und transit @ la vitrine sonore – sporopole

und transit – a 16.5 hours – multichannel sound installation @ Sporobole‘s Vitrine Sonore

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On alternate weeks from September 15th 2015 to October 31st 2015 –
Every day – from 8 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Week of 09.15.015
Week of 09.29.2015
Week of 10.11.2015
Week of 10.25.2015

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Und transit

We all have a capacity to ignore the space we must use to get to our destination. Like most passage ways, they are a means to an end, and rarely are treated as an end in itself. Upon being introduced to minoritenplatz, I was immediately struck by the loneliness and practicality of this passage way.

Inspired by the solitary and functional aspects of La vitrine sonore’s location, I plan to collect a number of field recordings from in and around its emplacement, in order to create a series of soundscapes based on the sound of emptiness in this space.

France Jobin

und transit – sound installation will be presented in September 2015 at la Vitrine Sonore of Sporobole in Sherbrooke. The result of a 3 week residency in situ, will transform this passageway into a place to stop, listen and meander.

 

La vitrine sonore

Sporobole launches a new annual program that provides a curator the opportunity to gather sound artists around a curatorial approach and concepts about the Sound Window diffusion device. During a three-week residency, each artist will have unlimited access to the sound laboratory and will develop a project which will be broadcast and discussed during a round table that will conclude the year’s program.

The Sound Window is a permanent system for sound projection on the façade of Sporobole, along the sidewalk on Albert Street. Made up of sixteen loudspeakers, it makes it possible to enter into direct contact with passers-by making their way to the above-ground parking garage next door to Sporoble on city’s main street, Wellington. The linear arrangement of the sixteen speakers and their position at the geometrical interface between Sporobole and the thoroughfare make this new outdoor sound gallery a singular platform for sound spatialisation and the projection of works of sound art.

 

Montreal 10.19.2009 – Simulcast

still life by i8u

October 19.09

SIMULCAST - rebroadcast on Radio Jean-Talon

SIMULCAST info below...

SIMULCAST broadcast schedule:

15.10.09 Hélène Prévost
16.10.09 Harold Schellinx
17.10.09 GX Jupitter-Larsen
18.10.09 Mario Gauthier
19.10.09 i8u
20.20.09 Stéphane Claude
21.20.09 Martine Crispo
22.10.09 Magali Babin

All broadcasts begin at midnight (Montréal time).

Tune in!  106.7 FM  http://radiojeantalon.wordpress.com/

Presented by the Montréal-based organization Silophone.
Curator: Emmanuel Madan
Independent curatorial project for a series of audio web based and radio
broadcasts

Reacting to a radio culture which accustoms us to the division of time
into a grid of discontinuous slices, Simulcast proposes a renewal of
radio’s relationship with eternity. Four artists are asked to provide an
unchanging sound or soundscape. Each artist’s work is broadcast
continuously over seven consecutive nights.

By bathing listeners in an event which remains unitary for a period of
many hours, Simulcast suggests a simultaneity between all moments of a
broadcast: a collapsing of long periods of time into a single instant.

Simulcast 2.0 : Sackville

As late-night radio listeners well know, unusual things can happen on the
radio after ...
Artists:
Emmanuel Madan, Hélène Prévost, Mario Gauthier, i8u, Stéphane Claude

Simulcast 1.0b: Saskatoon

Simulcast 1.0b : Saskatoon spanned twenty-eight ...
Artists:
Emmanuel Madan, Magali Babin, Martine H. Crispo, GX Jupitter-Larsen ,
Harold Schellinx

http://www.undefine.ca/en/projects/simulcast/

New York 09.17.2009 – Simulcast 2.0

still life by i8u

September 17.09

SIMULCAST 2.0 at ((audience)) in Syracuse, NY (Festival schedule below)

SIMULCAST 2.0 : Four Canadian sound and radio artists were asked to provide a single, unchanging sound.

Presented by the Montréal-based organization Silophone this past July in Sackville, these  works will be re-broadcast as part of  the ((audience)) radio festival on Red House Radio

Featuring sounds  by Hélène Prévost, Mario Gauthier, i8u and Stéphane Claude.”

19|20.09.09 Hélène Prévost “12:00”
20|210.9.09 i8u “still life”
26|27.09.09 Mario Gauthier “Transparence”
27|28.09.09 Stéphane Claude “Waves Array”

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Announcing the U.S Premiere of ((audience)), an international festival of
5.1 surround sound art presented in movie theaters as “cinema in the dark”

U.S. Premiere of ((audience))
Thursday, September 17 – Sunday, September 27, 2009
Red House Arts Center, Syracuse, NY

NEW YORK – Curators Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati announce the U.S.
Premiere of ((audience)) at Red House Arts Center in Syracuse, NY,
launching with a two-week festival of art, experimental media, live music,
a radio program, and featuring works by seven international artists in the
2009 program of ((audience)).

Conceived in 2006, ((audience)) is an unprecedented project that explores
the cinema as a 21st century concert hall. Currently, sound artists must
“perform” what are essentially multi-track recordings, interpreting the
playback of their compositions to account for technical and acoustic
variations in different sites. ((audience)) bypasses this problem by
considering the cinema-hall as a standard technical and acoustic platform
and site.

The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a 2 ½ hour “film” of 5.1 surround sound
works by seven international artists intended for presentation in movie
theaters as “cinema in the dark.” This program will travel to partnering
organizations from Delhi, India to Providence, RI to Montreal, Canada —
accompanied by curatorial lectures, performances and screenings on a
city-by-city basis — through 2010.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
The inaugural two-week ((audience)) festival features six nights of
programs, each exploring a different perspective on the cinema as concert
hall:

Thursday, September 17 / 5-8pm
SOLO EXHIBITION, OPENING RECEPTION: mudboy, Last Wishes
A kinetic, in-the-dark installation consisting of several light
‘paintings’ opens in the Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery at Red House. The
kinetic paintings use handmade optical projectors, LED lights and open
source 8-bit controller technology to produce a constant moving image.

Friday, September 18 / 7pm
LIVE PERFORMANCES: Loud Objects and MV Carbon / Zach Layton
This evening of experimental music at the Red House features the Loud
Objects, performing live 1-bit circuit bending on an overhead projector,
and
MV Carbon and Zach Layton, performing on sitar, cello, electronics and
feedback.

Saturday, September 19 / 7pm
SCREENING: ((audience)) Premiere
The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a 2 1/2 hour program of sound artworks
by eight international artists. Presented  “in the dark” with full 5.1
surround sound, the evening will be an immersive experience in cinematic
audio. The ((audience)) Main Program contains works by: Jamie Allen; Bryan
Jacobs; Loud Objects; Simona Brinkmann; Natasha Barrett; Emmanuel Madan
and Anna Friz; Cedric Maridet and a Syracuse exclusive by Uli Schuster.

Thursday, September 24 / 7pm
TAPE-MUSIC CONCERT: Music on All Sides
This “in the dark” evening explores the use of 5.1 surround sound in the
composition of experimental and new music. Featuring the work of John
Hudak; R. Luke Dubois; and Brett Balogh and Stephen Hastings-King.

Friday, September 25
7pm / SCREENING: Cinema for the Eyes and Ears
This “psychedelic video mix” is composed of fractals, stochastic
structures, autumn leaves, sprouting seeds, nebulae and one pumping stereo
soundtrack. Featuring work by Sean Niessen; Dave Fischer; Sam Pellmann and
Miranda Raimondi; and Michael Northam.

9pm / SCREENING: Psicklops
A rare screening of mudboy’s “dark cinema psycho drama.”
Sunday, September 27 / 2pm
KARAOKE BRUNCH / CLOSING PARTY
Join the curators of ((audience)) and Red House staff for a very special
event combining live karaoke, coffee and waffles from Funk N’ Waffles. To
be broadcast LIVE on Red House Radio.

September 17 – September 27 / All day
RADIO FEST
For ten days, special programs on Red House Radio will be broadcast to
coincide with the ((audience)) festival, including live performances, DJ
mixes from contributing artists, artist talks and spotlights, and new and
historic works of radio drama.

Curated by Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati.

GENERAL INFORMATION
For more information about ((audience)) at Red House Arts Center, please
visit http://theredhouse.org or call 315-425-0405. Red House Arts Center
is open Monday through Friday from 10am -5pm. Festival passes allow
admission to each event and cost $20. Individual events cost $10. The
opening of Last Wishes by mudboy on September 17 is free and open to the
public. All events will be held at Red House Arts Center.

Red House Arts Center / 201 S. West Street, Syracuse, NY / 13202
315-425-0405 / press@theredhouse.org

ABOUT ((AUDIENCE))
((audience)) is dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing
wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established
sound artists and composers. For our first decade, ((audience)) will focus
on the cinema as a technical and distributive platform, organizing a
biennial nomadic art festival in partnership with select arts
organizations worldwide.

Conceived in 2006, ((audience)) will premiere in Syracuse, NY this year
and will continue to travel internationally through 2010. We are
partnering with local arts organizations in cities worldwide and expect to
hold 12 further screenings/  festivals. Curatorial lectures, performances,
artist presentations and exhibitions will coincide with screenings on a
city-to-city basis. For more information on ((audience)), please visit
http://au.dience.org.

((audience)) / mail: 39 Ave. A, Box 103, NY, NY 10009 / lauren@au.dience.org
temporary HQ: 125 Maiden Lane, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10038

((audience)) is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts
service organization, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space
program.

In composing “still life”, I  recalled a fascinating experience during a recent stay on the Frioul archipelago, near Marseilles.  While walking and recording sounds for various projects, I noticed a snail on the steps leading to my studio. Everyday I walked up and down those steps; I was constantly excited at the prospect of observing the progress this snail would manage.   It was very cold and it looked to me as if the snail wasn’t moving at all.  My enjoyment of the snail was the surreal concept that I could not observe its immediate progress but was aware of it by gauging how much progress it had made each day.

This project being in line with the minimal aesthetic I am interested in of late, i have decided  to approach the sound of imperceptible change as audio “still life” .

Sackville 07.28.2009 – Simulcast

July.28.09

Presented by the Montréal-based organization Silophone in association with CHMA 106.9 FM (Sackville), Ok.Quoi?! Arts Frestival (Sackville), & free103point9.org ( New York State).

SIMULCAST 2.0 : Sackville is a month-long radio art series about listening to  radio at night and exploring radio’s links with eternity. Four Canadian sound and radio artists are asked to provide a single, unchanging sound, which will broadcast continuously for four hours each night on Sackville’s campus/community radio station CHMA-FM  106.9. SIMULCAST 2.0 begins at 2 am on July 28, 2009. At 6 am on  August 24, 2009, after the twenty-eighth night, the series will have completed and CHMA’s regular programming will resume. Featuring sounds  by Hélène Prévost, Mario Gauthier, i8u and Stéphane Claude.”

still life by i8u

In composing “still life”, I  recalled a fascinating experience during a recent stay on the Frioul archipelago, near Marseilles.  While walking and recording sounds for various projects, I noticed a snail on the steps leading to my studio. Everyday I walked up and down those steps; I was constantly excited at the prospect of observing the progress this snail would manage.   It was very cold and it looked to me as if the snail wasn’t moving at all.  My enjoyment of the snail was the surreal concept that I could not observe its immediate progress but was aware of it by gauging how much progress it had made each day.

This project being in line with the minimal aesthetic I am interested in of late, i have decided  to approach the sound of imperceptible change as audio “still life” .

SIMULCAST 2.0 : Sackville

Four artists are invited to create an unchanging radio broadcast

nightly from July 28th to August 24th 2009

Hélène Prévost “12:00”                   July 28 to August 3
Mario Gauthier “Transparences”       August 4 to 10
i8u “still life”                                  August 11 to 17
Stéphane Claude ” Waves Array”     August 18 to 24

All broadcasts 2am to 6am, local time (Atlantic Daylight Time, UTC – 0300)

Listen on the radio: 106.9 FM, CHMA
Listen on line: www.mta.ca/chma/listen.htm
Listen to the archive anytime: www.free103point9.org/archive

Presentation by Emmanuel Madan, Project curator, Tuesday July 28 at 2pm
Struts Gallery, 7 Lorne Street, Sackville, NB Canada, strutsgallery.ca

Review – Hmmm Remix – by Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

KATHY KENNEDY – HMMM REMIX COMPILATION (CD by Le Son 666)

Perhaps it’s safe to assume that all people hum, at least every now and then. Humming to themselves, to a tune or to meditate. Kathy Kennedy, of whom I never heard, does group hummings for ‘sonic experimentation and meditation, for play and for physical well-being’. Recordings of this humming were given to a whole bunch of people in order to crank out some form of remix, which is clever thinking, me thinks, because it brings her work to a new audience. Kennedy is, I believe, from Montreal, so some of the Montreal posse are here, such as Helene Prevost, i8u but also Francisco Lopez, Kim Cascone, Thanos Chrysakis, Austici, and lesser known names, such as Doug van Nort, Magali Babin, Jonas Olesen, Margaret Schedel. Some of them use the humming of voices as a starting point to create electronic deviations of it, other use the voices as voices, and layered them, change the pitch etc. But all of the twelve remixes (the first track is a sort of documentary piece about humming and people are being interviewed) seem to be interested in creating densely, atmospheric music in which you can feel good. To create perhaps a similar effect as humming, to enter a relaxing state. Quite a nice compilation, but not always a big surprise.

Address: http://www.le-son666.com

(FdW, Vital Weekly, #614)

Hmmm Remix (2007)

Hmmm Remix

Humans and computers.
Organic and digital.
Soothing and stimulating.

Ahypnotic assortment of styles and approaches of digital composition byelectronic artists around the globe; each artist remixing the same 5minute recording of an intimate group of singers humming together.Luminaries in the field such as:

Kathy Kennedy + David Gutnick, Hélène Prévost, Steve McLeod, Austistici, Thanos Chrysakis, Francisco Lopez,
Margaret Schedel, Jonas Olesen, Bryce Beverlin 11,  Magali Babin, Kim Cascone, Doug Van Nort and .i8u.

HMMM Remix Compilation is part of a multi-layered project by sound artist Kathy Kennedy. It will culminate in a sonic tsunami, an event that will take place on St. Laurent st. between Sherbrooke and Mont-Royal on sat.June 16, from 3:30-4pm. We hope to hear the voices of 5000 citizens united by the sound of humming. For more info about this spectacular endeavour see:
kathykennedy.ca