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Montag, 20. Januar 2014

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE)

http://wfae.proscenia.net/


The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), founded in 1993, is an international association of affiliated organizations and individuals in Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia that share a common concern with the state of the world's soundscapes. WFAE members represent a multi-disciplinary spectrum of individuals engaged in the study of the social, cultural and ecological aspects of the sonic environment.

WFAE'S Mission:
WFAE works in collaboration with its world-wide network of Affiliated Organizations to promote:

Education - in listening to the soundscape, sharpening aural awareness and deepening listeners' understanding of environmental sounds and their meanings
Research and Study - of the social, cultural, scientific and ecological aspects of the sonic environment
Publishing and Distributing of information and research on Acoustic Ecology.
Protecting and Preserving existing natural soundscapes and times and places of quiet.
Designing and Creating healthy and acoustically balanced sonic environments.

Ernst Karel - Location Recording

http://ek.klingt.org/

Helen Mirra and Ernst Karel’s quadraphonic sound installation Hourly directional sound recording, Mata Atlântica, Brazil (2012) is composed of location recordings made during eleven days of walking in remnants of coastal rainforests in southeastern Brazil.

For a number of years, Mirra has been walking in different parts of the world as a means of generating works. Often the materialized aspect has been a kind of paced printmaking or terse field notes made at intervals over the course of the day, and in some cases, in collaboration with Karel, hourly location recordings. These works are nestled into a cycle of exhibitions that perpetuates the ongoing project.

For Hourly directional sound recording, Mata Atlântica, Brazil, Mirra and Karel stopped once each hour, using a compass to locate magnetic north. With microphones held at the ends of outstretched arms, they made two sequential one-minute two-channel recordings, the first with arms out to north and south, and the second towards east and west. At a distance from the microphones that increases each hour, the sound of a triangle, rung with a wooden mallet, indicates the direction of the path at that moment. The triangle sounds for one second in the first hour, two seconds in the second hour, three in the third, and so on, and at the start of the minute in the first hour, after seven seconds in the second hour, after fourteen in the third, and so on. These two-channel recordings were then paired for quadraphonic playback.
http://listart.mit.edu/node/1077#.Ut01pPYwe2y


Swiss Mountain Transport Systems
Swiss Mountain Transport Systems was released on CD by Gruenrekorder on 1 September 2011. The album consists of location recordings made during the summer and fall of 2008 of the various transport systems which are specific to mountainous terrain -- gondolas (aerial cable cars), funiculars, and chairlifts -- of different types, of different vintages, and accessing different elevations, in different parts of Switzerland. In this way the album is a sonic investigation of the integration of such technology into the Swiss social-geographical landscape. Recorded from within mostly enclosed mobile environments, this emergent music includes quasi-harmonic mechanical drones, intermittent irregular percussiveness, and transient acoustic glimpses of a vast surrounding landscape inhabited by humans and other animals. 


Video, short doc:
http://www.silenceopensdoors.com/2010/04/21/new-england-phonographers-union-micd-3/


Ernst Karel's multidimensional audio work includes electroacoustic improvisation and composition, location recording, sound for nonfiction vilm, and solo and collaborative sound installations. Using analog electronics and location recordings, either separately or in combination, Karel creates audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. Previous work has involved fieldwork-based research in the anthropology of sound, live engineering for Chicago Public Radio, other audio engineering, CD mastering, etc.


Interview by Max Goldberg in Moving Image Source, February 2013
Interview by Mark Peter Wright in Ear Room: Exploring sound in artistic practice, February 2013
Feature in The Wire #344, October 2012
Material world: Ernst Karel sorts through the sounds of recycling
Feature in Pitchfork's The Out Door, October 2011
Turning the World Into Art: The world of field recordings with Chris Watson, Ernst Karel, and Art Rosenbaum

David Grubbs on 1960s recordings

Quelle: The Wire, January 2014, Collateral Damage: David Grubbs on 1960s recordings, http://thewire.co.uk/in-writing/collateral-damage-28138/collateral-damage_david-grubbs-on-1960s-recordings

Newly released recordings of experimental music from the 1960s say more about our own time than the moment of their creation, argues David Grubbs. 

[...] When encountering this music in the form of new releases of archival recordings, we are and we aren’t listening to experimental practices from the 1960s. Access to previously unavailable recordings makes for a listening experience that’s often unrecognisable to the originators of such activities. With archival recordings, it’s not only a matter of being outside of the time of its creation (the joint is out of time); older recordings – accessed now, resuscitated now – actively participate in our present moment. [...]



Sonntag, 19. Januar 2014

Niklas Luhmann - Der Zettelkasten

Niklas Luhmann - Der Zettelkasten
















Der geheimnisvolle Streit um den Zettelkasten des Soziologen Niklas Luhmann. Radioreportage, Oktober 2003.
















 Internet und Zettelkasten, Mitteilung an Rainer Wasserfuhr, 25. Nov. 2012.
https://differentia.wordpress.com/201...


Freitag, 10. Januar 2014

John Cage - Lecture on Nothing

Der Begriff des Nichts ist bei Cage nicht relevant.
Es ist kein Vortrag über das Nichts, sondern es geht um nichts.

Ein performativer Widerspruch.

Gibt es Extreme, die sich nicht in einen performativen Widerspruch verwickelt?

Das Neue taucht immer an der Grenze zwischen Ordnung und Unordnung auf.

Alle Vorträge sind Lectures on Nothing.
Erwartung: Etwas Neues. Der Gegenstand lässt sich nicht im vorherein antizipieren.

Denken - Prozess, das Nicht-fertige, Erweiterbare
Wissen - Produkt, das denken ist dann beendet
Wissen als Prozess - definierte Form / Methode

Lecture on Nothing: Der Prozess soll nicht ein Produkt vor dem Produkt sein, soll nicht greifbar, nicht methodisch sein.

Das Kunstwerk in ein Kraftfeld bringen. Das Denken hat keinen fertigen Gegenstand, ist ein Kraftfeld.

Poesie ist, wenn Zeit in einer Form organisiert ist.

Poesie, ein Tun in Gelassenheit.




View score of "Lecture on Nothing" (1959) [PDF, 2.4mb]

8a. Lecture On Nothing, for speaker (41:04)
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti

From the album Frances-Marie Uitti "Works for Cello; Lecture on Nothing", (EtCetera Records, 1991)

8b. Lecture on Nothing, for speaker
Performed by Kaegan Sparks (2006)
Concept, voice, and recording by Kaegan Sparks. Edited by Steve McLaughlin.

John Cage's "Lecture on Nothing," published in his collection Silence in 1961, is scored to a rigorous regularity: 48 units of 12 lines and 48 measures each. The text itself is repetitive and at times excruciatingly boring, dwelling in Section IV on the tonic phrase "If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep." A reading for voice and metronome, this audio rendition intermingles with the ambient noises of Christian Marclay's sound work medley in the 2007 exhibition Ensemble at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art. The text is intoned in time, as per Cage's incongruous instructions: "[not] in an artificial manner...but with the rubato which one uses in everyday speech."

Quelle: www.ubu.com

John Cage playing amplified cacti and plant materials with a feather
John Cage performing on Nam June Paik's TV special called 'Good Morning Mr. Orwell' from 1984. In the beginning, we see that Cage is joined by Takehisa Kosugi and one other unidentified person. perhaps they were performing a composition or improvisation that they would have done during a Merce Cunningham dance. there is also a cut away to a Joseph Bueys piano performance art piece.





















Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2014

Das Gleichzeitige

das Reale ist das Gleichzeitige
der Schein, die Kulisse ist die Nicht-Gleichzeitigkeit

The Clock, Christian Marclay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4EUryS6ac

















Leibnitz, Der Monade
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monade_%28Philosophie%29
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadologie


RAINER MARTENPhilosophische Aspekte der Gleichzeitigkeit
http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/6628/pdf/Marten_Philosophische_Aspekte_der_Gleichzeitigkeit.pdf

Post Tenebras Lux (2012-13), Film von Carlos Reygadas



http://vimeo.com/71350794

Post Tenebras Lux - Nach der Finsternis Licht


Hiob 17:12
1 Mein Geist ist zerbrochen, meine Tage sind ausgelöscht; das Grab ist da.
2 Fürwahr, Gespött umgibt mich, und auf ihrem Hadern muss mein Auge weilen.
3 Sei du selbst mein Bürge bei dir - wer will mich sonst vertreten?
4 Denn du hast ihrem Herzen den Verstand verborgen, darum wirst du ihnen den Sieg nicht geben.
5 Zum Teilen lädt einer Freunde ein, doch die Augen seiner Kinder müssen verschmachten.
6 Er hat mich zum Sprichwort unter den Leuten gemacht, und ich muss mir ins Angesicht speien lassen.
7 Mein Auge ist dunkel geworden vor Trauern, und alle meine Glieder sind wie ein Schatten.
8 Darüber entsetzen sich die Gerechten, und die Unschuldigen entrüsten sich über die Ruchlosen.
9 Aber der Gerechte hält fest an seinem Weg, und wer reine Hände hat, nimmt an Stärke zu.
10 Wohlan, kehrt euch alle wieder her und kommt; ich werde dennoch keinen Weisen unter euch finden!
11 Meine Tage sind vergangen; zerrissen sind meine Pläne, die mein Herz besessen haben.
12 Nacht will man mir zum Tag machen: Licht sei näher als Finsternis.
13 Wenn ich auch lange warte, so ist doch bei den Toten mein Haus, und in der Finsternis ist mein Bett gemacht.
14 Das Grab nenne ich meinen Vater und die Würmer meine Mutter und meine Schwester.
15 Worauf soll ich denn hoffen? Und wer sieht noch Hoffnung für mich?
16 Hinunter zu den Toten wird sie fahren, wenn alle miteinander im Staub liegen.
















Review:
The Politics of Critical Reception and the Marxist Feminist Sublime in Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux
 
By Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.”
(Luis Buñuel 2013: 174)

"[... ] Post Tenebras Lux is purposefully rendered precisely in the realm described in Buñuel’s words, “somewhere between chance and mystery.” Like Luis Buñuel, Carlos Reygadas values highly both freedom and imagination, and I find it very disturbing that so many critics, those whom should champion films that embrace the dream state between chance and mystery, reject the film as too difficult. Carlos Reygadas actively gives the gift of freedom of interpretation to the audience, but, unfortunately, many critics seem to reject that free space of imagination that Buñuel valued so highly. Ironically, “Post Tenebras Lux” translates from Latin into “Light After Darkness.” Perhaps if critics would return to the film for a second viewing, they may be lucky enough to experience that revealing glow and step out of the darkness into light. [...]"


Neil Young - It's a dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJNB8fXje3I



















In the morning when I wake up and listen to the sound
Of the birds outside on the roof
I try to ignore what the paper says
And I try not to read all the news
And I'll hold you if you had a bad dream
And I hope it never comes true
'Cause you and I been through so many things together
And the sun starts climbing the roof

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

The Red River stills flows through my home town
Rollin' and tumblin' on its way
Swirling around the old bridge pylons
Where a boy fishes the morning away
His bicycle leans on an oak tree
While the cars rumble over his head
An aeroplane leaves a trail in an empty blue sky
And the young birds call out to be fed

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

An old man walks along on the sidewalk
Sunglasses and an old Stetson hat
The four winds blow the back of his overcoat away
As he stops with the policeman to chat
And a train rolls out of the station
That was really somethin' in its day
Picking up speed on the straight prairie rails
As it carries the passengers away

It's gone
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
Only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away
It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay

It's a dream
Only a dream
And it's fading now
Fading away







Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014

"Extremismus in den Künsten" - statement 2

Asche

- Die Spur eines Nichts, Spur eines Seins, wo nichts mehr, oder kaum noch etwas bleibt.
- Die Asche hat kaum mehr ein Konsistenz. Kann sich Asche erhalten?
- Asche ist als Extrem kaum zu fassen.
- Auch der Text ist kaum zu fassen.
- Als ob uns das Extrem in die Unfassbarkeit trägt. Ich kann es nicht greifen, begreifen.
- Extreme sind deswegen irritierend.
- Ins Extrem gehen heisst, Kontrolle verlieren.
- Extremisten bedrohen die Ordnung.
- Ausnahmezustand.
- Auflösung. Asche ist Gegenstand der Kunst.
- Sobald der Gegendstand verändert wird, wird er zu Asche, wird aufgelöst.
- Asche ist das Extrem aller Liebe.
- Das Geliebte nicht in ein Bild zwingen, unberührt lassen.
- Asche ist das Modell aller Liebe.
- Asche ist die extremste Form von Verwandlung
- Asche ist was übrig bleibt, Tod, Rückstand, Holzofen, Lagerfeuer
- Asche zu Asche, schwerelos, zwischen Luft und Material
- Asche als Spur von sein?
- Asche als Spur vom Nicht-Sein.
- Was das Nicht-Sein als Spur hinterlässt.
- Was bleibt?
- Bleiben ist keine Modifikation von Sein.
- Asche bleibt Asche.

Jacques Derrida - Feuer und Asche

ASCHE


Fabio Scacchioli - Reflection about concepts like absence and trace
Installation in an abandoned house of a semi-abandoned, mountaneous village in Italy. The faces are the few persons that actually live in the village (11 persons). The voices are medieval invocations to god, against an epidemic plague that decimate Castelbasso (the name of the village) in the 14th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe7zVUITwA8





Logik, Metaphysik und Gänsefüßchen
Derridas Dekonstruktion und der operative Raum der Schrift
http://www.rainer.totzke.de/pdf/publikationen/derrida_gaensefuesschen.pdf



Derrida @ UBU.COM (Audio)
Circonfession (2004)
On Religion  (Interview 2002)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/derrida.html


«De la Grammatologie»
Mit der «Dekonstruktion» hat der französische Philosoph Jacques Derrida einen Begriff geprägt, der in den 1980er- und 90er-Jahren weit über die Philosphie hinaus aufgegriffen wurde: Literaturtheoretiker, Architekten, Modemacher - sie alle dekonstruierten plötzlich, was das Zeug hielt.Der Begriff taucht zum ersten Mal in Jacques Derridas Standardwerk «De la Grammatologie» (1967) auf. Barbara Basting erörtert im Gespräch mit der Philosophin Petra Gehring von der TU Darmstadt, worum es darin geht - und warum sich eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk Jacques Derridas noch heute lohnt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya0eB7qoC0Y




Deutschland im Herbst ist ein Episodenfilm, der sich mit der deutschen Gesellschaft zur Zeit des RAF-Terrorismus unmittelbar nach dem „Deutschen Herbst“ 1977 auseinandersetzt. Die Arbeit an der Gemeinschaftsproduktion von elf verschiedenen Regisseuren des sogenannten Neuen Deutschen Films – unter ihnen Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff und Alexander Kluge – begann bereits Ende 1977; 1978 wurde die Collage aus teils dokumentarischen, teils szenisch erzählenden Episoden erstmals gezeigt.







»Herrenrunde mit Panzerwagen« - Ein Dichtertreffen im Kanzlerbungalow 1977

Ausgerechnet am 16. Oktober 1977, als die allgemeine Verunsicherung durch die Entführung der Lufthansa-Maschine Landshut kulminiert, folgt der Verleger Siegfried Unseld zusammen mit Heinrich Böll, Max Frisch und Siegfried Lenz einer Einladung des Bundeskanzlers Helmut Schmidt. »Paulskirche. Kleines Mittagessen. Abruf nach Bonn – 16.00 Kanzleramt. (Bungalow.) Bundeskanzler, (Loki)«, memoriert Max Frisch in einem Notizheft die bemerkenswerte Zusammenkunft. Die Erwähnung der Kanzlergattin ist kein Zufall, scheint doch vor allem sie das Lektüreprogramm ihres Gatten in den Jahren der Kanzlerschaft bestimmt zu haben. Loki ist es auch, die den freundschaftlichen Kontakt zu Unseld über Jahrzehnte hinweg pflegt. Vermutlich hätte die Herrenrunde ohne ihren Einfluss anders ausgesehen. Warum aber ist dem Bundeskanzler daran gelegen, in einer solchen Ausnahmesituation fünf geschlagene Stunden mit Literaten zu verbringen, also mit politischen Laien? Anhand von bisher unveröffentlichten Briefen, Notizen und Tagebucheinträgen aus dem Siegfried-Unseld-Archiv berichten Ulrich Raulff und Jan Bürger von einer einzigartigen Zusammenkunft im Deutschen Herbst.

Siegfried Unselds Chronikeinträge über das Schriftstellertreffen bei Helmut Schmidt werden am 15. November 2010 erstmals vollständig im neuen Heft der Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte (Heft IV/4 2010; ca. 12,- Euro) im Verlag C. H. Beck publiziert.
http://www.dla-marbach.de


Benedetto Croce
Ein Kunstwerk gibt es nur im Kopf
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetto_Croce


Karin Ulrike Soika
Hommage an.... bewegt sich in einem Randbereich: dem Grenzbereich zwischen Kunst und Nicht-Kunst...
"Für Benedetto Croce ist jedes Kunstwerk Ausdruck von Erkenntnis, wobei speziell beim Kunstschaffen intuitive Erkenntnis gefordert ist. Intuitive Erkenntnis - das hat mit Phantasie und Wahrnehmung zu tun; sie vermittelt Vorstellungsbilder aber keine verstandesmäßig greifbaren Begriffe; Eine Intuition ist die aktive, geistige Formung einen vorgegebenen Stoffes, der seinerseits aus einem Komplex von Empfindungen besteht. "
http://www.soika.com/links/kunst/archiv/06d_hommage_theorie1.htm







Bestattung in den Weltreligionen
http://www.lenert.de/2009/12/bestattung-in-den-weltreligionen/


Bestattungen in verschiedenen Religionen und Kulturkreisen
http://bestatterweblog.de/bestattungen-in-verschiedenen-religionen-und-kulturkreisen/



Hollis Frampton - nostalgia (1971)
http://vimeo.com/69789975#at=0





Why Burn a Photograph? A Film by Hollis Frampton
Text von Alexander Garcia Duettmann

Why burn a photograph? Why put it on a hotplate and let the paper slowly be consumed by
heat? Why allow the image to go up in smoke so that perhaps another image must be printed
before I can look at it again? Why engulf a photograph in flames and make it smolder until there
is nothing left but a sort of crater in the middle, a temporary parenthesis, a respite, or a pit, for
nostalgia? Why start with an image, a one - dimensional surface, and end up with cinders, a
protruding grey landscape, a dark sculptural object, or a dirty bulky lump, that crack when touched and dissolve into thin air? Why move from “contemplative distance” to “tactile immediacy”? http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/WP_8/PDFs/Duttmann.pdf






Wann ist Kunst fertig?
Wo fängt Kunst an? 

Woher kommt die Kunst?


Francis Bacon interviewed by David Sylvester (23 March 1963)
Über den Augenblick, wo etwas zu Ende zu sein scheint. In dem Moment spritzt Bacon weisse Farbe auf das Bild, damit er weitermachen kann.





Hölderlin - Andenken
"Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter."
http://www.goethezeitportal.de/fileadmin/PDF/db/wiss/hoelderlin/huehn_hoelderlin_andenken.pdf




Andy Goldsworthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF-Mgx2aSC8





Domenico Polidoro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT2uPqq1u4s








Viaggio In Italia (Rossellini) - Scavi di Pompei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DW-Zb-HESo








Valerie Solanas - SCUM Manifesto
The SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto written in 1967 by Valerie Solanas. It argues that men have ruined the world and that women should overthrow society and eliminate the male sex. SCUM stands for "Society For Cutting Up Men", but whether it was an acronym has been disputed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto
"[...]  The sick, irrational men, those who attempt to defend themselves against their disgustingness, when they see SCUM barrelling down on them, will cling in terror to Big Mama with her Big Bouncy Boobies, but Boobies won't protect them against SCUM; Big Mama will be clinging to Big Daddy, who will be in the corner shitting in his forceful, dynamic pants. Men who are rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing fuss, but will just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to their demise."
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/rants/scum.html
http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm


- Das Bleiben ist nicht ein Erhalten.
- das Radikale geht über die Selbsterhaltung hinaus









Dienstag, 7. Januar 2014

"Extremismus in den Künsten" - statement 1

Von der grundsätzlichen Lust, die Grenze zu überschreiten

Ich habe Mühe, den Pädophilie Diskurs, als extremer Auswuchs von Fantasie, in die sogenannte Extreme Kunst zu übertragen, da ich in keinem Sinn Ersteres akzeptieren kann, im Gegensatz zu Grenzüberschreitungen in der Kunst, wo ich der Meinung bin, dass es die Extreme braucht, um weiterzukommen. Wir müssen uns von innen weit nach aussen herauslehnen, Grenzen überschreiten, hinaus getrieben werden ins Ungewisse, um Neues zu finden. Wenn es denn soetwas wie Neues überhaupt gibt.


Vladimir Nabokov - The Enchanter (1986)


The story is essentially timeless, placeless, and nameless. The protagonist is a middle-aged man who lusts after a certain type of adolescent girls. Infatuated with a specific girl, he marries the mother to gain access to her. The mother, already sick, soon passes away, and the orphan girl now is in his care. He takes her on a tour. On their first night, she is terrified when she is exposed to his “magic wand”. Shocked at his own monstrosity, he runs out on the street and is killed by a car.
None of the key persons is named; it is just "the man", "the widow" (also "mother", even "person"), and "the girl". Only the viewpoint of the man is presented, - we learn close to nothing about the views of his victims. He is conflicted and tries to rationalize his behavior, but is also disgusted by it. “How can I come to terms with myself?” is the opening sentence. He makes his moves like a chess player. But once he seems to have reached his goal, he is startled by her reaction. The conflict is not resolved but by his destruction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enchanter



Normalisierung durch das Nachwort des Sohnes Dimitri Nabokov in der englischen Übersetzung. Dimitri verteidigt seinen Vater gegen Pädophilie Vorwürfe. Er übernimmt die Rolle des Anklägers (s. Adorno).

Von der Lust, die Grenze zu überschreiten.

Der Begriff des Extrems

 Jean Luc Lancy, Gegenwartsphilosoph

 Text aus Buch "Ego Sum" (1979)

Wortgeschichtliche Perspektive des Begriffs Extrem
- Extremum - Superlativ von exterum
- am äussersten, l'extremité
- Das Extreme, das Aussen, reicht ins Äusserste
- immer ein Verhältnis zwischen innen und aussen
- was sich von innen am weitesten nach aussen bewegt
- le point intime, der letzte äusserste Punkt, an dem es noch das Wesen ist. Was das Wesen mitbestimmt, wird bis zu einer bestimmten Grenze (Bsp Schüchternheit), oder über die Grenze hinaus getrieben.
- jemanden erkennen an etwas Extremen vs jemanden nicht erkennen aus Verblendung durch das Extreme.






Nossack, Die Schalttafel
Erzählung um jemanden, der verschwinden will.
Für alle wahrnehmbar, fällt aber nicht auf, durch und durch konventionell handelnd.
Ins Extrem getriebene Konventionalität


Zelig, Woody Allen (1983)



















Nur wenn etwas ins Extreme getrieben wird, wird überhaupt erkannt.
Carl Schmitt, Der Normalfall sagt nichts aus.

Das Extreme als Signatur eines Künstlers, von der ersten Abweichung bis zum Äussersten, über die Grenze getriebene Extreme.

Stelarc, Drittes Ohr















Theodor W. Adornos, Minima Moralia – Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben ist eine im amerikanischen Exil verfasste philosophische Schrift Theodor W. Adornos. Sie enthält 153 Aphorismen* und kurze Essays über die Bedingungen des Menschseins (Conditio humana) unter kapitalistischen und faschistischen Verhältnissen. Neben der Dialektik der Aufklärung und der Negativen Dialektik zählt sie zu den philosophischen Hauptwerken Adornos. In seinem Gesamtwerk nimmt die Schrift eine Sonderstellung ein, da die kurzen, durchnummerierten Texte untereinander keinen erkennbaren theoretischen Zusammenhang aufweisen.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minima_Moralia

"Erster und einziger Grundsatz der Sexualethik: der Ankläger hat immer unrecht."
- Anticlimax: (einziger) Grundsatz ist negativ
 
*Aphorismus: Prägnanter, pointierter Satz, eine Erkenntnis ohne dazugehörige Begründung.

Theodor W. Adornos, Sexualtabu und Recht
Pädophilie hält sich als Sexualtabu hartnäckig in der Gesellschaft. Adorno gehts nicht um Beschönigung, um Freisprechung, sondern um das Extremtabu, an dem nicht gerüttelt wird. Pädophilie ruft immer wahnhafte Extremreaktionen aus.
"Kinder sind unschuldig" ist Resultat einer Projektion. Der Erwachsene muss das eigene Kind in sich verraten. Der Ursprung des Schuldgefühls. Identitäs wird dadurch geschaffen.
Warum spricht Adorno von Sexueller Utopie? Erfahrung eines Nichtortes, etwas nicht Erreichbares. Erfahrung von Identität ist nicht erreichbar.
Erfahrung der leichzeitigen Identität und Nicht-Identität.


David Lynch, Lost Highway, "Dick Laurent is dead"




Citizen Kane, "Rose Bud" als ungeklärter Begriff zum Schluss des Films


Pretty Baby, Louis Malle (Brooke Shields)





Elia Kazan, Baby Doll







Workshop "Extremismus in den Künsten"

Dozent: Alexander Garcia Duettmann

Ausschreibungstext:
Was sind Extreme in den Künsten? Und wie kann man mit philosophischen Mitteln darüber nachdenken? Versperren oder eröffnen sie den Zugang zu dem, worum es in Kunst und Philosophie gehen kann, gehen soll, gehen muss? Gehören sie der Vergangenheit an oder sind sie auch in der Gegenwart noch bedeutsam? Wie verhalten sich Form und Inhalt im Extrem zueinander? An vier Beispielen aus Film, Literatur, Musik und Philosophie (Reygadas, Nabokov, Cage, Derrida) soll diesen Fragen nachgegangen werden. Eine "extreme" Position in den Künsten wie im Denken gilt als Rand im Verhältnis zu einer angenommenen Mitte, als eine Minderheit im Verhältnis zur jeweils aktuellen Mehrheit, als Gegensatz zur herrschenden Ordnung.
Im Workshop werden die gewählten Beispiele eingeführt, diskutiert, Ergebnisse dieser Denkbewegungen werden im Medium Video in kurzen Sequenzen abgebildet - es entsteht ein filmisches Panorama dessen, was den oder die einzelne WorkshopteilnehmerIn (be)trifft, wobei Formen des Extremen auch medial befragt und getestet werden können und sollen.
Ausgangspunkt bilden Texte von Jacques Derrida ("Feu la cendre" / "Cinders" / "Feuer und Asche"), Vladimir Nabokov ("The Enchanter" - in der englischen, von Vladimir Nabokov approbierten Übersetzung), John Cage ("Lecture on Nothing", in: ders., "Silence") sowie der Film "Post Tenebras Lux" von Carlos Reygadas. Die Materialien warden vorgängig verteilt.

Alexander Garcia Duettmann

Düttmann untersucht in seinen Arbeiten das Verhältnis von Sprache und Geschichte bei Denkern wie Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin und Martin Heidegger. In der Nachfolge einerseits der Kritischen Theorie Adornos und andererseits der Dekonstruktion von Jacques Derrida (den er vom Französischen ins Deutsche übersetzt hat) gehören Fragen der politischen Dekonstruktion – besonders im Kontext der Identitätspolitik (AIDS-Aktivismus, Anerkennung, Multikulturalismus) – zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten.
In expliziter Abgrenzung zu Hegel stellt er die Frage nach dem Ende der Kunst anders und in Bezug auf jedes einzelne Kunstwerk immer wieder neu: entweder als mögliche Vollendung der Kunst – im Sinne eines erfolgreichen Abschlusses – oder als ihr möglicher Niedergang, im Sinne eines definitiven Scheiterns. In Verwisch die Spuren beklagt er die heutige Fetischisierung von Kunst und ihre Verdinglichung zur Kultur, mithin also eine qualitative Ausdünnung zugunsten einer enormen qualitativen Präsenz.
Mit einem Libretto beteiligte er sich 2004 an der Oper Liebeslied/My Suicides des Komponisten Paul Clark.
In seinem Buch über Luchino Visconti untersucht er die Filme im Licht der Auffassung Adornos, dass es nie das Reale ist, sondern das Mögliche, das den Weg zu einer Utopie blockiert.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Garc%C3%ADa_D%C3%BCttmann


Rezension "Naive Kunst"
Was die Freiheit des Erzählens schafft: Alexander García Düttmanns Schreibkunst lässt das schönste Porträt San Franciscos entstehen, das man sich vorstellen kann. 
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/belletristik/alexander-garcia-duettmann-naive-kunst-sucht-nach-versuchung-11763586.html


Stanza

text and photos from http://www.soundcities.com a project by Stanza http://www.stanza.co.uk


"This interactive website called soundcities.com allows the audience as creative user the possibility to remix the hundreds of samples recorded from around the worldon various soundmaps. Soundcities is an open online database of the thousands of sounds from around the world and you can visits the various cities and create soundmaps.. The website also has series on online mixing desks where you can mix these sounds. Soundcities uses city recorded soundscapes from world cities.

Soundcities was the first online open source database of city sounds and soundmaps from around the world, using found sounds and field recording. There are now thousands of sounds from around the world on the website. The concept started in 1995 with various iterations. In 1996 Stanza devised the term soundmaps and intitiated the varios works that developed into soundcities.comStanza's soundmaps have been online since 2000 and the Soundcities database since 2004. This project allows the audience the possibility to remix the hundreds of samples recorded from cities around the world in an online database. The sounds can be listened to, used in performances on laptops, or played on mobiles via wireless networks.The Database is also open so anyone can upload sounds they collect from world cities, thereby making a contribution to the project and making an online sounds archive.

The sounds of cities also give clues to the emotional and responsive way we interact with our cities. Cities all have specific identities, and found sound can give us clues to the people that inhabit these spaces, as well as provoking us and stimulating our senses in a musical way. I am interested in the sounds of specific places, and how the sounds reflect this identity and re-imposes characteristics back onto the location or environment. The aim is to create an online aural experience that evokes place, both as literal description but also developed musical composition. The sounds of cities evoke memories. As globalization fractures the identity of the city experience we start to find things that appear the same the world over.

A growing labyrinth, a community of aural cityscapes and collages is now evolving.The nature of the sounds and noise of cities varies in tone and language. A background rhythm can come into the foreground. It mixes itself, and evolves. The city is its own music, constantly evolving, a beautiful composition of squeaks, clanks, and pulses we compose this orchestra as we move about. We control the interface of the city as we navigate the streets. We are familiar but distracted as it bombards our conscious slipstream. The sounds evolve, generate, move, die, fade and shift. The sounds of the city are out there all the time, there is no silence. The children, the trains, the drills, the animals, the micro sounds, the sounds of our bodies, the sounds of the street, the insides of our souls. Familiar forms, identities and sounds are common to all cities, and yet each have special forms that separate and identity particular places and spaces.

The city is the orchestra. As globalization fractures the identity of the city experience we start to find things that appear the same the world over. Soundcities, involves field recording literally the sounds we hear as we walk out of the door. Not just as noise (data) or as noise pollution but also as an appreciation of sound and how this not only affects the space but is the space.The noise is the city, the noise is the music, the city is the orchestra and we are just conductors whose interactive actions compose this music as we walk around. We control the interface of the city as we navigate the streets. We are responsive in out interactions of the city space."

idea of south - resonances of location and memory

Glenn Gould radio documentary - The Idea of North
Glenn Gould | Dec 28, 1967 | 59:14

Gould’s first "contrapuntal radio documentary" and the first installment in his "Solitude Trilogy." Originally broadcast on the CBC Radio programme Ideas, Dec. 28, 1967. An anthropologist, sociologist, a nurse, and a surveyor discuss the subjective 'idea' and the reality of the North. Montage and voice counterpoint are used to express the antagonism and scope of the country, the loneliness and isolation, the warmth of community living, personal reasons for living there, the fear that human nature will gradually take over from the elements as common enemy number one, and the challenge involved in any decision to live there. During the last eight minutes the voices are heard over music.

Listen: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/More+Shows/Glenn+Gould+-+The+CBC+Legacy/Audio/1960s/ID/2110447480/



Roger Mills' Idea of South

Inspired by resonances of location and memory, Idea of South sets out to explore, provoke and question our sense of place in the southern hemisphere. Combining networked terrestrial radio and Internet streaming, the work is composed as three individual audio tracks, comprising live music, field recordings and spoken word. The three audio streams are broadcast simultaneously and experienced by listeners tuning their radios into both radio stations and a home computer or iPhone for the Internet stream. As the program moves through hot dry deserts or icy Antarctic waters, the sense of these locations is enhanced through the diffusion of sound over a multi-channel broadcast, taking radio out of the singular domain that it normally inhabits into an immersive radiophonic experience. I also encourage listeners to experiment with the position of their devices. Involving them in this process further enhances their experience of the work.

Idea of South is a culmination of two separate projects. The first, Tohora, a fugue for trumpet and whale is inspired by a hydrophone recording of a Minky whale my father captured off Macquarie Island. I was intrigued by the similarities in timbre of the whale song to my own trumpet playing and composed a work of contrapuntal textures in response to the recording. This was performed as a live Internet stream at Placard Headphones festival in San Francisco in December 2008 and became the main melodic theme of Idea of South. Tohora (a fugue for trumpet and whale) is currently installed as part of Audio on Loop at Loop Space Gallery, Newcastle.

The second project was a collaboration with artist Neil Jenkins on an interactive web map installation. Part phonography and part psychogeography, the map is a sound journey around the southern hemisphere, which unfolds as participants move their cursors over chosen locations. These individual audio segments can then be mixed in separate player windows to form a sound collage of the cursors movement around the map. The location recordings are contributions from sound artists and phonographers throughout the southern hemisphere from an advertised call for submissions. I received recordings from locations as diverse as New Zealand and Uruguay, all accompanied by latitude and longitude coordinates and personal stories about the locations where they were recorded. The sound map is an ongoing project and continues to grow as more contributions are added, and selected recordings from the map form an integral part of the radiophonic work.
http://www.realtimearts.net/studio-artist/idea-of-south

soundmap: http://ideaofsouth.netpraxis.net/map/

Sensing Shared Places

RUI CHAVES & PEDRO REBELO

"Sensing Shared Places: Designing a mobile audio streaming environment

This paper addresses mobile audio streaming in the context of sharing a sense of place. This action is mediated by the network, the body and remote listening. These elements are essential in the concept and design of a platform for audio transmission ( liveshout ), that aims at intersecting mobility within the realms of radio, network and transmission art. "

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol1001/ruichaves/home.html

http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~liveshout/

Wien - Akustische Fundstücke

Das Orange 94.0 Projekt "Akustische Fundstücke" befasst sich mit der Stadt als Lebens- und Arbeitsraum.
In 30 minütigen Beiträgen werden verschiedenste Plätze in Wien besucht und gemeinsam mit den Menschen vor Ort Sendungen zu den interessanten, verborgenen, brisanten oder einfach typischen Grätzln in Wien produziert.

Mit den Mitteln des Radios soll ein akustisches Portrait von Wien entstehen, das vor allem die nicht so bekannten Seiten unserer Stadt hörbar macht. Der "Sound of Vienna", wie er wirklich klingt.

http://stadtradio.o94.at/

Prisoner's Dilemma

Iannis Xenakis

http://www.johndunlapmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gametheoryandgamemusicjohndunlap.pdf
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/game-theoretical-model-for-musical-interaction.pdf?c=icmc;idno=bbp2372.2008.095

a way to open the door to Data Sonification?

Markov chain

Posts generated by a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/


Patrick Müller - Stadt – Klang – Normalität

Stadt – Klang – Normalität
Auseinandersetzungen mit Klangräumen des Urbanen 



Murray Schafer:
http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/Schafer06.htm
Klang als Symbol von Macht
Klang als Analysetool für Sozialstrukturen
HiFi vs LoFi
Barry Truax

Pierre Schaefer

Luc Ferrari

Pascal Amphoux, Anthropologie der Geräuschwelt



Diedrich Diederichsen

Diedrich Diederichsen


"Durch seine journalistische und redaktionelle Arbeit bei Sounds erwarb sich Diedrich Diederichsen den Ruf einer intellektuellen Koryphäe für Popmusik und poststrukturalistische Theorie. Er wurde bekannt für seine pointierte anti-rockistische sozialtypologische Charakterisierung von Erwartungen und Rezeptionsgewohnheiten in der Rock- und Popmusikkultur, was ihn zu einer umstrittenen Galionsfigur werden ließ. Neben und nach der Arbeit bei Sounds veröffentlichte Diederichsen einige Autoren-Artikel im Spiegel. Außerdem veröffentlichte er regelmäßig Texte im Stadtmagazin Szene Hamburg und in der Zeitschrift konkret.

Zeitgleich mit der Aufnahme seiner Arbeit als Chefredakteur der Spex etablierte sich Diedrich Diederichsen 1985 mit der Buch-Veröffentlichung Sexbeat bei Kiepenheuer & Witsch als richtungweisender Theoretiker und Essayist im Grenzbereich von Pop, Politik und Kunst.[8] In seiner kritischen Besprechung des Buches im Spiegel titulierte Markus Peichl Diedrich Diederichsen als „Pop-Feuilletonist, linker Linkenhasser, bemühter Buchhalter der Subkultur, Szene-Papst von eigenen Gnaden“ sowie als „lebender Mythos der deutschen Subkultur“.[9]"
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diedrich_Diederichsen



Montag, 6. Januar 2014

TING / TIPTOI

Tiptoi ist ein interaktives Lernspiel bestehend aus einem elektronischen Digitalstift und einem Spielbrett, Buch oder Puzzle mit digitalem Papier. Der Stift wird auf verschiedene Stellen (Piktogramme, grafische Elemente usw.) der bedruckten Oberfläche gehalten und erkennt am Punktraster, welche Stelle angetippt wurde. Die Elektronik im Stift (dem eigentlichen Tiptoi) wertet diesen Code aus und spielt Audiodateien ab, die das Spiel erklären, Wissen vermitteln oder Charaktere zum Leben erwecken.






Technische Neuheit bei diesem Spiel ist der Lernstift und das digitale Papier. Im Stift befindet sich ein optischer Sensor, der vom Hersteller als OID-Technologie (optical identification, engl.: optische Identifizierung) bezeichnet wird.[2] Wird der Sensor dicht über das digitale Papier gehalten (ein wirkliches Antippen ist nicht notwendig und wird vom Stift auch nicht ausgewertet), erkennt der Sensor den im Druck enthaltenen Code, der vom Mikrocontroller im Stift ausgewertet wird und zur Wiedergabe der passenden Audiodatei über den integrierten Lautsprecher führt.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiptoi

http://www.ravensburger.de/kinder/tiptoi/index.html
http://www.ting.eu/

Music Map - Landkarte der Musik (Floating Tagcloud Darstellung)

"Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of gnod all is about music. Gnod is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too. When I set gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And gnod learns more every day."
 
http://www.music-map.de/



How to Make a Sound Map: Cartographic, Compositional, Performative

"Firstly a contradiction. The definition of sound map should not be taken too literally. The idea of map, mapping, journey likewise should not be taken at face value, that is, as a two-dimensional means-to-an-end. To use a philosophy crudely, not all swans are white; not all maps are two dimensional.
Maps are ultimately representations, which suggest no boundaries as to how it is represented indeed representation is chosen by those representing. They should accepted as a subjective truth insofar that the map is an abstraction derived from something- the geographical territory- but it is not the thing itself.
What I am trying to say is that like any map, sound maps should have no prescribed method. However you choose to represent, do what you want. But here are a couple of methods. (If you’re interested in the philosophy, check out ‘Map-territory relation’ on Wikipedia and the links on there. Bateson, Baudrillard, Korzybski, eat your heart out.)"
http://acousticecologyuoh.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/how-to-make-a-sound-map/

Mapping Out the Sound Memory of Beirut

Mapping Out the Sound Memory of Beirut
A survey of the music of a war generation

Thomas Burkhalter
"Various social and cultural scientists1 propagate that research on cultural globalisation and localisation should focus on individuals and their thoughts and ideas, since the latter reflect theoretical concepts such as “identity”, “transnationality” and “hybridity”. My Ph.D. project “Significant Sounds – Beiruti Music between new artistic forms and local, global dependencies” focuses on music, as human ideas and visions are not expressed in words only. Musicians choose local and global forms and styles, sounds and beats to create meaning and to express their connection to different cultural, social and ideological settings. At the same time, music, as individualistic and revolutionary as it might be, is always produced, distributed and discussed within different -scapes (Appadurai 2003) of the outside world. It is produced and distributed in highly contesting finance-scapes between multinational companies, that aim to control global and local cultural markets, and independent networks, that benefit from new possibilities in music production and distribution given by multimedia and communication industries (techno-scapes). Global and local media-scapes influence music production by creating cultural tastes and standards2 and subsequently by constantly reproducing those standards with their choices. Steering happens as well through values and ideologies promoted by local and global governmental and non-governmental institutions and organisations (ideo-scapes) through funding decisions and sometimes censorship. Last but not least, in a country like Lebanon local and global ethno-scapes have an impact on musical creativity: the global world music market and the international funding bodies tend to favour local and transnational music that deals with its Arabic cultural heritage. Many authors have pointed out the concept of difference3 in their writings on cultural dialogue between the “East” and the “West”. Eng (in Shepherd and Wicke 1997: 98) even considers that “the racist love of a foreign country” [the love of difference] is strongly “linked to women and to music.” Inside Lebanon the different cultural representations of the various religious communities – from the popular, synthesised dabkeh songs praising Hezbollah or Amal leaders to the hymns for the Christian Lebanese Forces and Kataeb militias – were always a challenging factor for the national identity in this multi-confessional state. The Lebanese minister for culture, Dr. Tarek Mitri, stated in a conference on “Cultural Diversity”4 that Lebanon, on the one hand, is proud of its cultural diversity, however, on the other side this cultural diversity is a challenge for the national identity. He concluded by saying that the Ministry of Culture aims to build bridges between different artistic expressions. Does this mean that the Lebanese state and its institutions tend to favour artistic forms that melt the cultural diversities of Lebanon into one piece of art, over artistic expressions that focus on extreme positions?5 The creation of a “Lebanese music”, as I shall argue later, seems to underline this assumption. [...]"
http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/550

Photo: Sharif and Christine Sehnaoui, Fabrizio Spera and Mazen Kerbaj (from left to right) at the Irtijal-Festival 2006. By Thomas Burkhalter (www.norient.com)





http://www.stadtmusik.org/

from http://www.stadtmusik.org/


Urban Configuration and the Soundscape
A previously unpublished text by Stadtmusik members Dietmar Offenhuber and Sam Auinger on the relationship between urban configuration and the soundscape.

http://www.stadtmusik.org/pages/653



Spatial Processing of Urban Acoustic Wave Fields
“The United States Army is continuously improving upon its situational awareness in operational environments. This is particularly difficult in an urban scene because line of sight is limited and because the acoustic interaction between and over the top of the buildings is not yet fully understood. Once this is fully understood the acoustic detection, classification, and localization can be accomplished through the use of well-placed acoustic sensors.”
http://www.stadtmusik.org/pages/381


sensory notation – Michael Southsworth
A student of Kevin Lynch and Professor of Urban Studies at UC Berkeley, Michael Southsworth created experience maps of 1960 Boston’s sonic environment. Unlike Schafer, Southworth did not try to describe characteristic sounds for an urban place, but was mainly interested in the strength of the relationship between soundscape and place. This links back to Lynch’s idea of imagibility, the extent to which an urban environment can form a concise mental image.

http://www.stadtmusik.org/pages/365



Bibliography on Noise Pollution

"If waste is, broadly defined, the externalities of social and technical systems, then noise is a quintessential form of waste. Noise pollution is disturbing or excessive sound that may harm humans or animals, and, not surprisingly, it usually emits from industrial technologies. Perhaps because it exceeds the material fetish of most pollution laws, it wasn’t until the 1970s (1975 in Portland, to be exact) that U.S. governments promoted noise from a “nuisance” to f a full fledged environmental problem like its material cousins in the pollution panoply. Yet, noise remains a generally neglected source for the theorization of waste, pollution, and harm. If you are interested in remedying the situation, here is a bibliography for you:"

http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/bibliography-on-noise-pollution/


online sound maps overview

online sound maps overview
http://www.stadtmusik.org/sonic-urbanism/sound-maps-overview


the auditory image of the city

The sonic signature has a strong contribution to the identity of the place. Examples and observations of auditory phenomena that shape the perception of urban places. Visual references make the relationship between physical configuration and sound, but also the interplay between the visual and hearing sense apparent.
http://www.stadtmusik.org/sonic-urbanism/the-auditory-image-of-the-city

Mapping The Soundscape

Mapping The Soundscape: Electro-acoustic Composition and Place-making in Interactive Sound Maps
by

Abstract:
"With the recent availability of open source application programming interfaces for digital mapping, programmers have been able create applications that literally put music and sound on the map. Since the mid-2000s, sound artists, electroacoustic composers and archivists have been able to use digital resources to map their field recordings, most popular of which has been Google Maps. Many of these maps allow for users to upload their own recordings, creating maps with thousands of sound clips. This presentation aims to explore the possibility of musicological scholarship concerning practices of digital mapping of music and sound on computers, tablets and smartphones.
This presentation will provide a history of sound mapping as used by sound recordists and composers.  Beginning with Tony Schwartz’ sound documentary form which examples of this New York 19 and The World in My Mailbox, I will explain how these recordings establish a sense of place. Schwartz’ recordings influenced the members of the World Soundscape Project to develop their own sound maps for their series The Music of The Environment. I will also review the uses of the twenty-two largest participant-interactive online sound maps, including the Toronto Sound Map, The London Sound Survey, The Göteborg Sound Map, and the Tactical Sound Gardens. Additionally, I will discuss my own use of sound maps as a musicological teaching resource, working on projects with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, MIT Media Lab professor Tod Machover, and for the University of Alberta/Cape Breton University project “Celebrating East European communities and cultures in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia”. All of these examples of contribute to the use of digital sound mapping as an ethnographic research tool and a teaching resource."

http://www.academia.edu/4025846/Mapping_The_Soundscape_Electro-acoustic_Composition_and_Place-making_in_Interactive_Sound_Maps





Music in The Medium: An Ecomusicological Analysis of Field Recordings
http://www.academia.edu/3567914/Music_in_The_Medium_An_Ecomusicological_Analysis_of_Field_Recordings




 
 http://artefactpublication.com

Soundwalk Collective - Medea

Medea is a sound journey around the Black Sea.

Medea is an original composition based on recordings of radio waves as well as voice and sound fragments collected by Soundwalk Collective during a two-month crossing in a sailing boat specially equipped with scanners, microphones and high-range aerials.
Medea reaches into Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria and embarks on a sound reading of a region of the world whose quivering beauty remains cruel and obscure – akin to the ancient Medea.
http://soundwalkcollective.com/index.php?/progress/black-sea/

Modisti

Modisti is a social network on experimental music & sound art.
You can participate in it as in any other existing networks.

http://modisti.com/14/

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA)

"New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a non-profit organization, based in Toronto, that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. NAISA’s annual events include: the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art in May, the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art in August, NAISA’s participation in the international Art’s Birthday celebration in January, as well as the NAISA Sound Bash Series in March and the SOUNDplay series in November. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental sound art in its myriad forms of expression. This objective will be achieved through the exploration of new sound technologies in conjunction with the creation of cultural events and artifacts."
http://naisa.ca/

soundwalking:
http://naisa.ca/radio-art-companion/soundwalking-follow-your-ears/

The Noisy Reef


"The noisy reef takes us under the waves to the reefs of New Zealand to explore sound and noise under water. Using this unique habitat, we look at what sound is, how it travels, what changes under water and how animals use sound in their world."

http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/The-Noisy-Reef/NZ-Research/The-Noisy-Reef