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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.

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/

Live at LeCube Nemo Festival

Marco Donnarumma — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:43:44 +0000

11st April 2009
Closing event of Nemo Festival at LeCube, Paris.
I C::ntr::l Nature live audiovisual solo performance for augmented bass guitar by The !S.A.D! aka Marco Donnarumma

Body gestures deconstruct the whole life cycle of the caterpillar, making the microscopic world of the butterfly become an immersive and surreal ambient, sometimes violent and compulsive.

Performance powered by C::NTR::L 1.2 Beta – free, openSource software for live audiovisual performance exploiting physical computing, developed By Marco Donnarumma.

Among the other artists performing at this festival Quayola, Mira Calix, CHDH, AntiVJ+Principles of Geometry, Incite/, Frank Bretschneider, Byetone.

Le Cube has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative places on the cultural scene by performing essential missions such as educating the public, providing access to the new multimedia creation applications and discovering and promoting talented young practitioners of the digital arts. Through its programme inviting us to discover new fields of artistic expression, Le Cube aims to help the public discover a field of contemporary creation that gives priority to openness and dynamism.

The Némo festival is back at the Forum des Images, where it began eleven years ago, and we have a very exciting line-up in store for you! There are now five sections to showcase the best of cutting edge cinematic forms and new media art.

Video & Brief Description
http://www.thesaddj.com/i-cntrl-nature/#control

Project MiniWebsite
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature

LeCube
http://www.lecube.com

Nemo Festival
http://www.arcadi.fr/rendezvous/rv.php?id=4

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

LPM Mexico 2008

Marco Donnarumma — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:19:27 +0000

LPM MEX 2008 – LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING
4.5.6 SEPTEMBER 2008, Xalapa, Veracruz – Mexico

LIVE VIDEO PERFORMERS, VISUAL ARTISTS AND VJ MEETING

LPM – Live Performers Meeting: international meeting of live video performers, visual artists and vjs is ready to launch its first edition in America Latina!

For the first time LPM moves over the ocean from 4th to 6th September to meet the broad part of south-american community, who has always followed the meeting and the FLxER community since its first initiatives.

The Escuela Gestalt de Diseño and the MUTYE – Museo del Transporte y Exposiciones in Xalapa (Veracruz, Messico), will be the venues of this sixth edition of LPM.

LPM 2008 maintains the spirit of a meeting, which has been its main characteristic since the first edition. It is conceived to be a place for comparison and exchange of informations and ideas between vjs, visual artists, live-video performers and passionate of arts and digital technologies who usually meet in the “virtual” space of the net.

LPM is a no-profit organization and experimentation is one of the founding elements in our ideology, for this reason all the saved founds from the previous editions of the meeting are invested in the most innovative technologies to support the Event and to enhance the research activity in the live visual field.

To check the themes of this upcoming edition, please read the concept on LPM website.
http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2008mex/concept/
For further informations about this edition and to check the archive of the past editions, please visit the LPM website:
http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/

LPM Staff is ready to answer to your questions and hope that you can contribute to the success of this new adventure with your partecipation!!!

LPM is produced by Flyer Commnunication (www.flyer.it) and Fabrik project (www.fabrikproject.com.mx), organized by FLxER.net (www.FLxER.net), thanks to the collaboration of our international network.