RadioVillageNomade :: Call for Submissions :: November 30, 2008.

This audio project, RadioVillageNomade, has been running since May 2008 using material contributed by invited artists and sound manipulators from all over the world. The “transmission” at this point is via our website, where a new mp3 is posted daily. The mp3s are available for download with the intention that they be reused as raw material for new submissions. Selected pieces are also being broadcast on French and German public radio. At the end of the 214 days we will weave all submissions into a 24 hour audio play.

The aim of this project is to cultivate works out of sounds which were designed without the intent to distinguish themselves from others, sounds that highlight the ever changing moments that make up our collective realities. Each day’s piece will be a “window” into a life and sound world different than our own. Continue reading

[Image: Magnetic Migration Music by Zoe Irvine] Floteson - Sonic Sources, Courses, and Rearrangements with Nikos Arvanitis, Nate Harrison, Ralf Homann, Zoe Irvine, Andreas Kurtsson, Henning Lundkvist, Sony Mao, Tisha Mukarji, Laurence Rassel, The Tape-beatles, Terre Thaemlitz, Ultra-red - Curated by Jens Maier-Rothe :: October 25 - November 8, 2008 :: KHM Gallery, Ystadsvägen 22A, Malmö, Sweden.

This exhibition examines diverse forms in the recycling of sound. Floteson was the Anglo-Norman precursor of the English word flotsam which loosely describes objects found floating or washed ashore. Combining “float” (Old-Fr. floter) and “sound” (Fr. son), the exhibition jumps on the sonic track of permanent reuse and follows the loop of discarding, recycling and transforming of sonic source material. Traveling with the flow it shows some of the key strategies and instigators for a use of diverse sound recycling methods within contemporary art. Continue reading

After a short break, Vienna’s festival for visualizing electronic music will return and begin its third round full of sophisticated, fresh, new features! For the first time in its history, the March/April 2009 sound:frame Festival will focus on two major concepts, which will structure and define the entire festival-program (exhibition, performances conferences and workshops).

In addition to the historic retrospection of the audio-visual development in different aesthetic realms (experimental pictures / movies, video- and computer arts) from the last 100 years, the 2009 sound:frame festival will also focus on the art of audio and visual remixing - EVOLUTION REMIXED!

Visual artists, VJs, Video artists, sound producers, audio live acts, DJs, multimedia artists, theorists, and technicians are invited to participate and assist in the design of the festival. Read more >>

Submersed Songs (2008), by Vivian Caccuri, an artist from São Paulo, Brazil, is a sound installation that generates MP3 player remixes through the movements of four live fish. The animals’ movements and the proximity among them work as a parameter for mixing and spatializing the sound output of MP3 players (iPod’s and others) of the visitors in real time. This system constantly mashes-up two different songs recorded by different users. The two tracks are submitted to different modification processes, building a real time continuity between the swimming of the carp fish and the levels of distortion — which can vary from an intense reverberation to a simulation of hearing underwater. Continue reading

Voices of America is looking for new sound work employing samples of coverage of the US election as reported on Voice of America (VOA) radio, the US government broadcasting service intended for an international audience. Here’s how it works:

RECORD audio of election coverage on a Voice of America station — UPLOAD your recordings to http://thevoa.net and tag them according to language and content — DOWNLOAD from the searchable pool of available recordings — REMIX the broadcasts and UPLOAD them back to the website.

A curated playlist of compositions and remixes will be broadcast from The Sea and Space Gallery in Los Angeles in a special event on November 4 - US election day - as part of the Audacity of Desperation exhibition. Upload from August 25 - November 4 to be included in the live event! Continue reading

Antarctic Data Jams: In February 2007, Mediashed and The Junction invited you to come and play with live data sent from Antarctic by the I-TASC Groundhog team, and turn it into shapes for your ears and eyes. All the performances from both events were recorded and excerpts from them now appear for the first time on CD. Also included are tracks made from Antarctic data by artists who were on the ice or who submitted work for the performances.

Artists that took part in ADJ were: Thomas Mulcaire, Adam Hyde, 1st Born aka Ntsikelelo Ntshingila, Rebecca Mattos, Amanda Rodrigues Alves, Aymeric Mansoux, Harwood, Tony Shaper, Derek Shaw, Stuart Bowditch, Rob Gretton, David Valentine, Mike Lowther and Johnathon Gilmurray. Continue reading

You are invited to participate in http://thevoa.net, a participatory Internet radio project that reflects on the media spectacle of the 2008 US Presidential Election through the lens of the Voice of America Radio Network, the US government broadcasting service intended for an international audience.

Between now and November 4, you can: RECORD audio of election coverage on a Voices of America station; UPLOAD your recordings and tag them according to language and content; DOWNLOAD from the searchable pool of available recordings; REMIX the broadcasts and UPLOAD them back to the website; LISTEN to the recordings and remixes online anytime or to the radio broadcast at Audacity of Desperation in Los Angeles on Election Day. Continue reading

We are curating an online sound project and are interested in your participation. This audio project, RadioVillageNomade, will take place, day by day, for 214 days over 7 months (May-Nov 2008) at La Corbiere in Switzerland. An audio play will be created using material contributed by invited artists and sound manipulators from all over the world. The “transmission” at this point is via our website, where a new mp3 is posted daily. The mp3s will be available for download with the intention that they be reused as raw material for new submissions. Selected pieces will be also be broadcast on European public radio. At the end of the 214 days we will weave all submissions into a 24 hour audio play.

The aim of this project is to cultivate works out of sounds which were designed without the intent to distinguish themselves from others, sounds that highlight the ever changing moments that make up our collective realities. Continue reading

Three Norwegian ambient sound artists :: August 11, 2008, 6:30 p.m. :: Harvestworks :: 596 Broadway, #602, New York, NY.

Please join us on Monday night for a rare performance / presentation by one of Norway’s leading electronic artist and remixer, Knut Sævik, who worked for Nils Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft, Eivind Aarset a.m.m He is founder and member of Mongolian Jetset, one of Norway`s outstanding Electro Acts, touring all over the world; Continue reading

Cory Arcangel’s Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum :: August 5, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Light Industry, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, New York :: Tickets - $6, available at door.

Artist Cory Arcangel appears at Light Industry to perform the first complete and authoritative version of his now-notorious Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum. This appearance marks the first time “and perhaps last” that Arcangel will provide live accompaniment on glockenspiel to Springsteen’s canonical album in its entirety, alongside the premiere of a new video featuring Springsteen and the E Street Band.

“In 2006, on a whim, I decided to go uptown to Sam Ash music store, buy a Glockenspiel and record glockenspiel parts for the songs on Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run record that did not already feature that instrument. Most everything I have ever made has been ignited from a similar semi-destructive whim. Continue reading