Fluid Sounds by Douglas L. James and Changxi Zheng

Fluid sounds, such as splashing and pouring, are ubiquitous and familiar but we lack physically based algorithms to synthesize them in computer animation or interactive virtual environments. We propose a practical method for automatic procedural synthesis of synchronized harmonic bubble-based sounds from 3D fluid animations. Continue reading

Researchers create sounds of animated things breaking by Bill Steele:

A delicate wine glass shatters on the floor. A rock is thrown through a window. A child smashes his piggy bank. Dramatic moments like these in an animated movie or video game or some future virtual reality won’t seem realistic unless the sound matches the action.

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The Third Guthman Musical Instrument Competition :: Call for Entrees — Deadline: October 1, 2010.

Inventors, composers, creators, and designers are encouraged to submit their musical instrument inventions to the 2011 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. The event is hosted by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology and features a grand prize of $5,000. In total, $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the best novel musical instruments. Entries will be accepted through October 1, 2010 via an Online Submission Form and notification of acceptance will be provided November 1, 2010. Continue reading

Time Out New York presents the world`s first mobile AR magazine cover featuring singing sensation P.S. 22 Chorus ::

Time Out New York presents the world`s first ever magazine cover to be enhanced by mobile augmented reality. The TONY Kids` August issue will actually sing from the newsstands. With your smartphone, point at the magazine cover and enjoy a video of P.S. 22, the Webby Award-winning fifth-grade chorus from Staten Island, which has found national fame on YouTube. All you need is to activate the TONY Kids P.S. 22 channel on the free junaio® browser. Once more Time Out is pioneering new ways of letting readers enjoy the magazine, by exploiting the latest advances in augmented reality technology to unlock video and 3D content at the click of a smartphone.

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FINE COLLECTION OF CURIOUS SOUND OBJECTS from Georg Reil on Vimeo.

Unsound Festival 2011 + ((audience)) is issuing a special call for 5.1 surround sound works for the 2011 Unsound festival. Selected works will be presented in a completely dark cinema environment without visual accompaniment at the Walter Reade Theater / Film Society of Lincoln Center :: Selected artists will receive a modest fee :: Deadline: August 15, 2010.

image: Zach Layton at Red House Arts Center, ((audience)) premiere Continue reading

The Department for the Coordination of Scientific and Musical Research seeks to reinforce the interaction between the scientific and musical community by appealing to the computer music community at large. This program offers scholarships to artists and young professionals wishing to take advantage of a period of residency at IRCAM in order to pursue their music research projects in a stimulating collaborative environment. Deadline: September 30, 2010.

Each year - via online submission - a limited number of candidates is selected by a panel of international experts based on the following criteria: project content; scientific and artistic motivation; quality and innovative character of the project; mastery of the technologies needed for the project; demonstrated ability to manage a collaborative research project. Continue reading

Concert with Kaffe Matthews (London) and Derek Hoffend (Boston) :: July 22, 2010; 7:30 - 9:30 pm :: Art@12, 12 Farnsworth St., Boston. Massachusetts.

Studio Soto presents the dynamic London sound artist Kaffe Matthews in a special Boston appearance. Joining her on the bill will be Boston’s Derek Hoffend. Both artists share an interest in creating autonomous sound environments and special frequencies through sonic furniture, though this performance presents their concert works’ modalities.

Kaffe Matthews - making architectural music to feel through your body as well as your ears - was born in Essex, England and lives and works in London. Continue reading

Ocean Voices by Halsey Burgund and Wallace J. Nichols :: July 30, 2010; 1:00 pm + 6:00 pm :: Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston.

Ocean Voices is a collaboration between Boston-area sound artist Halsey Burgund and California marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols and features spoken-voice recordings from people around the world woven into a musical score for acoustic and electronic instruments performed by Burgund and his group Aesthetic Evidence. The voices have been collected via in-person interviews, an interactive website and an iPhone application.

Initially performed on June 3 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to honor World Oceans Day and the 100th anniversary of Jacques Cousteau’s birth, this work aims to “open minds and expand awareness” about the world’s oceans. Continue reading

[Image: Sound Art by Alan Licht] American Quarterly: Special Issue on Sound; Kara Keeling and Josh Kun, Guest Editors :: Call for Papers — Deadline: August 1, 2010.

The field of American studies has long been a familiar home to scholars interested in the social and cultural worlds of sound. Yet while visual culture has had a more visible presence on the pages of American Quarterly, sound has been heard in sporadic bursts, forceful whispers, and sudden critical noises. We propose a special issue of American Quarterly that highlights the key role of sound in the formation of central themes and areas of inquiry within contemporary American studies.

While the study of sound has gained momentum in the last three decades across a variety of disciplines, much remains to be gleaned from a rigorously interdisciplinary focus on sound in its cultural, political, technological, economic, socio-historical, spatial, temporal, affective, and formal contexts. Continue reading