Sync/Lost: an Immersive, Multi-User Visualization of Music History :: Sync/Lost [3bits.net] is a multi-user data visualization installation that allows users to become immersed in the history of electronic music. Starting from a complex timeline, user interactivity allows rhythms and sub-rhythms to merge into new sounds. The user interaction is accomplished with wiimote controls, wireless handheld pointers which are relatively easy to use and learn. The audible feedback is provided via wireless headphones.

The project’s objective is to create an interface where people can explore all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through both visual and audible feedback. The interaction with the resulting network graph leads to “a collective consequence in the spatial visualization of information”. [From infosthetics.com.

Figment Boston:: June 5, 2010, 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m.:: Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA :: Submissions are now open: http://figmentproject.org/2010/opportunities/submit-a-project/boston-waiver/ :: All project submissions must be received by May 1, 2010 ::
[image:Fairy girl with chalk by Lindsay BuckleyC2009]

Figment is an offshoot of a Festival on Governor’s Island in NYC, which in turn has its roots in a European Festival. Operating under the umbrella of the Cambridge Arts Council , Figment Boston will happen alongside the Cambridge River Festival on June 5, 2010. It will have the riverside from Western Ave almost to the Weeks footbridge and Memorial drive to fill with Art and performance. Figment is looking for interactive art; sculpture, music, performance, what have you. The more interactive, the better, but a temporary sculpture park would be fine as well. Continue reading

Listen to your eyes :: a twofold exhibition shown simultaneously at 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine and at the École Supérieure d’Art in Metropolitan Métropole (ÉSAMM) :: February 26, 2010 to April 18, 2010 :: Free admission ::
[image: Su-Mei Tse, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, 2001, Collection Frac Lorraine, © D.R.]
The exhibition Listen to your eyes is the first event in the series. Diagonales : son, vibration et musique (Diagonals: sound, vibration, and music). Originated by Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), it combines visits to exhibitions in ten regions in France, as well as in Benelux, and brings together nineteen contemporary art centers around a common issue: the place of sound and music in contemporary creation from the 1960s to the present, as seen through a selection of works from the Centre national des arts plastiques. Continue reading

Wearable sound experiment or Why does my knee bark and my armpit squeak?
@ Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway :: March 15 to 18, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. :: at: Atelier Nords project room,
Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsvn. 17, 0167 OSLO :: Registration for the workshop at http://www.ateliernord.no Maximum number of participants: 10 :: Application deadline: March 5, 2010 :: Participation fee: NOK 500.

This four day workshop introduces basic soft electronics techniques for constructing fabric sensors and wearable circuits. Instead of using soldering irons and wire, we will use sewing needles and conductive thread. The theme of the workshop is hacking sound toys into wearables. Continue reading

International Festival of Electronic Arts, Music and Moving Image:: March 5-14, 2010 :: Newcastle Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderlands , The Sage Gateshead 8 / 6 concessions, tickets available direct from www.thesagegateshead.org or +44 (0) 191 443 4661 ::

This year the curatorial theme is energy: a universal force that connects, transforms and renews life. Exploring energy from scientific, technological, environmental and spiritual perspectives we present work that resonates across the Festival centres in Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, and beyond.

It’s a packed and diverse programme with 24 exhibitions, 20 performances, 10 screenings, 14 talks, 3 symposia, 4 club nights, 2 residencies and even our very own café. We are thrilled to include legendary and inspiring artists, filmmakers and musicians such as: Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Liliane Lijn, Alan Moore, Charlemagne Palestine and Iain Sinclair, who have all innovated in their respective fields. Continue reading

Bent Festival :: at The Tank, 45th Street Theatre in Hell’s Kitchen, 354 W. 45th Street between 8th and 9th., New York, NY :: April 22-24, 2010 ::

The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year they invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture. Continue reading

The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is now accepting proposals for workshops :: Deadline: March 15th :: the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) will be held in New York City and Stony Brook, NY, USA from June 1-5 2010.

These workshop events focus on the development of extended computer music techniques and knowledge through demonstrations, hands-on learning, and tutorials with a special emphasis on physical computing and building things. Continue reading

“With the installation Sonicity, the English artist Stanza adds another significant chapter to his quest for new metaphors to translate the countless interactions produced by data passing through an environment into a sensory plane. Stanza’s aim is to create a data space that is perceived as alive. To achieve this goal he has installed a great number of sensors that are able to detect the smallest changes in variables (such as light, temperature, noise, humidity and the location of certain objects) in the building that houses the gallery. Each of these sensors provides information on the parameters being monitored. These data are then transformed by Sonicity into a sound environment through the use of a wireless network consisting of hundreds of small speakers positioned on the floor and walls of the exhibition space. Continue reading

The Amazing Acoustaphotophonogrammitron with Paul de Jong of The Books (cello, electronics), Lesley Flannigan (speaker electronics, voice) and Tristan Perich (electronics), Ven Voisey (guitar, drum, voice, electronics) :: February 25, 2010; 7:30 - 9:30 pm :: Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA.

Throughout the months of February and March, MCLA Gallery 51, in partnership with MCLA Presents!, exhibiting artists who find the muse both in the visual and performative worlds — in other words, artists who are musicians, musicians who are artists and all that falls between. Come hear the music that made the art!

This Thursday g51 hosts four of the artists whose work is being shown as part of the Amazing Acoustaphotophongrammitron. You have seen their work, now come hear their music. Opening will be MCLA Student Ben McDermott. Continue reading

Upgrade! Warsaw: Electro-acoustic Concert — Sindre Bjerga, Nils Rostad, Thaw - Hubert Napiórski, CADAVeR - Piotr Olczak :: February 22, 2010; 8:00 pm :: 2.0 Gallery, The Academy of Music, 58/60 Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warsaw, Poland.

Sindre Bjerga has been wiretapping the secret frequencies of ghostly drones for years now. Though a steady flow of releases on numerous labels around the world he has been channeling the spectral transmissions from the grey void… Expect psychedelic drones that sometimes collide with snippets of found sounds from half-demagnetized tapes and concrete sounds from wrecked kitchen utensils… Recent releases: “Crystal cranium, diamond head” (Blackest Rainbow) and “Black Cobweb mind” (Klang und Krach). Continue reading