beau son.ge – An Electric Fayerie by Norbert Walter Peters will be presented on Radio Finland YLE on February 22, 2010; 10:05 – 11:05 pm (local time Helsinki) by WEB-Streamer.

beau son.ge – An Electric Fayerie will also be presented on Radio UNAM Mexico City on March 3, 2010 at 10 pm Mexican time by WEB-Streamer.

The composition compares the noise character of an e-bass, a distorted e-guitar and a male voice with the sound quality of slap-e-bass effects and percussion as well as electronically amplified conventional string and wind instruments. It is an hommage to Jimi Henrix. For more information about the 50 minute piece go here.

Sonification (what, where, how, why), A Symposium :: March 4-5, 2010 :: École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix en Provence, Aix en Provence, France.

The purpose of this symposium is to conduct a state of the art review of the use sonification* within art projects, with a focus on the use of data taken from our surroundings (in a broad sense) as opposed to gestural interfaces or electronic instruments.

What distinguishes sonification from other forms of data mediation? What are the different ways in which sonification is used in art? What parallels, similarities, differences & contradictions exist between the use of sonification or audio display for technical & for artistic purposes? What differences in the artistic approach does the use of realtime as opposed to recorded data imply? What is the importance of the relationship between the source of data and the way in which it is mediated? Continue reading

The 2009 [13th] Japan Media Arts Festival is now over, but its Art Division has recommended a number of works that are well worth looking at.

Among them, is Fredo Viola’s The Turn, an interactive, toy-like site that showcases Fredo Viola’s music and unique video work. Traditional rectangular videos are joined by circular and hexagonal works, which can be turned. When shapes collide they generate sounds that create a musical instrument in conjunction with the interactive background music and adjustable physics parameters.

Viola collaborated with artist Guille Lopez in creating The Turn.

Electroshop [Concrete sound workshop] :: February 28, 2010; 6:00 – 7:15 pm :: Crosspoint, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom.

Performers: Anna Troisi: sounding sculptures and theremin; Antonino Chiaramonte: live electronics and audio sequencing; Giorgio Distante: trumpet and electronics; Roberto Paci Dalò: bass clarinet and electronics.

Electroshop [Concrete sound workshop] is a performance/workshop involving musical sculptures and compositions created at ICCMR. The sculptures are fitted with sensors that connect to computers and synthesizers. Performers play the sculptures by running their fingers over the sensors, and can even change the sound quality by subtly turning and moving the whole structure. The signals are then relayed to synthesizers, which produce the music. Acousmatic interludes with original text by Gerard Maroney. Continue reading

((audience)) presents Dub Shop Saturday, March 6, 2010 and Sunday, March 7, 2010 from 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m. :: at Kleio Projects , 153½ Stanton Street (between Suffolk and Clinton Streets), New York City :: Subways F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street

Dub Shop will exhibit works by Noah Angell, Alexis Bhagat, Ed Bear & Lea Bertucci, Simona Brinkmann, R. Luke Dubois, Nate Harrison, Harvestworks / Tellus Tapes, Richard Kostelanetz, Lary 7, LOUD5, Loud Objects, Cedric Maridet, Ken Montgomery, mudboy, Michael Northam, Ben Owen, Seasonal, thenumber46 (Suzanne Thorpe & Philip White)

Dub Shop at Kleio Projects is a pop-up exhibition organized by ((audience)) co-curators, Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati. Continue reading

send + receive audio art festival :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: March 5, 2010.

send + receive is an annual audio art festival showcasing current and newly emerging areas of sonic investigation in a variety of forms through live performance, radio broadcasts, web-based projects, internet streaming projects, installations, film and video screenings, workshops, talks and panel discussions. send + receive is an international festival that advances the discipline of sound art, and is one of the few annual media arts festivals in North America focusing exclusively on sound-based work.

As the festival is programed well in advance of each edition, most submissions received by the March 5, 2010 deadline will be considered for future editions and off season programming in 2011 and beyond.

Francisco Lopez :: February 19, 2010; 9:00 pm :: NK, Elsenstr 52 2hh 2 etage, in the Neukölln area, Berlin.

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. Continue reading

Non-Cochlear Sound :: Organized by Seth Kim-Cohen for Diapason :: Call for Work — Deadline: June 3, 2010.

Diapason will be working with sound artist and author Seth Kim-Cohen to present an exhibition of Non-Cochlear Sound, as formulated in Kim-Cohen’s book “In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art” (Continuum). The exhibition is scheduled for October, 2010.

Non-Cochlear Sound describes a form of sonic practice not primarily concerned with the ear. Marcel Duchamp’s famous call for a non-retinal visual art was answered (eventually) by minimalism, conceptual art, social-based practice, and a host of approaches that appeal not to the eye, but to other concerns. In his book, Seth Kim-Cohen asks why sound has been slower to make the conceptual, linguistic, and social turns. Continue reading

Tristan Perich: Interval Studies :: February 5 – 14, 2010 ::Mikrogalleriet, Gormsgade 9, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mikrogalleriet’s solo exhibition for New York-based composer and artist Tristan Perich ends this Sunday in Copenhagen. His new body of work, Interval Studies, is a formal look at musical intervals as a dense continuum of microtonal pitch, expressed en masse as discrete 1-bit frequencies distributed across hundreds of individual speakers. Each speaker, emitting a single, primitive 1-bit tone, becomes a microscopic voice in the total cluster, substituting individual pitch for larger sonic masses. Photographs and Video from the exhibition.

MMIX by Nicolas Clauss :: Japan Media Art Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo and online at flyingpuppet, a collection of digital tableaus started in 2001.

MMIX* [Roman numerals for 2009] is a timeless work in four interactive tableaus, where each visitor is invited to follow with his eyes and ears what his mouse gestures reveal. At each caress, sound and visual elements get randomly muddled up on the screen creating always new combinations. A work travelling between real and surreal, dream and mind, rage and fright, where humour and drama are cruelly mixed to suggest the sad patterns of our contemporary reality.