JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW RESIDENCY :: ISSUE PROJECT ROOM :: MAY 28-31, 2008 :: 232 Third Street at 3rd Ave, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215 ::

Wednesday, May 28: 8pm :: ALL-STAR EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISATION with Ikue Mori (electronics), Zeena Parkins (electric harp), Lee Ranaldo (electric guitar) and Marina Rosenfeld (electronics)

Thursday, May 29: 8 pm :: NORTH INDIAN RAGA and TALA (co-presented by Chhandayan) with Pandit Samir Chatterjee (tabla) and K.V. Mahabala (sitar) Continue reading

?SONIC RESIDUES? :: Exhibition and Concert :: Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY :: Until May 12, 2008

The Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology (cDACT) at Stony Brook University (www.stonybrook.edu/cDACT) presents the Sonic Residues Festival (www.sonicresidues.net), April 29th to May 12th, 2008, Stony Brook University.

The Sonic Residues Festival will develop subtle and complex spaces of auditory experience, organized loosely around the theme of the remainders left by vibrations in time and space. Continue reading

Stanford’s laptop orchestra, with their Mac books programmed to create sound, notes, and music, performed last Tuesday night, April 29th, at Stanford University in a musical collaboration with China. Assistant Professor Ge Wang, brought the idea of a laptop orchestra to Stanford this year. Previously a graduate student at Princeton, where the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) was founded, Professor Wang developed a new music programming language called ChucK, which has been used extensively by PLOrk. The language allows the performers to develop new code in performance. Continue reading

Synchronizing metronomes or the physics of coupled dynamic systems (via MusicThing)

LMCC is excited to announce the Open Call for the 2008-2009 Workspace Artist Residency:: 2008-2009 Residency Dates: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - Friday, May 22, 2009 :: Deadline for application submission is 5 PM THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008 :: Applications ware being accepted now.

The 2008-2009 Workspace Residency will be located on the 29th floor of 120 Broadway in the Financial District. The program offers free studio space for 9 months, a small stipend and access to a community of peers and experts as well as exposure to new audiences at public programs like the final Open Studio Weekend.

Workspace is open to emerging and early-career professional artists working in all disciplines including Drawing, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Film/Video, Installation/Mixed Media, Sound, Performance and New Media/Computer Arts. Continue reading

The Telephone Game: Oil/Water/Ether by the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) is an exploration of a real-time collaborative composition local network. All of the performers have identical performance/composition programs — a custom flexible step-sequencer — that invite play with rhythmic cycles of various lengths and timbres. The real fun starts, however, when the players begin spying on their neighbors, secretly, via the network, and stealing their ideas with the click of the mouse. Unplanned structures begin to emerge, like oil on water, as riffs propagate and evolve, sometimes returning unrecognizable to their creators. Continue reading

Olinda is a prototype digital radio that uses modular hardware that is customizable for each user. It has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. Six lights on Olinda show when a close friend is listening to the radio, using wifi and Radio Pop, the BBC’s website for sharing ‘now playing’ information. Each light is a button: you can tune in to listen along with them, discovering new stations via your social network.

A friend will always appear at the same light, so you can write or draw on the radio to label it, and the lights are bright so you’ll know a friend has started listening from across the room. Continue reading

Troika was commissioned by Artwise Curators to create a signature piece at the entrance of the new British Airways luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5. Continue reading

The Pâte à Son by LeCielEstBleu is a sound toy and compositional tool conceived to encourage musical experimentation.

Go to the site. Drag instruments, switches, and transporter pipes from the conveyor belt to the checkerboard to make music. Rotate the pieces. Choose a melody. Change pitch, tempo and volume to fine-tune the composition.

Original concept and production by LeCielEstBleu on an initiative of the Cité de la Musique. FluxTunes, the new version of Pâte à Son, all grown-up, will be available soon. Continue reading

World Science reports that musical genes may be coming to light. In their April 30, 2008 Special to World Science, they report on a first small study that suggests that musical ability is partly genetic and may share evolutionary roots with language. Finnish scientists say they’ve found “approximate locations in our genome where genes affecting musical talent may lie.” The study was made on 254 individuals from 15 Finnish families, all with some musical talent. It was published in the April 18 advance online issue of the Journal of Medical Genetics.