Sound
Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour
M+ and Hong Kong Arts Development Council co-present the first stop of Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour. Following Hong Kong's successful participation in the 57th Venice Biennale the exhibition returns to Hong Kong along with specially commissioned pieces through which the artist aims to offer a more holistic experience.... READ MORE...
La Digestion. Interview with William Basinski and Phonurgia
The second edition of La Digestion - musica ascoltata raramente is coming, a festival dedicated to research music, result of the collaboration between the cultural association Phonurgia, E-M Arts, the Morra Foundation and the Hermann Nitsch Museum in Naples. Concerts, workshops, and immersive listening moments will turn the city into a centre for debate on digital and performing arts.... READ MORE...
CTM Festival 2018 – Turmoil
The theme of this 19th edition of CTM, Turmoil, explores the state of music and sound practices in comparison with a confused and critical present. Ten days of tumultuous non-stop festival in various venues in Berlin will be followed by the already announced closing concert with an afterparty and a final performance.... READ MORE...
Muta Metu #3: Frankenstein OVO live
Thursday 7 December at Cinema Beltrade in Milano, Marco Mancuso will curate the third chapter of the Muta Metu series - Silent films with sound environments and retellings between noise and electronic experiments: Frankenstein by James Whale, 1931, with live sound by OVO... READ MORE...
Florian Hecker. Hallucination, Perspective, Synthesis
German artist Florian Hecker works with synthetic sounds, performances, and installations dealing with issues surrounding compositional developments in post-war modernity and late-19th-century psychophysics. For his new show, he has transformed Kunsthalle Wien's exhibition space into a stage for sound events that exceed linguistic description and categorization.... READ MORE...
Instrumentarium. Interview with Jean-François Laporte
The composer Jean-François Laporte assembles simple objects to transform them into real musical instruments, sometimes controlled by electronic devices. With their strong installation presence these artifacts are linked not only to the musical world but also to the performing arts and theatre, in a perfect balance on the line that connects the concepts of object, artifact and instrument.... READ MORE...
Bill Fontana: Shadow Soundings
Bill Fontana realized a new immersive sound and video installation expecially for MAAT’s Oval Gallery in Lisbon. Shadow soundings was created from the sounds and vibrations of the 25th of April Bridge and the Tagus River amplifying them until they acquire a musical quality.... READ MORE...
Drawn from a Score
Currently on view at Beall Center for Art + Technology, an exhibition that features artists whose works come directly from a written, visual or code-based score. From the event scores first developed by John Cage and Fluxus artists in the 1950s, to contemporary uses of code as a score for computational works.... READ MORE...
Sounds Like Her
Curated by Christine Eyene, Sounds Like Her explores and challenges existing approaches to sound art, questioning of its patriarchal and Eurocentric patterns. The exhibition represents new perspectives; re-framing how we experience the dynamic of sound as practiced by women from diverse cultures and gender identities.... READ MORE...
Nuove geografie del suono, di Leandro Pisano
Uno dei punti di forza dell'ultimo libro di Leandro Pisano sta nella sua attitudine a mantenere l'impianto teorico in dialogo costante con alcune pratiche della sound art contemporanea. Dall'analisi delle teorie del suono contemporanee fino all'indagine di alcune opere secondo un approccio acustemologico, Pisano apre prospettive di nuove connessioni tra teoria e prassi.... READ MORE...
Score as a thinking tool. Interview with Samson Young
The work of Samson Young takes the form of different media, connecting music to visuality through video and drawing. Following a particular interest in composition, this interview permits an insight into scores as structuring and organizing tools of experience attempting to understand the contemporary social constrains and possibilities.... READ MORE...
Digicult is media partner of the Live Cinema Festival 2017
Digicult is partner of the 2017 edition of Live Cinema Festival. 89 artists from Brazil, Italy, Spain, Latvia, Turkey, Slovenia, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria, France, Serbia, Belgium, Romania, Germany, Hungary, Poland, United Kingdom, Greece, Iran playing 19 performances, workshops and showcases.... READ MORE...
CTM 2018 – Turmoil
Half a year after an unforgettable 2017 Festival, it has begun to lay the groundwork for the 19th edition of CTM Festival – the last "teenage" festival before the celebration of twenty years of creative exchange and collaboration in 2019. CTM Festival is very excited to announce the dates and theme for this next 2018 edition that will take place from 26 January to 4 February 2018 at various Berlin venues... READ MORE...
A2410 Festival: a cultural bivouac that is born at the top of North Grigna
A2410 is a cultural bivouac that is born at the top of North Grigna, the highest peak of the Grigne group. A2410 is promoted by CAI Milano Rifugio Luigi Brioschi, produced by the Cultural Association Mobeel and is directed by Francesco Bertelé.... READ MORE...
A passionate report from Sónar+D: where technology and art industries convert
This year’s Sónar+D seems to be better than ever. With an incredible line-up and a focus on experimental research, the festival is not only about music. Businesses and companies were actively participating in the events, creating virtual reality and A.I. experiences as well as immersive systems... READ MORE...
The age of Electroacustics. Transforming Science and Sound
In his book "The age of Electroacustics", published by MIT Press, Roland Wittje traces the history of acoustics during the interwar period, leading an enquiry theoretically grounded in the physics and its transformation into the so called ‘technical acoustics’ or electroacoustic.... READ MORE...
Sonar+D: Creativity, Technology & Business
Sónar+D, the congress dedicated to creative technologies which will take place in Barcelona on June 14, 15, 16 and 17, announces today the program for its 2017 edition. The congress will bring together more than 100 activities, 180 speakers and around 5,000 accredited professionals from 2,100 companies and 60 countries. During 4 days, key figures and projects shaping the future of design, music and creative technologies will assemble in Barcelona.... READ MORE...