Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR):: radio experiments :: First Thursday evenings during April, May and June, 2011 :: at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), 250 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 :: Free ::

First Event :: In Your Ear :: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:00 –10:00 p.m. :: MOCA, Grand Avenue :: Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) will harness the airwaves around the museum to transmit a collection of radio programs on local frequencies. MOCA visitors may tune into these programs via handheld personal transistor radios they either bring to or buy at the event for 2 USD. For “FMemory,” NPR will broadcast interviews with downtown Los Angeles’s communities about memorable experiences of MOCA as well as their perceptions of Bunker Hill’s evolving landscape. Continue reading

Certain Sundays is pleased to announce its 2011 spring-summer calendar:: Certain Sundays is a salon at SOWIESO, a monthly sound & music salon in Berlin. After a pause in Fall 2010, they have a very exciting program this year which they hope you will be able to attend! More details can be found on their new website: www.certainsundays.de

February 27, 2011 from 17:00-19:00 Uhr :: Peter Behrends: soundso and Hanna Hartman: The Importance of Getting Lost:: SOWIESO, Weisestraße 24, 12049 Berlin, U8 Leinestraße :: conversations in English or Deutsch :: complimentary coffee & cake :: Admission: 5€

Peter Behrendsen: From 1965 to 1972 studied Theatre Science, German language, and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne; self-studied electronic musician since 1972, member of Josef Anton Riedl’s ensemble, for ten years as collaborator with Klaus Schöning at the WDR-Studio für Akustische Kunst. Continue reading

Sonic Generator :: music on the boundary :: Monday, January 24, 2011 from 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. :: at the Woodruff Arts Center/Rich Theatre, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA :: Created by Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology/Sonic Generator :: free ::

Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble-in-residence, Sonic Generator, will explore open musical scores on the boundaries of composition, improvisation, and interactivity in a free exhibition and concert in partnership with the Woodruff Arts Center. The performance features music with unconventional and technologically-driven scores by Kaija Saariaho, Frederic Rzewski, Jason Freeman, Bill Ryan, David Kim-Boyle, and Akito Van Troyer. It takes place at the Rich Theatre at Woodruff Arts Center on January 24th. The exhibition opens at 7:00 p.m. and the concert begins at 8:00 p.m. Continue reading

1. Early music group New York Polyphony and new music composer/performer Bora Yoon present “My End Is My Beginning” :: Sunday, January 9th, 2010 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. :: Brief Q&A to follow :: at Actor’s Chapel, St. Malachy’s Church, 239 W. 49th Street, btw 8th and Broadway on the NE corner of 49th & 8th. :: RSVP: To attend, pleases reply by email with “RSVP 1/9″ in the subject ::

“My End Is My Begining” is a unique collaboration linking Medieval compositions with experimental new music, exploring the devotional and transcendental properties of sound. Continue reading

Audio Screening at SoundFjord:: Baz Nichols :: December 4, 2010 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. :: at SoundFjord Gallery | Unit 3b – Studio 28, 28 Lawrence Road, London, N15 4ER ::

SoundFjord, London’s only sound art devoted gallery and research unit, invites you to its monthly listening events. Bring your ears to the gallery to explore the world of sound is all its facets and guises.

Baz Nichols (FOURM) will introduce a new piece related to his usual Christmas edition and will introduce listeners to many of his profound influences within experimental and sound art genres.

In the future, a variety of international artists, label owners and curators will curate listening nights once a month.

Tickets: www.wegottickets.com/event/97912
Location: www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=533174&Y=189387&A=Y&Z=110

NewIdeas MusicSeries III :: November 14, 2010 @ Pianos, 158 Ludlow Street, New York, NY :: David First (10:30 pm) :: Ben Manley (9:45 pm) :: Dan Joseph (9:00 pm) :: St.Luke’s Trombone Quartet performing a new work by Michael Vincent Waller: “One-Note-Trumps” (2010) (8:15 pm) :: Sandy McCroskey (7:30 pm) :: Free ::

David First, known for his dense, mesmerizing drone structures - which he has been experimenting with since his teens - as well as his intense and highly unusual, minimalist approach to the guitar, First has been a pivotal figure in the world of experimental music, releasing recordings on O.O. Discs, Ecstatic Peace and Analysand as well as works on the CRI, Aerial, Homestead, and EMF labels. A recent CD entitled “Dave’s Waves - A Sonic Restaurant” - the music from his sound installation of the same name in Lier, Belgium - was the first international release on the highly regarded Italian label ants. Continue reading

Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA:: July 12 - August 1, 2010 :: Residency Program for composers and performers.

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. We will spend three weeks immersed in recent music that has changed the world. Available studies include Balinese music workshops, improvisation, as well as performance coaching, master classes, music business seminars and more. Composers will have their works performed. Players will perform publicly in ensembles sitting alongside their teachers. There are daily performances in the museum galleries, free with museum admission. And the residency concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert featuring performances by the student/faculty ensembles. Continue reading

New instruments for Improvisation and Experimental Approaches with Laetitia Sonami, Dafna Naphtali, Matthew Ostrowski and Hans Tammen :: June 28, 2010; 2:00 - 10:00 pm :: HERE, 145 6th Ave., New York City.

New instruments for Improvisation and experimental approaches, an investigation into contemporary sound art and experimental music using custom made electronic instruments, will consider the methods and intentions of 4 artists building new instruments and specialized interfaces. In a day-long series of presentations, talks and performances these artists will discuss how their practice as improvisers, sound artists and experimental musicians lead to inventing their own tools, and how these inventions in turn influenced their musical performance techniques. Continue reading

Share Uptown :: June 6, 2010; 2:00 - 7:00 pm :: BronxArtSpace, 305 East 140th Street #1A, Bronx, NY.

Share is an informal gathering that takes place in dozens of cities around the world. We are happy to add the Bronx to such a stellar roster of experimental venues. Share is dedicated to supporting the collaboration and exchange of knowledge in new media communities. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into the system, improvise on each others’ signals, and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection you create the content. Take your sound out of the studio and go live. Or play out with new and interesting people. Add yourself and your gear to: Share Art, Share Music, Share Knowledge, Share Sound, Share Wine, Share Company. Continue reading

Barcelona Dreaming :: the fifth annual festival of electronic and experimental music :: April 21, 2010 to April 24, 2010 :: La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona ::

Planning to be in Barcelona in April? Barcelona Dreaming, the fifth annual festival of electronic and experimental music organized by the platform Störung, starts on Wednesday, April 21 and includes four days of performances of international artists of the electronic and experimental scene. Besides the performances, the festival includes a cycle of conferences, a permanent screening of audiovisual works in the exhibition room, and a thematic day on Friday 23rd of April titled ‘Hydrophonia’ and dedicated exclusively to subaquatic sounds. Continue reading