MIX NYC :: Call for audio work :: Deadline: June 29 :: Bending Sound | Queer Experiments with Audio. Curator working with MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, expanding festival programs to include experimental music and audio component. This is a new project and therefore applicants should feel free to contact curator. MIX NYC’s 20th Anniversary Festival takes place in Lower Manhattan, November 2007. Looking for new innovative approaches to experiences of sound. Individuals are invited to submit: Continue reading

Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS) at Spingold Theater Center present Puzzle Master. This is multimedia opera, a retelling of the Daedalus and Icarus myth, is set on an imaginary Caribbean island. Five singers perform in counterpoint with layers of computer-manipulated 5.0 channel surround sound and multiple video projections. Music by Eric Chasalow; libretto by F.D. Reeve; video by Denise Marika. Featuring performances by Jennifer Ashe, Donald Wilkinson, Pamela Dellal, Matthew Anderson, and Paul Guttry. Eric Hewitt conducts. Staging by Barbara Cassidy.

May 5, and 6, 8pm :: Admission: $20 general admission; student/senior discounts available :: The Laurie Theater Spingold Theater Center campus of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453 :: phone: 781.736.3400 :: email: music at brandeis.edu

Neil Leonard live at Cloud Place: May 5, 2pm :: Cloud Foundation, 647 Boylston st., second floor, Boston, MA.

For the past twenty years, Neil Leonard has used the computer to redefine jazz performance. Along the way, he has created a number of custom software-based systems to extract thematic material from his improvisations to allow a computer to respond and jam with him in real-time. Leonard’s work as a cutting-edge technologist is grounded in years of performance and studies with seminal jazz composers Bob Brookmeyer and George Russell. Continue reading

Deep Listening Institute presents Deep Listening Convergence 2007: Online Residency.

In a gesture of sonic peace around the world, the Deep Listening Institute with funding from the New York State Music Fund and NYSCA presents the Deep Listening Convergence from January 15-June 10, 2007. This unique project was conceived as an opportunity to bring together 45 international artists, from the Deep Listening label, Deep Listening certificate program and other friendly collaborators across the globe, to use state-of-the-art Web 2.0 technology. These artists are collaborating in an unprecedented online residency jamming over Skype, holding message forums on Basecamp, forming new, diverse ensembles and posting recorded sessions on Imeem. Continue reading

There will be a performance of John Cage’s Song Books, a non-foreseeable music theatre, with Kara Feely, Jessica Feldman, Gisburg, Beth Griffith, Travis Just, Christian Kesten, Dafna Naphtali, Craig Shepard, Harris Wulfson on Tuesday May 1st 2007 at 8:30 pm. at Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd, 3rd Floor, New York. Admission: $10.

John Cage’s “Song Books”, which he wrote in 1970, consist of 90 solos. Cage uses a wide variety of vocal styles: Imitations of classical opera arias by Mozart, Satie-like chansons, folk singing, pop singing, Indian raga style, breath sounds, cheerleader shouting, Cage’s special technique of “falsetto and grunts”, or Cage’s own type of Aria or Arioso: a virtuoso performance will include a wide variety of styles of singing and vocal production.
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FREE NOISE: Evan Parker / Yellow Swans / John Wiese / C. Spencer Yeh / Paul Hession / Metalux / John Edwards / Culver :: A unique collaboration featuring major names from the burgeoning noise and free jazz scenes. This tour brings together the revolutionary genius at the heart of both of these unorthodox musics for a visceral and revelatory journey through the sonic spectrum. Expect riotous freeform squalls, minimalist meditations and breathtaking cliffs of extreme volume. To listen to sample tracks and for full booking details go here.

Free Noise is a unique collaboration featuring major names from the burgeoning noise and free jazz scenes. Continue reading

The complete documentation of Kunstradio’s Art’s Birthday 2007 and 100 years of Radio is now available online. Lectures, performances, streamings and audiovisual birthday gifts can be viewed and listened to on http://kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB/artsbirthday.php.

Art’s Birthday is an annual exchange-art event celebrated on January 17th by a loose collection of artists and artist organizations around the world. It was first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou.
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ROBERT ADRIAN X EXHIBITION AT GALERIE GRITA INSAM, VIENNA :: Artist, pioneer in early telematic art, and Kunstradio online founder Robert Adrian X will show new work at the Galerie Grita Insam, An der Hülben 3, 1010 Vienna, from May 11-June 23, 2007. The opening is on May 10th, 2007, at 7pm.

On 24th May his new audio piece “Counting” will be replayed in the gallery. Counting by Robert Adrian X and Martin Leitner. For Kunstradio’s 20th anniversary this year, artist Robert Adrian X and technician Martin Leitner asked tradespeople to count in their mother tongue from 1 to 20. All the participants run small local businesses in the area of Wieden (Vienna) where Robert Adrian lives. The languages spoken range from Hindi and Chinese to Greek and Croatian – and they reflect the ethnic diversity of Vienna’s inhabitants.

Site-hearing is a website that logs places that have interesting acoustics all over the world. All these sites are plotted on a Google map, and can be sorted by type.

Marclay discusses his interest in unwanted sound, his use of turntables, early examples of his art and more recent pieces too. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqM3dAqTzs[/youtube] Continue reading