MUSICfor.one [byTEN] is a live “concert” improvisation created for the Chatroulette social network. Audio in the performance is generated from screen grabs taken of the first 10 people that appeared during a previous visit to the website. These pictures in turn became the graphic notation that loosely scores the work. Through this process Jason Sloan becomes the conductor while the anonymous Chatroulette users become the unaware orchestra.

The individual scores are created using software that reads the RGB pixel information across the X axis of the image and assigns a unique tone to each colored pixel. Two 20 minute movements of MUSICfor.one [byTEN] will be performed live on the Chatroulette network March 20, 2010 at 10:00 pm EST [-5GMT]. Click through and see if you can find the performance. Documentation of MUSICfor.one [byTEN] will be made available.

David Linton: Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System with special guests David First & Satoshi Takeishi (60 Hz Raga) :: February 13, 2010; 8:30 - 10:30 pm :: Roulette, 20 Greene Street, (between Canal and Grand Streets), New York, NY.

David Linton’s interactive analogue audio video feedback system provides the vibrational foundation for an evening length extended time audio visual improvisation with David Linton - interactive sound and live video and invited guests David First on guitar & electronics and Satoshi Takeishi on percussion.

David Linton (born Newburgh NY in 1956) is a Time based multiple media artist traveling the vectors of sound, subculture, and signal flow. He has been active in the downtown NYC experimental arts community for 30 years. Continue reading

Chicago Phonography on Something Else :: hosted by Philip von Zweck :: on WLUW 88.7FM :: Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 10:00pm to Monday, January 18, 2010 at 2:00am :: live stream: http://amber.streamguys.com:4100/stream.mp3

Something Else is Chicago’s longest running radio show devoted to seldom-heard and experimental, avant-garde musics, sound art, works of long duration (no excerpts!), and other less classifiable things that just don’t have an outlet. Chicago Phonography is a collective of artists interested in promoting creative activity in listening by broadcasting unprocessed field recordings as an ensemble in a context of live improvisation.

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

Analogous Interactions @ International Computer Music Conference :: June 1-5, 2010 :: New York City :: Call for Works — Deadline: December 31, 2009.

Analogous invites proposals for presentation at Analogous Interactions events for the International Computer Music Conference, taking place at Stony Brook University, in association with New York University, and the Electronic Music Foundation of New York City. Works should explore the intersection of computer music and emergent phenomena — including, but not limited to, generative sound- and video-works, performative ecologies and installations, live-coding and musical improvisation, reality-based games and social experiments, biomedical hacking and new technology, artificial intelligence and chaordic systems. Continue reading

Collision Zone Live by Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert w/Otobong Nkanga and Y.E.R.M.O. — Premiere at Philharmonie Luxembourg :: November 29, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Installation at Luxembourg Pavilion Ca’ del Duca, 3052 Corte del Duca Sforza, 30124 San Marco Venice, until November 22, 2009.

Every thing must have a beginning, and that beginning must be linked to something that went before…

Collision Zone Live will mix field recordings of natural and urban sounds with improvised music by Y.E.R.M.O. and intuitive vocals by Otobong Nkanga. The show will include large screen projections of videos recorded at the edge of Europe: satellites, radars and surveillance patrols, brutalist architecture, informal human settlements, geological imagery of mountains and caves, steaming volcanic craters, insect hunters and their prey… Continue reading

Blank Pages Performances: Blank Pages #7 with Jorge Antonio Martinez Sanchez - Nicolas/Lain Berger - Thomas Thiery - Pierce Warnecke - Felix Pfeifer :: September 5, 2009; 2:00 - 3:00 pm :: Emitter19 - Kiefholzstrasse 19 - Berlin.

Blank Pages #8 with Stefan Tiedje - Renaud Rubiano - Barreiro Servando - João Pais - Duan Wasi - Dominik Tresowski :: September 6, 2009; 5:00 - 6:00 pm :: NK - Elsen str 52 - Berlin.

The Blank Pages Performance is an improvisation involving live coding, where the participants are musicians and instrument makers at the same time. Continue reading

Quartet Without Pyramid Scheme — Jordan Topiel Paul, Reed Evan Rosenberg, Eric Laska, Richard F. Kamerman :: September 5-26, 2009; 2:00 - 8:00 pm :: Diapason Gallery, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor (between 32 & 33 Sts.), Industry City, Brooklyn, NY.

Quartet without Pyramid Scheme is a collaborative sound installation inhabiting the gallery and lounge spaces at Diapason. Its sound is the sum of a rotating collection of sound samples which loop continuously in unpredictable variations. Through its duration, the four artists successively alter this sound by recording and integrating new samples to be looped, some of which replace old ones. The sound content heard at any point in the piece will be the product of this collaboration. Continue reading

An unusual solo performance by Chris Brown :: August 27, 2009; 6:00 - 7:00 pm :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA :: Tickets here.

Chris will be playing piano solo with interactive electronics — first an improvisation with live signal processing, like an “alap”, without pulse, then a newly restored old rhythm piece called “invention#7 — branches”, in which he interacts with his “ritmos” polyrhythm software.

It’s part of YBCA’s “new frequencies” series — Chris will be playing in the galleries in front of pieces that are part of their “wallworks” show. Continue reading

Read | Write Storage in Collaborative Networked Art by Jason Freeman — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art):

ABSTRACT: This chapter explores the role of storage in media art and, more specifically, its role in collaborative creativity within the field of networked music. Through a series of paired analyses of works that differentially emphasize transmission and storage or which employ different approaches to storage, the chapter discusses different opportunities, challenges, and issues related to storage in collaborative, networked art. Music by the Rova Saxophone Quartet and by Nick Collins frames a discussion of composition and improvisation; two works by The Hub initiate an analysis of the influence of technology on network design and on collaborative models of shared material and shared control; broadcast works by Max Neuhaus introduce the concept of active storage systems; the online sites WebDrum and Jamglue raise questions about network latency and the persistency of storage; and Bicycle Built for 2,000 and Graph Theory manipulate the level of awareness of storage mechanisms by various participants.