To those of you who have already contributed to our fundraising campaign, thank you. We are deeply grateful.

As we look at 2009, there is real uncertainty about our organization’s survival. Faced with rapidly declining funds, we must either require a membership fee — thereby blocking public access to our sites; or we must take them all offline: Turbulence.org, Networked_Performance, Networked_Music_Review, and New American Radio.

We do not wish to do either.

At this point our only hope is that those of you who have not yet contributed to our Campaign for Sustainability will decide to do so.

Networked_Performance alone is accessed by 32,000 unique visitors per month; many of you return three or more times. If each of you were to give $5.00, we could continue to make our sites freely available.

Please act now. Pay via PayPal here or mail a check to:

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Thanks.

Helen and Jo
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The following interview with Salvatore Iaconesi and penelope.di.pixel, hosted on artsblog.it, details our understanding and experience of new media arts funding in the U.S. Continue reading

Toni Dove’s Lucid Possession :: January 15, 2009; 8:30 pm and January 16; 10:00 pm :: HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Ave., New York City.

Lucid Possession, the uncanny manifestation of a virtual multiple personality, combines music, text, dimensional robotic screens and projections to create a character, like an instrument, that speaks, sings, and dances. On-stage performers Toni Dove and composer, Mari Kimura control the entity’s physical and virtual movements, singing and speaking databases, in a form like cinematic bunraku. This short demo is a trio for two humans and one virtual entity. Lucid Possession is Winner of The Eugene McDermott Award, M.I.T. Continue reading

Under Voices: Les Voix de la Tour Eiffel — by China Blue — is a CD compilation of sound pieces based on actual vibrations and binaural recordings of the Eiffel Tower. In addition to 8 songs, there is a limited and signed edition thumb drive that includes 23 sound files for you to play with. You can make something and submit it for possible inclusion on the next CD. The thumb drive is presented in a cool steel box that can also hold 5 CDs. You can listen to samples here.

The organization in charge of running the Tower gave us access to the monument to document it’s ambient acoustics and vibrations - the intrinsic sounds of 7300 tons of 2,500,000 rivets and 18,038 pieces of steel moving in the wind and in response to environmental changes, as well as the sonic environment of the 30,000 people who visit it daily as they move from the ground to the pinnacle. Continue reading

Darkness Visible and Raphael: Bryce Dessner and Matthew Ritchie :: Lecture / Performance: January 28, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Raphael - a multimedia work: January 29, 8:00 pm :: MIT’s Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center (corner of Ames and Main Street), Cambridge, MA.

Composer / guitarist Bryce Dessner, lead guitarist in The National and The Clogs, and acclaimed visual artist Matthew Ritchie join forces for two events that blur the lines between indie rock, ambient music, contemporary classical music, and installation art. They will be joined by sound designer David Sheppard, guitarist Aaron Dessner, composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, and student musicians from MIT and Wellesley College.

On January 28 Dessner & Ritchie will present Darkness Visible, a lecture/performance concerning their recent collaboration, The Morning Line. Continue reading

Werwolf by Roberto Paci Dalò — drawings / audio exhibition and noise performance :: January 17 - February 14, 2009 :: Performance: January 17, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Villa Pignatelli, Riviera di Chiaia, Napoli, Italy.

Werwolf is an exhibition that includes drawings after Heiner Müller’s texts naïvely depicting werewolves. A noise performance, working tremblings and vibrations, will open the exhibition. Treated voices coming from the German radio in 1943, from some recordings found at the Deutsche Rundfunkarchiv of Frankfurt am Main will be used. Werwolf is also a contribution to Art’s Birthday 2009, the performance will be live-streaming from Naples to the international projects website. “Art’s Birthday” is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. Continue reading

Sensorium Re-Connected — a generative composition for for 5 PCs and 2 voices by Andrew Garton :: January 11, 2009; 11:03 - 11.45 pm CET :: Kunstradio - Radiokunst :: Listen here.

From August 18 to September 6, 1997, Australia’s The Listening Room presented Sensorium Connect / Body Morph, a generative composition by Andrew Garton and comprised of sounds sampled from performances by Stelarc. Sensorium Connect was the first Listening Room project entirely produced for online and was streamed for its entire six week duration.

On January 11, KunstRadio broadcasts an entirely new version of this work. Sensorium Re-Connected commemorates the work of The Listening Room and the contribution this piece made to furthering radio and sound art online in Australia. Continue reading

Telematic Skip - Experimental SimulSkype: Boston, Chicago, Taiwan :: January 9, 2009; 11:00 pm - 12:30 am (EST) … Chicago: 10:00 pm - 11:30 pm (CST) … Taiwan: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm (Saturday) :: Mobius, 725 Harrison Ave., Boston.

Telematic Skip, instigated by Dan Godston (CHICAGO - Brown Rice), involves performers who are in remote locations with a live audio and video feed between those locations. The initial plan is to use Skype but this could change to another live medium for communication depending on the circumstances — stay tuned. Telematic Skip will be broadcast live, at live. Continue reading

Mills College Celebrates 80 Years of Musical Innovation with Mills Music Festival:: February 21 - April 5, 2009 :: OPENING NIGHT :: February 21, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Pauline Oliveros with Tony Martin; Terry Riley; Joseph Kubera performs Roscoe Mitchell; Joan Jeanrenaud.

Mills College celebrates 80 years of musical innovation as it reopens the historic Mills Concert Hall after an extensive 18-month renovation with a music festival featuring some of the world’s leading contemporary musicians. The six-concert series, Giving Free Play to the Imagination, will include musical innovators such as Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Joan Jeanrenaud, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, the Arditti Quartet, and Fred Frith, among many others, and will celebrate Mills College’s leadership in defining contemporary music. Continue reading

Eyebeam MIXER | EXPO — 6-8 pavilions and 4 performances that convey utopia. Our playlist includes Buckminster Fuller, Afrika Bambaataa, Derrick May, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier, Sun Ra, Hans Haacke, and M.I.A. What about yours? :: March 6 – 7, 2009 :: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC :: Call for Participation — Deadline: January 26, 2009; 11:59 pm.

MIXER, Eyebeam’s event series dedicated to showcasing leading artists in the fields of live video and audio performance, interactivity and participatory practice, will have its fifth iteration on Friday, when Eyebeam will play host to an exposition of party pavilions. A cluster of autonomous structures, each built according to their own unified concept or theme, will take over our rough-and-ready warehouse space for a two-night extravaganza. Continue reading

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