New Music USA’s New Grantmaking Strategy Drives Online Curation :: New program funds projects and promotes them through an online showcase, giving artists tools to connect with the world ::

In fall 2013, New Music USA will open a new chapter in public advocacy for new music. The organization will reconfigure five current grantmaking programs into a unified channel of support for a wide range of new music projects. Awarded applications will be promoted on newmusicusa.org and offer a new way for the public to connect with artists. Continue reading

Synthsized Voices of the Revolutionary Utopia: Early Sonic Experiments in the Soviet Union

This book tells the remarkable story behind the pioneering experiments in audio synthesis and graphical sound that were being conducted in the early years of the Soviet Union by composer-theorists Arseny Avraamov, Boris Yankovsky and many others.
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Meehan/Perkins will premiere Tristan Perich’s new Parallels for triangles, hi-hats and 1-bit electronics :: April 6, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. :: FFA, Scottish Rite Theater, 207 West 18th Street, Austin, TX ::

Full Program (4pm to midnight ($20, $10 student)
4pm: Living Earth Show
5pm: The Weird Weeds
6pm: Austin Soundwaves
7pm: Convergence
8pm: Francois Minaux + Ryan Cronk
9pm: Meehan/Perkins Duo + Tristan Perich
10pm: Sqwonk
11pm: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

Turbulence Commission: Panemoticon by Ali Miharbi and John Priestley [Needs Firefox (16 or later recommended), headphones/speakers, mouse/trackpad]:

We know how you feel. Panemoticon observes your behavior, makes a few inferences about your emotional state, and plays music to match your mood. Your mouse/trackpad use says a lot about your energy level, confidence, and perceived control over your environment. Panemoticon tracks and analyzes these data to create an image of your mood, and then generates music, adjusting properties such as tonality (major/minor), harmonic & rhythmic complexity, tempo, timbre, and proximity. Collective mood is calculated for all Panemoticon users on a given site. Continue reading

Physicists use electrical signals from slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) to make music. Using the electrical signals generated by slime mould to make music creates an instrument musicians can ‘play’ by zapping the creature with light, the Physics arXiv blog reports.

“Slime mould, is a single-celled creature that has attracted considerable attention in recent years for its ability to compute in unconventional ways. Various research groups have watched in barely disguised amazement as these single cells have solved mazes, recreated national motorway networks and even anticipated the timing of periodic events.”

Now this extraordinary creature has … another skill…”

For more, read on: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508531/physicists-use-electrical-signals-from-slime-mould-to-make-music/

Share your ideas for the next generation of musical instruments at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.

Submissions are being accepted online until December 1, 2012. Preliminary and final performances will take place in Atlanta April 11-12, 2013, where contestants will battle for $10,000 in cash prizes.

This year, winners will be selected by an expert jury panel comprised of experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson, composer, performer and educator, David Wessel, and electronic musician and sound designer Richard Devine.

More details and submission form at:

http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/guthman2013

Share your ideas for the next generation of musical instruments at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.

An annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design and engineering, Wired magazine has called the competition an “X-Prize for music,” and contestants have likened it to a TED Conference for new musical instrument designers.

Submissions are being accepted online until November 15, 2012. Preliminary and final performances will take place in Atlanta April 11-12, 2013, where contestants will battle for $10,000 in cash prizes.
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Live Interfaces: Performance, Art, Music :: September 7-8, 2012 :: ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds, East Yorkshire LS2 9JT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland :: Registration until August 30, £30 for both days.

Live Interfaces is an international conference on research and practice in live performance technology. The conference seeks to investigate cross-disciplinary understandings of performance technology with a particular focus on issues related to the notion of liveness in interaction. A preliminary programme with a list of papers and performances is available here.

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((( MUME 2012 ))) :: 1st International Workshop on Musical Metacreation :: to be held at the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE’12) :: Stanford, Palo Alto, California, USA :: October 9, 2012 :: Deadline for Paper and Demo Submissions extended to: July 15, 2012 :: Continue reading

BEAM Festival :: June 22 - June 24, 2012 :: Brunel University, Uxbridge, London :: Day Passes £12 Fri / £20 Sat / £12 Sun :: Weekend Festival Pass £35 (with Symposium £50) :: Ticket offers and concs available

BEAM launches at 1pm on Friday 22 June with the BEAM Symposium and runs through to 4pm on Sunday 24 June. Over the weekend we have an amazing programme of performances, installations, workshops and demonstrations from an array of international artists whose work is united by their interest in the physical exploration of electronic music and sound creation.

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