Tremorrag with Angie Eng (music/ digital video) and Pascal Battus (music, analog video) :: March 20, 2010; 8:30 p.m. :: IRL Soirées - Centre Mercoeur, 4 rue Mercoeur 75011 M° Voltaire/Charonne Paris, France.

Vibrations of motors, tiny gestures, the hum of energy- How does movement look and sound? Tremorrage is a duo with sound artist, Pascal Battus and video artist, Angie Eng who take you on a audio visual journey with mini-cameras, contact mics and drawings in real time. Battus holds pen on paper that moves by vibrating motors. Line is created by rotating machines that vibrate the paper. Continue reading

Carl Michael Von Hausswolff Performance event :: Saturday, March 13, 2010; 6:30 - 9:30 pm :: Watford House, 16 Dundas Street, Avoca, Australia.

The world renowned Swedish audio-visual artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff will create a performance with 8 local musicians and sound artists at Watford House in Avoca this Saturday night, the 13th March. It is going to be a very enjoyable night of experimental performance under the stars.

Fine weather is forecast and food and drink will be available. The event is free and bookings are not required. Come along for a great night of sound in the country. Avoca is 2 and a half hours from Melbourne. A limited number of accommodations are available in the town.

Upgrade! Eindhoven: Tetsu Kondo (Japan) :: March 14, 2010; 8:00 -10:30 pm (doors open 7:30) :: Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

The next Upgrade! Eindhoven presents Albert van Abbe and MAD Artist in Residence, Tetsu Kondo discussing Kondo’s work and vision. Kondo is an artist, musician and researcher whose work includes drawing, installations and musical instrument design. He is currently teaching at Tokyo Polytechnic University.

Kondo will also demonstrate his Dendraw, a software instrument he developed, that transforms the beauty of visual programming into live interactive sound performances. The Dendraw generates specific sine waves depending on screen position. Continue reading

Call for entries: Pixilerations [v.7] — a showcase of digital media and interactive performance, and part of the FirstWorks Festival :: September 30 - October 10, 2010 :: Providence, Rhode Island (US) :: Deadline: March 31, 2010

PIXILERATIONS [v.7] is a new media showcase in Providence, Rhode Island that investigates the state of new media arts through installations, concert performances and film/video screenings. It is part of the larger FirstWorks Festival, a multidimensional performing arts festival held in Providence each fall. Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture + Tourism. Continue reading

Handmade Music Brooklyn :: March 8, 2010; 7:00 pm :: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY :: “Free: Musical sewing machines, gestural controllers, touch-based hexagonal music hardware, trumpet-inspired A/V instruments, and electro-country honky-tonk — another party+variety show+science fair of the latest, oddest DIY music making tech.” (Peter Kirn)

Science fair, party, variety show - Handmade Music celebrates unusual DIY creations in music, with people who make their own tools to make their own music.

This month, Galapagos Art Space means a stage, a bar, and a huge lineup of free music: Continue reading

OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason with Dan Conrad (chromaccord), Jorge Martins (live sound); and George O. Stadnik (photon guitar) with James Ross (live sound); Invited respondent/moderator: Eric Rosenzveig :: March 7, 2010; 5:00 pm :: 882 Third Avenue, 10th floor, Brooklyn, NY (Sunset Park).

[image: Chromaccord: The Visual Medium of Kinetic Color by Daniel Conrad]

OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Continue reading

In his first solo exhibition in New England, sound artist and electronic musician Stephen Vitiello creates Something Like Fireworks, a new installation at the Davis Museum in Wellesley. The installation, done in collaboration with lighting designer Jeremy Choate, features Vitiello’s field recordings from the Australian outback, the Canadian wilderness, a Virginia marsh, and New York City’s streets. Vitiello’s soundtrack moves between the abstract and the recognizable, attuning us to the subtleties of ambient sound. In this piece, sound is connected with light and color, creating an immersive synaesthetic experience. The lighting has been designed in sympathy with the audio, and the resulting combination surrounds the visitor, altering our spatial perception. The installation is on view through June 6 at the Davis Museum on the campus of Wellesley College. Continue reading

MMIX by Nicolas Clauss :: Japan Media Art Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo and online at flyingpuppet, a collection of digital tableaus started in 2001.

MMIX* [Roman numerals for 2009] is a timeless work in four interactive tableaus, where each visitor is invited to follow with his eyes and ears what his mouse gestures reveal. At each caress, sound and visual elements get randomly muddled up on the screen creating always new combinations. A work travelling between real and surreal, dream and mind, rage and fright, where humour and drama are cruelly mixed to suggest the sad patterns of our contemporary reality.

Experiments on the Notation of Shapes by Joao Vasco Paiva :: February 12 - April 4, 2010 :: Opening Reception: February 12; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Artist Talk: March 24; 7:00 pm :: Unmeasured Music: March 31; 7.30 pm :: I/O (Input/ Output), 31 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong.

Experiments on the Notation of Shapes by Portuguese artist and Hong Kong resident, Joao Vasco Paiva, is a generative multi-channel video installation where Hong Kong cityscapes are used as coordinates for sound synthesis. Computational translation, footage of urban planning and architectural elements are used as a musical score. In this work, a post-apocalyptic aura consumes the concrete form of the metropolis. Two wall-based projections present Hong Kong cityscapes. The city, its emptiness and its structure are kept in “time images” that solicit contemplation. Continue reading

Sonic Acts - The Poetics of Space :: Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology :: February 25-28, 2010 :: Sonic Acts Weteringschans 6 - 8 1017 SG Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

SONICACTSTRAILER0608 from Sonic Acts on Vimeo.

Deep Spaces - 25 February 2010 :: The opening event Deep Spaces presents a selection of audiovisual adventures in spaces defined by sound, light, smoke and lasers. Continue reading