Sound with Ray Beckett :: June 3, 2010; 6:00 pm :: Cinema A, The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London :: Register.

Ray Beckett, regular collaborator with Ken Loach and Oscar-winning Location Sound Mixer on The Hurt Locker, discusses his work with Larry Sider from the School of Sound, illustrated by film clips, including The Hurt Locker, Land and Freedom and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Deconstructing the Soundtrack — A Seminar Series sponsored by the School of Sound in collaboration with the London Film School :: June 12-13, 2010 :: The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London.

Building on the success of Sound & Music Techniques for Narrative Filmmaking with Gustavo Costantini, the seminars are aimed at those working in screen-based media, and offer three further perspectives on the use of sound and music in filmmaking. Continue reading

EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) presents Filament festival:: October 1 – 3, 2010 :: at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, USA 12180 :: 518.276.3921

Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media. It highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.

Performances and installations include:

MTAA (NYC): a barn raising driven by audience participation
Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA): a 24-channel immersive sound installation
BalletLab (Australia): choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscape
Yanira Castro (NYC): a performance ecosystem where sound and dance environments envelop both audience and artists Continue reading

LMAKprojects presents Jessica Feldman, Richard Lainhart and Michael V. Waller :: May 10, 2010; 7:30 – 10:30 pm :: 139 Eldridge Street, New York City.

LMAKprojects is pleased to present live the works of Jessica Feldman, Richard Lainhart and Michael V. Waller in the last LMAKseries of the season. The performances explore the inner-relationships between digital media, film and music. Feldman will present an interactive video and sound performance, titled thebodyisaportthebodyisaportintomassivedarkeness. Lainhart will play on his analog synthesizer system live to accompany some of his digital films. Waller has composed three new works: Suite No. 432 (I), Making Matters Worse, and Tone Over for violinist Erica Dicker, who has performed in various regional orchestras throughout Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, holding leadership positions in the South Bend and Peoria Symphonies. Continue reading

European Media Art Festival 2010 :: April 21-25, 2010 :: 49074 Osnabrück, Germany.

The motto of the EMAF 2010 is MASH UP! Productions by internationally renowned media artists and the innovative works of new masters from the academies will be presented at the 23nd European Media Art Festival. The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of new experimental films, performances, lectures, an exhibition and the Media Campus. Continue reading

Sounding Out 5: “Soundworlds – Sonic Arts, Film and Radio” :: September 8-10, 2010 :: Call for Papers, Panels, Audio, Audiovisual works — Deadline: June 1, 2010 :: Bournemouth University, England.

The submission of papers and panels as well as audio/audiovisual works is invited for consideration. The 2010 event aims to maintain and enhance the Sounding Out’s already impressive reputation as a major forum for discussion and interaction between practitioners, artists and academics working in the field of sound. For this year’s edition Keynote presentations will be given by a selection of internationally renowned artists and practitioners; Chris Chafe, Dirk Maggs, Jerome Joy, Jonathan Harvey, Kaye Mortley, Larry Sider and Pedro Rebelo. Continue reading

Sonic Acts – The Poetics of Space :: Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology :: February 25-28, 2010 :: Sonic Acts Weteringschans 6 – 8 1017 SG Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

SONICACTSTRAILER0608 from Sonic Acts on Vimeo.

Deep Spaces – 25 February 2010 :: The opening event Deep Spaces presents a selection of audiovisual adventures in spaces defined by sound, light, smoke and lasers. Continue reading

Step Across the Border :: February 3, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. February 4, 2010 :: Villa Drashhoek, Warandestraat 58, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

In Step Across the Border two forms of artistic expression, improvised music and cinema direct, are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense of what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment, not from the transformation of a preordained plan.

Sonic Acts XIII — The Poetics of Space: Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology :: February 25-28, 2010 :: Paradiso, de Balie, NIMk and STEIM, Amsterdam :: 20% Early Bird discount on the festival until January 15, 2010!

The thirteenth Sonic Acts Festival in Amsterdam is entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative and audiovisual art, film, music and architecture. Sonic Acts XIII – The Poetics of Space examines the importance of physical space in times of far-reaching technological developments, and the physical and psychological impact of spatial designs.

Researching spatiality in the arts forms the core of the festival. How is space defined by a work of art? What does a viewer or listener experience? How do technological artworks deal with the visual, auditory and psychological aspects of spatiality? Continue reading

See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision :: August 28, 2009 – January 10, 2010 :: Lentos Kuntsmuseum, Ernst-Koref-promenade 1, Linz, Austria.

Exhibition, Symposium and Webarchive – includes films from the Center for Visual Music’s Collections, including a newly preserved 35mm print of Radio Dynamics, screened in film; plus Ornament Sound and Belson’s Samadhi (latter two screened digitally). The exhibition presents not only technical, perceptional and media-reflexive aspects of the coupling of image and sound from the beginning up to the present, but also poetic conceptual aspects that are important to contemporary visual artists today. Realized in collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.

One of the articles in the new Digimag 49 / November 2009 is TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INNOVATION by Alessandra Migani.

[image: by Peter Esmonde ]

He writes about the film, Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, an homage by the director Peter Esmonde to the creative genius, artist, inventor and musician Trimpin, and about Trimpin’s life and work: Among his works of art, I would like to remember Sheng High, i.e. an installation created in 2009 for the Ojai Music Festival, in which the author make use of a principle typical of the Chinese world of thousands of years ago. It is a sound sculpture that interacts with a natural element, in this case water, and whose main character is a sophisticated system of shaking bamboo woods. Another project titled Klompen, developed for The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, is made of 96 Dutch clogs with a little hammer inside hanging in the air through a thread and which diffuses a rhythmical symphony controlled form a PC. Continue reading