From Peter Kirn at createdigitalmusic.com: “8-bit and robots and odd Max and Reaktor patches and custom visual software and visualizations of data packets and sound made from plants and mutant trumpets and gloves for DJing and laptop music – we’ve got quite a lineup here in New York this week.

Friday night, a live audiovisual lineup from the worlds of createdigitalmusic.com / createdigitalmotion.com invades the HOPE conference, aka Hackers on Planet Earth, the three day-long convergence of tech hacking. $10, open to all, 11-2a Friday July 18 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. It’s a live digital, technological variety show in a doomed NYC landmark hotel with an audience of famous and infamous hackers. (Think Kevin Mitnick and MythBusters’ Adam Savage and Steven Levy, all in one place.)

Facebook event page; also on Going.com”

More media and preview videos can be seen at Create Digital Music. 

The first-ever free SASSAS concert event, Tonalism, is a dusk-to-dawn collaboration with dublab featuring performances by Albert Ortega, Steve Roden, Unrecognizable Now and White Rainbow, video by Jessica Bronson, Cal Crawford, Carole Kim and Matt Sheridan and dublab soundsystem DJs … Frosty, Carlos Nino, Hoseh, Jimmy Tamborello, Sam Cooper, Katie Byron, Ale and Part Time Punks DJ Michael Stock. Tonalism takes place in the historic Looff Hippodrome carousel building on the Santa Monica Pier as a part of the GLOW festival sponsored by the City of Santa Monica.

Full Schedule

7:30 PM Jessica Bronson, video / Hoseh and Jimmy Tamborello, DJs

9:00 PM Unrecognizable Now

9:45 PM Matt Sheridan, video / Michael Stock and Sam Cooper, DJs

11:30 PM Albert Ortega

12:15 AM Cal Crawford, video / Carlos Nino and Frosty, DJs

2:00 AM White Rainbow

2:45 AM Carole Kim, video / Katie Byron and Ale, DJs

5:00 AM Steve Roden

sound. 2008 is co-curated by Cindy Bernard, Jeremy Drake, Danny Gromfin, Joe Potts and Tom Recchion

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area. Programs include sound. at the Schindler House; sound. at the REDCAT; sound. workshops; soundNet.org, an online concert archive; and soundNet recordings, CD compilations drawn from sound. concerts.

SASSAS is supported in part through grants from the the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the City of West Hollywood Arts Commission, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Arts. Additional support received from Amoeba Music.

Board of Directors: Cindy Bernard, Jeremy Drake, Tom Leeser, Gregory Lenczycki, Jorge Martin, Renee Petropoulos, Joe Potts, Gabie Strong, Tom Watson

Advisory Board: Ann Goldstein, Renee Green, Danny Gromfin, Mike Kelley, Carol Ann Klonarides, Tom Recchion, David Schafer, Carl Stone, Mark Wheaton, Christopher Williams

New Adventures in Sound Art invites artists of all ages and nationalities to submit works on the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound for consideration in 2009 future programming for the annual Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, and SOUNDplay festivals, produced by New Adventures in Sound Art in Toronto, Canada. Artists may submit works in one or all of the following four categories: 1) Radio Art, 2) Electroacoustic Music, 3) Videomusic and 4) Installation Art (Note: please send separate submission forms for each entry).

Individual interpretations or variations on the theme are encouraged: Ecology: Water, Air, Sound, but should be realized with sound as the primary component.

All submitted works must respond in some way to the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound in order to be considered for 2008 NAISA programming.

1) Radio Art (for Deep Wireless)

The Radio Art category is for works conceived for radio or that use radio and other wireless technology in their creation and that play with the medium. Works submitted to this category must be less than 60 minutes in duration. Special consideration will be given to 1 minute radio art pieces for broadcast as well as 1 page proposals for collaboration on translocal broadcast performances.

Pieces will be selected for broadcast within Canada and on several international radio stations in May 2008 as part of the Deep Wireless festival of radio and transmission art.

Both Canadian and International radio art submissions will be considered for inclusion in the following:

-The Deep Wireless 6 radio art compilation CD
-The Radio Art Interventions (1 minute pieces played guerilla-style on radio stations during the Deep Wireless festival)
-The Radio Art Salon - a listening gallery of radio art works exhibited for the month of May.

A small number of Canadian artists will be chosen from the submissions to be part of the Deep Wireless/CBC’s Outfront Commissioning Programme in 2009.

2) Electroacoustic Music (for Sound Travels)

The Electroacoustic Music category is for multi-channel and stereo works less than 20 minutes in duration and conceived for concert performance or presentation in the Sound Travels festival of sound art on Toronto Island. Preferred formats for performance presentation include 5.1, octaphonic and 12 channel formats in both acousmatic (tape), live and mixed formats. Please indicate in the notes the intended format of presentation and any required instrumentation or specialized equipment.

3) Videomusic (for SOUNDplay)

The Videomusic category is for works that explores non-narrative abstraction with equal emphasis on sound and image. Submitted works will be considered for video screenings with either stereo or multi- channel playback. Submitted works will be considered for screenings in either a performance venue or a small-size gallery alongside other works selected from this call for submissions.

4) Installation Art (for Deep Wireless, Sound Travels or SOUNDplay)

Installation proposals of previously realized works for site-specific and gallery installations with no fixed duration will be considered for presentation as part of Deep Wireless, Sound Travels or SOUNDplay. Site-specific works can be for indoor or outdoor locations. Works can use multichannel or single channel playback and may incorporate any number of media, but must feature original sound as a primary element. Please attach a list of the necessary equipment required to mount the installation and which of these items can be supplied by the artist. Submissions should include audio, video or audio-video documentation of previously realized versions of the work.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a completed application form (in digital format if possible) along with the proposed works on CD or DVD.

For multichannel works, please include a stereo reduction for reference purposes only. For video works, please include a DVD copy for reference only. Screening masters will be requested later if the work is to be programmed. For installation works, please attach a list of required equipment with indications of equipment that can be supplied by the artist.

Materials not submitted with a self-addressed stamped envelope will remain in the archives of New Adventures in Sound Art and will not be returned. Please don’t send original copies.

Submissions must be postmarked no later than September 30, 2008 and mailed to: New Adventures in Sound Art, 103 Beaconsfield Ave., main floor, Toronto, ON M6J 3J3.

Submission Entry Form (attach extra pages if needed)

1) Name of creator/s: ______________________________________

2) Address of creator/s: _____________________________________

City, Province, Postal Code: _________________________________

3) Phone number of creator/s: (____) __________________________

4) E-mail of creator/s: ___________________________________

5) Category of Submission (check one only per work): _____ Radio Art
______ Electroacoustic Sound art ______ Videomusic _____ Installation
Art.

6) Title of piece: _______________________________________________

7) Duration: _____ minutes ______ seconds

Names of other artists or contributors:
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9) Year of completion: ______

10) Relevance of the work to the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound:
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11) Equipment used to create the piece:

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12) Do you fully own the copyright to your piece: _____ yes ______ no

13) If not please give us any additional personnel or organizations
that we should contact in order to get permission to broadcast or
publish the work on CD:

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14) Programme note for the piece (50 words):

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15) Biography of the artist (50 words):

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16) Format that you are mailing: _____ CD ______ DVD

17) Should you be chosen as one of the artists to participate in the
Deep Wireless Commissioning Programme, you will be asked to create a
new piece for radio broadcast and performance. Are you available to
participate between the months of January and March 2009? _____ Yes
______ No

18) Although this is an international call for submissions, the Deep
Wireless/CBC’s Outfront Commissioning programme is restricted to
Canadians or Landed immigrants. Are you a Canadian or Landed
Immigrant?_____ Yes ______ No

19) New Adventures in Sound Art produces a bi-weekly community radio
show called Deep Wireless on CKLN-FM. Would you like your submitted
audio work(s) to be broadcast on this or other programs on CKLN-FM?
_____ Yes ______ No

Submissions must be postmarked no later than September 30, 2009 and
mailed to:

New Adventures in Sound Art, 103 Beaconsfield Ave, Toronto, ON M6J 3J3

Contact: Nadene Theriault-Copeland or Kate Miller at 416-516-7413, or naisa@naisa.ca or http://www.naisa.ca/Docs_and_PDF/NAISA_WATER_AIR_SOUND_2008.pdf

On June 19, 20 and 21, Edwin van der Heide presented his “LSP”, a performance where image and sound play equally important roles. Sound / video combinations often reduce the spatial perception of sound because of the two-dimensional nature of the image. The performance “LSP” used audio controlled lasers to create a three-dimensional environment that totally immerses the audience and allows for a constant change of perspective. Image and sound originate from the same real-time computer generated sine wave composition. “LSP” represents a system of direct equivalence of image and sound, where frequency ratios in sound, de-tuning and phase shifts have their direct visual counterparts.

In 1815 Nathaniel Bowditch described a way to produce visual patterns by using a sine wave for the horizontal movement of a point and another sine wave for the vertical movement of that point. The shape of the patterns depends on the frequency and phase relationship of the sine waves. The patterns are known as Lissajous figures, or Bowditch curves.

“LSP” interprets Bowditch’s work as a possible starting point to develop relationships between sound and image. Since sine waves can also be used to produce pure (audible) tones, it is possible to construct a direct relationship between sound and image. Frequency ratios in sound, de-tuning and phase shifts can have a direct visual counterpart.

Although theoretically all sounds can be seen as sums of multiple sine waves, music in general is often too complex to result in interesting visual patterns. The research of “LSP” focuses on the subject of composing signals that have both a structural musical quality and a time-based structural visual quality. Different relationships between sound and image are used throughout both the performance and the installation form.

Edwin van der Heide studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatory, where he graduated in 1992. He is working as autonomous artist in the field of sound, space and interaction. His current work is hard to define in the traditional terms of music, sound art or media art because he is often working on the edge and the characteristics of the used medium. Over the years the focus of his work has shifted to sound installations, interactive installations and environments. The performance aspect is still present in part of the work but the emphasis has shifted to the content of the environment and less focus on the performer.

There will be a fundraiser on Saturday night, 6 pm to midnight, at Castle Clinton in Battery Park ($10 donation). Everyone is invited!

FIGMENT is a celebration of creative culture from June 27-29, 2008 on Governors Island in New York Harbor. It provides an open forum for artists, helps build a creative community, and fosters participatory and public art. A broad spectrum of arts are represented, including sculpture, performance, music, installation, dance, costuming and activities. Figment is free and open to the public. Everyone can participate — with whatever inspires them! There will be almost every conceivable option. Come, engage, build, paint, sing, experience, think, wonder, listen, create, dance, wander: In short, the public can participate in a vast array of imaginative experiences that over 200 artists of FIGMENT have conceived — or bring their own games, costumes, activities, or small works of art.

FIGMENT has moved art from the pedestal onto the front lawn for everyone to enjoy, with over 200 artists to celebrate creative culture and non-commercial art with the public.

• Among the projects planned for this event are:

Starlight on the Island—A series of solar panel powered, spherical steel sculptures that will absorb sunlight to light the island at night.

• The Art of Skateboarding, an art installation and talk with homemade ramps constructed of recycled materials.

• “Circus Sideshow”, an interactive art installation and performance

• The Rose Petal Pool, children of all ages can interact with this rich sensory experience (multi-media sound installation)

• Maroguzcaju Theater Puppet Show, “Silencio, Silencio!,” about finding happiness in life’s details

• “Planetary Dance,” participatory rhythmic circular dance

And many many other events and performances, including a lecture schedule which includes discussions on Interactive and Participatory Art.

FIGMENT 2008 will also offer a range of offerings by video and film artists sharing both their personal and collective expressions—often influenced by Governors Island— including the documentation of the construction of an elaborate reclaimed wood sculpture and one NY native’s 1979 marriage in the island’s Trinity Church.

Other FIGMENT art installations will incorporate such innovative materials and resources as telescopes, a teepee, 2,000 silver colored flags, and a pair of five-foot tall wooden lips! The majority of sculptures and art pieces are touchable and climbable—resulting in much art that is interactive and child-friendly.

The work of both emerging and established choreographers will be featured as part of the many dance performances taking place throughout the 3-day event. Similarly, FIGMENT 2008 will have a range of performance art offerings, including such original and unusual unions as the merging of creative writing with art and improvisational drama exercises with therapeutic movement, sound, and role-play. In addition, visitors to the island can participate in the creation of pop-trash poetry done karaoke style, Ukrainian body painting, private readings at the “Poetry Brothel,” and the “intrepid” use of cameras to record various urban explorations.

The musical offerings of FIGMENT 2008 are extensive, as well as exceptional in their variety and innovation. They range from boogie and classic rock to futuristic Brooklyn hip-hop to the “healing” sounds of electric keyboards to traditional bawdy German songs about murder, madness and mayhem—to the accompaniment of an organ grinder! Many of the performances are also representative of the collaborative spirit of multiple disciplines working together: a sound installation incorporating restaurant kitchen recordings, live electric flute accompanied by modern dancers, a mix of acoustic and electronic dance music resulting from remixes of Rwandan mass and folktronica.

Finally, humor permeates many of the offerings, as probably best represented by the Celtic vocalist who will be singing her heartfelt songs about love, loss and indigestion.

For more information on the highly interactive and collaborative art exhibits, performances, music and dance events, and workshops encompassing all media, go to http://figmentnyc.org/2008/participate.html or contact Rosemary Siciliano :: rosemary [at] FIGMENTnyc.org :: 207.332.9008

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). A networked sound installation will be equipped with listening booths and microphones located on either riversides (LE POULPE installation by APO33) – it will be linked to another installation in MONS. The musical selection for the festival will be finalised by Rokolectiv, who organise the Festival of the same name at the Bucarest MNAC. Arena –Ruse’s radio– and MU studio-boat will broadcast the completed creative radio works and will transmit both events via FM waves and the Internet.

The night concerts will take place in the Roman fortress Sexaginta Prista, on the border of the Danube, and the entrance ticket costs a symbolic 1 euro per day. Apart from the live concerts, The Bridge also presents Le Placard headphone festival, audio installations at the Elias Canetti House in Ruse, as well as audio-walks in various venues in Giurgiu and Ruse.

The Bridge Festival is organised by Rokolectiv (Ro), MU (Paris) and Arena Media (BG)

Participants include: Prins Thomas (NO), Mira Calix (UK), Phill Niblock (US), Joachim Montessuis (FR), Katherine Liberovskaya (CA), Chica and The Folder (DE), Minus & Ion, Sillyconductor (RO), Tom Wilson (RO), Alien Pimp (RO), SKVJS (RO), Vali Chincisan (RO), SKVJS (RO), Henning Lundkvist (SWE), Pistamashina (BG), Cosmiq Microbiq (RO), Camil (RO), Julien Ottavi (FR), TÔ (FR), WPMG (FR)

More details on: www.sound-delta.eu and www.rokolectiv.ro

Join us at the elegant Hotel Orrington for two and a half days of listening, discussion and an open sharing of expertise about the art and craft of audio production. This year’s conference includes top-notch presenters offering a bounty of insight into radiomaking, like: - Noah Adams, on ‘the classics’ - Adam Davidson, on ‘how to make good radio when short on time and tape’ - Sara Parker, on the ground-breaking BBC documentaries from the 50’s, the Radio Ballads
- Ken Freedman, on WFMU’s newest web initiative, the Free Music Archive
- Jens Jarisch (Germany), on the “inner sound of the outer world”
- The Kitchen Sisters, on the creative work and people that have inspired them all along

Besides these and other esteemed presenters/sessions, plenty of other special happenings are in store for the Conference, like the Listening Parlor, Gallery of More!, radio therapy, dance parties and of course the annual TCF Awards Ceremony, where winners are on hand to accept their awards as hundreds of colleagues and friends cheer them on.

And (as many of you on this list already know) before all of this even starts AIR (Association for Independents in Radio) is sponsoring a one-day gathering to help producers understand the changing
landscape for audio production as technology bounds ahead: Opening the Gate to Social Media: A One-Day Immersion for Public Radio Producers. (Participation is limited to 30, and registration is
separate from TCF Conference registration.)

There’s only one ingredient missing at this point - and that’s YOU. Have a look at the presenters, sessions and other happenings planned, sign up at your leisure online, and then start banking sleep now! Hope we’ll see you in just three and a half short months. If you have any questions about the Conference or the registration process, just holler. Or send an email.

http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/index.asp

Observatori is an international festival of contemporary art, running since 2000, programming diverse artists and projects across different art forms. This year, the programme includes three components: the exhibition After the Net curated by KURATOR for La Agencia, performances About Blank, and media workshops run by students from MA Visual Arts and Multimedia programme at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Also appearing in the festival are Jacob Kirkegaard, Chop Shop (Scott Konzelman), Sudden Infant, G*Park, Michael Prime, Francisco López, Paul Bradley.

The program for the concerts:

EXHIBITION AFTER THE NET: Del 5 al 29 de junio, Centre del Carme

CONCERTS ABOUT:BLANK:
SATURDAY 14
17h. MICHAEL PRIME / RU / PERFORMANCE SONORA - Centre del Carme 19h. PAUL BRADLEY - MAILE COLBERT: TRANSIT / RU-EEUU / PERFORMANCE AUDIOVISUAL - Centre del Carme

SUNDAY 15
17h. SUDDEN INFANT / SUI / ACCIÓN SONORA - Centre del Carme 19h. G* PARK / EEUU-SUI / PERFORMANCE SONORA - Centre del Carme
23 a 03h. PALI MERSAULT: L’OUBLI DU MONDE / FR / PERFORMANCE-INSTALACIÓN SONORA - CCC. Octubre.

SATURDAY 21
17h. JACOB KIRKEGAARD: LABYRINTHITIS / DIN / PERFORMANCE SONORA - Centre del Carme 19h. FRANCISCO LÓPEZ / ESP / PERFORMANCE SONORA - Centre del Carme

SUNDAY 22
17h. NOVI_SAD / GRECIA / PERFORMANCE SONORA - Centre del Carme 19h. CHOP SHOP / USA / PERFORMANCE SONORA - Centre del Carme

Sawako Kato will premiere new compositions for 15 hemispherical speakers in the Floating Point Festival at the Issue Project Room. Sawako weaves the intimate sound scape with fragments from her recent trips + sine tone + subtle voice.

Tristan Perch will show his new work with 5 voices and 15-channel 1-bit electronics + a short piece for 3 violins.

Every summer since 2003, City Sonics has been presenting in Mons (Belgium) a large number of site specific installations, radio and audio-visual pieces and performances. Sound forges a link between urban spaces, cultural and historical locations. City Sonics is now recognized as a major European event for sound art and has developed a transborder platform of co-production and partnership between Mons, Maubeuge, Lille and Luxembourg. City Sonics also presents sound artists and productions throughout the year in various international events and festivals.

This international festival dedicated to audio art in all its forms gather belgium and international artists from different disciplines (actual musics, visual arts, literature, digital arts, radio creations, design,…) in those symbolic locations.

Opening 21.06.08, live : OttannA, Yvat, Chritian Vialard (Tiramisu) in collaboration with the Ventilo label Festival.

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