The OpenEnded Group: Upending with music by Morton Feldman followed by The Making of Upending with The OpenEnded Group :: March 25 and 26, 2010, 7:00 p.m. (Matinee: March 27, 2:00 p.m.) :: Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY.

Upending is a revelatory stereoscopic theater performance: an animated, actor-less drama of disorientation and reorientation that compels viewers to rethink their relationship with the material world. Using ordinary flat photographs and stereoscopic HD video as the basis for a battery of non-photorealistic rendering technique, Upending transfigures familiar objects, spaces, and persons in ways that are both beautiful and uncanny. Continue reading

Radio Without Boundaries Conference :: Begins: 6pm May 28th with opening reception and performances, and continues May 29th and 30th :: $150/$130 2-day :: $85/$75 day rate :: At The LOOP Centre for Lively Arts and Learning, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street #176, Toronto, CA :: Final date to register is May 22, 2009! :: go to www.naisa.ca/RWB and click there to the registration link to register

New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 8th edition of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art with cutting edge performances, a theatre production, sound installations, special radio broadcasts, a compilation CD and the Radio Without Boundaries conference. “In an era when the channels for creative radio are rapidly being extinguished, Deep Wireless returns every May to bring people together from around the world who are continually pushing the creative boundaries of the world’s oldest electronic media as well as redefining radio and transmission through new technologies.”– Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, NAISA. Continue reading

Theatre Noise Conference :: April 22-24, 2009 :: The Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage London.

More than an academic conference, Theatre Noise is a diverse collection of events exploring the sound of theatre from performance to the spaces in-between. Featuring keynote presentations, artists in residence, electroacoustic, percussive and digital performances, industry workshops and installations, Theatre Noise is an immersive journey into sound.

KEYNOTES: CICELY BERRY: Voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company; HEINER GOEBBELS: Keynote address from the Grammy-nominated composer and director; and JOHN COLLINS: Artistic Director of New York’s Elevator Repair Service, former sound designer for The Wooster Group.

A Forest of Lines - Pierre Huyghe with music by Laura Marling :: July 9 - 10, 2008; noon to noon :: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.

At the Sydney Opera House a unique experience occurs throughout the course of a day and a night. An event with no beginning and no end, no division between stage and public, no specified path to take – it is a theatre liberated from rules. From the stalls to the circles to the stage, a forest of trees has grown and spread throughout the entire Concert Hall. The light of dawn barely shines on this valley obscured by clouds. This is an in-between reality, an image of an environment, a fact that appears for a brief moment just before vanishing.

Someone walking between the trees tells a story. As the voice draws the audience into the forest, the lyrics of the song tell how to find a way out; out of the Concert Hall and into the reality of a place elsewhere. Continue reading

Unidentified Sound Object (U.S.O.) is an experimental electroacoustic evolving organism. It builds on cinematic scale to create an abstract theatrical experience in which electronic floes replace the traditional performer.

Born from the fusion of works by two experimental electronic musicians — Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi — U.S.O.’s sound spans highly abstract digital music, to electroacoustic music. U.S.O. develops through the exploration of elementary particles arranged and organized in clouds of discrete and punctiform events, until they compose structures of extensive polymorphic and spatial complexity. Continue reading

Performance Time 08 Istanbul :: March 24-30, 2008 :: Call for Submissions :: Deadline: January 15, 2008.

Galata Perform, an artist-run interdisciplinary performance venue in Istanbul, is organizing an event exploring new fields and approaches in performance. The aim is to bring together local and foreign artists from a number of disciplines, such as, performance art, experimental theatre, dance, music; all, which can be associated with the art of performance. Continue reading

The STRP Festival :: the Klokebouw, Eindhoven :: November 22 - 25, 2007 :: with works by artists such as Kurt Hentschlager (AUT), Scanner & TeZ (UK) and D-Fuse (UK).

The STRP Festival is one of the largest art & technology festivals in Europe, presenting a four-day multidisciplinary programme with more than 120 artworks, performances, and artists. Thursday November 22 the festival kicks of with a Chemical Brothers opening concert. The extensive expo of robotics and interactive art challenges the visitors to undertake their own explorations. Continue reading

Exploding Piano’s Air Rights! Making Music Out of Thin Air :: November 5, and November 11 and 12. All performances at 7pm :: Tickets $15. November 5 Gala Tickets $50 :: The Flea Theater, 41 White Street, Tribeca, NYC :: Info call: 212.226.0051.

Air Rights! Making Music Out of Thin Air is a theatrical, multimedia performance series premiering four new works for maverick pianist Kathleen Supové. By operating over, under, around and through the piano, each new piece discovers the instrument’s “air rights” by using electronics, vocal rants, lights, videos, Disklavier, staging, and even ping-pong balls. The works Supové will be performing are: Continue reading

Ear Cinema installation and performance - directed by Wajid Yaseen with Alice Kemp on story, Paul Barritt on animations, Dave Hunt on ambisonics, Dagmara Bilon and Alicia Tatge on live performance and narrated by Dave Cloud.

Institute of Contemporary Arts - ICA - London :: October 31 - November 3, 2007 (every day) :: Daily 6:30 pm and 8 pm - also late night performance at 10:30 pm.

Ear Cinema is a multi-faceted installation using rarely heard ambisonic techniques and combining animation, film, sound and live performance within a four-screen cube. Continue reading

Mark N. Grant has written the following post entitled, “OK, So What Is “New Music Theater?” In it he speaks of the upcoming book by Eric Salzman and Thomas Dezsy - Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body: The New Music Theater, which, given the authors, should be very interesting indeed. Click here for Grant’s blog: