Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art with works by John Cage, La Monte Young, Rolf Julius, Timo Kahlen, Steve Roden, Carsten Nicolai, Ryoji Ikeda, Iannis Xenakis and more :: March 17, 2012 – January 6, 2013 :: Opening: March 16, 2012; 7:00 pm :: ZKM_Foyer, Lorenzstraße 19, D-76135 Karlsruhe, Germany. Continue reading

Transmittance #2 – Telepresence Performance :: December 13, 2011; 8:00 pm CET :: http://transmittance.si & Tobacco 001 Cultural Centre, Ljubljana (the online audience can watch and interact with the performance live using a recent version of popular browser like Firefox or Chrome. No other software is needed).

Transmittance explores collaboration which is local, global, networked and broadcast. It involves an artistic group of performers, visual artists, musicians and computer programmers to research performative possibilities of streaming, broadcasting and telepresence forging new types of performance and audience. With focus on critical and socially-aware artistic languages this work is based on asking questions about body, self and society – opening non-dualistic perspectives. Continue reading

Penta Locus: A Live Concert from Five Universities Around the World :: November 20, 2011; 12:00 – 1:30 pm :: Free admission. Live audience from these cities are all welcome.

Penta Locus extends a history of networking music education at five universities for a concert of new telematic music pieces by students and faculty. The concert builds on 2010 Tri Locus between University of California San Diego, New York University, and Stanford University, and past work with Queens University Belfast, Concordia University, and Hamburg Hochschule of Music. Continue reading

Syneme Telearts Summer Institute II in Calgary. BC :: a 3 Week Summer Workshop :: July 4-22, 2011 :: University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada ::

TeleArts: Artists Collaborating Over High Speed Networks. The course will be taught by Dr. Kenneth Fields Canada Research Chair in Telemedia Arts; Associate Professor of Music [ kfields@ucalgary.ca] :: University of Calgary Credit offered for remote participation :: You may attend this course as a resident of the Banff Centre. Complete info here: http://syneme.ucalgary.ca/SynemeSummer 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

WWW-Enabled Noise Toy by Loud Objects (with funds from the Jerome Foundation) [Needs Firefox browser]:

Loud Objects, NYC-based circuit sorcerers, present a wacky way to learn hardware audio programming. The WWW-Enabled Noise Toy invites anyone with a web browser to write their own audio code, program it remotely onto a Noise Toy, and play it live via webcam. In the spirit of “try it yourself” software demos, the website provides a simple environment for experimenting with low-level microchip-generated audio. Load code from the Loud Objects’ own library of performance algorithms, hone your own noise techniques, and add your work to the online archive to share it with other microchip coders and create an open source noise community. Continue reading

zerospace: a performance and conference on distance and interaction in music :: created by C21: Center for 21st Century Studies :: Friday, February 18, 2010, 3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. :: at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI ::

This one-day event explores emerging possibilities of distance and interaction in music. As new network-based technologies have facilitated and amplified human communal interaction, musicians have simultaneously embraced these for live performance. [Ø] [zerospace]—consisting of an afternoon colloquium with performances, and an evening concert—will explore several musical trends in distance and interaction in music. Continue reading

Ethernet Orchestra :: Live networked A/V improvisation :: Sunday November 14, 2010 at 11.30 a.m. Germany UTC+1 CET / 10.30 a.m. UK / Sydney 9.30 c.p.m UTC+11 EST :: at blackhole-factory, Braunschweig, Germany ::

World Time Clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

Performed live at Kunstmuehle studio, Braunschwieg, Germany and broadcast online at http://radio.aporee.org. It is also being recorded for furthernoise Explorations in Sound Vol, 5.

Audio mix: http://radio.aporee.org
Visual mix: http://www.visitorsstudio.org
For full A/V experience open both URLs in separate browser windows. Continue reading

From Interview with The European Bridges Ensemble (EBE) by Percussa AudioCube :: Current members of the European Bridges Ensemble are: Kai Niggemann (Münster, Germany), Ádám Siska (Budapest, Hungary), Johannes Kretz (Vienna, Austria), Andrea Szigetvári (Budapest, Hungary), Ivana Ognjanovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Georg Hajdu (Hamburg, Germany), and Stewart Collinson (Lincoln, England), performing with Georg Hajdu’s interactive network performance environment Quintet.net.

… Using the term bridges as a metaphor, our initiative makes an attempt to bridge cultures, regions, locations and individuals, each with their particular history. Particularly Europe with its historical and ethnic diversity has repeatedly gone through massive changes separating and reuniting people often living in close vicinity.

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[Microphone in Boston harbour, New England Fish Exchange, 1973. Courtesy of Amacher archive, Kingston, NY]

Maryanne Amacher: City-Links :: until November 28, 2010 :: Ludlow 38, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart Goethe-Institut New York, 38 Ludlow Street, New York.

Between 1967 and 1981 the pioneering sound artist produced 22 City-Links projects in total, connecting distant microphones to installations and performances using dedicated FM-quality analog phone lines. Areas of downtown Buffalo, MIT, Boston Harbor, the Mississippi River, the New York harbor, studios in various locations, and other sites in the USA and abroad were transported, sometimes integrating performers near the microphones (such as John Cage and George Lewis for City-Links #18 performed at The Kitchen in 1979). Maryanne Amacher: City-Links brings together a number of documents, images and sound samples selected and reproduced from the nascent Amacher Archive as a first look at this important series of early telematic art works about which little has been published. Continue reading