Immersion - Alex Mein Smith, Con Brio, Gabriel Da Piaz, grohs, SS_R, and Suero :: February 7, 2008; 7 - 11 pm :: The Flea-Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London.

Immersion is a free-entry experimental music / sound-art event featuring a soundtrack of electronic atmospheres, noisescapes, pulses / rhythms and tones / drones. Immersion is an arena for new and established international artists performing live experimental electronic music; using laptops, synthesizers, field recordings, circuit-bent electronics and prepared/processed instruments. All sounds are partnered by stimulating projected visuals processed live and tailored for each performance. Continue reading

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Bioluminescence is a collaborative audio/visual project with Lesley Flanigan and Luke DuBois.

The voice has a unique role in our musical culture, bridging the linguistic and the semiotic in a way that transcends instrumentality through a highly personal embodiment of musicianship. The recorded female voice, in particular, has been the subject of academic investigation following its role in aesthetics (Adorno), cinema and psychology (Silverman) and feminist theory (De Laurentis). In electroacoustic music, the voice has a privileged place in our canon, providing a boundless source of material for sonic exploration from the tape works of Berio, Dodge, and Lansky through the composer-performer repertoire of Joan LaBarbera and Pamela Z. Continue reading

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

New York Electronic Art Festival and Diapason gallery for sound and intermedia present: Andrea Parkins’ FAULTY (per-objective) :: Saturdays May 19 & 26, June 2 & 9; 6 pm - midnight :: Free admission :: 1026 Avenue of the Americas between 38th and 39th Streets, two blocks south of Bryant Park. Subways: 1, 2, 3, 9, B, D, F, Q, N, R, W to Times Square/42nd Street.

FAULTY (per-objective) is a multi-channel audio installation by Andrea Parkins. The work creates purposefully flawed sonic structures, built from a variety of sources, including sound recordings that document the specificity of objects - collected or invented - as they are set into motion. Continue reading

RADIO WONDERLAND {–shoes, steering wheel, boombox, laptop–} {-turning live radio into recombinant funk-} :: “Computer sound processing controlled by steering wheel, shoes–do you call that a musical instrument?” Well, check out a couple of actual duets with two astounding downtown musicians. RADIO WONDERLAND MEETS THE MASTERS:

DAFNA NAPHTALI:: Music Technology Open House at Judson Church presented by the Music Technology Program @ NYU :: May 6, 2007; 8.30 pm :: Judson Church, 55 Washington Sq. South (between Thompson & Sullivan) :: Admission by donation (Free for NYU). DUET with Dafna Naphtali, voice and processing –She’s a prodigious processor, audio maven, virtuoso soprano, and a fixture in downtown’s free improv, new music, and laptop / alternative controller scenes. Continue reading