Synesthesia Recordings

The intention of the NoiseFloor festival is to draw together forms of exploratory electronic music from a range of disciplines and place them together in one single event. The festival will include music which has been composed as an outcome of academic research, as well as music which has been created for commercial release or performance. Visitors will be able to explore both the multi-channel Electroacoustic concert situation, as well as the two channel club setting. By maintaining the individual identities and qualities of both of these listening environments, the festival aims to entice people to investigate music which might sit outside of their current area of interest.

The festival will be constructed from a series of concerts, papers and installations between 12th and 14th of January 2011. The concerts which will present Electroacoustic works in an 8 channel diffusion setting. Other forms of electronic music will be showcased in a less formal two channel setting. Installations and papers will be running throughout the festival.

Friday 14th January 2011
17:00 Concert 8 – Fixed Media

Andrew Dolphin (Mint Cascade)
Ben Ramsay (Low-bypass)
Erik Nyström (Far from equilibrium)
Guillaume Côté (Static)
Jason Bolte (change in the summation)
Lee Fraser (Narrows)
U.S.O. Project (Adaptive SCALAR Morphologies)
Sarah Mackenzie (The Burrow)
Sarah O’Halloran (Like No Other Birds)
Sébastien Béranger (Schizo à 120)

U.S.O. Project – ASM__//Adaptive_SCALAR_Morphologies (excerpt) by synesthesiarecs

[read more: 2011 programme]

“Legami di sangue” is an exhibition taking place at the Contemporary Art Museum in Nocciano (PE) as a way to investigate what can tie the Abruzzi Region to the Lombardy Region in Italy.
‘Legami di sangue’ aims to underline the connection of old between North and South, but also becomes a way for the Museum in Nocciano to celebrate the oncoming 150th anniversary of Italy union.

The exhibition compares 5 artists from Lombardy to 5 from the Abruzzi and hosts art professionals from both Regions, wishing to find new solutions and ties that would hopefully be beneficial to either parts. VisualContainer has been invited by Ivan d’Alberto, the Museum director, to join the exhibition programme and the talk, and will present a two-video selection investigating such connection between North and South Italy and questioning contemporarity.

Iginio De Luca: L’urdemo emigrante (2008)
U.S.O. Project + Selfish: Girl Running (2009)

Chosen artists are as it follows:

for the Abruzzi – Andrea Berardinucci, Igor Cascella, Carlo Federico, Alessandro Rietti ande Giacomo Sabatini;
for Lombardy – Lisa Dalfino, Igino De Luca, Luigi D’Eugenio, Valentina Garbagnati and U.S.O. Project + Selfish (Matteo Milani, Federico Placidi e Giovanni Antignano). Each artist will present a work that best esemplifies his/her creative language with respect to the exhibition’s theme.

Schermi Sonori – selection of environmental electroacoustic music

Live mixing and spatialization by U.S.O. Project
Video / Lights: Selfish (Giovanni Antignano)

U.S.O. Project, thanks to the collaboration of Electronic Music Foundation, accompanies the listener through a journey among different sound environments, characterized by an objective presence in the form of ‘found sounds’ and by a subjective element known as electroacoustic composition. The performance will take advantage of acousmatic performance practice called ’spatial diffusion’, creating a seamless sound flow between different works from internationally renowned artists.

International festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic art

[a project by AntiTesi (Domenico Sciajno) and U.S.O. Project in collaboration with O' and Die Schachtel]

PARTNERS: Roland Italy, SMAP (San Marino Audio Project), MIC (Music Information Centre Norway)

WHERE: O ‘via Pastrengo 12; Medionauta via Confalonieri 2; VisualContainer via Confalonieri 11, Milano | Isola Passante Ferroviario/M2 Garibaldi, M3 Zara, tram 2, 4, 7, 31, bus 82, 70, 43

HOW: All events are free except for the workshop (for which there is a fee of 60 euros) – and for the evenings at Medionauta (5 euro membership card).

INFO:
Antitesi www.antitesi.org
iXem www.ixem.it

Full program here: iXem Press ENG (pdf)

@ Live!iXem 2010 – Edition VII
International festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic art

Aims of laboratory

Explore through the knowledge of digital recording techniques the universe sound belonging to the “places”;

Discuss some aspects of the use of specific material in electronic and instrumental composition.

Speakers: Alessandro Massobrio, Fabio Orsi, Natasha Barrett
Curated by Matteo Milani, Federico Placidi (U.S.O. Project) and Domenico Sciajno

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“Empty Rooms” instances itself as an audio-visual self-organized performance space.
The paradigm itself discloses a synesthetic approach between the “aural” and “visual” experiences.
A Movie made of “inactive-real spaces” is projected on a screen.
An overlapped stream of pre-recorded “sound activities” is then diffused from 4 different iPods running in shuffle mode, creating recombinant “invisible actions” to fit into the Movie.
A self organizing link between sound and visuals is established via cybernetic procedures defined as interconnected spin networks, produced by a video camera “observing” the movie and by one microphone “listening” to the space placed inside the performance Locus.
A Digital Sound Processor is then engaged in order to compute the data and perform real-time evaluations between the different types of numerical information (audio-video), producing a “sonorous response” to the asynchronous stream of audio-visual contents.
The synthesized information is then diffused in the performance space again through 4 loudspeakers.

Various types of feedback will take place during this highly dynamic process implying a self regulating behavior that will establish new connections between the pacing of the movie locations and the “sonorous” content produced by the processing of the iPod sound streams.

The Observer will then experience the following layers of information:
- a Real-Time recombinant Movie made of “inactive” locations.
- an Overlapped Stream of “possible actions” diffused by the iPods that fits into the Movie.
- a Sonorous link between the above domains of activities via 4 full range loudspeakers.

The Observer can take into account one or more layers of information (even all of them) in order to create himself a cinematic experience via a correlation process.

usoproject.com/​video/​Empty_Rooms_eng_booklet.pdf
usoproject.com/​video/​Empty_Rooms_Technical_Rider.pdf

[visit www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:64293]

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]