Future of Music Coalition presents – What’s the Future for Musicians? seminar :: October 6, 2008 :: Public Theater in New York, NY.

What’s the Future for Musicians? Today’s music landscape is filled with both excitement and foreboding. With so many new technologies and ways to promote and distribute music, how do performers, composers, songwriters and independent labels know how to participate, who to trust, and what is most effective?

In the Future of Music seminar musicians from all genres — classical, jazz, rock, folk and hip-hop — will learn about a range of internet-based promotion and distribution options, how to navigate the health insurance landscape, the importance of open internet structures and how copyright law and business models are affecting how musicians will be compensated in the digital future. For more information click here.

You are invited to participate in http://thevoa.net, a participatory Internet radio project that reflects on the media spectacle of the 2008 US Presidential Election through the lens of the Voice of America Radio Network, the US government broadcasting service intended for an international audience.

Between now and November 4, you can: RECORD audio of election coverage on a Voices of America station; UPLOAD your recordings and tag them according to language and content; DOWNLOAD from the searchable pool of available recordings; REMIX the broadcasts and UPLOAD them back to the website; LISTEN to the recordings and remixes online anytime or to the radio broadcast at Audacity of Desperation in Los Angeles on Election Day. Continue reading

15th International Symposium on Electronic Art (2009) in Northern Ireland: Engaged Creativity in Mobile Environments :: Hosted by University of Ulster in association with Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology :: 23 August – 1 September 2009 :: Waterfront Hall Belfast with HUBS at Coleraine, Derry and Dublin :: Call for projects, presentations :: submission deadline (15 Sept 2008).

WHAT IS ISEA2009? The Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international non-profit organisation that promotes the relationship between arts, science and digital technologies. Since 1988 ISEA has overseen a major international symposium taking place in various prestigious institutions across the globe biannually, moving to an annual cycle following ISEA2009. Continue reading

SMAC Soundings – non visual objects: Limit by Tomas Phillips and F_lake by Heribert Friedl … in conjunction with the opening of Don’t You F#{%ING Look At Me! September 12 – October 31, 2008 :: Opening Reception: September 12; 6-10:00 pm :: 911 Seattle Media Arts Center, 402 9th Ave N (at Harrison), Seattle, Washington.

Heribert Friedl is an Austrian sound/ visual /sensory artist based in Vienna. he studied sculpture at the university of applied arts in Vienna. Working with scents and its non visual phenomenons in combination with sounds. He has had exhibitions, sound performances and projects in cities of Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, the US, Cuba, and Austria. Continue reading

Matthew Biederman – DAREDx at Cabot Square :: August 29 – September 21, 2008 (off on Mondays) :: Opening: August 29; 5:00 – 9:00 pm :: FM Transmitter Workshop: August 31; 2:00 pm :: Walks + Talks: September 7 and 14; 2:00 pm :: Conference: September 20-21; 1:00 – 5:00 pm :: radio.dare-dare.org.

Today’s radio spectrum is predominately utilized by the military and governmental organizations, with government regulating bodies doling out expensive licenses to corporations for the right to broadcast en masse in public space. These powerful “one way” broadcast licenses have come to be understood as ‘radio’ versus the initial conception of radio as a “many to many” communications medium. Continue reading

dorkbot-nyc – David Steinberg, Christina McPhee, and Sam Pluta :: September 3, 2008; 7:00 pm :: Location One, SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share.

David Steinberg: mobile music machines – Lots of interesting musical software have been developed more or less recently for portable videogames consoles (Gameboy, PSP, etc.), PDAs or other similar platforms. I’ll present many of these applications (for Nintendo Gameboy, Palm OS, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, Gamepark consoles, etc.), explain what’s needed to use them, who created them, what are the advantages and disadvantages of developing musical software for each platform and of course show some examples of what can be done with these new instruments. Continue reading

Electrical Walks with Christina Kubsich :: Launch – September 10, 2008; 5:30 – 8:30 pm :: OBORO New Media Lab, 4001 Berri, 2nd floor, Montreal :: Headphones available from September 11-20, 2008 at Goethe-Institut Montréal, 418, Sherbrooke East) (Free) For more information, see press release.

For the first time in Canada, and concurrently in Quebec City and Montreal, Christina Kubisch presents her Electrical Walks, where members of the public are invited to pace the urban space with headphones specially developed by the artist to transform electromagnetic fields into audible frequencies.

WORKSHOP: Electromagnetic Explorations of the City :: September 16 – 18, 2008 :: OBORO’s New Media Lab. Continue reading

Roulette TV 2008 – David Behrman :: Marilyn Crispell with Lotte Anker :: Andrew Cyrille with Bob Stewart and Roy Campbell :: Joan La Barbara :: Oliver Lake :: Phoebe Legere :: Margaret Leng Tan :: Kathleen Supové :: Blue Gene Tyranny :: Lois V Vierk.

Roulette TV is an on-going, innovative video series which presents unique contemporary music in compelling and engaging performances given by the creators themselves. Each performance is followed by an insightful interview which offers the opportunity to get close to the artists who range from those who often speak about the rich associations and ideas they have developed during the course of their work to those who are revealing their creative processes for the first time. The wealth of concepts, personalities, real-world experience, sonic and visual beauty available from this Roulette TV series builds a springboard of inspiration and information for students, and creates enlivening, deep musical encounters for the enterprising viewer.

Roulette TV is presented in partnership with UbuWeb.

[Image: Edwin van der Heide’s Speed of Sound in the granary] “… Later that evening Seattle-based instrument inventor, Trimpin, performed his mechanized one-man band. He controlled two record players, a keyboard, and his wheelbarrow rhythm machine from sensors on a cello, and took us on a humorous music-making journey. As he “played” his cello, sensors tracked the movement of the bow and cued the turning of the records, sequences on the keyboard (a series of intricate automated “fingers”), and mechanized mallets made rhythms on found objects and drums that were mounted in a rusty wheelbarrow. The records’ self-reflective spoken word content (an instructional on the making of music and sound) punctuated the enigmatic story being told… Continue reading

Call for Submissions :: 12th international video festival: v i d e o m e d e j a :: December 12 -14 2008 :: studio m, Novi Sad, Serbia :: entry deadline: October 1st 2008 :: Entry forms and criteria for submission: here.

As in previous years we are looking for new video art works and short films, media installations, live audiovisual performances, network based projects… In addition, we are very glad to receive proposals from curators and producers/distributors for the non-competitive special screenings. Entry forms are online and it is not necessary to create a user account in order to submit entries but we suggest to do so and log in prior submitting. This way you will be able to edit your own submissions and get partly pre-filled entries with values from your user account. Continue reading