OPEN-ENDED FESTIVAL OF TIME-BASED MEDIA

There is a media fest at Solvent Space/plant zero this weekend....
(seems to be mostly video... but still-- we are PRO-MEDIA here right?)


"Open-Ended," a Festival of Time-Based Media will take place on
Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 28-March 1, at 7p.m. at VCU's Solvent
Space, located at 4th and Hull Streets, next to the Plant Zero Arts
Center. Thursday and Friday nights will feature video work by 24
international artists addressing issues of identity, cultural
hybridity, and new cosmopolitanism, including work by Sonali Gulati,
Grace Ndiritu, Steve Reinke, Shelly Silver, John Smith, and Ryan
Trecartin. Saturday night will present a screening of "Operation
Atropos" by Coco Fusco, followed by an open discussion with the
artist.


This event is free to the public. For more information go to
www.artandhybridity.com

"Open-Ended" was curated by Jeremy Drummond, Assistant Professor of
Studio Art, Department of Art and Art History, and N. Elizabeth
Schlatter, Deputy Director and Curator of Exhibitions, University
Museums, University of Richmond.




I'm going! Anyone else?

Graphic Notation

Here is the link to the article Stephen mentioned about graphic scores...

http://newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=5462

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PC software... for all you audio editing madness.

FREE PC AUDIO SOFT

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ilovethis

go here now.

so beautiful.

hypersonicsound

So I was thinking about Nia's dillema with the sound component in her installation. And then I thought, what about directed sound? Last year I had read an article on this very thing, I think it may have been in Wired. The basic technology allows the audio to be focused in a specific spot, and if someone stands there, they can hear it, but the person 2 feet away cannot. But here are some sights dealing with it.it also goes by the name of Hypersonic sound

Audio spotlights

And A company that sells this product.

American Technology Corporation

The thing that is kinda scary about this product is the military and the advertisers are totally embracing it in a big way.

tim hecker

and some of his top 10.
i also recommend this album, by christian fennesz and ryuichi sakamoto, for people who were into hecker. fennesz's solo stuff is noisier, more like hecker; sakamoto is very mellow and ambient and quiet. this album combines the two somewhat...
i can hook people up with copies if you want.

Sound Installation?

So even though im not in Vitello's class im still extremely interested in sound and thats pretty much all im doing right now. I have a few concerns, which i will now dump on all of you:

For my candidacy exhibit, right now i plan on having an installation piece with sound, photo/sculptural objects and maybe some moving image, but i want to focus to be on the sound, with everything else coming second.
Soooooooo, do any of you have any suggestions on how to install without those awesome dome things (which we dont have, i dont think), without a room of my own to install in, and without having my work bleed into someone else's space, AND without tacky-ass headphones. i hate those, and they wouldnt work with the whole idea of "installation".
shiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
any help, suggestions, links, references to the actual installation of sound, artists who have used it in an "alternative" (dare i say) way.
thanks guys, i love you!

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

Reactable

The instrument was developed by a team of digital luthiers under the direction of Dr. Sergi Jordà. The "Interactive Sonic Systems" team is working in the Music Technology Group within the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Spain. Its main activities concentrate on the design of new musical interfaces, such as tangible music instruments and musical applications for mobile devices.

The reactable intends to be:

* collaborative: several performers (locally or remotely)
* intuitive: zero manual, zero instructions
* sonically challenging and interesting
* learnable and masterable (even for children)
* suitable for novices (installations) and advanced electronic musicians (concerts)

The reactable hardware is based on a translucent, round multi-touch surface. A camera situated beneath the table, continuously analyzes the surface, tracking the player's finger tips and the nature, position and orientation of physical objects that are distributed on its surface. These objects represent the components of a classic modular synthesizer, the players interact by moving these objects, changing their distance, orientation and the relation to each other. These actions directly control the topological structure and parameters of the sound synthesizer. A projector, also from underneath the table, draws dynamic animations on its surface, providing a visual feedback of the state, the activity and the main characteristics of the sounds produced by the audio synthesizer.

hollow earth radio

here's an internet radio station based out of seattle that i just found. seems like there's an emphasis on both experimental radio and sound and music too. coincidentally i know two of the dj's from two very different times of my life!

upcoming Kinetic Imaging Department Visiting Artists

Here are a couple of basic links to.....

Artist--- Derrick de Kerckhove http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_de_Kerckhove
(visiting 2/14 10am in the AFO department-- Bowe St. Building)


Artist--- M. Dot Strange http://www.wearethestrange.com/
(visiting 2/21 3pm in the VCU Student Commons)




contact us/me if you need more info/directions

DIY mics

Here is a the link to a pdf on making your own mics.... Stephen recently sent this out as an email-- It is info via an engineer who spoke at Solvent Space this weekend about home-made hydrophones (I think at Hope Ginsberg's "Sponge Space")

http://www.marinetech.org/rov_competition/Hydrophone.pdf

Matmos and the gateway to the Transmodern

Well, I'll tell you all and gather 'round...Our trek ended in a small warehouse looking apartment building in Baltimore, MD.
With one press of the buzzer we were let into the building and ascended to the sixth floor. There we were met by jugglers and a woman that explained to us that we could buy tickets for a raffel and that all proceeds would go towards benifiting the Transmodern Festival taking place in April. The Transmodern Festival will be an interesting mix of performance art, sound/music and video/film presentations. Unfortunately, the photo kids will be in NYC from the 3rd of April until the 5th/6th, so we will miss it but I encourage any of you, my fair readers to carpool and art it up! guaranteed to not be stodgy.
The fundraising event that we attended on Saturday was full of art noise, performance, and recitals. All around were adhock buskers who would do any task for a dollar or convey/participate in a kiss. The latter of the two held a sign held high that read "kiss a tranny!"
One of the highlights of the evening was a person dressed as a long lamprey like worm who sang a haunting tune against a white sheet. Following this set was Matmos who you can read more biographical info in Jennidas post. The set was pretty amazing! What with all the strange videos of cigarette burns and drumming with bouquets of roses one might not think that a haircut was on the menu. Their set of constructed sound musical stuff included the sounds of hair shearing as it cruzed off the head of an onlooker. I think that is what impressed me the most. It certainly was the most audibly pleasurable haircutting I have ever witnessed. Just to let you know!
Peace

high fucking art

Matmos, FTW.

high fidelity?

BLEEP

Neat alternative to iTunes.

A

Podcasts

Because I am a major nerd, I thought I would upload some links to podcasts dealing with art, sound and all things wonderful.

Art Radio Podcasts

Radiolab on Sound. These are really awesome.

And of course, what podcast list would ever be complete without This American Life.

Matmos show this Saturday (02/09/08)

It would seem (my heros) Matmos are playing this Saturday night in Baltimore MD at Floristree, a venue I am not familiar with... but I am going to try to make it. Anyone know much about that place, or attending the show? I have never seen Matmos live and am totally anxious and excited to go!! (who's in?)



ok.... here is the link to the show on Saturday as per Matmos website...
http://brainwashed.com/matmos/news.html

in your ear AND your eye?

Matmos!

My awesome Mom sent me this... It's a good read:

Clamor Couple