I’d like to inform you about a very nice Electronic Music Festival that is taking place soon. It is called ‘Electronic Circus’ and it is organized in Bielefeld in Germany. It will take place on the 12th of September. There will be several concerts there and I will be present there as well with a stall.  On this stall you can buy my current CD’s directly from me and I will also bring a special preview version of my upcoming ‘OceanoGraphy’ album. It will be almost finished by then so you can get a real sneak preview.

I have visited this event last year and I must say it is very professionally organized and the concerts where great. The concert hall is in the middle of the town so there is plenty to eat just outside. You can find more information on this event on this URL: http://www.electronic-circus.net/. I hope to see you there! It would be nice to meet in person of course.

Details at the Electronic Circus site.

The First International Kyma User Symposium is scheduled to be held from the 8-11 October 2009 at the Niu Espai Artistic Contemporani in Poble Nou, Barcelona.

Current and potential Kyma practitioners are invited to attend an in-depth 3 day interactive conclave devoted to the technical and artistic aspects of the Kyma sound design language.

The preliminary program includes master classes presented by Carla Scaletti and Kurt Hebel, the creators of Kyma, papers and demos presented by Kyma practitioners and professional users , plus a program of concerts, installations and performances in the Niu art space of Poble Nou.

Cost: €80 for the workshops and concerts.

Symbolic Sound Corporation’s Kyma X is a powerful visual programming language for music and sound, originally created in 1987 and still going strong today. The Kyma sound design environment is used by composers, researchers and sound designers for realtime sound generation and manipulation.

Organisers: Station 55 Productions in co-operation with Niu, Symbolic Sound, TC Electronic Spain and the LEM Festival

via USO

Haverford College, in suburban Philadelphia, plays host this coming week to electronic and experimental hip hop musician DJ Spooky, virtual reality guru and composer Jaron Lanier, and Living Colour percussionist Will Calhoun as they gather for an event called “The Sound of Sci(l)ence.” The conference takes place June 15 – 17.

“The Sound of Sci(l)ence: Listening to Quantum Mechanics, the Big Bang, and Nanotechnology,” is a three-day series of conversations, workshops, and performances exploring the intersection of music and quantum mechanics. Supported by a Mellon Arts Residency Planning Grant from Haverford College’s Hurford Humanities Center, the event pairs visiting artists Will Calhoun, Jaron Lanier, and Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) with Haverford faculty and students in an effort to widen the scope of quantum mechanics pedagogy through the study of sound, as well locate synergies with courses across the academic disciplines.

Organized by Chemistry professor Joshua Schreier and Physics professor Stephon Alexander, who describe the idea behind the workshop this way:

“Mathematically, quantum mechanics (QM) has many analogies with the classical wave phenomena of sound, and yet the pedagogy of QM is almost entirely visual. This series of conversations and performances will explore how to ‘listen to’ the simple systems used to teach QM, how this can increase student comprehension, reach out to non-technical audiences, and for its own inherently aesthetic benefits. In addition, we would like to explore how this could be used to explore/comprehend our research interests in cosmology and nanoscience. “

The event is FREE, but registration is required. Attendees can register for tickets at this link.

Schedule of Events:

Monday, June 15th

4:00 p.m. Sharpless Auditorium

Open Panel Discussion on Sound and the Physics Curriculum
Speakers: Will Calhoun, Jaron Lanier, Paul Miller/DJ Spooky, Peter Love, Stephon Alexander, and Joshua Schrier

Tuesday, June 16th

12:00 noon Sharpless Auditorium
Screening of Paul Miller/DJ Spooky’s film Rebirth of a Nation
*Snacks provided

4:00 p.m. Hilles 109

Wavedrum Presentation/Workshop with Will Calhoun

Wednesday, June 17th

7:30 p.m. Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall
Performance: “The Sound of Sci(l)ence” Featuring Will Calhoun, Jaron Lanier, and Stephon Alexander

Additional Information:

Visiting Artist Will Calhoun is a Grammy Award-winning percussionist and member of Living Colour; winner of multiple drumming awards. Calhoun’s music utilizes both the Korg Wavedrum and the Mandala Drum, integrating banks of effects and other technological enhancements into his performances.

The name Jaron Lanier may be familiar to many readers, for his pioneering work in virtual reality (in fact, it was Lanier who coined the term in the early 1980s).  Founder of VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products, Lanier is also a visual artist and composer. At present, he is Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley.

Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) is an electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is sometimes called “illbient” or “trip hop”. He is a conceptual artist, film-maker, turntablist, and producer.

Circuitastrophe 2008 – a celebration of circuit bending, robotics, 8-bit music, hacking & electronic music will be held in Cincinatti Sept 4th & 5th, 2008. Reed Ghazala will be in the house.

Here are  the details:

Art Damage Lodge
Thursday, Sept 4th

7:00 French Crips
7:40 thejunkyardcatalyst
8:20 Hardon Collider
9:00 Ben Allen
9:40 Alex Inglizian
10:20 Fluxmonkey
11:00 Tentacle Boy
11:40 Crème DeMentia
12:20 Monkey Boy (lecture of folk art and bending)
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Art Damage Lodge
Friday, Sept 5th

7:00 Pelzwik
7:40 Datura 1.0
8:20 Talking Computron
9:00
9:40 Dan Demchuk
10:20 Spunky Toofers
11:00 Mike Una
11:40 Circuit Ben Reaction
12:20 Peter Edwards
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Workshops at Murmur
Saturday, Sept 6th:

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Collin Raffel
Interfacing and controlling your bends

12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Alex Dyba ( GetLoFi.com ,
Talking Computron) 555 Timer Workshop

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Highly Liquid Midi
Controller Workshop
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semantics
Saturday, Sept 6th:

5:00 -7:00 PM Bar B. Q. and Installation Opening
Mike Una, Loud Objects, Mike Hancock,
Peter Edwards, Brad McCombs, Monkey Boy (Scot Scarboro)
Amy Youngs, Mark 1/2 Mang (Shafer)
7:00 PM – 7:40 Mike Hancock performing
his installation
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The Mockbee
Saturday, Sept 6th:
8:00 – 9:30 PM
Q. Reed Ghazala The History of Circuit-Bending
Free “Funky Little Chunk” of Circuit-Bent History
http://www.anti-theory.com/

10:00 Loud Objects
11:00 Roth Mobot
11:40 Unicorn Dream Attack
12:20 DJ Tendraw (UK)
1:00 Albino Ghost Monkey
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Contemporary Arts Center
Sunday, Sept 7th:

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
The Mystery of Electricity;Panel Discussion & Brunch
Ken Rinaldo (OSU); http://kenrinaldo.com/
Amy Youngs from (OSU); http://hypernatural.com/
Brad McCombs (NKU); http://www.bradmcco.net/
& Mark Shafer (NKU)

2:00 – 5:00
upstairs in the UnMuseum, all ages
Circuit-Bending 101 Workshop with
DJ Dan Demchuk and Patrick McCarthy

Show producer Paxahau has announced the initial lineup for Movement 2008 – the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

Here’s a link to Synthtopia’s Movement 2008 info.

The festival, now in its ninth year (in some form) will feature:

ALEX UNDER –live
ALTON MILLER
BENNY BENASSI
BUZZ GOREE
CARL CRAIG
CASSY
COBBLESTONE JAZZ –live
COOL KIDS –live
DBX –live
DUBFIRE
EGYPTIAN LOVER –live
GIRL TALK –live
GUILLAUME & THE COUTU DUMONTS -live
HALF HAWAII –live
JAMES ZABIELA
JORIS VOORN –live
KONRAD BLACK
MATHIAS KADEN –live
MIKE GRANT
MINX
MOBY -dj set
NEWCLEUS -live
SPEEDY J -live with Scott Pagano VJ
TECH ITCH
TERRENCE PARKER
ZIP

More names are promised to come.

So who’s going?