Sonic Fragments: Narrative and Mediation in Sound Art - A two-day festival and symposium :: March 28-29, 2008 :: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ :: Free and open to the public.

Please join us as we host an international group of scholars and practitioners who are gathering to explore the roles of narrative and mediation in art practices that engage sound as a material. The symposium will consist of three panel discussions as well as an exhibition of audio-works for portable music players made expressly for the geography, architecture, and social spaces of the Princeton University campus. Continue reading

I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On by Haeyoung Kim (a.k.a Bubblyfish) [Needs Flash Player and Speakers On] - I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On is an interactive art piece inspired by Samuel Beckett’s short novel, “Molloy.” The work is presented in two parts: a blog for you to contribute your thoughts about Beckett’s writing; and the multimedia generated by your entries.

“In 2007 I began to learn to ride a bicycle. This for me was a choice not so much determined by reasons of pleasure but as a way of manifesting my need to literally move on with my life. Around the same time, I began to read Beckett’s famous Three Novels, and was moved in particular by “Molloy.” Bicycles are a very important metaphor in this book.” Haeyoung Kim Continue reading

Pekarnananana :: March 20, 2008 - Ljubljana :: March 21-22, 2008 - Maribor :: With Brian Mackern, Strotter Inst., Incite, Fouad Bouchoucha & Yann Gerstberger, Fouad Bouchoucha, Freeze Da Booty Hunter, Jankenpopp, T’m, Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Program here.

Pekarnananana is the very first edition of a radical multimedia experience. A brand new event which gathers performers and artists from all over the world on a special time giving focus to contemporary performance practices. Initiated by the collective La Vitrine, Pekarnananana aims to hear from a broad range of nowadays artists, working within the realms of new music, sound and visual media. A fair cultural program featuring enlarged practices propitious for discoveries that sets the appointment with authentic and updated art forms. The event hands to you a ticket towards unexpected and rich performer’s stages.

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

Gridjam is a real-time, geographically distributed, networked multimedia event. It is an experimental project that brings together a visual artist, composer, musicians and computer scientists, while using the new high speed international LambdaRail network. Gridjam will demonstrate real-time, low latency, interactive, distance computing through the complexity of the live, partly improvised, 3D visualized, musical performance, being both a world-class work of art and a research project into high performance collaborative network computing. Continue reading

We are very pleased to announce the startup of the Ear to the Earth Network, an international network of musicians, composers, sound artists, visual artists, scientists, environmental activists, and members of the public who are concerned about the environment. The focal point of the Network is its website.

The activities of the Network include an annual festival of environmental sound, images, and multimedia in New York City. The Network also produces forums and other events, fosters research and documentation, and enables an exchange of information, sounds, materials, and ideas within a growing community worldwide. And by providing access to the sounds of the world, the Network provides a vehicle for paying ongoing attention to the state of the world. Continue reading

[Image: Still from Mary Lucier’s Summer, or Grief] On November 15, 2007, the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College will celebrate its 40+ year with works by Robert Ashley, Maggi Payne, John Bischoff, James Fei, David Behrman, Chris Brown and Pauline Oliveros. The event will take place at Roulette, New York City at 8:00 pm.

Since its inception (1966), the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) has played a leading role in the development of electronic music practices in the US. It was the first publicly accessible electronic music studio on the West coast, and in the early 70s the first site where computers were used in musical performances, predating the laptop music era by over three decades. Continue reading

Exploding Piano’s Air Rights! Making Music Out of Thin Air :: November 5, and November 11 and 12. All performances at 7pm :: Tickets $15. November 5 Gala Tickets $50 :: The Flea Theater, 41 White Street, Tribeca, NYC :: Info call: 212.226.0051.

Air Rights! Making Music Out of Thin Air is a theatrical, multimedia performance series premiering four new works for maverick pianist Kathleen Supové. By operating over, under, around and through the piano, each new piece discovers the instrument’s “air rights” by using electronics, vocal rants, lights, videos, Disklavier, staging, and even ping-pong balls. The works Supové will be performing are: Continue reading

An Evening of Multimedia Performance Art Featuring: Nerve Theory a.k.a. Bernhard Loibner and Tom Sherman :: With an opening video-set of Untitled Landscapes provided by Ecoarttech :: November 2, 2007; 9 pm :: The Palace Theater, Hamilton, NY :: Free admission & open to the public.

Nerve Theory will perform H5N1, a live multimedia performance blending video, music, voice and some very nasty dark humor. This transcontinental duo (Austria, Canada, USA) jumps on the mutating, evolving H5N1 virus, using the very real threat of a global pandemic as a launching pad for a series of bone-chilling statements about the world we live in. Continue reading

Tha Click :: E:vent Gallery presents a group exhibition of work by Jessica Cicconi, Jacob Cicconi, Ben Jones [Paper Rad] and Paul B. Davis, Cory Arcangel, Joe Beuckman [Beige Programming Ensemble] :: October 6 - November 11, 2007 :: Curated by Heather Corcoran :: 96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU.

Seizing upon the technological detritus spawned by advancements in computing over the last three decades, Beige’s inclination is to tinker with the inner workings of ubiquitous platforms past and present. Paper Rad are similarly drawn to the gaudiest fixtures of pop culture, transmogrifying and amplifying them into a kaleidoscopic parallel universe all their own. Continue reading