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

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...

The exhibition “COLONY SOUND” is a sensory total experience

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...

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

"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...

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

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...

Heroarky’s new tracks to fight self-isolation

"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...

The Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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Adversarial Feelings. Interview with Lorem

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...

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

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...

“Objects and Sounds”. Le immagini come tentativo di rappresentare i suoni stessi

Nel cuore del quartiere San Lorenzo di Roma, si trova il Pastificio Cerere che costituisce un importante spazio di sperimentazione per la capitale. Negli anni Settanta il Pastifico Cerere è stato trasformato da spazio industriale – fabbrica di farina e di pane che riforniva la capitale – a luogo deputato all’arte con un unico obiettivo: condividere l’ideologia del fare e dell’operare come terreno culturale nel quale discutere e incontrarsi ogni giorno. Report di Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Sound Art?

The Fundació Joan Miró presents "Sound Art?", an exhibition which reassesses the notion of sound in art and considers the possibility of this category. The show, sponsored by the BBVA Foundation, is set up as a journey tracing the imprint of the sound element in twentieth-century visual arts and led by curator Arnau Horta.... READ MORE...

Digital mistakes and 3D lies. Interview with Karol Sudolski

Teresa Ruffino interviews Karol Sudolski, a young creative currently based in Milan. Together they talk about his introduction to the world of video before, and music after, both happened by accident and about the representation through a visual form of his thoughts in what he defines as the landscape of paranoia.... READ MORE...

Celebrating the roots of automated music. Interview with Volkmar Klien

Marco Aruga interviewed Volkmar Klien, sound artist and curator of Artificial Intelligence x Music Festival 2019. Celebrating the roots of “automated” music, the AIxMusic Festival got inspiration also from antique and baroque music, with a program spanning from Monteverdi to contemporary sounds.... READ MORE...

Invisibility: torna l’universo sonico di Ombre Lunghe

Bologna ospita la quarta edizione di Ombre Lunghe dal 17 al 19 ottobre. Tema di questa edizione è l’invisibilità, archetipo mitico che percorre alla stessa velocità il tempo e lo spazio umani.... READ MORE...