En el año 2009 se celebraba en UCLA el encuentro SOUND + SCIENCE en el que participaron entre otros Douglas Kahn, Veit Erlmann, Diana Deutsch, Miller Puckette o Curtis Road.

La semana que viene, diez años después, tendrá lugar en el ART | SCI center la versión 2.0 de este Congreso organizado por Victoria Vesna que girará entorno a las relaciones existentes entre cultura, política, historia, medioambiente, arte y música teniendo como centro el sonido y la experiencia de la escucha:

The UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab proudly announces the Sound + Science Symposium 2.0 – May 2nd and 3rd, a decade after the first gathering in March, 2009 (Sound + Science 1.0). Join us to in a 2-day symposium with sound artists, scientists and humanists exploring all kinds of vibrations, audible and inaudible. This extraordinary event will bring together leading figures to discuss the applications and implications of such research in relation to questions of culture, politics, history, environment, art, and music.

Location: UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium, lobby and presentation room

Sound + Science 2.0 is a two day gathering of sound artists and scientists on May 2 and 3. Organized and moderated by Victoria Vesna, director of UCLA Art Sci center.

Day 1 will will feature the Artsmesh networked performance by Ken Fields (UCSB) connecting UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, New Mexico (Andrea Polli), Canada (Joel Ong) and Harvestworks, NY (Gil Kuno). This will be followed by the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) with short talks by the symposium participants.

Day 2 will start with talks, demos and mini-performances by sound artists — ­­­Bill Fontana, Carol Parkinson, Paul Geluso, Ted Byrnes, Jocelyn Ho, musicologist Nina Eidsheim, nanoscientist James Gimzewski and physicist Seth Putterman. Additionally, Design Media Arts students Dillon and Ivana Dam will be performing and conducting short hands-on workshops and Noise Aquarium will be installed for the audiences to experience.

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