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Collaborative Global Field Recording Radio Aporee for the World Listening Project

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:00:37 +0000

The WSP group, 1973; left to right: R. M. Schafer, Bruce Davis, Peter Huse, Barry Truax, Howard Broomfield

Dear Friends,

I’d like to invite you to participate in a special project of radio aporee and the World Listening Project for the first World Listening Day, on Sunday, July 18, 2010.

Radio aporee is an open project about the creation and exploration of public space. Its creator, Udo Noll asks you for help in creating an “audio snapshot of the world” as heard and recorded on World Listening Day. Aporee maps uses the Google maps interface to allow anyone to easily find their location on the map, then upload their audio via the web or mobile phone.

We’re inviting you to send an audio recording from your actual location, or other places of your interest on this day to the maps: http://aporee.org/maps/.

With your contributions collected on World Listening Day, Udo will then create a dedicated project page on the aporee map. As Udo says, “And besides having a nice documentation, I’m really intrigued by the idea of listening to the sounds of a particular day, around the world….” I’m very curious about what will happen, too.

Specifications for uploading

WEBSITE: http://aporee.org/maps/

FORMAT: mp3, 128-320 kbit, 44.1 or 48 kHz (for best audio quality, we recommend bitrates of 224, 256 or 320 kbps)

FILE SIZE: max. 25 MB

PLEASE NOTE: Contributors should type a tag “WLD” or “world listening day” in the keywords field, so that it can be found by searches.

Please be patient while uploading, depending on your connection this may take a while.

Below are basic instructions on how to send sounds (upload) to the radio aporee soundmap at http://aporee.org/maps/

You don’t need a login in order to participate, just a valid email address.
Find the location of your audio on the map and click on it
A small pops open that says “new place, add recording” with three choices: upload sound, fetch sound from URL, and phone call.
Select whichever method you’re using to upload, navigate to the file if it’s on your computer, fill in the form fields for info and email address, then click “ok”
Once your audio file has uploaded to the aporee server, check your email for a message from radio aporee
In the message you are provided with a link to confirm and edit the info about your audio submission, please remember to TAG YOUR SUBMISSION: “world listening day” and/or “WLD”
Once that’s done your sound will appear on http://aporee.org/maps/.

Questions? Contact: radio@aporee.org or visit the Help & How-to on radio aporee page.

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The purposes of World Listening Day are:

To celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around environmental awareness, acoustic ecology, and us
To raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, including individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography
To design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices

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You’ll find the press release and further information on world Listening Day at http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/?p=667

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All the best,
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Eric Leonardson, founder
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE)

Sun Boxes ecology aware sound art?

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:16:28 +0000

Sun Boxes Craig Colorusso

The American musician Craig Colorusso wrote me some days ago introducing his Sun Boxes, a solar powered installation.
The piece is simply made of a board for each box with an amp, sample and basic software.
What most fascinated me is the environmental interaction of the objects. While boxes are fed by the natural environmental energy they contribute a continuous sonic flow which alters the actual site-specific soundscape.

Arduino gets lighter and flexible

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:06:48 +0000

Arduino gets flexible, yes, indeed. Just read this news through Dorbot ALBA mailing list, so I thought to share the few info I found through this article on MAKE magazine.
What you see in the picture is an experimentation of an Arduino-compatible board on flexible printed circuit (FPC) material, developed in this same moment by the folks at Seeed Studio.

The material insulating the circuit is very similar to the traditional one, except for his flexibility. This means you would be able to bend and change the shape of your Arduino board.
You can view a complete list of feature at Seeed Studio website.
This is not a final product, folks are working on the production of few prototypes to give out to some lucky, want-absolutely-to-try-that guys who will propose interesting usage of the new hardware… well, it doesn’t look so hard anymore.

Golden Shield Music

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:57:15 +0000

Originally posted on Vague Terrain

According to Wikipedia the Golden Shield, sometimes referred to as the “Great Firewall of China” is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the Communist government of China. The project started in 1998 and began operations in November of 2003. It involves the massive use of web technologies such as IP (Internet Protocol address, a computer’s network address) blocking, DNS filtering and redirection, URL filtering, Packet filtering, Connection reset to censor specific contents—mostly, but not only, political or historical subjects—through web search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Msn (Google has of course recently bypassed the Golden Shield – users landing on google.cn are automatically redirected to uncensored Google Hong Kong google.com.hk). Since such serious censorship is ignored by many, a clever and immediate way to improve the visibility of this issue is to explore it through art.

Golden Shield Music collects the IP address of the twelve sites that are most screened by the Golden Shield to create an automated MIDI polyphonic synthesizer. Following a few basic rules, IP addresses are translated in notes formed by several voices. Resulting notes are ordered by the amount of pages the Golden Shield obscured for each IP address. This process yields the so-called “Golden Shield music”, a generative composition for eight audio channels that sits somewhere between net.art and sound art. Data organizes the musical notation, establishing an abstract relationship between Internet information and musical algorithms which sounds harmonious and “handcrafted”.

Detailed information about the piece (and an audio excerpt) are available here. This software will be released soon under a GPL license for public use and modification.

If you happen to be in ReykjavÌk on May 20-22, you are welcome to join us at Pikslaverk Festival 2010. The piece will be played through a multi-channel setup and I will present a talk about the project – provided the volcano is merciful. [editor's note: related schedule here]

C::NTR::L 1.2 First public Release

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:29:28 +0000

Briefly…
I would like to invite you to finally join the first public (beta) release of C::NTR::L free and opensource Human-Computer Interface for live audiovisual performance improvisation exploiting physical computing technologies.

Developed by Marco Donnarumma aka The !S.A.D! in PureData.

Free download and further infos can be found in the brand-new section of the website, click here.

‘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.

Report Ausklang Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:04:44 +0000

Here i am, after a long stop. Many unexpected events didn’t allow me to keep on writing continuosly.
So i had the pleasure to spend few days in Hamburg in the end of the 2008 to take part in the annual Ausklang festival. The festival is the reference meeting point for the local experimental scene. Every year some representative artists from the Hamburg scene plus two foreigners artists play their shows at Hoerbar, an old cinema out of use, recycled in a unique way by the organizators. The Hoerbar is one of this cultural spaces that are slowly disappearing in Europe.
They organize concerts every week and a real community of artists and passionate of experimental music and media is living and sharing ideas and ispirations in a familiar and warm atmosphere. totally out of any kind business mentality, but only focusing on the pure passion for the sound. I remember some places like that in Italy a long long time ago, some old memories which makes me nostalgic.

During the Ausklang Festival you can also enjoy and taste one of the best experimental music collection i’ve ever seen out there, thanks to some kind guys running their own music distribution service. They come at Hoerbar and build there this unique exhibition of incredibly rare materials, cassettes, cd, minitapes, dvd, minicd … you’ll find there every kind of support you can imagine, and every kind of experimental music you have always dreamed of. I was embarassed for two days cause i didn’t know what to buy,… i would have bought everything!!

The line-up of the festival show an excellent quality. Many different approaches to experimental music made this festival a little but amazing showcase of arts.

Trautonia Capra (voce, synth, gothic electronics)

Napalmed (historical free-jazz, noise, harshcore duo from Czech Rep.)

Felix Kubin (Futuristic experimental pop musik from Hamburg)

Unfortunately i wasn’t able to make pictures of his show. He created a nice atmosphere with his hyper-delicate electronic music and a live score of an ancient black&white movie.

On the second day…

The SAD (nowave/visual/noise free audiovisual improvisation from Italy)

Bruno&Michelle are smiling (hironic high-speed pop from Hamburg)

Asmus Tietchens (Electronic music, soundscape)

Special thanks to Stefan and Robert at Hoerbar for taking care of me and to Kera&Andrè from Incite!! great times in Hamburg thanks to you all…

more infos: http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/en/

New LP ‘Schizophrenic Spider’ OUT NOW!

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:29:14 +0000

Finally the collaboration album ‘Schizophrenic Spider’ w/ Kenji Siratori – japanese cyber punk writer – is OUT NOW on Juno Download, released by MODR (MusicaOltranza Digital Release).

This work , really important to me, is totally obscure and warm at the same time. Industrial atmospheres, screams, scattered iron plates, flesh and spirit.
This is what you will feel coming out from the sonic texture created by the japanese poetry and my black demons.

Tags: industrial, japanese spoken words, hardcore, experimental, bass idm.

Buy ‘Schizophrenic Spider’ clicking here. You can choose among 320kbps .mp3 or .wav full quality + printable artwork.
A soulful thanks for the support!