You’re Not My Father, by Paul Slocum, [Requires Quicktime plugin] is composed of a sequence of recreations of a 10 second scene from the television show Full House, overlaid with sound loops from the scene’s original music. The crews who re-shot the scene were recruited through Internet message boards and Craigslist; each was paid $150. Instructions for shooting the scene and delivering the footage were issued to the crews. To-date, the project includes participants from Austin, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, Denton, London, and San Francisco. Continue reading

Sound & Television: Transmission Art Series :: Six Tuesday evenings; April 27 – June 15, 2010; 9:30 – 10:00 pm (see schedule below) :: on “i mellemtiden” (“meanwhile”), tv-tv, Copenhagen.

From glitches and disrupted audiovisual flows to scrambled signals and noise via avant-retard aesthetics and live montage — Sound & Television offers you artistic re-imaginations of the future (and past) of live digital-TV broadcasting. As a Transmission Art series, Sound & Television invites artists who work with the materiality of audiovisual flows to realise performances exploring the performativity of television: not live on TV, but live as TV. Continue reading

Roulette TV 2008 – David Behrman :: Marilyn Crispell with Lotte Anker :: Andrew Cyrille with Bob Stewart and Roy Campbell :: Joan La Barbara :: Oliver Lake :: Phoebe Legere :: Margaret Leng Tan :: Kathleen Supové :: Blue Gene Tyranny :: Lois V Vierk.

Roulette TV is an on-going, innovative video series which presents unique contemporary music in compelling and engaging performances given by the creators themselves. Each performance is followed by an insightful interview which offers the opportunity to get close to the artists who range from those who often speak about the rich associations and ideas they have developed during the course of their work to those who are revealing their creative processes for the first time. The wealth of concepts, personalities, real-world experience, sonic and visual beauty available from this Roulette TV series builds a springboard of inspiration and information for students, and creates enlivening, deep musical encounters for the enterprising viewer.

Roulette TV is presented in partnership with UbuWeb.

AV Festival 08 is a biennial international festival of electronic art, moving image and music. This year it takes place from 28 Feb – 8 March 08 in the North East of England (Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland) and is on the topic of broadcasting! It features Marko Peljhan (Slovenia), Harun Farocki (Germany), Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan), Autechre (UK), Joyce Hinterding (Australia), Yuko Mohri (Japan), Jean-Jacques Perrey (France), Chris Watson (UK), People Like Us (UK) and many many others. The full programme can be downloaded or viewed from the AV website. Continue reading

HACK and INTERACT with the UK SOUND TV website! Do you want to break into interactive web design and technology? Are you also interested in urban street culture — music, fashion, film and more?

UK Sound TV is looking for trainees for their HACK AND INTERACT: UK SOUND TV programme. 4 highly motivated trainees will be chosen to work at Space Media Arts in Hackney to learn about and create interactive, cutting-edge web 2.0 broadcast sites like MySpace, YouTube and Blogger and integrating these platforms with mobile phone and ‘bluetooth’ broadcasting technologies. Trainees will gain hands-on technical skills and industry insight, working towards an Arts Awards accreditation to add to your CV, big up your university application, or give you a first glimpse into your future career. Continue reading

Shut Out at Radio, Emerging Artists Turn to TV; From Reuters, April 19, 2007; By Chuck Crisafulli.

The head bops. The toes tap. One after another, hot new songs by cool new artists are kicking through the speakers. Yes, you’re watching television. Increasingly, new work by up-and-coming recording artists can be heard throughout all kinds of TV programming: as part of the soundtrack to network dramas and cable comedies; as an ear-grabbing element of promos for upcoming shows; and as a sly underscore to all manner of advertising. As mainstream radio has become more strictly formatted and risk-averse, placement on television has become a key and coveted way for a largely undiscovered band or songwriter to break out. Continue reading