Internet Topography 2011 by art of failure.

In Internet Topography, 50Hz audio signals are sent from the exhibition space to Tokyo, then returned within the installation space where we can listen to it. The transmission errors that occur during these streamings are analyzed and then considered as a potential and incomplete layout of the network topography. Similar to a landscape, this digital topography proves to be an unstable organization of patterns, shapes and outlines opening the way to multiple mental representations. This imaginary scope is made perceptible trough an immersive sound and light installation.

Re-Viewing Black Mountain College 3: 3rd Annual Conference: John Cage’s Circle of Influence :: October 7 - 9, 2011 :: UNC and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC :: Weekend cost for the conference is $30; daily admission is $20; free for UNC Asheville faculty, students and staff ::

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in partnership with UNC Asheville and the John Cage Trust is pleased to announce ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 3 to be held October 7 – 9, 2011, a weekend gathering of scholars, performers and artists coming to Asheville to present ideas and perform works related to avant-garde composer John Cage. The program for the weekend will include music, performances, installations, exhibitions, films and scholarly presentations, all touching on some aspect of Cage’s life, work and genius…his Circle of Influence. Continue reading

Composer Philip Glass will be inducted into the Cincinnati-based American Classical Music Hall of Fame in a special ceremony Saturday evening, Oct. 1. That coincides with Mobile Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the Glass Violin Concerto featuring 25-year-old Bulgarian violinist Bella Hristova.

Orchestras worldwide are celebrating the composer’s 75th year. Glass will present the world premiere of his Symphony No. 9 by Bruckner Orchestra Linz in Austria before the symphony’s New York City premiere at Carnegie Hall on Glass’s 75th birthday, Jan. 31, 2012.

Theatermania lists other highlights as: a reprise of his opera “Satyagraha” at Metropolitan Opera, November 4 to December 1, 2011; the previously announced international tour of “Einstein on the Beach”; Continue reading

This video created by musician Mikael Mutti. Mutti likes to reverse engineer electronics and game controllers to create instruments and new sounds.

“When I find things like this, I am like a child. When I found that circular keyboard in New York, I immediately started playing it like a pandeiro (Brazilian hand drum) and the guy at the store was like, ‘what the %^(+!’” Continue reading

Artisphere presents New Media Exhibit: Data/Fields :: Thursday, September 22, 2011 through Sunday, November 27, 2011 :: Five International Artists Explore the Flow and Transfer of Sensory Data :: Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia ::

Internationally renowned sound artist Richard Chartiere brings together a celebrated group of international artists for a thought-provoking new media exhibit which explores the connection between the viewer and the flow and transfer of data at Artisphere from Thursday, September 22 –Sunday, November 27, 2011. These selected and commissioned works by Caleb Coppock (U.S.), Mark Fell (U.K.), Andy Graydon (U.S./Germany), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan), France Jobin (Canada) act as hubs of sensory information-sites of signal, noise, presence, and absence. Data/Fields marks the artists’ gallery debut in the Washington, DC-area and includes two premiere exhibitions in the United States. Continue reading

E Q 2 0 1 1 - Equinoxygen Festival :: the Northeast’s premier concert series for electronic and experimental music :: Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. :: Wilson Auditorium, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 99 University Plaza Drive (off Hackensack Ave.), Hackensack, NJ 07601 :: 201.692.2000 :: Admission: $25 for advance/reserve seating / $35 at the door ::

One Thousand Pulses, the Northeast’s premier concert series for electronic and experimental music, proudly presents:
EQ2011 — Equinoxygen Festival — Featuring: Bernhard Wostheinrich :: Dean de Benedictis & Vic Hennigan :: The Electric Golem :: Ezekiel Honig :: John Hudak :: Jon Durant :: Mem1 & Stephen Vitiello :: Neil Nappe :: Richard Lainhart :: Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer :: Continue reading

Composer/performer Pamela Z is leading a fun walk in SoHo called Site Reading, that she created for an organization called “Elastic City”. Originally there were four of these walks scheduled; there are still two remaining, so there’s still time to register and join her on one of them.

The remaining walks are scheduled for this coming Monday (September 26, 2011) and Tuesday (September 27, 2011) at 6:30 pm. Walk Starting Point: 60 Spring St., New York, NY

Composer/performer Pamela Z will lead participants on a walk that creates musical scores from the graphic features (micro and macro) of downtown Manhattan. Participants will form a roving experimental sound and performance ensemble that will interpret and play the neighborhood’s building facades, sidewalk hardware, public art and street markings to make a contrapuntal, chance-based chorus.

STEIM (Studio for electro-instrumental music) organizes Patterns + Pleasure, Festival for Adventurous Contemporary Electronic Music :: September 26-28, 2011 :: Frascati, Nes 63, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Patterns + Pleasure presents the latest and most adventurous contemporary electronic music from today. There will be lectures, workshops, debates and performances by musicians and sound… artists from home and abroad. Starring Alex Nowitz, Tom Johnson, Jessica Rylan, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Steina Vasulka, David Toop, Moldover, Edison and many more.

STEIM is working with a growing international network of musicians, performers and visual artists for more than 42 years now. STEIM invites people for residencies and provides them with an artistic and technical environment to work on the development of unique instruments and new music. Continue reading

EU_tracer - A performance for the Internet and musical instruments :: Thursday, September 22, 2011, 20:30 LPM :: Live Performers Meeting, Ў Gallery, Minsk, Belarus ::

Paweł Janicki’s EU_Tracer is based on specially-designed software that scans Internet traffic, analyzing the interrelations among messages and information and translating them into visual and musical structures.

Data from assorted European Union institutions are changed into visual and musical structures, in ways that relate to the particular geographic location, the quality of the connection and the original improvisation style of the local musician invited to the performance. Internet traffic is thus transformed from institutional information into the building blocks for a work of art. Continue reading

Pixel Palace is currently developing BASIC.fm (Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture), a new radio station that will host Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture as a series of monthly audio streams. BASIC.fm aspires to be a space that can be inhabited by artists, curators, thinkers and interesting people with something to share and will be gradually be populated with work, projects, shows and archived events.

Call for new commissions: Pixel Palace is commissioning four new audio works for BASIC.fm. Each work will be hosted for a month on continuous play and the first commission will go live in November. Continue reading