Play a piano, a guitar, a horn, a violin — any of twenty instruments or all 20 together. http://inbflat.net/

JELLY – Weekly Co-Working Event :: Thursdays, 10am – 6pm :: at SPACE, 129 – 131 Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 3RH, United Kingdom, Free

Do you…Jelly?
Jelly are casual, co-working events happening in cities across the world. Turn up, log-in, create, collaborate or work solo. It’s open source living – sharing bandwidth, ideas and elbow room. Thursdays at SPACE are Jelly days. They provide the space, the wifi, the desks and (if you’re lucky) the doughnuts. You bring your laptop. Hours are 10am to 6pm, it’s free and registration is required. There will be an informal opportunity to introduce projects with tea (‘IT at high tea’) and everyone – from designers, developers, writers, artists – is welcome.

Register to let them know numbers at http://jelly.eventbrite.com/

Zachery Leiberman / Lesley Flanigan / Brenden Fernandes :: Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:00 p.m. :: at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway #602. New York City (at Houston St) :: Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince :: Free

As part of the New York Electronic Art Festival 2009, a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting-edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology, Harvestworks will present the first in a series of New Project Demos on Friday, October 2nd with presentations by new media artists Zachary Leiberman, Lesley Flanigan and Brendan Fernandes. Continue reading

SHUNTCODE :: Part three in the first series of livecoded music events in London:: at Shunt lounge, London Bridge :: 10pm until late, this thursday 1st October, 2009

Live Coding Duet – ‘bang’ from Scott Hewitt on Vimeo.

Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. Continue reading

EvoMUSART 2010 :: the 8th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design :: April 7 – April 9, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey :: Submission deadline: November 4, 2009 and Conference: 7th of April -9 April, 2010

EvoMUSART 2010 is the eighth European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. Following the success of previous editions and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART 2010 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area.

EvoMUSART 2010 will be held from 7-9 April, 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey as part of the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2010. Continue reading

It’s been nearly a decade since the digital music genie burst out of its bottle, changing the game for virtually everyone in the music ecosystem. So what comes next? Future of Music Policy Summit 2009 will examine this question through practical, musician-focused workshops, keynotes from leading artists, managers and policymakers and inspired panel discussions with the sharpest minds in the music/technology space. New this year, the event will feature unique presentations from a range of visionaries about where we’ve been and where we go from here. All this plus cocktail parties, a movie screening and a rock show!

Policy Summit 2009 is taking place at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on October 4-6. It will also be webcast live by web.illish.us.
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Diego Stocco – Experibass from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

Sound designer and composer, Diego Stocco, has come up with another innovative project. His Experibass is a mutant hybrid of a violin, viola, cello and double bass which he plays using a variety of percussive tools.

Thanks to Dan Gould and www.psfk.com

Digital Developments, artist development weekends, will begin at the Digital Media Centre, South Hill Park, Bracknell at the end of October. The season runs from “Found Sound Stories” led by sound artist and composer, Janek Schaefer, through “Using Sensors for Performance & Installation”, “Experimental Digital Printmaking”, and ends with “Circuit Bending: Atari Punk Console” at the end of November.

24/25 October :: Found Sound Stories :: Janek Schaefer, award winning composer and sound artist, introduces a weekend of field recording, performance and the physical manipulation of found sounds using an array of recording devices, turntables and Minidisc. A laptop-free zone in which to record and imagine an active audio narrative, leading to improvised performance. Results of the weekend will be recorded and may become part of a broadcast on Resonance FM. Continue reading

dyne.org invites you to TCPC #9 :: October 2-4, 2009; 12:00 pm :: On-Line: http://irc.dyne.org and On-Site: Palazzolo Acreide, Italy and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Contact.

The main goal of The 9th edition of the TCPC (Too much Coffee Too less Brain) is to update the MuSE software, an easy to use application for GNU/Linux and OSX, completely free, that lets you make your own Internet Radio.

MuSE exists since more than 8 years and its used world-wide to approach radio-making, especially because of its speed (works on old computers) and intuitiveness. It is one of the few 100% free alternatives to absolve the task. Continue reading

Let Us Imagine a Straight Line by Joseph Butch Rovan, featuring dancer Ami Shulman — A multi-movement intermedia project for interactive image, sound, and performance — one in a series of Studies in Movement :: October 17 – November 8, 2009 :: Opening: October 16; 5:00 pm :: Digital Humanites Lab (lower floor), Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI.

Studies in Movement is a series of intermedia études based in part on the unique visual legacy of the great French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904). From his pioneering work with graphical recording devices to his work with stop-action photography, Marey sought to break down locomotion in order to learn how humans and animals moved in the natural world. Continue reading