ResoNations Panel Access Grid Video Teleconference :: April 9, 2010; 4:00 - 5:30 pm EDT :: 35 West 4th Street, 6th Floor Conference Room, New York, New York (see additional sites below).

Presented by the Music Technology Program Lecture Series, Steinhardt School, New York University, ResoNations Panel Access Grid Video Teleconference is an international videoconference on the groundbreaking international telematic music concert for peace, ResoNations. Panelists will make presentations on the ResoNations concert and the ongoing project. Performance highlights will be shown. Local and online international audiences will participate in discussion.

ResoNations was an international telematic music concert for peace November 21, 2009 performed by twenty-six renowned musicians in five international locations: Continue reading

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.

LISTEN IN with Threscwald: John McGill, Max Abeles, Pierce Warnecke :: March 19, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York City (at Houston St) :: free ::

Threscwald brings together three musicians working in the realm of digital audio and the performative arts. Brought together by a similar love - building software to create unique sound and imagery - they share creative processes that bear diverse yet homogenous results.

John Mcgill’s Lightning, Lizards of the Sky is a piece that attempts to harness various FFT-based effects originating in the Max/MSP environment. A sonic duality is conveyed using live audio signals to cut into saturated ‘noise’ textures. Using complex algorithms and generative techniques, Mcgill’s sound is born from a place of sensitivity towards abstract design and phrasing. Continue reading

No Images, a performance in the dark :: April 6, 2010; 7:00 - 8:00 pm :: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON.

Developed by curators Pablo de Ocampo, Jacob Korczynski and Christof Migone, No Images features the work of Ryan Driver, Annie MacDonell, Alexis O’Hara & Mary Margaret O’Hara and Alex Snukal. Imagine a pitch-black space. Immersed in absolute darkness, you cannot see your own hand, you have no idea of the size of the space that you are in, and your sense of time is completely lost. One’s typical dependence upon an encounter anchored by eyesight is replaced by an amorphous and immersive environment. This presentation strategy is not only ideally suited for sound art, it is also a radical engagement of the senses by way of complete deprivation of the visual. Continue reading

Tremorrag with Angie Eng (music/ digital video) and Pascal Battus (music, analog video) :: March 20, 2010; 8:30 p.m. :: IRL Soirées - Centre Mercoeur, 4 rue Mercoeur 75011 M° Voltaire/Charonne Paris, France.

Vibrations of motors, tiny gestures, the hum of energy- How does movement look and sound? Tremorrage is a duo with sound artist, Pascal Battus and video artist, Angie Eng who take you on a audio visual journey with mini-cameras, contact mics and drawings in real time. Battus holds pen on paper that moves by vibrating motors. Line is created by rotating machines that vibrate the paper. Continue reading

Informelles Radio — Join a Radio Art Tram Ride through Vienna: on air (FM4 fm4.orf.at) - on line - on site :: March 14, 2010; 11:00 - 11:45 pm (CET) :: Vienna, between the following tram stops: start at Alserstraße - U6, Lange Gasse, Schottentor, Salztorbrücke, Hintere Zollamtsstraße, Ungargasse, Südbahnhof, Schwarzenbergplatz.

A tram equipped as an art space and radio studio, informal radio is a live on air multi-channel radio performance, including nine radio stations based throughout Austria.

informal radio is a project by students of the Digital Art class at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts, supervised by Nicolaj Kirisits and Klaus Filip. The tram becomes a mobile exhibition space for twelve time-based installations by Kathrin Stumreich, Viktoria Wöß, JoaKnierzinger, Mara Bloom, hpl, Johannes Muik, Daniel Gyolcs, mths, Miriam Mone, conny zenk, Karl Salzmann, Jan Perschy and Conny Zenk + mths. Continue reading

Carl Michael Von Hausswolff Performance event :: Saturday, March 13, 2010; 6:30 - 9:30 pm :: Watford House, 16 Dundas Street, Avoca, Australia.

The world renowned Swedish audio-visual artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff will create a performance with 8 local musicians and sound artists at Watford House in Avoca this Saturday night, the 13th March. It is going to be a very enjoyable night of experimental performance under the stars.

Fine weather is forecast and food and drink will be available. The event is free and bookings are not required. Come along for a great night of sound in the country. Avoca is 2 and a half hours from Melbourne. A limited number of accommodations are available in the town.

SOUNDART RADIO 102.5fm :: 6:00 pm Listen Live :: Mapping out the Sonic Unconscious: Discussion and Sound Works emerging from the search for the sonic unconscious:: Part of Petra Klusmeyer’s OPEN PROCESS series at Dartington Gallery, University College Falmouth, Dartington Campus :: with participation from Ariane Delaunois, David Strang, Joe Scarffe, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Sebastian Hau Walker.

Hosted by David Strang’s Surface Sound Series on Soundart Radio, the OPEN PROCESS series curated by Helen Pritchard & Gillian Wylde invites artists to explore collaborative processes of doing and making in an experimental lab context. Continue reading

The OpenEnded Group: Upending with music by Morton Feldman followed by The Making of Upending with The OpenEnded Group :: March 25 and 26, 2010, 7:00 p.m. (Matinee: March 27, 2:00 p.m.) :: Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY.

Upending is a revelatory stereoscopic theater performance: an animated, actor-less drama of disorientation and reorientation that compels viewers to rethink their relationship with the material world. Using ordinary flat photographs and stereoscopic HD video as the basis for a battery of non-photorealistic rendering technique, Upending transfigures familiar objects, spaces, and persons in ways that are both beautiful and uncanny. Continue reading

Build your own theremin:: March 22-26, 2010; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm daily with 30 min break :: NK, Elsenstr. 52/2.Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin Neuklln :: Preregistration is required; email to enka_nk [at] gmx.de

[image: An Etherwave-Theremin, assembled from Robert Moog’s kit]

This workshop allows each participant to build their own theremin, the first electronic instrument, patented in 1928 by Lev Theremin. Starting with instrument designs from these articles, we will modify each theremin in a unique way. The built instruments will have the features of a real theremin, with more than 5 octaves and 2 antennas, for volume and pitch control. Continue reading