Carrie Bodle: Sewing Sonifications Performance :: October 10, 2009; 2:00 - 6:00 pm :: Westlake Park, Seattle, WA.

Visual and sound artist Carrie Bodle will create a five-channel sound installation and sewing performance sonifying data from an ecosystem model developed by UW oceanographic scientist Dr. Neil Banas. Sound is translated from data, then visualized and made tactile by the artist embroidering the combined waveform into a continuous sound wave.

This computer model simulates the growth and consumption of plankton in the ocean ecosystem along the Washington coast during summer 2005. The five sound channels broadcast five dimensions in this data: Continue reading

What is Ocean Voices? Sound artist Halsey Burgund and marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols joined forces to collect the voices of people around the world recounting their personal experiences with the ocean. Combined with music written by Halsey, these voices will soon become audio collages which listeners can create to suit their own preferences. Help them by sharing your voice and spreading the words of all participants around the globe.

The ocean surrounds us and sustains us. We can only preserve life in the ocean by working together as a global community. Ocean Voices brings together voices from around the world for everyone to hear. Open your mouth; open your ears; join the Ocean Revolution here. Record your voice. Become a part of Ocean Voices.

Quartet Without Pyramid Scheme — Jordan Topiel Paul, Reed Evan Rosenberg, Eric Laska, Richard F. Kamerman :: September 5-26, 2009; 2:00 - 8:00 pm :: Diapason Gallery, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor (between 32 & 33 Sts.), Industry City, Brooklyn, NY.

Quartet without Pyramid Scheme is a collaborative sound installation inhabiting the gallery and lounge spaces at Diapason. Its sound is the sum of a rotating collection of sound samples which loop continuously in unpredictable variations. Through its duration, the four artists successively alter this sound by recording and integrating new samples to be looped, some of which replace old ones. The sound content heard at any point in the piece will be the product of this collaboration. Continue reading

Celebrate John Cage and Merce Cunningham — A John Cage Birthday Event :: September 5, 2009; 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. :: St Mark’s Church, Parish Hall, 10 Street and 2nd Avenue, New York City :: admission is free; arrive early to get a seat (no reservations).

Kevin Hufnagel will be playing ambient prepared guitar music and Nurit Tilles will perform 4’33,” after which the feature video (95 minutes long) Cage/Cunningham will be shown and Elliot Caplan, filmmaker, will be on hand to discuss it afterwards.

Cage was born on Sept. 5, 1912, and died on Aug. 12, 1992. Hufnagel was the first of 22 artists performing in the 16th annual celebration at St. Mark’s Church Parish Hall, in New York City.

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Read | Write Storage in Collaborative Networked Art by Jason Freeman — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art):

ABSTRACT: This chapter explores the role of storage in media art and, more specifically, its role in collaborative creativity within the field of networked music. Through a series of paired analyses of works that differentially emphasize transmission and storage or which employ different approaches to storage, the chapter discusses different opportunities, challenges, and issues related to storage in collaborative, networked art. Music by the Rova Saxophone Quartet and by Nick Collins frames a discussion of composition and improvisation; two works by The Hub initiate an analysis of the influence of technology on network design and on collaborative models of shared material and shared control; broadcast works by Max Neuhaus introduce the concept of active storage systems; the online sites WebDrum and Jamglue raise questions about network latency and the persistency of storage; and Bicycle Built for 2,000 and Graph Theory manipulate the level of awareness of storage mechanisms by various participants.

Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE: Two years in the making, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) is now open for comments, revisions, and translations. You may also submit a chapter for consideration.

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‘The Piano Etudes Project’ A Space for Play — Review by Les Loncharich, furtherfield.org: The Piano Etudes project by Jason Freeman, with Akito Van Troyer and Jenny Lin, is a move towards opening the forbidden city of musical composition. The project is based on piano etudes, musical compositions in which the pianist can rearrange connections between some open form pieces. Site visitors are invited to create their own etudes from four short compositions by Jason Freeman. Each etude is transcribed graphically into something that resembles an organizational chart. Each visual component of the chart has a corresponding audio note pattern. The pitch of a note pattern is roughly indicated by the height of a horizontal bar that is part of the graphic. A site user can select graphic elements and arrange them on a time-line to hear the resulting sound piece. Pieces created on the site can be saved and transcribed into musical notation so that pianists can perform pieces created by site visitors. More >>

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Sensory Threads @ Surface Tension :: June 23, 2009; 10:30 am - 4:30 pm :: The Science Museum’s Dana Centre, 165 Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, London.

Sensory Threads — by Proboscis — is a work-in-progress to develop an instrument enabling a group of people to create a soundscape reflecting their collaborative experiences in the environment. For this interactive sensory experience, we are designing sensors for detecting environmental phenomena at the periphery of human perception as well as the movement and proximity of the wearers themselves. Possible targets for the sensors may be electro-magnetic radiation, hi/lo sound frequencies, heart rate etc). The sensors’ datastreams will feed into generative audio software, creating a multi-layered and multi-dimensional soundscape feeding back the players’ journey through their environment. Variations in the soundscape reflect changes in the wearers interactions with each other and the environment around them.

A10lab, Area10, Apo33, Noise=Noise, Beyond Signal, Fibrr Records & Sound Research Practice, Goldsmiths presents: Rainforest IV - David Tudor — “a collaborative environmental work, spatially mixing the live sounds of suspended sculptures and found objects, with their transformed reflections in an audio system” :: July 3-4, 2009; 2:00 - 11:00 pm :: AREA10 PROJECT SPACE, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Hill Street, London.

“In 1973 I made Rainforest IV where the objects that the sounds are sent through are very large so that they have their own presence in space. I mean, they actually sound locally in the space where they are hanging as well as being supplemented by a loudspeaker system. Continue reading

Net vs. Net Collective — Networked Concert involving 5 sites :: June 3, 2009; 12:30 pm (PST; 20:30 UK Time) :: CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, 660 Lomita Dr., Stanford, CA :: Live stream.

The Net vs. Net Collective presents a networked concert with music composed and performed by several of the most prominent practitioners of the art of network music around the world. Remote acoustics, distributed animated scores, virtual worlds and mechanical remotely controlled pianos are among the repertoire. Pieces by Pauline Oliveros (New York), Chris Chafe (Banff, Canada) Pedro Rebelo, Franziska Schroeder, Justin Yang (Belfast), Mark Applebaum, Juan-Pablo Caceres, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Robert Hamilton (Stanford) and Alain Renaud (Bournemouth, UK) will be featured. Continue reading