10th Performance Art Festival: Amplification — audiovisual physical live acts with Francisco López (Spain) + Evelina Domnitch (Belarus / Netherlands) & Dmitry Gelfand (Russia / Netherlands) Kustos :: Curator:Darko Fritz Croatia / Netherland :: June 1 - 2, 2010 :: Barutana, Tvrdavica 192, Osijek, Croatia.

All of the technological audiovisual setups on display here challenge the limits of human perception in the physically achieved audiovisual surroundings. The sound is continually being treated as a physical fact, whether a field recording, or created as frequencies using the analogue and digital machinery in the scientific lab experiment happening live on the stage. The sound as such participates in the composition of a new kind of auditive experiences tailored to each performance location, often varying with the observation point within the performance room itself. Continue reading

Sound with Ray Beckett :: June 3, 2010; 6:00 pm :: Cinema A, The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London :: Register.

Ray Beckett, regular collaborator with Ken Loach and Oscar-winning Location Sound Mixer on The Hurt Locker, discusses his work with Larry Sider from the School of Sound, illustrated by film clips, including The Hurt Locker, Land and Freedom and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Deconstructing the Soundtrack — A Seminar Series sponsored by the School of Sound in collaboration with the London Film School :: June 12-13, 2010 :: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London.

Building on the success of Sound & Music Techniques for Narrative Filmmaking with Gustavo Costantini, the seminars are aimed at those working in screen-based media, and offer three further perspectives on the use of sound and music in filmmaking. Continue reading

Supercollider Sounding Code :: with Marcus Schmickler, nonprivate (a. k. a. cylob) and Hecker :: June 2, 2010 :: at Berghain, Rüdersdorfer Straße 70, Berlin :: Phone: 030 29351830

All three artists will play live, presenting music they develop with the programming language SuperCollider. SuperCollider is an evolving open source project run by a community of artists and electronic musicians. In contrast to Ableton, Native Instruments or Logic Audio, SuperCollider is available for free, and offers a rich palette of possibilities for electronic music, from sound synthesis algorithms and structural ideas to playable instruments. The artists donate the proceeds to support its continued development. The next symposium on music, art and research involving SuperCollider is in September in Berlin.
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EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) presents Filament festival:: October 1 - 3, 2010 :: at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, USA 12180 :: 518.276.3921

Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. It highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.

Performances and installations include:

MTAA (NYC): a barn raising driven by audience participation
Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA): a 24-channel immersive sound installation
BalletLab (Australia): choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscape
Yanira Castro (NYC): a performance ecosystem where sound and dance environments envelop both audience and artists Continue reading

Playlist, playing Games, Music, Art :: June 4 - August 21, 2010 :: Opening: June 3; 6:00 - 11:00 pm :: iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Koolmijnenkaai 30 Quai des Charbonnages, 1080 Brussels.

iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technologies is proud to announce Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art, an exhibition focused on the artistic reinvention of obsolete digital media. Produced and hosted by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Asturias) in the frame of the Mediateca Expandida, Playlist now moves to Brussels enriched with twelve new participants and a broader range of artworks. Continue reading

Stanford Laptop Orchestra presents: Spring Concert 2010 :: June 2, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) celebrate the conclusion of a wonderful 2009-2010 season with a full-scale laptop orchestra concert in Dinkelspiel Auditorium! You are cordially invited to an evening of all new works for the full ensemble of humans, laptops, and hemispherical speaker arrays (with healthy doses of iPhones and iPads)!

Featuring new works and performances by Chris Chafe, Bruno Ruviaro, Marisol Jimenez, Uri Nieto, Jorge Herrera, Jieun Oh, Ge Wang, Visda Goudarzi, Jay Bhat, Rob Hamilton, Giancarlo Daniele, Charlie Forkish, Stephen Hess, Ben Holtz, Alan Hshieh, Daniel Smith, Lekan Wang, Aaron Zarraga, Nick Kruge, Linden Melvin, Isaac Wang, Luke Dahl, Carr Wilkerson, and Adam Somers!

Tribeca New Music Festival: Pamela Z, Bora Yoon, and Luke Dubois :: June 9, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY.

In a shared concert with Bora Yoon and Luke Dubois, Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video, including excerpts from some of her large-scale performance works.

Bora Yoon will perform a duo set with video artist Luke Dubois, Pamela Z will perform solo, and then all three will come together for a sonic and visual trio. They will be joined by the vocal quartet New York Polyphony for this final Tribeca New Music Festival evening. Continue reading

Dag in de Branding presents Alvin Lucier in a one-off unique concert :: May 29, 2010; 3:00 p.m. :: at various locations in The Hague.

The Hague festival for new music, has joined forces in this sixteenth edition with TAG, the ultimate platform for contemporary audio-visual art in The Hague. The programme not only presents a Greek avant-garde opera by Iannis Xenakis, but also focuses on the trailblazing work of Alvin Lucier (USA), professor of music and composition. Since 2006 Dag in de Branding has captivated audiences time and again with its one-day journeys of discovery into the world of new music. Continue reading

In celebration of World Oceans Day and Jacques Cousteau’s 100th birthday anniversary, Ocean Voices by Halsey Burgund and Wallace J. Nichols :: June 3, 2010; 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm :: California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA.

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