Backyard Radio Berlin: Imagine Radio 2.0 :: November 1-4, 2007 :: livestream & podcasts; microradio transmissions: 107.7FM

Micro.fm snatches the radio from tv towers and broadcasting agencies and instead of showering down on the city, the radio waves beam out of the districts and neighborhoods. Micro.fm uses small fm transmitters and wireless access points to broadcast in an area like a house or a neighborhood, it allows everybody with broadband access to run a tiny radio transmitter covering the own block. Everyone who passionately cares about his or her neighborhood adopts the medium and populates the ether. Backyard Radio reintroduces radio into the context of social media and peer to peer networks. A digitized version of the micro radio of the early 80’s, it is a great pleasure to have Tetsuo Kogawa present with the Radia.Fm Network. A long weekend of lectures, workshops, concerts and broadcasts take radio art apart and put it back together again. Continue reading

Paul DeMarinis :: Digital Media Lecture Series :: November 6, 2007; 7:00 pm :: RISD Auditorium, North Main St. (at College), Providence, RI.

Paul DeMarinis has been working as an electronic media artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. One of the first artists to use computers in performance, he has performed internationally, at The Kitchen, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Het Apollohuis in Holland and at Ars Electronica in Linz and created muexhibited at the I.C.C. in Tokyo, Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. He has received major awards and fellowships in both Visual Arts and Music from The National Endowment for the Arts, N.Y.F.A., N.Y.S.C.A., the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and was awarded the Golden Nica for Interactive Art at Ars Electronica in 2006. Continue reading

Luke DuBois :: Lecture :: October 5, 2007; 4:00 pm :: Brown University, Orwig Music Building, Room 315, 1 Young Orchard Ave., Providence, RI.

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, performer, video artist, and programmer living in New York City. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia’s Computer Music Center and at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with numerous artists and organizations. His music (with or without his band, the Freight Elevator Quartet), is available on Caipirinha / Sire, Cycling’74, and Cantaloupe music, and his artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.

John Cage’s Musicircus - You won’t hear a thing; You’ll hear everything :: 11AM - 4PM, October 7, 2007 :: Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago, IL :: FREE!!!

CHICAGO COMPOSERS FORUM presents “art as life” with hundreds of Chicago musicians, artists, and performers in a single four-hour collaborative performance. The underlying idea of Musicircus reflects Cage’s social philosophy of autonomy and responsibility in which each performer or “act” individually contributes to a greater whole. John Cage first brought the idea of the Musicircus to fruition in 1967 at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where its first performance included jazz bands, pianists, dancers, mimes, vocalists, films, slides, black lights, balloons, cider and popcorn. Musicircus merges diverse art forms into a single, largescale event that celebrates all of these forms at once.
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Backstage: Mark Bain (USA, 1966, lives and works in Amsterdam. Read an interview) :: October 2, 2007 :: Doors open: 8 pm; starts: 8:30 pm :: Entrance: 3,50 (2,50 for students) :: Reservations: 020 6237101 or info[at]montevideo.nl :: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV, Amsterdam, Nederland.

During the BACKSTAGE evening Mark Bain explains more about the artistic backgrounds of his work. Bain’s work makes material structures, such as buildings, immaterial, and converts them into movement, sound and vibration. By enhancing the seismographic vibrations of the ground or architecture acoustically or by means of vibrators, he ultimately liberates the perception of space from its dominant form, namely observation. Mark Bain has three works in Off Screen: Transparent Structures (2007), A Simulation of a Reconstruction by Remote Means (2003) and Buzzphones (2007). Continue reading

Upgrade! Paris #11 (version française plus bas): Jérôme Joy and Peter Sinclair present Locus Sonus :: Moderator: Dominique Moulon :: September 22, 6 PM :: Festival Seconde Nature, Fondation Vasarely - 1, Avenue Marcel Pagnol - Aix-en-Provence.

Locus Sonus is a research group specializing in audio art (École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nice Villa Arson, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille) in association with the research lab in sociology CNRS/MMSH/LAMES - University of Provence. Our objective is to experiment and evaluate the innovative and transdisciplinary nature of audio art forms in combining practical artistic experimentation and critical evaluation in a group context. Two main thematics define this research - audio in it’s relation to space and networked audio systems. Continue reading

PED (2001-2006) by Millie Chen, Andrew Johnson, Paul Vanouse, - PED is simultaneously a pseudo service bureau and an info/excer-tainment outlet from which viewer/participants may embark on free, talking-bicycle lecture tours. Each site-specific instance of PED provides many different thematic tours, each with a specific route to follow. Each bicycle is outfitted with a pedal-activated audio system. As the viewers pedal they hear the lecture, and when they stop the lecture ceases. Each ‘lecture’ is heard via small speakers mounted to the handlebars of each bicycle. Each tour begins and returns to the PED service bureau. Each route is marked with either temporary chalk-based paint or, alternatively, signage. Continue reading

A special presentation of Stefan Smulovitz and Viviane Houle from Canada, and a lecture on a lecture on the live performance tool, Kenaxis :: August 7, 6:30pm :: Admission: FREE at HARVESTWORKS, 596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St), New York :: Tel: 212-431-1130 (Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleeker, W/R Prince).

Join Vancouver, BC based duo Stefan Smulovitz (laptop) and Viviane Houle (vocals) for a short performance followed by a lecture on Kenaxis. The performance will demonstrate the versatility and power of Kenaxis Software as a live performance tool. Stefan and Viviane have played extensively as a duet including performances at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the Sound Soundwave>Series, San Francisco, and the International PuSH International Performing Arts Festival. Continue reading

Trimpin will deliver a keynote and give a workshop at The 7th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), organized by Harvestworks and New York University’s (NYU) Music Technology Program in partnership with LEMUR and the NYU Interactive Telecommunications, June 6-10, 2007.

Trimpin, a sound sculptor, composer, inventor, is one of the most stimulating one-man forces in music today. A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional acoustic instruments, he has developed a myriad of methods for playing, trombones, cymbals, pianos, and so forth with Macintosh computers. Continue reading

April 18, 4pm @ Grant Recital Hall, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island :: Joel Ryan: Spawned in the first generation of computer music hackers in San Francisco’s silicon valley, Joel Ryan is a composer who has long championed the idea of performance-based electronic music. Drawing on his scientific background,he pioneered the application of digital signal processing to acoustic instruments. At STEIM in Amsterdam since 1984, he has collaborated extensively with artists and musicians including Evan Parker, William Forsyth, George Lewis, Steina Vasulka and Jerry Hunt. Formerly a Research Associate in physics at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories of the University of California,he has taught philosophy, physics, and mathematics. He is a researcher at STEIM in Amsterdam, tours with the Frankfurt Ballet and is Docent in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He has performed at the Theater Chatelet in Paris, the Concertgebau Amsterdam, the Pit Inn in Tokyo, Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Kitchen in New York. Continue reading