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The 2010 edition of Flussi Festival in Irpinia, Italy is approaching. I arrived yesterday and still suffering the incredible warmth of the italian summer, but the landscape is awesome.
I’ll be performing the audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature on 26th August and I’ll share the stage with Menion (La Bèl Netlabel), Mokira (Raster-Noton / Milleplateaux / Type Records) and Thomas Fehlmann (Kompakt / Plug Research).
I suggest to check the complete program on the festival website as it includes many other interesting artists such as Domenico Sciajno, Murcof, Asferico, Lukid and Mount Kimbie.

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Flussi Festival presents:

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Live Media and FLOSS* Workshop with Marco Donnarumma

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Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS.
Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.

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*Free/Libre Open Source Software

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Wednesday 25th – Saturday 28th August – 14 hours
@ Teatro comunale Carlo Gesualdo, Avellino, Italy

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Cost: 50 euro

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The workshop is limited to 15 participants.
Accommodation available for participants.
Please register or ask for further info by sending an email to luca [at] flussi [dot] eu

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Download here detailed program in pdf format.
Info in the document above are only in Italian, please write us to request comprehensive info in english.

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Aim

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The seminary seeks to give the participants who don’t have previous experience in programming and Live Media practice the needed theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to feel comfortable within the FLOSS creation environment. The classes’ aim is to make the participants able to understand and assimilate the diverse passages of the creation process of software ad-hoc in order to be independent during the planning and development of a FLOSS project (musical, audiovisual, multi-media or theatre pieces) using the audiovisual language.

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The workshop will be preparatory to the implementation of Live Media performances realized by participants and presented in November 2010 at the “80 seconds” International Contest.

via Rhizome

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SUBMIT TO UNSOUND FESTIVAL 2011
Deadline: August 15, 2010

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BASIC INFORMATION
((audience)) has been invited to participate in Unsound, a festival of experimental music and sound art. Founded in 2003, Unsound is an annual event held in Krakow, Poland; in April 2011, the festival organizers will present the second annual Unsound festival in New York City at venues throughout the five boroughs.

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Conceived in 2006, ((audience)) is an unprecedented project that explores the cinema as a 21st century concert hall. It is dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and composers. The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a biennial program of 5.1 surround sound works by international artists intended for presentation in movie theaters as “cinema in the dark.” This program travels to partnering organizations from Delhi, India to New York City — accompanied by curatorial lectures, performances, exhibitions and screenings on a city-by-city basis.

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CALL FOR WORKS
((audience)) is issuing a special call for 5.1 surround sound works for the 2011 Unsound festival. Selected works will be presented in a completely dark cinema environment without visual accompaniment at the Walter Reade Theater / Film Society of Lincoln Center. Selected artists will receive a modest fee. (Fees to be determined in September.)

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All works must relate to this year’s festival theme: “Horror – the Pleasure of Fear and Unease” (for example, one could submit a soundtrack to an imagined horror film; a radio play; a work dealing abstractly with the concept of horror, etc.) New works or newly contextualized works will be accepted. Artists currently located in Eastern Europe are encouraged to apply, and will receive special attention. We are especially interested in narrative or musical works that play with the traditional idea of cinematic surround sound, and/or with the concept of horror, and in works that emphasize temporal, narrative or spatial experimentation.

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PLEASE download the submission instructions for information on how to submit, by visiting http://au.dience.org/?/submit/submit/

Just after my audiovisual concert at Mapping Festival I flight to Copenhagen for Re-New Digital Arts Festival, a mostly sound art-focused four days annual event.
The overall quality of the selected works was impressive and the organization was unexceptionable.
Once unpacked my stuff at the hotel I had a lovely walk through Copenhagen and shortly reached Huset i Magstraede, the main location of the event which is nicely located in the old center of the Danish city.

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I didn’t even had the time to sit down and connect my laptop I immediately noticed a guy working with an Arduino box, that’s how I got to know brasilian digital artist Henrique Roscoe aka HOL and his interactive creature “Shy”. Henrique is a lovely person and talented guy, he also organizes the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil.

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One hour later I started setting up the participative concert and interactive sound installation “High Spheres”. Thanks to the kind support of sound technician and the organizers everything went smoothly and in a couple of hours the setup was ready. My work was programmed for the opening of the festival, I spent thus last hour modifying the Pure Data patch to adapt it to the open air environment in front of Huset.

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Great timing, great weather, great location. I was also quite happy to use for the first time in public my brand new multi-channel sound card. A powerful Focusrite Saffire Pro40, 20 I/O, 8 Pre-amplified I/O and a lot of quality components. Worked like a charm.
Around 19.00 audience started to gather in the main garden and the participative concert could start.
Audience was really excited about the work and I gladly noticed how children and elderly people were equally interested and attracted by the improvised sound interaction provided by my self-designed system. A local TV operator was there too shooting the concert.

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Personally the most interesting aspect of this work is to see how different people relate to sound. You know, children were posing and screaming without caring too much about what kind of sounds they could produce, some of the participants were really curious and started looking around for different objects to use, some of them were really shy and were almost hiding while producing tiny silent sounds, some people was totally seduced by the collective interaction, some others were just trying to get loud. This is probably what the work is about, a collective improvisation, a almost unaware group ritual, during which every single individuals is connected to each other in reaction chain.

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I should surely mention few other works.
Ryo Ikeshiro presented “Pulse Cubes” an interactive installation based on tiny greatly-designed black cubes tracking. The user can set the cubes in patterns over a white table as their position generates granular and organic sounds in real-time.

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The main Huset hall was animated by “He” a music-drawing installation by New York based artists Hsin Yi Chien and Laewoo Kang. A beautifully crafted drawing machine was setup with a luminance tracking system – developed in Processing – which translated calligraphy into music.

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Last but not least the amazing installation “Intrinsic” by York based artist Angie Atmadjaja and presented at Re-New by Michael Cheung. The work is based on the sound phenomena known as Standing Waves.
I warmly reccomend to check the work’s website here.

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Great event and stunning works. Special thanks to Lars Graugaard and Anne Bogh for their beautiful hospitality and great work.

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On 18th May at 19.30 at Huset i Magstræde, Copenhagen, Denmark, Re-New Digital Arts Festival kicks off prensenting ‘High Spheres’ a participative multi-channel concert for found objects and reactive generative music by Edinburgh based new media and sound artist Marco Donnarumma.

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The action takes place open air. No musical instruments are provided, but stones and leaves. Audience can use six microphones and a 6.1 surround system to amplify any kind of sound they wish to produce.
The whole sonic matter is managed by a Pure Data-based software for generative music developed by the author, which interacts with the audience processing sounds in real-time, analyzing the input signals and generating new sounds and textures out of the collected data.

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An endless sonic data flow which, once started, will live and grow beyond the time-space of the action. Generative electroacoustic music for non-musicians.
If you’re in the city you’re very welcome to freely join our self-organized orchestra and contribute to the creation of our brand-new collective soundscape.

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Further info:
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/high-spheres/
http://re-new.org/program/

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Press contact: http://marcodonnarumma.com/contact/

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MAPPING Festival
in collaboration with Live Performers Meeting
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I C::ntr::l Nature 3.0
7 May – 01:00 > 02:00
Spoutnik / Usine

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Third and final version of the audiovisual live concert by Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD premiered in 2009 at Némo Festival and performed at Pure Data Convention in Brasil, amongst other venues.

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I C::ntr::l Nature v. 3 excerpts – augmented bass guitar improvisation 2009 from Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD on Vimeo.

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Besides FLxER Team, with Gianluca Del Gobbo, Ioann Maria and Marco Donnarumma, will hold a two days flash vjing workshop, introducing the latest version of FLxER, free flash-based software for vjing and multimedia live mixing.

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Performance info:
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/
http://www.mappingfestival.ch/2010/

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Workshop info:
http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/flxer-flash-vjing/
http://flxer.net

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Hope to see you there!

Me and Ioann Maria are about to fly to Belgrade to attend the 2009 edition of Alternative – Film/Video Festival taking place in Belgrade, Serbia, since 1982.

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“The aim of the festival is to document and define in theory the trends, to point at the values and new creative possibilities in the fields of alternative film and video.
The Festival was held for the first time in 1982, as Alternative film, and intended to explore the domain of film production which is alternative to commercial film, all modes of alternative, experimental, art, short, radical film thinking…”

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The short movie “Ferment” shooted and directed by Ioann Maria and sonificated by my track “Entering…” has been shortlisted for the festival screenings.
It will be a week of visions, balkans and plenty of stimulating ideas.