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AUDIOLAB | ARTELEKU.NET

AUDIOLAB | ARTELEKU.NET: Anthony Iles, Mattin, Csaba Toth, Edwin Prevost, Ray Brassier, Bruce Russell, Nina Power, Ben Watson, Matthew Hyland, Matthieu Saladin, Howard Slater.

Noise & Capitalism’ is a collection of essays by various musicians, academics, activists which reflects on the artist-audience binary, specifically how “noise,” “improvised” or “free” music offers resistance and tensions that may, at worst, provide instruments for capitalism but also, at best, point to modes of ‘subjectlessness’. Published by AUDIOLAB | ARTELEKU.NET with: ANTHONY ILES, MATTIN, CSABA TOTH, EDWIN PRéVOST, RAY BRASSIER, BRUCE RUSSELL, NINA POWER, BEN WATSON, MATTHEW HYLAND, MATTHIEU SALADIN, HOWARD SLATER.

BLACK METAL THEORY SYMPOSIUM

Not black metal. Not theory. Not not black metal. Not not theory. Black metal theory. Theoretical blackening of metal. Metallic blackening of theory. Mutual blackening. Nigredo in the intoxological crucible of symposia.

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CURATED BY: ALDO AMMIRATA | NOSTRESS NETLABEL

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE | " ETHER VOYAGE + ( evp trasmission) " The night before the performance I will lay in a part of the city a recording magnetic tape with no human presence there, ("retrocasuality"). During my performance a friend of mine will send me the nocturnal recorded files, unknowed for me, that I will manipolate with softwares. I will use stringed instruments from western tradition (cello) and eastern tradition like "esraj" together will interact with the rest of the sounds, presences tryng to destabilizing and causing a derangment with the digital dimension. The concert-performance wants to be a search and an evidentiation of the metaphysical sound, of the microsounds and its effects on the human perception and and inspired to the work of: Leif Elggren (Elgaland-Vargaland) C.M. Von Haussvolff Nikola Tesla and Konstantin Raudive. Curated by Aldo Ammirata | Nostress Netlabel

 

CURATED BY: D.U.S.T. | MICHAEL O ROURKE, FINTAN NEYLAN, PAUL J. ENNIS.

CURATED BY: MAINOFF'11 | BRUSIO NETLABEL

MAINOFF'11 | BRUSIONETLABEL | LIVE STRANSMISSION WITH: Luca Rinaudo e Antonio Cusimano, Tobias Faar, Franz Rosati e Leila Bahlouri, Domenico Sciajno | 8° Congresso della musiche e delle arti elettroniche indipendenti.

CURATED BY: NICOLA MASCIANDARO, MICHAEL O ROURKE, KARIN SELLBERG.

Black Metal Theory Symposium | P. E. S. T. Philial | Epidemic | Strategy | Tryst  | Organized by: Nicola Masciandaro, Michael O’ Rourke and Karin Sellberg, in collaboration with Into the Void Records. Media partner: RMEDL | Metasound

CURATED BY: NUB PROJECT SPACE | PIETRO RIPARBELLI & ALESSIO BALLERINI

streaming video recorded / sound installation / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / site specific / drone music

Nub è una associazione culturale no-profit attiva a Pistoia dal 2010; da settembre 2013 ha spostato le proprie attività a Prato. 
Propone una attenta programmazione di eventi e performance in genere legati alla ricerca sonora ed alla musica sperimentale, ospitando artisti italiani e stranieri.
Nub nasce dalla volontà di uscire dalla sterilità degli schemi culturali attuali, per riappropriarsi di un modo di intendere la cultura che, attraverso l’analisi di situazioni performative, laboratoriali o di scambio intellettuale, possa far nascere una reale consapevolezza di appartenenza al presente.
Nub è un progetto completamente autofinanziato e indipendente, libero da logiche istituzionali e commerciali.
Nub è un progetto di Federico Fiori e Francesca Lenzi.

CURATED BY: NUB PROJECT SPACE | PIETRO RIPARBELLI AND ALESSIO BALLERINI

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CURATED BY: PIETRO RIPARBELLI | INLAND EMPIRE.

SILENZIO : ZERO ASSOLUTO –273,15 °C | – 459,67 °F ||| Improvvised music ensemble with: Lorenzo Senni, Nicola Ratti, Massimiliano Viel, Massimo Bartolini, directed by Pietro Riparbelli | Dj set by: Costantino della Gherardesca  | RM-ED/L | META-SOUND | In collaboration with: www.inlandempireproject.com and Spazio Concept | Curated by Pietro Riparbelli

CURATED BY: RMEDL | METASOUND

ERNST VON GLASERSFELD

Ernst von Glasersfeld (March 8, 1917, Munich – November 12, 2010, Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts) was a philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was a member of the Board of Trustees, American Society of Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He was a member of the Scientific Board, Instituto Piaget, Lisbon. Von Glasersfeld invented the term radical constructivism and spent large parts of his life in Ireland (1940s), in Italy (1950s) where he worked with Silvio Ceccato, and in the US. Elaborating upon Giambattista Vico, Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology, Bishop Berkeley's theory of perception, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and other important texts, von Glasersfeld developed his model of Radical Constructivism, which is an ethos shared by all of these writers to one degree or another. He was also the creator of the first 120 symbols of the lexigram, a device used in the field of animal language.

EUGENE THACKER

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Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor at The New School in New York. Thacker is known for his work in philosophy, media theory, and the study of genre horror and science fiction. In addition to his writing on science and technology, Thacker has written on the work of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Arthur Schopenhauer, H.P. Lovecraft, and medieval mysticism. Thacker’s most recent books are In the Dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol.1, and After Life. Thacker periodically writes a column for Mute Magazine called "Occultural Studies." Thacker is also an author of experimental fiction. His writing has appeared in anthologies such as Degenerative Prose (published by Black Ice/FC2), Diagram: Selections from the Magazine (edited by Ander Monson), and Debug: Primary Techno Noir (edited by Kenji Siratori). Thacker has produced book arts projects, and an "anti-novel" titled An Ideal for Living. With Ronald Sukenick and Mark Amerika, Thacker helped establish Alt-X Press, for which he edited the anthology Hard_Code. Thacker has previously collaborated with Fakeshop, Biotech Hobbyist, and Merzbow.

FRANCISCO LOPEZ

GIACOMO VERDE

Born in the province of Napoli in 1956. Since 1973 he has dedicated himself to the theatre and the arts as author, actor, musician, director. His video productions date back to 1983 and combine attention to "poor" media and materials and the theatrical tradition with an experimentalism that is both eclectic and critical of the new electronic technologies. He has invented "tele-tales" (tele-racconto) for children (performance that unites narration, micro-theatre and macro-video live), worked with prison inmates, animated 'Euclid', the interactive artificial puppet of Studio Azzurro, created "poor" and alternative games for using television intelligently, founded the SeStessiVideo production company, taught how to destroy television sets, written, polemicized, invented formulae and definitions. He defines himself as a "teknoartist" and he's engaged in interactive art. Since 1998 he has lived in Lucca.In 1980 he started working on theatre research, techno performances, videoart, bag pipe playing, children’s theatre, a guest on TV, computer graphics and he also invented “Tele-racconto”. At the beginning of the 90’s he started to work on projects which involve the use of the television and interactive art, virtual reality, educative video making, and theory of communication. He has also realised that he is/has been a cyberpunk. All of this without wanting to lose a Tuscan accent.
 

HARALD SZEEMANN

Szeemann was born in Bern. He studied art history, archaeology and journalism in Bern and Paris, and in 1956 he began working as an actor, stage designer and painter, as well as doing one-man shows. He started creating exhibitions in 1957. From 1961 to 1969 he was curator of the Kunsthalle Bern.There he organised an exhibition of works by the "mentally ill" from the collection of the art historian and psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn in 1963, and the exhibition "When Attitudes Become Form" in 1969. In 1968 he gave Christo and Jeanne-Claude their first opportunity to package an entire building: the Kunsthalle.After leaving the Kunsthalle he founded the "Museum of Obsessions" and the Agentur für Geistige Gastarbeit ("Agency for Spiritual Migrant Work"). In 1972 he was the youngest artistic director at documenta 5 in Kassel. He revolutionised the concept: conceived as a hundred-day event, he invited the artists to present not only paintings and sculptures, but also performances and "happenings". In 1980 he co-hosted the Venice Biennale, where he created the "Aperto" exhibition for young artists. He was later among the few to curate the Biennale twice, in 1999 and 2001. From 1981 to 1991, he was the sole curator of the Kunsthaus Zürich. He also curated the international exhibition Einleuchten, the inaugural exhibition at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, in 1989. In 1982 Szeemann commissioned a three-dimensional reconstruction of Kurt Schwitters's Hannover Merzbau (as photographed in 1933) for the exhibition "Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk" in Zürich the following year. It was built by the Swiss stage designer Peter Bissegger and is now on permanent display in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. Szeemann played a key role in shaping the architecture faculty at the Università della Svizzera italiana, the first university in Italian Switzerland, for the first six years after its founding in 1996. From 1961 until his death, Szeemann belonged to the artists' group "Collège de 'Pataphysique'", from 1997 he was a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and in 2000 he was awarded the Max Beckmann Prize. Szeemann was married to the artist Ingeborg Lüscher, and lived in the village of Tegna in Ticino, Switzerland. He died in Ticino in 2005.

HEINZ VON FOERSTER

Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Förster; November 13, 1911, Vienna – October 2, 2002, Pescadero, California) was an Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cybernetics.Von Foerster was born in 1911 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, as Heinz von Förster. He studied physics at the Technical University of Vienna and at the University of Breslau, where in 1944 he received a Ph.D. in physics. He moved to the USA in 1949, and worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a professor of electrical engineering from 1951 to 1975. From 1962 to 1975 he also was professor of biophysics and 1958–75 director of the Biological Computer Laboratory. Additionally, in 1956–57 and 1963–64 he was a Guggenheim-Fellow. From 1963 to 1965 he was president of the Wenner-Gren-Foundation for anthropological research. He knew well and was in conversation with John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others. He influenced generations of students as a teacher and inclusive, enthusiastic collaborator. Von Foerster was influenced by the Vienna Circle and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He worked in the field of cybernetics and is known as the inventor of second-order cybernetics.[citation needed] He made important contributions to constructivism. He is also known for his interest in computer music and magic.

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JULIEN OTTAVI

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Julien Ottavi aka FORMANEX, aka THE NOISER, is part of the sound/activist collective APO 33 in Nantes, has moved recently to London where he has set up up a media lab in the artist space Area 10. APO 33 produced the GNU/Linux audio-media distribution Apodio, which is the one that Julien uses. Ottavi is likely the most intense laptop performer, always ready for new challenges and finding new ways of experimenting and this new work is a continuation of his extreme engagement in sound. Since 1997, he develops a composition work on the voice and its transformation by computer. Active developper of audio/visual programs with Puredata, he has also developed since many years DIY electronics (radio transmitters, oscillators, mixers, amplifiers, video transmitters...etc) in the perspective of knowledge sharing on technological development. Main developper for the Gnu/Linux operating system APODIO for digital art and A/V & streaming manipulation http://www.apodio.org His practices is not limited to the art spheres but crosses different fields from technological development to philosophy research, biomimetic analysis & experimentation. Since many years he reflects on the relations between experimental practices and collective practices within the creation of autonomous collective groups, putting in question the authorship strategy of the “art ideology”. As a sound composer he works on « programmatic compositions », producing computer series of solos : “Nervure Magnétique” - “séries du bruit blanc et rose” , « série métapercussions » “étudesauxhertz” ...(concerts in Europe - 2000/2001, United states 2002/2003/2005). Develops all his researsh with computer and Puredata software and Gnu/Linux operating system. - For these series, he works with some limited sound materials (noise, frequencies, sinus, percussions samples...etc) and uses the computer as an instrument to play music and modify space. -founders and member of FORMANEX, electroacoustic quatuor of chamber music from XXe and XXIe century, which plays graphic scores and others kind of scores from composers like Cornelius Cardew, John Cage, Christian Wolf, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Jerome Joy, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Ralf Wehowsky… etc. -Founder, artistic programmer, audio/video computer researcher (network and audio research) and mix-media artist of APO33: Art, technology and research laboratory based in Nantes working in the fields of sound art, free software, collaborative practices, micromedia and urban and environmental mutations. It is at the initiative of several collective projects linking research, experimentation and intervention in social contexts. APO33 develops several activities : creation to facilitate the development of experimental sound creation practices. APO33 with its own CIA (Cell for Intervention in Art/apo33), created a collective for sound/radio creation (artistic research, participation in festivals, residences, publications...). Technological Research on digital tools (web-radios, server networks, collaborative plate-forms...) and electronic devices. Theoretical research (organizing seminars, colloques, workshops with an interdisciplinary approach). Educational activities (teaching and workshops). Diffusion, Apo33 frequently invites artists from all over the world to present their work, set up collaborations or exchanges.

KEN HOLLINGS

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Ken Hollings is a writer based in London. His work draws freely upon trash culture, weird science, political intrigue and strange connections to reconfigure reality and demolish common assumptions. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound and Strange Attractor. He has written and presented critically acclaimed programmes for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, Resonance FM, NPS in Holland and ABC Australia. He is the author of Welcome to Mars: Science and the American Century 1947-1959 and Destroy All Monsters. Ken's most recent project for Radio 3 was Requiem for The Network, a series of essays on the history, power and revolutionary change of information networks.

LORENZO PICINALI

Dr Picinali is a Senior Lecturer in Music/Audio Technology in the Department of Media Technology at DMU and an active researcher in the Virtual Reality and Assisted Living (ViR.AL) and Interactive and Media Technologies (IMT) research groups. After graduation from the Computer Science Department of the Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in July 2005, he moved to DMU to start a PhD in Music and Technology titled "The Creation of a Binaural Spatialization Tool". In June 2007 he moved to take up a full-time research position in Paris, but continued his PhD studies in his own time, having re-registered as a part-time student at DMU. In Paris he worked as a researcher for LIMSI-CNRS and IRCAM on various projects linked to data sonification, binaural auralization and VR environments for the blind (see following section). In January 2009 he moved back to DMU to work as a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Technology, and in May 2010 he successfully completed his PhD. The collaboration with IRCAM and LIMSI-CNRS is still active with projects in audio-haptic interaction and data sonification. Between September 2005 and December 2008 Dr Picinali has also been employed as an external consultant in various research projects with GNReSound Italia, LIM (Universita degli Studi di Milano) and the Audiology Department of the University of Ferrara. This research has focused upon the objective and subjective audio quality evaluation of hearing aids, spatial hearing perception, and 3D sound algorithms for hearing aids. Over the past 6 years, Dr. Picinali published various international and international conference papers, international journal papers and two book chapters, and has been invited to present his work in various national and international venues.

MARCO GROSSO

Journalist, esoteric student, experimental musician and researcher for many years dealing with these topics, with headings of magazines and music productions (Inchiostrum Records, Invisible Eye Productions, ...).

MEM1

MEM1 are: LAURA CETILIA (cello + electronics) and MARK CETILIA (analog modular + electronics).

Mem1
Mem1 seamlessly blends the sounds of cello and electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities. In their improvisation-based performances, Mark and Laura Cetilia's use of custom hardware and software, in conjunction with a uniquely subtle approach to extended cello technique and realtime modular synthesis patching, results in the creation of a single voice rather than a duet between two individuals. Their music moves beyond melody, lyricism and traditional structural confines, revealing an organic evolution of sound that has been called "a perfect blend of harmony and cacophony" (Forced Exposure).

Founded in Los Angeles in 2003, Mem1 has traveled extensively, performing at Issue Project Room, Roulette, REDCAT / Disney Hall, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Electronic Church (Berlin), the Laptopia Festival (Tel-Aviv), the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and the Borealis Festival (Bergen). They have taken part in residencies at Harvestworks in New York, STEIM and Kunstenaarslogies in the Netherlands and USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. In 2009, they created Visiting Hours, a site-specific installation for the Museums of Bat Yam (Israel); in Winter 2012, they travelled to London to create Visting Hours II, a site-specific installation for the Sonic Arts gallery SoundFjord. Their collaborative works with media artists Liora Belford and Kadet Kuhne have been screened and installed at venues including the Institute for Contemporary Art (London), the Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen), the Sundance Film Festival, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). Throughout their career, they have collaborated with a variety of artists including the Penderecki String Quartet, Steve Roden, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, and Stephen Vitiello. Age of Insects, a full-length album with Vitiello, is now available through Dragon's Eye Recordings. Together, Mem1 curates the experimental music series Ctrl+Alt+Repeat and the record label Estuary Ltd.
 

NICOLA MASCIANDARO

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Nicola Masciandaro | Writer, Editor, Publisher. Is an Associate Professor of English at CUNY, Brooklyn College, a specialist in medieval literature, and founding editor of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary.

PINO PARINI | GRUPPO V

Il Gruppo V (da "Visione") è stato un gruppo di artisti e operatori visuali italiano attivo tra il 1959 e il 1967, noto dal 1968 come Gruppo di ricerca cibernetica. Il gruppo era costituito da un nucleo di artisti riminesi interessati a vario titolo al rapporto tra arte e scienza, operanti in stretta collaborazione con il Centro di Cibernetica e di Attività Linguistiche dell’Università di Milano diretto da Silvio Ceccato. Nato su iniziativa del pittore Giuseppe (Pino) Parini e da lui coordinato, il gruppo coinvolse inizialmente nelle sue attività sperimentali i pittori Giulio Tedioli e Giorgio Scarpa, a cui seguirono Giorgio Benzi, Galliano Ricci e Mario Valentini, lo scultore Flavio Casadei, l’architetto Aldo Villani, l'ingegnere Antonio Valmaggi, Gerardo Filiberto Dasi e - per qualche tempo - Vittorio D’Augusta, Eugenio Lombardini ed Augusto Betti. L'ambito di interesse e di attività di quelli che vennero definiti "pittori cibernetici riminesi" era rivolto allo studio dei processi mentali a fondamento della percezione visiva: ciò costituiva all'epoca un approccio innovativo nell’ambito dell’estetica e della stessa ricerca artistica, generando un connubio che avvicinava l’artista allo scienziato e lo scienziato al filosofo.Il gruppo presentò la propria “dichiarazione di poetica”, sintesi dei presupposti teorici della ricerca, al XIII Convegno Internazionale Artisti, Critici e Studiosi d’Arte tenutosi a Rimini nel 1964, partecipando successivamente in prima persona a esposizioni collettive ad Avezzano ("Strutture di Visione" nel 1964), Milano ("Nuove ricerche visive in Italia" nel 1966), Zagabria ("Tendencija 3" nel 1965 e "Tendecije 4" nel 1968) ed una personale a Ferrara ("Gruppo V" nel 1974). Nel 1968 il Gruppo V mutò la denominazione in Gruppo di ricerca cibernetica, assumendo di fatto l'impegno di rigorosa aderenza alle ricerche condotte dal gruppo di Ceccato sulle operazioni percettive. Tale linea di ricerca - facente fulcro su quella che è definita "Scuola operativa italiana" - è tuttora condotta avanti dal Centro internazionale di didattica operativa attivo a Rimini, e dalla Società di cultura metodologica operativa a Milano. L'attività del Gruppo V va inquadrata nel contesto del suo periodo storico, ricco di fermenti culturali e artistici in cui viene indagata la stessa nozione di arte da parte di gruppi sperimentali formati da operatori visuali attenti non solo al ruolo dell'artista ma anche a quello del fruitore: in tale clima creativo nascono Gruppo T a Milano, Gruppo N a Padova, Gruppo Uno, Sperimentale P e Gruppo Operativo R a Roma, Tempo 3 a Genova, Gruppo Atoma a Livorno ed altri similari. La sua partecipazione al serrato dibattito artistico negli anni '60 sul tema dell'arte programmata e cinetica è citata, durante gli anni di attività del gruppo, nella rivista Domus nn. 422-433 (1965) e nelle pubblicazioni Le arti oggi in Italia curata da Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco (1966) e New art around the world: painting and sculpture di W. Grohmann e S. Hunter (1966). Essa è stata successivamente sottolineata nelle esposizioni "Arte in Italia 1960-1977" alla Galleria civica d'arte moderna di Torino (1977), "Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1960-1980" a Roma nel 1981[4], "Movement as a message" a Praga nel 2008 e nella pubblicazione A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973 edita nel 2011.

RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON

Raymond Salvatore Harmon (born April 7, 1974) is an American media artist, painter, and filmmaker. As a graffiti artist Harmon has used the tags BETA (1994–2001) and RSH (2001–current). His street work has appeared in Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, New York, Brooklyn, London, Berlin, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zagreb among others.

RMEDL | METASOUND

Meta-Curatorial Practices Platform RM-ED/L | META-SOUND is a inner organization of RM/ED/L, constituted for the experimentation of conceptual/projectual methodologies for the production, communication and development of contemporary art events connected to the art of listening/sound art, through the construction of meta-curatorial artistic practices focused on extreme, transgressive, unorthodox, experimental and avantgardistic music researches, linked to many fields of human expressions and media art involved in new kinds of languages and settings of the communication. Its a freelancer based startup organisation conceived as a meta-curatorial platform that deals in design of independent ways of practice of curating, based on the development of conceptual sound art researches, environmental music, audio-visual installations and extra-acoustic experiences, close to visual and performing arts, joined to unconventional and "extended" techniques of production for multidisciplinary projects, conceived as special programmatic events and collectable art editions, to promote cultural acknowledgements for artistic practices.

SANDRO GRONCHI

SINEWAVES.IT

Sinewaves.it, offre una breve biografia di svariati compositori e produttori di musica elettronica, italiani e stranieri. Inoltre una lista di link ad etichette del settore.

SOUND AND MUSIC

SAM promotes challenging contemporary music and sound art.  We embrace complexity and risk-taking and invite the audience to listen in new ways. Sound and Music promotes challenging contemporary music and sound art through a range of projects, incorporating live events, learning, artist development, and digital platforms. We embrace complexity and risk-taking and invite the audience to listen in new ways. Our ambition is to reach as broad an audience as possible by providing opportunities to experience the enormous diversity of work in this area and different approaches to creating, producing and presenting it.  Simply, we want more people to discover the joy and rewards of listening. People come to contemporary music and sound art from many different directions – actively seeking out the new, by accident, or through other forms and genres.  SAM encourages people to embark on such a journey, as well as helping guide those further down the track.  We strive to challenge expectations along the way, by combining our creative and development programme with rich, informative, and entertaining online content.  And for those involved in making new work, we provide resources and support for creating it and getting it across to the public. The SAM website itself occupies a unique position in between all these journeys – a gateway with plenty of access-points, a set of signposts, and some stimulating refreshment on the way.  

TIMET

Lorenzo Brusci (1966) founded the concept group Timet in 1993. They have been composing music for theatre, dance, television, radio, and sound installations. Our main efforts include the evolution of compositional and performing techniques for nonlinear music and sound architecture. We support the open data philosophy for the distribution of intellectual objects, including final compositions, single audio elements, and electronic partitures.

WILLIAM C. SEITZ

WILLIAM C. SEITZ

William Seitz, who in 1955 became the first person to get a PhD in modern art from Princeton University, also wrote the earliest major text on Abstract Expressionism. While he is most known for the exhibitions The Art of Assemblage and The Responsive Eye, during his tenure as a curator at MoMA in the 1960s he continued to champion Abstract Expressionist artists, organizing significant solo shows on Mark Tobey, Arshile Gorky, and Hans Hofmann. During this time, he also curated a major show exploring Claude Monet’s late work and its effect on the New York School. Featuring correspondence among Seitz, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and the Princeton graduate committee regarding the validity of Abstract Expressionism as a dissertation topic, along with installation photographs, correspondence, and other material from the MoMA Archives, this exhibition sheds new light on one of MoMA’s leading curatorial voices of the 1960s.

ZIMOUN

sound sculpture / musique concrete / sound installation / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / constructivism / site specific / conceptual art / drone music

Zimoun, born 1977, is an installation and sound artist from Switzerland and also founder of «leerraum [ ]», a label and network of artists who explore space, time, void, form and structure based on reductive principles and careful yet radical use of materials. 2005 and 2006 Zimoun presented through the label leerraum [ ] 25 sound installations of international artist in their own showrooms at the centre for culture production called “Progr” (Bern, Switzerland), and since 2003 has published over 30 CDs, DVDs and obscure objects of the artists involved.