Drones in Din

The Pixelache Software of the Year 2012 title is this time given to din – din is noise.

din is a Free software musical instrument exclusively for the GNU/ Linux operating system made by the Indian programmer S. Jagannathan.
din – din is noise presents an innovative way of generating live music from a simple visual interface based on Bezier curves, and is a good example of how creative and DIY technologies can foster new approaches and solutions that escapes the leading rules of the software industry.

It forgets history,
To not repeat it.
It doesnt hide analog music hardware,
In digital music software.

You had pulse, sine, triangle and sawtooth,
And went forth and made electronic music.

Now there is just the Bezier curve.

Pixelache Software of the Year is an initiative by Pixelache Network, started in 2008. The chosen software for the first year was Animata, a live animation software by Kitchen Budapest. In 2010 it was divided between the live CD distributions pure:dyne by GOTO10 and APODIO by APO33.

More information:
www.piksel.no
www.pixelache.ac
din – din is noise: http://dinisnoise.org

BEAM Festival main venue

BEAM was organized by Sarah Nicolls and her team at Brunel University. BEAM (consistently) stands for Brunel electronic and analog music, and the event was pretty much about it. Curiously enough the main venue was a building named after Antonin Artaud.
Whereas the hospitality of the organization was very good and informal (and I do appreciate that, specially for “academic” events), the strongest aspect though was an incredibly heterogeneous, yet top-notch line up.
BEAM managed to bring together some of the most advanced – both aesthetically and technically – live acts around Europe. Me and Christos Michalakos were awarded a bursary for “outstanding work”, respectively for the pieces Music for Flesh II and Frrriction, and got to perform in the main, awesome concert hall along with old and new friends. Among the others, the line up included Stelarc, Atau Tanaka and Adam Parkinson (CultureLab, Newcastle), Ryan Jordan (Noise=Noise, London), Dj Sniff and Alex Nowitz (STEIM, Amsterdam), Ben Knapp and his team (SARC, Ireland), Chikashi Miyama (ZKM, Germany), your writer and my colleague Christos (SLE, Edinburgh).

Stelarc | Prosthetic Head

Atau Tanaka & Adam Parkinson | 4Hands iPhone

Ryan Jordan | Channelling interferences

Dj Sniff

Alex Nowitz

Philip Jeck giving a live solo set just before the sleepover

Chikashi Miyama | Angry Sparrow

Marco Donnarumma | Music for Flesh II

Christos Michalakos | Frrriction

The performances program was complemented by an equally interesting array of audio installations, workshops and hands-on DIY sessions. Some good and original ideas were materialized in the labyrinth-like corridors of the Artaud building – such as the Stroviols project – and I gladly realized that the workshop were actually a pretty important aspect of the event, offering several hours a day of open sessions hosted by the practitioners present at the event.

Audio installation at BEAM

Aleks Kolkowski | A noise of strohviols

DIY workshop session at BEAM

STEIM crackle box

I’m sorry the pictures are not the best, I struggled a bit with the lighting at the main venue, but I hope you can imagine the lovely mood.
I highly recommend to keep an eye on this event, Sarah seems to be already working on the next edition and also accepting proposals… I’m personally very much looking forward to it!

Here you are the latest release by noise artist Noish~.

This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it
under the terms of Yves Degoyon's license

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the noise published here can be studied,
modified, used by anyone that
provides all the original credits
and sources in derivative projects.

there are restrictions on its use,
it cannot be used for :

* military amd/or repressive use
* commercial installations and products
* any project that promotes : racism, nationalism, xenophobia, sexism,
homophobia, religious hatred or missionarism .. ( expandable list)

this is not a standard license.

sevy.

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The Third Guthman Musical Instrument Competition – Call for Entrees – Deadline Extended to October 15th

glitchNES | Screenshots by Vince Veneziani | Gearfuse.com

Deadline: August 20, 2010

Download Pdf http://gli.tc/h/glitchcon_cfe_rough_7_10_10_em.pdf

CALL FOR ENTRIES: GLI.TC/H

**********http://gli.tc/h ***********
GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010!

GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists, hackers, moshers, dirty mediators, noise makers, circuit benders, p/h/i/l/o/s/o/p/h/e/r/s, and those who find wonder in that which others call broken.

GLI.TC/H seeks: Realtime + time-based performances (audio/video), utilizing broken/bent technologies/strategies. Workshops, sharing knowledge of hardware/software hacking, cracking, breaking, kludging, piracy, & tool building. Artworks and Projects, artware, videos, games, films, tapes, code, interventions, screen-captures, systems, websites & installations. Texts, lectures, essays, code, articles, & hypermedia.

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send an email to glitch [at] gli [dot] tc
link to your work, abstract, or other documentation
please include a short explanation and your bio
let us know your geolocation and if you want to physically (or electronically) attend the conference. If applicable, send spatial, technical or temporal requirements for the project.
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GLI.TC/H
submissions: glitch [at] gli [dot] tc
queries: i [at] gli [dot] tc
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Extracts from Ex Klangst Schwartz Manifesto

“It was the moment. A transitional period when suddenly there were no rules worth respecting.”
Mark Cunningham – Mars – about the No Wave scene
2004 April

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Living our lives as observers inside of the society, crashing and raising again, we feel the same conditions surrounding us – no rules worth respecting.
We cannot draw the line between normality and paranoia, we cannot define the border between rationality and absurdity anymore. Loosing  respect to the uniqueness and beauty of the human being, trying to save ourselves.

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Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan is not meant to be classified as any genre type, does not mind to analize any common content, does not create and compose inside of the written rules.

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Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan does not compromise its feelings with gifts of technology, but express them freely playing with its own instruments, voices and images.

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Ex Klangst Schwartz Swan play augmented musical instruments transforming its natural sound in unexpected realm of sounds, noises and voices.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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