[photo courtesy of Ars Electronica, Linz] Pamela Z solo concert :: March 30, 2010; 8:00 pm :: The Stone, Avenue C and 2nd Street, New York City .

Pamela Z performs a concert of short solo works for voice and electronics as part of the “Word + Music” series curated by Larry Ochs. The concert will consist of a selection of works involving language, including some excerpts from her work “Parts of Speech”, some new pieces, and a few tape pieces.

Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. She creates solo works combining experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. Continue reading

No Images, a performance in the dark :: April 6, 2010; 7:00 - 8:00 pm :: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON.

Developed by curators Pablo de Ocampo, Jacob Korczynski and Christof Migone, No Images features the work of Ryan Driver, Annie MacDonell, Alexis O’Hara & Mary Margaret O’Hara and Alex Snukal. Imagine a pitch-black space. Immersed in absolute darkness, you cannot see your own hand, you have no idea of the size of the space that you are in, and your sense of time is completely lost. One’s typical dependence upon an encounter anchored by eyesight is replaced by an amorphous and immersive environment. This presentation strategy is not only ideally suited for sound art, it is also a radical engagement of the senses by way of complete deprivation of the visual. Continue reading

Archival Records @ Asia Art Archive, a sound installation by Cédric Maridet, Hong Kong :: exhibition from February 2, 2010 to May 5, 2010 :: Opening: February 11, 2010; 6.30 - 8:00 p.m :: Hollywood Centre 11th Floor, 233 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.

Archival Records intends to articulate the Archive’s physical and material space through the medium of sound, and establish a new connection between the Archive’s ‘voices’. It focuses on the realm bridging textual readings (of printed material) and their vocal counterparts, through multilingual audio recordings of excerpts from the collection, supplemented by ambient sounds at the Archive. This sound installation not only aims at exploring the idea of the Archive, but also rediscovering the mechanics of sensory experiences and aural cognition through a composed technological mediation of experience. Continue reading

A complaints choir rehearsed in Japan before its performance at the Mori Art Museum last month. The group’s litany of grievances focused on work more than those of choirs in other places.

As Ko Sasaki reports in The New York Times : Recently a group of about 100 Tokyo residents put their complaints into a pile and a composer, Okuchi Shunsuke, turned them into a song. About 80 of the complainers (accompanied by an accordion, a bass cello and a tambourine) then performed the composition at various sites around the city, becoming the latest example of what has become known as a complaints choir. Continue reading

Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan and the NOW Ensemble :: December 18, 2009; 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. :: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., Brooklyn, NY.

New Amsterdam Records and the Archipelago Series present Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan as they wrap up their 22-show tour across the USA with a final performance this Friday at Galapagos. Perich and Flanigan will be joined by the fiery contemporary music group NOW Ensemble.

In his new half-hour duet, Dual Synthesis (for harpsichord and four-channel 1-bit electronics), Perich choreographs a lush intersection between antique keyboard instrument and primitive electronics. Continue reading

A “speaking piano” reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009.

What is Ocean Voices? Sound artist Halsey Burgund and marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols joined forces to collect the voices of people around the world recounting their personal experiences with the ocean. Combined with music written by Halsey, these voices will soon become audio collages which listeners can create to suit their own preferences. Help them by sharing your voice and spreading the words of all participants around the globe.

The ocean surrounds us and sustains us. We can only preserve life in the ocean by working together as a global community. Ocean Voices brings together voices from around the world for everyone to hear. Open your mouth; open your ears; join the Ocean Revolution here. Record your voice. Become a part of Ocean Voices.

Neanderthal Vocal Computer workshop with Derek Holzer :: July 18, 2009; 2:00 pm ::pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119, U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl, U8, Rosenthaler Pl. :: Please email m [at] 1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited).

This workshop combines three of the basic building blocks of the longer Neanderthal Electronics workshop (TL072 op-amp comparator, 4093 gated oscillator & LM386 audio amplifier) to create a very crude, caveman-style analog computer for the processing of vocal input through a microphone. Continue reading

Binauralmedia and Nodar Artist Residency Center announce: Paivascapes #1 Structure, Process and Perception of a River :: February - October 2010 :: International Open Call for Art Projects — Deadline: September 30, 2009.

The Nodar Artist Residency Program for 2010 will have a single aggregating subject: the Paiva River. Throughout the year, from winter to autumn, several multidisciplinary art projects (having sound as a central element) will be developed in a context-specific perspective, interacting with the river’s different geographical areas, from its spring to its mouth. A tribute to a small river that is a symbol of a region that (still) can live in a well-balanced interaction with nature. Continue reading

Pamela Z and Elliott Sharp :: May 14, 2009; 8:30 pm :: Roulette, 20 Greene Street, New York City.

Pamela Z will perform works for voice, electronics, and interactive video (including a small segment from her work-in-progress Baggage Allowance). Z processes her voice in real time and manipulates sampled sounds and projected video using Max MSP and Isadora software on a Mac Book Pro with gesture-activated MIDI controllers. Continue reading