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

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.

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) :: Stevens Institute of Technology, Babbio Center (River & 6th Streets) in Hoboken, NJ :: April 5, 2008 :: all events are free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the Art & Technology Program at Stevens Institute of Technology, founded in 1966 by engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, to provide artists with access to new technology and to promote collaborations between artists and engineers. Continue reading

La Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine is an open-ended group including musicians and filmmakers researching the relationship between image and sound. Through the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and highly ingenious live on stage editing, Metamkine produces and directs a new film with each of their performances. Working around a core narrative, they spill eddies of impromptu vignettes, accompanied by a live soundtrack of tape fragments and ancient synthesiser sounds. Jérôme Noetinger (electroacoustics), Christophe Auger (projectors 16mm), and Xavier Quérel (projectors 16mm) — who have worked together for ten years — have succeeded in pushing the boundaries of film and soundtrack into the realm of live performance. Continue reading

Distributed Memory :: February 24, 2008; 7:30 - 10:30 pm :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. (Corner of Third), San Francisco, CA.

Distributed Memory, originally presented at the Getty Center, features commissioned pieces supported in part by Montalvo Arts Center, pairs filmmakers and composers in the creation of collaborative real-time cinematic works from the recomposition of found and new materials. This evening is the second in a two-part series curated by Julie Lazar. In Rotary Wobble and Horizontal Boundaries, Pat O’Neill’s formalized contemplations of urban and natural environments are merged with electronic musician Carl Stone’s live digital scores. Janie Geiser and Tom Recchion’s fusion of live performance, re-photography and collage animation, Magnetic Sleep, reinterprets the formal melodramatic traditions of Man Ray and Maya Deren. (Steve Polta)

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

Born in 1944, John Lifton studied architecture at University College London. He was one of the first people to become interested in the impact of information technologies on architecture. In 1968, the year he graduated, Lifton was involved in the creation of the international Computer Arts Society, and he exhibited in the landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London. The following year he was a founder of the London New Arts Lab and the Institute for Research in Art and Technology, a base for experimental performance and mixed media work, where he set up the first free computer facility specifically for artists. 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

A forerunner of Radar, acoustic mirrors or ‘listening ears’ were built on the south and northeast coasts of England (1916 - 1930s) to detect approaching enemy aircraft at a distance of 8 to 15 miles. With the development of faster aircraft the sound mirrors became less useful, as an aircraft would be within sight by the time it had been located; radar finally rendered the mirrors obsolete. [via]

Lise Autogena’s Sound Mirrors was inspired by the derelict acousic mirrors at Denge, England. It aims to create two new sound mirrors on the coasts of England and France to enable people on either side of the English Channel to speak to each other. Continue reading

Ear Cinema installation and performance - directed by Wajid Yaseen with Alice Kemp on story, Paul Barritt on animations, Dave Hunt on ambisonics, Dagmara Bilon and Alicia Tatge on live performance and narrated by Dave Cloud.

Institute of Contemporary Arts - ICA - London :: October 31 - November 3, 2007 (every day) :: Daily 6:30 pm and 8 pm - also late night performance at 10:30 pm.

Ear Cinema is a multi-faceted installation using rarely heard ambisonic techniques and combining animation, film, sound and live performance within a four-screen cube. Continue reading