Radio Fragments: Transforming Radiophonic Silences into Sound Stories — A sound installation by Andre Castro :: January 4-8, 2010; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: NK, Elsenstr. 52/2, Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin.

Radio Fragments is a radiophonic project that aims to explore an auditory attention, different from the one usually associated with the experience of listening to the radio, making use of the spaces-in-between-words-and-songs that occur throughout the radiophonic discourse as its main reagent.

Its basic formula consists of an analysis-control mechanism (built in Super Collider) residing inside a computer to which a real-time mainstream radio broadcast is fed. This mechanism acts as a reversed-noise-gate, singling out what is usually ignored or avoided in a radiophonic context (whispers, stumbles, pauses, dead spaces and errors) and muting all the other sounds such as words or songs. Continue reading

The growing need for innovative network-collaboration environments for live music performance has been a challenging field for a number of academic and research institutes throughout the world. Among them, the Department of Music Technology and Acoustics of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, in Greece has contributed to network music research through the development of the DIAMOUSES platform.

DIAMOUSES provides a generic platform that aims at encouraging diverse applications and services relating to networked music performance, such as: Continue reading

A complaints choir rehearsed in Japan before its performance at the Mori Art Museum last month. The group’s litany of grievances focused on work more than those of choirs in other places.

As Ko Sasaki reports in The New York Times : Recently a group of about 100 Tokyo residents put their complaints into a pile and a composer, Okuchi Shunsuke, turned them into a song. About 80 of the complainers (accompanied by an accordion, a bass cello and a tambourine) then performed the composition at various sites around the city, becoming the latest example of what has become known as a complaints choir. Continue reading

Sonic Acts XIII — The Poetics of Space: Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology :: February 25-28, 2010 :: Paradiso, de Balie, NIMk and STEIM, Amsterdam :: 20% Early Bird discount on the festival until January 15, 2010!

The thirteenth Sonic Acts Festival in Amsterdam is entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative and audiovisual art, film, music and architecture. Sonic Acts XIII - The Poetics of Space examines the importance of physical space in times of far-reaching technological developments, and the physical and psychological impact of spatial designs.

Researching spatiality in the arts forms the core of the festival. How is space defined by a work of art? What does a viewer or listener experience? How do technological artworks deal with the visual, auditory and psychological aspects of spatiality? Continue reading

.microsound community project: microacoustic music: What is .microsound? what will it sound like in 10 years time? Is it purely music made via digital means or can it shape shift into using acoustic musical instruments? What is the sound of microacoustic music? Let’s find out. Each microsound member gets a chance to describe what microacoustic music sounds like to .

GUIDELINES: - length: all works must be 2 minutes maximum - deadline: February 1 2010 - mp3 files: filenames use only ALPHANUMERICS; i.e. NO spaces (underbars_and-hyphens-are-OK), stereo, encoded at 192 - 320kbps and have ID3 tags!! please make sure they have ID3 tags! Continue reading

You may already know through other channels, but here’s a reminder that Found Sound Stories , the first radio show produced at South Hill Park is being transmitted as part of the “Framework” show on Resonance FM this coming Sunday 20th December 10pm on 104.4fm in the London area, or streaming from http://www.resonancefm.com

The show was made from interviews and sound performances, which took place during the “Found Sound Stories” weekend, led by artist, Janek Schaefer as part of our Autumn “Digital Developments” season at South Hill Park. Continue reading

Sound Studies/Acoustic Communication Master’s Program Sound Studies :: Berlin University of the Arts.

Sound studies explore and form the acoustic dimensions of culture by using interdisciplinary methods. While applying a broader scale of theories and practices originating in art, cultural and social sciences, or design, sound studies aim at equally comprehensive and profound investigations of sonic phenomena, which then can be realized in diverse forms: as texts, as interventions, as works of art or as commercial projects. To cover all aspects, Sound Studies / Acoustic Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts are structured in four different fields: anthropology and ecology of sounds, experimental sound art and sound design, digital audio design, and acoustic conceptualization / brand communication. Continue reading

Juergen Staack - Transcription - Image — Radio Exhibition :: December 20-21, 2009; 6:00 pm - 11:00 am :: Kanal 103, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

A Sound Image by Juergen Staack will be broadcast approximately on every 30 minutes during the radio program!

The sound-files are descriptions of images that were destroyed after they were transcribed. The descriptions are in different languages (Amharic, Akan-Twi, Sorbic, Catalan, Chinese, Hindu, Japanese, Thai, Estonian, German, …) The most abstract description is in Ainu (7 native speakers left). The descriptions are between 30 seconds and 2 minutes, and there are about 30 different Images/ Description/ Languages. Continue reading

Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan and the NOW Ensemble :: December 18, 2009; 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. :: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., Brooklyn, NY.

New Amsterdam Records and the Archipelago Series present Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan as they wrap up their 22-show tour across the USA with a final performance this Friday at Galapagos. Perich and Flanigan will be joined by the fiery contemporary music group NOW Ensemble.

In his new half-hour duet, Dual Synthesis (for harpsichord and four-channel 1-bit electronics), Perich choreographs a lush intersection between antique keyboard instrument and primitive electronics. Continue reading

See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision :: August 28, 2009 - January 10, 2010 :: Lentos Kuntsmuseum, Ernst-Koref-promenade 1, Linz, Austria.

Exhibition, Symposium and Webarchive - includes films from the Center for Visual Music’s Collections, including a newly preserved 35mm print of Radio Dynamics, screened in film; plus Ornament Sound and Belson’s Samadhi (latter two screened digitally). The exhibition presents not only technical, perceptional and media-reflexive aspects of the coupling of image and sound from the beginning up to the present, but also poetic conceptual aspects that are important to contemporary visual artists today. Realized in collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.