Unidentified Sound Object (U.S.O.) is an experimental electroacoustic evolving organism. It builds on cinematic scale to create an abstract theatrical experience in which electronic floes replace the traditional performer.

Born from the fusion of works by two experimental electronic musicians — Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi — U.S.O.’s sound spans highly abstract digital music, to electroacoustic music. U.S.O. develops through the exploration of elementary particles arranged and organized in clouds of discrete and punctiform events, until they compose structures of extensive polymorphic and spatial complexity. 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

The STRP Festival :: the Klokebouw, Eindhoven :: November 22 - 25, 2007 :: with works by artists such as Kurt Hentschlager (AUT), Scanner & TeZ (UK) and D-Fuse (UK).

The STRP Festival is one of the largest art & technology festivals in Europe, presenting a four-day multidisciplinary programme with more than 120 artworks, performances, and artists. Thursday November 22 the festival kicks of with a Chemical Brothers opening concert. The extensive expo of robotics and interactive art challenges the visitors to undertake their own explorations. 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

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

Mark N. Grant has written the following post entitled, “OK, So What Is “New Music Theater?” In it he speaks of the upcoming book by Eric Salzman and Thomas Dezsy - Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body: The New Music Theater, which, given the authors, should be very interesting indeed. Click here for Grant’s blog:

Object Collection presents FAMOUS ACTORS, experimental music / theater :: June 17-19, and 21-23, 2007 :: Ontological Theater, St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street and 2nd Ave, NYC :: Tickets $12 with code word “cakes” :: 212.352.3101.

FAMOUS ACTORS is a performance / installation that applies the logic of experimental music to everyday human behavior. The actor is re-defined in a clinical context as someone who: 1) alters another’s state of consciousness through scientific means; 2) monitors something or someone closely; and 3) maintains calm in a complex situation. What results is an intricate arrangement of very familiar things. Featuring rhythmically notated gestures and conversations, field recordings and live vocal sampling / processing. Continue reading

There will be a performance of John Cage’s Song Books, a non-foreseeable music theatre, with Kara Feely, Jessica Feldman, Gisburg, Beth Griffith, Travis Just, Christian Kesten, Dafna Naphtali, Craig Shepard, Harris Wulfson on Tuesday May 1st 2007 at 8:30 pm. at Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd, 3rd Floor, New York. Admission: $10.

John Cage’s “Song Books”, which he wrote in 1970, consist of 90 solos. Cage uses a wide variety of vocal styles: Imitations of classical opera arias by Mozart, Satie-like chansons, folk singing, pop singing, Indian raga style, breath sounds, cheerleader shouting, Cage’s special technique of “falsetto and grunts”, or Cage’s own type of Aria or Arioso: a virtuoso performance will include a wide variety of styles of singing and vocal production.
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Another Motherboard project, ultra modern - very social is a streaming theatre concept for 2002 and beyond. This space is dedicated to the pursuit of experimental theatre which is somehow modulated and mediated by the intermediary influences of the net, but may also involve communcation appliances such as telephones, mobile phones, walkie-talkies, radio, etc. Our emphasis is on improvisation and experimentation where “here and now” and “there and then” are relative expressions in collaborative networked spaces.

Three Performances: 2001-03: A Comment

The three location-specific performances Dialtones: A Telesymphony, Flip Flop, and Texterritory –you had to be there to experience them–introduced in the last posts were produced between 2001 and 2003 They made use of networked technologies–mobile phones, video/audio relayed by wireless broadband–to involve their audiences in the creation of the performances. Each has done this successfully in its own way, while maintaining control, in the case of Dialtones, a tight control, over the performance itself.