July 3rd 2009 in
Concerts
NOTES & SOUNDS
The Red Deer, Pitt Street, S1
Tuesday 21st July
8.00pm £3.00
SWIFT ARE THE WINDS OF LIFE
Probably the last chance this year to catch their intuitive strings and percussion improv in Sheffield.
A collaboration between the fiery, twisting violins of Yvonna Magda and Beatrix Ward-Fernandez and the sonic journeying of Charlie Collins waterphone and percussion.
“A group of rare beauty and poise” - Mopomoso
plus
DROOLING BANJOS
A wonderful moniker for the larger than life talents of improv monsters John Jasnoch and Scott Hawkins.
An assortment of sounds/musics coaxed from a variety of 4/5/6 strings and banjo ukes.
Expect the unexpected!
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July 3rd 2009 in
radio
A10lab, Area10, Apo33, Noise=Noise, Beyond Signal, Fibrr Records &
Sound Research Practice, Goldsmiths presents:
RAINFOREST IV - DAVID TUDOR
“a collaborative environmental work, spatially mixing the live sounds
of suspended sculptures and found objects, with their transformed
reflections in an audio system. ”
STREAMING NOW
During 2 days, if you couldn’t join us, you could listen at us :
http://stream.r23.cc:2323/rainforest.mp3.m3u
and tomorrow even watch the whole installation 
http://stream.r23.cc:2323/rainforest.ogg.m3u
http://www.a10lab.info/rainforest
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July 3rd 2009 in
Concerts
in this last concert before the summer stop, acclaimed japanese electronic musician keiichiro shibuya will perform in barcelona for the very first time. a treat for fans of raster-noton and kindred sounds. juan matos capote will kick off the night with diverse modified electronic devices, field recordings on his turn, roc jiménez de cisneros will spin a dj set.
keiichiro shibuya (laptop)
+ juan matos capote
+ roc jiménez de cisneros (dj)
saturday 11.07.2009, 21:00 hrs.
sala apolo [2]. nou de la rambla, 111
metro paral·lel
10€
[ http://lullcec.org ]
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keiichiro shibuya is an electronic musician and sound artist with residence in tokyo. his sound and aesthetics are somewhat close to artists such as ryoji ikeda, alva noto and other musicians belonging to the raster-noton label orbit. also active in the field of sound installations, shibuya has in the past collaborated with takashi ikegami, a researcher in the field of complex systems at the university of tokyo. ikegami and shibuya proposed a new musical theory which under the name “music of the third term” adopted ideas from non-linear dynamics and evolutionary algorithms with the aim to take the process of musical composition beyond the concepts of melody and drone. following these theories together they created “filmachine”, a espectacular and intense sound installation with three-dimensional sound provided by an advanced 24 speaker system. in 2007, this work obtained a mention of honor in the digital music section at the ars electronica festival.
keiichiro shibuya also runs atak, a label and artistic platform dedicated to cutting-edge electronic and electroacoustic music (with artists such as mika vainio, kim cascone or stilluppsteypa) and involving creators from various other fields such as design and network technology.
[http://atak.jp]
[http://myspace.com/ataktokyo]
juan matos capote is an experimental - sound and visual - artist from the canary islands currently living in barcelona. he studied circuit-bending with the discipline’s pioneer reed ghazala and deep listening techniques with the composer and performer pauline oliveros. in his performances matos makes use of analogue equipment, circuit-bent toys and effect pedals, self-built oscillators and field recordings that he plays back on modified walkmans.
[http://juan-music.blogspot.com]
[http://www.myspace.com/juanmatoscapote]
roc jiménez de cisneros is the man behind evol, a computer music project that draws from the tradition of algorithmic composition. together with anna ramos, roc co-directs the alku label.
[http://vivapunani.org]
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July 3rd 2009 in
Call of Works
Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) is calling for submissions for a special issue on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in music, guest edited by Michael Gurevich of the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast.
The availability of powerful, low-cost sensors and embedded hardware that can control real-time audio has facilitated the rapid growth of digital computer interfaces used in music performance. The New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference is already coming up on its 10th year since its humble beginning as a workshop within the 2001 CHI conference. NIME has become a discipline in its own right, one whose enthusiastic growth has rendered the CHI platform an inadequate container; however, as a primarily practice-led discipline NIME has as great a potential as ever to inform, and be informed by, HCI.
Accordingly, this issue will step back and view interactive music performance through the lens of HCI. Submissions should report on original research in HCI or allied disciplines (design, cognitive psychology, mechanical engineering, etc.) that is materially relevant to computer music, or vice versa. Papers should make this connection explicit, and therefore co-authored submissions between HCI and computer music researchers or practitioners are particularly encouraged.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
-novel interaction techniques
-design theory or frameworks
-human performance
-evaluation methods
-tangible representations of musical parameters
-audience cognition of interactive performance
-design case studies
-performers’ or composers’ reports that relate to HCI
Submissions that document a design, performance or composition must clearly advance a theory that is applicable to wider practice.
Submissions will be subject to peer review and should be received by
September 30, 2009.
Refer to the manuscript guidelines at
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/sub/comj
Submissions and queries should be addressed to Michael Gurevich
m.gurevich@qub.ac.uk
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July 3rd 2009 in
Concerts
05.07.2009, 20.30h, Tickets 7,00 EUR
sonic objects #4
Kulturbunker Mülheim, Berliner Str. 20, 51063 Köln
LIVE: Marc Behrens, Radu Malfatti + Lucio Capece
vs.
Luigi Nono
Am 5. Juli treffen in der Reihe sonic objects wieder ungleiche Paare
aufeinander: Mit dem Klangkünstler Marc Behrens (Frankfurt) und dem neuen
Improvisationsduo Radu Malfatti (Wien) + Lucio Capece (Buenos Aires/Berlin)
treten zwei disparate ästhetische Positionen der zeitgenössischen
Experimentalmusik in einen Dialog mit der Musik Luigi Nonos. In einer
Einführung durch Dr. Ioannis Papachristopoulos vom Musikwissenschaftlichen
Institut der Universität zu Köln wird die Brücke zu Nonos elektronischer
Musik auch theoretisch geschlagen. sonic objects ist ein
Veranstaltungsformat, in welchem komponierte elektroakustische Musik auf
zumeist frei gespielte oder improvisierte, vorwiegend aus dem
popmusikalischen Kontext stammende Laptop- und Geräusch-Musik trifft. Die
Reihe geht dabei vom Abenteuer des Hörens aus, das keine akademische
Vorbildung braucht: Es wird zu beweisen sein, dass auf klanglicher Seite
sich die Komponisten und Musiker beider Lager extrem viel zu sagen haben und
die soundästhetischen Unterschiede nicht so groß sind, wie es oft den
Anschein hat.
http://www.on-cologne.de
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July 2nd 2009 in
radio
“Imaginemos un bosque, que además de tener sus sonidos característicos, tiene una docena de bocinas independientes una de la otra,escondidas en los árboles. De una de ellas sale el sonido de un violín, de otra el sonido de un corazón palpitando, de una ultima la risa de un niño pequeño y mientras nosotros caminamos entre este bosque, se va creando una sinfonía de sonidos que juegan uno con el otro, como si se tratase de un cuento de hadas.” Roberto Montiel
Escuchamos un extracto de la pieza Ipso Facto, de CLARA MAIDA, psicóloga y compositora francesa, que intenta conectar la experiencia psíquica y física con el mundo urbano, haciendo que desaparezca la oposición entre objetos y criaturas vivientes. Originalmente, esta pieza está hecha para ser reproducida en siete canales independientes de audio. Podrán escucharla en vivo el viernes 26 de junio a las 8 de la noche en Fonoteca Nacional, antigua casa de Diego Rivera, dentro de las actividades de Circuito Electrovisiones, encuentro de arte digital y nuevos medios . La entrada es gratuita.
Para saber mas de este y otros eventos, visita la pagina: www.electrovisiones.com
Radiografías Sonoras
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July 2nd 2009 in
Concerts
Tuesday July 7
Doors 730pm Music 8pm SHARP
$7
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line)
Free parking in gated lot out front
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org
eli keszler
Using drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed metal, strings, Eli creates a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse droning harmonics with intense, fast, free rhythms. He has performed, recorded or collaborated with artists such as Jandek, Phill Niblock (performed a new work of his for bowed crotales and saxophone), Roscoe Mitchell, Loren Connors, Charles Cohen, Anthony Coleman (appearing on his New World Records Release), Aki Onda, Bryan Eubanks, David Linton, Steve Pyne (Redhorse), Greg Kelley, Ashley Paul. Eli has performed at venues like The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Irving Plaza, Merkin Hall, Issue Project Room, The Stone and The Knitting Factory (NYC and LA), and countless bookstores, basements, and small galleries around the US and Europe. He has released solo CD’s and cassettes on REL as well as labels such as Rare Youth (debut solo LP, Livingston), Reverb Worship and Something on The Road.
“…fantastic LP of austere solo percussion and dark matrixes of strings from this past collaborator with Jandek, with aspects of Scelsi and Dumitrescu, , Keiji Haino and Biota.” -david keenan (volcanic tongue, wire magazine), on eli’s solo LP “livingston”
“It’s hard to envisage that this music has been made by just one person ..especially on parts of Untitled, where the music slowly builds..the slower more textural sections are particularly striking: bowed cymbals, bells and fender rhodes give track 2 a chamber music intimacy.”
mike barnes, wire magazine August 2007
ashley paul
Ashley Paul plays reeds, unique string instruments, electronics and sings. Her dream-like music juxtaposes aggressive, sustained high pitched blasts, floating vocals, clattering strings and bells, cry-like saxophones and is somehow tied together by oddly melodic songs. In the past year she performed with Loren connors, Aki Onda, Joe Morris, and Greg Kelley, premiered a new work by Phill Niblock for soprano saxophone and bowed crotales (written for her and Eli Keszler), performed as part of the US premiere of Mauricio Kagel’s masterpiece ‘Der Schall’ at Merkin Concert Hall in New York and was heard in a live feature on wzbc’s Rare Frequency. Additionally, Ashley performs regularly with Anthony Coleman in duo, trio and on his recent New World Records release, plays duo with Eli Keszler and has recently begun performing solo, sharing the stage with Thurston Moore, Mats Gustaffson, Chris Corsano and others.
“An entirely impressive collection of alvin lucier / horatio radulescu-lineage difference tones, discordant euro-style free improv, and rattling, almost no-wave esque exercises …a form destroyer if there ever was one ; highly recommended !!!”
Keith Fullerton Whitman mimaroglu music sales
“Album of the column from this newcomer…DOL is an intriguing hybrid, merging long-form tones with primitivist DIY clatter and Improv dissonance. Paul handles the mutually antagonistic idioms with aplomb and a winning mixture of accuracy and rawness.”
-wire magazine November 2008
links/sounds: http://www.myspace.com/elikeszler http://www.myspace.com/ashleygpaulhttp://www.relrecords.net/catalogue.html http://www.relrecords.net http://www.myspace.com/elikeszler
Silvum
“I’m always trying to focus and clarify where I am going with my sound works to generate the most honest creations possible. Like anyone, I am inevitably influenced by many things (to view that as negative is utopian), but never want those influences to overcome my expression. In the spectrum of my goals, there’s no point in recreating what has already been done (I have no problem with stylistic explorations of established styles or approaches in other artists / genres), and I am always realizing that my works can be easily classified (I’m not destroying any boundaries). While sound revolution is not the point, I do want to create something as “true” and refined as possible, something that is me, or more practically a part of me: a mood a sensation, a memory. An alchemy where I take the standard elements and generate something unique.”
http://www.myspace.com/silvum
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July 2nd 2009 in
radio
“Los fenómenos suceden en el espacio, y es en esta etapa en la que ellos reciben un significado de nosotros. El sonido como fenómeno es entonces parte del espacio, ya que este tan solo puede existir en el. Podríamos pensar que el sonido es el movimiento interno de un espacio, su levantamiento en el aire…Es entonces obvio que tan solo el movimiento audible de un espacio puede recibir un significado” (Toniutti, 1999).
En esta radiografía escuchamos un extracto de la pieza “Lokale Orbits/ Solo Three”, de DANIEL MAYER, matemático, filósofo y músico austriaco, que trabaja con algoritmos computacionales e instrumentos clásicos. Originalmente, esta pieza está hecha para ser reproducida en ocho canales independientes de audio y acompañada con una flauta. USTEDES podrán escucharla en vivo de este modo y junto con el aclamado flautista Alejandro Escuer, el viernes 26 de junio a las 8 de la noche en Fonoteca Nacional, dentro de las actividades de Circuito Electrovisiones, encuentro de arte digital y nuevos medios . La entrada es gratuita.
Para saber mas de este y otros eventos, visita la pagina: www.electrovisiones.com
Radiografías Sonoras
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July 2nd 2009 in
Publications
click on the image to see David Toop on Making Sounds (video)
David Toop is a musician/composer, writer, and curator. He has written four books, currently translated into eight languages: Rap Attack (now in its third edition), Ocean of Sound (included in the Observer Music Monthly’s 50 Greatest Music Books Ever), Exotica (a winner of the 21st annual American Books Awards for 2000), and Haunted Weather. His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno’s Obscure label in 1975; since 1995 he has released seven solo albums.
Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London, and Senior Research Fellow at the Sound Arts & Design Department of the London College of Communication, he completed an AHRC Research Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts in 2007. His project – Sound Body – was a three year study of digital technology and improvised music performance.
He also directs Unknown Devices: the Laptop Orchestra, a large improvising ensemble convened at London College of Communication.
In this short film, Toop speaks about his ongoing fascination with sound and how digital technology affects its creation and reception. He also explains the genesis of the ‘laptop orchestra’ as we see it in action during a recent workshop for new members.
David Toop - Making Sounds
Produced by Hannah Charlton & Matt Rooney
Directed by Barry Lewis & Emil Charlaff
Special thanks to:
London College of Communication
The Flying Lizards
The Unknown Devices Orchestra
Original compositions by David Toop
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July 2nd 2009 in
radio
Download
Programa dedicado al libro de Montserrat Palacios y Llorenç Barber titulado ¿La mosca tras la oreja. De la música experimental al arte sonoro”, publicado por la Fundación Autor. Los autores, en una entrevista con Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, repasan los contenidos del libro y comentan piezas extraídas de los cuatro CDs que acompañan al libro (obras de Pep Lopis, Orquesta de las Nubes, Javier Maderuelo, José Luis Carles, Wade Matthews, Durán Vázquez y Josep-Maria Balanyà).
Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez
Ars Sonora
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