{R}AKE- A performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video :: May 14, 2008; 8 - 10:30 pm :: Monkey Town, 58 North 3rd Street (bet. Kent & Wythe), Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

This Month’s Performers: Set 1 - Dan Iglesia - Video Set 1 - Radio Wonderland (Joshua Fried) - Music :: Set 2 - Chika - Video Set 2 - Lilt Marathon - Music :: Set 3 - Richard Garet - Video :: Set 3 - WvS - Music Continue reading

Vis-à-vis” :: Butch Rovan:: a monodrama for voice, interactive computer music and interactive video :: featuring Katherine Bergeron, voice :: Free admission :: May 14, 2008 at 8P.M. :: Reception to follow :: New College Theatre :: Harvard University :: 12 Holyoke Street :: Cambridge, MA :: Featuring the HYDRA 36-channel sound diffusion system.

Visà-vis: What is the cause, and the cost, of insight? What does it mean to see the world face to face? These were questions raised by the young Rilke in a well-known passage from his Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, a Parisian diary he kept in 1904 while serving as personal secretary to Rodin. They are also questions lying at the heart of Vis-à-vis, a multimedia work for voice, live electronics and real-time video, which takes Rilke’s words as a dramatic point of departure. Continue reading

Sound:Space - Call for Submissions:An exciting opportunity has risen to exhibit at Atrium and the Atrium Projection Space at South Hill Park (Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA, United Kingdom) as part of the Sound:Space season on 20 September – 9 November 2008. We invite proposals from visual and digital artists exploring the field of sound art and the representation of sound. We welcome proposals for both moving image/sound and wall-based work.

The Atrium is one of our busiest exhibition spaces and is used by a wide range of South Hill Park visitors. The space also combines a café and a lounge area and we are particularly interested in site-specific works for the space.
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pure:dyne News - Who is pure:dyne for? pure:dyne is for everyone! pure:dyne has been adopted by artists, schools, media arts centers and their local communities as a common, complete GNU / Linux platform for Free / Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) art production and education. pure:dyne is used by communities across Europe and the world for recording and manipulating sound, making live visuals, creating interactive media in installations, and more.

Through pure:dyne for everyone, pure:dyne will reach out to more people - noobs, artists, local users - in a year-long programme of system development, documentation, user support and special public events with partnering media arts centers across the UK. Continue reading

Psychodrama: 13 Variations by Melissa Grey - Featuring: Harold Jones / The Antara Ensemble and The Orchestra of Agincourt conducted by Edwin Gonzales :: April 25, 2008; 8:30 pm :: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY.

A performance including live chamber ensemble, electroacoustic soundscape and projected video, Psychodrama is a multiple re-scoring of the shower sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho. Continue reading

Open Ear - Cardiff :: June 13, 2008 :: Call for Works - Open Ear is a loose collaborative group formed in 2006 by Paul Adams, Garrett Lynch and Matt Wright with the purpose of creating audio-visual art and organising live events within club, gallery, open air or site-specific venues.

On June 13 2008, Open Ear will host a free one night only event of experimental work in the ATRiuM Theatre at the University of Glamorgan’s newly built ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales. Curated by Garrett Lynch the event will present a series of interdisciplinary performances and projections by various artists. Sound and visual artists / groups working across the areas of art, music, media and new technologies within live performance / projected contexts are invited to contribute to this event under an open theme. Continue reading

Call + Response :: April 25-28, 2008 :: A Series of Events hosted by Candice Breitz :: Mudam Luxembourg, 3 Park Dräi Eechelen, L-1499 Luxembourg :: Please register online before April 10! Booking is essential due to limited seating.

Creative innovation has always relied, to some extent, on the logic of call-and-response, a phrase that Breitz borrows from musicologists, who use it to describe the interactive quality that is key to musical experience in various oral cultures. Mudam warmly invites you to share your ideas with a group of artists and thinkers as they explore the logic of call-and-response and reflect on strategies of artistic appropriation and creative recycling during a three-day line-up of performances, panels and discussions. Continue reading

EFFLEUREMENTS :: March 28 - April 26, 2008 :: Opening: March 28, 5:00 pm :: Society for Art and Technology [SAT], 1201 Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Quebec.

An exhibition from the curator Nicole Gingras who joins the work of two artists fascinated by light, movement and sound. Diane Morin transforms her favourite material, light, into singular shadow plays, awash in penetrating sounds. The videos of Nelly-Eve Rajotte, who is just as sensitive to the power of light and sound, create destabilising experiences which may cause some viewers to lose their spatio-temporal bearings. Continue reading

London’s audiovisual Howlin’ Wolf (it’s a sideburn thing), Toby Harris (aka *spark), has been steadily building strong live video performances since the turn of the century, exploring his real-time video skills at countless festivals, sophisticated audiovisual performances and most recently on giant touchscreen plasmas within motor shows. He also founded AVIT, the real world spin-off of vjforums.com that prompted festivals around the world, so it was a pleasure to meet him @ Sonar in Barcelona mid 2007, as well as get his reflections on audiovisual possibility. Lotta words to follow, but worth the read for the pixel-inclined…

What appeals about real-time video manipulation, about ‘live cinema’?

The world is catching up with vjs in enjoying a spot of real-time video manipulation: just watch people using PhotoBooth on any modern Mac. Continue reading

Displaced Sounds is a new series of performances and presentations, organised by STUK arts centre and (K-RAA-K)3 :: March 13, 2008; 8:30 pm :: STUK KUNSTENCENTRUM vzw, Naamsestraat 96, B-3000 Leuven.

Expect unexpected sounds, exciting evenings where listening and hearing are the keywords. Even before we are born, we are affected by noise invading our safe and quiet space. We are surrounded by sounds that define the rhythm of our world. Artists and researchers will guide you through the labyrinth of sounds that constitute our daily lives. Continue reading