The world premiere of minimalist legend Terry Riley’s new work White Space Conflict for MIT’s Gamelan Galak Tika :: Sunday, December 15, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. :: Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, MA. :: Reserve your tickets here http://galaktika.org/terryriley/ ::

Don’t miss the first unveiling of this stunning new work for two Balinese gamelans, guitar, saxophone, keyboards, and electronics. It’s the last non-holiday event of 2011.

Also on the program: the 75-years-young Riley performing new works on solo piano and improvisations on the mighty Kresge pipe organ! And to round things out, the shimmering beauty of traditional Balinese music, as performed by Galak Tika. 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

Penta Locus: A Live Concert from Five Universities Around the World :: November 20, 2011; 12:00 - 1:30 pm :: Free admission. Live audience from these cities are all welcome.

Penta Locus extends a history of networking music education at five universities for a concert of new telematic music pieces by students and faculty. The concert builds on 2010 Tri Locus between University of California San Diego, New York University, and Stanford University, and past work with Queens University Belfast, Concordia University, and Hamburg Hochschule of Music. Continue reading

Waveforms::an exhibition of interdisciplinary art works showcasing sound as the principle component :: October 21–November 18, 2011 :: Grunwald Gallery, 1201 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN 47405 :: Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 12–4pm or by appointment ::

image: Norbert Herber and Rowland Ricketts, The Gradual Accumulation of Additional Layers of Matter, 2011.

This exhibition explores, through an examination of creative and artistic practices, the interface of sound and new media technologies. The works in the exhibit include a number of trans-disciplinary interactions and collaborations that include sound in the context of visual and spatial artistic practices, including sound sculpture, installations, and performance works. Continue reading

Call for participation :: Matadac Festival :: December 12-15, 2011 :: at Caixaforum Madrid, ES :: Write for subscriptionprocedure to: info@madatac.es ::

The Xth Sense (XS) is a free and open source based technology; as such, its free distribution is an integral aspect of the research. In this workshop participants build their own XS biosensor and learn how to generate interactive music from the muscle sounds of their bodies.

Xth Sense: biophysical live media performance: Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for audiovisual performance. Creating your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds. Continue reading

The Digital Musicoloy Study Group:: Friday, November 4, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. :: Room 4-152 Maclaurin Building, MIT : Directions and Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4 :: Thomas Bonte and Nicolas Froment of MuseScore share their vision for the future of sheet music :: Co-organized by Matthias Röder and MIT’s Hyperstudio ::
Free and open to the public ::

The life of printed sheet music started in Germany when included in the Mainz psalter in 1457. It has been hooked to paper ever since. Up to now. Sheet music is about to get a new life. A truly digital and social one. Continue reading

Frozen Music presents Awning by Rene Barge, David Dunn, and Gustavo Matamoros as part of Sleepless Night :: November 15-16, 2011; 6:00 pm - 2:00 am :: Artcenter, South Florida’s Facade, 800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach :: Free (always).

For Sleepless Night, the Listening Gallery will feature the world-premiere of Awning alongside of their live performance of Plaza, with guest sound artist Russell Frehling, only a block away at the civic plaza, on the corner of 17th Street and Meridian Avenue. The live performance will begin at 6:00 p.m. and continue uninterrupted until 2:00 a.m.

And in December, stay tuned when SFCA’s Listening Gallery will open full blast during Art Basel with a new multichannel sound piece by Miami sound artist Russell Frehling and with Face2Face, a dual screen lab for the exploration of synchronized video created by Charles Reche. Continue reading

Practical Sound Analysis :: with Fredrik Olofsson :: October 28-30, 2011, 18:00-22.00h :: Hangar. Passatge del Marquès de Santa Isabel, 40. Barcelona. Metro Poble Nou. :: Price: 90€ (or cheaper as part of the whole course) :: prior knowledge of basic sound synthesis is assumed ::

This seminar will give an overview of several sound analysis techniques and guide participants on how to apply them to control sound or music processes. We will experiment with techniques for pitch detection and envelope tracking and will also cover more advanced algorithms, such as event and chord identification. We will also look at the importance of filtering and mapping the resulting data prior to using it to drive various synthesis parameters in realtime. Continue reading

Composer Mary Jane Leach at the Stone, Avenue C & E. 2nd St., New York, NY :: From 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Friday night, October 28, 2011 :: You’ll get to hear the US premiere of her new piece for 10 flutes - Dowland’s Tears, with video provided by the flutist, Manuel Zurria :: There will be a 10pm set afterwards featuring the music of Annea Lockwood :: Admission is $10 per set :: All admissions are at the door.

Also in the set will be some older pieces leaning heavy on sound phenomena, with new computer-generated visuals replacing the old ones that used slide projectors and dissolve units.

This is part of the series: Experimental Intermedia / XI Records at the Stone, curated by Phill Niblock October 18 - 30 2011. See: calendar.

Grande exposition of Sound Art :: Opening Friday, October 28, 2011 at 6: 00 p.m. - intermedia plateform :: APO33, 17 rue Paul Bellamy 44000 Nantes, France :: +33 02 51 89 47 16 ::

Exhibition open everyday from October 28, 2011 to November 6, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. :: 1 piece per day - 10 artists: Brandon Labelle :: Jenny Pickett :: Jason Kahn :: Christian Galarreta :: Achim Wollscheid :: Julien Poidevin ::
Kasper T Toeplitz :: Dominique Leroy :: Francisco Lopez :: Julien Ottavi ::

-Tuesday 1st of November :: First meeting - OpenSound Seminar :: Bastien Gallet what is a sound installation?
6:00 pm :: Free Entrance - Intermedia Plateform - Fabrique-Nantes Continue reading