Jon Leidecker, curator :: VARIATIONS, a podcast series on the history of appropriative music :: Ràdio Web MACBA :: A compilation of all the episodes available so far of the ongoing series by the plunderphonic musician and historian Jon Leidecker :: See below for podcast and transcript info.

The idea of a completely original piece of music is fairly recent. Music was passed on through sound, through generations, even for centuries after the invention of written music. Only in the 14th century did it become standard practice for a composer to sign his name to a piece of music and claim it entirely as his own, giving rise to the cult of the individual composer. Continue reading

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is now accepting proposals for its Turbulence.org Commissions Program. The deadline for New York practitioners is May 31, 2012; June 30, 2012 for everyone else. The Application Guidelines are here.

Turbulence.org is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 16 years it has commissioned, exhibited and archived over 200 works. We are also in the process of archiving the collection at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. You can read about the project in Virtueel Platform Research: Archiving the Digital by Annet Dekker and Rachel Somers-Miles.

Art.Tech.NOW — A Night of Art, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at MIT :: Art.Tech.NOW! is an event centered around art, technology, and entrepreneurship. A collaboration between MIT and SMFA, the event will feature dinner, a speaker, a design-a-thon, startup-demos, a student art show, and a startup booth :: May 16th, 2012 from 6-9 p.m. :: at the Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship (E40-160):: Spots are limited ::

To sign up, please go here: http://bit.ly/arttechsignup. For more details on the event, please visit: http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/arttechnow

Soundboxes Workshop with Derek Holzer :: May 26 & 27, 2012, Time 11-19 :: Presentation Sunday May 27, 2012; Time 20.00 (venue TBA) :: Location: NK Projekt, Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage, 12059 Berlin :: Fee: EUR 35 (participation) + EUR 10 (materials) Registration is required and can be done by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de with the subject line “SoundBoxes” ::

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Here’s an exploration of Atticus Adams’ “Cloud Portal” set to “Spinning Steel” from Weis’ CD “Excitable Audible.” Continue reading

Radius : Episode 23 will host Radio Cegeste. Sally Ann McIntyre lives in Dunedin, New Zealand, and works with radio, sound and writing. She runs the mini FM station Radio Cegeste as a project based platform for live transmission art :: April 28 & 29 at 12am CST ::

Radius will broadcast “dear friends who have died are all talking to me tonight / all at once”. As a site-specific, spectator-less, solo performance, “dear friends who have died are all talking to me tonight / all at once” re-constructs and re-imagines personal and public memory through the medium of transmission, as an appropriate framework for uncertain, shifting structural and social realities. Continue reading

free103point9 and the Greene County Council on the Arts are pleased to present, Transmittal, an exhibition offering Greene County residents and visitors a window into Transmission Arts: at the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY :: opening reception: April 28, 2012 from 5-7:00 p.m. :: Curated by Galen Joseph-Hunter, free103point9’s Executive Director ::

The exhibition features an international and local roster of artists and organizations whose work celebrates the interdisciplinary nature of Transmission Arts and is made manifest in video, sound, radio, installation, performance, and work-on-paper. Continue reading

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk):: Thursday May 3rd, 2012 at 8pm :: CCRMA Stage, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, 660 Lomita Dr., Stanford, CA 94305-8180 USA :: tel: (650) 723-4971 :: free and open to the public ::

SLorktastic Chamber Music 2012 presents all new works for electronic chamber music, by members of the SLOrk ensemble and seminar. You are cordially invited to join them in exploring new sonic spaces + musical places with instruments and performances crafted for humans, laptops, iPads, and hemispherical speaker arrays.

For more details, visit: http://slork.stanford.edu/events/2012/slorktastic/

Toni Dove’s Spectropia :: May 4, 2012 and May 5, 2012 8:00 p.m. :: at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 :: (917) 267-0363 :: Featuring Toni Dove, R. Luke Dubois, Elliott Sharp and the ‘31 Band with special guest vocalist Barbara Sukowa

“…it’s just plain cool to watch. Highly recommended.” - Jeremy Barker (Culturebot)

Over two nights, MAY 4 and 5 ROULETTE will present two radically different aspects of Toni Dove’s Spectropia. A sci-fi hybrid with themes of time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir, Spectropia features live VJs orchestrating onscreen characters through a mix of film, performance, and a system of motion sensing that serves as a cinematic instrument. For more information on Spectropia, visit http://tonidove.com/blog. Continue reading

Krieger’s project is to develop an interactive video improvisation for electric cello and computer using the realtime capabilities of MAX/MSP/Jitter software.

“I am sharing this project at an early stage of its development because I hope you might be interested in supporting the work. I am aiming to raise an amount by May 30th to cover artist fees and tools necessary to complete the project. If you can support this project with a donation, in any capacity, together we can make this idea a reality! Sharing the project with others and sending me your thoughts are also very valuable ways to show your support.”

Want to learn more? Click here:
http://www.usaprojects.org/project/videocello_an_interactive_video_improvisation_for_electric_cello_and_computer