Listening in Place - Window — an interactive sound text about everyday sounds and listening, in memory of John Cage — by Katharine Norman.

Live Interfaces: Performance, Art, Music :: September 7-8, 2012 :: ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds, East Yorkshire LS2 9JT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland :: Registration until August 30, £30 for both days.

Live Interfaces is an international conference on research and practice in live performance technology. The conference seeks to investigate cross-disciplinary understandings of performance technology with a particular focus on issues related to the notion of liveness in interaction. A preliminary programme with a list of papers and performances is available here.

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Oorwonde (Earwound) by Laura Maes :: until April 22, 2012 :: Usurp Art Gallery, 140 Vaughan Road, London HA1 4EB, UK.

Oorwonde is an interactive aural installation in which the visitor becomes a willing ‘patient’ to hear, feel, influence and manipulate the soundtrack of a fictitious operation. Speakers, electro-magnets, vibrator motors and piezoelectric disks entwine with the human body, creating a unique composition and performance. Based on Bernhard Leitner’s philosophy that ‘listening is understood to extend to all parts of the body and sound to touch a deep nerve’, Oorwonde explores the concept of bodily hearing as multiple elements target different body parts. Hearing is no longer restricted to the ears. Continue reading

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Timo Kahlen:: Interactive Sound Art Works … online :: for headphones or speakers :: Works develop individually. They are generated as the viewer moves across, pauses or clicks at the responsive texture of the sound objects. Roll over & click to generate the audio works at your own pace ::

image: Audio Dust (2011)

The five interactve sound works by Timo Kahlen can be found at the following URLs:
Audio Dust, 2011 http://www.staubrauschen.de/audiodust
Signal-To-Noise, 2011 http://www.staubrauschen.de/signal
From Scratch, 2011 http://www.staubrauschen.de/fromscratch
Carpe Diem, 2011 http://www.staubrauschen.de/carpe
Undo/Delete, 2011 http://www.staubrauschen.de/delete
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Biophilia is an iPhone/iPad release of Björk’s latest album created in collaboration with Scott Snibbe and her longtime design collaborators M/M (Paris). Comprising a suite of musical pieces and interactive artworks, Biophilia is released as ten in-app download experiences that are accessed through a three-dimensional galaxy, the album’s theme song Cosmogony. The first single Crystalline, is now available, others soon to follow.

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Musical Chambers :: Imagine a musical house where the floorboards work like keys on an organ, a drumbeat plays to your heartbeat, and the walls sing. This is what famed street artist Swoon and her team of musicians and builders are in the middle of dreaming up: a fantastical, interactive, musical house in the middle of New Orleans — a beautiful gift to the city, built from an old Creole cottage, and open to the public.

BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body :: June 2, 2011 - August 6, 2011 :: Opening Reception: June 3; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, 540 W. 21st Street, New York, NY.

Why does a minor chord sound sad? Is there a formula for the perfect hit? Whistling, dancing, finger-snapping, and toe-tapping — what makes us do it? Find out when music and science join forces in an interactive bazaar of beats, sounds, and rhythm in the exhibition BIORHYTHM, created by the Science Gallery and presented at Eyebeam as part of the World Science Festival. Learn what drives sound manipulation and discover how different types of music evoke different emotions. Trace the power of an impactful pop hook in a song, measuring the way our brains and bodies react, down to the responses in our fingertips. Continue reading