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Boston 04.28.2007 – Share at MIT

Saturday, April 28th 2007

MiT5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age


 international conference april 27-29, 2007 mit
creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age

Saturday, April 28th 2007
10:45-12:15 (1st session) + 1:30-3 (2nd session after a lunch break)
Call Session 5 (room assignments to be posted)

SHARE: A Multimedia Collaborative Forum in Emergence 1
(on-site and remote panelists)

Keiko Uenishi, organizer
Jim Bell, John Hopkins, France Jobin aka i8u
Adam Kendall, Martin Koplin, Katherine Liberovskaya
Michael Liegl, Anton Marini, Geoff Matters,
Marie-Helene Parant, Morgan Sully,
Elsa Vieira, Dan Winckler
Moderator: Carl Skelton

SHARE: A Multimedia Collaborative Forum in Emergence,

The idea of following the “Billboard Top 100” is long over – the future is for people to choose their tools to make their own songs, images and ideas. SHARE is an open community, forum, and jam session for audio/ visual artists that provides a basic infrastructure and helps people to use it to perform together. As a result, it becomes a big uncontrolled multimedia openjam. SHARE is a space for people to meet, chat, and play together. In these two panels, members of the SHARE community will share their experiences and field questions about this global initiative. Now nearly six years old, SHARE has spread to eight cities worldwide, with three more chapters expected to launch in 2007.

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Review – SPELLEWAUERYNSHERDE, INTERPRETATIONS VARIOUS & SUNDRY (CDR by Trans>parent Radiation) Bresmsstrahlung – by Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

SPELLEWAUERYNSHERDE, INTERPRETATIONS VARIOUS & SUNDRY (CDR by Trans>parent Radiation)
Bresmsstrahlung is a small label which have brought us some nice releases in the past – a small but good catalogue. They also have a sub division called Trans>parent Radiation which consists of MP3s. After a while they are removed from the website and then the material is released as a CDR. The first one is a compilation of re-composed source material taken from found reel to reel recordings of Icelandic a cappella lament songs made in the late 1960s or early 1970’s. Ten composers using this material and they all seem to be from the field of microsound, but they are by no means the least in the field. Fennesz, Roden, Kit Clayton, Taylor Deupree, Takemura, Alejandra & Aeron and Stephan Mathieu – one could wonder why not release this as a real CD. The lament song part is pushed to the back in the most part. The emphasis lies more on the ancient tape hiss and crackle, although some use the faint traces of voices. Most of the time it turns out to be shimmering, humming, crackling and hissing pieces of music. The noise collage played by Nobekazu Takemura is a bit out of place here, or it’s certainly a break with the rest. Some people add their own instruments such as guitars (Fennesz and Josh Russell) but they keep in spirit with the overall sombre and melancholic tone of this release. The Takemura piece is the longest and perhaps also the one that is a bit out of place here. It perhaps breaks the mood but in this case it’s not so great. Otherwise this is a more than excellent compilation with all equally great sorrowful pieces of music, which could have as easily been on a real CD. (FdW)
Address: http://www.bresmsstrahlung-recordings.org

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Berlin 01.20.2007 – Share global @ CTM07


SHARE GLOBAL @ CTM.07 (Berlin)
January 29 -30 2007
Program: http://www.clubtransmediale.de/index.php?id=4658

+STREAMING BROADCAST –
SHARE GLOBAL Audio Jam+

Tuesday, January 30th 2007-16:00 (Montreal time)

Montreal Performers:

Jim Bell, i8u, Evans Simard, Carl Aksynczak, Michal Seta … and others

To listen to Share from Berlin on January 30th:
Streaming page
http://www.videographe.qc.ca/share/10.htm

The two day SHARE.MOBILE during CTM.07 brings together SHARE-activists from various locations around the globe: Elsa Vieira, Daniel Vatsky, Eric Redlinger, Daniel Smith, Anton Marini and Keiko Uenishi from SHARE NYC; Marie-Hélène Parant and Katherine Liberovskaya from SHARE Montréal, Chris Noelle from SHARE Berlin (currently in its founding process), Péter Szabó and Alexandra Szeleznyeva from the SHARE group in Budapest, Chris Schuerholz from SHARE in Wiesbaden and others.

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Montreal 01.17.2007 – Arts Birthday

Join us for an audio walk
WEDNESDAY, January 17th 2007

ART’S BIRTHDAY
UPGRADE MONTREAL
[[ http://upgrademtl.org ]]

Since the proclamation of Fluxus artist Robert Filliou in 1963, January 17th happens to be Art’s Birthday. Art was thus born 1,000,000 years ago and artists and artist groups everywhere around the globe celebrate this important anniversary by organizing international events and network art happenings, and by eating cake and offering gifts to Art. Every year, Art’s Birthday becomes an occasion for exchange between artists and art events. The Eternal Network grows this way by exploring the telecommunications arts.

This audio-walk will lead us to strange places of psychogeographic
resonance in the city as part of the celebration of Art’s Birthday. We will
begin with hot wine at Oboro and finish with performances organised by
StudioXX.

with audio work from:

I8U
FISHEAD
TIM HECKER
SAIBOTUK

:: 5 pm
Gathering at OBORO, 4001 Berri, suite 301 (tea and hot chocolate wil be served // bring: your mug / thermos !
Interactive installation from Jason E. Lewis, Everything You Thought We’d Forgotten.

:: 5:45 pm
Departure from OBORO for the psychogeographique sound walk, organized by UpgradeMtl, with electronic music of :
i8u, Fishead, Tim Hecker, Saibotuk.

Bring your portable CD ghettoblaster to broadcast the music in public. (don’t forget the batteries!). Cds will be distributed.

:: 6:30 pm
Carré St-Louis with Jasa Baka and Tyr Jami (Parlour Treats) for a short festive performance (**bring birthday hats and flashlights**)

//// Parlour Treats are Jasa Baka and Tyr Jami, an outlandish sister team. They invite you into their outdoor Parlour for an experience of cake. A treat you knew you wanted when you were five but couldn’t reach through to your imaginary world for. Come have a piece, if you can catch it!

:: 7 pm +
Art’s Birthday party at the StudioXX
Tyr Jami performance (cello)
On-line performance by Kelly Andres, virtual resident from Lethbridge, Alberta. Music, cakes, drinks!

avec http://StudioXX.org & http://Oboro.net
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PDF :

[ http://upgrademtl.org/pics/UpgradePress011707.pdf ]

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brought to you by_
tobias, Anik & Sophie
Janvier 2007

[upgrade]

http://theupgrade.sat.qc.ca < http://theupgrade.sat.qc.ca> |
http://www.theupgrade.net < http://www.theupgrade.net>

The Upgrade is an autonomous, international and grassroots organization of
monthly gatherings for digital culture and the technology arts. Upgrade
Montreal is generously supported by the Society for Arts and Technology
[SAT], through networks of the Upgrade International, the various partners
we work with, the artists who donate their time and the personal energies of
its organizer triumvirate of tobias c. van Veen, Sophie Le-Phat Ho & Anik
Fournier.

tobias c. van Veen _ tobias @ upgrademtl.org
Anik Fournier _ anik @ upgrademtl.org
Sophie Le-Phat Ho _ sophie @ upgrademtl.org

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Diffraction on Vague Terrain (2006)

diffraction | NET | Vague terrain 05 | i8u

Vagueterrain.net the Toronto-based digital arts quarterly, has just
launched its fifth issue: vague terrain 05: minimalism.This issue is
dedicated to an exploration of minimalism and technology through various
texts and multimedia projects which document and explore reductionism.

minimalism in 100 words or less

If there is one thing that is certain about minimalism it is that you need to use less than 100 or more than 5000 words to discuss the subject. We’ve brought together a diverse range of work which explores minimalism through sound, time and space, questions the use of technology, traces genealogy and discusses methodology. Please take some time to explore the body of work we’ve curated. Enjoy!

Greg J. Smith & Neil Wiernik, Toronto
December 2006

This diverse body of work contains contributions spanning multiple
mediums from: aidan baker, bleupulp, clinker, granny’ark, greg j. smith,
gregory shakar, i8u, jan jelinek (interview by greg j. smith), martin
john callanan, michaela schwentner, monolake (interview by corina
macdonald), patrick lichty, steven read and tobias c. van veen.

photo by Mark Hogben

conophthorus resinosae
mesmer’s pepper
tricuspid
de justesse
snow fleas
millapedament

 

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Montreal 11.08.2006 – Les Soirees Exploratoires du Mercredi

Wednesday, November 8th 2006

i8u and Magali Babin, live on
“Les soirées exploratoires du mercredi”,
Bande à Part’s satellite radio, #93 on SIRIUS
http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/sirius/

The show Electro, is hosted by Tony Tremblay
with the help of Hélène Prévost and focuses on
exploratory music.
i8u and Magali Babin are the second guests
to appear live on the program while Aimé Dontigny
started off the series this past October.

For those of you who won’t be able to listen to
this live performance, it will be archived on
Bande à Part’s site.
http://www.bandeapart.fm/

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Symbiotic on pertin_nce (2006)

symbiotic | NET | pertin_nce | i8u + andrew duke

1  Loon Statistics (11:02), 2  Exhale and Shiver (12:43), 3  MVI (as per David Kristian) (7:04), 4  Punch Jig (5:23), 5  March Of The Bionicles (for Michael and Alexandre) (6:35), 6  Train Travel Hypnosis (9:07)

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Boston 09.01.2006 – Rare Frequency WZBC

WZBC – rare frequency.
Podcast of August 24th 2006 performance
i8u | bernhard gal | yuko nexus6

Rare Frequency
Power. Broadcast Power.

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Rare Frequency is a radio show, podcast, and website devoted to experimental, electronic, improv, noise, and quasi-pop music, with the occasional non sequitur thrown in for good measure. The traditional radio program is broadcast (and streamed over the web) every Thursday from 7-10pm EST on WZBC Newton 90.3 FM, a broadcast service of Boston College, as part of its No Commercial Potential (a.k.a. NCP) block of programming.

The show is hosted by Susanna (a.k.a. dj top hush), who has been known to write the odd article and/or review for ‘zines such as Grooves, Signal to Noise, XLR8R, and the Weekly Dig. She also co-curates the experimental music series Non-Event, works a day job at the music distributor Forced Exposure, and enjoys writing about herself in the third person.

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Boston 09.01.2006 – Podcast – Rare Frequency of i8u-gal-yuko nexux6

WZBC – rare frequency.
Podcast of August 24th 2006 performance
i8u | bernhard gal | yuko nexus6

Rare Frequency
Power. Broadcast Power.

Rare Frequency is a radio show, podcast, and website devoted to experimental, electronic, improv, noise, and quasi-pop music, with the occasional non sequitur thrown in for good measure. The traditional radio program is broadcast (and streamed over the web) every Thursday from 7-10pm EST on WZBC Newton 90.3 FM, a broadcast service of Boston College, as part of its No Commercial Potential (a.k.a. NCP) block of programming.

The show is hosted by Susanna (a.k.a. dj top hush), who has been known to write the odd article and/or review for ‘zines such as Grooves, Signal to Noise, XLR8R, and the Weekly Dig. She also co-curates the experimental music series Non-Event, works a day job at the music distributor Forced Exposure, and enjoys writing about herself in the third person.