Heart Chamber Orchestra: Playing Music (Literally) from the Heart ::

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Heart Chamber Orchestra is an audio-visual performance during which 12 classical trained musicians control a music composition and a graphical visualization through their personal heartbeats.

The musical score is generated in real-time by the heartbeats of the musicians, who read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them. As a result, the installation forms a feedback loop in which the music literally “comes from the heart”. Continue reading

Nancy Garcia :: April 9 – June 9, 2011 :: Opening: April 9; 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: Bas Fisher Invitational, 180 NE 39th Street, Suite 210, Miami, Florida.

Nancy Garcia’s interdisciplinary practice incorporates choreography, music/sound, video, performance, image making, and new media. Often slinging the viewer to the edges of performative events, Garcia draws attention to the exultant body, considering it as a site as well as a vehicle for sound and movement. For her first solo exhibition in Miami, Garcia shows a new body of work incorporating photography, a new video entitled Power Trio, and a concept audio compilation, Lover’s Alarm Clock, for which she asked artist friends to “create a sound you want your lover/s to wake up to.” Each track will be downloadable and sharable as a smartphone ringtone at www.loversalarmclock.com, and be available for listening in the gallery. Continue reading

Spectral Quartet — by Woody Sullender — is a web adaptation of the project Whispering Spectres, which will be installed at Turbulence @Pace Digital Gallery 2, April 5-29, 2011.

The audio content consists of filtered radio signals, culled from various web streams from the Internet. These signals are being passed through many “band pass filters”, a type of equalizer that allows a small range of frequencies through while attenuating frequencies outside of this range. In effect, most of the audio signal is “erased” except for a narrow stratum of frequency material. This work highlights small, hidden musical moments that are occurring on radio, but are usually rendered inaudible by other elements in the sound. Continue reading

Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR):: radio experiments :: First Thursday evenings during April, May and June, 2011 :: at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), 250 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 :: Free ::

First Event :: In Your Ear :: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:00 –10:00 p.m. :: MOCA, Grand Avenue :: Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) will harness the airwaves around the museum to transmit a collection of radio programs on local frequencies. MOCA visitors may tune into these programs via handheld personal transistor radios they either bring to or buy at the event for 2 USD. For “FMemory,” NPR will broadcast interviews with downtown Los Angeles’s communities about memorable experiences of MOCA as well as their perceptions of Bunker Hill’s evolving landscape. Continue reading

Karl Sczuka Prize 2011: Call for Submissions :: Application Deadline: June 15, 2011 ::

The Karl Sczuka Prize for Works of Radio Art will be awarded this year for the 50th time, to honour the best production of a work of radio art using musical material and structures in an acoustic performance. The prize is open to authors, composers, directors and production teams. The application deadline is June 15, 2011.

Südwestrundfunk, a public service organization, awards a prize for works of radio art. The presentation is made for the best production of a work of radio art using musical material and structures in an acoustic performance. In addition to the Karl Sczuka Prize, the Südwestrundfunk awards a support grant.

The Karl Sczuka Prize is awarded annually, in October, by the “Intendant” (Director General) of Südwestrundfunk. Works winning the Karl Sczuka Prize are, insofar as is possible, presented during the Donaueschingen Festival (“Donaueschinger Musiktage”).

For details and regulations in German, English and French, please got to http://www.swr2.de/sczuka

Taming Technology – Addomesticare la Tecnologia :: April 22-23, 2011 — Associazione Culturale Nub in Montale (PT) + April 29-30, 2011 — Le Murate, via delle carceri, Italy (at the historical prison complex of Le Murate and at the club Cargo).

Switch – Creative Social Network in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Nub and Tempo Reale present Taming Technology, a two day program including performances, DJ sets, installations, lectures and workshops exploring the territory between music, art and new media. The focus will be on practices such as physical computing, interface and interaction design, hardware hacking and biological computation, framed as fields of research capable of providing new connections between the virtual domain and the physical world. Continue reading

Workshop with sound artist Stephen Vitiello :: Session One: June 12 – 18, 2011 :: Location: Shakerag Workshops, 290 Quintard Road, Sewanee, Tennessee 37375 ::

Each participant should bring a portable field recorder with external or built-in microphones and a pair of headphones. There are numerous hard-disc recorders on the market by manufacturers such as Zoom (H4n), Tascam, Sony and Olympus. Older technologies such as a Sony Walkman Pro (cassette) or minidisc are also acceptable.

registration here: http://www.shakerag.org/registration/

This workshop encourages a sonic appreciation for the natural environment and an ear for sound manipulation. We will use the Shakerag campus as our starting point. Continue reading

Audiovisuology Essays 2: Histories and Theories of Audiovisual Media and Art :: Softback :: 452 pages :: illustrated :: But it online : Cornerhouse Books ::

This is the third publication in the See This Sound project which comprises stimulating essays on the current and historical position of sound and image in art and media, and their interconnection.
The point of departure for the prominent authors was the fact that our realm of experience is today shaped by an omnipresence of audio-visual products and structures, in which the cultural image and sound production are tightly entwined with one another in terms of technology, art and market strategy.

The project See this Sound explores the current diversity and long history of these syntheses and contradictions, this linking, overlapping and sometimes also irreconcilability through the perspectives of contemporary art and art and media science.