Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena (eds.) :: Rewind, Play, Fast Forward The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video :: 2010, 280 Seiten, kart., zahlr. Abb., 29,80 € , ISBN: 978-3-8376-1185-4 :: More info at: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1185/ts1185s.php

Due to shifts in the contexts of the production and presentation of the music video, more and more people start to talk about a possible end of this genre. At the same time disciplines such as visual-, film- and media-studies, art- and music-history begin to realize that despite the fact that the music video obviously has come of age, they still lack a well defined and matching methodical approach for analyzing and discussing videoclips.

For the first time this volume brings together different disciplines as well as journalists, museum curators and gallery owners in order to take a discussion of the past and present of the music video as an opportunity to reflect upon suited methodological approaches to this genre and to allow a glimpse into its future. Continue reading

F.A.S.T. New Music Marathon @ MIT :: 5 hours of genre-bending mind-blowing new music :: Friday, April 15, 2011 from 7:00 p.m. to midnight :: MIT Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue (Building W16), Cambridge, MA :: Tickets on sale now! http://mit-newmusic-marathon.eventbrite.com :: Purchase BY 5:00 p.m. Friday and get 25% off! Use code “25off-marathon” at checkout :: Normal ticket prices $30, $10 for non-MIT students, FREE to MIT students and community

World-renowned new music powerhouses Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars and Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man team up with Gamelan Galak Tika and MIT Chamber Chorus for a 5-HOUR MARATHON CONCERT featuring Brian Eno’s complete Music for Airports, as well as works by Evan Ziporyn, Christine Southworth, minimalist guru Terry Riley, and a world premiere by MIT’s Tod Machover (featuring a live appearance by Noam Chomsky). Continue reading

Certain Sundays is pleased to announce its 2011 spring-summer calendar:: Certain Sundays is a salon at SOWIESO, a monthly sound & music salon in Berlin. After a pause in Fall 2010, they have a very exciting program this year which they hope you will be able to attend! More details can be found on their new website: www.certainsundays.de

February 27, 2011 from 17:00-19:00 Uhr :: Peter Behrends: soundso and Hanna Hartman: The Importance of Getting Lost:: SOWIESO, Weisestraße 24, 12049 Berlin, U8 Leinestraße :: conversations in English or Deutsch :: complimentary coffee & cake :: Admission: 5€

Peter Behrendsen: From 1965 to 1972 studied Theatre Science, German language, and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne; self-studied electronic musician since 1972, member of Josef Anton Riedl’s ensemble, for ten years as collaborator with Klaus Schöning at the WDR-Studio für Akustische Kunst. Continue reading

Kunstradio-Radiokunst :: Presentation of Literature as Radio Art productions 2010 ::
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 19.00 :: Literarisches Quartier, Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Vienna, Austria ::

With authors: STAN LAFLEUR (Cologne) Im Alpenrhein (15:30, Sound: Martin Leitner); ELFFRIEDE.INTERDISZIPLINÄRE AUFZEICHNENSYSTEME (Vienna) Schrei zum Hummel (15:03, Sound: Robert Pavlecka); MICHAELA FALKNER (Vienna) Es gibt diesen Krieg gar nicht - Eine Zurückweisung (13:38, Sound: Robert Pavlecka); CHRISTIAN STEINBACHER (Linz) Der Schluck auf der Lücke (15:27, Sound: Martin Leitner). Continue reading

Call for papers :: Music and Gesture : 2nd Musical Itineraries Forum :: October 28 and 29, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal ::

The Center for the Study of Sociological and Musical Aesthetics – CESEM (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University NOVA of Lisbon), announces the call for papers for the 2nd Musical Itineraries Forum: ‘Music and Gesture’ taking place in Lisbon, October 28 and 29, 2011.

The Musical Itineraries Forum was established in 2010 as a meeting place for interdisciplinary debates and presentation of scientific projects, encouraging the discussion between researchers, performers, students and creative artists. Continue reading

Tactical Sound Garden [ TSG ] Toolkit ::

Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] from mark shepard on Vimeo.

Given the ubiquity of mobile devices and wireless networks, and their proliferation throughout increasingly diverse and sometimes unexpected urban sites, what opportunities - and dilemmas - emerge for the design of public space in contemporary cities? Continue reading

Tune-in Music Festival :: February 16 – 20, 2011 :: Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065 :: (212) 616-3930 ::

Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird curates and performs at the Armory’s five-day music festival, bringing together some of today’s leading new music groups, including red fish blue fish, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Sympho, and Newspeak. Within the vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the audience becomes part of the musical experience. Works by Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, John Cage, Louis Andriessen, Kurt Schwitters, David T. Little, Stefan Weisman, and Matt Marks will be performed. Closing the festival is the New York—and indoor—premiere of John Luther Adams’ percussion-only Inuksuit, which features 72 performers moving throughout the expansive hall during the performance. Continue reading

Call for radio work :: Radius in Chicago IL is currently accepting work for its experimental broadcast platform ::

Radius is an experimental broadcast platform located in Chicago, IL, USA. Radius features a new project each month with statements by artists who use radio as a primary element in their work. Radius provides artists with live and experimental formats in radio programming. The goal is to support work that engages the tonal and public spaces of the electromagnetic spectrum.

More information and previous episodes can be found at http://theradius.tumblr.com/

Radius is currently accepting work for upcoming episodes. Please contact Radius at thetheradius [at] gmail [dot] com

CRiSAP and Sound Arts & Design at LCC present a talk by composer, sound artist, sonic thinker Sam Auinger :: Wednesday February 16, 2011 at 2.00 p.m. :: Performance Lab (M108 Media Block), London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB, UK ::

Sam Auinger lives and works in Berlin. He is known for both his own work and his 20 year transatlantic collaboration with Bruce Odland. Together they founded “O+A” making installations that change the way we hear, re-connecting us to our environment. They are composers and philosophers of modern life who think with their ears and have developed a Hearing Perspective on our visually insane culture. Continue reading

The world premiere of ARCO:: by Paul Haas, Paul K. Fowler and Bora Yoon :: Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 :: 6:00 p.m. Artist Talk (pre-registration required) :: 7:30 p.m performance :: opening night of the inaugural Tune In Festival_! :: at the Park Avenue Armoy Drill Hall, 643 Park Ave. btw 66th & 67th, New York City :: tickets: $25 | $20 discount rush tickets available night-of performance ::

For one night only, the historic Park Avenue Armory presents the world premiere of site-specific symphonic commission ARCO, co-composed by Paul Haas, Paul K. Fowler, and Bora Yoon which transforms the Park Avenue Armory’s vast and majestic 55,000 sq. ft drill hall space into a sonic voyage through time and space. Continue reading