Psychodrama: 13 Variations by Melissa Grey - Featuring: Harold Jones / The Antara Ensemble and The Orchestra of Agincourt conducted by Edwin Gonzales :: April 25, 2008; 8:30 pm :: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY.

A performance including live chamber ensemble, electroacoustic soundscape and projected video, Psychodrama is a multiple re-scoring of the shower sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho. Continue reading

Dramazon is a new audio track by Novi_sad on TouchRadio. A droney journey in the jungle. Elegiac and mournful tones with subtlety and elegant roughness. Immersive birds in pain…

The whole piece is based on field recordings from: Mamori Lake, Amazonia, Brazil; Alphios Bridge, Ancient Olympia, Greece; Vibrations from the bridge which connects Denmark with Sweden; A bottling plant in operation and hydrophone recordings from Mamori Lake. Also used were sounds and notes from a church organ. Output signals have been manipulated and electronically treated. Continue reading

A chapter on Live Audiovisuals written by Nick Collins and Amy Alexander appears in the recently released book, The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, edited by Nick Collins and Julio d’Escrivan.

The chapter discusses histories of audiovisual performance, including its ancestry in color organs, visual music filmmaking, light shows, cognitive science, and more - as well as various approaches to current practice including VJ’ing, live cinema, and digital media art performance. This one is not available online, but the book is available from the usual sources. Continue reading

Acoustic Space Issue # 7: SPECTROPIA - On Spectral Ecology and Art :: CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for abstracts - April 21, 2007 :: We are seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic Space journal to be published for the next Art+Communication Festival. Entitled SPECTROPIA, this year festival edition will take place in Riga, October 16 - 19, 2008.

The print journal, Acoustic Space is a forum for net.radio, sound art and creative explorations in the networked electro-acoustic environments. Now in its 7th edition, Acoustic Space - SPECTROPIA issue investigates the rapid transformation of the usage of the radio frequency spectrum that we are witnessing in the 21st century. Continue reading

Northeastern University’s Senior Music Technology class presents an evening of electoacoustic and new music spanning five years of composition and experimentation. New works ranging from live electronics and string quartet to sound diffusion and film accompaniment will be premiered. Composers Include: Chris Barnhill, Eli Bouquillon, Max Chadwick, Coleman Goughary, Gareth Middlebrook, Benjamin Nelson, Ryan Sciaino.

April 9, 2008; 7 pm :: The Fenway Center, 77 St. Stephen Street, Boston :: Free :: Contact a.rishi [at] neu.edu for more information.

Harvestworks is pleased to present the Spring 2008 performance series Harvestworks Inside, with three exceptional programs featuring Harvestworks affiliated artists past and present. Showcasing the diversity of works produced in our production studios and through our Artist In Residence programs, Harvestworks Inside offers an outstanding sampling of the rich creative activity that has characterized Harvestworks’ Digital Media Arts programs since 1977. At ROULETTE :: 20 Greene Street (btwn Canal & Grand), New York City. Continue reading

The Leonor Hirsch Award — a unique international competition for electro-acoustic music and video is being organized by the Bunge and Born Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Please see the website for information about submitting work. The Leonor Hirsch Award and a concert will be presented in Buenos Aires in October, 2008.

The Leonor Hirsch Award is a competition open to living artists of all ages and nationalities which aims to promote the creation of avant-garde culture through music and image. The Award is administrated by the Bunge y Born Foundation. Continue reading

BLISS :: March 13, 2008, 8.30 pm, Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC), Belfast.

A distributed laptop performance between SARC’s own BLISS (Belfast Legion for Improvised Sights and Sounds) and Göteborg’s Academy of Music and Drama laptop ensemble, Sweden. This networked performance explores techniques and strategies for improvised electroacoustic music over the internet.

The Legion does not prescribe its sights or sounds; they are the product of digital and contra-digital networks of gates, tables, switches, speaker objects, cabling and data… The Legion is not a band – we don’t play weddings – but we like playing in the network! This event is a co-production between SARC and the Siren Festivalen för ny music. The performance will include works by Justin Yang and Alain Renaud. Related article.

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

Matthew Burtner & Friends - Multimedia electroacoustic chamber music, featuring: Haleh Abhari, voice; Morris Palter, percussion; Michael Straus, saxophone; Matthew Burtner, composer, metasax; Ted Coffey, composer, guitar :: March 9, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Monkeytown, 58 North 3rd Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYC (between Kent and Wythe).

PROGRAM: Prismic Generations (percussion, struck/bowed pitched instruments, computer, video) (2003); Mists (stone ensemble, noise) (1995); SXueAk (squeaky toys, saxophones, computer) (2007); Continue reading