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Posted on 18th 2007 in NEWS , Resources |

Series of lectures at the University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, room 21.0.49

12-14 PM

Language: Danish and English

PROGRAM

september 9. Brandon LaBelle: Introduction

september 13. Jacob Kreutzfeldt: Bylyd og soundscape
september 20. Torben Sangild: Lyd, rum og atmosfære

september 27. Ulrik Schmidt: Auditiv ambiens
october 4. Morten Michelsen: Musik som noteret og som hørt, lydscene-begrebet
october 11. Brandon LaBelle: Sound Art and related issues

october 25 (NB: dobbeltforelæsning: 12-15). Sanne Krogh Groth: EMS: To musikkulturer - én institution og Bente Larsen: Ord, lyd, pause, rytme: Finn Quist, Pierre Schaeffer og det blinde teater.
november 1 ...

GÖTEBORG ART SOUNDS FESTIVAL 2-7th of October

Posted on 27th 2007 in NEWS |

The opening night of the fifth edition of Göteborg Art Sounds will take place on Tuesday the 2nd October.

The extensive program features among others Laurie Anderson, Chris Watson, Jacob Kirkegaard.

See http://www.gas-festival.com/

Göteborg Art Sounds (= GAS festival) started 1999 and has been organised every two years since then. The ambitions of the festival are to bring out the seething and very creative climate in our vicinity, together with exciting international perspectives and guest appearances. We want to reflect a large scope of musical expressions; from new music, improvisation music and electro-acoustic creations, to sound ...

LABYRINTHITIS

Posted on 23rd 2007 in NEWS |

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The Medical Museion in Copenhagen has commissioned Jacob Kirkegaard to create a work focusing on issues discussed at the conference "Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body" held in September 2007.


LABYRINTHITIS

For his new sound piece, Jacob Kirkegaard has turned his ears inwards: Labyrinthitis consists enirely of sounds generated in Kirkegaard’s own ears.

Deep inside the labyrinth of the inner ear in a spiral tube called ‘cochlea’ there are thousands of microscopic hair cells functioning as sensory receptors. When sound enters the ear, they begin to vibrate in the watery liquid surrounding them like underwater piano strings. Thus, the ...

Ljudskulptur - workshop

Posted on 25th 2007 in NEWS |

(Sweden) Vi söker nu deltagare till denna workshop. Är du intresserad och tycker att du stämmer in på beskrivningen nedan, anmäl ditt intresse till oss!

LJUDSKULPTUR

En fusion av ljud, skulptur, elektronik och klang/resonans

En workshop vars resultat visas i en utställning

Ett samarbete mellan Neon, IDKA, Fylkingen och Full Pull

Workshopledare

Jan Cardell (S)

Tom Bugs (UK)

Deltagare

8 platser finns för personer som på olika sätt arbetat med ljud, ljudkonst, skulptur och visuell rumslig gestaltning. Deltagarna kommer från flera olika områden av ljudkonst och visuell gestaltning. Mötet mellan ...

Lydlandskap og komposisjon

Posted on 24th 2007 in NEWS |

NOTAM sommerskole 2007 (Oslo)

Lydlandskap og komposisjon er tama og det foregår fra 13. - 17. august. Kurset er lagt opp rundt undervisning i både tekniske aspekter og estetiske foredrag.

 

NOTAMs sommerskole 2007 inneholder en større komponent estetisk orientering enn tidligere år. Konsepter NOTAM kommer til å gå igjennom er Soundscapekomposisjon, feltopptak, akustisk økologi, sonografi og idébasert lydkunst. Tekniske aspekter man får opplæring i er opptaksteknikk, ProTools, signalgang i studioer, masteringteknikker og lydbehandling under både Linux og Mac OSX.

Hvem passer kurset for?
Kurset passer for alle som ønsker å jobbe med musikk, lydkunst og lydproduksjon ...

SOUND DAYS in Copenhagen

Posted on 17th 2007 in NEWS |

SOUND DAYS – LISTEN TO THE FUTURE – LISTEN TO THE FUTURE

An inspirational gathering focusing on future sound

Researchers, artists, businesses and students…
Sound enthusiasts are invited to a unique and inspirational gathering of  some of the region’s leading players in the area of sound-related technology, design, art and cultural research. This meeting will take place on 7th and 8th of June and will focus on the role of sound in future cultural and commercial trends.


Background
Denmark and Sweden have an almost 100-year-old tradition of working within the fields of sound technology, sound research and sound design. Denmark is ...

SPOR 2007 - composing what?

Posted on 6th 2007 in NEWS |

COMPOSING WHAT?

SPOR 2007 - Festival for ny lyd- og tonekunst
I Ridehuset, Århus, Denmark, fra d. 10.- 13. Maj

Piksel

Posted on 2nd 2007 in NEWS , Resources |

Piksel07 - November 15-18, 2007 

Piksel[1] is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source audiovisual software. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) [2] and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software.
Call for participation - deadline july 15. 2007

Pixelache Festival 2008

Posted on 30th 2008 in NEWS |

Pixelache 2008

12-16 March, Helsinki

www.pixelache.ac/university  

   

* Pixelache Lounge: showcase of artworks and student projects

* Concerts and performances in Kiasma Theatre

* Pixelache club events

* Seminar on education (in the cross-roads of media, technology, art and culture)

Nutida Musik on Sound Art

Posted on 1st 2007 in NEWS , Resources |

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Swedish magasin Nutida Musik has a theme issue on Sound Art

Nutida Musik #4:1/2006:07

LJUDKONST: RUMSLIGA ASPEKTER

ROBIN MINARD/KIRSTEN REESE/LJUDKONST - DEN SVENSKA MODELLEN/MAX NEUHAUS/LJUDINSTALLATIONER/SOUNDSCAPE/TRANSLOCATIONS/NOISE DESIGN/KENT TANKRED/BERNHARD LEITNER

CIRCUIT BENDING - koncert og workshop

Posted on 30th 2007 in NEWS |

København) BEND-ORAMA koncert: Elektronisk legetøj og bastardinstrumenter

lege1_web1.jpgDer bliver spillet på plastikkeyboards, farvestrålende rytmebokse og et utal af andet batteridrevet børnelegetøj, når AUX og LAB inviterer til BEND-ORAMA koncert i PLEX Musikteater søndag den 6. maj kl. 20. Men legetøjet er ikke til at genkende – i hvert fald ikke på lyden.

I dagene op til koncerten har 20 lydentusiaster og teknikfreaks circuit bended legetøjet, dvs. trukket nye kredsløb og modificeret legetøjet til underfundige, støjende, skrattende og hvinende instrumenter.

Både koncert og workshop dirigeres af kunstnerne Sarah Washington ...

Sound, Art, Auditory Cultures

Posted on 17th 2007 in NEWS , Resources |

Conference in Copenhagen

Organised by Søren Møller Sørensen, Torben Sangild, Erik Granly and Brandon LaBelle.

Venue: University og Copenhagen / Amager

Time: November 28-30

Registration: Kirsten Zeuthen by September 1. Please include a short abstract of the paper to be presented.

The conference working language is English. There is no fee for participating. Please note that we cannot offer financial or practical support for travel and accommodation. We will, however, be happy to provide letters of support for those applying for travel funds from their own institutions.

For further information, please contact Søren Møller Sørensen ...

Sound and Silence

Posted on 30th 2007 in NEWS |

seminar on sound in art

Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, MA programme, September 2007.

 

21 September

Jørgen Larsson, sound artist, composer & curator presents “Sleppet” a sound art project realized for Grieg Year 2007 with Chris Watson, Jana Winderen, Bjarne Kvinnsland, Steve Roden, Marc Behrenss and Natasha Barrett

 

Erlend Hammer, critic & curator on the work of LaMonte Young

 

27 September

Maia Urstad & Jana Winderen, sound artists, on “Freq Out” an internatioonal collaborative audio art project

Robert Worby, sound artist, composer and BBC broadcaster on the ideas and the heritage of John Cage

Steve Dixon, artist and lecturer in art theory at ...

DMT on Sound Art

Posted on 12th 2007 in NEWS , Resources |

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Danish magasin Dansk Musik Tidsskrift has a theme issue on Sound Art

DMT. Nr. 5, april 2007 - årgang 81

TEMA: LYDKUNST

Lyden af smedejernssøjler på Broadway/ Site-specifik kunst i det postmoderne rum/ Kan man høre lyden?/ Diagonalsymfoni, skulpturer med lyd, film uden klang/ At lytte ind i verden/ Tonespace – et musikalsk eksperimentarium

TRONDHEIM MATCHMAKING 2007

Posted on 4th 2007 in NEWS , Resources |

Trondheim Matchmaking is an annual international festival in Trondheim, Norway, for electronic arts and new technology arranged by Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, TEKS.

The festival is a meeting point for presenting innovative ideas and artistic projects, a place to share knowledge, make contacts and learn new skills and develop resources within new technology and electronic arts.

New art projects with a need for technology - new technologies with a need for substance: a place to bind together resources and competence within the field.

TRONDHEIM MATCHMAKING 2007 IS SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 17TH - NOVEMBER 11TH!

For more info: go to http://matchmaking.teks ...

FULL PULL

Posted on 17th 2007 in NEWS , Resources |

Full Pull 07 - experiments around the sound

(Malmö) The third edition of FULL PULL festival present a broad range of music, art and performance where creativity and simplicity is the main focus.
Over a period of four weeks, starting August 25 and ending September 23, FULL PULL and collaborating partners present music, art and performance in three cities around Öresund.

Cross the borders of countries, disciplines and art forms FULL PULL 07 explores electronic/experimental contemporary music and art.

Sound Art Competition

Posted on 5th 2007 in NEWS |

NOTAM ARRANGES SOUND ART COMPETITION

Deadline for submissions january 9th, 2008

For more info go here  

DMDM competition

Posted on 14th 2008 in NEWS |

Danish competition for young artist (<27 years) working with digital media

money prize

deadline April 28, 2008 

for more see www.dmdm.dk

Binaural sound at Hotel Pro Forma

Posted on 29th 2008 in NEWS |

reliefThe experimental Danish theatre company Hotel Pro Forma is working on a new play called RELIEF. It is a cinematic performance in 2½D. RELIEF is about the conditions for the senses and about Ukraine as a geopolitical relief. It is a play that will unfold in a 2-dimensional landscape on a cinema-screen and in a 3-dimensional sound landscape. The music and the sound are developed by Ukraine musicians in UKR.tele.kom. The play uses the technique of binaural sound to create an intense spatial sonic experience. In order to experience the effect of the binaural technique it must ...

Call for Soundart

Posted on 11th 2008 in NEWS |

Call for soundart for SoundLAB VI
Deadline: 30 November 2008
 
Call for entries:
SoundLAB VI - soundPOOL
- sound compositions - a challenge for imagination -

SoundLAB is looking for its 6th edition to be launched in March 2009,
sound compositions which represent a real challenge for human imagination

All details, the complete call, the regulations and entry form can be found here.

Tuned City - Call

Posted on 29th 2008 in NEWS |

Call for Performance Proposals: Tuned City - Between sound and space
speculation


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.

ADDRESS: proposals@tunedcity.de


ABOUT TUNED CITY:

Tuned City - Between sound and space speculation is an ...

SoundLAB - Call for proposals

Posted on 1st 2008 in NEWS |

Call for proposals
Deadline: 30 November 2008
------------------------------------------------
SoundLAB - sonic art project environments
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org

released a new call for its 6th edition to be launched in March 2009
-
SoundLAB VI - soundPOOL
- sound compositions - a challenge for imagination -

SoundLAB is looking for its 6th edition sound compositions
which represent a real challenge for human imagination

All details, the complete call, the regulations and entry form can be found here
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=242

MusikkTeknologiDagene 2008

Posted on 6th 2008 in NEWS |

Music technology days takes place in Bergen september 10-11, 2008

Among other activities a seminar w. presentations of art and sound projects Arranged by BEK, BRAK og Griegakademiet

More info here

TUNED CITY in Berlin

Posted on 24th 2008 in NEWS |

Tuned City - Between sound and space speculation is an exhibition and conference project planned for July 01.-05. 2008 in Berlin which proposes a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the acoustic.

More info here

 

Hopsjø Workshop

Posted on 5th 2008 in NEWS , Study Programme |

Starting monday October 5 the Nordic Sound Art Programme has a two week workshop on field recording at Hopsjø outside Trondheim. Teachers include Per Platou and Carsten Seiffarth. 

Results will be presented at the Trondheim Matchmaking Friday October 17, 21.00 PM

FULL PULL

Posted on 31st 2008 in NEWS |

The Full Pull festival starts in Malmö august 29.

Full Pull 08 is a festival for electronic/experimental music and art in Malmö and the Öresund region. Full Pull 08 presents a wide range of music, performance, workshops, sound and video art at different venues and galleries in the region.

See the program here

 

Nordic Sound Art at Mezzaninen

Posted on 27th 2008 in NEWS |

In collaboration with Wundergrund 2008 festival the Nordic Sound Art, Joint Study Programme will do a presentation of sound art at the Mezzanin at Charlottenborg. From October 31-November 8 you can experience sound art, performances and hear presentations about the Nordic Sound Art, Joint Study Programme. On display is a program of works done by the students of the Sound Art program.

INAUDIBLE CONCERT, Helsinki

Posted on 8th 2009 in NEWS |

Nordic Sound Art, the next phase

Posted on 26th 2009 in NEWS |

Here is an announcement of the future of the Nordic Sound Art programme.

On the basis of the pilot phase of the programme decision has been made to continue the development of the study programme.
The next group of students will be starting the Nordic Sound Art Programme in the fall of 2010.
Interested students should apply in the spring of 2010.
More information will follow

Concert with Torben Ulrich & Søren Kjærgaard

Posted on 6th 2009 in NEWS |

Suddenly, Sound: 21 songlines for piano, drainpipe, etc.

The concert takes place on Sunday March 15th 2009 at 3pm in the Convent House.
Meeting place and time: Museum of Contemporary Art, Stændertorvet 3D 4000 Roskilde - at the latest 2.45pm
Organizer: Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Klub Samtidskunst.

In March 2009 the poet, tennis player, film director, artist and thinker Torben Ulrich (80 years old) will embark on one of his very rare tours of Danmark together with the 50 years younger pianist and composer Søren Kjærgaard. The occasion is the launching of the CD ...

Nordic Sound Art at Atelier Nord

Posted on 16th 2009 in NEWS |

Public presentation of installation works and performances in the Atelier Nord project room at Kunstnernes hus, Thursday March 19th at 19:00.

The students of the Nordic Sound Art programme has been working at Atelier Nord in Kunstnernes hus in Oslo. 

SOUNDINGS

Posted on 6th 2009 in NEWS |

'Soundings – Nordic Sound Art' at The Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde

Works by a new generation of Nordic sound artists who in the spring of 2009 graduate as the first group from the joint masters study programme Nordic Sound Art.

Opening: Friday April 24, 2009, 17-20
Exhibition period: April 25-June 7, 2009
Location: Museum for Contemporary Art, Stændertorvet 3A, 4000 Roskilde, phone: 46 31 65 70
Open: Tuesday-Friday 11-17, Saturday-Sunday 12-16, www.samtidskunst.dk

Seminar on Sound Art, Saturday April 25 with David Toop, Aeron Bergman, Andreas Engström, Åsa Stjerna.

press release

SEMINAR ON SOUND ART

Posted on 9th 2009 in NEWS |

A one day seminar on Sound Art in Copenhagen.
- Date: April 25, 2009, 13.00-16:00
- Location: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Det Italienske Auditorium, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 København K
- Admission free, no registration required

Speakers
- David Toop (UK), Musician, Write and Curator of Sound, http://www.davidtoop.com/
- Aeron Bergman (US), Professor at the Oslo National Adademy of the Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts, http://www.luckykitchen.com/
- Andreas Engström (SE), Editor-in-chief for Nutida Musik, http://www.nutidamusik.se/
- Åsa Stjerna (SE), Sound Artist, http://www.asastjerna.se/

 

 

Concluding the first version of Nordic Sound Art

Posted on 25th 2009 in NEWS |

The first version of Nordic Sound Art Joint Study programme is finished.

The students were evaluated by an external evaluator. The individual evaluation was based on the projects exhibited at The Museum for Contemporary art in Roskilde, for the exhibition Soundings, a written thesis and an interview.

The development of the next phase of the Nordic Sound Art Programme has started... 

 

Organised Sound

Posted on 29th 2009 in NEWS |

The recent issue of Organised Sound (vol14, issue 1) has the theme sound art. It is edited by Jøran Rudi

Nordic Sound Art - evaluation report

Posted on 15th 2009 in NEWS |

Following the conclusion of the first phase of The Nordic Sound Art programme, Research Fellow, PhD Karen Vedel has written a thorough evaluation report on the programme. 

You can download it here

SOUND-ACTs - CALL

Posted on 27th 2010 in NEWS |

SoundACTs: Conference & Workshop


Aarhus, Denmark, September 23‐25, 2010
http://www.ak.au.dk/en, http://www.auditiveculture.ku.dk/
http://www.urbansound.org , www.usit.nu

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS &

PRESENTATION OF SOUND ...

Christina Kubisch

Posted on 28th 2009 in NEWS |

German Sound art pioneer Christina Kubisch is spending the early fall in Copenhagen and Malmö

 

 For the event Starfield Simulation #34 at Scania Parken in Malmö, she is  presenting the work 

Manual project - Oslo

Posted on 9th 2009 in NEWS |

Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection

September 14 - 20, 2009
process, project, interaction
held at
Deichman library, Grunerløkka, Oslo
&
The Storefront, Thorvald Meyersgt 61, Oslo

with
å+k (Åsa Ståhl & Kristina Lindström) (Sweden)
Siri Austeen (Norway)
Brandon LaBelle (USA)
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (Slovenia/Holland)

The Manual project explores sound and auditory experience as platforms for social cooperation and environmental investigation. Bringing together a working group of artists, the project uses sound as a tool for considering public space, and functions as a site-specific field study of Oslo, involving locational ...

Christina Kubisch

Posted on 20th 2009 in NEWS |

Christina Kubisch - presentation, 30th September, 10:00
The German artist and sound art pioneer Christina Kubisch is in Copenhagen as Artist-in-Residence. Among others she has realised a Copenhagen edition of the work "Electrical Walks". With custom-made headphones it is possible to walk through the city and hear the electromagnetic activity that is present all over.
In conjunction with her stay she will give a lecture at University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. Here she will talk about her works.

Christina Kubisch is one of the European pioneers of sound art. She has made audio-works based on electromagnetic ...

Call: soundart for SoundLAB VII

Posted on 10th 2009 in NEWS |

Call for entries
extended deadline: 31 December  2009

2010 - 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||

cologne

SoundLAB - sonic art project environments
is happy to launch the call for its next edition to be part of this anniversary celebrations, entitled:

SoundLAB VII - soundCELEBRATION
sound compositions made for the 10th anniversary!

For its 7th edition, planned to be launched in March 2010,
SoundLAB would like to celebrate the power of
sound as a tool for artistic creations and communications
on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the global network
it is embedded in and invites soundartists, musicians and composers
to create for the 10th ...

TRANSMISSIONS

Posted on 17th 2010 in NEWS |

 

Location:

Overgaden - Institut for samtidskunst

Overgaden Neden Vandet 17
 

 

Transmissions is a two-day event dedicated to the performance and discussion of sound art. The title should be understood in the broadest sense possible as the act of passing something on in another place. In the context of sound, transmission is closely linked to radio but it may also refer to more abstract notions of... conveyance and communication.



Tuesday, September 21 at 20pm


Sound performances


Hanna Hartman (SE) 


Kabir Carter (US)


Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE)

 



Wednesday, September 22 from 12-17pm 


Seminar


12:00 Welcome and introduction


12:25 Leslie Korrick ...

SPOR 2010 - Call for Proposals

Posted on 9th 2009 in NEWS |

SPOR festival is inviting composers and sound artists to submit a proposal for a new work to be realized at SPOR 2010.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING: 3th December 2009

FEE FOR REALIZING
THE PROPOSAL: 1.000 €

The proposal may describe a wide range of projects, from works for ensemble and music theatre pieces to sound installations. This year the festival is focusing on the presentation of work that in some way reveals to us something about contemporary music and its cultural environment. The proposal should reflect the theme of the festival. This might be realized through creating a one-to-one relationship with ...

NSA Workshop, Copenhagen

Posted on 26th 2010 in NEWS |

Introduction to Acoustics
NSA Workshop at The Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen , Denmark.
December 6th -december 10th.



What is sound? The physics of sound, sound as medium, sound registration and recording. Descriptions of michophones, loudspeakers, transducers, Hydrophones, Coils etc. Furthermore the workshop will be dealing with room acoustics, and how to establish specific acoustic environments. Site specific audio fields, and much more. A small practical assignment will be given during the workshop. Our teacher is Eddy Bøgh Brixen. He works as an author and audio forensic. He has written numerous books (in Danish) about acoustics and audio technology ...

NSA Workshop, Bergen

Posted on 21st 2010 in NEWS |

KHIB, Bergen with the sound artist Brandon Labelle.
Nov. 1 - nov. 12.


Project Noise

Nordic Sound Art Program workshop: Noise functions as a primary theme within the practice of sound art and experimental sonic practices, giving way to methods of composition, sonic manipulation, and sound installation. The workshop will focus on noise as a subject, combining theoretical / historical presentation and discussion along with material production. Using noise as a main thread, a historical and theoretical overview of sound art will be mapped. From the Futurists “art of noise” through to Fluxus performance and the developments of sound installation and contemporary ...

NSA Workshop, Malmø

Posted on 4th 2010 in NEWS |


The Nordic Sound Art Programme 2010-2012 is starting up with ten new students from the nordic countries. The first module is a workshop with the american artist and electronics wizard, Derek Holzer. The workshop will take place from the 4th - 15th october at The Inter Arts Center, Malmø Sweden.

Neanderthal Electronics, Derek Holzer

The Neanderthal Electronics workshop involves 8-10 people with no previous background in
electronics. They are shown how to use simple objects from our modern environment (resistors, capacitors, transistors, LEDs, integrated circuit chips…) to design and build their own personal, customized primitive noise synthesizers. Each is a tiny ...

Nordic Sound Art Radio Show

Posted on 9th 2011 in NEWS |




March 6th, Elin Øyen Vister, Christian Mastrup a.k.a Flopper and Jonas Olesen visited SILAKKA Radio Show, 100,3MHZ FM, Helsinki, as live studio guests. The show featured live improvisation, and general talk about the programme. A pre-recorded piece by Joonas Siren, was also played.
Listen to the archived program at
http://silakkaradio.fi/

NSA Workshop, Helsinki

Posted on 16th 2011 in NEWS |

Improvisation Workshop


February 28th - March 11th.

Improvisation workshop with Shinji Kanki, at The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki - http://www.kuva.fi

A two week workshop centered around improvisation strategies.
The workshop is concluded with a joint concert, featuring The RANK Ensemble.
The Rank Ensemble is a Helsinki based young ensemble focusing on new and improvised music.

Shinji Kanki is a japenese born, Experimental music composer, Producer, Educator &  Representative of SILAKKA Productions. http://silakka.fi/

Free Improvisation Evening
on March 10, Thursday 19:00
at the entrance lobby of Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
Kaikukatu 4, Helsinki

Performers:

RANK ...

Field recording and site-specific sound

Posted on 9th 2011 in NEWS |

Nordic Sound Art workshop, Trondheim, Norway - 28.04. - 06.04.11


Photo: Jana Winderen.

The workshop will take place at NTNUs seminar location “Hopsjø” which is located on the island Hitra, Norway. Through a series of excursions, sound walks and on-site experiments, we will investigate different auditive environments. We will cover different methods of field recording and present a historical overview of works by artists working in this genre. The students will produce works and the workshop will culminate with a public presentation in Trondheim.

Pictures and documentation here

Instructors

Jana Winderen, sound artist, Oslo

http://www.janawinderen.com/

Carsten ...

Nordic Sound Art at SPOR

Posted on 30th 2011 in NEWS |



Artists from the Nordic Sound Art programme are featured with site-specific works at SPOR Festival, Denmark.
Works by Cecilia Jonsson, Elin Øyen Vister, Martinka Bobrikova, Joonas Siren
, Lauri Wuolio, Oscar de Carmen, Seth Davis, Christian Flopper Mastrup, and Signe Lidén are presented.

The audio pieces are produced specifically for Joel Cahen's Wet-sounds Project - an underwater sound system, installed at Lyseng Svømmebad, Århus Denmark. The peices will be presented May 8th from 15-17 pm.

Spor Festival

Wetsounds Project

See documentation here

Rainforest - Berlin

Posted on 13th 2011 in NEWS |



The students from Nordic Sound Art are realizing David Tudors 'Rainforest IV' at Gallery Singuhr, Berlin.
The installation is created in collaboration with the artist Matt Rogalsky, former asistant of David Tudor, and Carsten Seiffarth from Gallery Singuhr.

Opening: 26th May 2011 vernisage with performance at 7 p.m.
long night: 19th June 2011 until 12 p.m.
The Nordic Sound Art students are giving a live performance on the evening of the opening.
The installation is exhibited from May 26th to the 19th of June 2011.

http://www.singuhr.de
http://www.mrogalsky.net/

See workshop documentation here

Theory & Graphic Scores Workshop

Posted on 17th 2011 in NEWS |



The next Nordic Sound Art workshop takes place from oct. 31st - nov. 4th at the Inter Arts Center, Malmø Sweden. The workshop is centered around general theoretical lectures given by Rune Søchting and Gertrud Sandqvist. A walk-trough of key historical sound art works are given by Jonas Olesen.
Finally the swedish composer Stefan Klaverdal is giving a lecture about experimental graphic scores.

http://www.stefanklaverdal.com/

Inter Arts Center
Bergsgatan 29
214 22 Malmö
Sweden

Workshop documentation here

Soundings 2

Posted on 27th 2012 in NEWS |

 Soundings 2 - Nordic Sound Art Graduate Show



The second cycle of the Nordic Sound Art programme is concluded with an graduate exhibtion, at the Museum of Contemporeary Art in Roskilde, Denmark.

Exhibition opening: April 27th.
Exhibtion period: 28/4 - 3/6 2012

SOUNDINGS 2 – NORDIC SOUND ART GRADUATE SHOW will display works by the second generation of students from the MFA-programme ‘Nordic Sound Art’, established in 2007 as a collaboration between varying fine art institutions. This time the participating academies are: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Malmö Art Academy, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Trondheim ...

Nordic Sound Art programme 2012-2014

Posted on 16th 2012 in NEWS |



The Nordic Sound Art joint study programme (MFA level) will again be open for applications in mid april 2012.
The specifics and exact application deadline will be announced on the website www.nordicsoundart.com.

The Nordic Sound Art programme is a two-year, MA level, education in sound art.
The study programme is arranged as a series of 12 intensive courses or workshops. One course-module of the programme will typically have one or two weeks duration.
The individual course-module takes place at one of the participating art academies.
Students beginning their MA in art in 2012 can apply. The names of ...

Installation Practices

Posted on 5th 2011 in NEWS |

Installation Practices / with Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Nordic Sound Art workshop at the Academy of Fine Art, Bergen Norway nov.14  - nov. 18



The course aims to explore sound installation as a particular artistic practice.
Moving away from the sound studio and into a diversity of spaces and
environments raises key questions fundamental to sound art practices:
how does sound impart meaning toa specific space?
What technical challenges are encountered when
locating recordedor live sound into a given architecture?
How does sound installation  operate to address a listener?
Engaging such questions, the course will be structured  as alaboratory where students ...

Interaction with MAX/MSP

Posted on 14th 2011 in NEWS |



MAX/MSP workshop at KUVA - The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.
Oct. 3rd - Oct. 7th.

The workshop will explore the programming language MAX/MSP and it's possibilities in creating interactive installtions. Different sensors will be used and the WII Remote controller will be used to gather environmental information. This data i sent to computers to create response. In the workshop the students will get hands-on guidance in realizing interactive installations that incorporates sound.

The workshop teacher will be the finnish artist Juhani Räisänen - http://www.sormina.com/

The workshop will also feature two lectures:

'The history ...

Installation, site specificity, gardens and expanded architecture

Posted on 30th 2011 in NEWS |



Installation, site specificity, gardens and expanded architecture
- Workshop/seminar by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman

InterArts Center, Malmø Sweden. Dec. 5th - Dec 16th 2011

Funded by Nordplus programme and KUNO network.

Partner academies: Malmö Art Academy (Sweden), The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Norway).



Content:
-Series of lectures.
-Close readings in groups of assigned texts.
-Project: students will choose and occupy a space.
-Group critiques with Rebecca Mazzei, director of MOCA Detroit.
-Group critiques with Trine Friis Sørensen, curator currently pursuing a PhD at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at ...

LAK - Festival of Nordic Sound Art

Posted on 27th 2012 in NEWS |





A number of former NSA students (2010-2012) are featured with installation and performanceworks at the new danish festival for nordic sound art, and experimental music: LAK Festival.

 The festival takes place at Prags Boulevard 43, 2300 Copenhagen from Sep. 6th - Sep. 9th.
See the full lineup at http://www.lakfestival.dk

Neanderthal Electronics

Posted on 4th 2012 in NEWS |



Neanderthal Electronics


The first course in the new cycle of the Nordic Sound Art programme, takes place at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Denmark Oct. 22 - Nov. 2nd.

8 new students are in the programme, representing  four nordic fine art academies: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Bergen Academy of Fine Arts and Umeå Academy of Fine Arts.

The main theme of the course is ' Neanderthal Electronics' an instrument building workshop with american sound artist Derek Holzer. See :http://macumbista.net

Course documentation and pictures

Sound art history / Image as sound

Posted on 15th 2012 in NEWS |



Nordic Sound Art course Nov. 26th - Nov. 30th 2012
at KUVA - The Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki.

Lecturers:

Petri Kuljuntausta
'History of Sound Art up to the present'

The lecture provides an overview of the history of Sound Art, from the early pioneers to the present practice of sonic art. These areas include, cinema for the ear, sound poetry, soundscape, acoustic ecology, silence, concrete music, environmental sound, sound installation, sound sculpture, lo-fi, recycling, found sound, turntablism, alien instruments, circuit bending, sonification, to name only a few.

Caspar Stracke:

image-to-sound/sound-to-image

The course/workshop investigates a particular set of relationships ...

Sonic Materiality

Posted on 4th 2013 in NEWS |

"Sonic Materiality", Feb 4 - 15th, 2013
Academy of Fine Arts, Bergen Norway.



The course aims to deepen understanding and experience in working with recorded sound, audio processing, spatialization techniques, and sonic composition. This will include experimentation with different processing techniques, sound dynamics and manipulation, and approaches toward editing and final presentation. Conceptualization of "sonic signification" and listening experience will be further emphasized.
Course taught by Maia Urstad - http://www.maia.no/

Language and Sound

Posted on 2nd 2012 in NEWS |




"Language and Sound"
(Language and Listening - Language as Sound - A language for Sound)
Text-Sound-Art and the language as sound. This is a workshop that explore the
language and how we can use that as base for art and sound.

A workshop held by Imri Sandström (http://www.imrisandstrom.com)
at Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University, Sweden Dec 10 – Dec 14, 2012
http://www.art.umu.se/english/

Reverberation Lab

Posted on 30th 2013 in NEWS |



Reverberation Lab:
The site-specifity of sound - Helsinki incubator


Prof. Caspar Stracke
with Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, Eero Pulkkinen, Jonas Olesen


May 27th - May 31th. 2013, KUVA Helsinki, Finland

The second Helsinki module of the 2012/13 Nordic Sound Art cycle will include a lecture and workshop and investigate various aspects of the notion of reverberation, defined as both, an acoustical phenomenon and a conceptual strategy in sound art.
We will research on specific projects by Max Neuhaus, Phill Niblock and listen / discuss  various case studies by Andy Graydon, Richart Garet and Helsinki sound artist  Eero Pulkkinen.

The workshop part will take place ...

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