The First Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon:: a global 24-hour event :: April 8, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. (NL time) to April 9, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. (NL time):: MADlab,Vestdijk 280, 5611CZ Eindhoven ::

Calling all developers, designers, makers, mixers, mashers, tinkerers, philosopher-mechanics and sales engineers! Join us in helping to define and build the Internet of Things on Global Internet of Things Day! Use Pachube if you want, or build on other APIs – make something physical, or virtual; hardware or software; conceptual or practical – the point is for us to spend 24 hours connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to US! Continue reading

Transcript of VARIATIONS #2, The Globe :: by Jon Leidecker :: Summary:

If music initially hesitated to follow the lead of the visual arts in the field of collage, it made up for lost time in the sixties. Breakthroughs in high fidelity sound, an influx of consumer level tape recorders, and the continued influence of television building the notion of the Global Village were among the factors that led to an explosion in collage based composition. The most obvious of the shared qualities in these pieces was a tendency towards the use of World music, culled from as many disparate locations as possible. If the new availability of ethnological recordings from around the world had shattered the notion that music was a universal language, musical collage can be seen as an instant response to the rest of the world as it became unignorable – a way to explore things held in common and the potential for hybrid identities.

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Xth Sense :: biophysical generation and control of music :: April 6, 7, 8, 2011 from 11:00-19:00 p.m. :: at @NK, Elsenstr. 52/2. Hinterhaus Etage 2, 12059 Berlin Neukölln :: No previous experience in electronics or programming is required :: Participation is limited to 10 candidates :: Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de ::

Music for Flesh II – solo piece for Xth Sense biosensing wearable device from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

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Sonic Acts: Modulating the Human Sensory Apparatus :: March 23, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. :: Sonic Acts Festival, Michigan Theatre (Screening Room) 603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ::

With this program we take a closer look at how artists, over the last fifty years, have been using a broad range of cinematic techniques to investigate the analog and electronically induced play at the boundaries of perception. Ranging from stroboscopic patterns and psychoacoustic drones to visual chaos and pure silence, all used techniques tickle, hypnotize or physically assault the senses resulting in hallucinating trips, exercises in abstraction, and sublime audiovisual spectacles. Continue reading

Australian Broadcasting Corporation :: Broadcast: 21/03/2011 :: More than one hundred musicians from thirty-three countries spent the past week at the Sydney Opera House for a unique multi-media event which has allowed their music to instantly go worldwide via YouTube. As Rebecca Bailie reports it was the perfect marriage of classical music and cyberspace – the participants had to audition online, the spectacle was uploaded and streamed direct onto mobile phones and those lucky enough to be inside the concert hall were tweeting direct from their seats. Continue reading

Harvestworks’ New Works Residency Deadline is May 1! The application process is an online application process.

The New Works Residency Program offers commissions of up to $4000 to make a new work in Harvestworks’ state of the art digital media facility. The artist works with a project manager, engineer and programmer (if required). New works may include multiple channel audio or video installations, interactive performance systems, data visualization or projects involving hardware hacking, circuit bending or custom built interfaces, as well as projects that use the web. Emerging artists and artists of color are encouraged to apply. Residencies run from July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012. Continue reading

The ZKM|Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and its partners present the International AppArtAward 2011.

We select the best works of art in app format that have advanced to artistic applications and/or have distinguished themselves as
technically outstanding software solutions. Software developers and artists, as well as all fans of app with creative and innovative
applications, may apply.

The following prize categories are being awarded:
· Prize for Technical Innovation to the sum of €10000 by the MFG Baden-Württemberg – Public Innovation Agency for ICT and Media
· Prize for Artistic Innovation to the sum of €10000
· Junior Prize (<18 years of age) to the sum of €5000 offered by GFT Technologies AG Continue reading

Detektors :: the rhythms of electromagnetic emissions, their psychogeophysics and micrological auscultation by Martin Howse and Shintaro Miyazaki ::

AlgoRhythms of mobile phones 2 with detektor prototype from Shintaro Miyazaki on Vimeo.

Almost any electronic gadget can be transformed into an audible and sometimes rhythmical sound object. “Detektors” is firstly (A) a cartography of user-generated geolocational sound recordings, logs and walks, which reveal hidden electromagnetic geographies of our urban areas and secondly (B) a database and catalog of sonic studies of electromagnetic emissions produced by our everyday electronic devices. Continue reading

Coded Sensation by Martin Rille.

THIS SENSATION IS AUDIO /short version from martinrille.com on Vimeo.

Many senses, like the eyes, ears, tongue or nostrils are scattered over a small area while the sense of touch covers the whole body. Tactile sensation is the first sense a newborn child develops and with which it has the first experiences in this world. As a result, the first memories a human gathers, are imprinted through tactile sensation. Therefore it is the sense that triggers the deepest link to human emotion. Continue reading

Music for Flesh II by Marco Donnarumma :: March 15, 2011; 8:00 pm :: Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB.

As a part of our Non-Bio Boom season we are delighted to host a new work development residency by Marco Donnarumma, with Brendan F Doyle (Production Sound Engineering). The residency will conclude with two concerts over the course of one evening for bio-sensing wearable technologies.

The first concert will include Music for Flesh II, a new solo piece by Marco Donnarumma; the second concert will be the premiere of a multi-channel work specifically created by the artist for Inspace, which will actively involve the audience in an augmented Cagean Musicircus. Continue reading