Jam Session @ 3rd Ward Brooklyn :: October 15, 2009, 7:30 - 10:00 pm :: at 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

[image: Wearable sonic dress with felted patch cords - patch cord by Sarah and Lara Grant]

The party celebrates the people making original tools to make original music, this one another grab bag of unusual inventive sonic technologies. Such as:

GREAT TIGER is an electro rock duo from Brooklyn. They get the party started with the help of The Box, a homemade MIDI controller made out of arcade buttons. Taking inspiration from Daft Punk to Deep Purple, GREAT TIGER fuses themselves into your brain with the help of bright lasers and poison-gas fog machines. Continue reading

May You Live in Interesting Times — Festival of Creative Technology :: different locations in Cardiff and Canton, Wales :: October 22-24, 2009.

This three-day Festival is all about “do-it-yourself’ with a programme that celebrates the latest intriguing uses of everyday technology and social innovation, enabled through shared ideas.

There’s a fantastic range of commissions, exhibitions, a tinker faire, discussions, workshops, screenings and participant-driven events. You can download a PDF by clicking on the ‘Timetable’. Highlights include: Continue reading

noise=noise and Goldsmiths Digital Studios present Sensory Response Systems, a live DIY punk electronics performance by Ryan Jordan:: September 16, 2009; 6:00 p.m. :: Studio 3, Goldsmiths, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW.

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Chiptune Marching Band — DIY soundmaking with Kazuhiro Jo, Jamie Allen from the Culture Lab at Newcastle University :: August 8, 2009; 12:00 - 3:30 pm :: NK, ElsenStr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059, Berlin, Germany :: Register by email: eNKa_NK [at] gmx.de :: Places are limited to 15.

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Some scientific sessions and some concerts of the ongoing SMC 2009 Conference — July 22-25, 2009 at the Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal — will be transmitted in real-time on the internet via the webcast platform of the Casa da Música, where the conference is taking place. Here is the programme of the webcast:

The Curators’ Concert, including works with live electronics, re-animated electronic circuitry, network performance and improvisation — July 22; 22:00 (Portugal time) Continue reading

SonarMàtica 2009: Mecànics :: June 18-20, 2009 :: Barcelona.

Mecànics (the exhibition): Over the past decade, the spread of new digital production tools has led to a democratisation of the artistic process, ranging from the music industry to multimedia art. Home-made recording studios, audiovisual editing programs and online record labels have made projects that used to require major investments easily accessible. Today, the spirit of punk is standard cultural currency.

Becoming the conductor of Roland Olbeter’s robot orchestra, or creating your own musical compositions - simply by moving counters on a board - with the famous interactive table Reactable (Rolling Stone magazine’s Instrument of the Year in 2007), Continue reading

Non Stop Music Planet (NSMP) - 24h of live music performances following the world time belt :: May 30-31; noon to noon (GMT+2 _ Paris-F) :: Call for Participation — Deadline: May 27.

Artists, performers, musicians, concert venues, radios, and entertainers are invited to participate by broadcasting sound & video content into the NSMP festival using DIY streaming technologies. The contents will then be broadcast on 3 screens at Point Ephémère - Paris-F (mixed by several guest directors / cinematographers). The stream will also be available online. Non Stop Music Planet is an opportunity to: Continue reading

Hackteria & labhacking with Marc R. Dusseiller & Kaspar Koenig :: May 30 - June 3, 2009; 12:00 - 6:00 pm daily :: NK, ElsenStr. 52 (2.Hof) Berlin, Germany :: Course Participation fee: 100 euros :: Registration required (limited to 16) — email enka_nkATgmxDOTde

Experimental make-workshop with multilayered outcome for people interested in sound, DIY-biology, microscopy and interaction of living microorganisms. Knowledge in physical computing, video and sound processing, electronics and puredata is welcome, but not compulsary. The experiments will take place in close-up view of microorganisms (e.g. water bears aka tardigrades, amoebae and collected organisms from urban environments), which appears to be a world by itself. Maybe due to the scaling and the amplification of a microscope, but maybe also due to all parameters of imagination that the microcosmos provokes. Growth and behaviour of these microscopic animals remind us of our own micro-macro-development. Continue reading

The Takeaway Festival of DIY Media :: May 19 - 21, 2009 (exhibition runs until May 30) :: Dana Centre, Science Museum, 165 Queen’s Gate, London :: Attendance is free but you must pre-book.

A jellyfish becomes an instrument that responds to touch. A robot reads a travel card and then creates a unique movement to interpret it. Changing the position of levers allows the sounds of three cities from across the world to be heard simultaneously. The 4th Takeaway Festival of Do-It-Yourself Media opens with a celebration of orchestrated metallic sounds and brings together international artists working with the technologies that are part of everyday life. Continue reading

MzTEK Unplugged: Julie Freeman & Open Source :: April 29, 2009; 7;00 - 9:00 pm :: Leon Bankside (directly behind & facing the Tate Modern) - closest tubes: Southwark, London Bridge.

If you were ever curious about Open Source — what it is, who uses it, why, and how you can too — artist Julie Freeman will chat about the politics of Open Source software and code, and will introduce some of the useful programs, packages and tools available for artists, and tools she uses in her work.

Julie Freeman’s work explores transforming complex processes into sound compositions, objects and visualizations. Her work spans visual, audio and digital art forms and explores the relationship between science, nature and how humans interact with it. Continue reading