Meehan/Perkins will premiere Tristan Perich’s new Parallels for triangles, hi-hats and 1-bit electronics :: April 6, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. :: FFA, Scottish Rite Theater, 207 West 18th Street, Austin, TX ::

Full Program (4pm to midnight ($20, $10 student)
4pm: Living Earth Show
5pm: The Weird Weeds
6pm: Austin Soundwaves
7pm: Convergence
8pm: Francois Minaux + Ryan Cronk
9pm: Meehan/Perkins Duo + Tristan Perich
10pm: Sqwonk
11pm: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

[Chris Salter working at his installation in the Exhibitions Gallery of the Art Centre. Photo:LABoral/Sergio Redruello] n-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis - A performance-installation by Chris Salter in collaboration with Sofian Audry, Marije Baalman, Adam Basanta, Elio Bidinost and Thomas Spier :: until September 10 :: LABoral, Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón, Spain.

n-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis is a contemporary re-imagining of the Greek composer and architect Iannis Xenakis’s radical architectural environments called Polytopes (from the Greek poli, ‘many’ and topos, ‘space’). Continue reading

Live Interfaces: Performance, Art, Music :: September 7-8, 2012 :: ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds, East Yorkshire LS2 9JT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland :: Registration until August 30, £30 for both days.

Live Interfaces is an international conference on research and practice in live performance technology. The conference seeks to investigate cross-disciplinary understandings of performance technology with a particular focus on issues related to the notion of liveness in interaction. A preliminary programme with a list of papers and performances is available here.

Here is a summary of the conference structure: Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Public Works by Chris Mann [Needs Firefox and Speakers/Headphones]:

Either/Or performed the world premiere of Public Works at ISSUE Project Room on June 23, 2012.

For any standard instrumentation (string trio or quartet, wind quintet, whatever) playing standard repertoire. Having chosen a piece from repertoire, each player to play other than their usual instrument (first violin to play cello, for example), and play only those notes they deem necessary (because they give the player an opportunity to change their mind, because they make other notes possible, or for some other reason other than their mere existence). Once started, there should be no attempt to synchronise time.

Public Works is a 2012 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was made possible with funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Continue reading

June 28, 2012 is Buchla and Modular Synth Madness Day :: Starting at 3:00 p.m., this will be the opportunity to get your hands on some of these devices, and talk to makers & players :: Plus 5hrs of performances by Alessandro Cortini (Los Angeles), Carlos Giffoni (NYC), Mark Verbos (NYC), Xeno and Oaklander (NYC), and not-to-be-missed Loud Objects (NYC):: All taking place at Southstreet Seaport, New York City.

image: Buchla 100

This is all part of our 35th Anniversary Events, and the River To River Festival! Each summer, the Festival activates more than 25 indoor and outdoor locations in the neighborhood with an unparalleled collection of music, dance, theater, visual art, film, and participatory experiences by renowned and breakout artists from New York City and beyond.

BEAM Festival :: June 22 - June 24, 2012 :: Brunel University, Uxbridge, London :: Day Passes £12 Fri / £20 Sat / £12 Sun :: Weekend Festival Pass £35 (with Symposium £50) :: Ticket offers and concs available

BEAM launches at 1pm on Friday 22 June with the BEAM Symposium and runs through to 4pm on Sunday 24 June. Over the weekend we have an amazing programme of performances, installations, workshops and demonstrations from an array of international artists whose work is united by their interest in the physical exploration of electronic music and sound creation.

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Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art :: July7, 2012 – November 11, 2012 :: Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 the Octagon, Dunedin 9011, New Zealand :: Opening weekend of Sound Full, 7–8 July, will include performances by all the artists represented in the exhibition :: T +64 3 474 3240 :: dpagmail@dcc.govt.nz

Artists: Vicky Browne; Philip Dadson; Robin Fox; Marco Fusinato; Michael Graeve; Brent Grayburn; David Haines; Eugene Hansen, Jenny Gilliam and Dr Kron; Joyce Hinterding; Michael Morley; Kusum Normoyle; Thembi Soddell; Torben Tilly and Robin Watkins.
Curated by Caleb Kelly and Aaron Kreisler. Continue reading

Sideband June 15, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. :: At The Museum Of The Moving Image, 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York City, New York :: Tickets: $12 public / $8 Museum members. Free for Silver Screen members and above. Order online or call 718 777 6800 to reserve tickets.

Sideband creates audiovisual music using laptops as musical instruments, wireless networks, multichannel speakers, live 3-D video projections, hacked video game controllers, homemade hardware, traditional instruments, physical movement, and much more. Continue reading

Incidental Music - Site-Specific Installation/Performances :: In Fragmental Museum — a 50,000 Sq Ft Former Warehouse :: 47-10 Austell Place, Queens, New York 11101 :: Saturday, June 16th, 2012 from 4:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. :: Reception and refreshments at 6:00 p.m. :: Performances from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. ::

Fragmental Museum’s Sound Series kicks-off with a day of site-specific installations and performances curated by Composer/turntablist Tristan Shepherd. Continue reading

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is now accepting proposals for its Turbulence.org Commissions Program. The deadline for New York practitioners is May 31, 2012; June 30, 2012 for everyone else. The Application Guidelines are here.

Turbulence.org is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 16 years it has commissioned, exhibited and archived over 200 works. We are also in the process of archiving the collection at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. You can read about the project in Virtueel Platform Research: Archiving the Digital by Annet Dekker and Rachel Somers-Miles.