Mouth of a Story by Dirk Adams - A new interactive sound performance by Dirk Adams :: September 6 - 14 at Boston’s Franklin Park :: 10 am-2:00 p.m. :: reserve a time slot by email : mouth [at] testperformance.org.

Mouth of a Story explores subjects of history, place, memory, and language through a series of seven intertwined audio walks. Mouth of a Story will take place at the site of the old bear cages where voluntary participants become live performers guided by sound. Seven participants at a time are guided around the space via audio on headphones. Each of the seven audio works is unique and intertwines: instructions for navigating the space, storytelling, music, and ambient sound. Continue reading

Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series: When Absence Becomes Presence - Curated by Sonja Simonyi and Niels Van Tomme :: December 4, 2008 :: Calling all Video and Sound artists - Deadline: September 17 (postmarked).

For When Absence Becomes Presence, the next installment of the WPA’s Experimental Media Series, curators Sonja Simonyi and Niels Van Tomme have organized an exhibition of international sound and video art at the WPA’s new headquarters. Dealing with issues of memory, meaning and representation, the exhibition is a play between two separate, but inherently linked conditions: absence and presence. Continue reading

[image: Videoclip van Encyclopedia Pictura voor Bjork, Wanderlust, 2008] Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard :: August 30 - –November 2, 2008 :: Opening: August 29, 5:00 p.m. :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Guy Bar Amotz, Bunny Rabbit & Black Cracker, Nathalie Bruys, Heidi Happy, Kim Hiorthøy, Christine Ödlund, Jonas Ohlsson, planningtorock, Jan Rohlf, Lina Selander, Annika Ström, Venour and video clips for Björk, the Knife and CocoRosie.

Nathalie Bruys is an audio artist and co-curator of Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard. Her own way of working forms the heart of the exhibition. Bruys is interested in a multidisciplinary art practice. In addition to the fascination with sound and music, the artists Bruys has brought together for this show also share this wide-branching interest. Continue reading

Three Norwegian ambient sound artists :: August 11, 2008, 6:30 p.m. :: Harvestworks :: 596 Broadway, #602, New York, NY.

Please join us on Monday night for a rare performance / presentation by one of Norway’s leading electronic artist and remixer, Knut Sævik, who worked for Nils Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft, Eivind Aarset a.m.m He is founder and member of Mongolian Jetset, one of Norway`s outstanding Electro Acts, touring all over the world; Continue reading

[Amit changing the physical heart of his guitar] My friend Amit Zoran, from the Ambient Intelligence group at MIT Media Lab, continued his work on structural innovation, re-designing acoustic musical instrument according to the abilities and characteristics of rapid prototype materials. Together with Pattie Maes and Marco Coppiardi, they created a new generation of physical instruments by tailoring wooden hearts. The wooden pieces are inserted in the body of the guitar to give the instrument the desired sound identity. Continue reading

Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic, ever-changing geometries as scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries. Continue reading

Hold: Vessel 1 and 2 by Lynette Wallworth :: until August 17, 2008 :: Mostly Mozart Festival, The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York, US :: Also in the exhibition: Ryoji Ikeda — data.tron; Gina Czarnecki — Contagion; Lynette Wallworth — Invisible by Night (solo exhibition); Lynette Wallworth — Evolution of Fearlessness; Ryoji Ikeda — V≠L (solo exhibition); Lynette Wallworth — Invisible by Night; Mike Stubbs — Cultural Quarter.

Hold: Vessel 1 and 2 (2001 & 2007) brings together two immersive installation works that explore the intimacy and immensity of the natural world and our relationship to it. The audience is invited to carry a glass bowl into a darkened space and ‘catch’ projected images of microscopic marine life and telescopic astronomical imagery in a lens–shaped ’screen’. Hold uses moving image and technology to reveal the hidden intricacies of human immersion in the wide, complex world. Continue reading

Spatial Sounds, by Edwin van der Heide and Marnix de Nijs from mediateletipos on Vimeo.

From the exhibition Deep Screen – Art in Digital Culture currently on view at the Stedelijk Museum CS. (via mediateletipos)

sonicstate.com offers a new series called The Art of Sampling. The first part, called The Pioneers of Sampling, runs from 1900 to 1970, and includes a 5:12 minute video.

From the text: … Before digital sampling, sound manipulation was seen as a subversive and avante garde activity. Composers were ostracized for experimenting with found sound sources and a belief that music could exist outside the strict confines of the classical or popular domain. Yep, life was an exciting adventure if you were a liberal minded avante garde experimentalist trying to scratch a living back in the early 1900’s. And this is where our story begins. With the pioneers of sampling. Continue reading

Les Grands Spectacles III: Sound of Art. Music and Visual Arts :: until October 12, 2008 :: Museum der Moderne Salzburg Moenchsberg, Moenchsberg 32, 5020 Salzburg, Austria.

The exhibition trilogy Les Grands Spectacles will be completed this summer with the theme of the bonds between music and visual arts. Sound of Art will present scores, objects, photographs, videos and video installations, records of actions and many more exhibits. Right at the beginning the exhibition focuses on its main themes: the radical break of the avant-garde art movements emerging at the beginning of the 20th century with 19th century bourgeois culture (dominated by the cult of genius, classical instruments, musical harmonies and melodies, etc.), and the various revaluations of its inherent categories, such as virtuosity. Continue reading