Francisco Lopez :: February 19, 2010; 9:00 pm :: NK, Elsenstr 52 2hh 2 etage, in the Neukölln area, Berlin.

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. Continue reading

Non-Cochlear Sound :: Organized by Seth Kim-Cohen for Diapason :: Call for Work — Deadline: June 3, 2010.

Diapason will be working with sound artist and author Seth Kim-Cohen to present an exhibition of Non-Cochlear Sound, as formulated in Kim-Cohen’s book “In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art” (Continuum). The exhibition is scheduled for October, 2010.

Non-Cochlear Sound describes a form of sonic practice not primarily concerned with the ear. Marcel Duchamp’s famous call for a non-retinal visual art was answered (eventually) by minimalism, conceptual art, social-based practice, and a host of approaches that appeal not to the eye, but to other concerns. In his book, Seth Kim-Cohen asks why sound has been slower to make the conceptual, linguistic, and social turns. Continue reading

MMIX by Nicolas Clauss :: Japan Media Art Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo and online at flyingpuppet, a collection of digital tableaus started in 2001.

MMIX* [Roman numerals for 2009] is a timeless work in four interactive tableaus, where each visitor is invited to follow with his eyes and ears what his mouse gestures reveal. At each caress, sound and visual elements get randomly muddled up on the screen creating always new combinations. A work travelling between real and surreal, dream and mind, rage and fright, where humour and drama are cruelly mixed to suggest the sad patterns of our contemporary reality.

Florian Hecker :: February 12 – March 28, 2010 :: Lecture: March 18, 7:00 pm :: Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ.

Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham. Hecker’s new commission continues his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space, employing idiosyncratic psychoacoustic propositions in order to examine and disrupt spatial perception.

At Chisenhale Gallery Hecker will present a series of four independent, electro-acoustic works that lead the visitor around the gallery space, where each work exposes a fault line in the traditional categorizations of auditory events, auditory objects or streams. Continue reading

Sounds: Radio – Kunst – Neue Musik:: February 13 – March 28, 2010 :: Opening:February 12; 7:00 p.m :: Exhibition Space (ground floor) @ nk.

image: Samuel Beckett during the production of He Joe, 1966 / Photo: Wilhelm Papst

During the age of the historical avant-gardes, the arts formed a mutually enriching synthesis before the separation and specialization into individual disciplines set in during the 1930s. Radio was a place in which this interplay of the arts was attempted over and over, also against the dominance of the dialog-centered radio play. The exhibition project Sounds- Radio – Art – Neue Musik makes radio accessible as an artistic medium, and makes it possible to experience it in a spatial context. Based on the polyvocality of radio art and a fascination with the disembodied character that shaped the early years of radio, the exhibition opens surprising perspectives on radio art and its potential to create complex experiential spaces. Continue reading

Archival Records @ Asia Art Archive, a sound installation by Cédric Maridet, Hong Kong :: exhibition from February 2, 2010 to May 5, 2010 :: Opening: February 11, 2010; 6.30 - 8:00 p.m :: Hollywood Centre 11th Floor, 233 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.

Archival Records intends to articulate the Archive’s physical and material space through the medium of sound, and establish a new connection between the Archive’s ‘voices’. It focuses on the realm bridging textual readings (of printed material) and their vocal counterparts, through multilingual audio recordings of excerpts from the collection, supplemented by ambient sounds at the Archive. This sound installation not only aims at exploring the idea of the Archive, but also rediscovering the mechanics of sensory experiences and aural cognition through a composed technological mediation of experience. Continue reading

Pascal Broccolichi @ YIRIY :: January 29 - March 6, 2010 :: Galerie Catherine Issert , 2 routes des Serres, 06570 Saint Paul, France.

image: © Pascal Broccolichi, Sans titre, 2010, Serie Aliasing, Courtesy Galerie Catherine Issert

The starting point of a Pascal Broccolichi exhibition is usually the close relationship created between the innumerable listening experiences afforded by the exhibition, and what one commonly calls the ‘background noise’. Therefore one cannot fully access the artist’s installations without remaining long enough inside the soundscapes he has composed. Continue reading

Sonic Acts - The Poetics of Space :: Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology :: February 25-28, 2010 :: Sonic Acts Weteringschans 6 - 8 1017 SG Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

SONICACTSTRAILER0608 from Sonic Acts on Vimeo.

Deep Spaces - 25 February 2010 :: The opening event Deep Spaces presents a selection of audiovisual adventures in spaces defined by sound, light, smoke and lasers. Continue reading

SoundFjord is a London-based gallery and research station newly instigated to address the lack of exhibiting space exclusively for works of Sound Art. The gallery is organised for the exhibition and documentation of works, the development of artists within their practice, and ultimately, the promotion and dissemination of Sound Art and its related research and practice.

The Gallery is currently organising their exhibition and events calendar and are welcoming interested parties to tender for exhibition, starting mid 2010. Deadline: March 31, 2010.

Please email SoundFjord for further information on the space, if you would like to sign up to our mailing list, or need an application form. Helen: helen [at] soundfjord.org.uk Andy: andy [at] soundfjord.org.uk

Mapping Sound in Art — A lecture/discussion with Kabir Carter, Regine Basha, Christopher Cox and others :: February 13, 2010; 5:00 - 6:00 pm :: Goethe Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery), New York, NY.

In the U.S., sound art remains a fluid catchall term for a range of acoustic activities. Conversely, in Europe, sound as art occupies narrower practical methods and concepts. With a mind for exploring the gap, Kabir Carter leads a discussion on the role of sound in the arts with curator/writer Regine Basha, philosopher/writer Christoph Cox, composer/artist Michael J. Schumacher, and artist/writer Åsa Stjerna.

The discussion takes as its starting point Max Neuhaus’ blistering critique Sound Art.