Synesthesia Recordings

Sound artist and composer Agostino Di Scipio discusses his compositions with Federico Placidi at usoproject.com. He imagines a possible life cycle of electronic/electric music:

FP: What would happen to your works if one day there were no more possibility to perform it in a socially shared space? Where could it migrate, and how could it reconfigure itself?

AdS: If one day there were no more transducers (I mean microphones, loudspeakers, the tympanic membrane of human ear, even the skin maybe…) acting as interfaces between air pressure waves and nervous-electrical measures, my work and the work of a lot of other people would stop existing, it would cease. Fine so! It happened so many times in history. The music of the British virginalists, a few centuries ago, disappeared because of the extinction of their very instrument (the virginale, existing in several fashions across Europe). Then, just like it happens today with Renaissance music, at some point so-called ‘philologically informed’ interpretative approaches would be proposed, and these older technologies would be revived and again built.

[via disquiet.com]

Nachtmusik aus 01 (SYN-004)

InharmoniCity (SYN-002)

Unidentified Sound Object (SYN-001)

[synesthesiarecordings.bandcamp.com]

ART STAYS, International festival of Contemporary Art, is with ART PTUJ the main annual visual art event in the region of Ptuj (Slovenia). It started in 2003 as a visual art workshop for young European artists. This year’s programme includes 10-day residency working sessions and several four-week-long exhibitions (20th July – 30th August 2010).

The 8th edition of ART STAYS 2010 will host over 50 artists from 15 different countries: Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland, USA, Bulgary, Great Britain, Austria, Singapore, Australia, Finland and Ireland and 4 continents: Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

The forthcoming edition will feature a total of 40 artists including painters, video artists, performers, graphic designers, sculptors, media and sound artists that will be present in 5 European national pavilions: Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and in 5 additional international projects: Video art, New media exchange Main USA, Performing art, Site specific projects, Art Factory.

[artstays.si]

Chosen by curators:

Raphel Di Luzio, Dušan Fišer, Jernej Forbici, Vladimir Forbici, Manuel Frara, Gabriela Kisová, Patrik Loschert, Omar Mirza, Domenico Papa, Laszlo Laszlo Revesz, Marika Vicari.

CONTACT-S
Luoghi dell’Arte Contemporanea

CONTACT-S - multimedia and multisensory language of contemporary art

Opening from May 29th to June 18th, 2010, from Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 16.30
@ Liceo Artistico Giorgio de Chirico, Torre Annunziata, NA

“Schermi Sensibili”, an event showing the evolution and dynamics of the visual language associated with experimental “moving images”.

The exhibition is organized in partnership with Visualcontainer, Media archive (Milan).

[isadechirico.it]
[Press Release - pdf]

DENTRO !
“Arti in scena dal vivo”
A festival which focuses on atypical forms related to the world of performing arts.
8-18 April 2010

Featuring U.S.O. Project+Selfish
Screenings: Girl Running / Invisible Words

Presented by:
[florenceartfactory.com]
[laboratorionove.it]

SoundImageSound VII
mini-Festival of Experimental Music and Video

Girl Running, an excerpt from InharmoniCity, has been selected for presentation at the VII edition of SoundImageSound.

The screening is scheduled for Friday, March 26th at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

3:00 – 11:00 PM
Conservatory of Music
University of the Pacific
3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton

In its seventh season SoundImageSound presents work that is created through technology and can only be experienced in a unique performance setting, blending sound and visual image in an experience often described as intermedia. Through video and multi-channel audio, SoundImageSound VII envelopes the audience in unimagined sounds and moving images.

Events:
The Installation – with long format works by Ge-Suk Yeo and Wil Bolton

The Concert – featuring works by:
Betsy Kopmar, Bill Alves, Alan Callander, U.S.O. – Unidentified Sound Object/Selfish, Tara Cooper, Rodney Waschka/Zlatko Cosic, Debashis Sinha, and Daniel Blinkhorn

Late Night at the Lair – works by Jeffrey Hass, Henry Gwiazda, Betsy Kopmar, and more

[Details: www.pacific.edu]

[For information about previous events: ~rcoburn]

How Much
International Contemporary Art Exhibition
Nicosia – Cyprus
17th March – 3rd April 2010

c/o
Cyprus International University
Faculty of Fine Arts
Nicosia, North Cyprus
www.ciu.edu.tr

This project questions the change in the process of modernization and the mood of thinking and the daily life. In the meantime, it creates play areas for human.

Curator: Nail Ozlusoylu
Supported by the Department of Culture (North Cyprus) and Cyprus International University.

Artists:

Elena Arzuffi
Domestic parkour
04′ 32″
2007

Maria Korporal
Passing by
7′39″
2008

Pietro Mele
Ottana
11′46″
2008

Patrizia Monzani
Stadt-Fisch
05′ 00″
2006

U.S.O. + Selfish
Girl Running
9′ 00″
2009

Visualcontainer Italian videoart Distributor and promotion
Curator: Giorgio Fedeli
www.visualcontainer.org
www.visualcontainer.tv

Sorry for the delay in issuing the verdict, but the submissions were numerous, and it was difficult to choose the winners. We decided to publish more than one work, since many were worthy and consistent to the subject of the call. We have rewarded the ability to work within the perceptual aspects of the composition, the consistency of the materials, the recognizability of the elements of timbre, dynamics and perspective.
The album will be released in digital format (via iTunes and other digital shops) and on Compact Cassette, limited edition (80 pieces). This looks like the most suitable media to represent the spirit of the project.

[Photo Courtesy of fiftyfootshadows]

Here are the winners (works for recorded media alone):

Volker Hennes – “eromenoi erastai”
Chris Mercer – “deification”
Jeroen Visser – “The Spanning”
Ian Helliwell – “Convergence”

In the coming weeks we will keep you informed about the album’s production status.

Matteo Milani & Federico Placidi

What I like minimalistic improvisational electronics for is its intimacy, one can even say “homeness”. It seems that it is right here, very close, is creeping and fluttering hoping to leave its deep and significant trace in life of those to whom it had to penetrate. You listen and see musicians, designers hunched up at their laptops, with their virtual or rather tangible controllers ruling the sound surrounding space. They change the picture, on some transparent body of airy mass they scrap their abstract messages. Like an Italian duet Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi making project U.S.O. Project, the title of which stands for Unidentified Sound Object. That’s really problematic to identify the sources of the sounds, manipulated by Milani and Placidi in their latest work Nachtmusik aus 01. I suppose there’s double bass accompanying live project in 2006 (this record can be found on YouTube). Be it so or not, here’s of no doubt the material originally born on this planet without using computers and synthesizers. Though under creative manipulations’ influence it turns into a voluminous, rustling, squeaking, droning audio structure, unique sound object. One can creep abreast with it, run along flat surfaces rounding obstacles one by one. Happen to be in one big room with them. The hell with room – inside a huge hangar! Hangar filled with cases, boxes, technique, radios, light devices producing dull light… Carefully move through the dark, narrow paths looking back and taking a breath to avoid a sudden attack of claustrophobia… pi micron

Sound Proector is an experimental music webzine.

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Our latest audiovisual work “InharmoniCity” will be featured during the 4th edition of the Streaming Festival, with screenings from the 20th to 30th of November 2009.

The Streaming Festival focuses on artistic and innovative audio visual art and film. This event takes place on the internet, where films are broadcast full screen with high image quality. It’s organized by the isfth foundation, a non-profit foundation based in The Hague (The Netherlands) that provides support for projects that encourage the understanding of audiovisual art.

Anyone with an internet connection can plug into a festival stream from any location, at any given time and start watching contemporary art and films.

Streaming Festival: InharmoniCity

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