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Weds 4th April, Cafe OTO, London
£5 adv/£7 door BUY TICKETS HERE

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BEAM Festival presents BEAM NIGHT – a special one-off taster event held at Cafe OTO. Following BEAM’s mission, the acts tonight were all featured at BEAM 2011 and all use unusual and/or homemade interfaces to perform.

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• Atau Tanaka & Adam Parkinson play iPhones as sensitive, handheld controllers.
• Bruno Zamborlin performs Cafe OTO’s wall – possibly for the first time?! – with his invention, MOGEES, which read gestural language on any surface.
• Marco Donnarumma’s Music for Flesh is a visceral sensor performance using his instrument system Xth sense, which has just been named “the world’s most innovative new musical instrument”.
• Tom Bugs appears in a rare performance using his Modular Synths.
• Beguilingly creative Leafcutter John conjures up soundscapes with his new explorations in light and sound.

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Check them out and buy your tickets on the BEAM Festival website!

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Here it goes, the first mailout of 2012.
Below you’ll find the events coming up in the next months.

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http://marcodonnarumma.com/next/february2012/

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Tags: liveness, gesture, biomedia, prosthesis, Pure Data, open NIME, award, body/music, body/hacking, seminar.

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This event looks very good, free, great music and performances in Berlin. Wish I could attend.

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Performances by
Echo Ho (DE/CN), Mario de Vega (MX), Alex Nowitz (DE), Ignaz Schick (DE)

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Thursday, 26.01.2012
8pm – Performances from 9pm
Free Entry (or donate what you like)

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Following the first event event of the BodyControlled series, BodyControlled #2 focuses on the idea of incompatible matter. While BC #1 was organized around the concept of “other spaces”, using the specific architecture at LEAP and provoking it in order to synthesize new environments, BC #2 combines space and sound.

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Through exploring the physical reality of sound-instruments and objects, complex acoustic spaces emerge. Sound of any kind – vocals, instruments, vibrations – become a material themselves, a hybrid. Creating Matter-Incompatible, the exhibition focuses on searching for the hidden materiality of acoustics, where distinguishing between live-produced sound and mechanically generated playback becomes a challenging self-observation.

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All performances will be available from 20.00 CET via live stream on
http://bit.ly/uXRgyq

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Facebook-Event BodyControlled #2 “matter-incompatible”: on.fb.me/AmEtO9

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Artist links:
Echo Ho – http://www.echoho.net/
Mario de Vega – http://www.mariodevega.info/
Alex Nowitz – http://nowitz.de/, http://www.steim.org/projectblog/?p=3715
Ignaz Schick – http://www.zangimusic.de/, http://www.myspace.com/ignazschick

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LEAP
Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance
(Berlin Carré, 1. Stock)
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13
10178 Berlin

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info@leapknecht.de
www.leapknecht.de

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How to find LEAP: http://bit.ly/pqTAJi
LEAP Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/uxfyT2

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In few days I’ll be gladly coming back to Bergen, Norway to perform the interactive music piece for enhanced body Music for Flesh II and present the free, open source biophysical technology Xth Sense.
Below the full and exciting program of this year edition. Don’t miss some of the finest and most inspiring free, open source based performances and installations!

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Piksel11 — re:public
The 9th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom.
- Exhibitions – workshops – live art – presentations
- November 17th-20th, Bergen (NO)
- http://piksel.no/p11

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The 9th edition of the Piksel Festival takes place on November 17th-20th 2011. The festival subtitle re:public connects to various strategies for rethinking and redefinig public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context.

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Programme:

EXHIBITIONS @ Galleri 3,14, KNIPSU & Kafe Knøderen
http://www.piksel.no/p11/installations11

Gordan Savicic, Jenny Pickett, Julien Poidevin, Romain Papion, blablabLAB, Linda Hilfling, Andy Gracie, Dave Griffiths, Marloes de Valk, Aymeric Mansoux,  Mey Lean Kronemann, HsienYu Cheng, Wayne Clements, Danja Vasiliev, Ben Baker-Smith, Delia Cristina Gheorghiu, Paul Eugen Popescu, John Bowers, Aditya Zalewski, Marleen Andela, Eva van der Velden

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URBAN INTERVENTIONS @ Bergen centre
http://www.piksel.no/p11/urban-interventions

The Impossible City, Be Your Own Souvenir!, City Fireflies, UKI game level one - infect the city

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PERFORMANCES @ Landmark & StudioUSF
http://www.piksel.no/p11/performances11

S∆G∆∆N, Wanda and Nova deViator, Alejandra Maria Perez, Luka Frelih, Christian Galarreta, APO33/ALOARDI, Cristiano Rosa, Daniel Llermaly, Oscar Martin Correa, Jason Glen Levine, Ryan Jordan, Gisle Fr0ysland, Brendan Howell, Marco Donnarumma, Malte Steiner, Agnese Trocchi, Federico Bonelli, Wendy Ann Mansilla, Paula Pin, Maria Mitsopoulou, Alex McLean, Jake Harries, Jørgen Træen, Elin Vister, Signe Lidén

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PRESENTATIONS @ StudioUSF & KNIPSU
http://www.piksel.no/p11/presentations11

din is noise, Streaming Experiences, A Popular Guide to Unpopular Cinema, LumiBots, Human Mobile Medium, Cube Cola Lab, Xth Sense, wearable, biophysical open source technology, ICECSTREAM – a new free software in the live streaming world!, Zero Dollar Laptop, Cámara Lúcida, Re-framing the World Wide Web, Ecology of Precariousness, Pueblo Nómade, Network Topology as a Site of Resistance

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WORKSHOPS @ KNIPSU, PikselHut & Kafe Knøderen
http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11

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ELECTROMAGNETIC CITYSCAPE , Visual Live Coding with Texture, Schmutz Disrupter analog tools, the 120days of *buntu, Sudamerica Experimental Workshop, SonicDrift, din is noise, C/Overt operations with CCTV sniffing , Using the Milkymist One video synthesizer, OHANDA working session , UKI game level one [infect the city] workshop
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more info and complete festival program:
http://piksel.no/p11
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Piksel11 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality, Hordaland County, PNEK, BEK, Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark and KORO.

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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with free and open technologies in artistic practice.
Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, 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 technologies & art.
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I Cntrl Nature | Audiovisual concert for augmented electric bass guitar, self-designed software and butterfly

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I Cntrl Nature (Marco Donnarumma, 2009) is an unambiguous, synesthetic action of audiovisual improvisation.The live act represents the sarcastic celebration of the human instinct finally able to govern the nature. The improvised body gestures of the performer sculpt in real-time the soundscape and the moving images. The living creature on the screen reacts to the movements of the performer on stage in a mutual agreement and attraction.
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Work info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/
Author info: http://marcodonnarumma.com
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The WRO Biennal is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe.
Other artists performing at WRO2011:
Stelarc, Istvan Kantor, Incite, Noriko Yamaguchi, Cécile Babiole.

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http://wro2011.wrocenter.pl/site/en
Other upcoming events http://marcodonnarumma.com/calendar

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Briefly to mention I’ll be playing Music for Flesh II tonight at the Linux Audio Conference in the section Electro-acoustic concerts.

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Concerts starts at 7pm.

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Music for Flesh II is a solo sonic piece for augmented muscles sounds.
It aims at demonstrating an experimental coupling between theatrical gesture and biophysical generation and control of music.
Based on the Xth Sense wearable technology (open source and DIY based).
I’ll also give a related paper on Sunday.

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Info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/music-for-flesh-ii/
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/

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Find here the complete schedule of LAC concerts:
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2011/?page=program&mode=table&day=0

Via .microsound-announce list

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/spring/lopez/
PERFORMANCE
Francisco López: Hyper-Rainforest
Friday-Saturday, April 28-30, 2011, 8 PM
Concert Hall
$15/10/5

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World premiere of an 80 channel immersive concert based on a decade of natural sounds recorded in the world’s rain forests.

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Rainforests are inhabited by an incredibly rich variety of sounds—much like a piece of electronic music: the astonishing variety of sounds comes from sources that are concrete yet overwhelmingly invisible.

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Hyper-Rainforest is a monumental sound piece, both in duration and in how the sounds are projected to the Concert Hall. All music in this performance stems from field recordings—but it does not simulate the natural reality of the original locations. Instead, the work creates a sonic hyper-reality, a virtual world of sound and music that goes beyond a trip to a rainforest. The original materials are observed, analyzed, and composed to create a piece that surrounds the audience, moving deep into the sounds themselves and toward new sounds still rooted in their origins.

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This world premiere commission was developed in residence at EMPAC.

+ Website: http://www.franciscolopez.net/
+ Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_López_(musician)

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Tickets are required and are available through the EMPAC box office for $15 general admission; $10 for students, seniors, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty and staff; or $5 for Rensselaer students.

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Evelyn’s Café will open at 7 PM. Parking for this event is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

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Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

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Francisco López is an internationally recognized sound art and experimental music artist. He has 30 years of experience in sound creation and environmental recordings, and has been involved in hundreds of sound installations, field recordings, and concerts in over 60 countries. His extensive catalogue of sound pieces (with collaborations with more than 130 international artists) has been published worldwide by more than 200 recording companies. He has received three honorary mentions at the Ars Electronica Festival (Austria) and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 (France) for best sound anthology.

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I just ended a new work residency at Inspace, home to a joint research partnership between the School of Informatics and New Media Scotland.
During the residency, me and Brendan F Doyle (Production Sound Engineering) worked on a participatory Musicircus which included a massive, reactive sonic system for 8 Xth Sense biosensors and 8 audio channels.
The piece was premiered two days ago on 15th March during a public event which gathered quite a good amount of people from different backgrounds, music, sound design, informatics, hackers and general public.

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It was awesome to see how the audience positively reacted to this novel paradigm of musical performance for muscle sounds, namely generating and controlling electroacoustic sounds and music moving and contracting muscles. After some initial – and expected – disorientation, everybody started realizing how to use the sensors and how to interact with the system, only then the actual Musicircus started.

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The event was pretty successful, everything worked out fairly smoothly –  except the few things which always “have to” get broken just before the opening –  and we received several excited and stimulating feedback. Overall a great and satisfying experience.

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During the same night, I also performed my new solo sonic piece Music for Flesh II, for augmented muscle sounds and Xth Sense technology. The acoustic capabilities of Inspace were challenging: glass walls all around, an empty floor which acts as a resonant shield, and interesting sonic reflections happening all around the space. I need to thank again my colleague Brendan for his great work with the sound engineering of the venue and his live mixing during my performance.

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Chris Scott (who took the heading picture above during a rehearsal at Inspace) documented with awesome pictures the whole residency, so hopefully soon I’ll post a report, with pics, audio and video!