Lovid :: Saturday December 4, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: at Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL :: Admission is FREE but space is limited. RSVP at http://lovid.eventbrite.com/

Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus will use their Sync Armonica, a 9 ft. sculptural, analog, handmade A/V synthesizer and electrical signals gathered from guest performers. LoVid events are playful yet aggressive, with realtime audiovisuals that are immersive, visceral and intensely colorful, patterned and rhythmic. Works combine handmade and machine produced craft, DIY electro-engineering, textile, video and noise.

Saturday they’ll premiere two new works — fast-flickering “C/O/L/O/R/G/B” with a new synthesizer color wheel, and “Becoming One.2.” Continue reading

John Hudak :: acoustic miniatures :: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 9:00 p.m. :: at Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 :: (212) 431 5127, 431 6430,

John Hudak (New York) will present a collection of electroacoustic miniatures inspired by European folk melodies, Asian street songs, and the inflections inherent in the speaking voices of various peoples of the world; from the murmurings of medieval monks to the songs of birds, a splendid time is guaranteed for all. Video visual accompaniment and audio collaboration will be supplied by Bruce Tovsky.

All of the EI December concerts are being streamed on free103point9 Online Radio; to hear the live stream during this performance, navigate to: www.free103point9.org (stream starts at about 9:30pm)

Scale is a bio-art collaboration with neurobiologist/ engineer Malcolm MacIver, visual/ conceptual artist Marlena Novak, and composer/ sound designer Jay Alan Yim. It is being presented at STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

This audience-interactive installation involves electric fish from the Amazon River Basin. Twelve different species of these fish comprise a ‘choir’ whose sonified electrical fields provide the source tones for an immersive audiovisual environment. The interface for Scale incorporates custom-designed software, a hacked Wiimote ‘conductor’s baton’ that participants can use to ‘cue’ individual fish so their unadulterated tones (as well as digitally processed versions) can be heard through the audio system, a touchscreen panel to allow for changes in volume, and arrays of LEDs under each tank to provide visual feedback to visitors. Continue reading

Darmstadt: Essential Repertoire :: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. through December 4, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. :: at ISSUE Project Room at the OA Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11215 :: Doors for all concerts open at 8 pm. Music begins at 8:30 pm. :: Tickets $10/$8 ISSUE Project Room members ::

Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents its third annual week of Essential Repertoire at ISSUE Project Room, an adoration and exploration of the experimental tradition in classical music, named “one of the most significant presentations of the season” by Time Out New York in 2008 and reviewed by the New York Times in 2009.

This year’s festival kicks off with an evening of Luciano Berio’s first ten Sequenzas for solo instrument, noted for their virtuosic implementation of extended technique, performed by a generation-defining group of players in New York’s booming new music community. Continue reading

Call to Artists: SIGGRAPH 2011 Juried Art Exhibition “Tracing Home” :: Exhibition Dates/Place: August 7-11, 2011 :: at the Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, CA :: Submission Deadline: January 14, 2011 ::

In the era of networked technology, we appear to live in an integrated global community where human relations and perceptions are conceived through various manifestations of a non-physical world of connections. We collectively build and spontaneously find refuge in virtual communities whose inhabitants experience incongruity and fragmentation, along with conformity and wholeness. Continue reading

Share – free audio & video jam :: November 28, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: at Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215-2714 :: (718) 330-0313 :: Free ::

What is share? SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept. Continue reading

Listening! by The School Of Sound :: November 25, 2010 :: Doors open at 7pm, Listening! begins at 7:30 sharp :: at The Horse Hospital, London Colonnade, off Russell Square, Bloomsbury London WC1N 1JD :: £5 entry at the door ::

It is rare to listen as a group. Whether at a concert or the theatre, in a cinema, facing some sort of screen or out on the street, we have images to keep our hearing company.

This is an opportunity for an audience to listen, together, without pictures. To immerse themselves in unfamiliar worlds and strange stories; to confront unexpected emotions, feelings, impressions; to share the unseen with those around you - all through sound. Narrative, abstract, radio, sound art - Listening! extends from documentary to the surreal, focusing particularly on the voice. Continue reading

14th Media Art Biennale: WRO 2011 Alternative Now: Call for works :: Deadline for Submissions: January 5, 2011 ::

The WRO Media Art Biennale is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues
in art and society.

Over the years, the WRO Biennales have raised a variety of questions about creative approaches to new technologies and the expanding technosphere of social media – about the creative crossover realms that arise where art and science, economics and social activism intersect. Continue reading

Polyphony: A linear 8-channell sound installation :: featuring FM’s Gustavo Matamoros and Rene Barge :: December 2 and 3, 2010 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. :: at Artcenter South Florida, 924 Lincoln Road • Miami Beach, Florida 33139 :: (305) 674-8278 :: free ::

image: Gustavo Matamoros

Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1957, Gustavo Matamoros has composed extensively using electroacoustic medias. His creations includes mixed pieces, compositions for tape, performances, installations, radiophonic works and multimedia spectacles. He is the founder of Subtropics Experimental Music & Sound Arts Festival, going strong now for two decades.

Rene Barge’s approach to working with sound is interrogative, informed by science, and yields results that can be communicated to audiences as a spatial experience.

Collaborative Augmented Reality makes beautiful music with ARmonica :: Two players bounce virtual balls off musical note bars using Wii remotes.

From Technology Review, 11/17/2010 : Augmented reality (AR) places interactive, virtual objects and effects over the real world, and it has huge potential for gaming. Imagine wearing an AR headset to play chess with animated virtual pieces on a real chess board, or to fight computerized zombies running into your own home.

For this to happen, computer scientists need to make sure players’ views and motions are in sync, which is doubly hard with two players, because both players need to see the virtual objects in the same space. Continue reading