NYU Electronic Music Performance class :: December 17, 2011; 7:30 pm :: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Room 602 between Houston and Prince streets :: directed by Dafna Naphtali :: admission is free ::

Some great new faces and sounds — improvisations and open form scores — live electronics, feedback, live sound processing, sample processing, theremin, homemade electronics. “i-semble” (iPhone / iPad ensemble), plus piano, violin, guitar, voice and even amplified water jug.

Featuring: Tycho Horan, Aimee Norwich, Alejandro Zuleta, Ryan Doubiago, Andrew Lection, Brian Bourque, Carson Grub, Douglas Moss, Eric Bergen, Douglas Roj, Andrew Stein, Patrick Deeney, Paul Wittschen, Rebecca Dole, Sarah Streit and Yuval Ronen. Visuals contributed by Brendan Reilley. & with special guest Slavo Krekovic..

Hans Tammen’s Third Eye Orchestra :: December 14, 2011; 9:00 pm :: Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street, NYC.

Hans Tammen’s Third Eye Orchestra uses Earle Brown’s open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece for a 15-piece ensemble +live sound processing, inspired by West African roots of Jazz, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Steve Coleman, and Stravinsky’s layering or Steve Reich’s phase techniques. Continue reading

Transmittance #2 - Telepresence Performance :: December 13, 2011; 8:00 pm CET :: http://transmittance.si & Tobacco 001 Cultural Centre, Ljubljana (the online audience can watch and interact with the performance live using a recent version of popular browser like Firefox or Chrome. No other software is needed).

Transmittance explores collaboration which is local, global, networked and broadcast. It involves an artistic group of performers, visual artists, musicians and computer programmers to research performative possibilities of streaming, broadcasting and telepresence forging new types of performance and audience. With focus on critical and socially-aware artistic languages this work is based on asking questions about body, self and society - opening non-dualistic perspectives. Continue reading

International radio art and sound art exhibition, radioCona FM 88.8MHz :: online stream on www.radiocona.si :: exhibition in ŠKUC Gallery Ljubljana :: broadcast start: December 7, 2011 @ 12.00 p.m. :: ŠKUC Gallery opening @ 8:00 p.m. :: December 7 - 16, 2011 from 12.00 p.m. - 19.00 p.m. :: produced by: CONA Institute, partners: Kiosk, Novi Radio Beograd, RAM Live :: Locations: FM 88.8 MHz, online stream http://www.radiocona.si/, ŠKUC Gallery Ljubljana :: Listening room: ŠKUC Gallery, Continue reading

After presentations in Wrocław, Lviv, and Minsk, two final showings this year of Paweł Janicki’s EU_tracer performance with internet and acoustic instruments will take place in Paris and Brussels. Continue reading

The world premiere of minimalist legend Terry Riley’s new work White Space Conflict for MIT’s Gamelan Galak Tika :: Sunday, December 15, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. :: Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, MA. :: Reserve your tickets here http://galaktika.org/terryriley/ ::

Don’t miss the first unveiling of this stunning new work for two Balinese gamelans, guitar, saxophone, keyboards, and electronics. It’s the last non-holiday event of 2011.

Also on the program: the 75-years-young Riley performing new works on solo piano and improvisations on the mighty Kresge pipe organ! And to round things out, the shimmering beauty of traditional Balinese music, as performed by Galak Tika. Continue reading

Workshop: Neuro Reality Check (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Performance: GenComp Collective Berlin & Book Launch: Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience :: December 2, 2011, 10:00 pm :: N.K., Elsenstr. 52/2, Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin :: Open to the public (register for the workshop here).

GenComp Collective Berlin: Chaotic, cybernetic, and hybrid systems — Neurological and cybernetic research techniques have been adopted by many experimental music protagonists, such as Louis and Bebe Barron, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and others. Continue reading

Penta Locus: A Live Concert from Five Universities Around the World :: November 20, 2011; 12:00 - 1:30 pm :: Free admission. Live audience from these cities are all welcome.

Penta Locus extends a history of networking music education at five universities for a concert of new telematic music pieces by students and faculty. The concert builds on 2010 Tri Locus between University of California San Diego, New York University, and Stanford University, and past work with Queens University Belfast, Concordia University, and Hamburg Hochschule of Music. Continue reading

Waveforms::an exhibition of interdisciplinary art works showcasing sound as the principle component :: October 21–November 18, 2011 :: Grunwald Gallery, 1201 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN 47405 :: Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 12–4pm or by appointment ::

image: Norbert Herber and Rowland Ricketts, The Gradual Accumulation of Additional Layers of Matter, 2011.

This exhibition explores, through an examination of creative and artistic practices, the interface of sound and new media technologies. The works in the exhibit include a number of trans-disciplinary interactions and collaborations that include sound in the context of visual and spatial artistic practices, including sound sculpture, installations, and performance works. Continue reading

Call for participation :: Matadac Festival :: December 12-15, 2011 :: at Caixaforum Madrid, ES :: Write for subscriptionprocedure to: info@madatac.es ::

The Xth Sense (XS) is a free and open source based technology; as such, its free distribution is an integral aspect of the research. In this workshop participants build their own XS biosensor and learn how to generate interactive music from the muscle sounds of their bodies.

Xth Sense: biophysical live media performance: Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for audiovisual performance. Creating your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds. Continue reading