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

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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

Network Music Festival :: January 27-29, 2012 :: Birmingham, UK ::The deadline for submissions to the open call for the Network Music Festival has been extended to December 5, 2011. We are especially hoping to receive additional proposals for talks and workshops, but will also still be considering performances, installations, etc. For full details, please see: http://networkmusicfestival.org/open-call/ 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

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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

Call for proposals for performances, talks, installations, demos and workshops :: Network Music Festival, *Birmingham, UK :: January 27, 2012 to January 29, 2012 :: DEADLINE: 30th November 2011

The *Network Music Festival* will take place in January 2012 in Birmingham (UK) in the heart of Birmingham’s creative community. Presenting a diverse programme of laptop performances, live coding, communicating home-made musical gadgets, sound installations, workshops and everything else in between, the Network Musical Festival boasts an international line-up including some of Birmingham’s best home-grown hi-tech musical performers. We are looking for proposals for performances, talks, installations, demos and workshops. 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

The Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music 2012 (with Keynotes by Susan Kozel and Benjamin Knapp) :: March 22-27, 2012 :: Call for Paper and Music Submissions — Deadline: November 28, 2011. Continue reading