Radio Free Banff presents Kelly Andres’ Songbike :: September 20, 2008; 10 am - 7 pm :: Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff New Media Institute, Canada.

Become a tour guide and take artist Kelly Andres on a one-hour bicycle ride of your Banff. Andres will accompany you with her mobile sound lab, Songbike, transforming your narrated ride into a unique soundscape composition broadcast live to the world on www.radio90.fm.

In August 2006, Songbike was presented as a concept for the Interactive Screen 06 competitive pitch session at the Banff New Media Institute. It was awarded a co-production residency to develop the project. Continue reading

Electrical Walks with Christina Kubsich :: Launch - September 10, 2008; 5:30 - 8:30 pm :: OBORO New Media Lab, 4001 Berri, 2nd floor, Montreal :: Headphones available from September 11-20, 2008 at Goethe-Institut Montréal, 418, Sherbrooke East) (Free) For more information, see press release.

For the first time in Canada, and concurrently in Quebec City and Montreal, Christina Kubisch presents her Electrical Walks, where members of the public are invited to pace the urban space with headphones specially developed by the artist to transform electromagnetic fields into audible frequencies.

WORKSHOP: Electromagnetic Explorations of the City :: September 16 - 18, 2008 :: OBORO’s New Media Lab. Continue reading

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

Summertime is the perfect opportunity to visit Graeme Miller’s permanent sound installation, Linked, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Receiver packs are available from:
Artsadmin, Local libraries including Leyton, Leytonstone, Vestry House Museum, Museum of London. Full list of pickup points here. A detailed map and information sheets are available at receiver pick-up points.

Stretching from Hackney Marshes, through Waltham Forest to Redbridge, the M11 Link Road was completed in 1999 after the demolition of 400 houses amid dramatic and passionate protest. Graeme Miller has filled the empty spaces these buildings once occupied with a treasure trail of sound celebrating everyday East End life. Continue reading

THE TRANSBORDER BRIDGE FESTIVAL is a 2 days festival which takes place in Ruse (Bulgaria) and Giurgiu (Romania), on the 18th and 19th of July. The festival is part of European Sound Delta, a pan European project focused on sound-art, field recording and live performances.

Just a few hundreds miles away from the Danube delta two major cities Giurgiu (Ghiurghiu)-RO and Ruse (Ruse) - BG are facing each other. They face each other stonily even though they are linked by one of the rare bridges on the eastern part of the Danube. The Festival has been designed as a dialogue between both cities since it will associate Rumanian and Bulgarian artists but also students taking part in a workshop entitled sonic landmarks of the territory in collaboration with EU Space 21 (Ruse-BG), Banlieues d’Europ’Est (Bucarest) and the Elias Canetti House (Ruse-BG). Continue reading

Halsey Burgund: ROUND :: until July 27, 2008 :: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT :: 203-438-4519

In a culture where technology enables source information to be collected and maintained by means of collaboration—such as public drives in the workplace and wikis on the Internet—The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Halsey Burgund: ROUND, an exhibition that introduces an innovative audio tour guide that operates on a similar premise. The exhibition will close on July 27, 2008. Continue reading