Beatboxer and vocal sculptor Jason Singh, will perform a live vocal score to the 1929 silent film Drifters on November 6 at Cornerhouse in Manchester, England. Using techniques of pre-recorded vocal sequences, live vocal processing and sampling, Jason will create a sonic backdrop of ambient textures, experimental atmospheres and rhythms created solely by the use of the voice to accompany the film. Via Wired.

Sunday Sound Waves :: July 24 – August 28, 2011 :: Galerie8, E8 3NJ London :: Janek Schaefer opening: Sunday, July 24 2011 :: Guest curated by Alexa Kusber ::

Throughout six weeks in July and August, the Sunday Sound Waves series will aim to critically engage with the surrounding environment through sound, and to explore the influences it has on new ways of making and experiencing visual forms.

The series includes a broad range of artists and creators who are increasingly blurring genre lines and sensibilities in the realms of sound and visual culture. Participating artists will do this by recording the sounds of architectural spaces, re-inventing musical instruments, using sound as a sculptural material, or working with music and cinematography. Continue reading

City University London and London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) in association with: Institute of Musical Research, University of London, Iran Heritage Foundation, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS and The Royal Anthropological Institute present: Festival of Music in Middle Eastern Cinema :: Saturday, May 14, 2011 to Friday May 20, 2011 :: A mini-festival of feature and documentary films, and a two-day conference, focusing on the rich musical heritage and the burgeoning new music scenes in the Middle East.

Two-Day Conference: Tuesday May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2011 :: Venue: Institute of Musical Research, University of London: Continue reading

Sonic Acts: Modulating the Human Sensory Apparatus :: March 23, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. :: Sonic Acts Festival, Michigan Theatre (Screening Room) 603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ::

With this program we take a closer look at how artists, over the last fifty years, have been using a broad range of cinematic techniques to investigate the analog and electronically induced play at the boundaries of perception. Ranging from stroboscopic patterns and psychoacoustic drones to visual chaos and pure silence, all used techniques tickle, hypnotize or physically assault the senses resulting in hallucinating trips, exercises in abstraction, and sublime audiovisual spectacles. Continue reading

Object Lessons! - an evening of extraordinary audio visual performances :: Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: @ Secret Project Robot, 210 Kent Avenue @ the corner of Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY :: Created by David Linton, Lesley Flanigan, Marcia Bassett, Maria Chavez, David First, Jon Giles, Shelley Burgon :: $10 ::

In tacit compliance with the Flickering Fingers of Fate Friends of the Creepy TriAngle proudly presents:
* Lesley Flanigan - 9:00-9:30: speaker feedback instruments + voice performance

**Naval Cassidy - “instant cinema” performance - 9:45-10:15

***”MERCE” Maria Chavez & Shelley Burgon -10:30-11:00: Turntable / Harp & electronics duet with live visuals by Thomas Dexter. Continue reading

Final call for 2010 - 10th anniversary of [New Media Art Project Network]:: Cologne, Germany :: Deadline: September 30, 2009.

Cinematheque - streaming media project environments Flash & Thunder — Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations.

Since the Internet became popular in the late 90′ies of 20th century, the software program “FLASH”, once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media and develop vector based animations especially for the Internet. .swf data file extension became a standard for animations online and offline, and Flash video and its .flv file format stands for “videostreaming” on the net. Continue reading

Espacio Enter Canarias :: September 22-27, 2009 :: TEA, Espacio de las Artes and Auditorio de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands.

image: Loud Objects — USA

Espacio Enter Canarias is a International Meeting for all sectors related to art and digital culture, for ideas that will allow us to design the future of technological innovation. Espacio Enter Canarias will embrace contemporary artistic expression related to innovation and new media and also the Future Now Symposium. It aims to strengthen the linkage between Art, Science, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise in order to construct Knowledge Society for all citizens. Continue reading

onedotzero_adventures in motion digital film festival :: April 17 - 19, 2009 :: EMPAC, The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

A captivating weekend packed with visionary new motion graphic video and live cinematic work that spans the range of moving image creative practice, from industry to art gallery. The weekend kicks off with a moving audiovisual performance by Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) and Olga Mink and a reception with lush live video and music by EMPAC luminaries skfl and jenkins. Over three days from the mezzanine to the studios, from the Theater to the Café, EMPAC spaces will flicker and pulse with sound and vision courtesy of the internationally revered onedotzero digital film festival. Continue reading

THERAMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEY — with talk and Q&A by composer and MIT Professor of Music and Media Tod Machover and performance by orchestral thereminist Dalit Hadass Warshaw :: January 19, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA.

Leon Theremin made music as strange as the life he lived. In 1918, using newly discovered vacuum-tube technology, the Russian-born scientist invented a musical instrument unlike any the world had seen before: one that utilizes electronic oscillation to produce its sound and is played entirely without human contact. Theremin toured the United States and Europe giving public recitals, and became the toast of New York City’s artists and intellectuals during the roaring ’20s, rubbing elbows with such luminaries as Albert Einstein and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Continue reading

The Voice by Art of Failure (Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont) - The Voice arises from the diversion of a software for blind people, allowing to transform a video image into sound. The concept is used to design a tool for a performance / installation, where some objects chosen on the place become a series of instruments producing tones according to their shape and color. The performers stage objects of everyday life in a concert where the spectator is immersed « in an almost utopian relationship between visual and sound ».

The Voice software has been designed by Peter B. L. Meijer to propose an alternative way of perception for blind people. With the use of a webcam or a mobile phone, a sound transcription of the visual scene recorded by the device is synthesized. After a learning phase, this set-up allows blind people to recognize some elementary objects, and then a real space movement (link). Continue reading