PIANO+ 2007 – Music for piano and electronics :: December 13–15, 2007 :: ZKM, Lorenzstraße 19, D – 76135 Karlsruhe.

Striving to create previously unheard-of sounds has always been the goal of instrumentalists and composers. At a round table with ZKM CEO Peter Weibel, musicologist Prof. Dr. R. Frisius, two pianists, and two composers, will explore the question of which conditions are necessary for sound research to take places. On Friday, composer Philippe Manoury will introduce his work PLUTON. Continue reading

ctrl_alt_del Continues With a Performance Night at Babylon :: Featuring Ruben Nachtergaele of Kapotski (BE) together with Ceren Oykut of Anabala (TR), Boris Hug (FR), Erdem Helvacioglu (TR), and Davide Swarup (IT) along with David Reuben De Latour (NZ/TR) and Elif Izbirak DJ (TR) sets :: December 4, 2007; 9:00 pm.

ctrl_alt_del, organized by NOMAD, is the first and the only sound-art festival in Turkey, and has been realized in sync with International Istanbul Biennial, since year 2003. Continue reading

The mobile telephone is one of the first electronic objects that large numbers of people have personalized with sound. The ‘ringtone’ has become a familiar personal insignia. For both composers and users it provides a unique opportunity to do something with sound. The mission of Sonic()bject is to take advantage of this common interest and to let users become acquainted with never previously heard and experimental sound.

The artists that Sonic()bject has selected for devising new sounds and ringtone compositions are professionals from all over the world who are involved in creating with sound: audio designers, audio artists, contemporary composers, classic or electro, jazz, pop … real “sonic objects” that have their roots in the history of auditory art. Continue reading

This Weekly is culled from a series of posts (1) (2) (3) on Continuo:

According to the Harvestworks website, TELLUS was created in 1983 at the Rum Runner Bar on Canal Street in New York City. Joseph Nechvatal, a visual artist, Claudia Gould, a curator and Carol Parkinson, a composer and staff member of Harvestworks/Studio PASS met to discuss the idea of a magazine on cassette which would feature interesting and challenging sound works. With the advent of the Walkman and the Boom Box, the editors perceived a need for an alternative to radio programming and the commercially available recordings on the market at that time… Continue reading

Lifeforms, by Stanza, are a series of generated paintings, based on the artists sampled and sequenced DNA profile. “My DNA was sequenced originally in 2003. I have made some slight changes and incorporated more data from my DNA sequences. The audio is playing along sequences of my DNA string.”

Stanza is a UK based artist who specialises in net art, multimedia, and electronic music. His award winning online projects have been invited for exhibition in digital festivals around the world, and Stanza also travels extensively to present his net art, giving performances of his audiovisual interactions, and making exhibitions. Stanza is interested in the engagement of the public/audience as a creative user across a variety of formats, from the web to cd rom and gallery installation.

“Listening Post: You have a classical background; what drew you to creating 8-bit music? What do you find alluring about the chiptune aesthetic?

Haeyoung Kim, BubblyFish: I started with classical music first, and moved on to electronic music. I have in electronic music and computer music, so experimental music. Classical is more my background. So I picked up a GameBoy, I guess 4 or 5 years ago already, and when I started using it, I just loved the sound of it, and part of the big deal is that there’s a huge limitation that does not require much music production at all. Since there’s such a limitation, I think I can push myself to be more creative, and think differently from the way that I usually create music, with more available tools…” From Interview: Chiptune Artist Haeyoung Kim, BubblyFish by Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired. Also see Interview with Paul Slocum, Tree Wave.

There is underselling, the art of lowering expectations so as to assure an audience’s satisfaction. Then there is the qualifying text that the record label Important has placed alongside two MP3s it posted for Christina Kubisch’s album Night Flights, which is being brought back into print 20 years after its initial release and for the first time on CD. This text reads: “These mp3’s are incapable of giving you any real understanding of the perfect assemblies of sound Kubisch is able to achieve.”

Kubisch is one of the first of what one might call “fine artists” to use sound as her primary medium. Continue reading

Live Herring ‘€˜08 :: The Jyväskylä Art Museum :: October 29 – November 16, 2008 :: Jyväskylä, Finland :: Deadline: April 30, 2008 :: No submission or participation fee.

All Nordic new media artists are invited to submit new media art works of all genres, including sound, digital prints and workshop proposals to an open new media art exhibition. Live Herring €’08 exhibition searches for Nordic new media art of all genres from net art to installation and from computer generated art to sound works. Theme for the entries is open: Live Herring ‘08 exhibition aims to give an overview on Nordic net art in all levels. Continue reading

LEMUR announces ReSiDeNt, a major new residency and performance/installation series :: Open Call for Submissions: Deadline: December 17, 2007. Artists from all performing and installation disciplines are encouraged to apply, including musicians, composers, dancers, choreographers, video artists, interactive installation artists, performance artists, multimedia artists and others.

In January 2008, LEMUR will inaugurate ReSiDeNt, a unique new creator-in-residence program, hosted at LEMUR’s Brooklyn space in Park Slope. Each month, we will award three artists a month-long residency at LEMUR, enabling them to create a work utilizing LEMUR’s resources, including robotic musical instruments, MIDI audio/video controllers, video projection and tracking system and more. Each group of residencies will culminate in a public show at LEMUR at the end of the month. Continue reading

Siren, by Ray Lee, is a whirling, spinning spectacle of mechanical movement, electronic sound and light. Twenty-nine large metal tripods, up to 3m tall, have rotating arms that spin around, powered by electric motors. Hand built electronic tone generators power loudspeakers at the end of each arm creating an extraordinary sonic texture of pulsing electronic drones. Small LED’s at the end of the arms trace circles of light as the arms rapidly rotate creating a compelling visual image. Continue reading