Live Session SUMMERLAB / 2009 from rl85 on Vimeo.

La semana que viene se celebra la siguiente edición de SummerLab en Laboral de Gijón con una interesante programación de proyecciones y conciertos.

El SummerLAB es un encuentro de Cultura Libre : creadores, hackers y artistas que trabajan en los ambitos del cuerpo, del arte y del espacio.
El SummerLAB que se celebra del 2 al 6 de Agosto en LABoral, Gijón, es un evento participativo, una oportunidad para trabajar juntos en la frescura veraniega de Asturias. Su organización reproduce la manera en que el software libre es desarrollado – no hay jerarquía, tan solo la creación de un contexto donde el deseo libre y la ayuda mutua fluyen al servicio de la creación.
Cada día se reune la asamblea del encuentro para organizar el día y los actividades. La primera es día 2 de Agosto a las 10h00 en LABoral – los días siguientes a las 12h00. Estar presente en la asamblea es el único requisito del summerLAB.
El sábado día 6 se celebra una presentación publica del trabajo de la semana.

“140 dB” es un vídeo experimental de Tadas Svilianis que recrea artísticamente la interacción que se produce entre los objetos y los cuerpos expuestos a sonido. No es que represente fielmente nada que ya no hayamos visto en mediateletipos.net pero puede ser un buen argumento más para hablar del tema.

Why does a minor chord sound sad? Is there a formula for the perfect hit? Whistling, dancing, finger-snapping, and toe-tapping—what makes us do it? Find out when music and science join forces in an interactive bazaar of beats, sounds, and rhythm in the exhibition BIORHYTHM, created by the Science Gallery and presented at Eyebeam as part of the World Science Festival. Learn what drives sound manipulation and discover how different types of music evoke different emotions. Trace the power of an impactful pop hook in a song, measuring the way our brains and bodies react, down to the responses in our fingertips.

Included works: Binaural Head; Sonic Bed; Klangkapsel; Something for the Girl Who Has Everything; Optofonica Capsule; Theremin Inspector V2; Music, Emotion, Empathy; Heart ‘N’ Beat; Reactable; Contacts; Hear, Hear; Traffic; Instrumen; Body Snatcher; Chains of Emotion.

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Rattling chains. Squeaking bats. Moaning wind. Creaking doors. And screams, screams, and more screams. As the only holiday for which people regularly purchase “sound effects” tapes, Halloween is ripe for a sound studies take. As luck would have it, one of Sounding Out!’s coveted guest slots falls on October 31st this year. We are celebrating this uncanny coincidence with an open “Call for Posts” around the topic of sound and Halloween.

Use the following questions to help get your creative juices flowing, but feel free to investigate the topic from any angle you’d like.

· Why are certain types of sonic practice so key to setting the vibe for Halloween celebrations—from haunted houses to corn mazes, trick-or-treating runs to costume parades?

· How and why have particular sounds become Halloween conventions? How are these sounds raced? gendered?

· How does the aural experience of Halloween differ across the globe? How has it changed over time?

· How does sound mediate our understandings of death, particularly in rituals of remembrance around Halloween like Dia De Los Muertos?

· More broadly, what is the relationship between sound and fear? Sound and terror?

We welcome research-based posts and posts examining aural experience through a first-person narrative style; many of our posts mix both. We also welcome ideas for podcasts as well as artistic posts that use the blog format to create an original audio-visual experience.
Please pitch your idea to us in 250 (or less) of your best words by September 1st.

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NITS D’ESTIU
CaixaForum
Dimecres, 27 de juliol de 2011. Pati anglès, a les 22.00 hores

Rafaël (Seoul/Bruselas), artista visual
Alba G. Corral (Barcelona), artista visual
Soni Riot (Berlin), artista visual
Kowalski (Londres/Badajoz), artista visual
ESCORT SERVICE (Madrid), música en directo
Angélica Vazquez, arpa
Tocho Guisado, piano electrónico
Alexandro Regazzi, trompeta
Natan Nexus, violin
Comisariado: Noelia Rodriguez

El Ciclo de Narrativa Visual en directo es una performance colectiva centrada en el arte visual, la música y la literatura.
Cuatro artistas visuales de gran reconocimiento internacional procedentes de varios paises europeos crearan, en directo, una pieza narrativa basada en uno de los relatos de Julio Cortázar.
Innovación, vanguardia y experimentación se unen para ofrecer en CaixaForum un espectáculo audiovisual sin precedentes.

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This is the experimental premiere of an audio challenge for the Hermetic Library audio pool. What can you make from these source files? Post your creation to the group pool at The Hermetic Library audio pool or to The Hermetic Library drop box.

“Owl field recording” is a set of two field recordings of adult owls, owlets and ambient sounds by D. Scriven. When I heard these, they reminded me of so many things that I felt others might find these inspiring to some project or another. I asked, and he was kind enough to let me make them available via a CC NC-BY license for this audio challenge in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

Owl field recording 1 by hermeticlibrary

Owl field recording 2 by hermeticlibrary

The Hermetic Library audio pool is an experimental auditory scavenger hunt for sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition.

Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works.

The Soundscape Ecology Project at Purdue and Ubimark are sponsoring a World Listening Day (July 18, 2011) recording drop event. We invite the public, amateur sound recording specialists, acoustic ecologists, bioacousticians, etc. to submit on this site a short soundscape recording. Files can be in wav (preferred), mp3 or wma format and should be no longer than 4 minutes or 50 MB. We will collect information on your soundwalk experiences, soundscape descriptions and (optionally) contact information. You can use a Google gazetteer / map tool to associate your recording with a lat,long coordinate so that we can map these soundscapes recordings. We plan to have the site active Sunday, July 17th through July 24th, 2011 (for dropping recordings).

Map

Following the success of the first Seeing Sound event in 2009, Bath Spa University (UK) will once again host an informal two-day symposium exploring multimedia work which foregrounds the relationship between sound and image.

We aim to explore areas such as visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, audiovisual performance and installation work through paper sessions, screenings and performances.

This year will see a focus on direct sound – the generation of sound and music from visual material (by various techniques including images drawn or photographed on an optical film soundtrack drawing directly on to an optical film soundtrack for example). This practice is almost as old as sound cinema itself and has influenced the development of both electronic music and abstract cinema/visual music.

We will explore this theme with the help of input from four key speakers (brief biography outlines below):

Mick Grierson will be discussing the exhibition of Daphne Oram’s Oramics machine at London’s Science Museum, including the impact of co-curated contributions from experimental audio/visual artists, ex-BBC radiophonics workshop personnel and EMS staff, through the lens of his research around audiovisual perception.

Cindy Keefer, director of the Center for Visual Music, will discuss Oskar Fischinger’s 1932 Ornament Sound experiments and his influence on Visual Music.

Volker Straebel will discuss composition and production of synthesized sound in John and James Whitney’s “Five Film Exercises” (1943/44).

Andrey Smirnov will present an overview of censored and lost sound experiments in Russia, 1910 to the 1930s including Graphical Sound, Noise Orchestras and related sound machines with music and video examples.

A call for papers and creative works will be published soon.

Mick Grierson is Director of Creative Computing at Goldsmiths College, and Director of the Daphne Oram Collection.

Cindy Keefer has taught, curated, lectured and published on Visual Music and Oskar Fischinger internationally. She has preserved dozens of historical visual music films by Fischinger, Belson, the Whitneys, Dockum, Bute and others; currently she is co-curating an upcoming traveling Fischinger museum exhibition.

Volker Straebel is a musicologist focusing on electro-acoustic music, the American and European avant-garde, intermedia, performance and sound art. He is co-director of the Electronic Music Studio at Technische Universität Berlin and currently a fellow at the Research Focus Media Convergence at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Furthermore, he is curatorial adviser to contemporary music festival MaerzMusik and has realized and performed indeterminate works by John Cage and himself.

Andrey Smirnov is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, engineer, researcher and developer of electronic music techniques, author, curator, educator. He is a founding director and the Senior Lecturer of the Theremin Center for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. He is collecting and keeping unique archives on the history of Audio Computing and Music Technology in the early 20th century Russia as well as a collection of original historical electronic musical instruments.

Last year we’ve asked people around the world to send sound recordings made on July 18, to the radio aporee ::: soundmap project. this was fun and a success, listen to the amazing results on the project map of the World Listening Day 2010.

You are invited to participate in the second annual World Listening Day! Send your audio recording to radio aporee, to create a sonic snapshot of the world, on Monday, July 18, 2011. Please read the info & instructions on how to upload to the soundmap. If you want, add a tag like WLD or world listening day to the description of your sounds. all recordings will be made available on a dedicated project page, similar to last year’s WLD.

Additionally, during July 18, we will provide a broadcast of the 2010 recordings on the radio aporee streaming website. Radio Zero from Lisbon will pick up the stream and include it in their ongoing Radio Real project, audible on the web and in Lisbon on 88.4MHz.