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Vague Terrain 15: .microsound

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:30:32 +0000

Ant Scott - Repetitive Beats (detail) - 2008

I gladly announce the publication of Vague Terrain 15: .microsound, including my piece Sand Horyzon – a composition excerpt of live improvisational computing in Pd using an augmented electric bass guitar.
The whole release brings you two compilations of fine experimental music, text and videos created by the community behind .microsound list (which has just celebrated its ten years) and selected by american composer Kim Cascone.
As Kim states in his article:

“The .microsound community, drawing from areas as discontinuous as Gilles Deleuze, Curtis Roads and the Aphex Twin, is a ‘body without organs’ in Deleuzian parlance; an amorphous object, a fluid changing shape as its poured into different containers…”
“…In order to bracket the various styles of sound art and music I used the Deleuzian concepts of ’smooth space’ and ’striated space.’ Striated space is where I put all the pieces that made use of gesture and beats while ’smooth space’ is where I put pieces that made use of texture and internal movement. But within those two categories what constitutes a .microsound-sounding piece becomes blurred…”

About .microsound: “.microsound is not a “genre” mailing list, since this proliferation has occurred largely without regard for stylistic boundary. instead, .microsound presents itself as a forum for the discussion and exploration of a more general “digital aesthetic” manifesting across a wide variety of styles and disciplines — from academic computer music to post-industrial noise to experimental ambient and post-techno.”

“Vague Terrain is a web based digital arts publication that showcases the creative practice of a variety of artists, musicians and scholars. The project aspires to apply the focus and methodologies of academic and art journals and the tenacity and specificity of independent record labels to examine contemporary digital culture in an immediate and accessible manner. Content consists of curated visual, audio and written works, and now a companion blog. For better and worse this project is neither peer reviewed nor funded.
All work on this site is published under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons License unless otherwise noted.”
From http://vagueterrain.net/about

Read the whole article about the publication and get your free copy of the work: http://vagueterrain.net/journal15
You’re also warmly invited to check the .microsound mailing list and its numerous not-only sound art projects here http://www.microsound.org/

Featuring text & video contributions by Ben Neill, Charles Turner, Dextro, Joanna Demers, Pere Villez, Thanos Chrysakis, Thomas Bey William Bailey and William L. Ashline.

Feature audio contributions from Mike Rooke, Lubrication, Ronnie Cramer, [ruidobello], Richard Lainhart, sound art, TomDjll, Brett Ian Balogh, Scant Intone, Yota Morimoto, Jorge Castro, Joaquin Gutierrez Hadid, Francesco Rosati, Asferico, Water Falls, Yann Novak, John Hanes, Epoch_Collapse, Jhenner Gayap Benadrilled, SkjÃ¸lbrot, Markus Jones, Jon Hawken, Adern X Fades 4:38, Julien Ottavi, Vanessa Rossetto, Kim Cascone, Larnie Fox, eddie135, Di.J Crisis, shg, Cheryl E. Leonard, Noe Cuellar, Gary R. Weisberg, Osvaldo Cibils, Kotra, Gintas K, John Kannenberg, Ricky Pannowitz, ocp, TheSAD, Margaret Schedel, Pereshaped, so/on, Eric Miller, Nux Vomica, v4w.enko, UmanoidSomeday, Epoch Collapse, Umanoid and Noe Cuellar.

Pure Data Convention ‘09 Live Recordings

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:53:55 +0000

I’m really glad to share with you the live recording of my most recent audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature at Pure Data Convention 2009, Sao Paulo, Brasil. The only sonic source is my bass guitar augmented by the self-designed software C::NTR::L v.1.3.

Many thanks to Henrique Iwao for his efforts during the convention and for being so patient to record and order (all?) the performances at Pd Con.

You can listen to the concert with the player below. If you want to download it for free check my download page.

TheSAD – I C::ntr::l Nature Live @ Pure Data Convention 23-07-09 by TheSAD

Besides you may be interested in visiting the unofficial archive of Pd Convention performances at this address http://sussurro.musica.ufrj.br/pdcon09/material.html.
All the material is kindly hosted by sussurro.musica.ufrj.br – Biblioteca Musical Digital do Laboratório de Música e Tecnologia da Escola de Música da UFRJ.

New free release: Ausklang live recordings

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:36:03 +0000

I’m glad to announce the official release of TheSAD’s fifth solo audio work: the live recordings of my concert at the Ausklang festival in Hamburg on the 28th December 2008.
The music/sounds you will listen to are the result of free improvisation exclusively based on the Electric Bass guitar, processed in real-time with C::NTR::L, the free software i developed in PureData which transform a standard musical instrument in an augmented tool for audio/video processing, thanks to physical computing.
No previous composition neither further editing, everything is improvised and recorded live.

TAGS: nowave, noise, improvisation

The release is produced by Format Noise, brilliant experimental net-label from Germany:

format noise is a sublabel of RAUMKLANG MUSIC and was founded in 2007. format noise is a netlabel and platform for acteurs of electronic music. We release every few weeks a 4 track E.P.! Every album is free downloadable. We see ourselves not only as a typical netlabel but as a platform for experimental arts.

Donwload for free the release and listen to the excerpt here:

http://www.format-noise.com/releases.php?viewRelease=32

More infos about the Ausklang Festival:
http://www.thesaddj.com/report-ausklang-festival/
http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/en/

‘Rules of Purification’ OUT NOW

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:59:15 +0000

Finally out my release for the massive net-label Smell the Stench (Melbourne, Australia).

This mini album might surprises most of you.
Harsh Noise, Live Noise, Dark Ambient. All tracks improvised and recorded live (Poland, Dec.2008).
Microphone capturing the soundscape of my home at night, live patching and processing sounds, voices, noises, everything around.

Deconstructing the soundscape of my own reality to get to the core, to the deep scary interior of the perception.
Powered by AudioMulch 1.0 (powerful “friendly” graphical programming enviroment for electronic music composition, specially in real-time… i suggest you to goggle it for more infos).
Click here to freely download the whole music package, plus front-back cover in High Resolution – ready to print: Download ‘Rules of Purification’

Because noise music is one of the few “weapons” we can still use freely against the poison of consumism, and the capitalistic killing of our listening.

New Book: FLOSS+Art

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:02:11 +0000

via: [Pd Announce] Mailing list

Few days ago i received this mail from the incredible efficient, collaborative and stimulating PureData mailing list.
What to say… again another stunning initiative of the FLOSS community. A book analyzing many important issues of FLOSS (Free Open Source Software) and Art.
Don’t know what about you, but i was dreaming about something like this…

thanks to all the contributors…

WHAT:

What does Free and Open Source software (FLOSS) provide to artists and designers – beyond just free alternatives to established tools from Photoshop to Final Cut?
“FLOSS+Art” is the first book to answer this question. It shows how the value of Free Software lies in its differences and creative challenges, as opposed to out-of-the-box and off-the-shelf solutions; how it allows to work and collaborate differently with computers, and therefore enable different kinds of art and design.

The Internet – whose infrastructure is based on free software and open standards – is an obvious example of such an adaptable, collaborative artistic medium. “FLOSS+Art” also covers more traditional artistic domains such as graphic and audiovisual design, and how they shift from customer-centric to community-driven work.

FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software philosophy, open content and digital art. It provides first-hand insight into its social, political and economic myths and realities.

With contributions by: Fabianne Balvedi, Florian Cramer, Sher Doruff, Nancy Mauro Flude, Olga Goriunova, Dave Griffiths, Ross Harley, Martin Howse, Shahee Ilyas, Ricardo Lafuente, Ivan Monroy Lopez, Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean, Rob Myers, Alejandra Maria Perez Nuñez, Eleonora Oreggia, oRx-qX, Julien Ottavi, Michael van Schaik, Femke Snelting, Pedro Soler, Hans Christoph Steiner, Prodromos Tsiavos, Simon Yuill.
Compiled and edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk.

With the support of the University of Huddersfield and the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University.

http://goto10.org/flossart
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ORDER YOUR COPY NOW:

http://www.metamute.org/en/shop/floss_art

http://www.moreismore.net/en/floss+art

http://www.amazon.co.uk/FLOSS-Art-Aymeric-Mansoux/dp/1906496188/
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FLOSS+Art is triple licensed GNU GPL, GNU FDL and Free Art License. Rather than just providing a “free” PDF, FLOSS+Art.v1.1.eBook-GOTO10 is also available and contains all the Fonts, Images, PDF and Scribus source files that were used to make the book.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4671426/FLOSS_Art_v1.1

Feel free to branch a translation or fork the chapters!

Sinewaves #50 Birthday

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:53:08 +0000

“A little present to celebrate the 50th “birthday” of Sinewave weblabel. Thanx to all artists that gave me the possibility to make this compilation possible and to the artists involved in this netlabel project.”
Alberto Clara – Sinewaves
FREE download following this link:

http://www.sinewaves.it/s3p050.htm