Upgrade! Boston: Moments of Inertia by R. Luke DuBois, with Todd Reynolds :: February 8, 2011; Doors open @ 6:30 pm. Performance begins @ 7:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (map).

Moments of Inertia is an evening-length performance based on a teleological study of gesture in musical performance and how it relates to gesture in intimate social interaction. The work is written for solo violin with real-time computer accompaniment and video. Moments consists of twelve violin études written by R. Luke DuBois for Todd Reynolds – ranging from 1-10 minutes in length – each of which uses a different violin performance gesture as a control input for manipulating a short piece of high-speed film (300 frames-per-second) – of objects and people in motion. Continue reading

Synchronator by Gert-Jan Prins + Bas van Koolwijk :: December 20, 2010; 7:30 - 10:00 pm :: Nivell Zero, Fundació Suñol. Rosselló, 240, Barcelona.

Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not actually produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be directly recorded. To overcome this problem Bas van Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins have created their own hardware to get non-video signals accepted by regular video equipment.

Aided by current digital and analogue means and drawing from the tradition of experimental video pioneers such as Nam June Paik and Woody and Steina Vasulka, Koolwijk and Prins shared their technical know-how and with their Synchronator project set out to tackle the difficulties concerning the recording of complicated, merged and distorted video and audio signals. Continue reading

Lovid :: Saturday December 4, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: at Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL :: Admission is FREE but space is limited. RSVP at http://lovid.eventbrite.com/

Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus will use their Sync Armonica, a 9 ft. sculptural, analog, handmade A/V synthesizer and electrical signals gathered from guest performers. LoVid events are playful yet aggressive, with realtime audiovisuals that are immersive, visceral and intensely colorful, patterned and rhythmic. Works combine handmade and machine produced craft, DIY electro-engineering, textile, video and noise.

Saturday they’ll premiere two new works — fast-flickering “C/O/L/O/R/G/B” with a new synthesizer color wheel, and “Becoming One.2.” Continue reading

Scale is a bio-art collaboration with neurobiologist/ engineer Malcolm MacIver, visual/ conceptual artist Marlena Novak, and composer/ sound designer Jay Alan Yim. It is being presented at STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

This audience-interactive installation involves electric fish from the Amazon River Basin. Twelve different species of these fish comprise a ‘choir’ whose sonified electrical fields provide the source tones for an immersive audiovisual environment. The interface for Scale incorporates custom-designed software, a hacked Wiimote ‘conductor’s baton’ that participants can use to ‘cue’ individual fish so their unadulterated tones (as well as digitally processed versions) can be heard through the audio system, a touchscreen panel to allow for changes in volume, and arrays of LEDs under each tank to provide visual feedback to visitors. Continue reading

Joe Grimm :: Friday, November 19, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: at Columbia College, 916 S Wabash, Room 214, Chicago, IL :: Admission $10, Students $5

Organized by Lampo in cooperation with Columbia College, Audio Arts and Acoustics Department.

Epic new solo work from Joe Grimm. ALIAS (for Kathryn) is a synaesthetic light/sound performance for modified 16mm projectors, homemade light-sensitive audio electronics, and a large, white, side-mounted ceiling fan. The projectors create flicker-patterns that are often too fast for the eye to detect; but the changes in speed of these invisible flickers can nevertheless be traced in the illusions of movement (and stasis) in the fan-blades, as well as in the mutating timbres of the light-generated music. It is a meditation on the limitations of the body and the senses, on the breakdown of one’s ability to sensually access the physical world. Continue reading

Massive Light Boner :: featuring: Loud Objects (US), Jamie Allen’s Circuit Music (CA), Pixel Form (US), Jo Kazuhiro (JP), and Chung-Han Yao (TW) :: Talks and Presentations: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 from 17:00 - 19:00 hrs. :: at OT301 Cinema Room, OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam :: Charge: E 3 :: performances: November 18, 2010, doors open at 21:30 :: at OT301, Overtoom 301. Amsterdam :: Entrance E6 ::

image: Loud Objects

The term “audio-visual” means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. The multimedia gallery installation artist and the video-jockey in a dance club have developed techniques that begin with the desire to fuse visual and audible experience. In recent and international performance practice, we recognize a move towards the use of material, non-representational approaches to this impulse. Continue reading

From the six finalists (Kuai Auson, Perry Bard, Sonia Cillari, Ernesto Klar, Knowbotic Research and Teatrino Elettrico) the judges selected Ernesto Klar winner of Share Prize.

“Luzes relacionais” (Relational Lights) is an interactive audio-visual installation that explores our relationship with the expressional-organic character of space. The installation uses light, sound, haze, and a custom-software system to create a morphing, three-dimensional light-space in which spectators actively participate, manipulating it with their presence and movements. The work functions as a living organism with or without the presence and interactions of spectators. When viewers step outside the projected light-space, the system begins its own dialogue with space by means of extruding and morphing sequences of geometric light forms. Continue reading

Ethernet Orchestra :: Live networked A/V improvisation :: Sunday November 14, 2010 at 11.30 a.m. Germany UTC+1 CET / 10.30 a.m. UK / Sydney 9.30 c.p.m UTC+11 EST :: at blackhole-factory, Braunschweig, Germany ::

World Time Clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

Performed live at Kunstmuehle studio, Braunschwieg, Germany and broadcast online at http://radio.aporee.org. It is also being recorded for furthernoise Explorations in Sound Vol, 5.

Audio mix: http://radio.aporee.org
Visual mix: http://www.visitorsstudio.org
For full A/V experience open both URLs in separate browser windows. Continue reading

NewIdeas MusicSeries II :: Pianos @ 158 Ludlow, New York, NY :: Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: with Phill Niblock + Katherine Liberovskaya with Shelley Hirsch; Michael J. Schumacher + Nisi Jacobs; Richard Garet, Tom Chiu, and Michael Vincent Waller with ensemble Sean Meehan, Tom Chiu, Gregor Kitzis, Ha-Yang Kim, Dan Panner, and Andrew Lafkas :: Free ::

Bios:

Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968’s barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. That’s as maybe: no one ever said the history books were infallible anyway. His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. Continue reading

OptoSonic Tea @ Experimental Intermedia NYC :: Thursday, October 7th, 2010 at 9:00 p.m. :: at 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013 :: with live sets by: Tony Martin (live visuals) with Margot Farrington and Thomas Dexter (live film) :: and invited moderator: Davidson Gigliotti :: Phone: 212 431 5127, 212 431 6430: Suggested donation: $ 7 ::

Experimental Intermedia is excited and honored to present the work of live visuals pioneer Tony Martin in collaboration with Margot Farrington and early video pioneer and historian Davidson Gigliotti as respondent/moderator. The second set will be played by Thomas Dexter (live films). Continue reading