404 International Festival of Art & Technology :: Open Call — Deadline: February 28, 2012. Continue reading

Hypo Chrysos by Marco Donnarumma - a new biomedia performance for enhanced body, interactive multichannel sound and video, Matadac Festival :: December 16. 2011; 8:00 pm :: Auditorium, CaixaForum, Madrid.

Hypo Chrysos is the second piece of a series of bio-interactive works based on the Xth Sense (XS), an open, biophysical and wearable technology I’ve recently developed. The work was composed ad hoc for the Matadac Festival in Madrid, which this year explores the theme of Machines and Flesh. In conjunction with this premiere, I’m teaching a workshop on biophysical generation and control of music and video using the Xth Sense tech.

shut up and listen! 2011: Near West - Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art featuring contemporary music and art practices from Israel, Palestine and neighbouring Arab countries :: December 8 and 10, 2011 :: Echoraum, Sechshauser Str. 66, 1150 Vienna.

shut up and listen! (SUAL) 2011 provides a stage for artists from the so-called ‘Near East’, some of whom found a second (maybe temporary) home in Austria or other European countries. The festival’s title Near West implies a change of perspective regarding the – sometimes utopian - proximity to the ‘Fortress Europe’. Continue reading

An Acoustic Journey Through YouTube - presented by curatingyoutube.net at radioCona (on the occasion of the Radio Arts Space exhibition) :: December 7-16, 2011; 12:00 - 7:00 pm :: Galerija Škuc, Stari trg 21, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija and FM 88.8MHz, Ljubljana and streamed here.

Youtube (YT) is an archive. An archive for not only movies and pictures, but also for music. That is why it is used, not only as a video platform, but in the same amount as a music platform. As a music archive, YT contains composed music, but also sounds, tones, voices and noises. Continue reading

Nathalie Miebach is a Boston-based artist who translates weather data into complex sculptures and musical scores.

“Recently, I have begun translating weather data collected in cities into musical scores, which are then translated into sculptures as well as being a source for collaboration with musicians. These pieces are not only devices that map meteorological conditions of a specific time and place, but are also functional musical scores to be played by musicians. While musicians have freedom to interpret, they are asked not to change the essential relationship of the notes to ensure that what is still heard is indeed the meteorological relationship of weather data.” (Scroll down for the Call for Composers.) Continue reading

LAb[au] is presenting: Particle Synthesis @ Experience Space a group exhibition with Aram Bartholl, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignnoneau, John F. Simon, Lynn Hershman Leeson, LAb[au], Marius Watz, Evan Roth, Nicole Nickel :: September 20 - December 11, 2011 :: [DAM]Berlin gallery, Neue-Jakob-Str. 6/7, D-10179 Berlin, Germany.

Particle synthesis is an installation based on an autonomous, self-standing, audio-visual setting. Consequently the core of the work focuses on programmed, generative, processes within sound creation and music composition as to visualize, notate, these processes in real-time. Continue reading

[Jack Ox, Ursonate, CAC, New Orleans 2004] Jack Ox’s Visualization of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate :: Exhibition: September 16 - October 28, 2011 :: Performance: September 17; 2:00 pm with Kristen Loree performing the Ursonate and digital projections by Jack Ox :: Mesa Library Gallery, 2400 Central Ave, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA with live-streaming to Cumbria, England. Register here.

Ursonate is part of The Next Big Idea Festival, with Jack Ox and Kristen Loree as artists-in-residence: The exhibition of Jack Ox’s 800 Sq.ft. hand-painted, hand-collaged visualization of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate opens September 16 at 4:00 pm at the Mesa Gallery. Continue reading

Upgrade! Chicago: Juanjose Rivas :: August 27, 2011; 7:00 pm :: The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL.

Juanjose Rivas is a Noise && Dirty New Media Artist based in Mexico City. His experimental musics, video art projects and realtime audio video performances have been screened and performed internationally. From his recent performance at BENT Festival in NYC to his current and previous engagements in the Chicago scene, Rivas brings a visceral digitalPunk energy to every event. For his screening at the Nightingale, he will be showing selections from his personal and collaborative projects. Continue reading

Morgan Packard: Dihedral Product — Generative Crowd-Sourced Sculpture with Music Performances :: August 6-14, 2011 :: PERFORMANCES: Construction begins August 6. Public invited to participate :: OPENING: August 12; 7:00 -10:00 pm :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer St. at Lorimer. L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan.

Sol LeWitt knew that artists of many diverse types use simple forms to their own ends. Musician and multimedia artist, Morgan Packard believes that simple rules, when allowed to unfold, create the splendor of the world. In Euclidean geometry the simplest non-curved flat shape is the triangle, and the simplest non-curved three-dimensional shape is four triangles connected by their edges — the tetrahedron. Continue reading

MRI Scanner Inspires a Multimedia Performance — Composers Mira Calix and Anna Meredith have come up with pieces of music which are inspired by the sounds of a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner.