Gil Alterovitz, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School is developing a computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music. In his acoustic translation, harmony represents good health, and discord indicates disease.

Searching for a more simplified way to represent the complex library of information inherent in gene expression, Alterovitz decided to represent those changes with music. He hopes that doctors will one day be able to use his music to detect health-related changes in gene expression early via a musical slip into discord, potentially improving a patient’s outcome. From Technology Review Continue reading

FILE Sao Paulo 2008 :: Fiesp Cultural Center :: August 5 - 31, 2008 :: Opening: August 4.

The program occupies the Fiesp Cultural Center’s Art Gallery, Theater and Mezzanine, which host the exhibition, performances and lectures. FILE, the major art and technology festival in Brazil and Latin America, as well as one of the most renowned events in the world in this area, for nine years has inserted the country in the global context of art and technology, or media art, performing a compilation of the artistic productions in the fields of electronic and digital arts, and working as an indicator of those productions’ plurality. Continue reading

Baltimore’s High Zero Festival :: Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD :: September 17 – 21, 2008.

One of the longest running and most successful festivals of experimental improvised music in the country and what City Paper called “one of Baltimore’s great cultural treasures” and Baltimore Magazine called “Best Music Festival”— the High Zero Festival is entering its tenth year. This critically acclaimed festival pulls out all the stops presenting six days of inspired live music featuring special programming legendary performers such as 1st generation Fluxus artist Olga Adorno from France, minimalist icon Tony Conrad from Buffalo, Baltimore conceptualist Jennifer Graf Sheppard, and visionary Philadelphia film-maker Peter Rose, as well as the freshest homegrown & international improvisers—all in the town Rolling Stone calls “The Best Music Scene” in the country. And it is. Continue reading

Experimental Music Concert:: k:ITA, Weidenweg 44/46, BersarinPlatz, Friedrichshain :: July 26, 2008; 9:00 pm :: with Juan Parra Cancino, Daisuke Ishida, and Yutaka Makino.

Juan Parra Cancino (b. 1979): Composer, Improviser, Live Electronics Performer and Guitar player. Studied Composition in the Catholic University of Chile and Sonology at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (NL). His Compositions, that include pure electronic and electro acoustic mixed media with solo instruments and ensembles have been performed in Europe, North and South America in festivals and have been selected and awarded at the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition of 2003 and 2004. Continue reading

Non-Event and Axiom present KYLE BOBBY DUNN, ALLISON MARIA RODRIGUEZ, THE PRESENT TENSE :: July 24, 2008; 8:00 pm :: AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media, 141 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA.

KYLE BOBBY DUNN is a young, New York-based minimalist composer and sound artist who draws his material from outdoor locations, generating sounds from site-specific environments and processing them using analog setups and a laptop. His latest full-length release, Fragments & Compositions is out now on Non-Event founder emeritus Rob Forman’s Sedimental label. Continue reading

The shape of music (via KurzweilAI.net): Three music professors have developed a method called “geometrical music theory” that translates the language of musical theory into that of contemporary geometry. (Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University)

They categorize sequences of notes, like chords, rhythms and scales into “families” that can be represented by points in complex geometrical spaces.

Thanks to Positive Technology Journal.

Cory Arcangel’s Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum :: August 5, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Light Industry, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, New York :: Tickets - $6, available at door.

Artist Cory Arcangel appears at Light Industry to perform the first complete and authoritative version of his now-notorious Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum. This appearance marks the first time “and perhaps last” that Arcangel will provide live accompaniment on glockenspiel to Springsteen’s canonical album in its entirety, alongside the premiere of a new video featuring Springsteen and the E Street Band.

“In 2006, on a whim, I decided to go uptown to Sam Ash music store, buy a Glockenspiel and record glockenspiel parts for the songs on Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run record that did not already feature that instrument. Most everything I have ever made has been ignited from a similar semi-destructive whim. Continue reading

TONALISM: sound. at GLOW :: July 19, 2008; 7:30 - dawn :: Looff Hippodrome Carousel, 200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA.

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 … Continue reading

Discuss issues in Music/Arts - Performance :: July 9, 2008 :: 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: The Drake Hotel :: 1150 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON :: Phone: 4165315042 :: mia [at] thedrakehotel.ca.

Join arts writer Andrea Carson in cultured conversation on the nature of art criticism and the critic’s role in contemporary culture with artists Michael Toke and Jessica Thompson.

DrakeSalon is an open forum where members of the art community and the culturally curious come together to discuss contemporary art issues.

Art critic Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design and is best know for her influential website VoCA .

Michael Toke is represented by Edward Day Gallery and Jessica Thompson is represented by p|m Gallery .

Otomo Yoshihide :: July 5, 2008 - August 4, 2008 :: YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media), 7-7 Nakazono-cho, Yamaguchi, Japan.

Otomo Yoshihide is an artist who is always pursuing sound on an experimental basis in varied areas of music, such as free jazz, improvisation, noise music, contemporary music, electronic music, and film music. Performing the mediamix of space and image in the comprehensive world of sound in a multifaceted way, Otomo presents four new installations as YCAM-commissioned work. Continue reading