Meehan/Perkins will premiere Tristan Perich’s new Parallels for triangles, hi-hats and 1-bit electronics :: April 6, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. :: FFA, Scottish Rite Theater, 207 West 18th Street, Austin, TX ::

Full Program (4pm to midnight ($20, $10 student)
4pm: Living Earth Show
5pm: The Weird Weeds
6pm: Austin Soundwaves
7pm: Convergence
8pm: Francois Minaux + Ryan Cronk
9pm: Meehan/Perkins Duo + Tristan Perich
10pm: Sqwonk
11pm: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

Violins to Fences: A Life of Experimentation in Music by Jon Rose :: July 27, 2012; 6:00 pm :: Village Roadshow Theatrette - State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne.

At one end of the continuum is the violin — iconic, an instrument of perfection, a bastion of western culture; at the other end is the fence –- metaphor for duality, the instrument of our species’ desire for control, ownership, and exploitation. For most of the last forty years, Jon Rose has explored the musical possibilities of the string and the wire in all sizes and situations. In this lecture he connects the radical with the traditional, and the unique experience with the commonplace, in a practice of music that has led him into previously unexplored sonic worlds and sometimes into confrontation. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Public Works by Chris Mann [Needs Firefox and Speakers/Headphones]:

Either/Or performed the world premiere of Public Works at ISSUE Project Room on June 23, 2012.

For any standard instrumentation (string trio or quartet, wind quintet, whatever) playing standard repertoire. Having chosen a piece from repertoire, each player to play other than their usual instrument (first violin to play cello, for example), and play only those notes they deem necessary (because they give the player an opportunity to change their mind, because they make other notes possible, or for some other reason other than their mere existence). Once started, there should be no attempt to synchronise time.

Public Works is a 2012 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was made possible with funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Continue reading

Experimental Intermedia celebrates its 43rd Anniversary of performances at 224 Centre Street ::
the Forty-third Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft :: the 39th Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street :: and the Twenty-second Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B) :: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 , at 9:00 p.m. :: 24 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 :: with Koosil-ja and Geoff Matters

212 431 5127 :: 212 431 6430

x_sound: John Cage, Nam June Paik and After :: March 9 - July 1, 2012 :: Nam June Paik Art Center, Paiknamjune-ro 10, Sanggal-dong Giheung-gu, Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do, Korea.

The year of 2012 marks the 80th anniversary of Nam June Paik’s birth and the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth. The exhibition includes Cage’s and Paik’s works, but also works of today’s sound artists inheriting the two frontiers’ experimentations.

The term “x_sound” has a triple meaning: a sound that is unknown(x), that is ex-panded and that ex-pels fixed ideas about sound. “Sound” itself is literally a neutral and straightforward term, but in the contemporary art’s context, it’s a complex arena of different questions and discourses. Continue reading

Infantcore: Experimental Music by Babies. Motion tracking software converts the performers’ movements into sound :: February 18, 2012; 11:00 am – 4:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA.

Taking the term “experimental venue” to one of its possible extremes, Machine Project brings you Infantcore. We have garnered a cadre of infant volunteers, graciously donated by their parents, who will serve as variables in an algorithmic sound composition. Scott Cazan has written some software for the occasion that uses a camera and a computer to track the babies’ movements and convert that information into different sonic phenomena. How will this sound? As we have never done this before, we really have no idea. It could sound terrible, not work, be boring, embarrass everyone and end in tears – like most everything at Machine Project. Continue reading

Freedom to the Black: Erdem Helvacıoğlu :: February 10-26, 2012 :: ARTER - space for art, Istiklal Caddesi, 211, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey. Continue reading

CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing presents ZVO.ČI.TI. so.und.ing Collection, a podcast collection of Slovenian sound artists, composers of electroacoustic, experimental, algorithmic, electronic, improvised and composed works. The DVD release of the ZVO.ČI.TI so.und.ing Collection represents the final part of the multi-year project devised to be a continuous production of thematic radio and podcast audio programmes about specific authors and works of theirs that were created in the studio or performed live.

The purpose of the project is to connect and highlight Slovenian authors who make contemporary music in the music performance, sound, intermedia, performing, online and other areas and to present them, using existing communication possibilities, into the wider arena of world contemporary sound creativity. Continue reading

Workshop: Neuro Reality Check (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Performance: GenComp Collective Berlin & Book Launch: Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience :: December 2, 2011, 10:00 pm :: N.K., Elsenstr. 52/2, Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin :: Open to the public (register for the workshop here).

GenComp Collective Berlin: Chaotic, cybernetic, and hybrid systems — Neurological and cybernetic research techniques have been adopted by many experimental music protagonists, such as Louis and Bebe Barron, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and others. Continue reading

E Q 2 0 1 1 - Equinoxygen Festival :: the Northeast’s premier concert series for electronic and experimental music :: Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. :: Wilson Auditorium, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 99 University Plaza Drive (off Hackensack Ave.), Hackensack, NJ 07601 :: 201.692.2000 :: Admission: $25 for advance/reserve seating / $35 at the door ::

One Thousand Pulses, the Northeast’s premier concert series for electronic and experimental music, proudly presents:
EQ2011 — Equinoxygen Festival — Featuring: Bernhard Wostheinrich :: Dean de Benedictis & Vic Hennigan :: The Electric Golem :: Ezekiel Honig :: John Hudak :: Jon Durant :: Mem1 & Stephen Vitiello :: Neil Nappe :: Richard Lainhart :: Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer :: Continue reading