Bang on a Can Marathon at the River to River Festival :: June 27, 2010; noon to midnight :: Winter Garden, World Financial Center, New York City, NY.

An incomparable 12-hour super-mix of genre-defying music from around the corner and the globe. Hear the highly anticipated U.S. premiere of Fausto Romitelli’s Professor Bad Trip performed by Talea Ensemble; a Bang on a Can All-Stars’ premiere with Mira Calix; African crossover innovators Burkina Electric; Balinese Gamelan; music from Kyrgyzstan and much more! 12pm – 12am.

At 4:00 p.m., Evan Ziporyn and Gamelan Galak Tika will give a performance of Tire Fire! They’ll be joined by guitar heroes Eddie Whalen and Balaji Mani, Blake Newman on bass, and Matt Van Brink on keyboard. Their classic rock-gamelan anthem pumped up to a new level! 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

Sound & Television: Transmission Art Series :: Six Tuesday evenings; April 27 – June 15, 2010; 9:30 – 10:00 pm (see schedule below) :: on “i mellemtiden” (“meanwhile”), tv-tv, Copenhagen.

From glitches and disrupted audiovisual flows to scrambled signals and noise via avant-retard aesthetics and live montage — Sound & Television offers you artistic re-imaginations of the future (and past) of live digital-TV broadcasting. As a Transmission Art series, Sound & Television invites artists who work with the materiality of audiovisual flows to realise performances exploring the performativity of television: not live on TV, but live as TV. Continue reading

Download Furtherfield’s first Broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM here.

Next broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM: April 6, 2010; 9:30 – 10:30 pm :: A series of eight weekly broadcasts.

A live, jam-packed, hour-long review of contemporary media arts culture. Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost interviewed Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator at the V&A and Mztek founders, Sophie Macdonald & Sally Northmore. Other features included noise-collages, soundscapes and exploratory music…

More information about the programme here.

This programme is part of ‘Hyperlink: Media Art Contexts’ whose principal aim is to present and promote high-quality contemporary media art work, alongside critical discussion of past, present and future media art in a contemporary art context. Continue reading

Loud Objects and Tony Conrad :: January 8, 2010, 10:30 p.m. :: at Monkey Town, 58 North 3rd Street (between Whythe and Kent Ave, L to Bedford), Brooklyn, NY :: Reservations.

From art galleries to noise venues, the Loud Objects stage their physical approaches to the construction of sound. Regular staples of the New York City experimental scene, they create music that spans electroacoustic, improvisation and noise. Their performances, focused on sound from programmed microchips, have ranged from live circuit constructions on overhead projectors and slide projectors, to soldering atop a 24-light bulb fluorescent podium, and later with modified fluorescent light guitars. Continue reading

Merkur by Roberto Paci Dalò :: Live from Studio RP4, ORF Funkhaus Wien :: Broadcast in 5.1 Surround Sound :: December 6, 2009; 11:03 – 11:45 pm (CET) :: live streaming; shortwave broadcasting.

A performance based on the invisible architecture of sound and electric dust. A farewell dealing with the space through resonance, reverbs, echoes. A chemical laboratory where thin acoustical textures are developed through revolving layers and abstract forms. Moving on the threshold between broken melodies (coming in part from John Dowland’s vocal fragments), loops, soundscapes, and noise.

Some of the Merkur’s materials have been developed by Roberto Paci Dalò and Alexandra Purcaru through a residency at Hotel Pupik (Austria) during Summer 2009 and premiered in New York at Experimental Intermedia (October 09). Continue reading

Kunst and Music mit dem Tageslichtprojektor — a realtime audiovisual performance by Ralf Schreiber (DE), Tina Tonagel (DE), Christian Faubel (DE) ::November 19, 2009; 10:00 – !0:30 :: Landmark Room, Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark, Bergen, Norway.

3 persons, 3 overhead projectors, 3 screens and 3 sound systems. A triptichon that displays magnified, filtered distorted images of what happens on the screens/fresnel lenses of the projectors. What you see and hear is a live experiment and improvisation with small electro-kinetic devices and machines arranged on the overhead projectors. Continue reading

[image: Destory All Monsters (Ron Ashton, center, Mike Kelley, right), c. 1970] A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music — a mini-festival :: November 20-21, 2009; 6:00 p.m. to midnight :: Gramercy Theater, 127 East 23rd Street, New York, NY.

2009—Performa is delighted to present A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music, a mini-festival of noise and avant-garde music curated by internationally acclaimed visual artist Mike Kelley. Featuring an amazing line-up of some of the most important musicians and artists in the history of experimental noise music, A Fantastic World traces the development of this unique genre, Continue reading

Performa is delighted to present Music For 16 Futurist Noise Intoners :: November 12, 2009; 8:00 p.m. :: Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY :: $30 Orchestra / $25 Balcony, available here.

Music For 16 Futurist Noise Intoners is an evening-length concert of original scores and newly commissioned compositions for the intonarumori, or “noise-intoners.” An incredible group of musicians and composers from the experimental music world — including Einstuerzende Neubauten frontman and Nick Cave collaborator Blixa Bargeld, avant-garde saxophonist John Butcher, Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros, Faith No More and Mr. Bungle vocalist Mike Patton, sound and text-based performer Anat Pick, avant-garde musician Elliott Sharp, and Continue reading

Cafe Scientifique presents Making Noise, a night of perceptual exploration :: October 26, 2009; 7:30 p.m. :: The Horse Hospital, 30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD, London, UK.

Join our scientists, artists and musicians as we ask the questions: When does noise gain meaning? And – Are we nearly cyborgs?

Short talks by Dr Mick Grierson’s demo of his computer brain interface – generating noise environments from brain waves! Patrick Degenaar, on visual prosthetics for augmented vision – and the prospects for bionic eyes. Lauren Stewart on what our brain does with music, and why some people (with amusia) just don’t get it. And Joydeep Bhattacharya on why sounds stir our emotions. Continue reading