Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture - Edited by Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid.

If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix–how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Rhythm Science author Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid asks artists to describe their work and compositional strategies in their own words. These are reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society. The topics are as diverse as the contributors: composer Steve Reich offers a memoir of his life with technology, from tape loops to video opera; Continue reading

You’re Not My Father, by Paul Slocum, [Requires Quicktime plugin] is composed of a sequence of recreations of a 10 second scene from the television show Full House, overlaid with sound loops from the scene’s original music. The crews who re-shot the scene were recruited through Internet message boards and Craigslist; each was paid $150. Instructions for shooting the scene and delivering the footage were issued to the crews. To-date, the project includes participants from Austin, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, Denton, London, and San Francisco. Continue reading

INVITATION TO JOIN KUNSTRADIO’S CELEBRATION OF ART’S BIRTHDAY 2008! Celebrating Art’s Birthday is a tradition started by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on January 17th 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years ago when somebody dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water.

Throughout the last decades artists have continued organising annual celebrations in the spirit of Filliou’s “Eternal Network” or “La Fête permanente”. In 2008 people all over the world will again be preparing numerous networked birthday parties for art, several of these under the motto “Forever Young”. Continue reading

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA - Opening Reception and Performances: Re-Mixer :: October 26, 2007; 7:00 p.m. :: Bancroft Lobby, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2625 Durant Avenue #2250m, Berkeley, CA.

Join us for a one-night live music mash-up and art performance. Featuring Berkeley remix artists and DJs Ripley and Kid Kameleon, this event celebrates the opening of RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA and presents live performance works that complete that exhibition. Also appearing will be the do-it-yourself DJ machine created by the Improbable Orchestra group and a live image mash-up by the artist Zebbler playing across the museum walls. This event is co-hosted by Creative Commons.

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.

Kitakyushu Biennial ‘07 presents CUTE OR CREEPY?, A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT - Featuring the following artists, musicians and companies in collaboration with TAKUJI KOGO:

John Miller, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Frederico Baronello and Associazione Turistica Pro-Loco di Lampedusa, Keiichi Miyagawa and Toto Ltd., Sean Snyder, Hiroyuki Hanada, Mike Bode & Staffan Schmidt, and *CANDY FACTORY F/Thomas Bayrle.

Exhibition : Ex-JR Kyushu office bldg :: until October 31, 2007 :: Directed by Keiichi Miyagawa +Takuji Kogo :: INSTALLATION VIEWS :: Special Guest Appearance Hiroyuki Handa; Live at Moji-Ko on October 21. More information here.