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

Download Furtherfield’s first Broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM here.

Next broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM: April 6, 2010; 9:30 - 10:30 pm :: A series of eight weekly broadcasts.

A live, jam-packed, hour-long review of contemporary media arts culture. Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost interviewed Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator at the V&A and Mztek founders, Sophie Macdonald & Sally Northmore. Other features included noise-collages, soundscapes and exploratory music…

More information about the programme here.

This programme is part of ‘Hyperlink: Media Art Contexts’ whose principal aim is to present and promote high-quality contemporary media art work, alongside critical discussion of past, present and future media art in a contemporary art context. Continue reading

Francisco Lopez :: February 19, 2010; 9:00 pm :: NK, Elsenstr 52 2hh 2 etage, in the Neukölln area, Berlin.

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. Continue reading

Essential Repertoire :: Thursday, December 3 through Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. :: ISSUE Project Room (at the Old American Can Factory), 232 3rd Street (at 3rd ave), Brooklyn NY 11215 :: Tickets $20/at the door, $15 in advance (available online at http://www.issueprojectroom.org or for cash purchase at Other Music) F, M, R to 9th Street-4th Ave

Brooklyn-based music series Darmstadt: “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents its second-annual Essential Repertoire festival of cherished compositions from the experimental canon. This year’s iteration celebrates the 30th anniversary of the seminal New Music New York concerts curated by Rhys Chatham and held at The Kitchen (then on Broome Street), which put the still-burgeoning Downtown Scene – at the crossroads of minimalism, interdisciplinary performance, and various strains of post-punk – under a mainstream spotlight and redefined the presentation of experimental music. Continue reading

[image: Destory All Monsters (Ron Ashton, center, Mike Kelley, right), c. 1970] A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music — a mini-festival :: November 20-21, 2009; 6:00 p.m. to midnight :: Gramercy Theater, 127 East 23rd Street, New York, NY.

2009—Performa is delighted to present A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music, a mini-festival of noise and avant-garde music curated by internationally acclaimed visual artist Mike Kelley. Featuring an amazing line-up of some of the most important musicians and artists in the history of experimental noise music, A Fantastic World traces the development of this unique genre, Continue reading

Calling Out Of Context :: November 14-22, 2009 :: Institute of Contemporary Arts, (ICA) London, The Mall, London.

The ICA is pleased to announce Calling Out Of Context, a festival of experimental music and sound which fills the building for nine days in November. One of the ICA’s Galleries is being used as a performance space, while the other features a recording studio, and the Theatre is hosting gigs, workshops and discussions. The programme across these spaces includes an incredible range of musicians and artists, revealing the vitality and relevance of the sonic avant-garde.

Calling Out Of Context features over forty performers and groups, including both emerging figures and well-known names. Many of the participants cross the boundaries between different musical traditions, and the festival (which takes its title from a song by the American underground musician Arthur Russell) draws on the explosively experimental ethos of the 60s and 70s. Continue reading

MICA Hosts New Media Exhibition :: November 2-20, 2009 :: Reception: November 5; 6-9 p.m. :: Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Rosenberg Gallery, Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD.

Now in its fourth year, the SSI.4 Sight.Sound [interaction] exhibition at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) synthesizes a diverse selection of work that celebrates the language of interaction, new media technologies and the aesthetics of experimentation within an artistic context. The exhibition offers a broad selection of work from local and internationally recognized artists. Continue reading

[image: Leafcutter John]

Transfer — an evening of beautiful experiments in music from humans and computers as part of the knowledge futures conference :: microfolk, brainjazz, robotic theramin cabaret and livecoding :: October 16, 2009; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Goldsmiths Great Hall, New Cross, London.

Featuring: Leafcutter John :: Leafcutter John’s experimental approach to music, including handmade synthesis algorithms, contact microphones and handmade interfaces like his “electric breasts” beloved him to a crowd more used to industrial techno through his chaotic Planet Mu releases. Continue reading

The New York Electronic Arts Festival 2009 [NYEAF] performance events: Improvisation and New Media :: October 16-26, 2009 :: Roulette, 20 Greene Street (between Canal & Grand) and NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 W. 4th Street, New York.

“…Experimental music is rarely this visceral and engaging” - Los Angeles Times

Announcing the 2009 New York Electronic Arts Festival (NYEAF), a month-long series of concerts, panels, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology. The NYEAF Performance Events: Improvisation and New Media present a wide range of works that expand conventional notions of music. Exploring interactive strategies and experimental instruments , these performers participate and collaborate with technology in a meaningful way. Continue reading

Introducing FM :: Gustavo Matamoros – David Dunn – Rene Barge. Frozen Music (or FM) is a new artist research collective and experimental music ensemble that designs and realizes interdisciplinary music in response to the acoustical characteristics of a given site. It focuses upon the making of otherwise inaudible phenomena audible in science, nature and architecture. Each performance is a kind of acoustical “tuning” or redrawing of the existing aural landscape through direct sound generation and amplification.

Their first event is Canal by Frozen Music :: November 7, 2009 :: Dade Canal, Miami Beach, FL (as part of Sleepless Night).

Canal is an exploration of an outdoor environment in Miami Beach using specialized audio devices capable of hearing the hidden sounds that occur underwater, inside the ground and surrounding plant life, and above or below the normal human hearing range. Continue reading