Dana’s work is always so delicate, inspiring and challenging. Here is her WildUrban Radio. My take on it is that you just need to turn the knob to listen to a variety of birds from your area. The radio is mapped directly to your location and you can hear the smallest species directing you closer to them whether you are going North or South …. I have ordered one of those from her and will update on my productivity level asap. [posted by Cati Vaucelle on Architectradure]

Spatial Dissonance, Subjective Imagination and Locative Media: An Interview with Paula Levine, conducted by Barbara Crow, April 3, 2008 on Skype using Call Recorder, Wi Journal: Paula Levine’s “… recent installation, Signature, is inaugural work in the new Contemporary Project Space at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California. Signature is a contemporary portrait of seismic history as it intersects with local lives and landscape. The work uses GPS satellites to trigger the sound of the 1906 Bay area earthquake. The same overhead satellites also cause the surface of a projected digital image of Santa Rosa to rupture and reveal the hidden presence of the Rogers Creek Fault that runs directly through the centre of the city. The sound is converted from a selection of seismograph recordings of the 1906 quake. Santa Rosa was severely destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fires. While the Rogers Creek Fault has been quiet for many years, current seismic research refocuses attention on it as a possible continuation of the more active Hayward Creek Fault, lying to the south of the city…” Listen to the Interview and/or Continue reading >>

Jig-Sound is a shockwave interactive audio piece by Jim Andrews, Artist-Programmer, Visual Poet, Essayist, and Senior Technical Writer. You can make your own music/sound with Jig Sound, and Andrews has created two streaming videos, primarily tutorial in nature, to help you do it. You should play with this work and look at the many other works Andrews has created over the years. His website is a cornucopia of sound, images, and poetry pieces.

The instructional videos for Jig Sound can be found here and here.

FUTURESONIC 2009 — Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas :: May 13-16, 2009 :: Manchester, UK.

Now in its 14th year, Futuresonic is an international festival featuring world premiers of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world. Featuring 50,000 festival visitors and 300 artists at 100 events in a city-wide urban festival experience.

Art: Futuresonic’s 2009 art programme is more ambitious and relevant than ever. A forest in the gallery grown from Joseph Beuys’ acorns, a project engaging the population of Manchester in monitoring climate and biodiversity, and John Lennon’s Imagine ringing out on cathedral bells in Liverpool. Themes include society, technology and the city plus this year Environment 2.0. Art exhibition across Manchester and beyond, centred at the CUBE Gallery. Continue reading

A House in Bali is a new dance-opera by composer Evan Ziporyn, with a libretto by Real Time Opera’s Paul Schick.

Featuring an all-star international cast of vocalists, dancers, and musicians, it traces the roots of the west’s century-long infatuation with Bali, through the true story of three westerners - composer Colin McPhee, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and artist Walter Spies - during their 1930s sojourn in Bali. This stunning, multi-media spectacle brings together the finest ensembles of east and west: a 15-piece Balinese gamelan directed by the dynamic Dewa Ketut Alit, the Bang on a Can All-Stars with guest violinist Todd Reynolds, Balinese choreography by the enchanting Kadek Dewi Aryani, wayang shadow puppets, and high-tech projections converge, pushing all boundaries of theatrical innovation. Continue reading

SONIC ARTS @ GASP proudly presents: SuperCollider Concert and Workshop :: Workshop: with Ron Kuivila — April 5, 2009; 12:00 - 5:00 pm :: Concert: Dan St. Clair, Andrew Greenwald, Ben Klein, Ron Kuivila, Ivan Naranjoriva, Marcelo Rilla — April 5, 2009; 6:30 pm :: 362-4 Boylston St., Brookline, MA.

Workshop: A friendly introduction to SuperCollider for absolute beginners, aimed at artists and musicians. Aside from a little familiarity with the digital arts, no prerequisites, though some prior exposure to computer music (perhaps through Max/MSP or Csound) may be helpful. The supported platform will be Mac OSX. SuperCollider is a free, cross-platform environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. The GASP event is a prequel to the Third International SuperCollider Symposium which will run from April 9 to 11 at Wesleyan University, Middletown Connecticut. Continue reading

Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents Broadcast Yourself, a symposium that will contrast traditional media with the “YouTube” Generation :: April 1, 2009; 6:30 pm :: Lecture Hall 213, 144 West 14th Street, NYC.

Broadcast Yourself will address the issues of power and control extended by traditional media outlets in contrast with the do-it-yourself attitude pervasive in the tech-savvy younger generation. Symposium panelists will also speak to the impact that radio and television can have in shaping the events of our time; how artists can directly engage, challenge, or subvert the structure and authority of broadcast media; and how our culture is shaped by the actions of individuals and artists. Continue reading

Bicycle Built for Two Thousand from Aaron on Vimeo.

Bicycle Built For Two Thousand is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard. MTurk official website here. More by Aaron Koblin >>

New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival — Three nights of music as part of the first retrospective gallery exhibition of works by the improviser, experimental composer, film-maker, writer, and installation artist John Berndt :: April 15 – 30, 2009 :: Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery :: 537 Broadway, 2nd floor, New York.

April 17, 7-10 pm, free :: Opening reception and free concert. three very different collaborations between John Berndt and four legendary experimental improvisers: John Berndt and Elliot Sharp — string delirium :: John Berndt and Lukas Legetti — polymetric kaleidoscope syncopation :: John Berndt, Peter Zummo, and Katt Hernandez — paradoxical dispersal music Continue reading

Roboloco - Festival for Mechatronic Art and Robotics :: May 7 - 9, 2009 :: Reitschule Hall, Bern, Switzerland :: Call for Participation … artists, engineers and students — Deadline: March 31, 2009.

The Festival will comprise of an exhibition, concerts, talks and workshops on the theme of the boundaries between humans and machines. Roboloco will address questions surrounding the development of new technologies, such as the role robots play in our everyday life and will play in future changes in society. Roboloco is a spectacle of creative technology which will provide a forum for discussions on, and at, the borders of art, science and society. From these border areas ideas for new systems may emerge. Joint artistic endeavors and the exchange of knowledge about the mechanical, electronic and informatics systems used in mechatronic art are central to the Festival programme. Continue reading