Electromagnetic Field 2012: call for participation :: a three-day camping festival :: Friday 31 August and Sunday 2 September 2012 :: in Pineham Park, near Milton Keynes in the UK :: for anyone interested in science, engineering, DIY, technology, arts or crafts :: a cross between a tech conference and music festival :: talks and workshops :: deadline for submission: Friday, June 29, 2012, 23:59 UTC ::

Electromagnetic Field 2012 is a festival for anyone interested in 3D printing, DIYBio, textiles, electronics, Internet culture, music hacking, space, lockpicking, homebrewing, computer security, robots, UAVs, mind hacking, radio, and pretty much anything else you can think of… in a field! See http://www.emfcamp.org Continue reading

The Summer Workshop: TheSoundtrack :: presented with ifs (internationale filmschule köln) :: August 11-31, 2012 :: a three-week practical course experimenting with sound, music and editing :: further education for young professionals :: in English :: Application deadline: 25 May 2012 ::

We are delighted to announce a new summer workshop held in collaboration between the ifs internationale filmschule köln and the School of Sound. It will take place at the ifs from 11-31 August 2012, 9:30 a.m. until 18:00 p.m.

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Deconstructing the Soundtrack :: A seminar series in association with the London Film School :: With Larry Sider, Annabelle Pangborn and Stephen Deutsch :: Saturday-Sunday, May 26-27, 2012 :: London Film School, Covent Garden, London ::

Building on the success of recent sound courses, these seminars are aimed at those working in screen-based media, and offer three integrated perspectives on the use of sound and music in filmmaking.

Larry Sider, Annabelle Pangborn and Stephen Deutsch will each deliver a half-day seminar demonstrating the interrelationship between sound, music, image and story. The programme will include a discussion of strategies and concepts for working with sound and music, from pre- to post-production. Continue reading

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is now accepting proposals for its Turbulence.org Commissions Program. The deadline for New York practitioners is May 31, 2012; June 30, 2012 for everyone else. The Application Guidelines are here.

Turbulence.org is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 16 years it has commissioned, exhibited and archived over 200 works. We are also in the process of archiving the collection at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. You can read about the project in Virtueel Platform Research: Archiving the Digital by Annet Dekker and Rachel Somers-Miles.

Call for Participation – Radio Art & Sound Art: “AIR / EAR” installation :: Second collective installation of radio art and sound art will open in San Justo, Santa Fe, Argentina :: Audio by June 1, 2012 :: to rmtolosa@gmail.com ::

“Radio signals are not, as commonly thought, a recent phenomenon. Nature has spoken through radio signals from the origins of the universe. ”

“In an age of high technology, such as now, we are surrounded by many electronic devices, which manage our day to day operations. They can be useless or useful. We are so accustomed to their presence; they are part of the environment that we see every morning on waking. ” Continue reading

Jon Leidecker, curator :: VARIATIONS, a podcast series on the history of appropriative music :: Ràdio Web MACBA :: A compilation of all the episodes available so far of the ongoing series by the plunderphonic musician and historian Jon Leidecker :: See below for podcast and transcript info.

The idea of a completely original piece of music is fairly recent. Music was passed on through sound, through generations, even for centuries after the invention of written music. Only in the 14th century did it become standard practice for a composer to sign his name to a piece of music and claim it entirely as his own, giving rise to the cult of the individual composer. Continue reading

Art.Tech.NOW — A Night of Art, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at MIT :: Art.Tech.NOW! is an event centered around art, technology, and entrepreneurship. A collaboration between MIT and SMFA, the event will feature dinner, a speaker, a design-a-thon, startup-demos, a student art show, and a startup booth :: May 16th, 2012 from 6-9 p.m. :: at the Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship (E40-160):: Spots are limited ::

To sign up, please go here: http://bit.ly/arttechsignup. For more details on the event, please visit: http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/arttechnow

Soundboxes Workshop with Derek Holzer :: May 26 & 27, 2012, Time 11-19 :: Presentation Sunday May 27, 2012; Time 20.00 (venue TBA) :: Location: NK Projekt, Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage, 12059 Berlin :: Fee: EUR 35 (participation) + EUR 10 (materials) Registration is required and can be done by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de with the subject line “SoundBoxes” ::

nonlinearity I from macumbista on Vimeo.

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Here’s an exploration of Atticus Adams’ “Cloud Portal” set to “Spinning Steel” from Weis’ CD “Excitable Audible.” Continue reading

Radius : Episode 23 will host Radio Cegeste. Sally Ann McIntyre lives in Dunedin, New Zealand, and works with radio, sound and writing. She runs the mini FM station Radio Cegeste as a project based platform for live transmission art :: April 28 & 29 at 12am CST ::

Radius will broadcast “dear friends who have died are all talking to me tonight / all at once”. As a site-specific, spectator-less, solo performance, “dear friends who have died are all talking to me tonight / all at once” re-constructs and re-imagines personal and public memory through the medium of transmission, as an appropriate framework for uncertain, shifting structural and social realities. Continue reading