Prix ARS Electronica 2012 :: International Competition for #CyberArts #geekgirl

Call for Entries closes 2 March 2012 :: Register Online to Enter
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society. Prix ARS Electronica 2012 is calling for entries in the following catagories: Computer Animation / Film / VFX; Interactive Art; Digital Musics & Sound Art; Hybrid Art; Digital Communities; a youth catagory – u19–Create Your World and [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant.   The competition is organised by the Ars Electronica Linz GmbH and ORF’s Upper Austria Regional Studio in collaboration with the OK Center for Contemporary Art and the Brucknerhaus Linz, and the prizes will be awarded during the Ars Electronica Festival held in Linz, Austria from 30 August – 3 September 2012.
http://www.aec.at

Australian Computer Music Conference 2012

Australian Computer Music Conference 2012 :: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Call for Proposals closes 27 February 2012 :: Conference 12 – 15 July 2011
The Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC) is an annual gathering of those interested in digital and electronic music from Australia and New Zealand. It includes concerts, workshops, project demonstrations, artists talks and research presentations.  The 2012 Conference theme is ‘Interactive’.  The ACMC is seeking proposals for participation including research papers, creative works, artists talks, technical demonstrations, workshops and poster presentations.
http://www29.griffith.edu.au

Launch of the Giant Theremin #Melbourne #MMW #geekgirl

Standing more than seven metres tall, the Giant Theremin was created by local audiovisual performance artist Robin Fox.

The launch features two original music and dance works created by some of Melbourne’s leading creatives.

The mesmerising choreography of Green Room Award winner Stephanie Lake (Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin), developed to complement a sound map created by Robin Fox, culminates in ‘Vanishing Point’ a striking contemporary dance performance.

Dexter, best known for his infectious mixes of dubstep, tribal and soul beats, performs a sound map played by krump, traditional and break dancers in a hip-hop spectacular. With a career spanning over two decades, he started out as a mobile DJ, then progressed to party rocker and member of the Avalanches, placing at the DMC World DJ Championships. His most recent project is Grrilla Step.

An initiative of the City of Melbourne, supported by VicHealth.

Location
Signal forecourt
1 Flinders Walk
Northbank Melbourne, Australia

Contact details
melbournemusic@melbourne.vic.gov.au

Date & times for Artist performance:
19/11/2011

Saturday: 8:30pm – 9:30pm

This event repeats one week later on Saturday 26 November, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

The Giant Theremin will be on Les Erdi Plaza until 29 February and can be also be played by members of the public: Sunday to Thursday: 8am-10pm; Friday to Saturday: 8am-11pm.

MMW site
http://tinyurl.com/ceralvd
What is a therimen? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

Hmm… Hand Made Musical Festival #Melbourne #experimental #music #geekgirl

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Curated and organised by dedicated experimental instrument builders Rod Cooper, John Jacobs and Ben Kolaitis, the Hmm… festival celebrates all things handmade in contemporary experimental instrument building and design.

With talks, workshops, performances, makers market and installations Hmm… will showcase unconventional and surprising sound devices from circuit bent toys, handcrafted resonators, hacked TV’s pirate transmitters and fruit controlled synthesizers!

The festival will feature installations and performances from a diverse line-up of renound local, interstate and international experimental sound artists.

Let them help you be the future of sound, it’s in your hands!

Melbourne, 9-28th August 2011

Special performance by electronic poet and Hmm… festival curator John Jacobs.

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John will be performing his experimental comedy on ridiculous cracked robot toys at KIPL – 136 Roden Street, West Melbourne on Saturday evening 20th August

Trouble magazine says: “John Jacobs has been making different types of electronic music in Sydney since the early 1980’s, from industrial noise through to the dance-floor. Deeply involved in the radical politics and strategies of the Post-Punk subculture, John produced experimental radio on SkidRowRadio, 2JJ and 2SER. At the same time he was engineering for ABC Radio National where he now produces the critically acclaimed Night Air and Pool a site for collaborative arts projects.

Committed as always to the DIY spirit of the counter-culture John believes entirely in the benefits of the hands on magic of improvised circuitry. A certain mystical zeal underpins his work, this zeal extending out to the work of his colleagues. He makes instruments that are art-objects fused with comedy, wonder and irony, many integrating into the bodily electronic circuit of the player themselves.”

Other things to check out:

Hacked robots<>, bent toys<>, recycled resonators<>, fruit synthesisers<>, recombinant violins<>, even human circuits, they all make music!

For more information contact: handmademusicfest@gmail.com

The 2011 *Hmm… *(Hand Made Music) festival is a grassroots, maker’s initiative proudly supported by *Next Wave*, *BUS Projects*, *KIPL* and *West Space*.

Bring The Cure to Melbourne #demandit #music #widget #geekgirl

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UnConvention Brisbane #music #unconvention #geekgirl

UnConvention Brisbane is back for 2011 with all the things that made last year’s event “an invaluable experience” and “the best-value convention [Oxygen Kiosk's Jaymis Loveday has] ever encountered”.

Held on June 11 and 12 at The Edge in Brisbane’s South Bank precinct this years event will comprise forum discussions, workshops and networking events around creating sustainable careers within the local independent music industries.

- Sustaining the Chaos curated by Kellie Lloyd (Q Music / Screamfeeder)
- Running your own Venue curated by Blair Hughes (Brisbane Sounds)
- Music and Failurecurated by Edward Guglielmino
- Brisbane’s Hip Hop and Electronica scenes curated by Alex Yabsley (Dot.AY) and Ray Bourne (Rainman)
- Documenting Brisbane Music curated by Justin Edwards
- Music Geekery curated by Jaymis Loveday

Tickets are available now from Oztix for $30, including two days of UnConvention panels, live music, networking drinks (18+ only) and BBQ lunch.

For an extra $5 you can join a workshop and learn some guerilla video production techniques; DIY electronics; how to run your own venue; publish your own content; mix your own record; or some fundamental legal info that everyone should know.

UnConvention Brisbane will be a great opportunity to connect with other people who are passionate about independent music and if you’re an independent musician, artist or thinker interested in the future of the music industries.

Register for Music Video Mash Up (Jun 10-13) #filmmakers #video #mashup

Launch: Friday June 10
Shed 4 at Open Channel
Registrations: May 20 (Regular), June 3 (Late)
MVMU

Calling all bands, musicians and filmmakers!! The Music Video Mash Up is a filmmaking festival where bands and filmmaking teams are randomly paired up and have just three days to create, shoot and edit a music video worthy of the BIG (and small) screen!

Once paired, the newly formed teams will have the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend (June 10-13) to create a concept, prepare, shoot and edit the music video before returning on Monday night to the designated drop off point in their city. Clips are judged by a panel of local industry experts and will be in the running for some amazing prizes as well as the chance to take out the major award and be crowned winners of the Best Music Video, which will be screened nationally on Video Hits!

Bands – all you need is a pre-recorded original song.
Filmmakers – all you need is a camera and a crew.

Once you have your song or your filmmaking team, register online and then turn up at the launch for the ultimate extreme music video making weekend!

=== GOSUB10-004 – expr~ === expr~ from 0xA is GOSUB10′s fourth release. #geekgirl

0xA is a band made not out of people, but objects and patches. Snippets of codes that bleep and blink are added and modified in the online repository, where it all began. As the repository grows, 0xA evolves with it. Aymeric Mansoux, Chun Lee and Olivier Laruelle are the current active contributors. They have performed 0xA across Europe, North America and Asia in galleries, clubs and festivals.

expr~ is the first music release of 0xA, consists of retro sounding tracks made almost entirely with the [expr~] object in Pure Data. No tweaking of number boxes and sliders, no clever generative algorithms, just switch the audio on and listen.

URL: http://gosub10.org/GOSUB10-004.html

The source code for this release (implemented in Pure-data) is free software distributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3 or greater). For repository, see:  http://gitorious.org/0xa

Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License.

Call out: The Totally Huge New Music Conference #Perth #immanence #Deleuze #geekgirl

The Totally Huge New Music Conference is on In September 2011! It takes place in Perth, Western Australia. Please go to the link below to see the call for papers, abstracts due end of May. http://www.tura.com.au/node/80

The theme this year is
Immanence
Keynote Speaker: Marina Rosenfeld

The inexorably slippery nature of contemporary culture and postmodern phenomena, such as the deconstruction of identity and distrust in metanarrative, arguably squeeze the individual into reliance only upon the present moment. All music emerges (and dissipates) in the moment, drawing  on the immanent “a-subjective pre-reflexive consciousness” defined by Deleuze in his Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life (2001).

The 2011 Totally Huge New Music Conference is inclusive and devised to appeal to practitioners and academics, audiences and artists. As such, the Conference Convenors welcome proposals involving any aspect of new music, sound art, sound in the media arts, and the study of auditory culture and environments in relation to the arts. We are specifically seeking papers and sessions addressing new music, musicology and sonic practices in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

The THNMF conference is a fully DEST refereed conference that offers opportunities for presentations of refereed and non refereed papers, performances, demonstrations and workshops held over two days, and there is the opportunity for publication in the conference proceedings, Sound Scripts – published by Tura New Music, now in its 4th volume.

The Conference is presented by Tura New Music, in association with the Faculty of Education and Arts, Edith Cowan University, including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Dr Cat Hope
|CREATEC Post Doctoral Research Fellow
|Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
| Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley, WA 6050
| Tel: 61 8 9370 6826 | Fax: 61 8 9370 6665

Bionic Ear Institute Concert :: Interior Design #Melbourne #bionic #geekgirl

Bionic Ear Institute Concert :: Interior Design
Robin Fox’s ANAT Synapse Residency at the Bionic Ear Institute

Robin Fox, one of Australia’s leading audio-visual, sound and computer music artists, worked with researchers from the Bionic Ear Institutes Music and Pitch Project Team to create musical compositions tailored specifically for implant users. His research and collaboration with five other composors will culminate in Interior Design, a concert designed to be enjoyed by both cochlear implant users and audiences with normal hearing.

The Interior Design concert will be held on Sunday 15 February 2011 at the Arts Centre in Melbourne. There are two performances – 5.30 pm and 8.00 pm – and a free lecture for ticket holders (limited space) at 7.00 pm.

 Tickets are available from The Arts Centre.