Bioacoustic investigations and taxonomic considerations on the Cicadetta montana species complex

MATIJA GOGALA and TOMI TRILAR

ABSTRACT
Recent bioacoustic investigations have shown that Cicadetta montana Scopoli 1772 is a complex of morphologically similar sister species that are best characterized by their song patterns. At the type locality of C. montana, only mountain cicadas with simple, long lasting song phrases were heard, recorded and collected. Therefore, we have good reasons to suggest that this type of song is characteristic for C. montana s. str. Boulard described a song of C. montana from France with phrases composed of a long and a short echeme; this type of song is characteristic for cicadas morphologically corresponding to C. montana var. brevipennis Fieber 1876; we suggest to raise this taxon to species level. On the basis of specific song, Puissant and Boulard described C. cerdaniensis from Pyrénées. A similar case was the discovery and description of C. montana macedonica Schedl 1999 from Macedonia; since these Macedonian cicadas are sympatric with at least two other cryptic species in the C. montana group and molecular investigations showed substantial genetic differences between C. macedonica and C. montana or C. brevipennis, we conclude that this taxon should also be raised to species level. Songs of closely related C. podolica and Korean mountain cicada are presented as well.

Key words: Cicadetta montana, Cicadetta spp., cicadas, bioacoustics, systematics.

The Telinga Pro5W

The “Plug In Power” Telinga – for all inputs with “Plug In Power”
The “Plug In Power” Telinga is a 1 mm parabolic dish and a rubber foam handle with a through-going cable.
Using Plug In Power, means that the microphone runs on the DAT or MiniDisc batteries.
There are two different microphones fitting the “Plug In Power”:
• PRO4PIP- Omni directional Low Noise Mono Mic
• PRO5PIP – Cardioid Very Low Noise Mono Mic for maximum directivity

Convocatoria:

1. Tema y formato libre.

2. Qué hay que presentar:
- Un CD-DVD con vídeos, sonido, fotografías…
- Una memoria explicativa del proyecto donde se detalle: el título del proyecto, descripción y situación actual de la obra. Con todos los elementos que ayuden a la comprensión de la misma.
- Currículum del artista o colectivo.
- Dossier con fotografías, textos y bocetos de obras anteriores.

*Importante: Todo el material anterior deberá ser entregado en formato digital (textos en word, fotografías en calidad, sonido en aiff o wave y videos en avi o mov.).

Fecha de presentación: 2 de Abril 2007

Todos los artistas que se presenten aceptarán las bases.

Enviar a:
EspacioMenosuno
Calle la palma 28
Madrid
Teléfono 91.521.35.84
espacio [arroba] menos1.com

Presentación:
La exposición se presentará a becas y convocatorias expositivas y además se realizará una muestra en EspacioMenosuno en Octubre.

Todas las piezas serán documentadas en un DVD.

Becas Hangar-Phonos

Sumando las capacidades de producción de Hangar en el campo audiovisual e interactivo y las de la Fundación Phonos en el de la experimentación sonora, ambas fundaciones establecen una colaboración para la convocatoria de una beca de producción en formatos interactivos y sonoros (robótica, software, instalaciones interactivas, instalaciones sonoras, etc). La beca ofrece 6.000 € en efectivo y el acceso a los equipamientos de que disponen Hangar y Phonos. El plazo finaliza el viernes 1 de junio a las 14 h.

CENTRE DE PRODUCCIÓ D’ARTS VISUALS
Passatge del Marquès de Santa Isabel, 40, Can Ricart, E-08018 Barcelona
H. dl. a dv. 9-14 h
T. 93 308 40 41 F. 93 307 12 11
info@hangar.org
www.hangar.org

IUA

Phonos

http://ipodlinux.org/PdPod

“pdPod allows the creation of interactive musical applications for the iPod. It integrates Pure Data (http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html) a visual sound programming language by Miller Puckette which allows the rapid develoment of musical applications. Guenter Geiger has made PDa, a port of Pure Data for PDA linux devices which we recently adapted to run under iPod linux as well. Martin Kaltenbrunner created a GUI application which allows the execution, display and control of PD patches from within podzilla. This application was created at the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Have a look at this paper we presented at the ICMC05 for some ideas what might be possible to do with this application for the iPod [...]”

http://lloopp.klingt.org/plone/lloopp/

lloopp is a software written in max/msp, designed for live-improvising.
lloopp is freeware, open source, please note its copyleft.
lloopp is written by artists who use this very software for their performances.
anybody who is into max-programming is invited to join in. refer to the .help-section for building new patches and use our lloopp list for communication. any ideas are welcome as well.

Via: alg-a.org

http://www.spencerkiser.com/spincycle/

What
spinCycle is a turntable that allows you to arrange and play colors visually and musically.

How
spinCycle is fitted with a camera that takes the place of tonearm on a normal turntable. Rather than a needle playing grooves in a record, spinCycle creates sounds based on colors that the camera sees. The DJ places brightly colored plexiglass circles on the spinning platter, creating beautiful color patterns that are then translated into sounds. The DJ can rearrange the discs at any time, thereby creating a new soundtrack on the fly.
spinCycle also captures the colors the camera sees and can either project them on a wall or display them on a computer monitor. This hypnotic display changes as the music changes, providing a fun synchronized multimedia experience.
Max/MSP/Jitter is used to do the color-tracking and sound reproduction. Future versions will use a color sensor rather than a web camera, and sound will be emitted from the built-in speaker using tones generated by a microcontroller. For more information, download the NIME paper.

View video [.mov]

Via: Neural.it

VJKUNGFU.TV es un magazine online dedicado a ofrecer información, recursos y tutoriales a todos aquellos dedicados a la experimentación visual empleando principalmente herramientas digitales. Esto es… vjs, videoartistas y visualistas varios… Con un espíritu fresco y diverido, van contando cada semana cosas bastante interesantes a través de videos explicativos, y también organizan el AV Challenge, un proyecto de creación colectiva que en su primera convocatoria se proponía crear una librería de clips de video sobre beatboxing.

AV Challenge #1 – VJ Beatbox

As part of our studies here at VJ Kung Fu, we invite you all to participate in our monthly-or-so AV Challenges. These are assignments we all undertake to produce audiovisual pieces as a global collective – to explore and innovate this medium. The results are licensed to the Creative Commons, and made readily available with the help of Archive.org.

Para los que no conozcais a Semiconductor, aprovechamos la noticia de la reciente publicación en el sello Fat-Cat de “Worlds in Flux” para presentaros a este duo de Brighton (UK). Este nuevo trabajo es un DVD que incluye 13 de sus obras audiovisuales. Además, como parte de la promoción de esta referencia, pueden descargarse por la cara en su web las piezas musicales que gente como Max Richter, Christian Vogel, Thomas Dimuzio o Antenna Farm han compuesto para Brilliant Noise, la pieza que abre la compilación. … y aquí pegamos un extracto de la bio de esta pareja y destacamos su reciente trabajo Sonic INC, un software de performance en directo.

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/
http://www.semiconductorshows.blogspot.com/

Semiconductors Sound Films are concerned with many processes of digital animation and, by way of these, reveal our physical world in flux; cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. Central to these works is the role of sound, which becomes synonymous with the image, as it creates, controls and deciphers it; exploring resonance, through the natural order of things.
Finely crafted digital work is combined with analogue processes that tailor the nuances and randomness within computer systems as co-conspirator.
Presented as fictional documentaries, these works are set in the future; histories yet to be considered.
These films are screened in galleries, festivals and biennials worldwide; in addition they are presented as surround sound installations. Semiconductor also produce live Sound Film works which they perform at multi-media festivals and events.

Live Sound Film Biography:
Semiconductor are UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt. They make films out of sound using abstract landscapes and architecture as, a means to describe aural and visual interpretations of the world. Finely crafted digital work is combined with analogue processes that tailor the randomness and errors within computer systems as co-conductor. Their music can be described as a contradiction where ‘musique concrete’ becomes simultaneously hypnotic and violent, minimal and maximal. These sound-scapes are a playground for imaginary environments and impossible modernist architecture.
Live Digital performance is one strand of Semiconductors output; they also produce surround sound installations and single screen Sound Films which are exhibited at galleries, festivals and biennials worldwide.

http://www.uclm.es/dr/programacion.htm
Escuchar/Listen [ARCHIVO PLS]

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