International Festival of Electronic Arts, Music and Moving Image:: March 5-14, 2010 :: Newcastle Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderlands , The Sage Gateshead 8 / 6 concessions, tickets available direct from www.thesagegateshead.org or +44 (0) 191 443 4661 ::

This year the curatorial theme is energy: a universal force that connects, transforms and renews life. Exploring energy from scientific, technological, environmental and spiritual perspectives we present work that resonates across the Festival centres in Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, and beyond.

It’s a packed and diverse programme with 24 exhibitions, 20 performances, 10 screenings, 14 talks, 3 symposia, 4 club nights, 2 residencies and even our very own café. We are thrilled to include legendary and inspiring artists, filmmakers and musicians such as: Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Liliane Lijn, Alan Moore, Charlemagne Palestine and Iain Sinclair, who have all innovated in their respective fields. Continue reading

Florian Hecker :: February 12 – March 28, 2010 :: Lecture: March 18, 7:00 pm :: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ.

Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham. Hecker’s new commission continues his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space, employing idiosyncratic psychoacoustic propositions in order to examine and disrupt spatial perception.

At Chisenhale Gallery Hecker will present a series of four independent, electro-acoustic works that lead the visitor around the gallery space, where each work exposes a fault line in the traditional categorizations of auditory events, auditory objects or streams. Continue reading

Mapping Sound in Art — A lecture/discussion with Kabir Carter, Regine Basha, Christopher Cox and others :: February 13, 2010; 5:00 - 6:00 pm :: Goethe Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery), New York, NY.

In the U.S., sound art remains a fluid catchall term for a range of acoustic activities. Conversely, in Europe, sound as art occupies narrower practical methods and concepts. With a mind for exploring the gap, Kabir Carter leads a discussion on the role of sound in the arts with curator/writer Regine Basha, philosopher/writer Christoph Cox, composer/artist Michael J. Schumacher, and artist/writer Åsa Stjerna.

The discussion takes as its starting point Max Neuhaus’ blistering critique Sound Art.

Miha Ciglar, from IRZU (Institute for Sonic Arts Research in Slovenia) will give a talk on: Artistic productions and research projects @ IRZU :: January 20, 2010 from 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. :: IRCAM - Centre Pompidou 1, place Igor-Stravinsky, Paris, France ::

The Institute for Sonic Arts Research (IRZU) is a non-governmental organisation. It is based on an interdisciplinary concept and is conducting artistic productions in the field of electro-acoustic music / sonic arts, as well as audio technology research and educational activities. The research activities include digital signal processing with the focus on Music Information Retrieval, as well as the development of new interfaces for musical expression. Continue reading

Adam Hyde: Artist Presentation :: January 8, 2010; 7:00 pm :: NK, Elsenstr. 52/ 2.Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin Neukölln.

Adam is an artist with an international practice who works with software, online audio and video, sound art, new technologies and more traditional forms of broadcast. He has also gained extensive management experience, having managed the radio station Contact89FM (Hamilton, New Zealand) and held the position of CEO for 95bFM (Auckland, New Zealand). Adam also established and managed New Zealand’s first community television station, Static TV. Adam has also worked at management level internationally in the IT sector as Business Development Manager at Australias Virtual Artists (Adelaide, Australia), as well as managing the Software and Web Development departments at the renown Dutch Internet Service Provider XS4ALL (Amsterdam). Continue reading

Hoerensehen 2.0 — collaborative strategies in music and video art :: Opening: November 20, 2009; 3:00 p.m. :: Performances: November 20 and 22; 8:00 p.m. :: Lectures: November 20 and 22; 6:00 p.m.; November 21; 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. :: Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstr. 124-128, 10969 Berlin.

Hoerensehen 2.0 is a three day festival, presented by Klangnetz e.V. and the Berlinische Galerie. The festival explores possible interactions between contemporary music and video art under three curatorial aspects: installation, performance, and narrative. Continue reading

Jeff Tallman: Mouth To Mouth, Immersed in the Resonance of a Kiss :: September 9, 2009 :: Lecture: 6:00 p.m. :: Opening Reception: 7:30 p.m. :: School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation, Exhibition Gallery, Roger Williams University, Bristol, 1 Old Ferry Road, RI.

The sound source for this work is the resonance of a single kiss, 28 channel audio, 38 speakers, diffusion plates, steel connecting rods, hardware, cable, 1-channel video, 17 scenes for two actors. The work features Amanda Stark and Javier Garcera.

Talman will present a lecture on the impact of natural spatial resonance in architecture for the school’s Fall 2009 Public Events Series.

For Talman’s Statement, go here. Also see interview.

How to Make Music With Police Cars and Get away with It — An Artist’s Talk by Lázaro Valiente :: August 26, 2009; 8:00 p.m. :: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St., Queens, NY ( Directions).

The Police Car Quartet was the first of nine public happenings by acclaimed Mexican artist, Lázaro Valiente, including the Tamal-Car Orchestra, muchos Mexican barrel organs, visual concerts at red lights, public radio Interventions, and many others. Each is a suggestion on how to control traffic in public spaces. Please join us to hear Lázaro speak, perform, and distribute works of art. Continue reading

OJO Presents Interactive Lecture Series — An Engagement Party Event :: August 6, 2009; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: MOCA, Ahmanson Auditorium, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA.

Interactive Lecture Series will consist of a series of lectures, each of which will act as a musical score, with the speaker, audience, space, and environment functioning as compositional elements. As talks are presented on various topics, members of OJO will take up position beside the lectern as the house band, using audio trickery to affect the audience’s reception of live speech. Focusing on specific words and phrases in order to induce listeners to react in all sorts of ways, their interventions should lead to chaotic and memorable lectures. Continue reading

Breakthrough — an experimental 12 hour event distributed across Berlin locations, inter-network and radio space :: June 27, 2009; 12 noon - midnight.

The term breakthrough describes a sudden shift in understanding or technologies, and, finally, a clearing (Lichtung), an entry into unknown and unmapped territories. An enclosure is breached allowing access to another, totally unforeseen state or space. Communication is thus implied, a new form of exchange, perhaps between two otherwise unconnected domains, between the living and the dead, between many worlds. What does the sheer possibility of a breakthrough imply for communication between the past and the future?

Breakthrough, as event, signals a change in direction, a pointing towards new ways of actively describing and creating the world. Continue reading