Live!iXem2011
Festival internazionale di musica, mixed media ed arte elettronica sperimentale
VIII Edizione
8-9 dicembre - FAVIGNANA - Arcipelago delle Egadi - Sicilia - EX STABILIMENTO FLORIO DELLE TONNARE DI FAVIGNANA E FORMICA
10-11 dicembre - PALERMO - Sicilia - CHIESA DI SANTA EULALIA DEI CATALANI ALLA VUCCIRIA [Istituto Cervantes]
Born in 1961. deals with music, pause, effects, sounds in motion, operettas, movies and more blind. He lives in Rome.
info&contacts
mail - zabalarte@hotmail.com
Carlos Zingaro
Carlos “Zingaro” violin, electronics, visual arts
Born 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal
Undertook classical music studies at the Lisbon Music Conservatory and at the Sacred Music High School. From 1975 onwards performed with a wide variety of improvising musicians and composers. Studied Musicology and Electronic Music and developed an ongoing work and interest in all forms of electroacoustic interaction. As a soloist, or with other musicians and composers, Carlos “Zingaro” has performed at many of the most important new music and "free form" festivals in Europe, Asia and America and has more than 50 edited recordings. Since 2002 he is the founder and president of experimental arts / music association GRANULAR.
Giuseppe Torre
GiuseppeTorre is a composer, multimedia artist and software engineer. He holds a Laurea (Masters) in Art, Music and Theater (D.A.M.S.) from the University of Palermo in Italy as well as a Masters of Science in Music Technology from the University of Limerick and a Diploma V in classical guitar and music theory from the Conservatoire of Music of Palermo in Italy. As a composer/performer he has performed at several international festivals throughout Europe, USA , Argentina and Australia. Currently, he is Course Director for the BSc on Music & Multimedia Performance Technology course at the University of Limerick. He is also the co-founder of the Mashup Research Lab .
Musician, member of the Association of Festivals and Ertz Audiolab
WORKSHOP DIY Michrophone and Hydrophone building
In addition to all what / mean by the microphone (mechanical device based on a membrane that picks up vibrations in the air) there are several methods for capturing sound, in many cases imperceptible to our ears, the environment around us. With a very basic knowledge of electronics and a minimum budget you can build many types of microphones are used to capture any type of incident acoustic vibrations of physical materials, electromagnetic fields, frequencies of light and other natural phenomena that conform with what we call landscape sound. During the workshop will address some of these techniques and in particular the construction of Hydrophones, special microphones capable of operating underwater.
IñigoTelletxea
Alex Mendizabal
Sound artist, musician and researcher. Lives and works in London
Peformance Details - SainSŵn a.k.a. The Sound Assasin: Home-made electronics, laptop, electric guitar and found objects / sound fluxes. In this, part performance and part installation, Sainsŵn wil present a modulation of the affective tonality of the site. A number of microphones are installed outside the performance space, these sounds are then transmitted into the performance, mixed, blended and transformed into a deformational derivative - a sonic trace, an absent echo of the world outside. At times exquisite beauty, at others unimaginable ugliness. The Sound Assasin uses a range of technolgies and strategies to explore notions of virtuality, place, improvisation, listening and collectivity.
J Milo Taylor
info&contacts
web - www.suborg.net
Sound artist working with devices that interrogate our relation to the body and territories. Member of APO33 Asso
Diffrazione
An installation by APO33: Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi, Julien Poidevin and Christian Galerreta 2011.
Diffrazione is a visual listening experience. The installation juxtaposes light and sound waves, creating an environment where subtle audio zones become clear against a background saturated by light, heightening both bodily senses as the images are heard.
Live performance BOT NETWORK / LIVE FIELD REMOTE EXPERIENCE (around 20'min) by APO33
This is an ongoing APO33 project since 2006 which links networks sonic-spaces with semi-permanent or permanent installations that capture and compose with those local and distant sounds. For this APO33 has also been developing some interesting streaming tools/software
Julien Poidevin
info&contacts
web - apo33.info/semantik/
Léon McCarthy received an MPhil in Music & Media Technologies from Trinity College. Léon’s artistic practise includes audiovisual performance, multimedia design, video-art installations and event design. He was a co-founder of MercuryBoy Productions, creating online video content and commercial productions. Léon was also one half of the now defunct live electro duo known as Les Bien. Here at DMARC, Léon lectures in digital video art, with modules covering graphic-design, animation, video production, motion-graphics, interface design and algorithmic audiovisual composition.
Leon McCarthy
info&contacts
mail - leon.mccarthy@ul.ie
Born in Ipswich, 1983, is a UK based electronic artist working with self made instruments and tools for live interactive performance. His work is focused on movement and the physicality in live electronic performance, noise and underground music, hypnotic trance states, and D.i.Y culture.
He has performed and presented his work internationally in a wide range of venues from art and academic institutions to derelict warehouses and squats. He directed A10Lab in 2010 which was an experimental audiovisual performance laboratory exploring free and open-source soft and hardware.
Ryan has a BA Sonic Arts from Middlesex University (2007) and a Distinction in MFA Computational Studio Arts from Goldsmiths (2009). He is currently undertaking a PhD at the Music Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University.
Possession Trance explores the potential to experience real hallucination and trance states in a live performance setting. Through confronting high powered strobe lights and hacked static noise, the synchronized audiovisual material may possibly cause audience members to see visual forms morphing and illusions of colored patterns. Influences for this performance are drawn from underground electronic music and possession trance cults.
Ryan Jordan
info&contacts
web - ryanjordan.org
Born in Vicenza in 1969, is a scholar Stephen Zorzanello, flutist, saxophonist, composer and sound designer. He graduated in Flute in 1988 under the guidance of Maestro G. Lazzari, from the same year he lived in Bologna where he completed his university studies (DAMS), graduating with highest honors.
He specialized in the repertoires of contemporary music and improvisation Zorzanello Stephen has played live in some of the most important Italian and European festivals in this field.
In recent years, Stephen is responsible Zorzanello active as a member of dell'FKL (KlangLandschaft Forum - Forum for the Soundscape) and WFAE (World Forum for Acoustic Ecology) of Environmental music, soundscape composition, acoustic ecology and soundscape. In September 2004 he founded the research group in Catania SSRG (Sicilian Soundscape Reaserch Group)-non-profit organization, of which he is still president, with whom he started a research program dedicated to the Sicilian territory.
From a theoretical standpoint Zorzanello Stephen also was interested in the relationship between environmental noise and sound in film editing.
Mapping and interpretation in the electronic sound era.
The methodologies used in some of the most famous case studies (World Soundscape Project, 1975, P. 1991 Amphoux, JL Bardin 1993) show the particular importance of the qualitative description as well as quantitative study of sound environments. The dichotomy of quality and quantity is sufficient to mark the boundary between science "soft" and "hard" sciences? How can you implement new forms of quantitative analysis within the Soundscape Studies? Within this theoretical framework, the tool of the map has always been a powerful form of knowledge and control of the territory in which the qualitative and quantitative data coexist together by a cognitive and planning purposes at the same time. The sound mapping, on the other hand, introduces the problem with force storm in a traditionally static form of representation (graphic-photo). At the same time the recent development and access to GPS technology, resulting in the creation of thematic maps, and sound in this case, impose a necessary reflection on the changed relationship between map and territory, the pouring of the first on the second, on how this may affect the our current perception of the world.
Stefano Zorzanello
info&contacts
web - www.ssrg.it
Musician, producer and journalist of the Basque Country. He has published several essays on the phenomenon of collective creativity. His work is based on research among different people, sounds and formats in different situations as sound installations, recordings and musical compositions, pieces of radio-art, working with groups or collective improvisations. He has released several albums, both solo and in collaboration with a wide range of artists such as Francisco Lopez, Eddie Prevost, Mattin or TV Pow. Since 2000 and co-director of the Festival of Music Other Ertz, and since 2003 coordinates Audiolab, sound department of the Center for Contemporary Art Arteleku in San Sebastian in Spain.
MESSAGES OUT OF PLACE (2007)
Dir: Xabier Erkizia & Inigo Telletxea Year: 2007 Duration: 12 min
Short film documenting some collective actions sound made in Rome in 2007. An exercise that looks at how you relate to the resistance score, with the acceptance and actions coded. Music and power, both out of place.
Xabier Erkizia
info&contacts
web - www.ertza.net
Workshop Construction of maps and audio guides based on satellite gps systems.
Soinumapa plugin & Soinudroid
The latest version of the map on the web Soinumapa Sound (Spring 2009) has meant a radical change in the way of sound planning map which we work since 2005. Taking advantage of the benefits offered by the tools of Web 2.0, the current version of resources using www.soinumapa.net popular, common, allowing interactivity with the environment through technology.
Xavier Balderas
University degree in psychology specialized in psicodrama, analitic approach of Jung and on the groups. He worked for the University of Rome, La Sapienza in educational and media projects. He is also graduate in electronic.
He works for the RAI, italian broadcast radio-tv as musician, author and director, in many radio and tv shows; has also published on magazines and newspapers.
As musician, is a sound searcher, looking for all noises, breaths, bodily sounds, silences, everyday objects, in relationship with images, bodies and moviments.
He have composed soundtracks for performances of dance, video, theater, spoken words, improvised contexts.
Alex Pierotti
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Born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1970.
Marc Behrens works on several cerebral and physical levels.
His works mainly consist of concrete electronic music, installations, the occasional photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest, founding an incorporated company as a social art work, and staging a rite of passage for an investment banker.
Workshop Listening Spaces, Spaces of Architecture, Concepts of (or: for) Sound Installation
The aim of this workshop is to present a basic knowledge of the interrelations between listening to urban and architectural space, and using such spaces and listening experience to formulate concepts for sound installations. The participants will do a listening exercise that shapes attention for the sonic environment and characteristics of urban and architectural space beyond the everyday experience. An overview on site-specificity, sound diffusion, spatialisation and planning will be given.
For the second workshop day the participants will develop a conceptual sketch, refine with individual assistence, then do a short presentation.
Marc Behrens
Hatori Yumi
Hatori Yumi (1984) holds a laurea in Art, Music and Theater (DAMS ) from the University of Palermo in Italy and he’s finishing his studies in Musicology. In 2011 he participated in some international festivals like the InTouch in Minsk, LPM in Rome, Flussi in Avellino and PuntoyRaya in Madrid.
In October he presented, at “The day of the contemporary” his latest work "æ".Compared to previous work, “æ” focuses on the ability to create, starting from real images abstract forms, such as lines and points, with specific techniques of video shooting.
Benoît Maubrey
info&contacts
web - www.benoitmaubrey.com
Benoît Maubrey is the director of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic clothes. Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that make sounds by interacting thematically and acoustically with their environment.
Electronic clothes:
AUDIO BALLERINAS use -- among other electronic instruments-- light sensors that enable them to produce sounds through the interaction of their movements and the surrounding light. A variety of other electronic instruments (samplers, contact microphones, movement sensors, MP3 players, and radio receivers) allow them to work with the sounds, surfaces, and topographies of the space around them in a variety of solo or group choreographies.
In the AUDIO PEACOCKS project performers wear electroacoustic instruments shaped into a peacock’s fan-like plumage that is highly directional -- projecting the sound into a space like an oversized radar dish.
Live performances Electronic Guy // Feedback Fred
Feedback Fred (alias: Benoit Maubrey). This character, equipped with an oversized loudspeaker box on his back and a microphone-mask, „feeds back“ his own voice through the interaction of his wearable PA system and physical gyrations throughout the performance space. This personality can be likened to
a cross-cloning of Hamlet and an electronic-laden Hunchback of Notre Dame.
video links:
the LINE http://vimeo.com/12683184
Peepers http://vimeo.com/12706784
Audio-Video Peacocks http://vimeo.com/12559421
AUDIO GEISHAS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKouMEq3_fU
AUDIO CYCLISTS (Chemille) http://vimeo.com/28623158
Plantagenets 3000 (Audio Folklore) http://vimeo.com/29255839
Feedback Ensemble: http://vimeo.com/27717107
Workshops with Kids: http://vimeo.com/16364721
Slide Show http://www.vimeo.com/8314698
Javier A. Garavaglia
Claudia Robles Angel
Claudia Robles Angel is a media artist born in Bogotá (Colombia) and currently living in Cologne (Germany).
She finished studies in Fine Arts in 1990 at the University J. T. Lozano in Bogotá (Colombia). She pursued postgraduate studies such as: Film Animation (1992-1993) at the CFP (Milan-Italy); MA in Visual Arts (1993-1995) at the École Supérieure d'Art Visuel (Geneva- Switzerland) and Sound Design and Electronic Composition at the Folkwang University Essen (Germany) with Prof. Dirk Reith from (2001-2004).
In 2004 she won the second prize at the competition Hoeren und Sehen organized by the ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe and the Institute fuer Neue Musik in Darmstadt (both in Germany) for her audiovisual composition Bewegung in Silber. She was artist in residence (2004-2006) at the ZKM. Her most relevant work presented there was the piece Seed/Tree (audiovisual Installation/Butoh performance with live electronics).
Her work is worldwide known, having participated in several group and solo exhibitions around the globe.
Wooden Worlds
Javier Alejandro Garavaglia: viola and live electronics + Claudia Robles Angel: Live sound and video in real time
Wooden Worlds is an audiovisual, performance with multimedia interaction in real-time (viola, video, photography and sound processing).
The attention of the audience is challenged by the piece’s sounds and visual elements, which are not recognizable at first sight in most of the cases. The viola acts as an element of accretion and mergence between the elements with musical passages, some of which are composed in detail and some other, which are more of an improvised nature.
The real-time interaction (sound processing, viola live-electronics and viola real-time manipulation of video) is produced by two laptops running MAX/MSP/Jitter, which are connected with each other via Ethernet.
Javier A. Garavaglia is a composer and performer (viola/electronics) born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He is currently Course Leader of the BA Music Technology (Sound for Media) at London Metropolitan University (UK), where he teaches music technology and composition, including Masters and PhD students.
He studied composition at the Universidad Católica Argentina (Buenos Aires - Argentina) and made postgraduate courses in composition and electronic composition.
He has several publications about different topics of his research in journals, books and on the web (Spanish, German and English). His compositions have been performed in several places of Europe, the Americas and Asia. His compositions include works for solo instruments, chamber music, ensembles and big orchestra with or without the inclusion of electronic media. Some of his electroacoustic works can be found on CD releases.