April ReSiDeNt Show: New Works, New Instruments, New Artists :: Featuring new works by Dafna Naphtali, Andrew Schneider and Simon Morris :: at LEMURplex, 461 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, between 9th & 10th Streets :: Friday, May 2nd :: 8 pm - 11 pm :: $5 at the door

Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist and improviser-composer from an eclectic musical background. As singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using custom sound processing of voice and other instruments. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (http://www.whatbat.org) and has collaborated/performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried, Continue reading

Share Festival & 02l > Outside Standing Level @ Transmediale Festival Berlin 2008 presents: The Special Player, augmented environment in algorithmic contextualized music and The Shaidon Effect DJ Set Event Session at C-Base Berlin, Rungestrasse 20 - 2. HH - 10179 Berlin.

The Special Player is an interactive performance in the context of transmediale 08 - conspire. Involving a sophisticated responsive motion tracking environment, four contemporary dancers and its visitors, The Special Player explores a massively disquieting conspirative narration. Continue reading

Experiments in the Studio: George Lewis Artificial Life 2007 (NYC premiere), Fast Forward 44 instructions (world premiere), Zeena Parkins Opus Araneum (world premiere), John King Triple Unity (world premiere) :: January 7, 2008; 8:30 pm :: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Studio, 55 Bethune Street :: FREE :: No reservations required.

Experiments in the Studio celebrates Merce Cunningham’s commitment to commissioning more new music by American composers than any other single choreographer, and the historic relationship between Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Founding Music Director of MCDC.

Dancing in Second Life - Mixed Reality Performance in Second Life & Real Life - part of The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) Second Annual Conference: Building Bridges :: December 14, 2007; 2-3 pm EST / 20:00-21:00 GMT+1 :: Locations: online in Second Life: Funk Soup Theater, Gembong West, 31/75/551 and at Northwestern University School of Music, Lutkin Hall. Attendance is limited. RSVP with your Second Life name. First time in Second Life? Check out our SL help page.

In this session, Second Life avatars will dance with improvised music from Real Life at ISIM. Real Life performers are Pauline Oliveros - electronics, harmonica & small instruments with spoken word artist Ione & dancer Heloise Gold. Continue reading

Performance Time 08 Istanbul :: March 24-30, 2008 :: Call for Submissions :: Deadline: January 15, 2008.

Galata Perform, an artist-run interdisciplinary performance venue in Istanbul, is organizing an event exploring new fields and approaches in performance. The aim is to bring together local and foreign artists from a number of disciplines, such as, performance art, experimental theatre, dance, music; all, which can be associated with the art of performance. Continue reading

Flock, by Jason Freeman :: December 6-8, 2007 :: Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, Miami - during the Art | Basel | Miami Beach festival. Advance tickets are now on sale.

Flock is a full evening performance work for saxophone quartet, conceived to directly engage audiences in the composition of music by physically bringing them out of their seats and enfolding them into the creative process. During the performance, the four musicians and up to one hundred audience members move freely around the performance space. Continue reading

Bodily Movement and the Music Theory Paradigm: The University of Oslo Department of Musicology is developing the Musical Gestures Toolbox, a collection of applications with useful features for video and audio analysis. The toolbox is built with Max / MSP / Jitter from Cycling ‘74, and will be available as standalone applications for Mac OS X and Windows, as well as the original patches.

It features: (1) Video capturing from USB/FW-cameras (2) Playback of video files (any QuickTime-readable format) (3) Adjustable resolution and playback rate (4) Brightness, contrast, saturation controls (5) Zoom, offset and displacement controls (6) Cropping functions (drag and crop) (7) Automatic cropping based on contraction (8) Computer vision analysis (9) Save snapshots and image sequences (10) Save video from the analysis (11) Contraction and centre of gravity (12) Audio analysis: spectrogram, sonogram, spectral centroid, noisiness, loudness… Continue reading

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THIS SINGLE NIGHT OF SUMMER :: June 26, 8 p.m. :: $10 :: Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th St. btw 5th & Madison.

Dancer, illustrator, and Finnish multimedia impersario Pauliina Silvennoinen is host to a multimedia performance, with the work of Peter Kirn, Elise Knudson, Rebekah Morin, Sari Nordman, Malina Rauschenfels and Corky Has a Band. She describes it this way: “Floating through the changes of time, from ancient Finnish folklore through the 70’s and into the future. Dance, music, and video are the tour guides for this single night of summer, a voyage through the memories of erotic walruses and blind ogres.” Continue reading

Sotavento–by The Tilt–is an artistic sound abstraction of the passionate and endless relationship between millions of trees and one single, inexorable wind, a wind that we all share. We establish an Internet-based, real-time movement communication between moving trees located in different countries. The trees’ “dance” is tracked down by two dual-axis accelerometers, each fixed to the tip of a branch. We use the complex branch movements to generate or to trigger sounds. In this installation a tree is a self-replicant sound maker of its own dance. The audience can perceive the relation between the “dance” of the tree and the music it produces. Even is there is no wind, the tree in Mexico can “ask” (via Internet) for movements to a tree in Italy and generate its sounds with this information. The sounds are to be listened thanks to a set of four speakers installed around the tree. [PDF] Continue reading