What is: the company SapientNitro built a sound-based installation for ABSOLUT India in which sounds emitted from the bottles are activated by sensors triggered by the location of people.
Amazing idea: an international brand uses quintessential sounds from the culture of a country to provide a novel multisensorial experience for consumers.
Full story: SapientNitro
What is: In 26 towns of Central America a 150 feet tall steel Christmas tree with sounds and lights is installed in order to play a daily 11 minutes multisensory show for people all around.
Amazing idea: 6 Spectr Audio SPX1538 (2-way/15-inch) loudspeakers are attached to the tree’s structure at a height of 20 feet, in order to create a 360-degree soundscape with a power of 95 dB for people staying at a distance of 75 feet.
Full story: ProSound Web
The new edition of the Sonic Acts festival will held in Amsterdam on 23-26 February 2012. Travelling Time is the name of the theme of this year, which is completely dedicated to the human experience of time. As in the words of the curators:
Time dictates our schedule; time gives us structure. But in fact, there is nothing so complex and ambiguous as time: the arrival the early twentieth century of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics has tampered with our straightforward concept of time.
These technological advances have produced a gap between ‘machine time’ and ‘human time’. Art, film and music all have the ability to make abstract concepts of time tangible and comprehensible; they can all manipulate time. In art, a relationship between time and movement creates a sense of space and can identify differences and correspondences between machine time and lived time.
Sonic Acts XIV is a four-day festival of performances, lectures, exhibitions, presentations, and film screenings.
If you want to stay updated on the theme, the programme and locations the official website is http://www.
The 11th edition of the Netmage festival – the International Live Media Fest held in the cool frame of the Palazzo Re Enzo in downtown Bologna, Italy – will take place in January, on the 20th-21st-22nd.
This year edition will focus on cinema and the experimental scena between the moving image and sound. The concept will be – as the festival tradition is – performed live by a number of artists coming from all over Europe, the US, and South america.
For more info and reservation follow the site.
And do not miss the preview videos on Vimeo!
The 2011 International Computer Music Conference will be hosted by Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield, England, from July 31 to August 5 2011.
The calls for submission are two: music and paper. The main deadline is 18 January 2011.
For more information visit the contact page.
Live!iXem 2010
Another good news for all the sound professionals who are interested in field recordings: our friends Matteo Milani & Federico Placidi from U.S.O. Project and the italian musician Domenico Sciajno organized Movement of acoustic images, a workshop curated by Fabio Orsi and Alessandro Massobrio, which will be held in Milan (Italy) from 29th to 30th October 2010, during the 7th edition of Live!iXem, an international festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic art, promoted by AntiTesi.
We had a friendly email exchange with Matteo, Federico, Domenico, Fabio and Alessandro in order to have some more information on the festival and the workshop.
Interferenze Festival
If you have someone in love living in Italy you know that we’re famous not only for pizza or mandolino (nice tool for the experimental sound designer…), but also because we got heart. Yes, we have a big heart. And some events can be organized only by people with a lot of heart. Like this festival.
Interferenze is an event dedicated to art and new technologies that will held in Italy from 23th to 25th July 2010. The location of this edition is the town of Bisaccia, placed along the eastern slopes of the hills of Irpinia. For three days this will be the place in which international artists, musicians, curators and researchers will meet together and give their contributions for workshops, concerts, live performances and installations.
We’ll be part of this big family, because I, Sara and Luigi Mastrandrea will lead a panel/workshop on Saturday 24th July called Design o’ the times, based on the concept of Time Design promoted by Albert Mayr.
Finally, we had a very deep and interesting digital conversation with Leandro Pisano, curator, writer and director of the festival, to know more about this amazing event in which Sound has inevitably a predominant role.
Leandro Pisano
Dal 19 febbraio al 26 febbraio e il 5 marzo 2010 si terrà a Padova la quarta edizione di Nu Fest, festival di musica elettronica.
Come ogni anno il programma è molto interessante. Dal punto di vista musicale segnaliamo la presenza di Mira Calix, Christian Fennesz (con il nostro Giuseppe La Spada) e Jon Hopkins. Per quanto riguarda i workshop ricordiamo i seguenti appuntamenti:
Informazioni: Marcello +39 334 6695008 // +39 0423 452069, marce@venetojazz.com (inserire Info NUfest 2010 nel campo oggetto della mail).
The Poetics of Space è il titolo del tema dell’edizione 2010 di Sonic Acsts XIII, festival dedicato alle esplorazioni dello spazio nell’arte, scienza, musica e tecnologia, che si terrà as Amsterdam dal 25 al 28 febbraio.
Il programma è veramente interessante. Saranno presenti personaggi come Brandon Labelle, Derrick de Kerckhove, Barry Truax, Michael J. Morgan.
Il costo dei biglietti non è eccessivo e Amsterdam non è così lontana…
David Zicarelli a Roma durante l'anteprima italiana di Max For Live
E’ stato rilasciato da una sola settimana ed è già destinato a cambiare pesantemente il modo di pensare di tutti coloro che lavorano con il Suono. Max for Live è una delle novità più discusse nel campo dei software audio dell’ultimo anno. Fosse solo per l’accordo tra due colossi inarrivabili come Ableton e Cycling ’74.
La prima release di Max for Live viene presentata ufficialmente in Italia a Roma l’1 dicembre 2009, durante la seconda giornata del Master Class Real Time Performance & Interactive Systems Using Max 5 organizzato dal Centro Ricerche Musicali. A presentare il software c’è proprio lui: David Zicarelli, leggendario sviluppatore di Max/MSP, nonchè fondatore di Cycling ’74.