In January 2011, we celebrate the 1,000.048th Birthday of Art :: Join in by contributing gifts of all kinds! You can upload videos, audios, images and other bits & bytes at kunstradio.at.

And this time we have a special contest: the most beautiful, terrifying, annoying or desperate scream video will be awarded. Amazing prizes and world fame are waiting for you!

Find all information on Art’s Birthday here http://kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2011 or here
http://viralradio.at or here http://artsbirthday.ebu.ch or simply here
http://www.artsbirthday.net. Continue reading

Todd Reynolds :: Still Life with Microphone Version 10.5 :: Saturday, November 6, 2010 from 8:00pm - 9:30pm :: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 1040 Mass MoCA WAY , North Adams, MA 01247 :: $12 in advance / $16 day of / $10 students / 10% members discount ::

Bang on a Can violinist and composer Todd Reynolds lands classical music on its head. Controlling laptops, video and even guitar and percussion robots, he creates magic with a simple 17th-century violin. Featuring video by Luke DuBois, the films of Bill Morrison, and music machines by the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR), Todd Reynolds’ Still Life with Microphone is a warm, human and passionate piece of concert theater, featuring music by him and for him by a host of New York music notables.

An Evening of New Music and Video :: with Richard Lainhart (Guitar, Electronics, Films), Georkge Stadnik, Alex Carpenter (Guitar, Live Audio & Video Delay), James Ross (Guitar, Live Looping) :: Sunday, November 7, 2010 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm :: at Pianos, 158 Ludlow Street, New York, NY :: free ::

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker - a digital artisan who works with sonic and visual data. Since childhood, he’s been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images that are as beautiful as he can make them. Continue reading

EMPAC Artist-in-Residence Program :: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180, USA :: empac_air@rpi.edu :: Phone: +1 518.276.3921 :: Fax: +1 518.276.4107 ::

Since 2005, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) has established a vibrant residency program that has hosted over 40 artists and their collaborators, spanning theater, dance, music, video, and installation. While EMPAC will continue its open call residency program, EMPAC is pleased to announce four additional focused initiatives:

Audio Production / Post‐Production

For sound recording, development of multichannel sound works, documentation, mastering, mixing, film scoring, or any other task involving microphones, speakers, consoles and computers. Continue reading

Celebrating the life and work of a brilliant sound artist, Max Neuhaus (and one who found a viable escape route from the percussion world…) Sunday, October 31, 2010 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. :: Dia Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY :: Free with admission :: Reservations recommended ::

image: Max Neuhaus, drawing for Time Piece Beacon, 2005. © 2005 Max Neuhaus. Photo: Cathy Carver

An event to celebrate the work of Max Neuhaus and the recently published book Max Neuhaus: Times Square, Time Piece Beacon. David Shively will perform a selection of Neuhaus’s early concert realizations of works by New York School composers, followed by a special screening showing rarely seen films and videos of and by Neuhaus, including Phill Niblock’s 1967 Max and a recently discovered video documenting Drive-in Music. Continue reading

NewIdeas MusicSeries II :: Pianos @ 158 Ludlow, New York, NY :: Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: with Phill Niblock + Katherine Liberovskaya with Shelley Hirsch; Michael J. Schumacher + Nisi Jacobs; Richard Garet, Tom Chiu, and Michael Vincent Waller with ensemble Sean Meehan, Tom Chiu, Gregor Kitzis, Ha-Yang Kim, Dan Panner, and Andrew Lafkas :: Free ::

Bios:

Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968’s barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. That’s as maybe: no one ever said the history books were infallible anyway. His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. Continue reading

SoHo Night: Art by Phillip Stearns:: Opening: Thursday, Oct 14, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. :: Performance: Friday, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. :: Exhibition: Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 1:00 p.m.to 6:00 p.m. :: at Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, #602, New York, NY 10012 :: Phone: 212-431-1130 :: Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker :: Free ::

Harvestworks is pleased to present interdisciplinary artist Phillip Stearns as part of Soho Night, an evening of extended exhibition viewing and special programs by the not-for-profit arts organizations in Soho. Continue reading

Christian Marclay: Festival at the Whitney :: Friday, September 24, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. - open rehearsal; 7:00 p.m. - Through The Looking Glass :: Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. - Through The Looking Glass :: at the Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Ave (corner of 75th St), New York City ::

image: Christian Marclay, Screen Play, 2005

Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955) is known for his distinctive fusion of image and sound. Celebrated as a pioneer of turntablism, Marclay transforms sound and music into visual and physical forms through performance, collage, sculpture, large-scale installations, photography, and video. This groundbreaking Whitney exhibition—activated by daily concerts and continually evolving—explores Marclay’s approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his “graphic scores” for performance by musicians and vocalists. Continue reading

Distribution Grant for New York State Artists :: Application Deadline: October 31, 2010

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2011 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards will assist artists in making works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to: moving image and sound works; duplication of preview, screening, distribution, and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment essential for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000. Continue reading

Pamela Z: Baggage Allowance :: September 16-18, 2010; 8:00 pm :: The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY.

San Francisco-based artist Pamela Z presents her latest solo performance for voice, electronics, and interactive video that considers “baggage” in all its literal and metaphorical permutations. She is best-known for her signature style of experimental performance works that meld sampling technologies and live electronic processing with operatic bel canto and extended vocal techniques.

Drawing from her own extensive traveling as well as other travelers’ experiences, this new work contends with the ball-and-chain-ness of dragging one’s belongings all over the world. Through manipulation of layers of visual and sonic material through various custom controls and devices live on stage, Baggage Allowance scans and inventories the objects (and memories) we all cart around with us.