VOCENTO in collaboration with ARCOmadrid 2010 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid :: Open Call for Proposals — Deadline for Applications: January 31, 2010; 5:00 pm :: Total award is 15.000 euros :: Online application form here.

VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art galleries with web solutions, and to provide opportunities to enhance their online presence and networking potential. The competition wishes to respond to the shifting context of online environments — from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and beyond — and to draw attention to the dynamic potential of the web as a research, production and presentation platform for the specific context of art. Continue reading

The growing need for innovative network-collaboration environments for live music performance has been a challenging field for a number of academic and research institutes throughout the world. Among them, the Department of Music Technology and Acoustics of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, in Greece has contributed to network music research through the development of the DIAMOUSES platform.

DIAMOUSES provides a generic platform that aims at encouraging diverse applications and services relating to networked music performance, such as: Continue reading

Netarts.org (aka Art on the Net) run by the Art on the Net steering committee and the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts has awarded VisitorsStudio the Grand Prize 2009.

VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many to many’ dialogue, interviews, networked performance and collaborative polemic. Through simple and accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files with others’, to remix existing media. Providing a platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts. Continue reading

mode +v noise: an intense 3 day workshop for up to 10 participants, looking at how to build an Internet chat based music platform :: November 30 - December 2, 2009 :: Arnolfini, Bristol, UK :: Deadline for Applications: November 16, 2009.

Email frances.bossom [at] arnolfini.org.uk with your applications. Places will be allocated on the basis of the strength of the case you make to take part. Notification of outcome: November 21.

The workshop will give you the opportunity to create your own software sound synthesiser and different chat bots that will be used to manipulate and turn your chat into a music score. To achieve this, we will use free software such as Python, Supercollider, Puredyne, Emacs and more! Continue reading

Freesound by Rob Myers, Furtherfield.org: “The Freesound Project web site is a Free Culture sound repository similar to OpenClipArt for illustration, Project Gutenberg for text or the Prelinger Archive for film. Launched in May 2005 in Barcelona by the Music Technology Group of Pompeu Fabra University, it quickly attracted contributors and an audience from around the world.

Freesound is a sound repository rather than a music or audio repository. It contains samples of noises rather than of music or spoken word recordings. If you do want music there are several excellent music sites elsewhere on the Internet, from an artistic point of view notably Sal Randolph’s OpSound. But these focus on completed tracks rather than raw sound materials, and are limited to music. Freesound has no such limitation. Continue reading

Sensory Response Systems :: Ryan Jordan presents and performs his Sensory Response Systems as part of a micro_residency at General Public, Schanhauser Allee 167c, Berlin, Germany :: July 29 - August 1.

Sensory Response Systems is an exploration into audio-visual performance using an array of sensors responsive to physical movements in order to control the audio-visual output in programmes such as pd and Max/MSP. It also looks at reshaping and replicating the body through the use of fabric, textiles and technology. We draw from inspiration and definition through reference to embodiment, phenomenology, post-modernism, post-humanism, performance, physical computing and computer sound. Continue reading

The Public Sound Objects (PSOs) is a Shared Sonic Environment for experimental music available as an installation or as a web based system. It is targeted to the general Public and it does not require previous music knowledge. A user can join a collaborative performance using a “Bouncing Ball Java Interface” by manipulating Sound Objects in a central soundserver.

To run the client software properly you need to have Java installed and a Standard MIDI Synthesizer. The Public Sound Objects Software is Open Source under a GPL Licence. Source code can be downloaded. A video essay can be found here. Continue reading

Jig-Sound is a shockwave interactive audio piece by Jim Andrews, Artist-Programmer, Visual Poet, Essayist, and Senior Technical Writer. You can make your own music/sound with Jig Sound, and Andrews has created two streaming videos, primarily tutorial in nature, to help you do it. You should play with this work and look at the many other works Andrews has created over the years. His website is a cornucopia of sound, images, and poetry pieces.

The instructional videos for Jig Sound can be found here and here.

NEXUSradio is a celebration of radio’s legacy, the evolution of communication technology, and a reaction to the current state of commercial media. The exhibition explores highly intimate auditory experiences, the radio signal’s idiosyncratic nature and radio’s own rich history through a two-month broadcast of participatory community based free-form radio. NEXUSradio is a platform for artists to investigate radio’s potential as a medium and art making space through live performance, transmission and direct interaction with audience members.

NEXUS/foundation for today’s art has transformed its gallery space into a low powered radio station for two months. NEXUS has invited artists, musicians, performers, djs, activists, poets, scholars, local community groups and other members of the public to use the radio broadcast during gallery hours. The broadcast can be heard in Philadelphia at 1650 AM. Continue reading

Disparate Bodies 3.0: Open Platform with Pauline Oliveros, Chris Chafe, Pedro Rebelo and Franziska Schroeder and others :: December 11, 2008 12:30 - 3:30 pm (UK time) :: Live Stream.

Within the context of EU Culture 2007 project COMEDIA, the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast
is hosting an open platform on network music performance. Disparate Bodies 3.0 is a developmental process for exploring musical interactions in geographically displaced sites. The Open Platform is a forum for the exploration of key issues
in “playing apart”: Performance Cues, Distributed Electronic Scores, Remote Monitoring, Performance Avatars and Dramaturgy. The work is developed through live events and online resources at the project’s website which contains detailed information on the project, events, blogs, as well as links to streams and recorded media. Continue reading