Brian Eno's Music for Airports: New Audio-Visual Counterpoint

I went to the performance last night, I assured you there is no Brian Eno in person but may be in spirit:

Brian Eno's Music for Airports
New Audio-Visual Counterpoint
Welcome on board airline CM! Fasten your seat belts as members of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble takes you through a sample-infused electro-acoustic soundscape. Riveting electronic symphony and live video projections will reconstruct the old Kai Tak Airport - the real and the imagined - in this audio-visual portrait of a disappearing city.

Five of Hong Kong's best experimental musical talents will pay tribute to the Godfather of electronic music - experimentalist Brian Eno, whose Music for Airports single-handedly invented the genre that is now known as ambient music. This is certainly an experimental music mega event that you do not want to miss!

Refresh your ears with a CM hand-picked mix of experimental audio-visual compositions that promises to extend your horizon way beyond the cruising altitude.

Programme
Gaybird- The grid of elasticity II
Aenon Loo- Towards the Air
Tang Lok Yin- Clarinet Duet
Nerve (Steve Hui)
Aeolian FX -- Airport
Choi Sai Ho (S.T.)-Ten
Brian Eno, arr. Nerve
Music for Airports – new electro-acoustic arrangement *
* World Premiere
Live performance
Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
Video Artists: Adrian Yeung, Silas Fong
Set and Lighting Design: Priman Lee
Contemporary Musiking (CM)Artistic Director: Samson Young
Today's Platform for Contemporary Music
Founded in 2007, is a Hong Kong-based arts organization that is solely devoted to the promotion and creation of contemporary music and experimental music. Since its inception, CM has impressed local and overseas audiences with its daring programming and highly experimental productions that merge contemporary music with technology and new media. Past productions include Electric Requiem: God Save the Queen, in collaboration with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong ; Hong Kong Explode, a multimedia rendition of Bach's classic Two Part Invention, re-arranged for New York's DITHER electric guitar quartet; and Box of Revelation, a unique performance of Messiaen's epic Quartet for the End of Time that is housed inside of a Facebook-inspired interactive installation, staged by members of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta.

CM believes in contemporary music as a relevant performing art form, and sees the desperate need for a forward-looking platform for musical experiments in Hong Kong. CM regularly invites overseas musicians to collaborate with local composers. In addition, through its strategic partnership with arts organizations across genres, CM provides a cross-disciplinary, multi-media platform for composers to experiment, explore and expand.

Comparing to the computer music performance 5 years ago by the sound and vision people, it is much more attractive to see real muical instrument than wires and plugs. The music itself is still quite middle of the road- not pop and melodic, not heavy sound and noise, not too complex orchestrated layers and loops, the night performance was mostly minimal and non- rhythmic. "Experimental", "Fusion" ,"Audio Visual" may be the formula for new music. Most video are sleek and good looking but really lack the variation and development to bring it to the front, so now it is remain aas the background for the music.

CALL FOR SHORT STEREOPHONIC SOUNDSCAPE & HOERSPIEL WORKS & SONIC POETRY

>A DIAMOND IN THE MUD<
A Miniature Audio Exhibition of Stereophonic Soundscape & Hörspiel Works

PROJECT CONCEPT:
It is an Asian concept rooted in Buddhism that self-cultivation can be developed at home as a householder and is not merely confined to a temple or monastery. Buddhist believe that enlightened beings are those who "grew" out of the "mud" of the material world. So, like the lotus flower, which penetrates through sullied mud and water, but emerges unspoiled, enlightened beings are beautiful and pure even though they grow up in the material world. The phrase "a diamond in the mud" is an analogy for this and in keeping with it the Digital Art Weeks would like to issue this call to artists and to submit pre recorded works (Soundscape, Hörspiel, Poetry) in regard to the beautiful and the sullied. The works will be chosen on their ability to transcend the listeners into a "moment of tranquilly" and out of the confines of the everyday, or as expressed in the Diamond Sutra: "Dwell upon nothing and produce the pure mind."

PLAYBACK SYSTEM:
Constructed as a dock for Apple's famed iPod, the iCarta stereophonic audio playback system will be used to play back all of the selected works. The systems not only offers an interesting solution for public pod-casting, but it also acts uniquely as a bathroom dispenser for the indispensable: Le papier toilette.

- Art Clay, DAW, Artistic Director (c) 2008


DEADLINE: Moday, 15th September 2008. Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before Monday, 22nd September 2008.

APLLICATION FORM:
http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAWPlus/SoundScape08

For more information regarding the call please write directly to: arthurclay@mac.com; for more on past Digital Art Weeks, please see: www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch; for technical information on the iCarta, please see: http://www.atechflash.com

Moveable type at NY Times Building

My all time favorite new media art work "Listening Post"(2002) has never been able to come to HK. Microwave presented only their photo documentation in 2004. I saw it finally last year at ISEA and get so moved that I almost broke out my tears.
The artist Ben Ruben and Mark H Hansen did a new project "Moveable Type" at the lobby of New York Times Building, using words from William Burrough.
Video

Emmanuel Mieville Live in Hong Kong

Date: 26 October 2007 (Fri)
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Kapok
Address: G/F. 9 Dragon Road (behind Tin Hau temple), Tin Hau, Hong Kong
Price: $80
Supporting Act: Alok & No One Pulse
Co-Presented by Lona Records & Kapok
Supported by Para/Site
Enquiry: info@lona-records.com / info@ka-pok.com
Bio:

EMMANUEL MIEVILLE is a Paris born French sound artist and experimental musician who studied at the world renowned GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in the field of musique concrete. He also studied sound engineering and attended a cinema school. His aesthetic concern and direction as a composer originate from a desire to give the listener a shifting or blurred perception of soundscapes. Musical experiments with sound-field materials or objects and instruments are undertaken within the intuitive and dynamic stream of unconscious brain stimulations. Some of his collaborations or improvisations yielding patterns or structures, that express ideas but most of the time, the idea of musical flux lingers on his works.His tropism towards sound scapes, sound sculpting and gathering of spatials tools for composition, provides him with a better understanding and perception of sound, as a vector for social awareness and wisdom.

He played for two years with a Javanese gamelan orchestra, and is interested in merging ethnic instruments into electroacoustic music. Amongst other collaborations, he has worked with several dancers for Butoh performances, with French composer/performer Eric Cordier a for live concert (2005), and with Korean video performer, Heesok Yu, for a concert. He also contributes and participates with much constancy to Framework, on Resonance FM (London), which is a radio show dedicated to field recordings.

Emmanuel's myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/ongaka
For more infos and discography see: http://www.acousmafield.net

必看“美丽新世界 ：日本之当代文化”北京+廣州

“美丽新世界 ：日本之当代文化”将分3个部分展出：1.“美丽的真实世界”，2.“新环境”和 3.“终极世界及未来世界”。这些分支展将透过 ‘美丽’和‘新世界’深层审视国际间的艺术价值体系及创造力。由于这次展览将设在北京并由多个会场组成，多个分支展览的体系及（或）设计将共同促成统一的视觉及空间的完整性。展期间，一些在户外公共空间展出的装置作品也将做为整体战略的分支并以此支持整体计划。

展览地点和时间

北京 2007年9月25日 —— 2007年10月22日（嘉宾前展：2007年9月24日下午5点）

广州 2007年12月25日 —— 2008年1月20日

展览会场

北京 长征空间，东京画廊

中央美术学院（做为研讨会场等）

广州 广东美术馆

广州美术学院（做为研讨会场等）

参展艺术家（未定）

1. 美丽的真实世界 ［北京：长征空间］

这个部分的展览将重新审视“美丽”和“真实”的定义，同时深入观察和研究源于和逐渐背离这两个概念的表达方式。对于“美丽”的定义，展览作品将展示女性时尚当中美的价值观，同时思考不断转变的价值观和从属与美学的感知能力，以及多种多样的甚至相互矛盾的观点。这个部分的展览将同时思考日本传统技艺中的美学在当代艺术作品中的运用。

对于这个系列作品的选择，主办方将基于考察被刻画在日本漫画和动画中的，由性别区分下形成的男孩儿和女孩儿的不同世界、日本独特的“可爱”（kawaii)文化，以及由这些文化促成的高度私人化空间和高度聚焦的个人世界。

[艺术家・作品例]

八谷和彦 Hachiya Kazuhiko ……….jetboard

小谷元彦 Odani Motohiko ……….Wood-curving sculpture / Rompers (video)

会田? Aida Makoto ……….Painting

やなぎみわ Yanagi Miwa ……….Phograph

渡辺豪 Watanabe Go ……….Emo (animation)

小沢剛 Ozawa Tsuyoshi ……….[new commission]

金氏徹平 Kaneuji Teppei ……….[new commission]

島袋道浩 Shimabuku ……….[new commission]

パラモデル Paramodel ……….Installation

田中功起 Tanaka Koki ……….Video installation

エキソニモ exonimo ……….Disorder / tank (installation)

山本高之 Yamamoto Takayuki ……….spoon bending (new lesson)

さわひらき Sawa Hiraki ……….Video

村山留里子 Murayama Ruriko ……….Sculpture/installation

鴻池朋子 Konoike Tomoko ……….Painting

西山美な子 Nishimaya Minako ……….Painting/installation

岡崎京子 Okazaki Kyoko ……….Comic

横山裕一 Yokoyama Yuichi ……….Animation

宇治野宗輝 Ujino Muneteru ……….Rotators (sound installation/performance)

2. 新环境：［北京： Inter Arts Center］

[艺术家・作品例]

池田亮司 Ikeda Ryoji ……….Datamatics (sound /video installation + live)

市川創太 Ichikawa Sota ……….Corpora (architectural space with GPS)

藤幡正樹 Fujihata Masaki ……….off-sense (installation) & workshop

山中俊治 Yamanaka Toshiharu ……….robots

アトリエ・ワン Atelier Bow-wow ……….Manga Pod (installation/furniture)

藤浩志 Fuji Hiroshi ……….Workshop

坂茂 Ban Shigeru ……….Pavilion or extension

3. 终极世界和未来世界 [北京：B.T.A.P]

这一部分的展览作品将体现由社会和城市中的不稳定因素引起的系列问题，例如自然灾害以及一系列对死亡的恐惧。这一切都影射着人类对未来城市空间的启示与抱负，这也根深蒂固于日本的社会与文化。参展作品中还蕴涵着永久和持续的观念。与此同时，这些作品也将透过对建筑和时尚中的生态学观念和对环保的实施的调查，以此来检验人类与城市环境和自然之间的关系。一个视觉感极强的终极世界（世界末日）景观，将由漫画作品被放大后像壁纸一样覆盖在墙壁上来展示。

[艺术家・作品例]

奈良美智＋graf Nara Yoshitomo + graf ……….[new commission]

宮本隆司 Miyamoto Ryuji ……….Kau Lun Shing Chai (photograph)

ヤノベケンジ Yanobe Kenji ……….Atom suits / Viva Riva Project - New Deme-

畠山直哉 Hatakeyama Naoya ……….Zeche Westfahlen I/II (installation)

米田知子 Yoneda Tomoko ……….scene series (photograph)

大友克洋 Otomo Katsuhiro ……….Akira (comic)

富野由悠季 Tomino Yoshiyuki ……….Gundam (comic/animation)

押井守 Oshii Mamoru ……….Tokyo Scanner

大巻伸嗣 Omaki Shinji ……….[new commission]

宮島達男 Miyajima Tatsuo ……….Installation

FINAL HOME FINAL HOME ……….Sculpture/fashion design

户外展览（的可能性）

由于这次展览将由北京的多个会场组成，多个分支展览的体系及（或）设计将共同促成统一的视觉及空间的完整性。想法之一是邀请建筑师坂茂（ Ban Shigeru) 为这三个会厂的正面建造伸展区，以统一展览的主旨。举办方也希望通过这个想法来展现展览第三部分的概念：生态与环保。

另外，在798艺术区的整体布展和对户外公共空间的整体利用，将使由感性划分开来的区域拥有概念上的一致性。

草間弥生 Kusama Yayoi ……….气球

杉本博司 Sugimoto Hiroshi ……….户外大型招贴广告牌

组织体制

主办： 独立行政法人国际交流基金

策展人： 片岡真実（森美术馆资深策展人，日本）

住友文彦（东京现代美术馆策展人，日本）

Kim Sunjung(独立策展人，韩国)

中方展览组织负责人： 李振华（独立策展人，北京）

中方合作方： 各个展览和活动会场

办公室 ：独立行政法人国际交流基金 艺术交流部造型美术科

负责人： 古市保子

The "html-movement-library" plus "Singing Website Wallpaper"

Singing Website Wallpaper gives voice to html by re-interpreting the code of three Websites such as yahoo.com, msn.com, and google.com as a musical score and visualizing the scales as printed patterns on wallpaper. While the sound component of the installation is influenced by the "live" html code of each site, the wallpaper shows "frozen" source code from each site translated into a visual set of functionality-related symbols. Depending on how the momentary html code of the site is structured, the program matches the acccording sound files to each html tag. For instance, if the html tag "table" appears in the code, my program (php) will interpret and "sing" the tag as "a", "b" and "e", as they are notes in musical notation. The same goes, for example, with the tag "head": we hear the "h", "e," "a," and "d." "h" exists in German music notation, so there is an extra "note" to sing...
Review

Light and Sound

Colour by Numbers is a 72 meters high, interactive, light installation at Telefonplan in Stockholm, Sweden. You can control the colours with your phone from anywhere. For more information, see the web page www.colourbynumbers.org



RFID sound art in bottle

Get it louder -sound art installation and performance@Fotan

Hello friends,

This Saturday there will be a very special, one-time sound art/installation/performance event at our studio in Fo Tan, as a side-project of Get It Louder 2007. There are limited spaces available, so if you are at all interested, please RSVP to Nookei (nooknookei@yahoo.com.hk) ASAP.

For more information, read on below, and check the following links.
http://www.lona-records.com/press/GIL%20homeshow%20Hk.html
http://www.getitlouder.com/
http://getitlouder.com/detail.asp?articleid=227
Details:
The Diplomat Project: Dialogue with the Ghosts 異靈對話

日期與時間: 2007年七月七日, 晚上八時
Date & Time: Jul-7, 2007, 8:00 PM

演出場地:
Embassy Projects
香港新界火炭黃竹洋街15-21號
華聯工業中心B座4樓19室

Venue:
Embassy Projects
Unit 19, 4/F, Block B
Wah Luen Industrial Centre
15-21 Wong Chuk Yeung Street
Fo Tan, NT
Hong Kong

演出內容:
鬼是一種怎樣的存在？是一種對人事已厭倦的存在？是一種不肯離去的回億？是一種異鄉人還是一種過客？

香港一眾精英實驗創作人及新晉聲音藝術家，聯同Embassy Projects，將透過聲音、影像、裝置藝術及互動手法等多媒體元素，邀請觀眾一同探索、重新發現及重新體驗一切有關於鬼的概念。各演出藝術家，將會以不同角度，或反思或重新理解，展開不同的異靈對話。同時，觀眾更可於演出後與眾藝術家進行交流與分享他們的鬼故事。

拼合原音樂器、電子音樂及Embassy Projects以多媒體展示的學院派研究成果，籍實驗性構思概念，帶領觀眾以交流形式啟航，體驗一次深入本土文化的破格實驗。當晚的交流成果，將會由Lona Records製作成3”CDR出版發行。

游走於人間與鬼界之間，這是一個旨在打破界限的外交使命，關於不同媒體、不同角式及不同社群。

「The Diplomat Project: 異靈對話」乃07 大聲展廣州站之聲音項目之一。

Performance description:
What is ghost? A fed up extistence of human life? A kind of lingering memories? Or a kind of alienation process?

Teaming up with Embassy Projects, a group of experimental aritists and sound artists, will invite the aduience to explore, re-invent and re-experience the concept of ghost, through a series of multi-media performance that incoperates sound, visual, installation and live interaction with the audience. Each artist will be presenting their interpretation on the concept of ghost, and creat their own dialogue with the ghosts. Audience is invited to stay as long as they want after the performnace to share their ghost stories in a chill out party.

Combining acoustic and electronic music, and the multi-media approach of Embassy Projects, this is an experimental live performance that invite the audience for direct communication and interaction. The result of this communion will be published by Lona Records in the format of 3" CD-R.

The is a diplomatic mission of breaking boundaries, between different medium, different roles and different communities. Between the existence that we know and that from the other side.

"The Diplomat Project: Dialogue with the Ghosts" is a sound art event of GET IT LOUDER 07.


概念及策劃 (Concept & Organization): Lona Records + Embassy Projects

聲音藝術 (Sound Art): Alok / Sin:Ned / KWC / Wilson Tsang / Sherman / Edwin Lo / ahshun aka bjornho

裝置藝術 (Installation Art): Samantha Culp / Adrian Wong / Nookei / Sin:Ned


Program Rundown
1. Edwin (electronics)
2. ahshun aka bjornho (electronics)
3. Sherman (electronics) + Nookei (visual)
4. Wilson Tsang (Piano) + Alok (Electronics) + Samantha Culp (visual)
5. Sin:Ned + Alok + KWC (Radios / Tibetan Singing Bowls / Electronics) + Samantha Culp (Spoken Words & Visual)
6. Discussion with audience + overnight chill out party


參加辦法:
免費入場，但因觀眾名額有限，須預先把個人資料 (姓名及聯絡電話) 發電郵到nooknookei@yahoo.com.hk登記。入場觀眾，必須:

1. 自備電池運作之小型FM收音機一個
2. 帶備個人最喜愛的CD一張 (入場時交演出藝術家作採樣之用)
3. 穿著黑及/或紅色衣服


How to join:
Free admission. Due to limited admission, please send your name and contact number to nooknookei@yahoo.com.hk to register in advance. All audience should:

1. Bring a small battery operated FM radio
2. Bring one of your favorite CD (to be sampled and used by one of the sound artists)
3. Dress in black and/or red


查詢 (Enquiry):
nooknookei@yahoo.com.hk

大声展07·听游记（Moving Soundscape）开始征集观众报名

交通工具已经变成我们和世界沟通的一种必需。我们的身体不断移动，从这里到那里；城市也在移动、变形，从过去到未来。虽然不是每个人都拥有汽车，但是每个人都通过它，来实现移动，来穿行，并体会到城市的形体、形体之下的秘密。熟视无睹的声音，每天充斥在熟视无睹的城市中，我们和我们的耳朵一起，穿过道路，穿过时间，体验到了想要体验到的那些东西，也和更多的擦肩而过。最熟悉的风景，也是最陌生和新鲜的风景。
听游记是一组利用行驶的汽车来创作的声音艺术作品。或者说，听游记是一组利用城市来创作的声音艺术作品。这个想法也许要追溯到1960年代的达达追随者和激浪派艺术家，甚至更早，到1913年，路易吉·卢索诺（Luigi Russolo）的《噪音的艺术》（The Art of Noise）；但也许只是我们对周遭环境的一种本能反应。探索我们身处其中的城市、以新的角度加入它、和它对话、和它共谋；或者，探索我们的身体，在运动中，在封闭的小空间里检视它，让它体验。这都是可能的。
听游记是一场出游，只要你带着耳朵，上车。你将听到汽车的哼唱（发动机和车体振动）、城市的呼吸（无所不在的环境噪音），然后是艺术家的选择和创造，他们可能会从城市的角落收集声音碎片，可能把纷乱的街景当成诗歌来朗诵，可能用新技术延伸感官和想象，也可能只是制造噪音——在充满噪音的生活中，还有什么比重新品尝噪音更有趣的？在四个城市的大声展开幕当天，艺术家还会坐进汽车，和观众一起体验，或者说，一起创作。所有的观众，都需要提前报名；有的观众，会从准备阶段就加入创作；这些作品也不限于汽车，相关的网络、出版、延续活动，会和声音一样来来去去，相互关联。
这场出游早已开始，在某个不经意聆听无用之物的瞬间，在远处的铃声、音乐声勾起想象的瞬间，在风吹着车窗、让人出神的瞬间，我们已经开始享受风景。



限量限时的听游记开始报名了！
每车2到3名观众，每天4到6趟行车，每城4到6车，仅在周末活动，艺术家本人将参加开幕当天的作品实施。台湾艺术家林其蔚、许雅筑将会朗诵街景文字。北京艺术家张安定（Zafka）甚至邀请观众提前两个月和他一起准备、完成作品……
请先阅读各个城市的听游记方案，然后选择你想要参与的作品，告诉我们你希望参与的日期（请注意大声展在各城的开幕和持续日期）和备选日期（你也可以写上为 “随便哪天我都愿意参加”）；当然，你需要提供简单的自我介绍、职业、年龄、联系电话。请注意，在报名邮件主题栏内填写“听游记报名”。
确认后我们会通过邮件和电话和你联系。

Random Ascess Music

Can't agree more with John Maeda that Random Ascess Music is one of Nam June early works that I like so much.
"...My favorite work of Paik's is Random Access Music which is a series of technology art pieces. Imagine a wall with magnetic audio tape glued to it, and holding the playback head in your hand like a wand such that you can freely brush over the loops of tape and hear things. These pieces represent a wonderful destruction of conventional passive media, into completely different constructions that are interactive, analog, and ultimately human. "
Yes, thanks Nam June.

異聲：聲音藝術系列 NOISE:Sound Art Series

香港聲境工作坊

工作坊導師將介紹及引用音樂家Murray Schafer的「聽覺生態學」理論，並透過試聽各種實驗音樂，引導參加者認識及提昇日常聆聽經驗。導師更會教授基本數碼錄音，讓參加者隨意以戶外、戶內及身邊各種聲響為題材，以聲音描繪城市的不同面貌，創作別樹一格的「聲音環境」。

講者：Cedric Maridet (http://www.moneme.com/)（英語）
日期：11, 18, 25. 3 及 1.4.2007（逢星期日，共四節）
時間：下午2：00 — 5：00
地點：四樓多用途活動室
名額：10人
年齡：18歲或以上
費用：$300／270／150*
備註：參加者可自備輕便數碼錄音機

Using TVs as light sources: 77 million paintings - Brian Eno's new Generative art project

Interesting new art project by the god-father of ambient and post-punk Brian Eno.
The project uses custom software and scanned Eno's paintings to create new visuals that are synchronized with ambient sound.

For some reason if you google for '77 million paintings' you won't be able to find the official project web site, so here it is: http://77millionpaintings.com/

Exhibition of Sound Art from Chinese artists

In 2008 curators Lawrence English and Zoe Butt will be presenting an exhibition of sound art from chinese artists. The exhibition will be a touring one, to be shown in a variety of cities in Australia, New Zealand and other Asian centres. We are currently seeking artists for this exhibition and are hoping that artists can contribute works on cd or for installations send documentation/catalogues/cds etc of the works for consideration. - contact can be made via Dickson Dee/Noise Asia or by sending mail to the address below.

2008年, lawrence english 和 zoe butt 將舉辦中國聲音藝術的巡迴展覽. 地點包括澳洲, 新西蘭以及其他亞洲國家的主要城市. 目前, 我們正尋找藝術家參與是次展覽. 希望有興趣的藝術家可以提供他們的作品 CD, 文字介紹, 目錄等相關資料以供審議. 聯絡方式可通過 Dickson Dee/Noise Asia 或去信至以下地址:

::ROOM40:: LAWRENCE ENGLISH
PO BOX 771 HAMILTON CENTRAL
QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA 4007

Dickson Dee / Noise Asia
POBox 34867 King’s Road Hong Kong CHINA
email:dickson.dee@gmail.com

update:Oct 06

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