Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture :: Call for Participation – Deadline: February 20, 2012; 5:00 pm. Continue reading

After a 10 month hiatus the SoundTransit project is back, hosted by Turbulence.org.

SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Phonography is the art of recording sounds from the environment around us, with an emphasis on the unintentional sounds which often go unnoticed in our daily lives. An international community of phonographers collect and share their recordings, with interests ranging from recordings of natural or urban environments to improvised situations or soundwalks, to the resonance of solid objects or the Earth’s atmosphere. Continue reading

The World as Instrument: A Theoretical Workshop Taught by Francisco López :: September 5 – 9, 2011 :: Open Campus 2011, Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts, Senju Campus (Adachi-ku, Tokyo) :: Fee: 24,000 yen :: Participation is limited to 30 participants ::

This workshop focuses on the theory of field recording, audio recording of environmental sound.

The World as Instrument that López has organized worldwide introduces the participants to the art of field recording through huge sonic samples and discussion. At the end of the workshop, the participants will experience the depth of the art at his blind live performance. The live performance will be held on September 10, 2011 at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Continue reading

Radius:: June 2011 :: Episode 08 will host Osvaldo Cibils :: Radius will transmit h88h for two consecutive Friday afternoons on June 3 and 10 at 2:00 p.m. CST.

Osvaldo Cibils is a visual and sound artist born in Montevideo, Uruguay now living and working in Trento, Italy. He works with drawing, computer-generated sounds, and short videos.

Radius will broadcast h88h. h88h was made using radio field recordings (Rovereto, Italy, 2010), desk recordings (Trento, Italy, 2011), cassette (POLE music fragment, 2001), CD-R (computer sounds experiments, 1997-2001), software sounds (Linux MultiMedia Studio, RolloSonic, Mixxx, Acid v1.0.), and a Midi keyboard controller.

Radius is an experimental radio broadcast platform based in Chicago, IL, USA

Birdcage sound gallery presents Aki Onda: Cassette Memories, curated by Daniele Balit :: May 14, 2011; 8:30 – 10:30 pm [Nuit des Musées (Museum Night)]:: Cour Carrée du Louvre, Paris.

Aki Onda is an electronic musician, composer, and visual artist. He was born in Japan and currently resides in New York. Onda is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda’s musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. Continue reading

Field Recording Workshop: Movement of Acoustic Images :: Speakers: Alessandro Massobrio, Fabio Orsi, Natasha Barrett :: Curated by Matteo Milani, Federico Placidi (U.S.O. Project) and Domenico Sciajno :: @ Live!iXem 2010 – Edition VII — International festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic art :: September 17, 2010.

The workshop’s aim is to provide an introduction to theory and practice of the main mobile sound recording techniques and the use of sound sources in different fields, from sound design to cinema, from digital editing to the use of digital sources in instrumental composition, electronic music and live electronics. Music compositions and musical excerpts from field recordings will also be introduced, listened and discussed. Continue reading

[noish] >> trAnsCodE :: Oscar Martin :: October 2, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. – October 3, 2010 at 12:30 a.m. :: NK Elsen str 52 2 HH Neukoelln Berlin 12059

Noish is the experimental sound project of Oscar Martin. A sound explorer, Martin bases his work on the deconstruction of field recordings and the creative use of technology errors. Luthier-digital with a ‚ pure data‚ environment, which he uses to develop his own experimental tools for processing and real time algorithmic-generative composition. He can be placed somewhere between Computer Music, the Aesthetics of Error, and generative Noise. He seeks the creation of virtual sound universes, imaginary soundscapes that encourage active listening and a different sensibility toward the perception of sound phenomena. He works under the open source paradigm. All his work is published under Creative Commons licence, by different labels and netlabels;(dronerecords, tecnoNucleo, costellam, etc.) Continue reading

SleepWalks Performance (Sleepover, please bring bedding) :: June 5, 9:00 pm – June 6, 9:00 am :: Diapason Gallery, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Fl., New York City :: RSVP: lemurz66 [at] yahoo.com.

An overnight, live electronic music performance by Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams. Culling sounds from their audio files of field recordings, live samples of the room resonance, and various electronically processed acoustic instruments, they create an extended musical composition for the entirety of a night for an audience that sleeps in the performance space. Pembleton and Williams intend to create soundwalks for dreamers. SleepWalks first premiered as a shorter ‘catnap’ at Issue Project Room in NYC in early 2009 and since then as dream-filled overnight performances in the San Francisco Bay Area, including at Mills College as part of The Deep Listening Institute’s Dream Festival. A listening sample can be found here (link on right side of page). Continue reading

10th Performance Art Festival: Amplification — audiovisual physical live acts with Francisco López (Spain) + Evelina Domnitch (Belarus / Netherlands) & Dmitry Gelfand (Russia / Netherlands) Kustos :: Curator:Darko Fritz Croatia / Netherland :: June 1 – 2, 2010 :: Barutana, Tvrdavica 192, Osijek, Croatia.

All of the technological audiovisual setups on display here challenge the limits of human perception in the physically achieved audiovisual surroundings. The sound is continually being treated as a physical fact, whether a field recording, or created as frequencies using the analogue and digital machinery in the scientific lab experiment happening live on the stage. The sound as such participates in the composition of a new kind of auditive experiences tailored to each performance location, often varying with the observation point within the performance room itself. Continue reading

Sweden for Beginners :: May 20, 2010; 9:45 – 10:15 pm :: Re-New Digital Arts Festival, Rådhusstrædet 11, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sweden for Beginners [SfB] will have it’s premiere May 20 at Musikcafeen, Copenhagen, Denmark as part of the re-new digital arts festival. It’s performed live with Robert Willim/Audio and Anders Weberg/Video. SfB is an imaginative journey through the spaces, the life and everyday world of this Scandinavian country, a way to experience beyond the power of words.

Artists Anders Weberg and Robert Willim have used field recordings and material from various Swedish settings to form an audiovisual live performance. The artwork will be surrealized as an affective exposé through live improvisation. Stereotypes of Sweden, like the Bergmanesque gloom, erotica and nature romanticism will be invoked in this imaginary journey through Sweden of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Continue reading