GASP Gallery Presents: STEVE LEHMAN :: March 14, 2008; 8:00 pm :: GASP Gallery, 362-4 Boylston St., Brookline, MA.

“Probing the furthest frontiers of rhythm science, alto saxophonist Steve Lehman represents some of the most advanced compositional thinking in jazz today. A child of the avant-garde, he’s a former student and bandmate of Anthony Braxton and a member of Fieldwork, the collaborative trio with piano visionary Vijay Iyer. Lehman’s 2005 outing Demian as Posthuman, featuring Meshell Ndegeocello, is a study in splintered soundscapes and mind-altering beats.” - Philadelphia Weekly Continue reading

From the website: “The Telematic Circle is an interest group that uses and develops applications for telepresent music performances. The group supports the creation of new art that specifically addresses broadband transmission systems as a new medium.

The interest of the Telematic Circle goes beyond the requirements of mono-located music performances, for example musical solutions that address the unavoidable latency between two co-located sites. Continue reading

WHITNEY LIVE - Composer’s Showcase: Nick Didkovsky :: February 15, 2008; 7 pm :: The Whitney Museum of American Art, Lower Gallery (at 75th St and Madison Ave) NYC :: Free admission ::

The performance will open with “Tube Mouth Bow String” for string quartet, talkboxes, and live electronics, performed by the invincible *Sirius String Quartet.* Followed by a set of music by avant-rock power trio *BONE* (Nick Didkovsky gtr / Hugh Hopper bass / John Roulat drums) Finishing with a set by the uncanny and incorruptible *Doctor Nerve* with special guest Ben Herrington of Meridian Arts Ensemble on trombone (!) Continue reading

Golan Levin is an artist/engineer interested in the exploration of new modes of reactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into formal languages of interactivity, and of nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity. Presently he is Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Continue reading

Ryoji Ikeda’s new installations datamatics will be on exhibit March 1 - May 25, 2008 :: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A & B (7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi City, JAPAN) :: Opening Event: audiovisual concert “datamatics[ver2.0]” :: March 1, 2008, 19:30 (doors open at 19:00) :: Venue: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) Studio A :: Tickets.

Japan’s leading electronic composer/artist, Ryoji Ikeda, focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself. Continue reading

Sonic Acts XII – The Cinematic Experience :: 21–24 February 2008 Amsterdam Paradiso, De Balie, Netherlands Media Arts Institute (NMAI)

Sonic Acts XII will be held between 21 and 24 February 2008 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The twelfth edition is devoted to The Cinematic Experience and incorporates an international conference, a wide range of concerts and performances, an exhibition and a diverse programme of films.

The programme will focus on the rich history of the cinematic experience, from magic lanterns, colour organs and zootropes to experience machines and immersive environments. Sonic Acts will also peer into the future. Will cinema distance itself from narrative in the near future? What is the prospect for celluloid? And what role will sensory deprivation play in future cinema? Continue reading

Ha’Pzura - Sound art and experimental music event :: Sound Interventions: December 16-18, 2007 | Concert Series: December 13-15 & 18-22, 2007 | Exhibition closes March 1, 2008 :: The Israeli Center for Digital Art, 16 Yirmiyahu Street, Holon, 58835, Israel.

Ha’Pzura is an International event presented by the Israeli Center for Digital Art focused on the production and presentation of experimental music and sound projects. It includes an exhibition, concert series, sound intervention series and radio station being launched for sound art, experimental music, and art enthusiasts. Continue reading

Non-Event and Semata Productions present a FREE concert of experimental music featuring BRANDON LABELLE with JARROD FOWLER :: December 17, 2007; 8:00 pm :: Piano Craft Guild (rear entrance), 791 Tremont Street, Boston (South End) :: FREE!!!

BRANDON LABELLE is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, bodies, and cultural narratives. He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). Continue reading

Special NYC OptoSonic Tea event :: December 9,2007; 4pm :: Issue Project Room, The (OA) Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY :: $15. A benefit for Issue Project Room, featuring:

Zarah Cabañas (live visuals) + Paul Amitai (live sound); Chika IIjima (live visuals) + bubblyfish (live sound); Marie-Helene Parant (live visuals) + Jim Bell (live sound) (Montreal,Canada); David Linton (live visuals + sound); Katherine Liberovskaya / Peter Shapiro; (live visuals) + Hitoshi Kojo (live sound) (Japan/CH); Ursula Scherrer (live visuals) + Kato Hideki (live sound) Continue reading

Studio Soto’s Director, Jed Speare, will present a concert celebrating the release of his double-CD album, Sound Works, 1982-1987 :: December 7, 2007; 8 pm :: Mobius, 725 Harrison Avenue, Boston.

Joining Jed will be many of Boston’s outstanding electroacoustic composers, musicians, and performers, many of whom performed at Studio Soto over the past several months, through the extraordinary Sound@Soto series curated by James Coleman and the unforgettable concerts presented by the curators and organizers of Non Event. They are: Continue reading