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

Abstract: In [”Exertion Instruments” by Noah Vawter, et al] we introduce a new family of musical instruments, which, like traditional acoustic instruments such as guitar and drums, derive their acoustic energy in direct proportion to the exertion of the player’s muscles, yet have electric or electronic oscillators for sound generation. Continue reading

Tweak Festival :: September 21-26, 2009 :: Limerick City :: Call for Proposals — Deadline July 20, 2009.

Tweak is two! Currently in its second edition, Tweak is an interactive art and live electronic music festival. Its aim is to promote understanding of the use of technology within our culture and to explore contemporary issues (social, economic, psychological, aesthetic and functional).

The festival will consist of a 5-day exhibition, (interactive artworks, robots and installations) comprising of artworks from international and local artists, 3 days of workshops and many evenings of live electronic performance. Continue reading

AC [Institute Direct Chapel] presents Tone and Temperament :: June 18 - July 18, 2009 :: Opening: June 18; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: AC [Institute Direct Chapel], 547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor, #519-529, New York, NY.

Tone and Temperament is a group-exhibition that considers the temporal and expandable material of sound. Curated by Sophie Landres and in collaboration with the eight participating artists, this exhibition concentrates on sound as a condition for personal, social, political and metaphysical experience. In addition to the permanent fixtures in the gallery, performances will be scheduled to occur throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Tone and Temperament was conceived as an opportunity to explore literal and conceptual ideas of harmony versus discordance and innocence versus criminality that subsist within the framework of conflicting social norms and art historical precedents. Continue reading

BALTAN Goes NATLAB: Audiovisual Spaces with HC Gilje and Lorenzo Brusci :: May 29, 2009 :: 4:30 - 6:30 pm :: Auditorium of the former Philips NatLab, entrance on the Kastanjelaan, Strijp S in Eindhoven.

Curated and moderated by Telcosystems, the focus of this session will be on different strategies of spatialisation in audiovisual art and how this alters our understanding of technology-driven forms of art.

Norwegian artist HC Gilje explores how audiovisual technology can be used to transform, create, expand, amplify and interpret physical spaces. He will present the research he has been doing over the last three years during his research fellowship at the National Academy of the Arts in Bergen (KHIB). HC Gilje writes regularly on these matters on his blog ‘Conversations with Spaces’. Continue reading

“Once upon a time, orchestras required instruments. Then computers reproduced the sounds of symphonies. Now, band geeks are playing iPhones.

Stanford University’s newest ensemble is called (MoPhO), short for Mobile Phone Orchestra. Its conductor, Ge Wang, is a veteran of Princeton’s Laptop Orchestra (see issue 14.04) and is obsessed with making electronic music as mobile as possible. “The iPhone holds a lot of potential for what kind of music can be made and how it can be made,” Wang says. Continue reading

Daito Manabe stimulates his facial muscles with small electric pulses, synced to music. The result is something else. Danito comments: ‘yes. it is painful. but not as much as you think‘. He’s an artist, coder, hacker, sound designer, DJ and VJ, based in Tokyo, Japan.

[Image: Giant Music Box with Pins by Brenda Hutchinson - Photo: Luis Olazabal] Time is running out to catch ST20’s unique sound art exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach. SOUND is a thoughtful exploration of the meaning of sound art through the inclusion of new and historically important pieces that reveal and clarify the nature of sound, its physicality, its ability to define and occupy space, its intrinsic value as a tool for understanding and connecting with the world, and for helping us refine our sense of reality. SOUND runs now through March 29th, 2009.

Plan a visit and make sure to set aside enough time to absorb the range of possibilities contained in this show. In times like these, when we are bombarded with loud inaccuracies and distorted exaggerations, branding and rebranding, SOUND simply asks: How can we strengthen our aural sense within a visually dominant culture and what is gained by such a shift towards an aural perception of the world? Continue reading

Tristan Perich’s Active Field :: January 17, 2009; 7:30 pm :: Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd St (at 11th Ave), New York, NY.

Active Field, Tristan Perich’s first major work for ensemble with 1-bit music accompaniment, arranges ten violinists and ten audio speakers on stage in a work that investigates the fundamental relation between physical and electronic sound. Working with primitive electronic machines he creates, Perich explores the foundations of sound. Last heard live at the Whitney Museum, Active Field is a jubilant intersection of the opposite but equal domains of data and sound, treating the violin and computer, each pinnacles of their respective disciplines, as primitive machines for the creation of sound. Listen: Continue reading