Kunstradio-Radiokunst :: Presentation of Literature as Radio Art productions 2010 ::
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 19.00 :: Literarisches Quartier, Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Vienna, Austria ::

With authors: STAN LAFLEUR (Cologne) Im Alpenrhein (15:30, Sound: Martin Leitner); ELFFRIEDE.INTERDISZIPLINÄRE AUFZEICHNENSYSTEME (Vienna) Schrei zum Hummel (15:03, Sound: Robert Pavlecka); MICHAELA FALKNER (Vienna) Es gibt diesen Krieg gar nicht – Eine Zurückweisung (13:38, Sound: Robert Pavlecka); CHRISTIAN STEINBACHER (Linz) Der Schluck auf der Lücke (15:27, Sound: Martin Leitner). Continue reading

The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts presents Music Under the Influence of Computers:: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. :: Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall, UCSD Campus, San Diego, CA ::

Music Under the Influence of Computers returns with a collection of exciting experimental audiovisual offerings by composers and artists from the United States and Germany, sponsored by The Center for Research in Computing
and the Arts (CRCA) and Calit2. Program:

The Art of Noise of Cartoons (2011) – David Medine (video and surround sound); Omphalos (2008) – Kari Besharse (surround sound); Suburban Review: 1/8/2011, 4:45 – 5:50 pm (2011) – Joachim Gossmann (video and surround sound); Change in the Summation (2007) – Jason Bolte (surround sound); Yet Another Allegiance (2011) – Rick Snow (live video and surround sound) Continue reading

SoHo Night: Art by Phillip Stearns:: Opening: Thursday, Oct 14, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. :: Performance: Friday, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. :: Exhibition: Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 1:00 p.m.to 6:00 p.m. :: at Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, #602, New York, NY 10012 :: Phone: 212-431-1130 :: Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker :: Free ::

Harvestworks is pleased to present interdisciplinary artist Phillip Stearns as part of Soho Night, an evening of extended exhibition viewing and special programs by the not-for-profit arts organizations in Soho. Continue reading

Unsound Festival 2011 + ((audience)) is issuing a special call for 5.1 surround sound works for the 2011 Unsound festival. Selected works will be presented in a completely dark cinema environment without visual accompaniment at the Walter Reade Theater / Film Society of Lincoln Center :: Selected artists will receive a modest fee :: Deadline: August 15, 2010.

image: Zach Layton at Red House Arts Center, ((audience)) premiere Continue reading

Resonance — Exhibition/ Performance/Talks with Samson Young and Yao Chung-Han :: July 16 – September 5, 2010 :: :: Opening Reception: July 16; 7:00 – 9:00 pm (performance by Yao Chung-Han (IO Lab, Taiwan) :: I/O Gallery, U/G, Tung Yiu Commercial Building, 31A Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong.

Resonance an exhibition about the word sound. It is about the sound of the word, the meaning of the word, and the usage of the word; that is to say, it asks what sound is, how sound is used, and what sound can do. One may wonder why an artist would choose to work with sound, as opposed to music or visual art, but would find that answers are rarely forthcoming.

Resonance attempts to present an abstracted territory for this dialogue, stripping sound down to its most basic elements; the same elements that contribute to the other creative modes and methods in question. Continue reading

The New York premiere of ((audience)), a 5.1 surround sound festival :: June 5, 2010; 11:00 am, 1:30 pm, and 4:00 pm :: Ramiken Crucible, 221 E Broadway, New York City :: The day of screenings will be followed by an evening concert of experimental noise, featuring MV Carbon & Tony Conrad, DUBKNOWDUB, and Loud Objects.

Conceived in 2006, the centerpiece of ((audience)) is a 2 1/2 hour program of 5.1 surround sound works by eight international artists, presented in the dark. This immersive experience in cinematic audio features works by Jamie Allen, Bryan Jacobs, the Loud Objects, Simona Brinkmann, Uli Schuster, Natasha Barrett, Emmanuel Madan and Anna Friz, and Cedric Maridet. The ((audience)) program will be screened three times in complete darkness: 11am, 1:30pm, and 4pm. Audience members may come and go from the screenings, but may enter only at intermissions. Timetables for individual works will be posted outside Ramiken Crucible. Continue reading

Re-New Digital Arts Festival presents High Spheres by Marco Donnarumma :: May 18, 2010; 7:30 pm :: Huset i Magstræde, Copenhagen, Denmark.

High Spheres is a participative multi-channel concert for found objects and reactive generative music by Edinburgh-based new media artist Marco Donnarumma. The action takes place open air. No musical instruments are provided, but stones and leaves. Audience can use six microphones and a 6.1 surround system to amplify any kind of sound they wish to produce. The whole sonic matter is managed by a Pure Data-based software for generative music developed by the author, which interacts with the audience processing sounds in real-time, analyzing the input signals and generating new sounds and textures out of the collected data. Continue reading

image: David Dunn J.A. Deane and David Dunn in “an evening of expansive sonorities” :: May 8, 2010; 8:00 pm :: SF_X (Santa Fe Complex), Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Utilizing new electroacoustic instruments of their own design, J.A. Deane and David Dunn present an evening of expansive sonorities that explore leading edge improvisation and scientific sonification. Combining their unique skills ‘as significant figures in multiple contemporary music traditions (jazz, free improvisation, classical new music, electroacoustic composition, sound art, biomusic, early music, world music, and microtonal performance), this duo presents music that draws upon new understandings of both ancient and modern insights into the fundamental nature of sound to effect human consciousness. Continue reading

Daniel Teige & Volkmar Klien at EMPAC / Rensselaer, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY :: October 16 & 17, 2009; 8:00 pm.

Taking advantage of the cycloramic potential of EMPAC’s Studio 1, German composers and sound artists Daniel Teige and Volkmar Klien will present works created or adapted for a 360° aural environment. Daniel Teige’s quirky sound collages combine ambient sound with spare, elegant musical progressions, for an effect that is at once classically restrained and whimsical. Volkmar Klien will be remixing his recent composition Start-Ziel-Siege, in which washes of feedback float over computer-generated percussion, for the dozens of speakers in Studio 1. The result of their Multichannel Residencies is music of absorbing — even entrancing — complexity that surrounds and immerses the listener.