This month for my netlabel feature I would like to introduce you to Recycling Records. A polish netlabel established to promote the idea of plunderphonics. Recycling Records publish recordings of experimental, ambient, noisy and avantgarde music based on the concepts made famouse by Toronto artist John Oswald, where portions of already existing recordings are used to make new music from, over the years this concept has been referred to by other names such as audio collage, mash up, etc.

Ultimately this is just a another way of looking at sampling other peoples music to make your own, not some thing that is really a new concept but made easier every day due to the advances of technology Sampling has always had a “bad” shroud over it, as technically it is an illegal activity (at least that is how the big record companies would like to spin it). Recycling Records releases are published under Creative Commons licenses to avoid the legality issues and can be downloaded for free in mp3 format.

The netlabel began in June of 2007 and have released 4 albums to date and can be found at www.recyclingrecords.com

5th Sound and Music Computing Conference – SMC08

Berlin, Germany, July 31th – August 3rd 2008

TU BERLIN

Audio Communication Group

GERMAN ASSOCIATION OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC, DEGEM

Space in Sound – Sound in Space

Call for music

http://www.smc08.org

Sound and Music Computing (SMC) is supervised jointly by AFIM
(Association Française d’Informatique Musicale), AIMI (Associazione
Italiana di Informatica Musicale), DEGEM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Elektroakustische Musik), and HACI (Hellenic Association of Music
Informatics).

It aims at promoting exchanges between European countries around
topics related to sound and music computing.

The 5th SMC in 2008 will be organised by the German Association of
Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM) in collaboration with the Audio
Communication Group, Technische Universität Berlin. It will take
place at Technische Universität Berlin, July 31st – August 3rd, 2008.

The main topics of the SMC’08 are historical, aesthetical, technical
as well as genre and system specific aspects of sound and space. The
scientific program as well as the concerts will have a special focus
on different concepts and technologies of spatialisation, including
sound art, acousmatic music, stereophonic reproduction, and wavefield
synthesis.

The Technische Universität Berlin has installed the largest wave
field synthesis system worldwide with 832 channels and 2700
loudspeakers in a 700 seats lecture hall. During the 5th SMC „Space
in Sound – Sound in Space“, this system will be available for
concerts, as well as a 20 channel Klangdome and an Acousmonium
provided by GRM Paris in the same hall.

The simultaneous installation allows a combination of different sound
systems with their individual qualities as well as an analytical
listening of the same works performed on different systems.

The submitted works may be intended for individual systems as well as
for any possible combination. The scope of the works may range from
electroacoustic works for multichannel reproduction, works for
acousmonium, to wavefield synthesis or any combination of these systems.

Technical details about the systems will be described on the homepage
of the SMC’08: http://www.smc08.org

Works presented will have to suit any of the following categories or
respectively combinations of these:

(1) Acousmatic works
(2) Multichannel works (Klangdome)
(3) Works for wavefield synthesis.

Concerning works for intrumentalists and /or live-electronics please
contact the organizers prior to submission. Visual components such as
video/DVD are welcome.

The following formats will be accepted: CD-Audio, Wave/AIFF multimono
on CD-R / DVD±R, DVD-Video (PAL, NTSC, Audio: DTS, AC-3, PCM). Other
formats only after prior consultation.

We would hereby like to invite all interested composers / sound
artists to apply with suitable works for the SMC’08 „Space in Sound
– Sound in Space“. New as well as already performed pieces are welcome.

Works should not exceed a duration of 15 minutes.

The submitted pieces will be selected by a jury.

For music selection, all works should be submitted in a multichannel
version of max. 8 channels. For final presentation see details on the
website.

Participants of the SMC08 will not receive any fees. The event will
be registered with the German royalty collectors society GEMA.

During the SMC’08 the DEGEM WebRadio will be the media platform of
the conference. In addition to the SMC’08 you may also apply at the
same time with a production on „Space in Sound – Sound in Space“ for
the programm of the DEGEM WebRadio which is also curated by the
jury.Productions should not exceed a duration of 30 minutes. All
works will be broadcasted in stereo and converted to mp3 with 192
kBit/s. Please indicate in your application if you are applying for
the SMC concerts only, the programm of the DEGEM Webradio only, or
for both.

Selection process:
The selection of the works will be anonymous. Works can be submitted
both by post or upload. For further information on the application
process please visit
http://www.smc08.org

Deadline for Application:
June 1st 2008.

Review and acceptance notification:
June 15th 2008

If you want to submitt your work by post please sent it to:
SMC 08 – Music
TU Berlin
Audio Communication Group
Sekr. EN-8
Einsteinufer 17c
10587 Berlin

Tuned City is seeking proposals for short performances and artist
presentations addressing issues of sound and architecture. These
proposals should relate to one or more of the topics listed below, and
should include links to online documentation of the proposed
performance/presentation, or to similar work by the same artist/author.
The deadline for proposals is April 30 2008, but proposals will be
considered as they are received. Please submit proposals in English.

ABOUT TUNED CITY:

Tuned City – Between sound and space speculation is an exhibition and
conference project planned for 1-6 July 2008 in Berlin which proposes a
new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the
acoustic. The project draws the traditions of critical discussion about
urban space within the architecture and urban planning discourse–as well
as its strategies and working methods–into the context of sound art.
This expanded discussion reinforces the potential of the spatial and
communicative properties of sound as a tool and means of urban practice.

At the foundations of this event are artists’ works and theoretical
approaches which examine in a critical and sensitive way the given urban
and architectural situations alongside their resulting socio-political
implications, that re-use existing spaces or that conceive and open new
spaces.

A dialog will be built at the intersection of both disciplines which
traces out the complex relations and interactions of space-sound, both
presenting and testing new strategies, methods, possibilities and
potentials of sound work within the artistic and applied context.

TOPICS:

The Built Space:
- examples that illustrate phenomena, problems or possibilities in the
relation of sound and architecture
- usage of architecture as a space for sound and as an instrument

The Public Space:
- relation of sound and city
- situated sonic practices, site-specific sound awareness
- sound as a system of social communication, division and defense
- mobile sound

The Imaginary / Speculative Space:
- hearing-space – virtual acoustic spaces
- sound space in relation to human anatomy, memory and psyche
- mechanics and principles of translating sound into architecture and
vice versa

CONTACT:

garage
Kastanienallee 73
10435 Berlin
www.tunedcity.de

AGO Announces New Director of Exhibitions and Publications

Catherine de Zegher, former executive director of The Drawing Center in New York, has joined the Art Gallery of Ontario as director of exhibitions and publications, overseeing the Gallery’s ambitious development of these key programs.

“We are thrilled to welcome Catherine to the Gallery at such an exciting time in our history,” says Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO’s director and CEO. “We are constantly looking to create challenging and inventive programming with a broad national and international reach. With her knowledge of art, art institutions and audience interaction, Catherine is ideally suited to lead this process.”

Catherine de Zegher has been involved with the installation of the Gallery’s European collection and will continue to work with AGO curators to create a vibrant exhibitions program. “The Gallery is at a unique point in its history and I am very excited by the opportunity to be a part of this transforming institution,” says de Zegher. “I hope to ensure that the new AGO uses its incredible collection and establishes an inspired exhibition program to reflect a diversity of artists and ideas.”

Her passion for connecting historical and contemporary themes was a hallmark of de Zegher’s work at The Drawing Center, the only nonprofit institution in the United States to focus on the exhibition of drawings by established and emerging artists. During her seven-year tenure there, she launched a new publication program, strengthened the institution’s services to emerging artists, and invigorated the Center’s commitment to scholarship and education programs. Under her leadership, it became a magnet for dialogue and debate on art and culture.

De Zegher was the co-founder and director of the Kanaal Art Foundation in Kortrijk, Belgium. She curated many acclaimed exhibitions, such as America: Bride of the Sun. 500 Years of Latin America and the Low Countries (1992) at the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, and Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth-Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine (1994–1996) at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Her most recent curatorial and editorial work includes Eva Hesse Drawing (2006); 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin (2005); Richard Tuttle: It’s a Room for 3 People (2005); The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act. Selected from the Tate Collection (2003); and Anna Maria Maiolino: A Life Line/Vida Afora (2002).

Catherine de Zegher has received four best show awards from the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). She is the author and editor of numerous books; her most recent publication is Women Artists at the Millennium, co-edited with Carol Armstrong and published by MIT Press. Recipient of the Arts Writers Grant of Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, she is currently writing a book on contemporary drawing.

Open Studio this Tuesday, March 25th 2008
InterAccess, 9 Ossington.
7:30ish to 9:30ish.
And maybe a beer next door, maybe.

This time:
Daniel Arcé makes a PD patch to capture video from a security camera only when movement is detected.

No skills or chops needed.
Open to all.
$0.00