Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface :: October 5 – November 25, 2009 :: Opening Reception: October 15, 2009; 5:00 - 7:00 pm :: gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA.

Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface brings together works by seven artists who draw upon the cultural landscape of the border region linking Tijuana and San Diego. The works range from digital prints to interactive multimedia. José Ignacio López Ramírez-Gastón’s spatialized sound installation, 24 Speakers and 24 Sound Sources, deployed in the interior of the gallery@calit2, enacts the concept of the democratization of knowledge and ‘reversed migration’ in the use of technology. Continue reading

Honor Harger and TeZ will premiere their spatial sound performance, Sideralia as part of the tskz09 festival :: September 12, 2009; 9:15 - 10:15 pm :: Le LUX, Rue de France 24, Le Locle, Switzerland.

Sideralia is a collaborative spatial sound performance based on signals sonified from astronomical sources. Opening with an orchestration of original concrete audio fragments recorded at radio astronomy observatories around the world, the live composition unfolds in an immersive surround sound environment to engage the listener in an imaginary voyage through cosmic vibrations.

A10lab, Area10, Apo33, Noise=Noise, Beyond Signal, Fibrr Records & Sound Research Practice, Goldsmiths presents: Rainforest IV - David Tudor — “a collaborative environmental work, spatially mixing the live sounds of suspended sculptures and found objects, with their transformed reflections in an audio system” :: July 3-4, 2009; 2:00 - 11:00 pm :: AREA10 PROJECT SPACE, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Hill Street, London.

“In 1973 I made Rainforest IV where the objects that the sounds are sent through are very large so that they have their own presence in space. I mean, they actually sound locally in the space where they are hanging as well as being supplemented by a loudspeaker system. Continue reading

SPECTRUM: multi-channel sound and video installations by DRAW :: June 6, 13, 20 and 27; 2:00 - 8:00 p.m. :: at Diapason Gallery, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor, Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

“A sound spectrum is a representation of a sound…in terms of the amount of vibration at each individual frequency. It is usually presented as a graph of either power or pressure as a function of frequency.”

SPECTRUM is a sound and image sculpture utilizing multiple (number to be determined) audio and video channels across both of Diapason’s exhibition spaces. The process at the core of SPECTRUM is the visualization of sound through spectrographic analysis, which breaks up a complex wave into its constituent parts and displays them on a 2 or 3 dimensional grid. These analyses and their corresponding sounds form the basis for several complex, layered compositions. Continue reading

ELSA 2009 :: Performances: June 2, 2009 9:00 pm :: Café OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL.

Café OTO and Elevator Gallery in East London will be the temporary home for ELSA 2009, the graduation showcase for the BA Sound Arts & Design course at the London College of Communication, featuring work from over 20 emerging sound artists. As a prequel to the exhibition, Café OTO presents live performances including composed, improvised, interactive, and surround sound works.

Exhibition: Elevator Gallery hosts non-performance based sound works including audio-visual installations, interactive works and sound design for film and animation :: June 4-7, 2009 :: Elevator Gallery, Mother Studios, Queen’s Yard, White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN.

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

Leervoll (Fully Empty): Leerraum’s Space for Listening with Asher Thal-Nir, Fourm, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon, Marihiko Hara, Kenneth Kirschner, Pe Lang, Mahmoud Refat, Zimoun; curated by Richard Garet and Andy Graydon :: May 9, 16 & 23, 2009; 2:00 - 8:00 pm :: Diapason gallery, 882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street), 10th Floor, Sunset Park, Brooklyn

This exhibition focuses on the label Leerraum [ ] as a platform for multi-channel sound releases concerned with ideas of sound in relation to space, silence, structure, and an active process of listening. Leervoll focuses on sonic constructions that explore the possibilities of environment and spatial listening, while also, drawing attention to structure, composition, and material interests. Continue reading

Natasha Barrett is a freelance composer, performer, and installation artist. The composition and manipulation of space is a central element in much of her work, and it is the focus of this interview. Barrett completed her Master’s Degree at the University of Birmingham, where she studied with Jonty Harrison and became practiced in the art of live sound diffusion using Birmingham’s renowned BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre) system. She completed a Doctoral degree in composition at City University in London in 1998, studying with Denis Smalley. Her body of work includes large architectural installations, electroacoustic concert pieces, works for instruments and performers, and live improvisation. Barrett’s works have won international acclaim and numerous awards, including the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2006, a first prize at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (1998 and 2001), and most recently, a commission from the 2008 Giga-Hertz Award. Barrett was born in the UK, but currently lives in Oslo, Norway. She has released numerous CDs, available through her website. Continue reading

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

Diapason gallery for sound and intermedia presents Dead Violets (Jeff Surak, Bethany Moore, Thomas Ekelund) and dub/ber/vie, a voice & multichannel composition / concert performance by Jennifer Walshe & Bernhard Gal :: September 26, 2008; 8:00 pm :: 882 Third Avenue, 10th floor, Brooklyn (Sunset Park).

dub/ber/vie explores different points of intersection between the voice and the space in which it exists. Using two sets of binaural headphones, a series of four-channel recordings were made by Jennifer Walshe and Bernhard Gal within a variety of spaces - a pet shop, the Turkish market in Kreuzberg, a farm for children, a supermarket and an apartment. Continue reading