Radio Music, An essay by Jon Leidecker

“Radio Music” connects three examples from the history of the potential of the radio receiver as musical instrument, from its early beginnings in the twenties as captured on a comedy record, to formal art experiments in the forties and fifties, to its nostalgic presence in one of the very first song-based pop music collage albums, which heralded the now familiar practice of sampling. Continue reading

New Music USA’s New Grantmaking Strategy Drives Online Curation :: New program funds projects and promotes them through an online showcase, giving artists tools to connect with the world ::

In fall 2013, New Music USA will open a new chapter in public advocacy for new music. The organization will reconfigure five current grantmaking programs into a unified channel of support for a wide range of new music projects. Awarded applications will be promoted on newmusicusa.org and offer a new way for the public to connect with artists. Continue reading

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. receives two National Endowment for the Arts grants to support Turbulence.org :: Grants two of 817 NEA Art Works grants totaling $26.3 million in funding nationwide:

New York — National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) is one of 817 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive NEA Art Works grants. NRPA is recommended for two grants totaling $47,000 to support commissioning new work for Turbulence.org and for continuing to archive Turbulence.org at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media, Cornell University. Continue reading

The New England Forum for Acoustic Ecology (NEFAE)present talks, a reception, and concert featuring special guest Eric Leonardson along with members of NEFAE :: Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 5;00 p.m. :: Studio Soto, 10 Channel Center St. Fort Point, Boston :: suggested donation $10 ::

5:00 - Artists talks: Eric Leonardson: 20 Years of Acoustic Ecology: Reflections and New Challenges; Tom Plsek: Hear We Are
6:30 – reception
7:00 – concert: members of the the New England Forum for Acoustic Ecology – Michael Bullock, Ernst Karel, Tom Plsek, and Jed Speare - Eric Leonardson – solo with Springboard
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Marler Media Art Awards 2013 :: © Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Creiler Platz 1, Rathaus
D-45768 Marl, Germany :: Call for entries :: Submission deadline: 17 May 2013
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Since 1984 the Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten Marl has hosted the Video Art Award, and since 2002 the Sound Art Award, which will be further developed to the EUROPEAN SOUNDART AWARD. Continue reading

Amori Water will play at the Listening Gallery, SFCA [isaw+subtropocs] :: studio 101, 924 Lincoln road, miami beach :: until May 1, 2013 ::

“Aomori Water is a sound collage piece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. A Japanese sculptor was making a round house and wanted a sound piece to play in it. I recorded some very gentle waves lapping the beach, for the first part. And a very small mountain stream, flowing, for the second part. I layered 8 tracks. This was the first work that I did in ProTools.” — Phill Niblock
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Synthsized Voices of the Revolutionary Utopia: Early Sonic Experiments in the Soviet Union

This book tells the remarkable story behind the pioneering experiments in audio synthesis and graphical sound that were being conducted in the early years of the Soviet Union by composer-theorists Arseny Avraamov, Boris Yankovsky and many others.
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Listen to the Surface of Earth transposed on Vinyl Record :: FLAT EARTH SOCIETY [Art of Failure 2008-2011] ::

FLAT EARTH SOCIETY from art of failure on Vimeo.

“Can we hear the Earth? Not the sounds occurring upon it but the Earth on a geophysical scale? […] The hill-and-dale technique was used in Edison’s phonograph, recording sound with a stylus that vertically cut a minute landscape into the grooves of the cylinder. Continue reading

Turbulence.org Commission: Submersible by Yotam Mann and Niv Bavarsky [Needs Chrome 21+ or Safari 6+ and Speakers/Headphones]:

You are at a helm of a submarine navigating the depths of the ocean. At each strata, you see and hear different organisms. In the sunny epipelagic zone, watch the fast and massive tuna swim by in schools. Or catch a glimpse of the rare sea pig in the darkness of the abyssopelagic. Each of these organisms contributes a spatialized motif to the evolving soundscape.

Submersible is a 2013 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was made possible with funds from the Jerome Foundation. Continue reading

Meehan/Perkins will premiere Tristan Perich’s new Parallels for triangles, hi-hats and 1-bit electronics :: April 6, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. :: FFA, Scottish Rite Theater, 207 West 18th Street, Austin, TX ::

Full Program (4pm to midnight ($20, $10 student)
4pm: Living Earth Show
5pm: The Weird Weeds
6pm: Austin Soundwaves
7pm: Convergence
8pm: Francois Minaux + Ryan Cronk
9pm: Meehan/Perkins Duo + Tristan Perich
10pm: Sqwonk
11pm: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians