American Festival of Microtonal Music (AFMM) under the direction of Johnny Reinhard, presents a concert :: May 15, 2010; 8:00 p.m. :: Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, New York City.

Spotlights: Madeleine Shapiro‘s performance of Ge Gan-Ru’s YI-SENG (Lost Style) for solo amplified cello scordatura (Shanghai, 1968). 10-year old twin Gayageum players Sarah and Stephanie Yoon present the traditional Korean standard known as SANJO on their 12-string instruments in an ancient microtonal tuning (think “whammy-bar” zithers). Also, 25-string Gayageum virtuoso Rami Seo introduces her NEXUS in confluence with bassoon (Johnny Reinhard), cello (Madeleine Shapiro), and Terpstra synthesizer (Joshua Pierce). The Terpstra synthesizer, a honeycomb keyboard design of 55 tones per octave over 5 octaves designed by Siemen Terpstra (Amsterdam), is heard publicly in its debut this evening with support from Harvestworks. Pianist Joshua Pierce plays in a 53-tone equal temperament subset for DREI KLAVIERSTÜCKE, as imagined by composer Arnold Schönberg.

Tristan Perich: Interval Studies :: February 5 – 14, 2010 ::Mikrogalleriet, Gormsgade 9, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mikrogalleriet’s solo exhibition for New York-based composer and artist Tristan Perich ends this Sunday in Copenhagen. His new body of work, Interval Studies, is a formal look at musical intervals as a dense continuum of microtonal pitch, expressed en masse as discrete 1-bit frequencies distributed across hundreds of individual speakers. Each speaker, emitting a single, primitive 1-bit tone, becomes a microscopic voice in the total cluster, substituting individual pitch for larger sonic masses. Photographs and Video from the exhibition.

.microsound community project: microacoustic music: What is .microsound? what will it sound like in 10 years time? Is it purely music made via digital means or can it shape shift into using acoustic musical instruments? What is the sound of microacoustic music? Let’s find out. Each microsound member gets a chance to describe what microacoustic music sounds like to .

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Upgrade! Warsaw: Paweł Janicki :: November 3, 2009; 6:00 pm :: 2.0 Gallery, The Academy of Music, 58/60 Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warsaw, Poland.

Paweł Janicki (1974) is an independent media artist and producer working in the field of media art, microsound aesthetics and algorithmic composition, is a creator of audiovisual interactive systems, installations and performances. He creates and continuously develops software tools and interfaces. Special place in his activity takes developing software according to his own projects – and broadly – creating his own media either sabotaging already existing solutions. Continue reading