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CTM 2021 Festival, the 22nd edition: Transformation

CTM 2021 Festival: “Transformation” aims to respond to some of the challenges facing arts and culture in these exceptional times. This 100% online edition is an attempt to experiment with new digital formats, see how CTM can continue to support ongoing artistic work, and find moments of interaction and togetherness as a remote music community and audience.... READ MORE...

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The Warp presents the performance installation Unloomed #1

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From January 17 to February 14, Zone2Source and The Warp present a performance installation, Unloomed #1, with 1001 strings, laser light and sound, visible and audible around the Glass House. Park visitors can experience Unloomed #1 daily from the outside, the best time is around dusk.... READ MORE...

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Luigi Turra, profeta del vuoto e dell’invisibile

Caterina Tomeo

Turra, sound artist, compositore riduzionista, elettroacustico ed esperto di musica concreta, ha presentato un nuovo lavoro che esplora l’equilibrio acustico tra il silenzio e la percezione tattile del suono, temi centrali della sua ricerca. L'opera, "Tactile.Surface" (2019), indaga in modo radicale ed alchemico l’utilizzo sia delle tecniche analogiche sia digitali per manipolare e ri-assemblare i suoni.... READ MORE...

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“UN-TACT”, Asian video and sound art

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Asia Culture Center holds 2020 ACC Gwangju & Asian artists exhibition UN-TACT from October 15, 2020 to March 14, 2021. In this exhibition, seven young artists with unique voices keenly respond to the rapid changes taking place in the here and now, and they present their projects as a forum for discussion and deliberation on our post-pandemic lives.... READ MORE...

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NOTON signs sound-artist and producer Saele Valese

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NOTON signs Italian-born, Bern-based sound-artist and producer Saele Valese. In IVIC, his debut LP, Saele Valese, distills hauntological noise, droning tonal experiments and minimalist rhythms into a series of electro-acoustic-wave ventures written over five years in Berlin, Saas-Fee and Thun.... READ MORE...

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Morgan Doctor’s “STRANGERS”, a telematic and transmedia art project

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Aporia is proud to announce the launch of Morgan Doctor’s "STRANGERS", a telematic and transmedia art project that reimagines the traditional definition of the ‘album’ together with the traditional role of the “record label”. "STRANGERS" explores the actions of connecting and disconnecting, and the fragile boundary between intimacy and estrangement.... READ MORE...

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The exhibition “COLONY SOUND” is a sensory total experience

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ARoS Aarhus Art Museum presents the American artist duo Freeman & Lowe with a comprehensive exhibition in terms of both set design and content. COLONY SOUND is a unique and sensory total experience, staging the transition to a post-apocalyptic and dystopian future.... READ MORE...

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“Transient”, an audiovisual concert as part of Romaeuropa Festival

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"Transient", an audiovisual concert for two motorised pianos and two conductors in collaboration with generative algorithms, aiming at rethinking the traditional artistic techniques in the context of human-machine relationship.... READ MORE...

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“Hum”: the radical forms of collective and sonic agency

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For her upcoming solo exhibition at Portikus, Hajra Waheed realises an indoor, site-specific iteration of "Hum" (2020), a large-scale multi-channel musical composition and sound installation that employs the ubiquitous yet overlooked medium of humming as a means to explore radical forms of collective and sonic agency.... READ MORE...

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Heroarky’s new tracks to fight self-isolation

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"Amid fear and panic spreading, we are also discovering how fast we can actually respond to a global threat if we are willing to do so."... READ MORE...

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The Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

Leandro Pisano

What are the political potentials of listening? How does sound define the crossing of the territories of contemporaneity, of the differences in race, gender, social belonging? Salomé Voegelin continues her analysis on listening practices in her new book. Interview by Leandro Pisano... READ MORE...

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Mark Garry’s multidimensional approach: the exhibition “Songs and the Soil”

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The exhibition is comprised of a series of installations and individual works under the combined title "Songs and the Soil" and it engages with the related subjects of landscape and music/sound, looking at each element from historical, social and cultural perspectives.... READ MORE...

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La nuova Sonosfera, un teatro unico al mondo per l’ascolto tridimensionale di ecosistemi e di musica

Caterina Tomeo

Il 6 gennaio 2020 è stato inaugurato il primo teatro eco-acustico d’Italia, presso Palazzo Mosca sede dei Musei Civici a Pesaro, Città Creativa Unesco della Musica.... READ MORE...

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Fanfare, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Nevin Aladağ

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Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space presents Fanfare, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Nevin Aladağ (b. 1972, Van, Turkey). The exhibition brings together videos and sculptures that use sound, rhythm and music to address the differences and tensions between cultures.... READ MORE...

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Carl Craig in “Party/After-Party”: the intersection between techno and Minimalist sound

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Dia Art Foundation has commissioned acclaimed techno DJ and producer Carl Craig to create a sound installation at Dia Beacon in Beacon, New York, in dialogue with the unique architecture of the space. To mark the opening of Carl Craig’s new commission "Party/After-Party",  Dia presents a live performance by Craig and Moritz von Oswald within the installation space.... READ MORE...

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Il Manifesto del Futurismo Rurale. Nuove geografie per territori al margine.

Pasquale Napolitano

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Adversarial Feelings. Interview with Lorem

Teresa Ruffino

How does the algorithm interpret our irrational demeanors? Is it able to simulate our emotions and to learn the characteristics that are typical of human personality? Lorem with the project Adversarial Feelings analyses the interaction between human and machine with different expressive media: musical, textual and audiovisual. Interview by Teresa Ruffino.... READ MORE...

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La vibrazione primaria delle piante. Plants Dub: un progetto di musica vegetale

Andrea Mi

Ricerche scientifiche recenti dimostrano ampiamente che le piante emettono suoni e frequenze non percepibili dall’orecchio umano. Plants Dub ha pensato di lavorare sull’intelligenza comunicativa delle piante e hanno scoperto che, spesso, essa si svolge per via di uno scambio di segnali elettrochimici, trasformati dal duo in suono.... READ MORE...

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