Upgrade! Warsaw: Electro-acoustic Concert — Sindre Bjerga, Nils Rostad, Thaw - Hubert Napiórski, CADAVeR - Piotr Olczak :: February 22, 2010; 8:00 pm :: 2.0 Gallery, The Academy of Music, 58/60 Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warsaw, Poland.

Sindre Bjerga has been wiretapping the secret frequencies of ghostly drones for years now. Though a steady flow of releases on numerous labels around the world he has been channeling the spectral transmissions from the grey void… Expect psychedelic drones that sometimes collide with snippets of found sounds from half-demagnetized tapes and concrete sounds from wrecked kitchen utensils… Recent releases: “Crystal cranium, diamond head” (Blackest Rainbow) and “Black Cobweb mind” (Klang und Krach). Continue reading

Florian Hecker :: February 12 – March 28, 2010 :: Lecture: March 18, 7:00 pm :: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ.

Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham. Hecker’s new commission continues his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space, employing idiosyncratic psychoacoustic propositions in order to examine and disrupt spatial perception.

At Chisenhale Gallery Hecker will present a series of four independent, electro-acoustic works that lead the visitor around the gallery space, where each work exposes a fault line in the traditional categorizations of auditory events, auditory objects or streams. Continue reading

Loud Objects and Tony Conrad :: January 8, 2010, 10:30 p.m. :: at Monkey Town, 58 North 3rd Street (between Whythe and Kent Ave, L to Bedford), Brooklyn, NY :: Reservations.

From art galleries to noise venues, the Loud Objects stage their physical approaches to the construction of sound. Regular staples of the New York City experimental scene, they create music that spans electroacoustic, improvisation and noise. Their performances, focused on sound from programmed microchips, have ranged from live circuit constructions on overhead projectors and slide projectors, to soldering atop a 24-light bulb fluorescent podium, and later with modified fluorescent light guitars. Continue reading

30 Seconds off an Inch: Shared Frequencies with Kabir Carter:: November 22, 2009; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York, NY.

As part of the Museum’s current exhibition 30 Seconds off an Inch, come experience the synthetic sounds of Shared Frequencies (2009) performed by artist Kabir Carter. The work moves between sound, performance and installation by converting architecture to sound and vice-versa. Using radio scanners and synthesizers to process an array of street reverberations and noises, Carter creates an electro-acoustic chorus of urbane life and an urban landscape.

Hans Koch/Andrea Parkins Duo :: November 11, 2009; 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. :: Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, 495 Broadway 3rd Floor, New York City.

Swiss musician Hans Koch integrates saxes and clarinets with sampling, sequencing, and electronic sounds. He has worked with numerous musical groups in Switzerland and worldwide including the Barry Guy New Orchestra, the London Improvisers Orchestra, and in the group Koch-Schütz-Studer.

Andrea Parkins is a New York based composer, electro-acoustic instrumentalist and sound artist especially acclaimed for her uniquely gestural/textural approach to her electronically-processed accordion and inventive use of live sound processing. Her work has been presented both worldwide and in NYC; at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, and Diapason Gallery for sound.

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (TES) :: August 7-8, 2009; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie #170, Toronto, Canada.

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community and New Adventures in Sound Art are pleased to announce the 2009 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. The symposium presents a selection of refereed papers and presentations as well as a keynote lecture by internationally acclaimed scholar Annette Vande Gorne. This is your opportunity to find out the latest in sound art activity around the world. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC’s online journal, eContact! More info here. Go to here and click on on-line registration to register.

Kaffe Matthews :: July 15, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, London.

Kaffe Matthews was born in Essex, England, and lives and works in London. Since 1996 she has been making new electro-acoustic music through a system of self designed software matrices through which she pulls and pushes different sounds live. The variety of sounds, things and places she has worked with have ranged from self played violin and theremin, sounds of spaces, kite strings on an uninhabited Scottish Island, flight data from NASA scientists, Scottish and Irish pipers, melting ice in Quebec, Continue reading

D’EGG by Jordan Topiel Paul and Eric Laska :: July 12, 2009; 12:00 -5:00 pm :: Free Skool, Sculpture Center’s University of Trash, 44-19 Purves St, Long Island City, NY.

Jordan Topiel Paul and Eric Laska are pleased to present D’EGG, a new site-specific multi-channel sound installation and transmission piece, on view as part of an afternoon of experimental and electroacoustic music. The installation exists in three parts and uses samples from the recording, broadcast, and playback equipment on-site as sound source material. Parked outside the Sculpture Center, a makeshift broadcast truck is turned into a dense, continuous sound environment. Two channels of this installation are then broadcast over low-power FM and Internet radio (accessible here). Inside the Sculpture Center, a third site receives this transmission on a boom box; in this same space, several small loops are heard underneath a play pit of foam blocks. Continue reading

Binauralmedia and Nodar Artist Residency Center announce: Paivascapes #1 Structure, Process and Perception of a River :: February - October 2010 :: International Open Call for Art Projects — Deadline: September 30, 2009.

The Nodar Artist Residency Program for 2010 will have a single aggregating subject: the Paiva River. Throughout the year, from winter to autumn, several multidisciplinary art projects (having sound as a central element) will be developed in a context-specific perspective, interacting with the river’s different geographical areas, from its spring to its mouth. A tribute to a small river that is a symbol of a region that (still) can live in a well-balanced interaction with nature. Continue reading

Non-Event presents Novi_sad with Benjamin Nelson :: June 12, 2009; 8:00 pm :: MassArt, North Hall, Room 181, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA.

Thanasis Kaproulias, who records under the pseudonym NOVI_SAD, is a young Greek sound artist based in Athens. Kaproulias combines environmental recordings, drone manipulations, microtones and overtones to create music that is at once precisely calibrated and intensely visceral. He has recordings out or forthcoming on Sedimental, Touch, and Staalplaat. We are very pleased to present Novi_sad’s first concert in the U.S.! Listen to Dramazon, a piece from 2008 by Novi_sad, on TouchRadio. Continue reading