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((audience)) Call for 5.1 Surround Sound Works

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:56:28 +0000

SUBMIT TO UNSOUND FESTIVAL 2011
Deadline: August 15, 2010

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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

Re-New Digital Art Festival Report

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:41:12 +0000

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.

Bad Religion Still Alive! | Copenhagen | 2010

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.

HOL | Shy | Re-New Festival 2010

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.

Marco Donnarumma | High Spheres | Re-New Festival 2010

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.

Marco Donnarumma | High Spheres | Re-New Festival 2010

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.

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.

Ryo Ikeshiro | Pulse Cubes | Re-New Festival 2010

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.

Hsin Yi Chien Laewoo Kang | He | Re-New Festival 2010

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.

Angie Atmadjaja | Intrinsic | Re-New Festival 2010

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

High Spheres – Open air multi-channel participative concert @ Re-New Festival, Denmark

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:37:30 +0000

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I C::ntr::l Nature 3.0 @ Mapping festival 2010

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:45:20 +0000

MAPPING Festival
in collaboration with Live Performers Meeting
present:

I C::ntr::l Nature 3.0
7 May – 01:00 > 02:00
Spoutnik / Usine

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.

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

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.

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

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

Hope to see you there!

Ferment at Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:48:31 +0000

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.

“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…”

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.

Piksel Festival 2009 Bergen

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:24:39 +0000

via Piksel mailing list:

Piksel09 :: f[re](e){op}[en]able

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Piksel09 :: festival
November 19-22 2009

Piksel09 :: exhibition
Nov. 20/09 – Jan. 10/10
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We are also changing the world!

- the 7th annual Piksel festival for
- Electronic Art and Technological Freedom is on!
- in Bergen, Norway

—> Get inspired by Exhibitions
—> Get amazed by LIVEart performances
—> Get wiser through Seminars
—> Get sustained by Workshops

Biohacking, DIY Electronics, open hardware, free software, circuit
bending, process art, computer vision, multitouch, noise,
alternative interfaces, live animation, sound art, light installation,
LED art, code poetry, VGA hacking

Programme:

EXHIBITIONS @ Galleri 3,14, Lydgalleriet –
http://piksel.no/p09/_exhibition

David Elliott, Pall Thayer, Paul Klotz, Andreas Muxel, Martin Hesselmeier,
Susanna Katharina Hertrich, Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Michael Day, Arjan
Scherpenisse, Ben Woodeson, Angie Atmadjaja, Gijs Gieskes, Carlos Tricas,
Wolfgang Spahn, Thomas Gerwin, Ricardo Oliveira Nascimento,Ebru Kurbak,
Fabiana Shizue, Dream Addictive, Carmen González, Leslie García, Arnfinn
Killingtveit, Wendy Ann Mansilla, Jordi Puig

PRESENTATIONS @ Bergen Kunstmuseum/Stenersen –
http://piksel.no/p09/Presentations

ToonLoop, Virtual Entity, REBUNTU, The Art of Seduction OR Practical Jedi
Mindtricks OR Escaping the Matrix, Microcodes, Re-ware, Milkymist, Noise &
Capitalism, Open Source Software Tools for creativity, Pure Data Rhythm & Bass
Machine, Gate peepin’, The Hijmans van den Bergh building installation, OHANDA
– Open Hardware and Design Alliance, Flock, _oneliner, Respirator, Py-Cessing,
APODIO, Multi-Touch 360, Open Artistic Production

LIVE PERFORMANCES @ Landmark, Tårnsalen & NøsteBoden –
http://piksel.no/p09/live-events

Action Potential, KUNST UND MUSIK MIT DEM TAGESLICHTPROJEKTOR, Noise invaders,
DC12V ::Teatrino Elettrico::, Paper Cut Tales, Colour Projections, Mouth(s)’
lecture(s), Mattin, d.R.e.G.S., noish_VS_automata, Souffles I, He boxed
regularly and was strong and very brave and always a perfect gentleman,
Psychoid, MSST, Andy Bolus, The DIY drone synthesizer, Respirator, [i/o],
THENOISER VS ZERO POINT ENERGY

WORKSHOPS @ Nøstegate 42 & PikselHut –
http://piksel.no/p09/Workshops

W.O.M. – Workshop Osc Machine, LP Atari Punk Console, The DIY drone
synthesizer, Qeve – Free your visuals, Hackteria | bioelectronix for artists,
Navalha – handcrafted hardware/software audio performance interface, CHAOSLAB,
ToonLoop Live Animation Workshop, Enhancing Pure Data Interactivity with
Computer Vision (Open CV), Building simple analogue light-controlled
theremins, VGA Signals: an introduction

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more info and complete programme:
http://piksel.no/p09
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Piksel09 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality,
Hordaland County Council, Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Cultur Point, PNEK, BKK
and OCA.

OUTRO STREAM: FREE AS IN ART!
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Free/Libre and Open Source 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 FLOSS & art.
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Netaudio Festival 2009 Report

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:05:12 +0000

All pictures by Joanna M. Stacewicz, thank you!

Berlin. Wonderful as always.

I visited again the city 3 weeks ago to play the audiovisual concert ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ - selected for the day program of Netaudio Festival.

I went there together with Joanna M. Stacewicz for few days and we had the chance to live one of the (probably) last days of full warm sun before the winter.

Our expectations about Netaudio Festival were pretty high… probably too high. Wait… i’m not talking about the organization but about the musical offer.
The event was really well organized and it was clear the amount of efforts the staff had to face in order to make everything work. I want to thank all the staff for making this happen. People were great and we all had nice times, but the only thing that i found unsatisfactory was the line-up policy of the event.

Probably i just wasn’t considering the complete spectrum of a “netaudio-only” event. The line-up was almost completely dedicated to dance live acts (or dj sets), dancy electronica, dancy idm, dancy dubstep, techno, and some live pop bands.

Don’t misunderstand me… i like to dance, but i largely prefer to discover new sounds, new approaches to music, innovative reflections of sounds and technology.

This actually made me think a lot about Netaudio scene and how I relate myself to it. Why do i listen to free music? Because it’s free – free as in beer? Because i don’t want to spend my money for music?
No, i don’t think so. Probably i listen to free music ’cause i seek for an added value that can somehow guarantee a different approach to music composition, and hearing experience.
Probably i would like to see a Netaudio festival dedicated to music free as in freedom. The freedom to create music and sounds that are going beyond my everyday perception of techno-glitch, pop-kraut-rock, hip-top raggae dance-hall. Music is much more than this, music is not only something to have fun with, but i believe it is a relevant aspect of our everyday learning process, so that it doesn’t have to be undervalued.

Anyway, excluding my personal complains, I happily performed the 3rd version of the audiovisual concert for augmented bass guitar and butterfly and introduced the free software C::NTR::L. Thanks Georg – from Pure Data mailing list – for dropping by!

We had the pleasure to meet many old friends after quite a time. The almighty Dr.Nojoke was there (thanks for hosting us and being our light in Berlin!) – he played a really interesting live set under the moniker Trioon together with the common friend Servando Barreiro and JLab - and the omnipresent Visual Berlin collective was contributing to the event with quality live visual shows by Flux, Fred, Oigovisiones, E-Gruppe, Pixelnoizz, Yagama.

We had also the chance to get to know Fernando Fonseca (Public Spaces) who played one of the most interesting acts in whole the festival. A weird coincidence made me play exactly before his set, thus we met and found out many common ideas. Finally we had also the time to go out for dinner altogether and release our minds from too high thoughts hanging around Kreuzberg for 40′ looking for a place where to eat.
Actually i’m forgetting about another interesting project developed by Netaudio organization: The Berlin Wall of Sound. People were invited to record field sounds around the Berlin Wall to create a Berlin Wall sound map. The map was physically available as touch screen installation inside the main room of the venue ( http://www.netaudioberlin.de/berlin-wall-of-sound/ ).

All in all i’m glad to have participated and contributed to this event. All critics and doubts expressed in this article don’t have to be perceived as a provocation, not at all. I only try to stimulate constructive discussions and thoughts, since this is what we are here for…
Should i sit all the day long mesmerizing myself thinking how beautiful is life?

Nahh… that’s not for me. Please, feel free to write few lines about your idea of free music and whatever could be related to it. I definitely wish to know your opinion and keep on the conversation.

Live at Netaudio Berlin 2009

Marco Donnarumma — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:26:32 +0000

For those of you who hang around Berlin, I’ll be participating to the almighty Netaudio Festival – day program – with a showcase of my audiovisual performance for augmented bass guitar ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ (check the project here) entirely made and performed with PureData.
I’ll be performing on Friday from 14.15 to 14.45h and for the remaining 30 minutes I’ll be explaining the functionality of ‘C::NTR::L’, the free software I developed for the performance . The software allows you to transform your standard musical instrument in an augmented audiovisual controller, it’s published under GPL license so free to be used and modified. If you’re interested you’re very welcome to drop by.
The festival will take place from 8th to 11th October at the wellknown Maria am Ostbahnhof (Mao).

I was really glad to get to know about my selection since Netaudio festival is the bulwark of free CC-licensed music, so it represents kind of _must_ for me.
Here you are the statement of this Berliner edition – via Netaudio website:

From the 8th to the 11th of October 2009, Netaudio Berlin will be gathering the international netaudio community for a four-day music and conference festival in Berlin, under the title “East meets West”. 2009 will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. We recall pictures of hands reaching out to pull people from both sides up onto the Berlin wall. The event will take place at Maria, a venue situated immediately on the former Berlin ‘death strip’ once dividing the city and the world into eastern and western hemispheres.

In recent years a netaudio landscape has emerged in the countries of Eastern Europe. Speakers, artists and netlabel managers from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from the USA are invited to find out more about the needs and possibilities, challenges and chances of netaudio under the various cultural frameworks and to discuss new opportunities for networking and collaboration across borders and cultures.

The line-up of the festival is generously eterogeneous, providing a day program including:

… and a night program too broad to be described in this article. Plenty of artists and genres – electronic, drum’n'bass, dubstep, hip hop, techno. Be sure to check the full program here. The live visuals will be curated by my dear friends Visual Berlin, don’t miss it!

Report roBOT Festival 2009 Bologna

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:11:48 +0000

Thanks Bologna!
I had definitely great days in there. The roBOT festival – organized by Shape Association – took place at Palazzo Re Enzo – Bologna – one of the most beautiful ancient building in Bologna and probably in whole Italy.

Look at the ‘Sala del Podestà’ picture below to get a glimpse about the rest of the building. Something awesome.
The festival is more clubbing oriented, but since this year they established a call for works located in the experimental audiovisual field.
That’s how i got to participate alongside with Ape5+Eraser, EricaIlCane, Saul Saguatti, Teatrino Elettrico and Pixelnoizz.
I could enjoy a warm and quiet atmosphere and nice chats with the technical staff (in the picture).
You know? one of the best thing that can happen to an artist going to perform somewhere is to get in touch with professional, friendly technicians who understand his needs… and that’s what has happened.

On Wednesday, the opening was reserved to Carl Craig and his SHAPE project. Highly acclaimed musical project connecting and blending techno and classical musical languages. On Thursday has started the experimental section of roBOT with the first three performances including me, Pixelnoizz and EricaIlCane.
I made a shorter performance, trying to understand how to relate with the space of the huge concert hall. It hasn’t been easy to understand how to play in such a space, where the sound jump from one side of the roof to another, like playing in a big Gothic church.
EricaIlCane and his crew has showed ‘Piove, Governo Ladro’ an evocative imagery, sometimes more decorative sometimes more dreamy. Playing inside of a semi-transparent box they have spread some interesting noise with four audio channels surrounding the installation.

In between on Friday i had the chance to get to know the american artist John Duncan. Incredibly he was holding an informal meeting with some young artists at the same place where i’ve been hosted (Nosadella.2 – residency for artists and curator).
So i participate to the meeting with him and Melissa Pasut and in the end we spent the night together with a lovely dinner and other friend Elisa DelPrete. It’s useless to say it has been an inspiring meeting.

Finally on Saturday I’ve met a lot of old friends and I’ve also met for the first time the Italian artists Ape5 and Eraser. They proposed their latest performance ‘Future sounds like Past Toys’ mixing the ethereal music of Eraser (heavy circuit bending on old toys) with a glitch visual imagery provided by Ape5.

Then i repeated my performance ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ - audiovisual improvisation for augmented electric bass guitar, butterfly and self-designed software C::NTR::L, Pure Data based - and i have to say it has been one of the best performance I’ve ever made since I’m traveling around with this project.
I was feeling this kind of emotive tension who often push a creative mind to get out his best.
The sound was finally as i wish it would have been and a lot of people showed up to attend to the concert.
I’m usually really critic towards my concerts but this time I’ve felt something too good around, maybe the presence of many friends, maybe the great location, maybe the proper astral plane connections… anyway the show was strong and impressive.

My friend Carlotta Piccinini from Visuallab has been so kind to shoot almost all the performance with an excellent camera, so be patient and expect a new video reel from the performance.

After the performances (including also Byetone who was performing at my same time, I would have loved to attend) everybody has moved to the Link for the last club night of the festival. Nice time in there supporting old good friends Vj Hash and Sapo during their vj set, and around 5am everybody has jumped in the car driving back home.

Once again Sunday has come and I’ve taken the last tour around the city, sitting in a park and enjoying the last rays of sun – because in Milan the rain was waiting for me.
I end the report with this picture: a public park in Bologna dedicated to the 11st September 2001.
I’ve the maximum respect for that event (and also a lot of doubts and anxiety), but could you tell me why in Italy we should dedicate a park to this date???
Sorry but i cannot agree with that.

Thanks to all the people from roBOT staff – Marcella, Federica and all the technical staff – and thanks also to all the people who showed up for my concert. It means a lot to me, especially here in Italy.

Italian premiere at roBOT festival 2009

Marco Donnarumma — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000

Next audiovisual concert coming up in Bologna, Italy.

On 19th October I will be performing the third version of the performance for augmented bass guitar and butterfly I C::ntr::l Nature during roBOT festival at Palazzo Re Enzo. This will be the italian premiere of the brand new version of the audiovisual performance (recently presented in Brasil at Pure Data Convention), so don’t miss it!
The festival provide an interesting lineup, featuring a pool of selected audiovisual artist from Italy and Europe including Saul Saguatti, Ericailcane, Pixelnoizz, Vj Hash, Ape5 and a party time hosted by some big names of the scene such as Tim Exile, Carl Craig and many others. I will be probably also making a friendly vj set during the club nights at the LINK, enjoying old friends vjs from the italian scene.

If you’re around.. get a chance to enjoy us.
more infos:

I C::ntr::l Nature project website: http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature/

Festival:http://www.robotfestival.it/2009
tickets: http://www.robotfestival.it/2009/ingressi/

Report Pd Convention 09, Sao Paulo

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:47:21 +0000

Online the pictures from the third international Pure data Convention in Sao Paulo, Brasil, where i performed the audiovisual piece ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ and presented the free, open source software C::NTR::L – Pd-based.

Much thanks to Alexandre, Paloma, Cristiano, Palm, Cybelle and all the staff for the big efforts to make this happen. Great experience for all of us and relevant effort to enhance the free culture in Brasil.

Check the gallery here: ../pics

More infos: www.pdcon.org

Report S-Block Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:20:26 +0000

Here you are with a bit of delay the report about S-Block Festival.
The event has been organized by Plattform fuer aktuelle Musik and it took place at Interventionsraum in the very heart of Stuttgart. It has been my second time in the city and also this time i had the pleasure to enjoy a good dose of high quality experimental music.

Antenna Research opened the event with their concrete concert based on antennas and old radio. Pure noise eclectism and sane irony deadful mixture!

I definetely love spending days in Germany at experimental music events ’cause i always see things that i’m sure i won’t be able to see anywhere else. Don’t know if it’s all about my “mith” of Germany, but i can assure the”experimental” matter there has really a deep sense and clear imprint. Maybe it’s all about originality and the way to express it…

Coming next we had the DuoB – free, improvisational jazz duet from United States. They provided a huge concert, impossible to describe it, but just imagine 1.5 hour of free improvisation on drums (played in every way you can imagine) and double-bass, supported by impervious and theatrical readings by Pedro Cofrè from Chile.

We didn’t have the time to recover our mind from the intuitional free reading/jazz of DuoB, and Christine Sehnaoui started her solo performance/radical improvisation at saxophone. She’s one of the most professional improvisers i’ve ever seen playing live, i highly suggest to check her work. Great presence on stage and awesome confidence with her instrument.

On the second day of the event, after having a beautiful breakfast with the other artists, we reached again the venue for another session. This time Ezramo opened the night… It has been a lovely experience, from subtle mystic moments to ethnic derivations and electroacoustic breackdowns.

Following we had Experimentelles Musiktheater: „The International Besetztzeichen“. An experimental theater/live noise piece for three actors, performed by Oliver Prechtl and Philipp Golm (Stuttgart). Unfortunately i didn’t get any picture of their show.
I had the hard duty to close the festival with the audiovisual work “I C::ntr::l Nature” - solo piece for augmented bass guitar and self-designed software C::NTR::L. It has been a pleasure to play in front of the many people came to see the performance. The tiny and cosy venue of the festival was overloaded of people all around me… lovin’ it!

Thanks Stuttgart and thanks once again to Ezramo and Wendelin Buechler who organized such an inspirational event, and good luck guys for your future projects!

LINKS:
http://www.thesaddj.com/s-block-festival-advanced-music-and-live-audiovisual-art/
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature
http://interventionsraum.de/sblockfestival.html
http://interventionsraum.de
http://www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell

S-Block Festival – Advanced Music and Live Audiovisual Art

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:07:20 +0000

I’ve been invited to participate to the first edition of S-Block Festival - international festival of Advanced Music, Audiovisual Art and Performances - at Interventionsraum in the centre of Stuttgart, DE.

The festival will take place on 19-20 June and will showcase many different projects of experimental music, live videos and neo-theather, highlighting the soulful artistic local scene plus guest international artists.

I’ll perform ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ solo audiovisual performance for augmented E-bass guitar - recently performed at NEMO festival in Paris and Ausklang Festival in Hamburg. The performance is powered by the self-designed software C::NTR::L (released as public beta version with GPL license infos here).

I’m glad to come back to Stuttgart with this project because last year i performed its first demo version exactly there in Stuttgart during the monthly Max.Experimentell event and it has been an hyper-stimulating experience for the further developments of the performance.

I highly recomend to join this event since it’s going to be a new important mirror of the most recent researches in Live and Mixed Media.

Program:

Friday 19.06

20:30 – ANTENNA RESEARCH feat. MOWBLIND (Stuttgart)
Audiovisuelle Performance
21:00 – DUO B. & PEDRO COFRÉ (San Francisco, USA – Concepción, Chile)
Filmvertonung / Live-Improvisierte Musik / Poesie-Lesung
22:00 – CHRISTINE SEHNAOUI (Paris, Frankreich)
Solo Performance / Radical Improvisation
22:45 – ZENIT & NADIR (Stuttgart)
Multimediale Performance: Quartier Ss – Sinnbild materiellen Prunks

Saturday 20.06

21:00 – EZRAMO (Italien / Stuttgart)
Audiovisuell Solo Performance: Beats Moar Bambus
21:45 – OLIVER PRECHTL, PHILIPP GOLM (Stuttgart)
Experimentelles Musiktheater: „The International Besetztzeichen“
22:15 – THE !S.A.D.! (Rom, Italien)
Pure Data – Performance: „I C::ntr::l Nature”

Künstlerisches Rahmenprogramm

Friday 19.06

18:00 – JUSTYNA KOEKE & NINA MÜLLER (Stuttgart)
Rauminstallation
22:00 – RAGANI HAAS (Stuttgart)
Performance

Saturday 20.06

22:30 – ANJA ABELE (Stuttgart)
Performance
MIRIAM HUSCHENBETH (Stuttgart)
Performance

You can buy tickets directly at the venue, no reservation needed.
Daily ticket: 8 euro
Two Days ticket: 14 euro

Venue:
Interventionsraum
Marienstraße 15
Stuttgart-Stadtmitte

LINKS:
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature
http://interventionsraum.de/sblockfestival.html
http://interventionsraum.de
http://www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell

LPM 2009 PureData, VVVV, Mapping Workshops

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:25:00 +0000

Here we are… almost ready with the seventh edition of Live Performers Meeting. Unexpectedely this year we had an incredible amount of contents from 26 countries: 374 artists from Italy, Spain, Uruguay, Germany, Turkey, France, United Kingdom, Argentina, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, Poland, Deutschland, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Greece, Denmark, United States, Austria, Australia, Macedonia, Bulgaria playing 287 performances, workshops and showcases.

This is our personal record!

Apart from all the performances ( check it here ) partecipating to the meeting i would like to highlight the workshops:

PureData | 40 euro
Workshop
husk
Italy – Rome/Barcellona

Mapping Video – Immaterial Spaces | 50 euro
Workshop
n1ente
Italy – Genova

VVVV beginners | 50 euro
Workshop
defetto
United Kingdom – London

Quartz Composer | 40 euro
Workshop
shakinda
United Kingdom – belfast

Resolume Avenue 3 Workshop
Workshop
Edwin
Netherlands – Den Haag

Creazione dal basso e P2P
Workshop
jaromil
Netherlands – Amsterdam

if you’re around Rome from 28th to 31st of May come and join us! it’s gonna be fun…

Presentation at CeC09 India

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:36:39 +0000

Kenneth Newby and Martin Gotfrit, CeC '08

I’ve been invited in New Delhi, India to take part in the annual festival “Carnival of e-Creativity” to present C::NTR::L 1.0 beta – free, open-source software for audiovisual live improvisation w/ phisycal computing i developed in PureData.

Unfortunately due to some technical delays i won’t be able to attend phisically to the event, but the friend Shankar Barua – artist and Trustee Manager of the event – will be so kind to present in my place C::NTR::L to the indian audience.

Among the interesting performances and presentations which will take place during the event i feel to underline the project of Shankar Barua [Amateur-Slot] (Guitar & Live Audio-Video Processing), in experimental collaboration with Aparna Panshikar (vocals) & Ashim Ghosh (Percussion), powered by C::NTR::L 1.0 Beta.

infos:

http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec09/index.htm

http://www.thesaddj.com/cntrl

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/

Live at AusklangFestival, Hamburg

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:16:56 +0000

On 28th December i will be really glad to perform my work I C::ntr::l Nature (nowave/visual/noise audiovisual live improvisation) at Ausklang Festival at Hoerbar, Hamburg.
The artists invited:

Felix Kubin (HH)
(Futuristische Popmusik / Elektroakustik)
Napalmed (Tschechien)
(Jazz Noise Free Industrial Improvisation)
The !S.A.D!
Trautonia Capra (HH)
(Elektronisches Kunstlied mit Theremin + Gesang)
Asmus Tietchens (HH)
(Elektronische Musik / Klangforschung)
Bruno & Michelle are smiling (HH)
(Bös-komischer High-Speed-Pop)

“The Hörbar is the central meeting point for consumers and producers of electronic, electroacoustic and industrial music in Hamburg, every Wednesday from 9 pm to 1 am in the rooms of the B-Movie in Hamburg St.Pauli. Every last Friday in a month there is a concert with different music projects, performance artists, lectures or/and films.

“Since 1995 the Hörbar organizes every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve the ‘Jahresausklangfestival’ (German for “year’s last notes”). On two subsequent evenings six to eight artists and groups perform in the movie theater. Moreover labels releasing and distributing experimental music are invited to build up their stands and present and sell their products.”

more info: http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/?Ausklangfestival_2008:Weitere_Infos

Report Cinesthesy 1.0

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:51:11 +0000

Via: Cinesthesy Blog

SATI

Petite scène – installation Eile (Yroyto)

Démolécularisation (project singe)

Etichettadiscografica

REP

THE SAD

Olivier Moreau (Directeur Adjoint Centre Rebérioux), Yroyto (Directeur Artistique)

Présentation de Digital HipHop – création avec les jeunes du quartier avec le vidéaste Jesse Lucas et la cie de danse Masala

EILE (Yroyto)

CINEMASSAKER

OTOLAB

INCITE/

RAFAEL

Entre deux performances.

Yroyto – coordinateur des Pixels Transversaux

SOLU&ARBOL

Amélie Dessaux

Gildas & Yroyto (préparation du streaming)

BOULEZ REPUBLIC GRAND ENSEMBLE

Présentation du Monome avec Iduun

IDUUN

WORKSHOP RESOLUME 3

JUSTE ALICE 02

Présentation Codanova

Live AV show streaming

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:40:27 +0000

Good evening everybody,
in this moment i’m in France in Cretéil to partecipate to the audiovisual festival Cinesthesy.
I’m pleased to inform you that is possible to watch online the streaming of all the performance which will take place during this two days.
Just follow this link:

www.cinesthesy.tv

I will have the honour to open this first night of the festival with my performance of audiovisual improvisation I C::ntr::l Nature – free improvisation nowave/visual/noise for electric bass guitar, found objects and my custom made software C::NTR::L.
The show starts at 20.30 (french time)
Hope to see you online!

Festival CINESTHESY#1

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:13:49 +0000

For this first edition, the festival Cinesthesy invest in the new Cultural Center Madeleine Rebérioux in Créteil.

The programme includes interactive installations and video, ateliers/workshop, performances Audio/Vidéo, vjing and visual art.

REP (France)
INCITE (Germany)
THE !S.A.D.! (Italy)
SOLU & ARBOL (Spain/Finland)
OTOLAB (Italy)
CINEMASSAKER (France/Belge)
RAFAËL (Spain)
SATI (France) ETICHETTADISCOGRAFICA (Italy)
DEMOLECULARISATION [project singe] (France/Belge)
G-mO
LECOLLAGISTE
BOULEZ REPUBLIC GRAND ENSEMBLE
JUSTE ALICE 02
IDUUN
KSKF
AUDEROSESELAVY&EMOTYPE
EILE

Theme(s) : Multimédia, Music, Contemporary Art, Shows.
Website : www.cinesthesy.com
TEL : 01 41 94 15 65

Date : 27 october to 1st novembre 2008

CENTRE SOCIOCULTUREL MADELEINE REBÉRIOUX
27 avenue François Mitterrand 94 000 CRETEIL

INFORMATIONS & RESERVATION HTTP://WWW.CINESTHESY.COM TEL : 01 41 94 15 65
night ticket 10€ / 6€ et 4€ (young)
PASS WEEK-END 14€ / 10€ Free entry after midnight.

Métro line n° 8 direction Créteil, stop “Préfecture” ( terminus ) + Bus 281 direction créteil Europarc, stop “Coteaux” and ten minutes by feet.
FREE PARKING

The festival is co-organised by les PIXELS Transversaux (Dvds VisionSonic, Résidences d’artistes…) and by the association Maison de Jeunes et de la culture which start to run and manage the Cultural centre Madeleine Rebérioux who has always programmed author of new technologies and of contemporary creation.

Report Vision’r Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:40:32 +0000

Great times in Paris for Vision’r Festival Vj – http://www.vision-r.org/.
The festival had different locations around Paris: La Generale Manifacture in Sevres (where i performed I C::ntr::l Nature see pictures below), Le Yono in Paris, and the amazing structure Mains d’Oeuvres in Saint Ouen: a polifunctional 4 floors building, with two big main hall (where the most of the audio/video projects has been shown), a huge community hall (where to eat, drink and chat) , several rooms for workshops and an amazing cinema hall, where i tested one of the best spacial acoustic in Europe (i performed there toghether with G-mO the audio/video project Shut Down G8).

Many artists took part in the festival this year and obviously i hadn’t the time to see every performance. Among all projects i found really interesting and professional Juste Alice 02 (http://www.myspace.com/a_li_ce) a original and deep reinterpretation of the fabulous charachter created by Lewis Carrol, Strap on Dildos (http://vjemtv.net/strap_on_dildos) powerful and ironic performance about feminism and queer culture, Hyperspace (http://hyperespace.yroyto.com) synthethic hyperdigital 3 screens performance.
On Saturday in Salon Pro we (as FLxER Team) had a stand where we presented the upcoming LPM 5th Edition, toghether with Codanova, Vixid, Vjamm and Edirol.

A great aspect of the festival was the presence of international artists such as Elsa Vieira and Brendan Byrne (http://vjtheory.net), Toby Spark (Avit UK) that toghether with us from FLxER Team and Neologos from Vision’r (and of course other people, unfortunately i can’t mention everyone) are trying to create and support a worldwide network focused on vjing and audio/video live performances. We had really constructive conversations, so we had the chance to share. This is the best we could ask.

Thanks to all Vision’r staff (Neologos, 10Tordu and all the others). Here you are some pics from these 4 days festival. You can find all the pictures in my gallery, click here (picture courtesy of Yroyto, LeCollagiste).

Vision’r Festival VJ

Marco Donnarumma — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:07:09 +0000

Just leaving for Paris!… can’t wait.

17th April 2008 – Vision’r Opening event:

The !S.A.D! – I C::ntr::l Nature
The Noiser – Nanofamas
AudeRoseLavy& Emotype
Sound Barrier

Venue:
Pixel Transversaux, Générale en Manufacture
6 Grande Rue, 92310 Sèvres

Links:
http://lepoletransversal.blogspot.com
http://vision-r.org

Vision’r Festival is a cutting edge festival in France focused on Audio/Video live performances and vjing. It will take place from 17th to 20th April in Paris, in three different locations. Check Vision’r website for full programmation, location and more infos…
You can’t miss it!