Original article: http://seismograf.org/artikel/klaverets-tunge-tradition
Click here for a crude translation if your Danish isn’t up to scratch!
Dialogues Festival and fiennes.org present Tom Challenger’s Ma (Loop Records) | NeWt (F-IRE Collective) | TR-I/O-FON. Elliptical sabar-influenced broken grooves and brave new world synth scapes | byzantine boppish melodies | fractured dub bricollage.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3038509263 or http://www.thebongoclub.co.uk/- £8/£5 in advance. M.O.T.D.
The Bongo Club. 7pm – 10pm. Sat May 12th.
Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/196646580440139/
More details and audio etc will be posted on http://www.dialogues-festival.org/2012/Ma
New publication: Hayes, L & Michalakos, C.
Imposing a Networked Vibrotactile Communication System for Improvisational Suggestion
in Organised Sound, Volume 17, Networked Electroacoustic Music. Cambridge University Press.
Performing at Georgia Tech, US
The Xth Sense (XS), has been awarded the first prize at the Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition as “the world’s most innovative new musical instrument.”
The XS is a novel, biophysical wearable technology for musical performance and responsive milieux being developed by Marco Donnarumma at the SLE, Sound Lab Edinburgh. It consists of a free and open framework of hardware and software that reacts and interacts with the vibrations of muscle tissue.
The GNMIC is an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering.
It takes place at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, Atlanta, US.
This critically acclaimed event seeks to provide a fertile platform for the advancement of the studies on New Musical Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
The Xth Sense is a free and open project; release for public use is scheduled in April 2012.
Please, visit this webpage for further information.
Sean Williams has been awarded funding by the DAAD for three months research in Germany in 2012 on the electronic instruments and sound projection equipment used by the Stockhausen Ensemble from 1964 to 1975.
Christos Michalakos and Lauren Sarah Hayes will give the lunchtime concert in the Sonic Lab, SARC, Queen’s University Belfast, 23rd February 2011. Details to follow!
It was fantastic to spend a full week at the Elektron Music Studion in Södermalm, Stockholm. Mats Lindström is the director. 
I worked in Studio 4 with the Buchla 200 system. A few more pictures here. This was followed by a live radio broadcast of kontroll on Swedish radio station P2 available here. The show is called Monitor, produced by Erik Mikael Karlsson and Lisa Wall, and plays a great range of new music and sound art. Erik and Mats have both performed at Soundings in Edinburgh years ago. It would be great to see them back in Edinburgh again!
Frrriction is a new solo improvised work by Christos Michalakos, exploring the possibilities the electronically augmented drum kit.
It is available here
Dimensions In Sound**
Sensor based performances
Feat.
Atau Tanaka
http://www.ataut.net/
Marco Donnarumma – Xth Sense Performance
http://marcodonnarumma.com/
Kaffe Mathews
http://www.kaffematthews.net/
Ben Freeth
http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/benfreeth/
+++ Plus Special Surprise Guest +++
Now confirmed special guest and AV Festival preview, Phill Niblock!
http://www.phillniblock.com/
7.30pm
Wednesday 23rd November 2011
Culture Lab
Newcastle University, Grand Assembly Rooms, Kings Walk, NE1 7RU
Flyer Image courtesy by Chris Scott.
We are pleased to welcome proposals for new digital or electronic musical instruments for the collaborative venture taking place at the University of Edinburgh in early 2012. Please follow this link for the call for instruments.