Monday, March 8th, 2010 5:24 pm
El viernes tras una intensa sesión de conferencias, de las que de primeras cabe destacar Derrick de Kerckhove o Christopher Salter, la jornada de la tarde en Paradiso estuvo centrada en una programación audiovisual presentada con un claro giro a la analógico, primitivista, en el que primaba a la manipulación directa del material que produce [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 12:31 pm
Arie Altena is part of the Sonic Acts team. This edition, his works was mainly focused on the programming the Acoustic Spaces program on Saturday and the editing of the The Poetics Of Space book. Besides his work for Sonic Acts, Arie also writes about new media, art, internet-culture, media-theory, literature and works as an editor/researcher for V2_ in Rotterdam. I had the privilege to interview him after the conference on the last day of the Sonic Acts festival.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 12:55 am
Sonic Acts Photos 2010.2.26 – De Balie, Paradiso by Tanja Perisic
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 8:59 am
sound is unthinkable without space…
sound is always more than space…
sound and space never exactly coincide…
sound and space are consustantial but never exactly coexistant…
I am outisde the sound which is at the same time inside me…
music rarely happens in space, because music IS space.
Read more...Monday, March 1st, 2010 9:20 pm
Anticipation for the final evening of Sonic Acts 2010 was running high. Considering the location one should not be surprised. The planetarium at the Artis Zoo is (sadly) seldom used for musical performances so the event pulled a diverse crowd, so much so that it the evening was sold out in advance. What is it [...]
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 8:57 pm
Reading the program of Sonic Acts I got intrigued about this 30min, B&W, silent film. Made in 1973, it is the first of McCall´s ‘solid light’ film series, an exploration on the sculptural qualities of light, using simple 16mm projections. He developed these series until the late 70s, only re-starting this practice more than twenty years later, this time using digital tools. This film is now a legendary example within the field of expanded cinema.
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 7:59 pm
UPIC (acronym of Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu) is a ‘graphic input’ musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis in the 70s. He used the system to compose a couple of works, but also wanted to make of it an ‘universal’ interface. In Xenakis words: “Anybody, even myself or you, or children, can draw lines or graphics with an electromagnetic ballpoint, and they are transformed by computer directly into sound … “
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Sven Schlijper | Kindamuzik Na dagen van lezingen over hi-tech en concepten van ruimte en ruimtelijkheid zijn de laatste dag de tuinmannen van de ruimte aan de beurt. Oftewel: ruimte in termen van het astronomische universum, levende ruimte en patronen in biologie versus mathematische modellen. Dit ter opmaat voor het slotakkoord dat in het Planetarium [...]
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Sven Schlijper | Kindamuzik De tweede volledige dag aan lezingen in de conferentiezaal van De Balie presenteert een waaier aan onderwerpen langs soundwalks, field recordings, de muzikale ruimte en onzichtbare architecturen. ‘s Avonds is Paradiso het Mekka voor liefhebbers die eerder de oren dan de ogen de broodnodige kost willen gunnen. Veelal mogen de ogen [...]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010 4:42 pm
Barry Truax opened the session at De Balie on Saturday, a whole day devoted specially to soundscape, phonography and the exploration of the acoustic qualities of our environment.
Truax´s career has been combining academic computer and electroacoustic music with social and ecological concerns. Since the 70s, as part of the World Soundscape Project and at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, he has been developing academic and artistically the fields of music composition with environmental sounds and acoustic ecology.
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Sven Schlijper | Kindamuzik In De Balie start op de conferentievrijdag een uitgebreid programma aan lezingen. Thematisch gegroepeerd onderzoekt Sonic Acts XIII zo onder andere immersieve ruimte, historische vista’s op ruimtelijke utopia’s en het actuele en futuristische concept van hybrid space(s). Het avondprogramma in Paradiso staat vervolgens in het teken van de verruiming van de [...]
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As titles go, Deep Spaces is brilliantly evocative. Full of promises and mysteries to come. Kicking off the musical program is the collaboration between Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjørgeengen and the musical duo Streifenjunko. To put it bluntly: this is what Sonic Acts is all about. Collaboration…possibilities…strange beauty. Bringing the outer limits just a bit closer [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010 10:19 pm
I just visited an interesting panel on the Sonic Acts 2010 Conference called The Poetics of Hybrid Space. When over here at The Mobile City we talk about Hybrid Space, we usually refer to the work of Adriana de Souza e Silva who in several articles has convincingly argued against the dichotomy between physical or [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010 10:26 am
Sven Schlijper | Kindamuzik De dertiende editie van de Sonic Acts conferentie en het bijbehorende festival staat in het teken van de ruimtelijkheid in de kunst(en); in het bijzonder de filmische en geluidskunst. Hoe definieert ruimte en ruimtelijkheid een kunstwerk? Wat ervaart een toeschouwer of luisteraar vis-a-vis ruimte en ruimtelijkheid? Welke rol spelen technologische ontwikkelingen [...]
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