Hz #10 presents: INTERVIEW WITH ART CLAY, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF ZURICH’S DAW07 by Rachael Watts - Art Clay, artistic director of the Digital Art Weeks organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, in conversation with Rachael Watts explains his view on the intersection between art and new technologies. [Image: “Going Publik” from Art Clay is an example of an art project that not only uses innovative technology (Q-bic Belt Computer), but uses it to explore innovative application in the arts (Real Time Scoring). The computers are located in the belt buckle and communicate wirelessly with a 3d motion tracking system on the trombones.]

PLACE, SPACE AND SOUND by Christian Horgren - With Stockhholm New Music Festival’s ‘06 theme “Place and Space” as a starting point, architect/critic/musician Christian Horgren examines the relationship between the notion of space and music by tracing examples in music history.

ART AND SOUND IN STOCKHOLM NEW MUSIC AND LARM-NORDIC SOUND ART FESTIVAL by Sachiko Hayashi - The following works at 2 Stockholm festivals are discussed: Christina Kubisch’s “A History of Archives”, Janet Cardiff’s “Forty-Part Motet”, Steina Vasulka’s “Violin Power” and Maia Urstad’s “Radio Concert.”

Hz is an on-line journal published by the non-profit art organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen is the oldest forum for experimental music and intermedia art in Sweden. Throughout its history Fylkingen has been known to be a driving force in the Swedish art scene to introduce and promote yet-to-be-established art forms, the examples of which include the music of Bartok, the video works of Nam June Paik, Electro-Acoustic music during the ’50s as well as the New Media performance of Stelarc in recent years. Our members are leading composers, musicians, dancers, performance artists and visual artists in Sweden. For more information on Fylkingen, please visit www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html.