Birdcage: Zeedijk — Audrey Chen (US), Wun Thong (AU), Byungjun Kwon (KR/NL), dj sniff (JP/NL) :: July 4, 2009; 7:00 - 11:00 pm :: Toko Dun Yong Store Front, Zeedijk 88, 1012, Amsterdam.

One of the first things you notice in the Netherlands are exposed windows. Whether it’s a family having dinner or a half naked lady luring you into her red lit room, the interface between the interior and exterior is often transparent. In contrast, for many Asian cultures you can barely catch a glimpse inside. Perhaps this has to do with how each culture deals with the gaze - looking at or being looked at. However, what is more interesting to us, is how do we listen within the politics of this gaze.

Birdcage: Zeedijk is a listening experience, about the way our ears can focus or drift in a given multi-sensory environment. Continue reading

Binauralmedia and Nodar Artist Residency Center announce: Paivascapes #1 Structure, Process and Perception of a River :: February - October 2010 :: International Open Call for Art Projects — Deadline: September 30, 2009.

The Nodar Artist Residency Program for 2010 will have a single aggregating subject: the Paiva River. Throughout the year, from winter to autumn, several multidisciplinary art projects (having sound as a central element) will be developed in a context-specific perspective, interacting with the river’s different geographical areas, from its spring to its mouth. A tribute to a small river that is a symbol of a region that (still) can live in a well-balanced interaction with nature. Continue reading

In the Dark (Belgian premiere) by
Armando Menicacci and Christian Delécluse at City Sonics :: Ateliers des FUCAM, Rue des soeurs noires 2 - 7000 MONS.

In the dark is an immersive sound experience that draws the solitary spectator into a totally obscured room. Without visual reference mark and under the influence of mysterious sound environment, the visitor is tempted to create new references in order to get a hold of the space he hears. Stories, voices, indications suggest the situations taking place in the places he cannot see. In this installation by Armando Meniacci and Christian Delécluse, he can but only imagine them and respond with gestures and movements. He is free to take action, but the sounds hunt him, avoid or invite him… In the dark… thus develops a different perception of the body and offers an intense time, the experience to be another.

Rite Ways (work in progress) :: Angie Eng — Concept /Video, Thierry Madiot — Tubes, trombone,and Satoshi Takeishi — percussion :: June 9, 2009; 8:30 pm :: Roulette Intermedium @ Location One , 20 Greene St, NYC (between Canal and Grand), NYC.

Experimental video artist, Angie Eng revives cinepoetry with a new work in progress, Rite Ways with Thierry Madiot, master of breath and wind, inventor of instruments, trombonist who fuses improvised and contemporary music and special guest Satoshi Takeishi on percussion.

Rite Ways is a series of cinepoems based on the theme of rites of passage including pieces: Book of Light, Liminal, Passage and Ancestors. In these works Eng returns to methods of the early experimentalists, who approached cinema as a tool for magic. Continue reading

AC [Institute Direct Chapel] presents Tone and Temperament :: June 18 - July 18, 2009 :: Opening: June 18; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: AC [Institute Direct Chapel], 547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor, #519-529, New York, NY.

Tone and Temperament is a group-exhibition that considers the temporal and expandable material of sound. Curated by Sophie Landres and in collaboration with the eight participating artists, this exhibition concentrates on sound as a condition for personal, social, political and metaphysical experience. In addition to the permanent fixtures in the gallery, performances will be scheduled to occur throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Tone and Temperament was conceived as an opportunity to explore literal and conceptual ideas of harmony versus discordance and innocence versus criminality that subsist within the framework of conflicting social norms and art historical precedents. Continue reading

SPECTRUM: multi-channel sound and video installations by DRAW :: June 6, 13, 20 and 27; 2:00 - 8:00 p.m. :: at Diapason Gallery, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor, Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

“A sound spectrum is a representation of a sound…in terms of the amount of vibration at each individual frequency. It is usually presented as a graph of either power or pressure as a function of frequency.”

SPECTRUM is a sound and image sculpture utilizing multiple (number to be determined) audio and video channels across both of Diapason’s exhibition spaces. The process at the core of SPECTRUM is the visualization of sound through spectrographic analysis, which breaks up a complex wave into its constituent parts and displays them on a 2 or 3 dimensional grid. These analyses and their corresponding sounds form the basis for several complex, layered compositions. Continue reading

CitySonics: Festival of Sound Art — Crossing a city of sounds :: June 26 - July 26, 2009 :: Mons.

For its seventh edition, City Sonics invades the city center of Mons with over thirty installations and environments. Once more, the festival questions sound and matter and listens to its stories about us and others, about here and there, about the sounds of the world and their sweet opposites. In twelve locations, “interdisciplinary” artists offer creations and dialogues with visitors of all ages and categories. This temporary enchantment of the city is poetic resistance against the dark planetary times that are upon us and the chaosounds that aggress us daily. Sound is a fantastic medium that addresses our body and senses: there is no need to be a music lover or contemporary art expert to enjoy these works of sound.

The path chosen by the sound pirates of City Sonics invites you on a stroll through space/time, created by these works in what becomes a space of permanent metamorphose. Continue reading

ELSA 2009 :: Performances: June 2, 2009 9:00 pm :: Café OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL.

Café OTO and Elevator Gallery in East London will be the temporary home for ELSA 2009, the graduation showcase for the BA Sound Arts & Design course at the London College of Communication, featuring work from over 20 emerging sound artists. As a prequel to the exhibition, Café OTO presents live performances including composed, improvised, interactive, and surround sound works.

Exhibition: Elevator Gallery hosts non-performance based sound works including audio-visual installations, interactive works and sound design for film and animation :: June 4-7, 2009 :: Elevator Gallery, Mother Studios, Queen’s Yard, White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN.

Call for Submissions EXPO LEEDS :: Deadline for proposals: May 29, 2009.

Submissions are sought in all forms of sonic art including real-time interactive works, improvisation with technology, experimental electronica, acousmatic music, instrumental/electroacoustic mixes, sound installations, noise, environmental sound work, conceptual sound art, performances, internet-based creative work, radiophonic work, sound and image works and cross-arts work. In summary, we welcome submissions of all kinds of work incorporating experimental use of sound as a major element.

Please note that due to the volume of submissions that we receive we cannot return submitted materials. For all submissions, you will need to: 1. Fill in our online form 2. Send examples of your work, either by post or by email.

AC [Institute Direct Chapel] presents: Sawako :: June 11, 2009; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: AC [Institute Direct Chapel], 547 West 27th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY.

The AC is pleased to present Sawako as part of it’s live performance series. In an intersection and interaction between virtual, luminescent, digital, sonic and organic networks, Sawako performs in situ among Christine Sciulli’s dynamic installation planeSPACE currently occupying the AC [Direct] I gallery space.

Tokyo/ Brooklyn-based Sawako is a sound sculptor, a composer and improviser, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist. She is a multi-faceted artist in the urban life environment who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Continue reading