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Dutch new media arts organization about to lose all funding & what you can do

Saturday, June 18th, 2011 9:06 am

The Dutch new media arts organisations Steim, Waag Society, Mediamatic, V2_,
WORM & NIMK are about to lose all their funding.

The Dutch secretary of state for Culture in the Netherlands, Halbe Zijlstra, has published his policy plan for coming years. In contrast to the official recommendations given to him by the Culture Advisory Board, the cutbacks will not be spread out over a number of years, but will take immediate effect in 2013.
The budget for visual art will shrink from 53,3 to 31 million.
Among the more damaging and destructive decisions is the complete cutting of funding for the six leading new media arts organisations that produce, distribute and facilitate New Media Art;

STEIM: A research lab and a hotspot that operates in the field of live performance. Its research themes are complexity and improvisation and STEIM facilitates hundreds of artists and scientists every year.

WAAG SOCIETY: Institute for art, science & technology, developers of creative
technologies for social innovation, open design tools and platforms for artists and creative industry. Public programme with workshops, conferences, exhibits and challenges. Partner in (inter)national research programmes and incubation
programmes.

WORM: Rotterdam based laboratory, venue and studios for film, music and
internet featuring concerts, new media events, screenings, production of film,
music and software art.

MEDIAMATIC: software art projects, lectures, workshops & screenings aiming on the young generation of artists, designers & tinkerers.

V2_: interdisciplinary centre for art and media technology in Rotterdam, activities include research and development, and organizing presentations, exhibitions and workshops, research and development, embedded in an extensive international
network.

NIMK: The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) promotes the wide and
unrestrained development, application and distribution of, and reflection on, new technologies within the visual arts. Since the Netherlands Media Art Institute came into being in 1978 an extensive collection of video and media art has been assembled, to which new works are constantly being added.

These institutes together form the foundation for New Media Arts in the
Netherlands and fulfill an important role in the International Network that shares knowledge, exchanges, produces, distributes and promotes various forms of New Media Art. For most of these organisations the budget cuts will mean their disappearance.

What can you do?
Sign the general petition against the cutbacks in the arts

Contribute with a reaction to & forward NIMk’s MEDIA ART, WE CARE!

Sign the petition of SKOR (Foundation for Art in the Public Domain)

Take part in the March of Civilization on 26 & 27 June in The Hague

Take part in the wide-spread actions organised in the Netherlands

Find out more via
Find out more about what is happening when via Kunsten92

Read the letter by united Dutch art organizations to Halbe Zijlstra

Platform of Dutch art organisations

Slash & Burn, blogpost by Sven Lütticken

What happened to art in the public domain (SKOR)


Sonic Acts zoekt een stagiair(e) Online Media & P2P Communicatie

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 4:58 pm

SONIC ACTS ZOEKT EEN STAGIAIR(E) ONLINE MEDIA & P2P COMMUNICATIE
VAN 1 SEPTEMBER 2011 T/M 1 MAART 2012

Kantoordagen: Paradiso Amsterdam, vier dagen per week, van 10.00 – 18.00 uur.
Op locatie: avond en/of weekend, tijden en locaties afhankelijk van activiteit.
Stagevergoeding: 200 euro netto per maand

Over Sonic Acts
Sonic Acts is een festival dat sinds 1994 hedendaagse en historische ontwikkelingen op het snijvlak van kunst, technologie, muziek en wetenschap presenteert. Het festival omvat een groot aantal optredens en performances, een omvangrijke internationale conferentie, een uitgebreid filmprogramma en een expositie. www.sonicacts.com

Omschrijving stageplek
Sonic Acts is een kleine organisatie, waarbinnen een stagiair(e) als volwaardig lid van het
team functioneert. Hou er rekening mee dat dit een werkstage is waarbij het realiseren van een nieuwe festivaleditie voorop staat. Voor eigen onderzoeken of aparte opdrachten is er nauwelijks tot geen ruimte.

Sonic Acts werkt samen met vooraanstaande personen (zoals A&R managers, muzikanten,
journalisten, producers, boekers) en vele muziekorganisaties en media (podia, opleidingen, muziek­ en socialmedia sites en muziekbladen). Deze contacten en samenwerkingsverbanden maken een stage bij de Sonic Acts waardevol en geven een goede kans om naast het opdoen van inhoudelijke en productionele kennis en ervaring ook de sector van binnen en buiten te leren kennen.

Werkzaamheden stagiair(e)
Samen met de festivalproducent draagt de stagiair(e) zorg voor de vorming en uitvoering van de online promotiecampagne van Sonic Acts;
• Uitwerken diverse marketing campagnes en communicatieplannen (online & P2P – gericht op docenten/studenten van kunst/cultuuropleidingen)
• Content beheer website
• Onderhouden relatiebeheer kunstopleidingen (NL/Europa) & uitbreiding database
• Opzetten & begeleiden ambassadeursschema binnen opleidingen
• Sociaal netwerk marketeer – onderhouden van social media platforms (oa twitter en facebook)
• Search Engine Optimalization
• Coördinatie contentbeheer websites partners
• Nieuwsbrief en persberichten maken en versturen
• Maken (digitaal) promotiemateriaal
• Onderhouden van muziek­ en social mediasites
• (Laten) maken van promofilmpjes, geluidsfragmenten, beeldmateriaal
• Online guerrilla­acties

Functievereisten
• een proactieve houding, creatief denkvermogen, en zelfstandig kunnen werken in een teamverband
• bereidheid om ook buiten kantoortijden te werken
• ervaring met organisatie/publiciteit van culturele evenementen en affiniteit met muziek & kunst, en idealiter met de programmering van Sonic Acts
• ervaring met social communities (Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Myspace, etc), Word en Excel
• kennis van Wordpress (CMS)
• pre: ervaring met het zelf maken van digitaal promotiemateriaal (Illustrator en Photoshop)
• goede sociale en communicatieve vaardigheden
• stressbestendig
• woonplaats Amsterdam of omstreken (maximale reistijd 60 minuten van huisdeur tot kantoordeur)

Ben je enthousiast over deze vacature en voldoe je aan de functievereisten, stuur dan je CV en motivatiebrief uiterlijk 1 mei 2010 naar Harmen van Twillert harmen@paradiso.nl. Voor vragen over de vacature kun je ook terecht bij Annette Wolfsberger annette@sonicacts.com

Check voor meer informatie: www.sonicacts.com


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A Report: Light Work #6 In Soil at Tetem in Enschede

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 9:23 am

At the end of the summer of 2010, Sonic Acts presented Yoko Seyama’s Light Work #6 In Soil at Tetem in Enschede (formerly known as Medialab Enschede).

Sonic Acts was asked by Wilja Jurg of Tetem to curate the last exhibition in the temporary buildings of Tetem (Tetem 2). Preferably it would be an exhibition which could connect to both Enschede’s 2010 Gogbot Festival – with the theme of Singularity – and to the Urban Explorer exhibition, which would take place at the same time as our exhibition.

The venue (a rough industrial building), the location (at the end of Enschede’s ‘culture-mile’ and at border of the Roombeek-area) and the fact that the exhibition would coincide with Gogbot, presented us with the perfect opportunity to show Yoko Seyama’s Light Work #6 In Soil again. We reasoned that such a rather ‘magical’ and dreamy work would connect (and maybe contrast) in an interesting and imaginative way with the Gogbot festival, and present a very introspective experience of urban life – to be found in a completely darkened industrial space, at the edge of the city centre. Moreover the available space for the installation was larger than the space that In Soil had at NIMk, which we thought would benefit the work.

In Soil is inspired by the life of the cicadas, whose chirping can be heard everywhere during the summer in countries with a warm climate, also in the Japanese city in which Yoko Seyama grew up. The light-and-sound installation In Soil is not only an imaginative reworking of this presence of nature in the city in the first place it is a ‘mediation’ of what happens when a cicada – which has been living blind underground – appears above the ground and begins to see.

To build up Yoko Seyama’s installation at Tetem was ‘just about doable’ timewise and financially (read: ‘impossible unless you stretch the concept of what is possible’). But we went for it. Thanks to the very hard work of both the artist, the people assisting her and the crew of Tetem, the installation was finished on the day of the opening.

In many respects the exhibition was a success. In Soil worked well in the wider space, and spectators often stayed for an extensive time inside the installation, marvelling at the 3D-illusion of colored light. Even in the week before the ‘opening-moment’ about 150 visitors came to have a look, which is rare for such a venue. The ‘opening’ – which coincided with the opening of the Urban Explorers exhibition – attracted a large crowd, and, to our and Tetem’s delight, the exhibition was featured several times on local television.

But then bad luck struck. The day after the opening, burglars, probably made attentive at the exhibition by the media coverage, took their chance and broke into the building. All of Tetem’s equipment was stolen and the entrance heavily damaged. By sheer luck the burglars had not touched any of Yoko Seyama’s hand-built electronics. The exhibition had to close down because it was impossible to fix the entrance, meaning that the building would have had to be guarded 24 hours per day, which was simply too expensive. Yoko Seyama’s work was taken down, leaving only the wooden box inside which it was installed. It was decided to open the exhibition again during the Gogbot-festival as many people would come to visit Enschede to see new media arts. In the week following the burglary, Enschede also received its share of the heaviest rains ever in the Netherlands: the exhibition space flooded partly, damaging some of the wood of the installation.

Nevertheless, the box was repaired and partly painted anew, and the work installed again for the Gogbot Festival. During this weekend many visitors came to see it. One can only imagine how many people would have come to visit, had the exhibition been open, especially following the media coverage…

More in Dutch on the website of Tetem


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Sonic Acts at Arte.mov in Brazil

Saturday, October 30th, 2010 11:23 pm

Sonic Acts has been invited by the Arte.mov festival in Brazil to present a compilation of works illustrating the expanded cinema movement in contemporary film and video art. Selected works will include films by Golan Levin, Daniel Burkhardt, Steina Vasulka and Semiconductor.

Furthermore, Martijn van Boven from the Sonic Acts editorial team will be participating in a symposium on (expanded) cinema in urban environments. In his presentation, he will discuss the relation between the early expanded cinema movement and its modern day successors which manifest themselves on public screens, flash mobs and large-scale open air projections.

For more information on Arte.mov please visit their website and watch this space for a report.


Sonic Acts presents Yoko Seyama’s ‘Light Work #6: In Soil’ in Enschede

Friday, August 13th, 2010 9:36 am

Yoko Seyama’s ‘Light Work #6: In Soil’ will be on show in the art space TETEM (formerly known as Medialab Enschede) in Enschede (the Netherlands) from August 6th till September 19th 2010.

A festive ‘opening’ in the presence of the artist will take place on Thursday August 19th during Urban Explorer. Sonic Acts’ curator Arie Altena will give a short talk on Yoko Seyama’s work.

Location: TETEM kunstruimte (formerly Medialab Enschede), Tetem 2,
Hulsmaatstraat 35 Enschede

Opening times: Friday to Sunday 13:00 – 18:00

The exhibition is also part of Urban Explorer festival (19 August – 12 September 2010) and the GOGBOT festival (9 – 12 September 2010)

Free entrance.

More Info


KONTRASTE KREMS Festival in Austria announces Sonic Acts as new curatorial team from autumn 2011 onwards

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 4:16 pm

The curatorial sextet responsible for programming the internationally renowned Amsterdam Sonic Acts Festival  will present cutting-edge sonic experiments, contemporary music and related art forms in thematic, historical and interdisciplinary contexts.

The comprehensive festival programme explores a wide variety of fields and practices and offers unique encounters with extraordinary and unconventional concerts, performances, installations, lectures screenings and presentations.

KONTRASTE KREMS capitalizes on the synergy of its special regional location and setting in combination with a strong international line-up. The festival highlights the characteristics of its main venue, the medieval church, Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche. The festival will collaborate with various arts and cultural venues and stage manifestations in public spaces throughout the city.

The new annual KONTRASTE KREMS Festival will take place for the first time from 14 to 16 October 2011, with subsequent editions in autumn 2012 and 2013, all curated by the Sonic Acts team, led by the Dutch artist and curator Lucas van der Velden and Austrian-born producer and curator Annette Wolfsberger.


Sonic Acts Spin-Off: Labyrinthitis at Flevoziekenhuis

Monday, June 7th, 2010 11:46 pm

As a spin-off to Sonic Acts, Jacob Kirkegaard’s Labyrinthitis can now be experienced at:

Flevoziekenhuis,
Hospitaalweg 1 in Almere
from  9:00 until 17:00 hrs until Friday 11 June
Polikliniek KNO, 2nd floor – just ask at the reception!


The Poetics of Space: Terrain09 (onedotzero)

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 6:38 pm

Sonic Acts film programme
Wednesday 21 April from 20:00 hrs
NIMk, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam

Terrain 09, a programme curated by onedotzero, shows a choice of high-fidelity motion graphics for all fans of 3D animations. In Terrain09, images of big cities merge with natural landscapes, realistic cities transform into deconstructive sculptures and perception of nature as we know it are subtly being altered.

With works by among others:
Tokyo Sky Dive (Marakino Tachibana), The View from There (WoW), The Technocrat Retrofit of London (Keiichi Matsuda), City Scape (Seong Jun Lee), X13 The Scan (Clemens Kogler), Infinity (WoW), The End of Eternity (Institut Gotze), Strata #2 (Quayola), Without You (Tal Rosner), Fragments from Atlantida (Olga Mink & Scanner), She Goes (Dandelion + Burdock), Syn emergence (Richard Bevan, Anima + Devouassaoud, kajdan, maurice + lasbleiz)

Admission € 4,50 (students € 2,50), free of charge with Sonic Acts 2010 passepartout.
The exhibition will be opened half an hour before and after the film programme.

Reservations via: reservations[AT]nimk[DOT]nl

Last chance!

Terrain 09 is the final activity of The Poetics of Space. The Sonic Acts exhibition at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) will run for another 10 days until 2 May 2010.

Order now!

The publication The Poetics of Space is almost sold out. Order one of the last copies here!


Filmprogramme: The Poetics of Space – a NIMk Selection

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 3:04 pm

Wednesday 24 March, start 20:00 hrs at NIMk

An evening with selected works from the NIMk-collection relating to the Sonic Acts theme The Poetics of Space, from classics to new work by Mark Bain, Bernard Gigounon, Steina Vasulka, Kurt D’Haeseleer, Thomas Mohr, Semiconductor and Anouk de Clercq.

Selected by Martijn van Boven.

NIMk, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam

Admission: € 4,50 (students € 2,50), free admission with Sonic Acts 2010 passe-partout

Reservations: reservations@nimk.nl

More information: http://www.nimk.nl/eng/the-poetics-of-space-a-nimk-selection


THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 1:00 am

The Sonic Acts Team would like to thank everyone who made this Sonic Acts edition such a beautiful, successful and above all very memorable event!

To our audience, speakers, artists, board and funders, to all who contributed their time and energy;
to our partner organizations, bloggers, photographers, infodesk operators, technicians and everyone else involved: THANK YOU SO MUCH!

To our amazing support crew before and during the festival: Birgit Bachler, Bow Evers, Dave Sanders, Erwin van ‘t Hart, Federico Bonelli, Femke Herregraven, Gerard Koot, Hans Lentz, Hans van Rompaey, Kasper Scholte, Kathinka Verhoeven, Mark Poysden, Mark ten Hoede, Martijn Bonfrer, Martin Putto, Matthew Jarvis, Peter Moll, Susanna Seitz, Tirza Mol & Ward ten Vorde.

To Paradiso with special thanks to Pierre Ballings, Noot van Sanden, Marian Emmen, Hans Heerema, Kees Heus, and the technical, production, programme & duty management team, Annemarie Ubbels, Lisa van Groenendaal & the publicity department, Noelle, Viola, Mare, Marysa, Jolanka & all of the reception & secretariat for their patient support, Frank & his whole cafe team and everyone else who was involved. To de Balie with special thanks to Eric Kluitenberg, Marleen van der Wolde, Maya Shamir, Jacob Derkx, Ian van Riel & the rest of de Balie team. To NIMk with special thanks to Petra Heck, Marieke Istha &  all other NIMkers. To STEIM with special thanks to Takuro Mizuta Lippit,  Robert van Heumen, Esther Roschar & the rest of the STEIM team. To Melkweg with special thanks to Jan Hiddink, Richard Balk, Gert Hoek, Paul from theatre, Martine de Nijs, Jon Heemsbergen, Jantien Ekkes  & the reception for their endurance & all others involved. To Planetarium with special thanks to Milo Grootjen, Anthony & Mark.

To our bloggers: Florian Weigl, Jose Luis Espejo, Josephine Bosma, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Martjin de Waal, Michael Dotolo,  Pablo Sanz, P. Valiquet, Pasquale Direse, Rosa Menkman, Sven Schlijpen & Wesley Danes.

And last but surely not least to our fantastic volunteers!!: Amber Beernink, Assen Ivanov, Chaja Hertog, Clara Lozano, Claudia Temperilli, Elena Tiis, Florian Weigl, Freya van den Boom, Ivan Henriques, Jade Boyd, Jasmijn Bosma, Jedidjah de Vries, Linda Konone, Ludmila Rodrigues, Martijn Venekatte , Mendel Agterberg, Oxalis Atindriyaratri, Siliva Janoskova, Tanja Perisic, Thomas te Braake, Teodora Kotseva and Tiemen Rapati.

The Sonic Acts Team
Annette, Arie, Gideon, Lucas, Martijn & Nicky


D-Fuse: Latitude @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008

Sunday, March 7th, 2010 2:36 pm

Alongside the 2010 edition we start to bring the content of previous Sonic Acts editions online. Expect in the coming months weekly new material.

Inspired by the idea of drifting through the city, Latitude 3110N /12128E follows the emotive qualities of the space that surrounds us. Fragments of conversations, crowds, journeys, lights, deserted spaces and architectural contrasts are reconstructed to form a unique live performance that traces the multitude of paths, identities, encounters and influences that constitute everyday life in the city.

D-Fuse is a group of artists and designers who explore the relationship between image and sound, it was founded by Michael Faulkner in the mid 90s. D-Fuse encourage their audience to reflect on the process of experiencing their performances in a multi-dimensional, multi-sensory way. Working across a wide range of creative media, from live audiovisual performances, mobile media, web and print to art and architecture, TV and film, D-Fuse have collaborated with groundbreaking musicians Scanner and Beck. As well as contemporary classical composers Steve Reich and the Italian ensemble Alter Ego (that works with Salvatore Sciarrino and Philip Glass). D-Fuse’s visual art is screened internationally at festivals and in museums. Their first solo exhibition entitled Transmit at the MU in Eindhoven presented a retrospective of D-Fuse’s diverse practices.

www.dfuse.com


Cluster live @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008

Friday, March 5th, 2010 8:57 pm

Alongside the 2010 edition we start to bring the content of previous Sonic Acts editions online. Expect in the coming months weekly new material.

Legendary German band, consisting of Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Since the early 1970s, the duo have produced exceptional instrumental music, floating somewhere between Krautrock, improvisation and elektronica. Cluster recorded several albums with Brian Eno and helped to develop the genre of ambient music.

myspace.com/theonlyclusterthatmatters
roedelius.com/

The most important and consistently underrated space-rock unit of the ’70s, Cluster (originally Kluster) was formed by Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler as an improv group that used everything from synthesizers to alarm clocks and kitchen utensils in their performaces. Continuing on as a duo, Moebius and Roedelius eventually recorded many landmark LPs – separately, as a duo, and with all manner of guest artists from Brian Eno to Conny Plank to Neu!’s Michael Rother – in the field of German space music often termed kosmische. Cluster also continued to explore ambient music into the ’90s, long after their contemporaries had drifted into tamer new age music or ceased recording altogether. Cluster originally came out of a Berlin art/music collective named the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, formed by Conrad Schnitzler (one of the leaders of the city’s avant-underground), and also including Hans-Joachim Roedelius plus future members of Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel and Guru Guru. After Schnitzler and Roedelius met an art student named Dieter Moebius, the threesome formed Kluster in 1970. The group performed around Europe and even in Africa, engaging in wild improv sessions utilizing any instruments they could get their hands on; while touring they met engineer Conny Plank, soon to become a major part of Cluster’s recorded output into the late ’80s. The first three Kluster LPs, 1970’s Klopfzeichen and Zwei Osterei plus 1971’s Eruption, consisted of side-long improvisatory jams. Soon after the release of Eruption, Schnitzler left the band for a solo career. Moebius and Roedelius continued on as Cluster and, with the help of Plank, released two eponymous studio albums in 1971 and 1972. An ongoing collaboration with Michael Rother (Neu!) began in 1973, after the duo founded their own private studio out in the German countryside. After inviting Rother down to record, the results were released as the 1974 Cluster LP Zuckerzeit, a watershed of electronic pop midway between Cluster, Neu! and Kraftwerk (the latter just about to explode with their own Autobahn LP). That same year, Moebius, Roedelius and Rother formed a Krautrock super-group named Harmonia; two excellent albums followed in the next year, Musik von Harmonia and Harmonia De Luxe, as well as a few sessions with Brian Eno (unreleased until 1997’s Tracks & Traces). Eno himself began his own collaboration with Moebius and Roedelius in 1977, when Sky Records released Cluster & Eno. The trio also recorded After the Heat two years later (technically credited as “Eno Moebius Roedelius”), and after a hiatus of six years resumed the relationship with Begegnungen and Begegnungen II (both featuring Plank in the lineup as well). Though Roedelius and Moebius also launched solo careers around this time (1978 and 1983, respectively) they continued to release compelling Cluster material in keeping with Zuckerzeit, including Sowiesoso in 1976, Grosses Wasser three years later and Curiosum in 1981. Besides the Eno collaborations and many other solo works, almost fifteen years passed before the appearance of another Cluster album, 1994’s One Hour. Moebius and Roedelius continued to work and tour together continually. [John Bush, amg]


Acousmonium: Hans-Joachim Roedelius @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008

Friday, March 5th, 2010 8:51 pm

Alongside the 2010 edition we start to bring the content of previous Sonic Acts editions online. Expect in the coming months weekly new material.

German electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius (AT) has been active in music for over thirty years, has . He is a pioneer in electronic music, not least for his collaborations with musicians and composers as Peter Baumannn, Holger Czukay, Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius, Conny Plank and Michael Rother. He has worked as a soloist and founded several groups, most notably Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia. Over his prolific career, Roedelius’ musical output has covered a great deal of sonic territory and emotional range: from deeply introspective to very rhythmic, from experimental improvisations to heart-felt vignettes.

The Acousmonium is the sound diffusion system designed in 1974 by François Bayle and used originally by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) at the Maison de Radio France. The Acousmonium contains eighty speakers of different sizes placed across a stage at varying heights and distances. Their placement is based on their range, their power, their quality, and their directional characteristics. When built, Bayle stated: “It puts you inside the sound. It’s like the interior of a sound universe.” It provides a very complete and complex system for sound projecting acousmatic and electroacoustic music or instrumental music transformed by computers.

The Groupe de Recherches Musicales is a French organisation for research into sonology and electroacoustic music. It was founded in 1958 by Pierre Schaeffer as part of the ORTF and since then led by composers such as François Bayle and Daniel Teruggi. In 2008 the GRM celebrates its 50th anniversary with a series of special projects in France and across the globe. In collaboration with Sonic Acts the GRM compiled the programme of this night.


Acousmonium: Kasper Toeplitz @ SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL XII 2008

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 3:18 pm

Alongside the 2010 edition we start to bring the content of previous Sonic Acts editions online. Expect in the coming months weekly new material.

Bass player Kasper Toeplitz convinced the composer Eliane Radigue to write Elemental II for him. In this piece the bass is plugged directly into the computer, running a MaxMSP patch.
Kasper T Toeplitz (D) is a composer, electric bass player and musician who has developed his work in the no man’s land between academic composition (orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic new music or noise music. He has integrated the computer into the very heart of his work, as a tool of thought and composition, and as a live instrument, hybridising more traditional instruments if necessary, or working on sheer electronic noise.

Eliane Radigue (F) studied electro-acoustic music under Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. Around 1970, she created her first synthesizer-based music on a Buchla synthesizer. Her goal by that point was to create a slow, purposeful unfolding of sound, which she felt to be closer to the minimal composers of New York than to the French musique concrete composers. In 1975, Radigue became a disciple of Tibetan Buddhism, after which she composed a large-scale cycle of works based on the life of the Tibetan master Milarepa. She dedicated much of the 1980s to a three-hour work, the Trilogie de la Mort, which was as influenced by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Notoriously slow and painstaking in her work, Radigue has produced in the last decades on average one major work every three years. Very recently, in response to the demands of musicians worldwide, she has begun creating works for specific performers and instruments together with electronics.


Sonic Acts preview at Kindamuzik

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 3:02 pm

Kindamuzik published an in-depth preview on the upcoming Sonic Acts edition here.


Peter Bruyn tips Sonic Acts

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 2:56 pm

Peter Bruyn tips Sonic Acts in Stream magazine this week. Read more about it here.


Ulf Langheinrich @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 12:15 am

Ulf Langheinrich @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008 from Sonic Acts on Vimeo.

Alongside the 2010 edition we start to bring the content of previous Sonic Acts editions online. Expect in the coming months weekly new material.

This third recording is the performance Drift Ulf Langheinrich did in 2008 at Sonic Acts. Enjoy!

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Sonic Acts @ Casa Luna 23 February 2010

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 7:24 pm

Tomorrow night Sonic Acts is featured at Casa Luna Radio 1 at midnight, with an interview and a nice sonic overview of of the artists appearing at The Poetics of Space. Read more about the broadcast and listen tomorrow to it here.


Sonic Acts interviewed by Cafe Sonore

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 11:04 pm

Last night Café Sonore featured a 1 hour special on the upcoming Sonic Acts festival. Armeno Alberts interviewed Sonic Acts and played a nice selection of the artists appearing at The Poetics of Space. Read more about the broadcast and listen to it here.


Ryoichi Kurokawa @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 8:52 pm

Ryoichi Kurokawa @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008 (Excerpt) from Sonic Acts on Vimeo.

Alongside the 2010 edition we start to bring the content of previous Sonic Acts editions online. Expect in the coming months weekly new material.
This recording is a 10 minutes excerpt of the performance Ryoichi Kurokawa did in 2008 at Sonic Acts. Enjoy!

Read more about this here.


Christian Fennesz @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 9:56 pm

Acousmonium: Christian Fennesz @ SONIC ACTS XII 2008 from Sonic Acts on Vimeo.

Alongside the 2010 edition we start to bring the content of previous Sonic Acts editions online. Expect in the coming months weekly new material. We start with the concert Christian Fennesz did in 2008 in Paradiso on the Acousmonium system from GRM. Enjoy!
Read more about this here.


Jacob Kirkegaard & Sonic Acts in NRC Next

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 8:48 am

NRC Next published a 2 page article on Jacob Kirkegaard & Sonic Acts. You can read more here: http://www.nrcnext.nl/blog/2010/02/16/deense-geluidskunstenaar-laat-je-oren-zingen


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Sonic Acts & Gonzo special in Cultureel Supplement NRC Handelsblad

Friday, February 12th, 2010 4:51 pm

NRC Handelsblad published a 6 page special in their Cultureel Supplement on Sonic Acts and Gonzo (circus).
You can read more here: http://weblogs.nrc.nl/cultuurblog/2010/02/12/cs-sonic-acts-beeld-en-ruimte