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Kingsport, 14-16 Aug 2008 — Howard Moscovitz'
Electro-Music 2008—three days of experimental electronic music concerts, jam sessions, lectures, and demos—will be held from 14-16 August 2008 at the Renaissance Center in Kingsport, Tennessee. Covering a wide range of electronic music including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generated or automatic music and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and more, the focus of the festival is on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music. A three-day pass is only
$50.
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Annecy, 25 Jun 2008 — In his fifth collaboration with Swiss choreographer
Gilles Jobin,
Cristian Vogel completed the sound design and music for
Text to Speech exclusively in Kyma. Performed on 6 speakers, with front of house system, for a total of 7 sound sources and 8 sound emitters, the music draws its inspiration from shortwave and Very Low Frequency radio, the ambience and sonic palettes of natural radio, espionage counting stations, and radio hammers in addition to synthetic voices reading warped texts. Vogel composed the music on site in Annecy and Barcelona using the latest version of his track-dependent spectral resynthesis and modification design, dubbed
Spectral Fire, to yield an array of track-dependent spectral delays, waveshaping, transposition and smearing. For more information on the music, the choreography, and the performances, see the
Last.fm website.
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Munich, 21 Jun 2008 — Swiss sound designer
Daniel Dettwiler used Kyma in the creation of a permanent sound installation for BMW Platz, one of the largest rooms in the new BMW Museum in Munich, first opened to the public on
June 21 2008. The walls of BMW Platz are giant screens displaying subtle pictures while a 300-speaker acousmonium plays granulated cello and piano sound textures generated in Kyma. For BMW, the aim was to create a museum where the architecture, media, and the audio all interact perfectly with the
cars on display. Idee und Klang's proposal for the space was selected by a jury in an international competition held two years ago.
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Pesaro, 16-17 Jun 2008 — From 16-18 June 2008, as part of
Il Suono Aperto,
Joel Chadabe presented a concert of electronic music and conducted master classes for
Eugenio Giordani's students at the Conservatorio di Musica G. Rossini in Pesaro. Using the Kyma system owned by Eugenio Giordani (well-known to the international Kyma community as the creator of the EuVerb), Chadabe presented his
Many Times... for live performer and Kyma in what Chadabe describes as a "gorgeous hall" having "wonderful acoustics."
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San José, 14 Jun 2008 —
Brian Belet's new piece
Name Droppings includes the voice of
Jeff Stolet and others reading excerpts from program notes and composers' bios lightly processed and assembled in Kyma. This piece was commissioned in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the
Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois.
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Ottawa, 07-14 Jun 2008 — From 7-14 June 2008, composer
Edmund Eagan and dance artist
Ken Emig created hexagons of sound for a live installation based on the architecture of the
National Arts Center in Ottawa. Starting at noon on Saturday June 7, Eagan and Emig performed outside the theatre using 3-channel sound and 6 cameras capturing a hexagonal 360 panorama projected through 6 projectors onto six walls enclosing a hexagonal fountain as a slightly different mix of the audio was presented inside the building. Live input from three amplified sources placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle located around the center of the hexagonal dome pictured in the online article at
Guerilla Magazine: 17 were processed live through Kyma.
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Minneapolis, 30-31 May 2008 — Composer
Scott Miller joined forces with Rosemary Williams, Pat O'Keefe, Jacqueline Ultan, Norah Long, and Jeff Lambert to investigate models and conceptions of measuring and experiencing time using Prague's Astronomical clock as a metaphor. Through multi-channel video projection, live performance and interactive electronic audio environments,
The Cosmic Engine explores the tension between the strict architecture of time-telling and "the dissolution of that structure into absurdity and chaos."
The Cosmic Engine premiered on May 30 & 31, 2008 as part of the
Electric Eyes: New Music and Media Festival at the
Southern Theater in Minneapolis.
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Mexico City, 26 May 2008 — On Monday, 26th May 2008, composer
Hector Bravo-Benard performed fellow composer
Agostino Di Scipio's
Audible Ecosystemics 3b,
Background Noise Study With Mouth Performer, at the 30th Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva Manuel Enriquez with Carmina Escobar. The concert was at the Blas Galindo Hall of the
Centro Nacional de las Artes.
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Palo Alto, 21 May 2008 — On May 21, 2008,
Kelly Fitz used Kyma to play examples during his seminar,
Techniques for Digital Sound Morphing, presented at the
CCRMA Colloquium.
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New York, 20-21 May 2008 — Kyma will be assisting the
Flea in its stated mission of "Raising a joyful hell in a small space" as part of the three day
Electronic Music Foundation EMF Lab
concert series in New York, 20-21 May 2008.
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Athens, 17-18 May 2008 —
Carla Scaletti and
Kurt Hebel will be participating in the
ElectroMediaWorks Festival in Athens. On May 17, Scaletti will present a 3 hour seminar on Kyma at the
Centre for Music Composition and Performance. On May 18, there will be a concert of live Kyma music by Carla Scaletti and
Joel Chadabe. Both events are open to the public. From May 20-22, Chadabe and Scaletti have been invited by
Andreas Mniestris to present seminars and workshops on Kyma for his composition students at Ionian University.
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New York, 15 May 2008 —
Sarth Calhoun and Lucibel Crater have a new
website on which you can find news of their upcoming CD release party and celebratory performance at 7 pm this Thursday, May 15th at
Joe's Pub in New York.
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Athens, 14-18 May 2008 —
The ElectroMediaWorks Festival EMW 08 will feature live electronics, interactive performances, electroacoustic music, video and installations in Athens 14-18 May 2008.
Andreas Mniestris,
Marinos Giannoukakis,
Gerard Pape,
Joel Chadabe,
Carla Scaletti,
Kurt Hebel,
Robert Scott Thompson, Michael Filimovicz and others will be presenting work at the festival. On Sunday, May 18, starting at 14:30, there will be a three-hour seminar on Kyma followed by a concert of live
Kyma music.
The week following, Scaletti, Chadabe, and Hebel will be presenting seminars at EPHMEE (the Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Laboratory) at Ionian University directed by Andreas Mniestris. Check out the interviews and join in the discussion on the Forum. All events are free and open to the public at The Art Factory located at Lamias 6 & Pireos (after Praktiker). more...
Forlì, 13 May 2008 — On 3 May 2008,
Agostino Di Scipio put on a concert at Teatro Diego Fabbri in Forlì (Italia). Di Scipio performed live electronics on his
Sul rumore di fondo and presented a lecture on Systems of clouds, particles and ashes, migrating sounds. Also on the program were Iannis Xenakis'
Polytopes, Analogique B, and La Légend d'Eer. more...
Eugene, 03-05 May 2008 — On May 3-5 2008, Carla Scaletti & Kurt Hebel have been invited by Jeffrey Stolet to the University of Oregon for a three-day event featuring music, workshops, individual coaching, and lectures. The events begin on Saturday night May 3 with a concert of live Kyma music by Carla Scaletti and Jeff Stolet's composition students. The concert will include the premieres of two new pieces by Scaletti:
SlipStick (for Kyma and Continuum) and
Cyclonic (for Kyma solo). On Sunday May 4, from 12-6 pm, Scaletti will present a 6 hour workshop on sound design for interactive performance. The workshop is open to the public; please contact
Professor Stolet to make a reservation. On Monday, Scaletti will work with individual composition students during the morning and will present an afternoon lecture for Jeff Stolet's electronic music classes.
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Paris, 01 May 2008 —
Gerard Pape will be using Kyma as part of the new laptop orchestra he has started in Paris called CLSI (Circle for the Liberation of Sound and Image). CLSI is a collective of 8 composers who play only written scores and who interpret the works of their fellow composers.
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Ashville, NC, 29 Apr 2008 —
Lou Reed of Velvet Underground fame is currently touring the east coast of the
US and he's brought
Sarth Calhoun along to live-sample and process the band through Kyma. Sarth is involved in nearly every song, processing bass, guitar, vocals, and drums in turn.
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San Jose, CA, 23 Apr 2008 — On Wednesday, April 23 in San Jose, this year's New Music South Bay concert featured music by
Brian Belet,
Jeff Stolet, and others. Belet's trombone quartet
Refraction: Three Gestural Reflections was performed by
the SJSU Trombone Quartet, and Stolet's
Gongs of Tiny Insects was diffused through a multichannel playback system. Also on the program was Allen Strange's
NGate and Belet's
System of Shadows, both written for Stephen Ruppenthal performing on trumpet and flugelhorn processed through live electronics.
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Sydney, 18 Apr 2008 —
Garth Paine performed a new work for flute and Kyma and a new work for SynC with Michael Atherton (Waterphone and bowls) in the
Aurora Festival at the Joan Sutherland Centre for Performing Arts on Friday 18 April.
From January 6-22 2008, Garth Paine was on tour in Köln, London, Leicester and Frankfurt. Paine performed live with Wiimote and Wacom tablet controlling Kyma and also led several workshops and seminars on musical interfaces. Paine's newest work is for Singing Bowls, Hand Bells, sensors and Capybara/Kyma system. For more information on this work and other work by his Synsonics project, see http://www.syncsonics.com/. more...
Lisbon, 17 Apr 2008 —
Carlos Alberto Augusto took Kyma out of his studio for the first time to perform live for a new production of the 15th century German writer Johannes Van Saaz's "The Plowman from Bohemia" featuring the composer/musician as a third character. In February Augusto also used Kyma in a live improvisation with bowed instruments (violin, viola, cello. double bass, guitarviol) plus percussion at the Mascavado Festival at Lisbon's "Centro Cultural O Século".
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Baton Rouge, 26 Mar 2008 —
Stephen David Beck presented the world premiere of his new work for Wiimote and Kyma,
A Little Light Saber Rattling on "Cinema for the Ears," a concert of experimental electronic and computer-generated music on March 26, at the Manship Theatre in downtown Baton Rouge. The performance was presented using the 27-channel surround sound system called ICAST and in "electroacoustic cabaret" style, with casual tables, open seating and friendly discussion.
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Urbana, 07 Feb 2008 — In February 2008,
John Ritz presented a Composers' Forum at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign discussing recent works using Kyma. As part of Ritz' residency, violinist Yao-Tzu Lu presented his DMA recital of music for violin and Kyma—including works by John Ritz, Steve Everett, and Brian Belet—at the Music Building Auditorium.
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Berlin, Through Feb 2008 —
Agostino Di Scipio is teaching in Berlin at the Elektronisches Studio of the Technische Univesitaet through February 2008 as this year's "Edgard Varése Guest Professor" where he is presenting seminars on his compositions with examples using Kyma and PD.
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London, Press Release — Robert Jarvis has been shortlisted for the 'New Music Award' for his proposed new Kyma-powered sound installation for the London Wetland Centre. Entitled ECHOLOCATION, the piece will take the form of a responsive composition for a 'choir' of bat detectors that will pick up the ultrasonic calls of the bats that visit the reserve of an evening and transform them into a multichannel musical experience for visitors the following day.
The award seeks to recognise those who are pushing the boundaries of new music, and will eventually present its winner with £50,000 towards the creation and performance of a creatively adventurous new composition. The winner will be announced in April and the first performance of the new work will be in the summer of 2009. More details about the award itself, together with the other shortlisted candidates, can be found on the PRSF website at:
http://www.prsfoundation.co.uk/newmusicaward/index.htm .
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Rome, 23 Dec 2007 —
Matteo Milani and
Federico Placidi,
Unidentified Sound Object, will be online Sunday, 23rd December 2007, for a live gig via the Mogulus Internet broadcast network. Starting 21:00 UTC time, you can enjoy a live video feed of USO performing live with Kyma and Ableton Live from Rome via either the
USO Project blog or on the
USO Mogulus Channel. Later rebroadcasts will also be available on the USO channel. Check for updates here:
http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2007/11/uso-live-internet-broadcast.html more...
Bloomington, IN, 15 Dec 2007 — At Art Hospital in Bloomington, Indiana on December 15, 2007, audio artists/composers
Silvia Matheus and John Dawson created a live improvisational dialog using Kyma, MAX/MSP running on a laptop and several controllers. As Matheus describes it, "The thrill of the performance is to keep the momentum going—the various sound textures have to transform continuously." Matheus and Dawson created sound textures with variable loops, pitch and time variation, live processing, and live panning/mixing. Some of Silvia's sounds were also sent to John Dawson's environment for further processing before being sent to multiple speakers.
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's Hertogenbosch, 08 Dec 2007 — theatre production of Piet Arfeuille and de Wetten van Kepler.
sound design and live performance of the score by Frederik Van de Moortel - Sakuran
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San Jose, 15 Nov 2007 —
Brian Belet's work-in-progress for multiple trumpets and Kyma system was presented on Thursday, November 15, at 7:30 pm, at San Jose State University. Belet has been collaborating with trumpet virtuoso Stephen Ruppenthal on the work in which all computer sounds are generated in real-time using the trumpet as source material for processing, Stephen improvises with the computer sounds as they occur. Three movements (out of the projected 4 movement piece) were previewed in San Jose with the entire work scheduled for premiere in late January on a concert in Washington state.
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Lüneburg, 21 Oct 2007 — After the first performance of
Requiem for Soprano and Kyma at the
Music Biennale Zagreb Festival, composer
Zlatko Tanodi and soloist Lidija Horvat-Dunjko were invited to open the
33. Festival NEUE MUSIK LÜNEBURG 2007. The German premiere of
Requiem is scheduled for the 21st of October 2007. Tanodi writes, “The idea of composing Requiem first came into my mind when I was working with Lidija Horvat Dunjko on the composition 'Anima – Animus ', also written for soprano and Kyma, and premiered at the 2001 Music Biennale Zagreb. Considering the fact that this is interactive music in which the female voice creates and controls musical parameters generated by an electronic device, the composition should have been entitled 'Requiem for a Woman Alone'. (according to Schaeffer's 'Symphonie pour un homme seul'). The piece begins with a composer's summary – a flashback made of quoted sections taken from other compositions which guide us through the time tunnel towards bright light. And this is the moment when the Mass for the Dead begins...”
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St. Paul, 28-30 Sep 2007 —
Zeitgeist performed
Shape Shifting: Shades of Transformation at Studio Z in St. Paul, Minnesota (September 28-30, 2007) before taking the show on tour throughout the Czech Republic during October 2007. Shape Shifting: Shades of Transformation is a collaboration of Zeitgeist, composer
Scott Miller, poet Philippe Costaglioli, and video-artist Ron Gregg to create an evening-length musical response to the nature and challenges of change.
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Missoula, 21 Sep 2007 —
Brian Belet was the featured guest composer for the
Mountain Computer Music Festival at University of Montana on September 21 2007. Belet presented a lecture "Composing in 2007: Why do we do it? What does it mean?", an interactive installation
Lobby Reforms, for unsuspecting audience, concert hall lobby, and Kyma processing (2006),
(Disturbed) Radiance, for piano and Kyma processing (2003), and
Still Harmless [BASS]ically, for electric bass and Kyma processing (2000), featuring the composer on electric bass. In
Lobby Reforms, the pre-concert sounds of people passing through the lobby are transported into the concert hall (as well as back into the lobby) in an informal collage of social activity that differentiates the concert experience from the isolated activity of listening to music through headphones. The transition zone from the outside world to the inner container of the concert hall is an important time and place that physically and metaphorically defines the "before, during, and after" of the concert experience. The audio sources are processed in real-time and then directed back through the sound system to create a sonic environment that leads naturally into the concert itself as the lobby sounds eventually diminish as a result of the audience leaving that space for the concert hall.
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Oporto, 20 Sep 2007 —
Carlos Alberto Augusto's
The Moment of Being for marimba, glockenspiel, Japanese woodblock, eTrack (produced entirely within Kyma), and the player's voice, was premiered September 20th at Casa da Musica in Oporto, Portugal as part of the
Musica Viva Festival.
Pedro Carneiro, the virtuoso Portuguese percussionist to whom the work is dedicated, performed the premiere. The entire program was performed again on October 13th at the
French-Portuguese Cultural Center in Lisbon. The piece will be recorded and the concert will be videotaped for future release. The electronic track of
The Moment of Being is based exclusively on the sounds of Carneiro's marimba; specially composed musical phrases, notes, and even the sound of the mallet handles were sampled and later processed in Kyma to produce the eTrack.
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Ottawa, 12 Sep 2007 — Sculptor/dancer/acoustic artist Ken Emig's work deals with echoes and reflections, so when he and composer
Edmund Eagan collaborated on a live performance for the opening of Emig's show at La Filature in Ottawa, they tried to express these same ideas using sound and movement. Eagan performed in one room (with light boxes) and Emig simultaneously performed in a video shooting space, a room featuring his dish sculpture and another room housing his cube sculpture. The spaces were sonically linked with Eagan using Kyma, the Continuum, a Mbiraski, Logic to process a microphone-feed from Emig's room, creating echo loops using delay lines and using the two different spaces as resonance before sending the resulting mix back into Emig's room. The audience was free to migrate through the gallery during the performance. Emig danced in front of a dual projection / dual camera video feedback setup creating multiple echoes of him on the wall, and a camera directly above Eagan captured his hands on the Continuum surface, projecting the image onto the same wall. This triple projection was then captured AGAIN by another camera, which projected it into the room where Eagan was performing. A DVD is in the works.
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Oxford, 04 Sep 2007 — As part of Oxford Contemporary Music's "Magic Hour" event in collaboration with the Oxford Botanical Garden, Kyma user and sound installation artist, Robert Jarvis, will be showing a new work that takes its material, as well as inspiration, from the many bats that visit the garden each evening.
As the bats fly in, in search of food, they emit ultrasonic calls at a frequency above the human range of hearing. Jarvis's installation starts with these calls and processes them in Kyma to create a real-time musical composition for listeners to experience at the same time as viewing the bats.
Jarvis has been developing the concept of this work for about a year now, and it was recently shortlisted for the 2008 New Music Award (
http://www.prsfoundation.co.uk/newmusicaward/echolocation.htm). The performances at Oxford Botanical Garden will be the first time the work has been performed publicly.
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Copenhagen, 30 Aug 2007 —
Hector Bravo-Benard performed
Styrotron (2007) live at the
ICMC in Copenhagen at the end of August.
Styrotron takes styrofoam, a packing material always shipped alongside computer equipment and usually discarded as trash, and reinterprets it as a musical instrument. Different pieces of styrofoam are excited with a violin bow, or rubbed against each other, producing noises and pitched sounds with a rich spectrum that are only partially controllable, and whose behavior is predictable only from a rather general point of view. Using a constructed noise instrument such as this one, without any real history, also makes it possible to eliminate the connotations that are usually associated with traditional musical instruments, in order to be able to focus more freely on the exploration of sound itself. The acoustic sounds produced by the styrofoam are taken as the only sound source, and they also generate most of the control signals used as these sounds get transformed in real time through a processing network implemented in Kyma. The performer controls only the transitional points and some simple processing parameters through the use of a pedal. The large-scale structure of the pieces is clearly defined, but many of the smaller details are left open, as a result of the chaotic nature of the sound source itself.
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San Diego, 05 Aug 2007 — IMAGO is presenting their audio-visual triptych on this years SIGGRAPH in San Diego, California.
They are looking for other options and venues to perform the piece, since they have to travel all the way over the big lake. Any suggestions are welcome!
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Nedde, Limoges, 14 Jul - 04 Nov 2007 — Kyma user, Robert Jarvis, will be taking his Capybara to
The City of Insects at the beginning of July for a two-week residency. During his stay he will delve into the world of insect song and other entomological sounds and create a surround sound composition inspired by recordings that he makes in the local area.
Imagine a room full of butterflies… Imagine living in a beehive or an ants’ nest… Imagine going for a ride on a back of a dragonfly… what would that sound like? Robert’s new work allows the listener access to this unique sound world and to imagine life through the ears of an insect.
The resulting surround sound installation will be featured at the museum for visitors to experience from July 15th through to November 4th, 2007. Follow Robert's investigations into all things creepy crawly at
http://www.entomophonix.wordpress.com more...
Syracuse, 15 Jul 2007 —
Ceremonial Rituals, a new piece by Norbert Oldani, will be aired on NPR station
WCNY-FM on Sunday, July 15, 2007, from 2-3 pm, as part of the weekly
Syracuse Society for New Music— Fresh Ink program. Oldani made use of indigenous rhythms and South American pan flute performance techniques mixed with Kyma granulation sounds.
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Lefkada, 11-13 Jul 2007 — Kyma will play a part in at least two events for the July 11-13
Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC07 in Greece: a new sound installation by
Marinos Gianoukakis and
Joel Chadabe's Many Times... for flute and live Kyma interaction.
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Paris, 09-10 Jul 2007 — On July 09-10,
Federico Placidi is presenting an introduction to Kyma with particular emphasis on granular synthesis and live controls for students in the
CCMIX summer course.
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Corfu, 05-09 Jul 2007 —
Joel Chadabe will present a three-day seminar at Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, entitled: "A Dynamic Approach to Sound Design and Interactive Performance with Kyma" from July 5-9.
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Vienna, 23 Jun 2007 —
Bruno Liberda will be performing his metaphonics exploration,
JETZT, on the 23rd of June 2007 from 2-8 pm at the
Museum und Archiv für Arbeit und Industrie im Viertel unter dem Wienerwald, a museum recognizing working people as the true heroes of history and the proper focus of modern historical research. During a performance of JETZT, the audience listens and watches screen projections of Liberda in the
process of composing a new piece of music using Kyma.
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Rome, 22 Jun 2007 —
Joel Chadabe will be in Rome on June 22, 2007 for
Flussi Correnti, an outdoor multidisciplinary art event at Piazza Tevere (between Ponte Sisto and Mazzini) on the Tiber river. Sponsored by
Tevereterno, the event will begin at sunset with
Luminalia, a new light installation by artist and Tevereterno co-founder Kristin Jones and architect Daniel Brown. At 21.00 and again at 24.00 there will be a performance of water-related compositions by the Ars Ludi ensemble, and at 23.00 there will be a presentation of water-related
Ambienti Sonori from
Ear to the Earth, including two Kyma-generated pieces: Joel Chadabe's
Green Island (based on the sounds of water hitting the rocks in Penobscot Bay, Maine) and
Carla Scaletti's
Frog Pool Farm (based on the sounds of frogs singing and splashing in a pond on Illinois farmland). Kristin Jones and Tevereterno have worked with the city of Rome to create the Piazza Tevere as a site for collaborative projects that bring artists and the public together for greater environmental awareness in an urban context. Last year, 10,000 people attended an all-night program involving visual artists and composers. This year, attendance is expected to double.
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Barcelona, 14 Jun 2007 —
Cristian Vogel's band,
Night of the Brain, performed songs from their debut album
Wear This World Out at the
Sonar Festival in Barcelona last Thursday evening as part of the Station 55 Records showcase. Vogel used the Wiimote and OSCulator to control
Kyma alongside the traditional guitar, voice and other electronics. More about the band, their debut album, and a video with the angel of death on a Segway, can be explored at the
No Future website.
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Chicago, 09 Jun 2007 —
A R Rahman, award-winning composer/vocalist/keyboardist, played to sold-out arenas in North America this summer with his
3rd Dimension Tour, a 3.5 hour show performed in three languages and demonstrating the composer's mastery of a broad range of musical styles. Audiences in Chicago and Toronto were treated to a tantalizing glimpse of something new when Rahman performed a
short solo of Carnatic music on
Continuum fingerboard (controlling Kyma). Rahman, who is classically trained in both Carnatic and western musical traditions said that, as a child, he loved playing the keyboard but at the same time he found it frustrating not to be able to produce the microtonal tuning and ornaments of Indian classical music on a standard 12-tone keyboard. His dream is to inspire kids to continue the classical tradition by combining the world of digital audio with that of classical Carnatic music.
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Bourges, 09 Jun 2007 —
Agostino Di Scipio performed live electronics and sound diffusion for a performance of his
3 pezzi muti at the
Festival Synthése in Bourges on 9 June 2007 with Ciro Longobardi on piano.
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New York, 04 Jun 2007 —
SynC (
Garth Paine and Michael Atherton) is performing at the New York Electronic Arts Festival for the entire first half of the concert. All three works use Kyma:
Atmospheric Ripple: Garth plays the flute and uses its amplitude and pitch to control the processing
Cyberdidj Australis for didjeribone (slide didjeridu) and electronics: Garth uses a Wacom tablet (in his signature palette-like style) to control the processing.
Encounter for hurdi-gurdi and electronics: Garth is using the
WiiMote to drive the Kyma processing of the hurdi-gurdi.
Sync will also be performing Cyberdidj Australis on the opening night of the
NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) conference in NYC on June 7 at 6:30.
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Philadelphia, 01-03 Jun 2007 —
Electro-music 2007, dubbed the Woodstock of Electronic Music by the Philadelphia Inquirer, will take place from June 1-3 at the Cheltenham Art Center in Philadelphia. The brainchild of composer
Howard Moscovitz, the event promises three full days of experimental electronic music, jam sessions, visual music, and demos. Starting on June 1, the electro-music website will stream live audio as well as a
live chat room from noon to midnight on each day of the festival.
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Rye Bay, East Sussex, 26 May 2007 — Kyma user Robert Jarvis' 'Keybird' sound installation utilises a conventional piano keyboard of which every note is assigned to the call of a different bird. Visitors to the space encounter the keyboard and by pressing the different notes they trigger the different birdsongs and before long the room fills with moving sounds.
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Florence, 24 May thru Oct 2007 —
Lorenzo Brusci used Kyma for music and sound design, and USO Project (
Matteo Milani and
Federico Placidi) used Kyma's
SampleCloud for the latest incarnation of "Giardino Sonoro La Limonaia dell'Imperialino"
Sonic Garden Lab.
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Kiev, 20 May 2007 —
Yuri Spitsyn will be performing live with Kyma on May 20 2007 in Kiev at the EM-VISIA Festival organized by the
Association for New Music in the Ukraine. Spitsyn will perform
b-i-r-d-r-e-a-m for Theremin and
Welcome to the Machine! for acoustic laptop. He will also be presenting a talk during the conference entitled
Kyma: Survivor in the Age of Native Processing. more...
Ames, 18 May 2007 — In addition to the premiere of
Mario Davidovsky's Synchronisms #12, there were several pieces at the
SEAMUS Conference (held March 8-10, 2007 at Iowa State University) featuring live interactive Kyma processing, including John Ritz'
a well-devised trap for string quartet and live, adaptive Kyma processing, Amaro Borges'
Ecoando for cello and live Kyma capture/processing, and
Scott Miller's Chimera for violin and Kyma.
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Cologne, 17 May 2007 —
The Queen is the Supreme Power in the Realm by
Yannis Kyriakides is scheduled for its premiere performance on Thursday, 17 May at 18:00 in the Theater am Tanzbrunnen in Köln. Based on the
telegraphic codebooks of the late 19th century, Kyriakides was commissed to compose the piece by
MusikFabrik and the
ZKM. The concert will be repeated on the 18th of May at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, and again in November 2007 at the
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK. Kyriakides will be performing the live electronics using Kyma for this semi-composed, semi-improvised piece, and will also be accompanied by live video artist
HC Gilje.
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Houston, 10 May 2007 — Pulizter-prize-winning composer
Mario Davidovsky was recently commissioned by SEAMUS and a consortium of American universities to compose two new pieces in his famous Synchronisms series:
Synchronisms #11 (for contrabass) and
Synchronisms #12 (for bass clarinet). Davidovsky completed the electronic portion of Synchronism #12 at
REMLabs in collaboration with composer
Kurt Stallmann.
Davidovsky wanted to create an electronics part derived largely from samples of the clarinet, bass clarinet, and piano, so he and Stallman used Kyma to analyze the samples for spectral content and to develop/modify spectral data for resynthesis. They also used several other Kyma tools to manipulate the samples and generate synthesized material. According to Stallman, "Davidovsky enjoyed hearing 'Kyma' through the speakers each time it started up and grew attached to that sound icon."
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Ockley, 04 May thru 28 Oct 2007 — Robert Jarvis' latest sound installation is for the renowned Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden (www.hannahpescharsculpture.com).
Situated in a secluded part of the garden known as 'The Oriental Pond', a series of musical compositions emanate from the undergrowth. Fast moving but gentle musical patterns derived from the plants' DNA contrast with slower melodies based on different amino acid sequences governing the processes of growth and aging. The sounds slowly fade in, teasing the ears with their presence, and quietly dance around the pond before fading out again returning the listener to the garden's gentle soundscape.
The installation is the result of an eight month residency where Robert has been investigating related themes connected with the plants of the garden, including the ultrasonic acoustic emmisions of plants as well as the sonification of genetic data. A weblog diary at
http://www.gr0w.wordpress.com documents many useful resources available on the internet.
The music was composed entirely in Kyma, also utilizing
Harm Visser's physical modelling
toolkit as well as advice and input from the Kyma community.
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Boston, 28 Apr 2007 — Several Kyma users, including BT,
Brian Evans, and
Dennis Miller were featured on the VISUAL MUSIC MARATHON at Northeastern University, Boston, Saturday, April 28th, 2007, a 12-hour screening of time-based art works that reflect the convergence of musical composition and animated images. All new works presented at the Marathon will be included in a special permanent collection that will be housed in Northeastern's Snell Library. For an hour-by-hour schedule and preview of works that were shown at the event, visit
http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html. For a complete listing of all events, visit the Boston Cyberarts Festival
website.
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Zagreb, 21 Apr 2007 —
Zlatko Tanodi, Professor of Electronic and Film Composition at the Academy of Music,
University of Zagreb, will be premiering his interactive composition,
Requiem for soprano and Kyma, on 21st of April at the
Music Biennale Zagreb Festival. Meanwhile, he has just finished
The Queen Katarina K. K., an historical musical based on the last
Bosnian queen.
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Abbeville, 13 - 22 Apr 2007 — Une note, un chant, Robert Jarvis a conçu un clavier de piano peu ordinaire. En effet, en guise du do, ré, mi, fa, sol … un chant d’Avocette, de Bergeronnette, de Chardonneret décline ainsi l’alphabet jusqu’à la dernière touche du clavier....
Kyma user Robert Jarvis' 'Keybird' sound installation utilises a conventional piano keyboard of which every note is assigned to the call of a different bird. Visitors to the space encounter the keyboard and by pressing the different notes they trigger the different birdsongs and before long the room fills with moving sounds.
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Linz, 13 Apr 2007 —
Cristian Vogel (Mute / Station 55) will be performing live during Ars Electronica in Linz on 13 April 16:00 at the Red Bull Music Academy. First, the Info-session: a dialog with Cristian Vogel and Patrick Pulsinger! Then, at 22:00, Electro-acoustic Madness with Patrick Pulsinger and your friend from MMA Gerhard Daurer/Richard Eigner/Roman Gerold in one special improvised live set. Modular synths meet percussion gear and granular processing. Cristian Vogel presents his new Kyma programmed Livetool —
the Neverengine. Free participation with advance notification at
http://redbullmusicacademy.com Limited number of participants!
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Bari, 24 Mar 2007 — Electroacoustic remixer
Mimmo Galizia has recently branched out into using Kyma for live guitar effects in his band
Uross during their last gig in Bari on March 24th. URoss' motto, "Nel silenzio...mi son perso!" underlines their relaxed and self-described "healing, easy-listening concrete" sound.
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Kerkplein 3, Breda, 21 Mar - 21 April 2007 — Spring has arrived and so too has the return of Kyma user Robert Jarvis' 'Keybird' sound installation. Upon entering the exhibition space, visitors encounter a conventional piano keyboard of which every note is assigned to the call of a different bird. Pressing the notes triggers the different birdsongs and before long the room fills with moving sounds.
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Paris, Hamburg, Spring 2007 —
Cristian Vogel used Kyma to compose the music for choreographer Gille Jobins's
Double Deux, and he did it on-site in Geneva just a couple of weeks after he first got his system. Jobin writes, "I can testify! Cristian used ONLY Kyma to make one hour of music for the piece. Which was a bit worrying when he arrived with a machine in a box, and a telephone book size instruction book... But with a lot of sweat and a lot of talent, he managed to make a fantastic score. I must say that using the Kyma concept was great for this piece. The 'morphing' of one sound into another, of one patch into another, the continuous state of transition was just the right thing for the choreography of this project."
Double Deux explores the concept of pairs, of 2s in all combinations, additive and multiplicative: binary symmetry, coupling, the uniting of two, and binary division of cells necessary to produce life. The piece is now on tour and will be in Rennes, France, Bruxelles, Belgium, Paris, France, and Hamburg, Germany in Spring of 2007. You can read more about the pieces, see photos, see video clips, and order a DVD at the Parano Foundation website:
http://www.parano.org more...
Brussels, 14 Mar - 16 Sept 2007 — From the 14th of March until the 16th of September 2007, Italian image-and-sound designer
Riccardo Mazza is presenting a visual and audio environment at the
Atomium in Bruxelles. Six projectors in sync with 10 spatial audio zones paint the 150+ square meter space in one of the spheres of the Atomium where INSIDE, a sculpture from Italian artist E.T. De Paris is on display. The audio, synthesized and spatialized phrases from Italo-French poet J.C. Oberto, was created entirely in Kyma, including the spatial algorithms. Mazza specifically chose to create the entire concept using the Kyma signal flow editor.
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Romainville, 01 Mar 2007 —
The Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis is now offering memberships with benefits that include access to CCMIX courses (up to 3 free short-courses a year as an auditor), special ticket prices for CCMIX concerts, and discounts on CCMIX CDs and books. There are two Kyma-related short-courses coming up in March 2007 that could be included as part of your membership: a week-long introduction to composing for real time performance with Kyma presented by
Bruno Liberda, and a three-day workshop presented by
Agostino Di Scipio on his ecosystemic approach to composition with Kyma.
Other Kyma-related courses will be offered later in the summer and fall of this year. For full details, please go to http://www.ccmix.com/english/index.html and select Members from the CCMIX menu at the top left. For further information, please contact the Director of CCMIX, Gerard Pape at the email address listed on the Contacts page (also available from the CCMIX menu). more...
Napoli, 23-24 Feb 2007 —
Agostino Di Scipio and his students have organized several concerts for the
Dissonanzen Festival in Naples. On 23 February 2007,
Francesco Scagliola will be using Kyma to do the live electronics for Giacinto Scelsi AITSI (for piano and "distortion" device) and Michelangelo Lupone CICLO ASTRALE 2 (violin, tape, and electronics). The next day, 24 February, there is a presentation of Di Scipio's PAYSAGES HISTORIQUES, produced last year by IMEB (Bourges), which includes the 6 tape pieces composed between 1998 and 2005, using Kyma. Di Scipio will be using Kyma to diffuse two of the pieces over a multichannel system: PAESAGGIO STORICO n.3 (Paris, La Robotique des Lumières) and PAESAGGIO STORICO n.4 (New York, Background Media Noise).
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Minneapolis, 21-22 Feb 2007 — As part of the
Spark Pre-Show: Twin Cities Showcase at The Whole Music Club on Februrary 20th,
Scott Miller and
Zeitgeist performed "Jardins Mecaniques" from their show
Shape Shifting. On Wednesday, Februrary 21st, at the Spark Nitelife at the Nomad World Pub, Pat O'Keefe (bass clarinet) and Scott Miller (Kyma) will perform "improvised/interactive electroacoustic grooviness." Finally, as part of the Spark Festival, Marion Judish will perform the short-version of Miller's
Chimera No. 2 at the Southern Theater on Thursday, February 22nd.
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Prague, 08 Feb 2007 —
David Moss used Kyma for live processing and mangling of both voice and music as the host of an
IllFM internet radio show originating in Prague on 8 February 2007 from 8pm to 12pm GMT. The show featured DJ's and live artists from the Czech underground music scene and also includes some of Moss' custom circuit-bent keyboards and gameboy-generated sonic chaos.
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St. Paul, 30-31 Jan 2007 — On January 30 and 31,
Scott Miller premiered a new collaborative work with poet Philippe Costaglioli and director Jeffrey Bleam at Studio Z in St. Paul, MN, and at St. Cloud State University, MN. The work, titled
What You Have Taken, is a dramatic work for spoken word in an interactive electroacoustic environment provided by Kyma. These concerts also featured the U.S. premier of
Chimera No. 2 performed by violinist Marion Judish. At
SEAMUS in Ames, IA this coming March, Miller will present
Chimera No. 2.1, a four channel acousmatic remix of the work for violin and tape, born of performer scheduling conflicts.
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Anaheim, 18-21 Jan 2007 —
Edmund Eagan will become something of a one-man convergence of new instruments, controllers, and Kyma at the 2007 NAMM show in Anaheim California this January 18-21. If you stop by the
Haken Audio booth, you'll be able to meet Continuum inventor
Lippold Haken and hear a live performance by Ed Eagan on Continuum fingerboard controlling his Kalimba sound (created in the Kyma TAU editor) mixed with a live feed from a stereo trilobyte
Mbiraski, a beautiful new instrument created by
Yasuski, sampled and processed in realtime through Kyma. Ed will also be using
Camille Troillard's
OSCulator software to communicate between the Jazz Mutant
Lemur tablet and Kyma via Open Sound Control. Plus, you'll also be able to take in a bit of Eagan's visual style in the form of the new
Continuum stand that he designed in partnership with industrial designer Sarah Dobbin.
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Los Angeles, 14 Jan 2007 — You can participate in
Phil Curtis' ongoing piece,
Tracking Feldman starting at 4 pm Sunday afternoon, January 14, at the
Dangerous Curve Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. This performance is a continuation of a sound installation Curtis first did in Fall 2006 at the Long Beach Sound Walk.
Tracking Feldman is a hybrid performance/sound installation that invites the audience to participate in controlling computer-generated sounds. Audience members will be able to control sound processes through a Wacom tablet, a shuttle controller, and a virtual reality glove; they will also be able to send sound into the system via an audio input from either a radio or ipod. These various elements cross-modulate and interact in unpredictable ways with samples, filters, delays, noise, oscillators, and sundry other electronic music staples, in ways that develop and change over the course of the piece.
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New York, 11 Jan 2007 — On Thursday, January 11th
Lucibel Crater plays their first show of 2007, their first show as a trio, and their first show at
Fat Baby, 112 Rivington St between Ludlow & Essex in New York (cost is $7 at the door). Go listen to
Sarth Calhoun use his Kyma system to capture and process live acoustic sounds in non-obvious ways.
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Rome, 17 Dec 2006 —
U.S.O. -
Unidentified Sound Object (aka
Matteo Milani and
Federico Placidi) has been selected among the most interesting electronic avant-garde artistic productions to perform @
Live!iXem 06. Federico will be on Mac and Matteo on PC as part of a marathon of live sets at the Live!iXem 06 festival/contest in Rome, which starts at 6:00 pm on Sunday December 17, 2006 at the
Rialtosantambrogio, via S. Ambrogio n. 4. USO is scheduled to go on at around 1 am, and will be processing live input from acoustic bass and voice inputs and using the Wacom tablet as controller.
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Prague, 15 Dec 2006 —
Scott Miller was the featured composer at this year's Mlade Podium Festival in the Czech Republic, September 4th through the 14th. For a full program with photo gallery (including some live Dr. Seuss characters) visit their
website. In addition to participating in panel discussions on new cultural developments in the US and the Czech Republic, the festival organizers also commissioned Miller to compose a new piece,
Chimera No. 2, for violin and Kyma-generated electronics.
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Seville, 14 Dec 2006 — On Thursday December 14th,
Agostino Di Scipio spoke on
"Mediation and Responsibility in Sound" at the
International Congress on Music & Contemporary Technology in Seville. Di Scipio's "Craquelure (2 silent pieces, a Giuliano)" for synthetic sounds and room-dependent signal processing through Kyma was also performed during the congress.
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New York, 04 Dec 2006 — Students in
Joel Chadabe's electronic music course at
Manhattan School of Music are presenting a concert of live electronics on Monday, December 4, 7:30 pm at Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music, 122nd Street & Broadway.
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Atlanta, 01 Dec 2006-06 Jan 2007 — The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) announces
LIGHT-SOUND INTERSECTIONS, Structure and Movement in Space and Time, to be held at MOCA GA Midtown from December 1, 2006 - January 6, 2007. LIGHT-SOUND INTERSECTIONS is an exhibition curated by Atlanta musician and composer,
Dick Robinson. Using electroacoustic music that he composed from the 1970's to the present, Robinson has created a soundtrack to accompany an exhibition of artwork that he has selected from MOCA GA's permanent collection. The opening reception, featuring a concert of Robinson's most recent music (composed since 2005) will be on Friday, December 1, 2006 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. A second reception with concert is scheduled for Wednesday, December 13. Both performances are free to members, $5 for non-members.
One of the first composers to adopt the Kyma environment in his work, Robinson studied electronic music with Bob Moog and Hugh LeCain and founded the Atlanta Electronic Music Center in 1965. Robinson is also a professional violinist, having played with the Atlanta Symphony for 36 years before retiring in 1987 to devote his full time to composition. MOCA GA Midtown is located at 1447 Peachtree Street, two blocks north of the High Museum of Art. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. until 5 p.m and admission is free. For more information, call +1-404-881-1109, visit the
website or send email to:
info@mocaga.org more...
London, 27 Nov 2006 — For the second year running,
Robert Jarvis has won the new media category of the British Composer Awards, this time for his installation
Magic Stones.
Commissioned by the Millennium Court Arts Centre, in Portadown, N. Ireland, the work takes its inspiration from the South East corner of Lough Neagh and issues surrounding its ecological sustainability. The music, interspersed with comments from local resident Eddie Franklin, questions our relationship with the landscape, its musicality and the stories within it.
The award ceremony can be heard in full on BBC Radio 3 on Monday 27th November at 7:30 pm together with musical extracts and interviews with the winning composers. The broadcast will also be archived for seven days (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/performanceon3/pip/evy2j).
Both
Magic Stones and last year's award winning composition,
Disappear, can also be heard on Robert's latest CD. To listen to extracts or obtain further information please go to
http://www.chameleonlectra.co.uk/MagicStones.html.
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London, 24 Nov 2006 — Magic Stones - Robert Jarvis's sound installation for the Millennium Court Arts Centre in Portadown, Northern Ireland, has been selected as one of three finalists for this year's British Composer Awards in the New Media category. The awards will be presented at London's Hayward Gallery on 24th November and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Monday 27 November at 7.30pm.
Inspired by the south east corner of Lough Neagh and its surrounding countryside, the Magic Stones installation takes its title from a listening game played by young visitors to the Portmore Nature Reserve who would be invited to take a 'magic stone', grasp it, and with their eyes closed see what they could hear. Jarvis's atmospheric score is composed from recordings taken from around the lough together with sections of an interview with local resident, Eddie Franklin. The layered sounds tell their own story of a countryside on the verge of change - an area being taken over by the 'progress' of our time. Magic Stones invites the listener to pause and to reconsider this relationship.
The composition can be heard on Robert's latest CD, released on the Motile label, together with other compositions inspired by time and place, including Disappear - winning work in the New Media category of last year's British Composer Awards.
CD information at:
http://www.chameleonlectra.co.uk/MagicStones.html
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Cologne, 03-05 Nov 2006 —
Joel Chadabe's new Kyma piece
One World was performed at
Computer Music IV, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lejaren Hiller's historic collaboration with Leonard Isaacson at the University of Illinois, resulting in the
Illiac Suite and Max Mathews' first synthetic sound generation experiments at Bell Labs. The festival took place from 3-5 November 2006 in Köln.
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Evanston, 24 Oct 2006 — On Tuesday, October 24,
Carla Scaletti and
Kurt Hebel will be at Northwestern University to lecture on sound design in Kyma for students in Gary Kendall's
music technology and
sound design programs.
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Brooklyn, 14 Oct 2006 — For upcoming live electronic performances by
Lucibel Crater in and around New York, check their
myspace page. It's live looping that doesn't sound like it! Recent performances were at the Living Room Lounge in Brooklyn on October 14th, and an almost-performance at the Brooklyn shipyard before the police shut down the event.
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Paris, 08 Oct 2006 — "Vaporized orchestras" and "vocals morphing in embracing oceans" were heard in
La Nuit Blanche,
Lorenzo Brusci's Sonic Garden installation in Paris, 7-8 October 2006, Le Square Georges Caïn, Marais. Kyma was the main transfiguring tool. Find more information in the Current Event section of
Giardino Sonoro.
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New York, 07 Oct 2006 —
Joel Chadabe's new piece
One World will be premiered at 8 pm this Saturday on the Extended Worlds concert at the
3-Legged Dog Arts & Technology Center as part of
Ear to the Earth, a unique festival of music sound art and ecology. Composers, sound artists and environmentalists are converging in Manhattan this Friday to explore perspectives on vanishing ecosystems through concerts, installations, public art, and panel discussions.
Laurie Spiegel and Iannis Xenakis will also be featured on the festival. Chadabe used the
CrossFilter,
Vocoder, and
FilterBank to treat city sounds and people recorded in New Dehli and New York, cross filtering them by each other as a metaphor for the linkages between the two cities.
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Vienna and Berlin, 01, 15, 18, 22 Oct, 07 Nov 2006 — Experience one of
Agostino Di Scipio's ecosystemic pieces this fall in Vienna or Berlin:
01 October 2006 VARIAZIONI SUL RITMO DEL VENTO, Kontrabass Blocklöte (Paetzold) mit Elektronik, ERPS biennale, Wien, Universität für Musik, Rennweg 8, 11:30
Elisabeth Haselberger, Kontrabass Blocklöte
Petra Wurz, Klangregie
15, 18 & 22 October 2006 Galerie im Prater Berlin, Kastanienallee 7-9, 20:30
Gerd Lünenbürger, Kontrabass Blocklöte
Martin Supper, Klangregie
07 November 2006 Unerhörte Musik, Berlin, BKA Mehringdamm 34, 20:30
Elisabeth Haselberger, Kontrabass Blocklöte
Petra Wurz, Klangregie more...
Ekeren, 28 Sep 2006 — KaG (KunstarbeidersGezelschap), established in 2003 to bring contemporary music to Belgium, is sponsoring a series of three concerts starting on Thursday, 28 September, in the
Ekerse Theaterzaal at 20.00. On the program are composers who know each other and have, in some manner, influenced one another. Among the featured composers is Kyma user
Dirk Veulemans.
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Philadelphia, 25 Sep 2006 —
Howard Moscovitz is organizing the next Electro-Music 2007 Festival in Philadelphia (tentatively scheduled for June 1-3, 2007). For a taste of what Electro-Music festival is all about, check out the
video.
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Baton Rouge, 20 Sep 2006 — On September 20, the LSU Center for Computation and Technology and the LSU School of Music presented
High Voltage: Cinema for the Ears, a concert of electronic and computer music, presented on ICAST, LSU's 24-channel surround audio theater, including works by composers Jonty Harrison,
Brian Willkie and
Stephen David Beck. The ICAST audio theater is a 24-channel speaker array, around, over and through the audience and will be featured during the upcoming
International Computer Music Conference, this November in New Orleans.
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Tokyo, 12-17 Sep 2006 —
Yasushi Yoshida (Yasuski) was the sound engineer for a series of shows by live theater group
Crome from September 12-17. Thirty minutes prior to each show, Yasuski did a "secret" live performance, performing Kyma controlled by the Continuum fingerboard from a position behind the audience seating area in
"The Pocket" theater. During the show, he triggered and controlled special Kyma sound effects using the Continuum.
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Vienna, 16 Jul 2006 & 27 Aug 2006 — This 10 day computer-assisted composition course offers classes and individual studio time in the
Wiener Klangwerkstatt to explore the multidimensional space of sound and its use as the primary material of composition. In between new sonic experiences, you will have guided tours to sites in and around Vienna historically connected to the first and second Viennese school. Since it will be a small group (max. 6 students), you will benefit from lively Q&A situations.
Technology has its own challenges for composers; find out what is congenial for you and work accordingly on a fully equiped Kyma Sound Design Station. For contact information, see
http://www.brunoliberda.com.
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Graz, 24 May 2006 —
Cristian Vogel brought his Kyma system along for a live set he performed at
SpringSix Festival in Graz for a crowd of about 800 people. SpringSix is the biggest festival for electronic art and music in Austria. Vogel writes "I think it performed well and sounded fantastic." You can hear his 60 minute improvisation with Kyma, Clavia G2 synth, Korg ESX1 drum computer and Serrato Scratch at
http://www.no-future.com/erutufon/showthread.php?t=20266 more...
Sydney, 13 May 2006 — A recent concert at the Aurora festival, curated by Garth Paine, featured music for acoustic instruments and live electronic manipulation with Kyma.
The concert featured staff and postgraduate students from the School of Communication Arts and MARCS Auditory Lab at the University of Western Sydney, and occurred at Bankstown Arts Centre, Sydney on April 30 at 8:30 PM.
The concert will be broadcast on the ABC Classic FM at 10:30 PM (Australian Eastern Standard time) on Saturday 13 May 2006. (International listeners can can connect to a
live audio stream.)
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London, 30 Apr 2006 — Concert Perfomance featuring Paul Rutherford (Trombone), Robert Jarvis (Kyma) and Lawrence Casserley (MaxMSP).
Visionary and inexpressible, the work of Paul Rutherford with Robert Jarvis and Lawrence Casserley - who process the sound of trombone through computer manipulations - resists to any kind of classification, as the rotund phrasing by Rutherford is morphed into quasi-indeterminacy, but always within the borders of imperfect - better, mangled - raw beauty. --
Touching Extremes more...
Rye, 29 - 30 Apr & 06 - 07 May 2006 — A new sound installation by Kyma user Robert Jarvis will be featured at this year's East Sussex Wildlife Festival. Visitors to the installation are able to play on a new 'instrument' created specially for the occasion. The 'Keybird' makes use of a conventional piano keyboard of which every note is assigned to the call of a different bird. Depending on how the notes are pressed the birdsong is played back at different speeds and the room fills with moving birdsong.
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new york, 27 Apr 2006 — audio - visual live performance. a singers voice is the gamete of acoustic and visual blossoms. with m.schwendtner, d. bruckmayr, m. strohmann
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New York, 22 Apr 2006 — Richard Lainhart will demonstrate the Haken Audio Continuum controlling a Kyma system. Kyma users are invited to bring along their Sounds, Timelines, recordings, etc (either finished or in progress) and to present an explanation of their work for the edification of all.
The meeting is open to Kyma owners, users and students at all levels of experience, as well as any and all musicians interested in learning more about the Kyma System.
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Dobbs Ferry, NY, 07 Apr 2006 — Tune in on Friday April 7th at 7pm, when Treavor Hastings will be joined by musical guest and good friend of the station, Richard Lainhart for his second solo performance at our studios. Lainhart has worked in the field of live interactive electronic performance for over 30 years, from the days of analog modular synthesizers and home-made instruments to the latest digital music technologies.
He will be performing some new compositions using his Kyma System, a digital playground for electronic musicians. He will also be chatting and bringing along some influential music from his library. It's always a pleasure to have him with us, so tune in and check it out! April 7th, at 7pm.
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Venice, 24-26 Mar 2006 — Three Kyma users will be presenting talks at
Matematica e Cultura 2006 in Venice, 24-26 March 2006:
Metaphor in Mathematics and Sound by
Carla Scaletti and
Kurt Hebel,
Mappatura sonica di un'area romana by Laura Tedeschini Lalli and
Simple Mapping and the Aesthetic Dimension by
Brian Evans.
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Paris, 16-22 Mar 2006 — On the 16th through the 22nd of March 2006, following three days of lectures by composer
Agostino Di Scipio, Kyma developers
Carla Scaletti and
Kurt Hebel will be presenting a week-long intensive course on composing for live performance using Kyma at The Center for the Creation of Music Iannis Xenakis,
CCMIX. The Kyma week is part of a year-long course dealing with the creation of new musical forms based on sound itself. Inspired by the example of Iannis Xenakis, students are urged to find their own paths as composers by studying not just music, but also morphology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, architecture, psychology, and other fields of interest to them.
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Bari, 26 Feb 2006 — ERE/ImproBabele Trio
Romolo Epifania – percussions and toys
Marta Gadaleta – vocals
Mimmo Galizia – live electronics
live set improvisation on eastern traditional chants loops, percussions and vocals manipulated by using Kyma.
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San Francisco, 28 Jan 2006 — On January 28th at
RECOMBINANT MEDIA LABS in San Francisco,
Richard Devine joined forces with Trevor Wishart for a live performance in 16-channel surround sound. Devine, known for his layered and heavily processed sound, has a new release on Naut Humon's
Asphodel/Schematic label entitled
Asect / Desect. In true recombinant manner, Devine uses everything he can lay his hands on for sound design and music: "I use Cycling 74's Max/MSP and Pluggo, Logic Audio quite a bit, Reaktor, Supercollider, GRM Tools, CDP, Soundhack, Soundmaker, Bias Peak, Metasynth… Kyma... I always use everything, and keep my sound generation possibilities open."
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Kyoto, 16 Dec 2005 — On December 16th,
Yasuski performed with Kyma, Continuum, Mbiraski and traditional Japanese dancer Uho at the Sho Ren In temple on the north side of Temple Chi On In in Kyoto. Yasuski has built a portable version of his
Mbiraski instrument that fits inside a U.S. Army first aid kit box, and even includes an extra input for an electric guitar or a second Mbiraski. A short video showing a one-handed performance on the instrument (he must have been using his other hand to hold the camera) is available
here. It sounds very "acoustic" in the video and other recordings. You can hear Yasuski's latest Mbriaski + Continuum + Kyma recording
here. Yasuski designed the sound by shaping noise with 2 sets of two formant filters to achieve a "glass harp" sound color.
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Antwerp, 3-4 Dec 2005 —
Agostino Di Scipio's
Surface Impact Studies, commissioned by
Champs d'Action, will be premiered December 3-4 at the
Time Canvas Festival 2005: Music-Drawing, Drawing Music, in Antwerp, Belgium. This performance will consist of a live action painting by Rome-based Chilean artist Matias Guerra, with Agostino processing the sounds Matias creates by painting, scraping, and digging into the surface of wooden panels. In turn, Matias changes his actions in reaction to the sonic texture emerging from Agostino's processing.
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Corfu, 02 Dec 2005 — Composer
Bruno Liberda will be presenting a three-day seminar on "Composing with Kyma" at Ionian University in Corfu on December 2, 2005 for the composition students of Andreas Mniestris.
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Salerno, 23 Nov 2005 — A 'lite' version of
Carlos Alberto Augusto's
Cine Lisboa will be performed on the opening concert of
Sound and Music Computing 05 in Salerno, Italy on November 23, 2005.
Agostino Di Scipio's
3 PEZZI MUTI (DALLA SUPERFICE AL FONDO) for piano and live Kyma signal processing is to be performed at the same concert and, later in the conference,
Alvise Vidolin is presenting a talk on
Live Electro-Acoustic Music Scoring and Sustainability. more...
Kyoto, 20 Nov 2005 —
Yasuski has invented a new musical instrument: the
Mbiraski intelligent thumb piano. He used a CAD system to fabricate the bridge and used titanium bicycle spokes for the blades. The spokes are affixed to the bridge by screws in order to allow the performer to easily retune the instrument. Piezoelectric sensors under the bridge detect the sound without extraneous noise.
Here's the sound of the Mbiraski alone:
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~yaski99/realaudio/mbiraski02.mp3
And here it is being performed through the AudioHologram:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~MZ2Y-YSD/realaudio/mbiraski.mp3
Yasuski will be performing live on the Mbiraski, Kyma, and the Continuum fingerboard on November 20th at the Temple Myorenji Kyoto, starting at 14:30, in collaboration with Japanese traditional dancer Yuhoh. (For details, telephone:++075-451-3527)
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San Francisco, CA, 18 Nov 2005 — In addition to Growling Mad Scientists & Shiva Space Technology playing psychedelic trance, new user Rob Rayle (Caldera) will attempt to somehow work the Kyma/Capybara he's had for about a month into a live chill set (1:30 - 3:30 AM in the chill room)
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Milan, 18 Nov 2005 — In Milano, the Amici di Musica/Realtà and composer
Agostino DiScipio will be premiering the first in a new series called
3 silent pieces on 18 November 2005. In this project, pianist Ciro Longobardi will be depressing the piano keys
without allowing the hammer mechanism to hit the strings. The thin noise of fingers hitting on keys will be the main material; however, when he fails by depressing the keys too strongly and hitting the strings, Kyma will amplify and transform the pitched sound material into a denser texture, eventually masking the very thin key noises. The pianist then has to cope with the consequences of his mistakes, resorting to "security measures" in an attempt to shut the Kyma processing down — only then can he continue shifting along the keyboard "silently".
On November 23, the piece,
3 PEZZI MUTI (DALLA SUPERFICE AL FONDO), for piano and live electronics (adaptive processing, operated with Kyma, Ciro Longobardi, piano), will be performed again at the University of Salerno in the Teatro Campus Fisciano.
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San Jose, 17 Nov 2005 —
Electric Pacific 2005, a concert of music by
Brian Belet,
Eric Chasalow,
Salvatore Martirano and others was performed on Thursday, November 17, 2005, at the
San Jose State University Concert Hall. Concert admission is $12 ($8 students and seniors), with tickets available at the door.
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Montpelier and Colchester, 11 & 12 Nov 2005 —
John Mantegna's
Chorale Variations for clarinet and live Kyma cross-filtering will be performed on November 11 in Montpelier, Vermont at the Unitarian Church, and on November 12 in Colchester, Vermont at the McCarthy Arts Center Recital Hall. Produced by the
Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Each concert in the
Electric! series begins with a pre-concert discussion starting at 7:15 pm, followed by the concert at 8 pm.
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Bari, 11,12,13 Nov 2005 — Throughout the month of November,
Agostino DiScipio will be presenting master classes and concerts in Bari for the students of
Francesco Scagliola:
November 11-12, Master Class at the Music Conservatory of Bari
November 13, Palazzo S. Giacomo,
AUDIBLE ECOSYSTEMICS:
Impulse Response Study (2002),
Feedback Study (2003),
Background Noise Study (2005), live-electronics solo (Kyma)
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New York, 10 Nov 2005 —
Phil Curtis will be using Kyma in an upcoming show in New York City with saxophonist/composer Earl Howard and soNu at Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday November 10 at 8 pm. The program of compositions and improvisations will include a new ensemble piece by Howard featuring soNu soprano Nina Eidsheim and guest baritone Thomas Buckner, and several new works by soNu members. Merkin Concert Hall is at the Abraham Goodman House, 129 West 67th Street. Tickets are $10. Contact the box office at +1-212-501-3330.
On November 18, Phil Curtis will be back in LA to perform as part of an ensemble with Wadada Leo Smith at the REDCAT theater.
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Lunel, 29 Oct 2005 —
John Paul Jones will be pushing the envelope at the
Mandolines de Lunel Festival in Lunel, France on October 29, 2005 when he takes to the stage for a half hour solo set featuring JPJ playing his custom triple-neck mandolin routed through live 8-channel spectral processing, cross filtering, and multitrack looping in
Kyma.
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Kansas City and Beijing, 21 Oct 2005 — Composer
Brian Belet's (Disturbed) Radiance for piano and Kyma, will be performed at the
2005 Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, Missouri on October 21.
His composition [MUTE]ation, variations on a trombone mute realized within Kyma, will be performed in late October at the "Musicacoustic 2005: Mix" Festival in Beijing, China. more...
Los Angeles, 16 Oct 2005 —
Phil Curtis will be utilizing Kyma in several upcoming performances with Earl Howard and
soNu. Described by Anthony Braxton as "the music of the Third Millennium", soNu is committed to critically (re)examining and (re)conceptualizing improvisational forms and means with an eye toward the socio-cultural context of contemporary communities.
SoNu performed in Los Angeles with Earl Howard at Cafe Tropical on October 10, and they will be performing with him again at Half Hour From Home: CalArts Alumni at Barnsdall on Sunday October 16, 5:20 pm at the Barnsdall Art Park Theater, 4808 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. Admission is free! more...
Eugene, 14 Oct 2005 —
Jeff Stolet is the organizer of Electro-Acoustic Music: Arena for Action and Performance slated to take place at
Future Music Oregon in Spring, 2006. Stolet has issued a call for musical works, papers, and panel discussions (see
website), and will make a fully-loaded Kyma system with multi-channel playback system available for the festival. The deadline for receipt of submissions is Friday, October 14, 2005. Questions can be directed to Jeffrey Stolet via email at
seamus06@uoregon.edu.
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San José, 24 Sep 2005 — On Sept 24th at 8 pm,
Dorsey Dunn will be performing with the Doublevision group at Works/San José in a new collaborative game piece entitled
Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl. Incorporating dance, music and video, the piece derives its performance directions from an adaptation of John Conway's evolutionary model, the Game of Life. Dunn's instrument will be a video-controlled electronic sound device — essentially a drawing tool for sound.
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Lisbon, 18-19 Sep 2005 — On 18 September at
Musica Viva in Lisboa,
Agostino Di Scipio's 2 Pezzi Muti su Hans Richter (1998) will be performed at the Auditório do Centro de Apoio Social de Oeiras starting at 10:00 pm. And on 19 September, also at 10:00 pm, his
5 Interazioni Cicliche Alle Differenze Sensibili (1997-98) for string quartet and room-dependent signal processing will be performed by the Quartetto Bernini with Di Scipio controlling the live Kyma signal processing.
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San Francisco, 12,14,18 Sep 2005 —
Dorsey Dunn provided the sound design for Adam Kenyon Venker's solo show
Mayakovsky: The Yellow Tunic, part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The 40-minute play, based on the final days of Mayakovsky's life and directed by Vitali Kononov, ran on Sept 12, 14 and 18 at the Exit Theatre.
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Berlin, 10 Sep 2005 —
Kees Tazelaar will be using Kyma in conjunction with his lectures at the Technical University of Berlin where he as been invited to teach this semester as the
Edgard Varèse Guest Professor.
In his 2004 eight-channel Lascia Vibrare, rhythmic impulse patterns gradually move in and out of phase with each other, setting up spatial patterns in the room due to slight random deviations. Over the course of 34 minutes, these simple impulses evolve into sinusoidal grains, and the tonal grains then evolve into complex cluster grains. Gradually, they take on more resonance, turn to glass, become more and more sustained, then turn brighter, cracklier and noisier, and conclude by approaching the sound of Tibetan bowls and bells. The title suggests the idea "Let it vibrate!" and the piece gives the impression of a large synthetic "I am sitting in a room" feedback system with Kees at the controls, attenuating or adding jitter when the feedback starts becoming too regular, feeding in new impulses when the original impulses have evolved into noise in the background. more...
Barcelona, 5-9 Sep 2005 — Barcelona will be overrun by computer musicians when it hosts the
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) from 5-9 September 2005. Among the Kyma cognoscenti who will be there to present papers, projects, and music are
Fred Szymanski,
Thomas Ciufo,
David Mooney,
Steve Beck,
Rod Berry, and
Alvise Vidolin.
Joel Chadabe and
EMF are hosting a session on live interactive musical instruments, and the conference is highlighting
The Free Sound Project, a database of Creative Commons licensed samples searchable by the
Automatic Classification of Sound Effects engine, a collaboration between
The Tape Gallery and the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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Chongqing, 01 Sep 2005 — For the whole of the month of September sound artist (and Kyma user)
Robert Jarvis will be based in Chongqing, China, to create an installation for the opening of the city's new Museum at Chaotianmen Square.
Working in collaboration with a wide range of the Chongqingese, Jarvis will create a sonic response to the developing city and its relation to its inhabitants. Through a series of projects, people will contribute descriptions of their favourite sounds and these will form the basis of the material that Jarvis will work with to shape into the final art-piece. Projects arranged include a competition for people to submit descriptions of their favourite sounds (advertised on radio, in newspapers and an extensive poster campaign throughout the city) and an education project for school and university students.
The resulting work, to be launched on 30th September, will consist of the recorded sounds manipulated into a surround-sound composition and complemented with a visual element based on the sound descriptions. It will be on display until 31st December 2005.
It's the artist's intention to keep a dialy blog of the creation of the sound installation (internet access willing...) and this will be posted at:
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New York, 1 & 8 Sep 2005 — After a sleepy August,
Lucibel Crater returns to
nublu this Thursday, September 1st, and next Thursday, September 8th. Both shows, starting at 9 pm, will feature live looping with Kyma. No cover before 10 pm.
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Seattle, 31 Aug 2005 — Marco D'Ambrosio did the sound design for the
Experience Science Fiction Museum in Seattle where the motto is: "Most museums can show you history—only one takes you to the future." D'Ambrosio used Kyma for
Globe,
Transition Hall, and
The Cities of Tomorrow. Check out the short-film festival and contemplate the future worlds defined by the choices we make today.
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Siena, 8-29 Aug 2005 — Film composer Luis Bacalov (
Il Postino) was assisted by
Francesco Scagliola in this year's sound design and film composition master class at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Fifteen students worked under the direction of Bacalov and Scagliola on audio/video projects, using Kyma for sound design.
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Oakland, 02 Aug 2005 — On August 2,
The Bay Area International Arts Festival will feature a benefit concert at
LoBot Gallery. Along with Beth Custer, Mobius Operandi, Nguyen Dance Company, and Sound Shack, Sean Clute and
Dorsey Dunn will be doing an electronic set. Tickets are $5 - $25 sliding scale, and all proceeds go to offset Bayennale expenses.
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Cologne, 01 Aug 2005 — Rob Acid will be one of the featured artists at the first 303 / Acid Exhibition this August 2005 in Cologne, Germany.
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San Francisco, 29 Jul-Aug 18, 2005 — On July 29, 31; Aug 3, 18, Karl Gillick's
The Thorn in the World's Side - Floating Forest will be performed at
Theater Artaud in San Francisco. Sean Clute and
Dorsey Dunn will be live-processing and resampling a four-piece acoustic band and otherwise filling the space with sound. Not recommended for those who get queasy watching others jump off heights. The show on the 29th is a free preview; after that, it's $15 - $25 sliding scale. Please check the website calendar. Most "Thorn" performances are 1 hour beginning at 9:30 pm and are preceded by other works.
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Stanford, 21 Jul 2005 —
Fred Malouf is using Kyma to process and supplement the sound of his guitar in a live performance at CCRMA's annual
Digital Music Under the Stars on Thursday, July 21 2005 from 5 pm to midnight at the
Frost Amphitheater. Bring a picnic basket and blankets, enjoy an early-evening set of original and cover bands, watch the sunset, and then explore the boundaries of live electroacoustic performances under a full moon. The Frost Amphitheater is located at the corner of Galvez Street and Campus Drive in Stanford, CA 94305. Admission (and the full moon) are FREE.
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New York, 14 Jul 2005 —
Lucibel Crater is performing in full color and sound this Thursday, July 14th at 9 pm at
nublu, 62 Avenue C, between 4th & 5th St. No cover. Just walk into the blue light...
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Lisbon, 11 Jul 2005 —
Carlos Alberto Augusto's new piece,
Cine-Lisboa (for Portuguese guitar and recordings of the Lisbon soundscape), will be included in a new DVD titled Lisboa.Reloaded to be released on July 12, 2005 as part of the
12th International Congress on Sound and Vibration in Lisbon. The Congress is open to the public and will include an entire session on acoustic ecology with keynote speaker R. Murray Schafer. For more background on Augusto's work, visit
his website.
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London, 03 Jul 2005 —
The Royal Horticultural Society has awarded the
Most Creative Garden prize to
The Imaginary Pavilion of Love, a sonic garden by
Lorenzo Brusci and
colleagues. The environmental design team was also featured on BBC 2 television on Sunday July 3 at 18:00.
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London, 02 Jul 2005 —
Ambrose Field's new track for live electronics,
NR, was broadcast on the BBC's
Hear and Now radio program on the 2nd of July, 2005. In
NR, Field uses Kyma to produce haunting, slowly evolving synthetic sound textures evocative of the real world around us. He designed Kyma Sounds to re-circulate simple materials through a series of spectral processes resulting in a shifting soundscape of urban emptiness.
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Berlin, 01 Jul 2005 — In a concert on Friday, 1 July, 20:30 at
TESLA in Berlin,
Agostino Di Scipio will perform live Kyma works that evolve out of background noises in the performance place as well as small sounds produced in the mouth and throat. Also on the program is
Tiresia, a chamber work developed with the poet Giuliano Mesa. The concert will include a live transmission by Nicolas Collins from a sound installation in the Parochialkirche. For further information send email to
beirer.berlin@daad.de.
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New York, 30 Jun 2005 — Immerse yourself in Sarth's perception-distorting Kyma grooves as
Lucibel Crater performs at
nublu this Thursday, June 30th at 9 pm in New York. Admission is free!
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Berlin, 17 Jun - 3 July 2005 — An untitled interactive installation by
Agostino Di Scipio is on display from 17 June through 3 July 2005 at the
