Xth Sense — biophysical generation and control of music :: Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance :: Creating your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds :: August 17-18-19-20 August, from 11.00-19.00 daily (6 hours sessions + 1 hour break) :: nnnnn, Unit 73a, Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London, E2 4QN :: Participation is limited to 8 candidates :: Fee: £ 80 including materials ::

Music for Flesh II | solo piece for Xth Sense biosensing wearable device from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

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The World as Instrument: A Theoretical Workshop Taught by Francisco López :: September 5 - 9, 2011 :: Open Campus 2011, Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts, Senju Campus (Adachi-ku, Tokyo) :: Fee: 24,000 yen :: Participation is limited to 30 participants ::

This workshop focuses on the theory of field recording, audio recording of environmental sound.

The World as Instrument that López has organized worldwide introduces the participants to the art of field recording through huge sonic samples and discussion. At the end of the workshop, the participants will experience the depth of the art at his blind live performance. The live performance will be held on September 10, 2011 at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Continue reading

Artist Bill Fontana is opening a public art sound installation in the landscaped passageway between the Financial Center Tower, 250 W. Main Street and its parking garage in Lexington, KY on July 29, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. The project will make audible the underground Town Branch River along with the toll of the bell in the Old County Courthouse.

Speakers have been installed along the passageway between the Lexington Financial Center, the city’s blue high-rise, and an adjacent parking garage. Microphones dip beneath to pick up the sounds of Town Branch rushing by. Most people would never know the Town Branch of Elkhorn Creek runs under downtown Lexington if they were not told. There has long been no visual or audible evidence of the rushing water that runs just below the high-rise buildings and busy streets of the city — until this week.

The project will be on permanent exhibit after Thursday afternoon. Continue reading

This short film is an advertisement for Japanese mobile phone company Docomo: a linear musical instrument designed by Drill Inc. is played by the descent of a wooden ball as it slowly rolls down track, sending xylophonic plinks and plonks out into the forest.

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Call for sound art :: Behind Closed Doors :: Sound art exhibition at the Stian [con] temporary art gallery in Kölleröd, Sweden :: Curated by Anders Weberg :: for sound artists willing to interpret the phrase “Behind Closed Doors” :: Deadline: August 10, 2011 ::

image from Door Keeper

The artworks will be played behind an old red door. The door will be locked with the sound pieces inside.Visitors will be able to hear it if they come close to the door. Best experienced with the ear against the door. The door will not be opened as long as the exhibition last.

Five artists will be selected for the exhibition. The exhibition will run August 14 - August 31, 2011. A pdf catalogue will be produced. Continue reading

Sound Art Theories Symposium :: November 5-6, 2011; 9:00 am – 4:00 pm :: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr., Chicago, IL.

Presented by the SAIC’s Department of Sound, the Sound Arts Theories Symposium will present a range of new theoretical work regarding sound as art and art as sound. Presenters include: • Christoph Cox • David Grubbs • Seth Kim-Cohen • Salomé Voegelin • Allen S. Weiss.

The symposium is also conducting an Open Call for Papers, from which an additional five to eight presenters will be selected. They are seeking papers that speak to the plurality of theorizing about sound as art and art as sound, with particular interest in critical approaches to sound art that are not necessarily nor primarily related to music. Continue reading

Call for Proposals for Waterwheel Launch :: This is a call for proposals for performances/ presentations (of 5 minutes each maximum) for the launch of WATERWHEEL - with a deadline for proposals of August 12, 2011. The entire performance/ presentation program will be no longer than 30-45min.

WATERWHEEL, a new online platform exploring ‘water’ as a topic and metaphor, will be launched on August 22, in Brisbane (Australia) and will take place live online on the TAP at 6.30 p.m. You can find your time here.

The TAP is an online, real-time venue and forum, workshop and stage for live networked performance and presentation. Here you can create and collaborate, rehearse and remix, present and exchange, participate and communicate—privately as a crew or publicly with an audience. The Tap provides tools for live networking and real-time media mixing. Continue reading

PUBLIC SCULPTURE SOUND | NARCELIO GRUD from Yeah on Vimeo.

In Ceará, Brazil, Narcelio Grud has created one of the more impressive alternate uses for street signs the Urban Guide for Alternate Use has seen, and they’ve seen plenty. Narcelio transforms street signs around the city in to public instruments as part of his Musica Livre project. As the video above shows, the project is exceptional not only for its merits of installing DIY musical instruments throughout the city, but also for the range and inventiveness of the instruments themselves. From stringed instruments to xylophones, the city’s street signs’s new identities bring a smile and tune to anyone who passes by. You can’t ask for much more in a reworked sign than what you see below. The images below and many more can be found here.

GO11 AWARD Call for submission :: Deadline: September 5, 2011.

The GO11 Award is a €500 prize for the best examples of re-using existing objects and areas of the city for a new purpose.

image: billboard playground

To encourage and celebrate resourcefulness in the city, Exchange Radical Moments! Live Art Festival is awarding a prize for the most innovative re-use of an urban object or area for a new purpose.

From telephone boxes being re-used as tree planters to street signs being used as musical instruments , the urban landscape is no longer the end of a creative process, but the beginning. The city has become source material and urban residents around the world are finding new uses for the existing infrastructure of their city. Continue reading