded texturalists Robert Fripp, Manuel Gottsching, and Richard Pinhas. Equinoxygen will mark Nappe’s eagerly anticipated return to live performance after a 15-year-plus hiatus.
> www.discogs.com/Neil-Nappe-July/master/183105

RICHARD LAINHART is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker, a sonic artisan who works with audio and visual data, expert in processes both analog and digital. Since childhood, he’s been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images that are as beautiful as he can make them. Studying composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany, Lainhart has gone on to compose music for film, television, CD-ROMs, and web-based applications. His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Japan; recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI, Airglow, Tobira, Field Studies, Infrequency, VICMOD, and ExOvo labels. As an active performer and composer of over 150 electronic and acoustic works, Lainhart has appeared in public approximately 2000 times, and worked with such notable musicians as John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. Lainhart has also recently the CD, Polychromatic Integers, on OTP’s Periphery label.
> www.otownmedia.com

STEPHEN VITIELLO is an electronic musician and sound artist who transforms incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment. He has composed music for independent films, experimental video projects and art installations, collaborating with such artists as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler and Dara Birnbaum. In 1999 he was awarded a studio for six months on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center’s Tower One, where he recorded the cracking noises of the building swaying under the stress of the winds after Hurricane Floyd. As an installation artist, he is particularly interested in the physical aspect of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial environment. This year has seen the CD release of MOSS (with Molly Berg, Olivia Block & Steve Roden) on 12k, plus collaborative work with Machinefabriek and Lawrence English; exhibitions include sound works hosted by Museum 52, and the first aural exhibit to grace New York City’s celebrated High Line park. Vitiello has collaborated with such musicians as Pauline Oliveros, Scanner, Steve Roden, Frances-Marie Uitti, Andrew Deutsch, and Yasunao Tone. He is currently an Associate Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University.
> www.stephenvitiello.com

TAYLOR DEUPREE is a sound artist, graphic designer, and photographer residing in New York. His solo works in recent years have explored a fusion of digital sound manipulation with organic and melodic textures that take influences from his interest in architecture, interior design, and photography. Themes of minimalism, stillness, atmosphere, nature, and imperfection prevade his work. In 1997, he founded 12k, a record label that focuses on minimalism and contemporary hybrids of acoustic and electronic music. Deupree has released over seventy CDs on the label by a roster of international sound artists and has developed 12k into one of the most respected experimental music labels in the world. Since 1993, he has released critically acclaimed recordings for labels worldwide including Spekk, Plop, Ritornell/Mille Plateaux, Raster-Noton, Disko B, Sub Rosa, Room40, and many others. Over the years, Deupree has collaborated with artists such as guitarist Christopher Willits, Kenneth Kirschner, Tetsu Inoue, Frank Bretschneider, Richard Chartier, and Stephan Mathieu. Deupree feels the importance of collaborative work is not to layer two individual styles but rather to fuse each artist’s concepts to forge a unique, third identity.
> www.12k.com

THE ELECTRIC GOLEM is comprised of James Spitznagel and Trevor Pinch, who yield generative, modern psychedelic mindscapes thanks to Pinch’s command of his Moog Prodigy and homemade modular synths, and Spitznagel’s battery of similar devices like the Evolver, Mopho, Tenori-on, Nintendo DSi, iPod Touch, and Orb Sequencer. During his daylight hours, Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, and the coauthor of perhaps the definitive book on synthesizer technology, Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. Spitznagel is a true techno-polyglot, a digital computer artist, photographer, and sonic provocateur who has released all manners of twisted electronica on his Level Green imprint, and continues to raise the bar for circuit-based music as he craftily wrestles with the vagaries of tone, glitch, frequency, and pulsation. The duo recently released Sky Snails, their 2nd CD and the first release on OTP’s Periphery label.
> www.facebook.com/electricgolem

VIC HENNIGAN is a practicing Buddhist, artist and spiritualist who contemplates the state of humanity through his music. “Many of us have lost our connection with ourselves, the planet, the universe and those around us. My intention and purpose is to create and bring forth music for dance, for harmony and for spiritual connection.” Hennegan’s work as a live performer makes him a rare commodity in the electronic world. With computers, samplers, vocals and synthesizers, Hennegan’s instinctive hand creates techno-trance and ambient music as a wildly pleasurable, uplifting experience that will take your soul on a journey to the center of ecstasy. Hennegan’s music emanates a unique warmth which moves the listener to a state of euphoria. Aside from working with vocalists Juliet Annerino and Becca Fuchs, Hennegan is also a member, along with frequent partner-in-sound Dean De Benedicitis, of Los Angeles’s Fateless Flow Collective.
> www.vichennegan.com

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.

Patterns + Pleasure provides an overview of the latest creations and developments within the electronic live music. The daily program consists of workshops and a symposium with lectures by artists, writers and scientists on themes such as improvisation, intuition, complexity, and the changing relationships between past, present, and future. In the evening there is an extensive music program with various artists. Many of them will be performing for the first time in Amsterdam.

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. EarZoom 2011 features not only performances, exhibitions and installations by established international artists, but also workshops and lectures on a wide selection of different sub-topics of electronic music, ranging from mobile music computing, aco-acoustics, interactive installations, to hardware hacking.

In the framework of this year’s EarZoom sonic arts festival we are introducing a slightly different approach to the artistic program selection, aiming at widening the festival’s thematic spectrum. Within the Sounds of Europe project, we are shifting the focus from an exclusively technologically inspired concept of sonic arts towards a somewhat wider, socio-political context of contemporary arts, within which we are questioning the expressive potential of sound based practices.

Artists: Nicolas Collins, Ake Parmerud, Alexandre Torres Porres, Roger Dannenberg, Pietro Polotti, Mauricio Valdes san Emeterio, Chriss Kiefer, William Brent, Eduardo Miranda, Jure Gradišnik Mathew Burtner, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Atau Tanaka, Adam Parkinson, Hans Tammen, Tae Hong Park, Igor Vićentić, Philippe Pasqieur, Jaime Bullock, Tomaž Grom, Vasja Progar, Aino Emilia Korvensyrjä, Jan Anderzen, Ana Hoffner, Johannes Kreidler, Elske Rosenfeld, Jovita Pristovšek, Nika Autor, Kim Myhr, Mathias Forge, Olivier Toulemonde.

Venues: Kino Šiška, Cankarjev dom, Menza pri Koritu, Kinoteka, ŠKUC, Aksioma, Moderna galerija, Ljudmila, Galerija na Gregorčičevi 3

Co-producers: Aksioma, SPLOH, Cankarjev dom, BOKS, Q-O2, CRiSAP, MTG

For more infos on EarZoom 2011 see:

http://www.irzu.org/EarZoom_2011_Program.pdf
http://www.irzu.org/EarZoom_2011_Exhibition.pd

or:

www.irzu.org

For 42 years STEIM has helped local and international artists build their own dream instruments. The Patterns + Pleasure Festival will feature some of the newest and most adventurous approaches in today’s live electronic music. Every artist brings their own unique rendition of musical styles and genres - from Industrial Drone to Instrumental Hip-Hop and Tuvan singing to Boogie-Woogie-Noise.

The music program includes first time Netherlands appearances by acclaimed “Bio-feedback” Tuvan singer Fuyuki Yamakawa, a collaboration project by composer Takuma Watanabe and noise pioneer Hair Stylistics - both groups coming from Japan, and beat wizard Edison from the U.S. Other exquisite acts such as Dutch live-sampling-pilot toktek, Jessica Rylan, Moldover, Author & Punisher from the U.S., voice virtuoso Alex Nowitz from Germany, a world premier of composer Tom Johnson’s new piece for Gandini Juggling group from England, and many more will be presented throughout the program.

The symposium program includes internationally renowned artists, writers and researchers from different fields. Steina Vasulka, David Toop, Hans Boutellier, Jamie Allen, Joel Ryan, Peter Kirn and others will discuss the future of new music, improvisation and the influence of modern technology in music. During the Handmade Music session, students and local artists will present their uniquely odd and one-and-only handmade instruments.

There will also be several workshops, lunch concerts and discussions throughout the festival.

For more information and ticket sales visit www.patternsandpleasure.com

Travelling Time is the fourteenth edition of Sonic Acts, and its theme is the human experience of time. Time dictates our schedule; time gives us structure. We think of ourselves as living in the present, with the past behind us, moving towards the future. But in fact, there is nothing so complex and ambiguous as time: the arrival the early twentieth century of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics has tampered with our straightforward concept of time. The ongoing development and application of technology is challenging, changing and destabilising our sense of time. Communication networks function at light speed and processes are handled in real time by computers operating without human intervention. These technological advances have produced a gap between ‘machine time’ and ‘human time’.

Art, film and music all have the ability to make abstract concepts of time tangible and comprehensible; they can all manipulate time. In art, a relationship between time and movement creates a sense of space and can identify differences and correspondences between machine time and lived time. In Travelling Time, montage, rhythm and composition in sound and image will intensify the experience of time. Travelling Time is also about the need to act quickly in improvised music; the inevitable slowness of programming or constructing an artwork; time travels and art as a vehicle for imaginary journeys; and art as an artefact from bygone times. Sonic Acts XIV Travelling Time is a quest for space, detail and meaning in time.

Sonic Acts XIV is a four-day festival of performances, lectures, exhibitions, presentations, and film screenings. It will also present a lavishly illustrated publication with essays and interviews.

STEIM (Studio for electro-instrumental music) organizes the Patterns + Pleasure Festival a festival for adventurous contemporary electronic music, on 26, 27 and 28 September at Frascati Amsterdam. This three-day festival 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 has been 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.

The Patterns + Pleasure Festival provides an overview of the latest creations and developments within electronic live music. The daily program consists of workshops and a symposium with lectures by artists, writers and scientists on themes such as improvisation, intuition, complexity, and the changing relationships between past, present, and future. In the evening there is an extensive music program with various artists. Many of them will be performing for the first time in Amsterdam.

For the complete line-up and tickets see: www.steim.nl

Patterns + Pleasure Festival, 26, 27 + 28 September 2011, open daily from 10:00 am to 0:00 pm. Frascati, Nes 63 Amsterdam. Day-ticket: € 30,- (symposium + festival), Festival Passe-partout: € 75,-.

Harvestworks Digital Media Center presents the 3rd biannual New York Electronic Arts Festival [May 27th - Sept. 25th] Celebrating all forms of innovative new technology and art, Bora Yoon and Luke DuBois perform at the historic St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Wall Street church (across from Ground Zero), alongside Satoshi Takeishi’s “Whirlpools”, w/ post-show Q&A Artist Talk to follow.

This performance will premiere new custom technology The Body Electric, developed through a residency at Harvestworks Media, with groundbreaking Kinect sensor technology by Microsoft, and acclaimed programmer and longtime collaborator Luke DuBois.

Bora Yoon is a 2010 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audience Exchange, a NYFA public program, funded with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).