basic.fm is a new radio station that forms part of Pixel Palace, an exciting programme of digital arts and new media at Tyneside Cinema. It hosts Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture, aspiring to be a space that can be inhabited by artists, curators, thinkers and interesting people with something to share and will be gradually be populated with work, projects, shows and archived events.

Since launching in November 2011, basic.fm has commissioned an exciting number of leading artists, including Mark Vernon, The Noize Choir, Ed Carter, Sarah Boothroyd and People Like Us.

Call for Participation

Pixel Palace are seeking new or existing works to host on basic.fm. Selected works will form part of a series of curated programmes (one-off and regular shows) that will appear on basic.fm from April 2012. Work can include sound art, spoken word, field recordings and artist interviews within the context of Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture.

This is an unpaid opportunity but all selected contributions will be fully credited and linked appropriately to relevant websites and/ or sources. This call is open to all artists, musicians, field recordists and sonic artists regardless of nationality, age, or career stage.

Submissions must include:

• Title and description of new or existing work(s) for basic.fm (100 words maximum)
• Examples of past work (please provide links to work as large email large media files cannot be accepted)
• CV and contact information

About Pixel Palace

Pixel Palace is the exciting programme of digital arts and new media at Tyneside Cinema. This programme takes the form of arts residencies, commissions, live events and exhibitions. We experiment with new ways of sharing creative work, ideas and stories as we move towards the future of cinema.

Tyneside Cinema’s mission is to bring together people to experience, enjoy and engage with the past, present and future of cinema. Pixel Palace aims to extend and deliver this mission by working with new media artists and curators embracing digital arts, not only to reflect upon the cinema’s past, but to engage new audiences in its expanded present and pervasive future.
Jean Luc Goddard’s classic film “Alphaville” provides a creative starting point for Pixel Palace to explore the influence technology has upon us, shaping our behaviour and understanding of the world.

As Godard predicted, life is indeed shaped by computers. In Alphaville, in our world today, the cinema is everywhere, in the flick of a cigarette lighter, in the glow of a light bulb… it is in the way we perceive our world, in the way we speak, in the way we dream. We have no need of entering a movie theatre to experience cinema; life itself is just like a movie.

Kelly Brougher (2008). ‘The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving image’

Pixel Palace aims to work with artists to investigate the way in which the cinema reflects life but also the way in which technology has an “Alphaville” effect.

How to apply

Please email submissions to Dominic Smith, Digital Arts Manager at the Tyneside Cinema: info [at] thepixelpalace.org with the subject heading: basic.fm

Artists will be notified via email regarding the outcome of their submitted work(s).

Radio Arts Space constructs a gallery inside radio space, where Sound art and Radio art works are exhibited. It explores all the possible ways of exhibiting and reading Radio and Sound art. The project is also complemented by an (international) platform for the discussion of meanings, contextualization, artistic research and the exchange of sound art works. It is not designed as a hermetic space with all the answers given in advance, but as a structurally complex space, which generates new questions.

Radio Arts Space consists from 46 artworks, exhibited by 42 artists from 22 countries.The project Radio Arts Space combines seven independent curatorial perspectives and approaches in its exhibition format (Manja Ristić, Maria Papadomanolaki, Milica Pekić, Ilari Valbonesi, Brane Zorman, Tevž Logar and Robert Sakrowski). The invited curators were given a common starting point: they could choose to put together a selection of works, based on an open call (160 artworks), released by radioCona in May 2011 and/or to choose the authors on their own. This is why some of artists in the exhibition appear several times.

Curators and artists:

Manja Ristić (SRB): Alja Piry, Hainer Wőrmann, H.A.K. lo fi record collective (Denis Mc Carty, Anton Mobin & Ayato), Irad Lee, Jason Bolte, Lee Fraser, Mario Verandi, Mark Vernon, Mikael Fernstrőm in Sean Taylor (a.k.a. Softday), Phillip Tesner (a.k.a. Renset), Sol Rezza

Maria Papadomanolaki (USA): Aki Onda, Ed Bear in Lea Bertucci (TwistyCat), Kabir Carter, Maria Chavez, The Propagations, Zach Layton

Milica Pekić (SRB): Carlos Noronha Feio, Luke Munn, Magali Daniaux and Cédric Pigot, Mark Vernon, Renata Padovan

Ilari Valbonesi (ITA): Matthias Meyer and Ingo Gerken, Marcelo Sahea, Lee Fraser, David Fyans, Joana Estevao, Mathieu Werchowski, Scott Danek, Jeff Gburek, James Andean, Sturqen (David Arantes and César Rodrigues), Irad Lee, Tom Bogear

Brane Zorman (SLO): Aaron Nemec, Agnieszka Waligorska and Pekka Siren, Alexander Baker, Automating, Daniel Blinkhorn, Emiliano Zelada, Felipe Rizzo Prux a.k.a. F.R.Prux, Henry Gwiazda, Inko Martin Mancisidor, Maja Delak and Luka Prinčič, Mary Kate Bukowski, Michael Bates, Vasja Progar, Marko Batista and Nataša Muševič, Steve Bradley

Tevž Logar (SLO): H.A.K. lo fi record collective (Denis Mc Carty, Anton Mobin & Ayato), Jason Bolte, Michael Bates, David Fyans, Francois Marting, Luke Munn, Matthias Meyer and Ingo Gerken

Robert Sakrowski (DE): An Acoustic journey through YouTube

RADIO ARTS SPACE exhibition programme:

7. - 16. December 2011, 12.00 pm – 7.00 pm
radioCona FM 88.8 MHz and live stream on www.radiocona.si

Wednesday, 7. December 2011, 8.00 pm, Škuc Gallery
Opening and live events:
Robert Sakrowski / An Acoustic Journey Through YouTube
Ilari Valbonesi / Ultra Disco

Friday, 9. December 2011, Škuc Gallery
6.00 pm Curators’ speech (exhibition tour) and discussion
7.30 pm snacks
8.00 pm Marija Papadomanolaki / Detrital Propagations in Harmony
Petra Kapš / performative writer

Saturday, 10. December 2011, 11.00 am, Main Market Place, Ljubljana, radioCona intervention

Sunday, 11. December 2011, 11.00 am, ŠKUC Gallery
workshop: Robert Sakrowski / Building a YouTube-based Acoustic Net Piece
exhibition tour for children by Irena Pivka

Tuesday, 13 December 2011, Škuc Gallery
6.00 pm lecture: Elisabeth Zimmermann / curated by …
7.30 pm live skype performance by Brane Zorman with selected artists

2. – 9. December 201, Pixxelpoint, Nova Gorica
Radio Arts Space: Listening room

21. – 23. November 2011, public spaces in the city center
workshop Torsten Michaelson (Ligna) / Radio and Public Space Performing/Nonperforming

Radio Arts Space - credits

produced by: CONA Institute for Contemporary Art Proccesing (www.cona.si)
project art directors: Irena Pivka, Barne Zorman
project manager: Jasmina Založnik

more informations, daily calendar, updates: www.radiocona.si
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partners: KIOSK Contemporary art platform (SRB), NRBG Novi Radio Beograd (SRB), Zerinthya RAM LIVE (IT)

project Radio Arts Space is supported by: European Cultural Foundation ECF, Ministry of Culture RS, Goethe Institut, Austrian Cultural Forum, JSKD (Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities), ŠKUC Gallery Ljubljana, RTV SLO transmitters and communications

info@e-artnow.org

The program is broadcast twice a day for a month and can be listened to at different times each day. Times scheduled within program block E. are:

Monday: 10am + 10pm
Tuesday: 8am + 8pm
Wednesday: 6am + 6pm
Thursday: 4am + 4pM
Friday: 2am + 2pm
Saturday: 0am and 0pm
Sunday: 6am + 6pm
http://biblio.zkm.de/DegemWebradio/programm.htm

The time is CET Central European Time == UTC + 1 hour

For more information on the broadcast http://ethernetorchestra.netpraxis.net/info/

Now embarking on its 32nd year, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. — an independent not-for-profit organization founded in New York City — continues to agitate the institutional art world through its trailblazing projects, including New American Radio (1987-1998), Turbulence.org (1996-), Networked _ Performance (2004-), Networked _ Music _ Review (2007-), and Networked: a (networked _ book) about (networked _ art) (2009-).

Since 1981, NRPA has commissioned more than 500 works by more than 400 artists, many of them just beginning their careers. The Turbulence.org archive spans a crucial 15-year period of exploration and innovation in digital, networked environments, ranging from hypertext to information visualization, blogs to social networks, and interactive dance/musical compositions to 3-D architecture.

Here’s what Régine Debatty and Timothy Murray have said about Turbulence.org:

“Turbulence because they’ve been consistently commissioning net.art … and because they have a great blog called Networked_Performance that documents better (much better) than me the calls, essays and events that interest the whole new media art community.” Régine Debatty, we-make-money-not-art, 2006

“Turbulence … has developed into a natural archive of Internet art, housing the largest representation of American art produced as networked art. Indeed, no other on-line exhibition project has played such an influential and lasting role.” Timothy Murray, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, 2011

Please help us keep doing what we’re doing by making a donation via PayPal on http://turbulence.org or by sending a check to:

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
124 Bourne Street
Roslindale, MA 02131
United States of America

Thank you.

We wish you all a peaceful and prosperous 2012.

Warmly,

Jo and Helen

Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency. Special Thanks to Andy Kale.

Made for the exhibition Invisible Fields at Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona Spain.

05.00 minutes. / HD / 2011
HD single channel and HD 3D single channel.
20Hz is co-commissioned by Arts Santa Monica + Lighthouse . Supported by the British Council.

The clock ticks; the moon waxes; the autumn leaves turn crimson. Time is as ubiquitous as it is elusive. Guided by science and science fiction, All In Time traverses the timeless mystery of time itself.

This 25-minute work won the Luc Ferrari International Broadcast Arts Competition and was commissioned by La Muse En Circuit (Centre National de Création Musicale), with the support of Radio Suisse Romande, Deutschlandradio Kultur, RTBF Musiq 3, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, and Radio-France. It recently won a Gold World Medal for Best Sound at the New York Festivals Radio Programming Awards.

In 2011, All In Time was presented on Radio Suisse Romande in Switzerland, Deutschlandradio Kultur in Germany, as well as at the Archipel Contemporary Music Festival in Geneva, at Festival Extension XI in Paris, at Netaudio London, at Ohrenhoch sound art gallery in Berlin, and at the Deep Wireless Festival in Toronto.

The audio work of Canadian Sarah Boothroyd has been featured by broadcasters, festivals and galleries in over 25 countries. She has won awards from New York Festivals, Third Coast International Audio Festival, the European Broadcasting Union, and La Muse En Circuit.

At various noons in November in reference to the myth of The Universal Now: November 3; 4:30 pm CST (12pm Marquesas Time), November 5; 1:00 am CST (12pm Indian Chagos Time), November 6; 5:00 pm CST (12pm Samoa Standard Time), November 9; 9:00 am CST (12pm Paraguay Time), November 11; 3:00 pm CST (12pm Gambier Time), November 12; 2:00 pm CST (12pm Pitcairn Standard Time), November 13; 2:00 pm CST (12pm Easter Island Standard Time).

Notes: Special thanks to physics maven Peter Watson; to antique clock collector Georges Royer; to Morgantj and Dokashiteru for providing Creative Commons samples; and to Himan and Melina Brown for permitting the use of CBS Radio Mystery Theatre clips.

Radio artworks and articles are expected to show evidence of critical thinking and engagement with contemporary and historical radio art practices and theory, addressing a range of questions and topics such as the use of radio to mediate human relationships, the acoustic representation and transmission of affect, the sense of community and belonging via the radiophonic experience, among others.

Please send your submissions to: info[at]radiauteur.com :: Format: mp3 :: If the files to be submitted are bigger than 12 MB please upload them via cloud computing and send a link for download. :: Works can also be posted to:
F.A.O. Ray Ganz
Centre for Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NWUK

Call for submissions: http://www.radiauteur.com/?page_id=2807

Call for new commissions: Pixel Palace is commissioning four new audio works for BASIC.fm. Each work will be hosted for a month on continuous play and the first commission will go live in November. They are seeking artists who use sound as a medium in unexpected, exciting and innovative ways. This may include work that may act in a similar way to hold music or radio and television test signals. There is a one-off artist fee of £250 for each commissioned piece.

This call is open to all artists, musicians, field recordists and sonic artists regardless of nationality, age, or career stage.
Commission proposals must include:
- Title and description of proposed audio work for BASIC.fm (100 words maximum)
- Examples of past work (please provide links to work as large email large media files cannot be accepted)
- CV and contact information
How to apply
Please email commission proposals to Dominic Smith, Digital Media Projects Manager at the Tyneside Cinema:
info(at)thepixelpalace.org

The deadline for commission proposals is 10 October 2011 at 5pm. Artists will be notified via email regarding the result of their proposal.

“Under the Radar” is a radio violin project by Mia Zabelka for the international sound art project “PhonArt – The lost languages of Europe”. The 9v battery for the pick-up on her electric violin is replaced with power from radio waves transformed to generate electricity.

The concept involves “opening up” radio space, integrating live elements and a soundscape of lost languages, which is processed using MIDI effects generated by the radio-powered violin. Thus a “circuit of radiowaves” is constructed, transforming radio reception into power for the violin, which in turn generates sound and electronic and MIDI effects that are broadcast back into the ether.

A COPY OF THIS PROGRAM CAN BE ORDERED FROM THE “ORF TONBANDDIENST” :: audioservice [at] orf.at

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.

Radio and television stations interested in taking on a Localore project are encouraged to “raise their hands” and demonstrate their preparedness for incubating Localore innovation by signing on to the Station Runway. There, prospective incubator stations will present three to five minutes of media (slide show, video, or audio piece) showcasing their creative culture, their distinctive community, and their vision for engaging a new community of public media citizens.

Localore producers are invited to submit proposals between today’s launch date — September 15th — and November 10th at Localore.net. A second round of vetting in December will call on producers, matched with incubator stations, to submit final proposals. Projects will launch between March and June 2012, with a time frame of execution anticipated at nine to 12 months.

AIR has assembled its own multiplatform, collaborative production team to lead Localore, including Executive Editor Noland Walker, a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning producer/director of PBS and independent documentaries, and author/journalist Jessica Clark, who led the Future of Public Media project at American University’s Center for Social Media from 2007 to 2011. She serves as AIR’s Media Strategist.

In many ways, the Localore project reflects the changing composition of AIR itself, with a membership that is rapidly diversifying and expanding public media and journalism. AIR was founded in 1988 by a group of 10 independent public radio producers in New York City. It has since grown into a global, social and professional brain trust of more than 800 producers — both independent and those employed by media organizations — representing an extensive range of disciplines, from NPR news journalists and reporters to sound artists, station-based producers, podcasters, gearheads, web developers, and more. Public media’s leading networks — American Public Media, NPR, PRI — and leading producing stations from across the U.S. are also in the ranks of AIR.

Learn more about the nuts and bolts of Localore in this video of AIR’s recent producers’ webinar.

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Links:
www.AIRmedia.org
www.localore.net
Webinar video: www.vimeo.com/29065323
Project logos are available at: http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=480

Funding for AIR comes from our members and the generous support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Wyncote Foundation, Recovery.gov, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
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P.O. Box 220400
Boston, MA 02122
Phone: 617-825-4400
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