Networked_Music_ Review
http://tinyurl.com/5hqygw

Jeff Talman’s sound installations focus on notions of “self-reflexive resonance”, often using no other sound source than the natural ambient resonance of the installation site. His works also have a strong visual component, owing to his dual backgrounds in music and the visual arts. His latest work, “A Play of Flows” premiers on October 23, 2008 at the Galleria Mazzini in Genoa, Italy. Talman was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Sound Art in 2006 and was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Computer Arts in 2003. He currently resides in Manhattan.

Due to the nature of his pieces, Talman does not provide sound samples on his website - the pieces are simply too site-specific to experience in any other way than first-hand. As such, we will only be providing photos and discussion with this interview.

Peter Traub: Before you began creating sound installations in the mid 1990s, you were a more ‘traditional’ computer music composer and musician. Could you discuss how you made the transition into sound installation work? Was there a particular experience of a space or place that pushed you in this new direction?

Jeff Talman: First, let me thank you very much for your interest in my work and this opportunity to go into your well-thought through questions. Many thanks also to Networked Music Review and Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green. I’ve found that interviews can really help tremendously because they put me as an artist outside of myself, so new or different slants to the work may become available. It’s is a very welcome kind of refreshment. Read more: http://tinyurl.com/5hqygw

In case you haven’t visited the site recently, don’t miss Peter Traub’s interview with Karen Van Lengen (http://tinyurl.com/5rx4hc).

All of the Networked_Music_Review Interviews can be found here:
http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/tags/interview/

Sat, Sept 13th, 4:00-5:30 PM
Meet outside Park Street Station, Boston, under the giant blue wave
Come on, come all to a Parade for the Future! Let’s celebrate what hasn’t happened yet, notably the impending submergence of our city under water due to climate change.

On Saturday, Sept 13th, Platform2 will lead a Parade for the Future in the form of a giant blue wave. We will gather outside the Park Street T station at 4PM. From there, the parade will proceed along the flood line of the neighborhood, tracing a worst-case scenario future geography from the year 2108. We will all be wearing blue and carrying a giant wave.

There will be scuba divers and sharks and seaweed. There will be music and swimming!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Wear blue. Trick out your bike. Bring your kids. Bring your pets. Wear a costume (mournful, maudlin or magnificent). Just show up.
FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISTS: Bring your literature to hand out to people along the route.

See you in the future,
Platform2
(Andi Sutton, Jane Marsching, Savic Rasovic & Catherine D’Ignazio)

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things (http://www.ikatun.org/institute/infinitelysmallthings/) conducts creative, participatory research that aims to temporarily transform public spaces dominated by corporate and political agendas. Using performance and conversation, we investigate social and political “tiny things”. These have included corporate ads, street names, and post-9/11 security terminology. The Institute markets dissent through its research reports in the form of maps, books and videos. This interdisciplinary group has a varied and open membership.

You still have ONE WEEK to receive a DISCOUNT on your table at The 2008 Expo for Independent Arts! Our late fees kick in September 1st.. REGISTER TODAY:
http://www.artsandmedia.net/expo/register/expo_2008_registration.html

Our first ever outdoor Expo will be held on Saturday, September 27th, 2008 from 11am-6pm in Sunny Dolores Park.

Don’t miss out! Over 125 exhibitors representing local non-profits, galleries,
independent businesses, foundations, performance groups, publishing organizations, musicians, and much, much more are expected to participate.
Our first ever outdoor venue in sunny Dolores Park is expected to draw in over 1,000 attendees.

Click on the links below or copy and paste them into your browser to register as an exhibitor, sponsor, performer, workshop teacher and/or volunteer.

EXHIBIT * http://artsandmedia.net/expo/register/
We have space for about 125 exhibitors at the Expo. As always, tables for small
non profits and community groups cost just $25. Medium sized non-profits, independent artisans and galleries start at just $55.

SPONSOR * http://artsandmedia.net/expo/sponsor/
Show your support for the arts in our communities by sponsoring the Ninth Annual Expo. You can visit the link above for to download a sponsorship information packet as well as a detailed sponsorship rate sheet.

VOLUNTEER * http://artsandmedia.net/expo/volunteer/
The Expo is a volunteer-powered labor of love that serves the entire community.
Volunteering is also a great way to get involved in local arts and meet new people.

Help us PROMOTE The 2008 Expo by forwarding this e-mail to your list-servs, friends, colleagues and family members.

For more information about this great event, including a list of current exhibitors, workshop leaders and performers, please visit:
www.artsandmedia.net/expo

You can also contact Katie Hennessy, Community Arts Program Director
[ph] 415.677.9877
[e] Katie@artsandmedia.net

Thank you!
–
Katie Hennessy
Community Arts Program Director
Independent Arts & Media
www.artsandmedia.net
[ph]415.677.9877
[e]katie@artsandmedia.net

Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard
August 30 – November 2, 2008
opening August 29, 5:00 p.m.

Guy Bar Amotz, Bunny Rabbit & Black Cracker, Nathalie Bruys, Heidi Happy, Kim Hiorthøy, Christine Ödlund, Jonas Ohlsson, planningtorock, Jan Rohlf, Lina Selander, Annika Ström, Venour and video clips for Björk, the Knife and CocoRosie

Nathalie Bruys is an audio artist and co-curator of ‘Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard’. Her own way of working forms the heart of the exhibition. Bruys is interested in a multidisciplinary art practice. In addition to the fascination with sound and music, the artists Bruys has brought together for this show also share this wide-branching interest.

‘Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard’ shows a personal selection by Bruys from very diverse approaches and art forms that make use of sound and music. The works have been created by young artists with highly varied backgrounds. What they have in common is a sincere love of music, audio and art within their multifaceted artistic universe.

‘Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard’ presents forms of ‘audio art’ that appeal to the imagination, including speaker sculptures by Guy Bar Amotz and drawings by Jonas Ohlsson, Kim Hiorthøy, Nathalie Bruys and Jan Rohlf in which sound plays a role. Annika Ström shows her video ‘The Missed Concert’ and a text work. As well as looking at the drawings mentioned above, visitors to the gallery can also listen to a cd with music by Ohlsson, Hiorthøy, Ström and Bruys. Listening posts have been designed for hearing the cd. ‘Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard’ brings the visual and musical work that these artists produce together in one exhibition.

In addition there are works to be seen by musicians/artists who are better known for their musical creations than for their visual work. For instance, Planningtorock made a video installation for this exhibition with props that appear in her videos and video clips. Further there is a 3D video clip made for Björk by Encyclopedia Pictura exhibited in the form of an installation, and in the video lounge on the ground floor there are a number of video clips to be seen, for the Knife, CocoRosie, Bunny Rabbit & Black Cracker, and ‘du da, ich da’ by Heidi Happy, which was her graduation project at the Rietveld Academy in 2008. Here there is no distinction made between musician and visual artist or between visual artist and filmmaker. A number of those who made the videos also themselves made the music in them.

Nathalie Bruys draws her inspiration from the forms of sonic art and music mentioned here, and also shows her own personal multi-disciplinary practice in this exhibition. In addition to a new installation, drawings and a cd, she presents the web project ‘Soundmuseum’ which she initiated together with Katja van Stiphout. For this exhibition the ‘Soundmuseum’ has been incorporated in an audio installation, and officially goes ‘on air’ on September 14 in the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The ‘Soundmuseum’ collects online audio exhibitions and compiles and archives the sounds of sonic artists.

During the Uitmarkt on August 29, 30 and 31 performances by a number of artists from the exhibition will take place on the Stubnitz boat moored on the head of Java Island. On Friday Kim Hiorthøy appears, and Jonas Ohlsson performs live together with Daniela Bershan; between performances they will be at the turntable with records. Saturday Nathalie Bruys does her thing and Planningtorock closes off the evening with a performance. More info on http://www.nimk.nl

Opening hours Tuesday - Saturday and first Sunday of the month from 1: 00 - 6:00 pm
Extra open on Sunday August 30 and September 14
Entrance 2,50 (1,50 with discount).

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdams
The Netherlands
http://www.nimk.nl

Deadline 1 September 2008

VideoChannel - video project environments
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

launched a new videoart project, entitled “MOTHER”
and invites video and film creators for participating and contributing.

—>imagine, your mother is dying and you face her death coming closer and the radical definitiveness, eventually she died already and the processes of memory find slowly their shape, or you have found already the balance of memory telling, for you, she will never be dead and live in your heart as long as you live, eventually you left your familiy and are living far away from your mother, but eventually you live close to your mother, but the course of life events is blocking any contacting…..< ----
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VideoChannel always tried to bring a very personal note into the otherwise anonymous online enviroment via its videoart projects related to "memory & identity", and the subject of "Mother" is particularly intimate and personal

"Mother" as a theme refers in first place to everybody's mother or grandmother, the relation of a mother and their children or child, and how people, in general, or the creator in particular deal with the loss of a mother.
Every human being is a child of a mother, without the mother, there is no family , no tribe, no people, no society, no social future, but "mother" can be interpreted also in different ways, the language uses "mother" in electronics for instance in "motherboard", or in a figurative sense as the roots or basics of being.

Please find the regulations and entry form on
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=292

VideoChannel - video project environments
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
is a corporate part of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
http://www.nmartproject.net

A DIAMOND IN THE MUD
A Miniature Audio Exhibition of Stereophonic Soundscape & Hörspiel Works

PROJECT CONCEPT:
It is an Asian concept rooted in Buddhism that self-cultivation can be developed at home as a householder and is not merely confined to a temple or monastery. Buddhist believe that enlightened beings are those who “grew” out of the “mud” of the material world. So, like the lotus flower, which penetrates through sullied mud and water, but emerges unspoiled, enlightened beings are beautiful and pure even though they grow up in the material world. The phrase “a diamond in the mud” is an analogy for this and in keeping with it the Digital Art Weeks would like to issue this call to artists and to submit pre recorded works (Soundscape, Hörspiel, Poetry) in regard to the beautiful and the sullied. The works will be chosen on their ability to transcend the listeners into a “moment of tranquilly” and out of the confines of the everyday, or as expressed in the Diamond Sutra: “Dwell upon nothing and produce the pure mind.”

PLAYBACK SYSTEM:
Constructed as a dock for Apple’s famed iPod, the iCarta stereophonic audio playback system will be used to play back all of the selected works. The systems not only offers an interesting solution for public pod-casting, but it also acts uniquely as a bathroom dispenser for the indispensable: Le papier toilette.

- Art Clay, DAW, Artistic Director (c) 2008

DEADLINE: Moday, 15th September 2008. Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before Monday, 22nd September 2008.

APLLICATION FORM:
http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/
DAWPlus/SoundScape08

For more information regarding the call please write directly to: arthurclay@mac.com; for more on past Digital Art Weeks, please see: www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch; for technical information on the iCarta, please see: http://www.atechflash.com

Milano Film Festival - tredicesima edizione
dal 12 al 21 settembre, presso il Piccolo Teatro, il Teatro Dal Verme,
Parco Sempione

Emacs!

Concorso Internazionale Lungometraggi e Cortometraggi

Un’attività capillare di ricerca, di promozione e di scoperta. Un lavoro di contatto con le case di produzione, le scuole di cinema, i festival di tutto il mondo. Un Bando di Concorso che da tredici anni raccoglie il meglio della produzione giovane indipendente internazionale. Un percorso di visione attraverso oltre 3200 lungometraggi e cortometraggi (1000 in più rispetto all’anno scorso), iscritti ai due Concorsi Internazionali della tredicesima edizione del Milano Film Festival, a Milano dal 12 al 21 settembre. Fra sorprendenti scoperte e piacevoli conferme, la giuria selezionatrice comunica la selezione finale di 10 lungometraggi e 48 cortometraggi, in concorso quest’anno.

Fra i lungometraggi sette opere prime, due documentari, dieci anteprime italiane da nove paesi diversi. Registi giovani (il più “vecchio” ha 41 anni), alcuni già conosciuti dal pubblico del Milano Film Festival, altri già apprezzati nei festival internazionali di cinema, ora, per la prima volta, in Italia: dieci lungometraggi che rappresentano un viaggio alla scoperta del cinema giovane, d’autore, indipendente. A decretare il Premio Miglior Lungometraggio 2008 sarà una giuria composta da personaggi eterogenei, provenienti dal panorama culturale italiano: l’attore e scrittore Filippo Timi, la scrittrice Silvia Ballestra, la montatrice Carlotta Cristiani, il regista Alessandro Piva e il leader degli Afterhours Manuel Agnelli.

Dieci giovani autori fra cui Anna Melikyan, regista russa nata in Azerbaijan, che con il suo lungometraggio Mermaid, racconta la fiaba metropolitana della sirena Alisa, in un mondo sospeso, al confine tra immaginazione sfrenata e realismo metropolitano. Come i due documentari dalla Repubblica Ceca (Peace With Seals di Miloslav Novak e Lost Holiday di Lucie Králová), simbolo forse della nascita di una nuova poetica, una nuova generazione di autori, pieni di talento, provenienti da un paese poco conosciuto. O come il giovanissimo regista cinese (26 anni) Weng Shou-ming, che con Fujian Blue descrive gli eccessi e i vizi della Cina contemporanea, senza indugiare né spettacolarizzare, testimoniando come le lanterne rosse siano state sostituite ormai da luci al neon.

Per il Concorso Cortometraggi sono invece 48 le opere che si contendono il premio, assegnato quest’anno da una delegazione del BFI - British Film Institute, una della più prestigiosa istituzioni cinematografiche. Una selezione di opere di registi giovani, provenienti da paesi poco conosciuti, che rappresentano un cinema di qualità affrontando tematiche e generi diversi, rispecchiando la vivacità produttiva di una nuova generazione di autori.

Film da 23 paesi differenti (fra cui Canada, Finlandia, Taiwan, Islanda, Argentina e Lituania); solo 13 registe donne, fra cui una ventenne francese (la più giovane del festival); 8 registi al di sotto dei 25 anni; tematiche molto varie, come i supporti utilizzati e generi presentati (documentario, mockumentary, biografie, opere di videoarte, opere di videodanza, videoclip, film d’animazione); presenza massiccia di opere francesi (9 film) e inglesi (8 film), presenza importante per i paesi dell’est Europa (Ungheria, Polonia, Repubblica Slovacca), presenza quasi nulla di film italiani (2 film), nonostante sia stato il paese con più film iscritti.

Per informazioni e materiale fotografico
Stefano Zicchieri - 333 3892294
Cristina Fasci - 349 2206218

Ufficio stampa Milano Film Festival
via Paladini, 8
20133 Milano
tel/fax +39 02 713613
media@milanofilmfestival.it
www.milanofilmfestival.it
www.esterni.org

SoundLAB - sonic art project environments
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
informs:

1. Call for soundart for SoundLAB VI
Deadline: 30 November 2008

2. SoundLAB V on FILE Hipersonica 2008
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1.
Call for entries:
SoundLAB VI - “soundPOOL”
- sound compositions - a challenge for imagination -

SoundLAB is looking for its 6th edition to be launched in March 2009, sound compositions which represent a real challenge for human imagination

All details, the complete call, the regulations and entry form can be found here
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=242
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2.
SoundLAB V -
“soundSTORY - sound as a tool for storytelling” - launched in 2007
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=135
incorporating also soundart contributions from Spain curated by Ruben Garcia
and South Africa curated by Julian Jonker
is presented on FILE Hipersonica 2008
http://www.file.org.br/file2008press/eng/sao/hiper_participantes.html
FILE Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil
05-31 August 2008
http://www.file.org.br

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http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Visit also SoundLAB I -V on -
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org

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