The Audio Foundation with the generous support of AUT presents a
practical and theoretical introduction to experimental music and sound
art:
This workshop aims to provide a hands-on practical and theoretical
framework to contextualize the practice of experimental music and sound
art in contemporary sound culture. Students will be introduced to
processes and technology of generating, recording and manipulating
sound and will be encouraged to present their sound work in progress
over the duration of the workshop. Over the three weeks, students will
receive an introduction to the history, key individuals (New
Zealand/international) and methodology of this practice. Content will
include a rich range of listening material, readings, lectures,
practical sound exercises and discussion.
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Tutors:
Clinton Watkins (MFA) - Sound artist/Installation/ Musician
Richard Francis (MCPA)– Sound artist/Musician, Eso Steel, independent
record label owner 20city/CMR
Guest Lecturers:
Philip Dadson – Sound artist/musician, Arts Laureate 2001, From Scratch
Dean Roberts - Sound artist/musician, Thela, White Winged Moth
John Kennedy - Sound artist/musician, Audible 3, Vit S Improvisation
Workshops
Joyoti Whylie - rm 103, Performance art
Tim Coster – Sound artist/musician, Field recordist, Independent record
label owner
Sam Hamilton – Sound artist/musician, Festivals, Film sound
Andrew Clifford – Writer, curator, The Herald
Jon Bywater – Writer, The Wire, Listener
Times:
22nd Jan – 9th Feb 2007
Mon - Fri, 9pm – 4pm
Fee: $630.00
Bookings are essential.
For more details please contact:
admin(a)audiofoundation.org.nz
This is a reminder of the upcoming deadline for
the Two Thousand + SEVEN symposium.
Feel free to submit any wild ideas that you may have.
Apologies for Xposting:
Two Thousand + SEVEN
<<< 2nd international symposium focusing
on networked performance environments >>>
The upcoming edition of Two Thousand + SEVEN will
once again run in parallel to the Sonorities
Festival of Contemporary Music
(www.sonorities.org.uk), hosted by the Sonic Arts
Research Center, Queen's University Belfast
(www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). The festival is the
longest-running new music festival in Ireland
that presents cutting-edge new music and features
some of the most thought-provoking and controversial musicians.
Call for papers/presentations:
The call for papers is now open.
Please go to: www.sonorities.org.uk/symposium
for details.
The focus will be on cultural and practical
issues that arise in virtual performance environments.
Keynote Speakers:
George Lewis (Columbia University) and
Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, London)
George Lewis previously taught at UC San
Diego,Mills College, the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, and Simon Fraser
University's Contemporary Arts Summer Institute.
He has served as music curator for the Kitchen in
New York, and has collaborated in the "Interarts
Inquiry" and "Integrative Studies Roundtable" at
the Center for Black Music Research (Chicago). A
member of the Association for the Advancement of
Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis
studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at
the AACM School of Music, and trombone with Dean
Hey. An active composer, improvisor, performer
and computer/installation artist, Lewis has
explored electronic and computer music,
computer-based multimedia installations,
text-sound works, and notated forms. His artistic
work is documented in over 120 recordings and has
been awarded by a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, 1999
Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts, and numerous
fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts. His oral history is archived in Yale
University's collection of "Major Figures in
American Music," and his published articles on
music, experimental video, visual art, and
cultural studies have appeared in numerous
scholarly journals and edited volumes.
www.music.columbia.edu/faculty/lewis.html
Steven Connor has taught since 1979 at Birkbeck
College, where he is now Professor of Modern
Literature and Theory. He is currently Academic
Director of the London Consortium Masters and
Doctoral Programme in Humanities and Cultural
Studies. He is also the College Orator. For publications see:
www.bbk.ac.uk/english/skc
Further Details:
Paper sessions will take place in the morning and
the afternoon bridged by a lunchtime performance
and finished off with two evening concerts.
Date: Saturday, 21st of April 2007
Location: Sonic Arts Research Center/Belfast, www.sarc.qub.ac.uk
Deadlines:
A maximum of 8 papers of 20 minutes duration
(plus question time) will be accepted.
Abstracts (max. 350 words) are due in electronic
format by the 15th of December 2006.
Presenters of accepted papers/presentations will
be informed by the 15th of January 2007.
All accepted papers will be published on the SARC site.
Registration: £30 (£15 unwaged).
This includes free access to all Sonorities
Festival events on the day of the symposium.
Submissions and all queries should be directed to:
f r a n z i s k a s c h r o e d e r
franzisk[at]lautnet[dot]net
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f r a n z i s k a s c h r o e d e r
Initiatrice of "Two Thousand + SEVEN"
www.sonorities.org.uk/symposium
franziska(a)lautnet.net
Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music
www.sonorities.org.uk
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Just a quick reminder about this gig (and free talk) happening next week...
Listen out for an interview with David on National Radio's Music Mix next Monday night.
Regards,
Andrew
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Sonic explorer David Toop to play Auckland
An Alt.music presentation in association with ARTSPACE and Room40
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
David Toop, Natasha Anderson and Greg Malcolm
$10, Sunday December 10, 2006, doors 7pm, starts 8pm
Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Shortland Street, Auckland
Free artist talk by David Toop, Kenneth Myers Centre, Sunday December 10, 4pm
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Internationally renowned writer, musician and curator David Toop visits NZ for the first time for one public lecture and performance at the Kenneth Myers Centre in Auckland. Also appearing will be Greg Malcolm and Natasha Anderson.
David is author of the acclaimed books Rap Attack, Exotica, Ocean of Sound and Haunted Weather. Ocean of Sound is typical of his wide-ranging sonic interests, jumping effortlessly from Sun Ra to Brian Eno to Lee Scratch Perry to Kraftwerk, interspersed with visits to the sound worlds of Amazon rainforests and David Lynch's Hollywood. His latest book Haunted Weather contemplates the implications of making music in a digital age.
In 2000, David curated Sonic Boom, the UK's biggest exhibition of sound art, for London's Hayward Gallery. He also regularly writes for magazines such as The Wire, has compiled numerous compilations and released many albums of his own, starting with his first album New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, which was released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975. His forthcoming album Sound Body will be released by David Sylvian's samadhisound label in 2007.
Melbourne-based Natasha Anderson uses digital processing to coax other-worldly sounds from her contrabass recorder, a remarkable instrument with an exquisite palette of sounds.
Christchurch-based Greg Malcolm makes hypnotically beautiful music on a bizarre range of custom guitars (often played all at once) and has been in hot demand abroad since the release of his Swimming In It album on Belgium label Kraak.
Alt.music is an ongoing series of events, regularly bringing a vital injection of contemporary sound art from around the world to Auckland. Founded by Auckland gallery ARTSPACE and now organised in conjunction with the Audio Foundation, Alt.music began as an international festival of experimental music and sound art in 2001, followed by successive festivals in 2002 and 2004. Previous Alt.Music artists include Keith Fullerton Whitman, Peter Rehberg, Pan Sonic, Tetuzi Akiyama, Jon Rose, Voice Crack, Sachiko M, Francisco Lopez, Pierre Bastien, Oren Ambarchi, Alan Licht, Richard Nunns and the Dead C.
Alt.music is supported by Creative New Zealand, ARTSPACE, Room40 and National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries.
www.artpace.org.nzwww.myspace.com/altmusicfestival
A very excellent series of interviews, one with our very own (ok,
shared with the UK) Sean Cubitt. Great to see a familiar name amongst
some very notable people ...
http://www.framejournal.net/
All the best to Sean!
Luke
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Simon Mills" <simon.mills(a)gmail.com>
> Date: Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:31:31 AM Pacific/Auckland
> To: rare(a)rhizome.org
> Subject: RHIZOME_RARE: framed: New interviews with Michael Atavar,
> Sean Cubitt, Chris Joseph & Mez
> Reply-To: "Simon Mills" <simon.mills(a)gmail.com>
>
> To view this entire thread, click here:
> http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=23840&text=45491#45491
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>
> The framed interview project continues with the publication of four new
> interviews with new media writers and artists now online at
> http://www.framejournal.net :
>
> Michael Atavar is an artist who works with digital art, installation
> and
> performance, using methodologies of chance and process to make work
> both in
> real time and in the online environment.
>
> Sean Cubitt is currently Professor of Media and Communications at The
> University of Melbourne. His books include Digital Aesthetics, The
> Cinema
> Effect and EcoMedia.
>
> Chris Joseph is a writer and artist who has produced solo and
> collaborative
> work since 2002 as babel. His projects include Inanimate Alice, an
> award-winning series of multimedia stories produced with novelist Kate
> Pullinger, and The Breathing Wall, a groundbreaking digital novel that
> responds to the reader's breathing rate.
>
> Mez is a pioneer of code poetry, net.wurks and the unique
> net.languageMezangelle. Mez has exhibited extensively including at
> ISEA 1997, ARS
> Electronica 1997, SIGGRAPH 1999 & 2000.Her awards include the 2001 VIF
> Prize
> [Germany], the JavaMuseum Artist Of The Year 2001 [Germany], 2002
> Newcastle
> New Media Poetry Prize [Australia] and the winner of the 2006 Site
> Specific
> Competition [Italy].
>
> These are the latest in the framed series of interviews with new media
> artists and writers in which they discuss their practice, both past and
> present, and the current state of new media art and writing.
>
> Simon Mills
>
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> Senior Lecturer in New Media
> De Montfort University
> Leicester
> LE1 9BH
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> e: smills(a)dmu.ac.uk
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+++++++ the Cinema Ascension Festival ++++++
6th - 8th December 2006
"forget about popcorn and prepare to open up your taste buds to the
outer limits of cinematic experience. Expanded celluloid experiments
to pixellated digital escapism, ephemeral archival footage to temporal
performative projection that will stimulate even the most lethargic of
imaginations into exctatic olverload!"
hi folks!!!
we are extremely happy to be finally announcing the final program for
our first experimental film festival. what was originally supposed to
me "small" has now, for your wonderful benifet, scaled way out of
proportion into a giant wirlwind of cinematic extravaganza!. we have
some truely ingredible films from around NZ, Australia and a few from
further abroad to including 7 beautiful archival american films which
we have generously been given permission to invite people to create
original soundtracks of which to perform live for the screening (read
more below).
anyhow, we will keep you updated in the future, so for now, pass the
info along to your friends and pick your self up a hardcopy from about
town and we'll see you all soon!
sam and eve
check out the Kroad Business association webside for more details:
http://www.kroad.com/2_Events/200_EVENTS.htm
the program
Night !
Wednesday 6th Dec
8pm
the Wine Cellar Back Room
st Kevins Arcade
# Louise Curham (Sydney)
'Untitled 2004' 8mm trasfer dvd
live sound by Swung
"Curham's work is virtually unique among contemporary abstract
filmmaking due to its foregrounding of the fragility of the medium:
the delicate poetry of her celluloid effacements has a discretion that
is rare among artists exploring this variety of terminal cinema." (Jim
Knox, 'The 2nd OtherFilm Festival', Senses of Cinema, No. 6 2006)
# chris cottrell
'auroral anomaly'
Handmade colour slides reflected off motorized surfaces are projected
over digital recombinations of the same. Colours slowly pulse and
orbit each other in a whirl of light and sound.
# Abject Leader (brisbane)
'A Strange Hysteria' 2005 australia 16mm transfer to dvd
director - sally golding
sound - joel stern
info..... http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=blog&id=106
'Yellow Polly' 2006 australia 16mm transfer to dvd
director - sally golding
sound - joel stern
voice - adam park
# Kim Pieters (Dunedin)
'perfume' 08.09mins
from the 'ghostwritng' audiovisualdvd metonymic021.
camera& editing:kfpieters.2006.
audio: sleep:perfume:ghostwritngCD:metonymic011:2001
sleep are:
Susan Ballard:viola/synth
Kim Pieters:bass
Nathan Thompson: guitar/synth/bush saxaphone
Peter Stapleton: drums/tapes/radio
# Chris Cudby
- FLASH video/sculptural
live music by the slow evildrone/backmasked/tapedamage group The
Brides of Cthulhu
# Noiseurs Radboy and The Grazzatron Present
'Hard wired Polytonics'
A short three movement symphonoise using found kerb-side instruments.
# Golden Krone
'Through the Heart (of our city)' dvd
a tribute to the city that that motorway destroyed and the lost
suburbs of Newton and Arch Hill
Night !!
Thursday 7th Dec
8pm
Wine Cellar Back Room
st Kevins Arcade
The Live Archive Program
an incredible collection of early american avant-garde films
accompanied by new soundtracks by a special selection Auckland based
musicans who will perform the soundtracks live for this special
screening
- Anémic cinéma (1924-26)Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp)
live soundtrack performed by Jane Austen
- H20 (1929)Ralph Steiner
live soundtrack my Rosy Parlane
- Skyscraper Symphony (1929)Robert Florey
live soundtrack by Nigel Wright
- Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)G.W.
"Billy" Bitzer
- Seeing New York by Yacht (1902)Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
live soundtrack by Bruce Morely
- 7 Annabelle Dances and Dances (1894-1897)W.K.L. Dickson, William
Heise & James White
live soundtrack by Tim Coster
these screenings are made possible by UNSEEN CINEMA: EARLY AMERICAN
AVANT-GARDE FILM 1894-1941 provided courtesy of Anthology Film
Archives, New York, and the preservation partners at Deutsches
Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and Cineric, Inc.
www-unseen-cinema.com. Much thanks!
# Kemadrim (UK)
Strains series #5 dvd
Bne McDermott 'to investigate the possibilites of combination and
distortion offered by modern software"
# Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton
'Slide Clicks Side Kicks' & 'Pixel Dust' (dvd)
short digital films
# Lou Cohen & Bebe Beard (USA)
'Gestures' - dvd
Gestures are flourishes, formulas and ritual acts that ornament the
language
of conventional art. In "Gestures," video artist Bebe Beard and composer
Lou
Cohen have created a new set of visual and sonic flourishes and formulas
suitable for the 21st century. The work consists of a collection of
audio/video clips that are played from a DVD in random sequence. During
any
one performance, clips will be played once, a few times, or not at all.
'Segments' - dvd
Segments is a study in evolving colors, accompanied by an algorithmic
musical rondo. The music begins with a characteristic sound and then
diverges from that sound, only to evolve back to it many times.
Lou Cohen is a former student of John Cage and has been composing
himself since the 1960's and curated concerts with Christian Wolf and
others
Night !!!
Friday 8th Dec
9pm (or after dusk)
Alleluya Cafe
st Kevins Arcade
# Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton
Equatorial Thoughts, Scaled and Phasing.
2006, 5x 16mm
a new 5 screen film work in continuous cyclical phasing. overloaded
image combinations will be reduced to there extremest pure moving
image binary that will deminish your eyes internal optical nerves to
jelly
# Nigel Bunn (dunedin)
16mm
hand made home lab B&W undercranked diaristic experiments on 16mm film,
films with hypnotic special technique, direct/melt film about the
nature of change,
a short direct chemistry film 'views of a crystal world'. (mr Bunn
will be in Auckland to present his films in person)
# Campbell Farquhar
"middle of the road"
16mm
live soundtrack by Stefan Neville
an experimental film made using pinholes in various ways
director: campbell farquhar, images: jake bryant, campbell farquhar
# CAMPBELL KNEALE (Wellington)
'Fake Capricorn'
2006, 8mm/digital
Additional film material provided by Ellen Rodda.
'still/moving image/images' , 8mm/digital
sound: Birchville Cat Motel
# Abject Leader (brisbane)
'Plains'
16mm transfer to dvd
floating upon the erratic pulse / rhythm
of hazy fields of visual and aural recollection.
What makes these fields shiver?
# Greg Wood & Dean Roberts
a live 16mm film and sound colaboration
# Jim Knox (Melbourne)
'fuckwit is a cunt' 16mm transfer to dvd
jump the habox to hell...
'fuckwit is a cunt (epusode 6)' 16mm transfer to dvd
more pointless garbage sandwiched of destroyed insania
# Dick White (Wellington)
After Many Moons.
16mm. 2004.
Sound-track by experimental musicians Nova Scotia
Tickets
single event prices - $7
Full Festival Pass - $15
much due thanks for there support to: the Kroad Business Association
http://www.kroad.com/ and Loteck Media
special thanks: the Anthology Film Archives, Linden Kirkby, Rohan
Evans, Barbara Holloway, Peter Hawkesby, James Leonard, Bruce Pusner,
Drew McMillan, Sally McIntyre, John Radford, Greg Wood, Nigel Bunn,
Nick Mulder, Judith Tizards office
for those of you interested in creative commons, there is a movement
for a local version. (this thru indymedia aotearoa, who have local
lists & also a national list
(http://lists.indymedia.org/imc-aotearoa) and one for indy video
projects: http://lists.indymedia.org/imc-aotearoa-video
h : )
>
>Kia ora ano
>
>Forgot to mention (and it's a quite separate but related project)
>that I am involved in a loose network of people working on an
>Aotearoa version of CreativeCommons:
>http://www.creativecommons.org/
>
>Check out the website and email me if you have any questions. If you
>are interested in keeping in the loop let me know and I will email
>you about any meetings happening. There is an email list (currently
>very low-traffic) for this one as well which is the best way to keep
>yr finger on the pulse:
>http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-nz
>
>Please feel free to pass the info about both Indymedia and
>CreativeCommons around anyone you think might be interested.
>
>RnB
>Strypes
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helen(a)creative-catalyst.com
http://www.creative-catalyst.comhttp://www.avatarbodycollision.orghttp://www.upstage.org.nzhttp://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm
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>International Sound Artist UK Residency Opportunity.
>
>Call out to: artist led spaces, arts groups, residency centers and
>individuals
>
>Modulate (http://www.modulate.org.uk) are inviting expressions of
>interest from an international sound artist, (i.e. non UK based), for a
>residency to take place in Birmingham England in 2007, as part of the
>Arts Council of England's International Artists Fellowships Programme.
>
>A fee of £1000 per month, an equipped studio space, travel, and
>accommodation will be provided, plus some technical support if
>required. The residency would take place over a three month period.
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>We are looking for a musician / sound / av artist who:
>
>- Will connect with modulate in a way that makes the residency
>creatively stimulating for both the artist and host.
>
>- Will be open to an exchange of skills and ideas, for instance by
>taking part in our monthly sonic culture salons, where regional
>artists and musicians meet up to show, play or talk about their work.
>
>- May have an interest in current technologies & software's
>
>- Would enjoy working within a warehouse environment
>
>- Would be a pleasant guest to invite into our space.
>
>- Would be able to make best use of the space and equipment already
>there. This includes a Macintosh computer, stereo and 5.1 surround
>sound amplifiers, various selections of speakers, and video projector
>(s).
>
>As well as the basement studio space, available through out the
>residency, the larger warehouse space above could also be made
>available for part of the period. This would be ideal for setting
>up / trying out larger scale ideas after preparation in the studio.
>
>We are likely to favor artists with an intuitive approach to their work.
>
>We would welcome applications from persons who may be part of a
>collective, group or network, or be linked to an artists led or
>residential space, so that there might be the possibility for a
>reciprocal opportunity to develop in the future.
>
>There is the possibility for the residency to involve more than one
>person, for artists working together or as part of a collective, but
>over a slightly shorter time period, or taking turns, as the budget
>would remain the same.
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>----------------------------------
>More about the International Artists Fellowships Programme:
>
>The AIF programme gives artist led workspaces in England the
>opportunity to develop partnerships/exchanges with international
>networks, arts research institutions and specialist arts residency
>centers abroad, while enabling artists to engage with their peers in
>different cultural settings.
>
>The emphasis of the fellowship is on the artists' process of
>research, and as such no specific artistic outcome (event, show,
>product etc.) is required. Rather, it is an opportunity for the
>artists to explore ideas outside the constraints of a production
>schedule.
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>----------------------------------
>
>Description of Host
>
>Modulate are an artist collective working with multi speaker sound
>environments, sound and visuals, and abstract electronic music. We
>also produce occasional events involving regional and international
>musicians, programmers, and visual artists.
>
>Since 2005 Modulate have become involved in developing a small
>warehouse space in Birmingham, as a sustainable artist led sound
>space, a laboratory environment where work is produced, exhibited and
>performed, and where ideas are developed and exchanged.
>
>Visit our website to get more of an idea of what we are about,
>address above.
>
>Location: Birmingham is situated in central England, and so is a good
>location from which to travel to other parts of the UK.
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>----------------------------------
>What to send us:
>
>At this stage please email us an expression of interest that includes:
>
>- A brief biog / cv
>
>- The type of project you may like to develop as part of the residency
>
>The deadline for final submissions is December 21st 2006
>
>Please contact us as early as possible with expressions of interest /
>any further questions.
>
>Email: modulate.org(a)gmail.com
>
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helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
helen(a)creative-catalyst.com
http://www.creative-catalyst.comhttp://www.avatarbodycollision.orghttp://www.upstage.org.nzhttp://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm
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