Vortex, Part 2: a search for time distortion :: December 16, 2009; 7:00 - 9:30 pm :: Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Vienna, Austria.

Vortex is an interdisciplinary music project by composer / pianist Belma Beslic (AUT/SLO) and Viennese composer / sound artist Bernhard Gál (AUT). It deals with different aspects of temporal perception, and its implication for our human sensory and cognitive apparatus.

PROGRAMME: * B. Gal: 88 (for piano and light projection) * B. Beslic: Utopia Planitia (audiovisual composition) * B. Gal: relive (laptop performance) * B. Gal: textur#4 (audiovisual composition) * B. Beslic: Expanse (for piano and sound projection, premiere). Annelie Gahl – violin (Utopia Planitia)

VORTEX - a search for time distortion :: December 8, 2009, 7:00pm - 9:00pm :: Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, Vienna :: Free admission ::

Vortex is an interdisciplinary music project by composer / pianist Belma Beslic (AUT/SLO) and Viennese composer / sound artist Bernhard Gál (AUT). It deals with different aspects of temporal perception, and its implication for our human sensory and cognitive apparatus.

PROGRAMME

* B. Beslic: Hibernation (audiovisual performance, 2009)
* B. Gal: textur#3 (audiovisual performance, 2008)
* B. Beslic: Echo (composition for piano and video projection, 2008)
* B. Gal: textur#5 (audiovisual performance, 2009)

Music, Language, Thought :: February 28, 2009; 10:00 am -5:00 pm :: New York University, Silver Center of Arts and Science, 100 Washington Square East, Department of Music, Room 220, 2nd Floor (Enter at Washington Place Doors).

Music, Language, Thought is a new interdisciplinary event series organized by graduate students within New York University’s Music and Comparative Literature Departments. Broadly speaking, the series focuses on the relationship between music and language, and our speakers will examine its theoretical ramifications for politics, aesthetics and historiography. The project stems from ongoing conversation and collaboration between graduate students within these two departments, and will continue on an annual basis. Continue reading

Eyebeam MIXER | EXPO — 6-8 pavilions and 4 performances that convey utopia. Our playlist includes Buckminster Fuller, Afrika Bambaataa, Derrick May, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier, Sun Ra, Hans Haacke, and M.I.A. What about yours? :: March 6 – 7, 2009 :: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC :: Call for Participation — Deadline: January 26, 2009; 11:59 pm.

MIXER, Eyebeam’s event series dedicated to showcasing leading artists in the fields of live video and audio performance, interactivity and participatory practice, will have its fifth iteration on Friday, when Eyebeam will play host to an exposition of party pavilions. A cluster of autonomous structures, each built according to their own unified concept or theme, will take over our rough-and-ready warehouse space for a two-night extravaganza. Continue reading

Music and the Body Colloquium: Amir Lahav - Music and the Brain: Bridging Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Medicine :: November 12, 2008; 6:00 pm :: Brown University Music Department, Orwig 315 (Corner of Hope St. and Young Orchard Ave.), Providence, RI.

Amir Lahav is a Visiting Scientist in Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School.

The Department of Music presents a year-long interdisciplinary lecture series entitled “Music and the Body” in the coming academic year. Broadly-conceived, the series is designed to inform contemporary and historical music-related questions concerning ritual and dance; display and gesture; gender and sexuality; and perception and memory. Continue reading

Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art - A buzzword of new media under scrutiny :: September 4, 2008 :: Part of Ars Electronica - A New Cultural Economy, Linz, Austria :: Organized by Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.

Interaction: The relation between two or more relatively independent things or systems of change which advance, hinder, limit, or otherwise affect one another - (Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901) Interactivity has become virtually a magic word for the promotion of new media and the media arts alike. The term refers not only to a certain technology, it also stands for social concepts and visions ranging from grassroots democracy all the way to consumer freedom. This imbues the term with its broad-ranging impact, but also contributes to its dilution. Continue reading

LoVid Open Studio :: July 10, 2008; 4-7 pm :: CUE Art Foundation :: 511 W. 25th St. (bet. 10th and 11th Ave.; entrance is on street level; the studio is downstairs).

LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Our work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. We combine many opposing elements in our work, contrasting hard electronics with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced objects. Continue reading

Karen Van Lengen is the Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture and Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. She is also the former Chair of Architecture at the Parsons School of Design.

Van Lengen’s current work focuses on the use of sound as a significant design component. Her designs mix environmental sounds into public and private space, often taking sounds from one space and playing or mixing them into another. Her most recent project is a collaboration with Joel Sanders Architects to create a sound installation within the newly renovated Campbell Hall, home to the UVA School of Architecture.

Peter Traub: Your 2003 paper co-authored with Ted Sheridan, “Hearing Architecture: Exploring and Designing the Aural Environment”, argues for a greater emphasis on sound and aurality as elements of modern architectural design. When and how did you become interested in sound and “designing the aural environment”? Continue reading

Sonic Fragments: Narrative and Mediation in Sound Art :: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ :: March 28-29, 2008 :: Call for Works: Deadline: February 15, 2008

We hear while we are in the womb, long before we see. For the rest of our lives, hearing essentially precedes the rest of the sensorium, as we move through a world of sonic fragments which affect us phenomenally and emotionally but of which we are often unaware. These fragments are mediated by our environment, our bodies, our individual and collective memories, and the technologies that pervade contemporary life: from books to radio to television to iPods. Continue reading

Gridjam is a real-time, geographically distributed, networked multimedia event. It is an experimental project that brings together a visual artist, composer, musicians and computer scientists, while using the new high speed international LambdaRail network. Gridjam will demonstrate real-time, low latency, interactive, distance computing through the complexity of the live, partly improvised, 3D visualized, musical performance, being both a world-class work of art and a research project into high performance collaborative network computing. Continue reading