PINGS springs directly from the geographical distance between two collaborators. Working from their locales Simon Whitehead & Barnaby Oliver explore the physical space between them through rivers and air and a range of other terrains with their own qualities, such as the web, phone, post, and less tangible links of memory and synchronicity. An ongoing project archive is now available on the website. You can subscribe to PINGS as a podcast / RSS 2 feed from the website. And view the exchanges between the two as webpages.

folly, a leading digital arts organisation working in Cumbria, Lancashire and online, is looking for video and audio work for ArtCast, folly’s ongoing series of podcasting programmes. The deadline for submissions is 29th February 2008

Through ArtCast folly explores the possibilities of the podcasting medium and provides a platform for public access to new and innovative art.

ArtCast, launched in October 2007 alongside folly’s VELOCITY festival of digital culture, with a series of audio podcasts selected from an international open call. This series is available to download from www.folly.co.uk/artcast and has been described as “outstanding” and “unique” by those who have experienced it. Since folly first started publishing podcastable content, nearly 15,000 people have experienced art in this format via www.folly.co.uk

Listen to 2007 example:
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Riffworld.com is Somona Wire Works’ entry into the music collaboration and social networking space. here’s what they write about it:

Using the RiffWorks desktop recording application, up to four musicians can connect and collaborate on a song simultaneously. As a layer records, it instantly streams to other players’ running RiffWorks. As the Riff loops, other players can add more. All contributions are saved on RiffWorld.com and can be opened later for further collaboration.
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60×365 (sixty by three-sixty-five) is an experimental new music podcast by composer David Morneau. Every day for a year, Morneau will compose a new sixty-second composition and post it online at 60×365.com. This project commenced on July 1, 2007, and will conclude June 30, 2008, resulting in just over six hours of new music in sixty-second installments.

For this project, Morneau is exploring a wide variety of musical styles and techniques, including musique concrète, sine wave synthesis, digital sampling, 8-bit constructions, process music, acousmatic composition, and post-techno beat manipulations. Each daily post brings something new and different, a constant variety. The daily deadline means the works sometimes lose their preciousness as they become explorations in process and method for Morneau—with his form or his audience—as much as they are works of art. Continue reading

FURTHERNOISE RADIO on BCFM 93.2 FM - Online Stream :: October 23, 22.00-23.00 BST (+1GMT) :: Repeated October 24, 9-10 am :: Go here for your own location time.

Tonight’s programme features Bristol noise duo Benzer, master of the drone Tuba Tom Heasley, Formication, Hassan Khan, Stephan Mathieu, Luca Formentini, Icelandic instrumental ensemble Amiina, the legendary Harry Parch and a new ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’ remix. As always we also have a live online visual mix from our regular VJ’s Grazmaster & Neil. To get the radio stream and the online visual mixing open 2 browser windows with the following URLs in each window. Subscribe to our podcasts of current and past programmes from the radio menu of the site.

ArtCast is folly’s new ongoing series of podcasting programmes - a platform for public access to new and innovative sound art.

The launch of ArtCast coincides with VELOCITY - a stunning new arts festival along the coastal rail route around Morecambe Bay in England’s North West. folly invited Sonic Arts Network - to join them in the selection of podcasts from an international open call. You can hear submissions from artists working with sound, experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists, both locally and from across the world. Continue reading

Sound:Space took place in January 2007 in the the UK. It comprised a day of artist talks, demonstrations and performances exploring contemporary artistic use of sound and environment — a wealth of the latest developments in audio research and the field of Sound Art. Featuring, Janek Schaefer (audi0h), Kode9 & The Spaceape (Hyperdub), Neil C. Smith, Ed Baxter (Resonance FM), Dr. Aaron Watson, Open Source Audio Software Lab, All day Cinema, a.o.

Recordings of the symposium presentations and discussion panel are now online. Links for either download or streaming options can be found at the bottom of each segment’s listing on the programme page. http://www.sound-space.info/index.htm and http://www.digitalmediacentre.org/podcast.html

between stations by Marc Cooley - The public airways are mapped almost entirely to the mandates of consumer demographics, psychographics and other methods of locating, courting and creating compliant consumers and citizens. This sad context provides an aesthetic space where the mash-up and obliteration of those tired fictitious sites of meaning becomes a satisfying experience.

These recordings, created for podcast distribution, were made in the southeast of the United States on various points along Interstate 95 from Richmond Virginia and Fayetteville North Carolina. They capture profiles of American consciousness as competing sectors of the consciousness industry represents them and simultaneously they are the decomposition of preconfigured and seemingly stable consciousness moving at high velocity toward utter decay and slippage into forbidden, unclaimed and contested spaces. Continue reading

Sabine Breitsameter interviews contemporary German Composer, Frank Niehusmann, in the July AudioHyperspace. Niehusmann is one of the composers who began to use podcasting early — in May 2005. It was then he began composing ’small forms” — 3 minute compositions almost every day — and rather than storing them on his hard drive, he uploaded them to the Internet.

You can listen to Frank Niehusmann’s Day Tracks here. “Day Tracks” are a series of compositions in the context of musique concrète, industrial and noise music, Elektronische Musik, sonic art, Klangkunst, Hörspiel and ars acustica: compositions with originally recorded machine sounds, sounds of nature, sounds of social life and sounds from musical instruments including synthesizers and drum-computers and all kinds of edited samples from the whole range of Frank Niehusmann’s archive of sounds.