The MIReS project has finished and with it we have completed the MIR Roadmap document. The direct link to the pdf is: More Information:  MIReS Roadmap

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We'll have a grand screening of final audiovisual work from 2nd and 3rd year students on Wed, May 5, in PACE 1 — with big screen and sound. Drop on by!

10:00 - 12:00 MUST 2005 Sound and Image final projects

1:00 - 3:00 Year 3 Advanced Creative Projects and Final Major Projects screenings
(Sam Toms, Duncan Powell, Dorean Lynch, Rob Martland + more TBC)

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Sunday 5 and Monday 6 May, Bergen Improstorband invites you to an instrument building workshop with Johannes Bergmark at BEK. The goal is to create your own instrument to use at concerts on Tuesday 7 May at the Library, Østre and Cafe Opera.

Program:
Sunday 5:
- Workshop from 12.00 – 18.00 at BEK
(C. Sundtsgate 55, øverste etasje)

Monday 6:
- Workshop from 14.00 – 20.00 at BEK

Tuesday 7:
- Concert at Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek 14.00
- Exhibition of instruments and concert at Østre 18.00
- Concert at Cafe Opera 21.00

We need to know how many people are coming and therefore ask for feedback as soon as possible. The workshops Sunday and Monday lasts 6 hours, it is not required to be there all the time but the goal is that everyone make their own instrument to the concerts on Tuesday.

We arrange some material but we encourage everyone to bring things from the list below, or any other thing you think can be used (it’s nice if someone could bring some tools, too)

- Hardwoods – (can be old furnitures etc.)
- Plastic Material
- Cardboard Material
- Paper
- Metal
- Wire, thin and rough, hard and soft
- Rope, wire, string of various kinds
- Pipes of various kinds, length and dimension (the simplest to manage is plastic), conduits and other hoses
- Youghurt cups (f.ex. for youghurt clarinets)
- Balloons
- Sticks
- Steel angles and seizures

This will be fun!

The picture is downloaded from Johannes Begmarks web site

Time and place:

• BEK - 05/05/2013 12:00
• BEK - 06/05/2013 14:00

Date:  Wed, 05/08/2013 - 5:15pm - 6:30pm Location:   CCRMA Stage , The Knoll 3rd floor Event Type:  Colloquium  CCRMA visiting artist Robert Henke provides detailed insights into the artistic and technical aspects of his recent audiovisual works. Using his latest installation Fragile Territories as an example, he will talk about ideas, happy incidents, processes, compromises, logistics and collaboration. Henke will discuss the role of technology for his art and his self defined state as artist-engineer. He will also provide an outlook on his future plans and elaborate on how they are influenced by his previous works. 


http://www.monolake.de/ Open to the Public

Series:

• Sonic Interference

Tuesday, 2013, April 30 - 19:30

WOMEN IN PROCESS by Aurélio Edler-Copes

Concert version

30.04.2013 - 19:30h

Sala Polivalent UPF Poblenou
C/ Roc Boronat 138
Barcelona
Free admission   WOMEN IN PROCESS, for soprano, instrumental trio and electronics based on the radio poem  Three Women, by Sylvia Plath, is a journey into the writer's poetic universe through an electronic music composition and closely related to the mechanical processes of recording, processing and sound reproduction. A new commitment of Aurélio Edler-Copes toward the radical conceptual work has led in recent years.

This project has been awarded with a Phonos grant and afterwards has received support of the Culture Department of Gobierno Vasco.

 

Music: Aurélio Edler-Copes

Text: Three Women, de Sylvia Plath

Singing and recitation: Valérie Philippin

Violin and voice: Estelle Harbulot

Bass Clarinet and voice: Megumi Tabuchi

Harp and voice: Eloïse Labaume

Electronics: Aurélio Edler-Copes

Program information

 

with the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya: Departament de Cultura
Ajuntament de Barcelona: Barcelona Cultura Universitat Pompeu Fabra SGAE Fundación Autor   Media

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• Phonos Concerts

University of Ljubljana offers an outstanding Doctoral Program in Computer and Information Science. The program is founded on research excellence achieved in our laboratories and by our faculty members, diverse international collaborations with our academic partners, and strong links with the industry. We are especially proud of the program’s interdisciplinary and problem-oriented study.

Date:  Wed, 05/01/2013 - 5:15pm - 7:00pm Location:  CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217 Event Type:  Colloquium  Kronos is a special purpose programming language and a compiler suite for musical signal processing tasks. The core concepts of the language include a unified signal model, with automatic optimization for multirate systems, including audio and control signals as well as events such as OSC or MIDI. Further, functional programming techniques are supported, such as generic programming with an expressive type system and pattern matching polymorphism. User programs are compiled just-in-time, and executed natively on the host CPU with minimal overhead. Open to the Public

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DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2013

Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music
and introducing:
Giga-Hertz-Award for Sound Art – Sound as medium of visual arts

In 2007, the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics and the SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO inaugurated the annual Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music. The Giga-Hertz-Award aims at composers working in the fields of electronic and acousmatic music. With a total prize money of 94.000 € the Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music and – for the first time – sound art is one of the most highly endowed awards of the genre. A Grand Prize and four Special Prizes are awarded once a year by an international jury.

For the first time awards will also be given in the category “Sound Art – Sound as medium of visual arts”. Next to a Grand Prize for lifetime achievement endowed with 15.000 €, up to four Special Prizes worth 8.000 € each will be awarded. Honored will be works that break up the time limitation and linear structure of music and complement the tonal with visual and spatial elements, e.g. a sound installation, a sound sculpture etc.

The four internationally oriented Special Prizes of 8.000 € aim to initiate and support new projects, and are geared to composers of electronic and acousmatic music.

In 2013 again innovative ideas within the field of electronic and acousmatic music will be honored. The application takes place in two steps:
A reference piece not older than five years and not longer than 20 minutes should be submitted. This work forms the basis of the valuation for the jury and should clearly make use of electronic, technical means. It also should be ensured that such a piece could be performed without much technical effort.
For the work that is to be realized, it is desirable to submit a project design.

Some of the reference pieces of the awardees will be presented during the IMATRONIC Festival in November 2013. The new compositions and works will be presented for the first time within the framework of the IMATRONIC Festival to be held at the ZKM in the autumn of 2014. Any further information on how to apply can be found here: www.giga-hertz-preis.de

The Grand Prize of 15.000 € honors the artistic achievements of outstanding composers and is not awarded as part of a public competition but, selected by jury nomination.

The Giga-Hertz-Award is granted in honor of the world-famous physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), who taught at the Karlsruhe technical university where he discovered electromagnetic waves at the end of the nineteenth century.
The award for electronic and acousmatic composition is unique in Germany and underlines the importance of electronic music: the award is supported by the most important German studios for electronic music: the SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO in Freiburg and the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics (IMA) in Karlsruhe.
The Giga-Hertz-Award for Sound Art is an initiative of the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie.

www.giga-hertz-preis.de

At "The Marinexplore and Cornell University Whale Detection Challenge" competition our FRI doctoral student Jure Žbontar achieved the excellent 5th place.

The "BioNLP Shared Task" competition (http://2013.bionlp-st.org) presents a series of challenges, which address problems related to the legality in biomedical research texts.

From the seven finalists the Beezinga team was chosen to represent Slovenia at the 2013 Imagine Cup finals in St Petersburg. Two teams competing in online challenges were also accepted directly to the finals each in their own categories: DORA and Drone Attack from the Faculty of Computer and Information Science UL.

On 13 and 14 April 2013 the Drupal conference took place at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana. The conference was attended by Drupal users, developers and enthusiasts from Central Europe.

The topic for this PhD position is “Source Separation and Signal Modelling of Orchestral Music Mixtures”.

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An overview of the PhD Program in Computer and Information Science was given on April 17th, 2013 at the Faculty for Computer and Information Science, Ljubljana. You can find the presentation on the following website.

-on demographies of uproar and the production of place

Program:

• The Public Square as Resistance Platform; a performance by Frans Jacobi
• Presentation of Architecture of Revolt by Anders Rubing and Erlend Bolstad
• A sculpture for the words and rhetoric of Lefebvre by Anne Marthe Dyvi
• DJ´s: Ruben Sverre Gjertsen, Tolga Balci and Signe Lidén

The Public Square as Resistance Platform: On the Silent Stand, Tahrir Square and the Eros Effect. In this short performance lecture Frans Jacobi is looking at the 2011 uprising in Egypt as the matrix of a new wave of public protest, using public space as a performative platform for political engagement.

Architecture of Revolt: is a project by operating the overlapping territories of security architecture and public space as a stage of political expression. By learning from the self-organized strategies that were developed during the revolution in Egypt 2011 on Tahrir Square, and the new field of urbanism created by security architecture and fear of terrorism, Rubing and Bolstad seeked to explore different strategy for reconstructing Regjeringskvartalet.

A sculpture for the words and rhetoric of Lefebvre: Work by Anne Marthe Dyvi.

Symphony of Sirens: Balci, Gjertsen and Lidén have digged into the history of music and rhythms of revolt.

Time and place:

• Khib, C Sundtsgate 55, 8th Floor - 24/04/2013 18:00

Henkjan Honing, from the University of Amsterdam, will give a seminar on "Music, Cognition and the Origins of Musicality" on April 26th, Friday, at 15:30h in room 55.309.

More Information:  Henkjan Honing's website

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Doctoral student Luca Forcucci is seeking students who are willing to experience his installation Kinetism on May 22, some time between 11:30 am and 9:00 pm, in PACE. Participants will complete a survey about their experience of the installation.


By changing space, by leaving the space of one’s usual sensibilities, 
one enters into communication with a space that is psychically innovating… 
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

The sound installation KINETISM explores the perception of our daily sound spaces. The audience is invited to explore by a sonic walk, the convergences of sonic spaces of the city and the sonic spaces of the body. The work has been developed while in residency in a laboratory of cognitive neuroscience in Switzerland, which conducts research on out of body experiences. The installation explores such considerations through sound.

Wednesday, 2013, April 24 - 15:00 Seminar by Mikel R. Nieto - Phonos grant 2012 April 24th at 15:00h Room 55.410 Universitat Pompeu Fabra C/ Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona  

The word "landscape" is heard more and more in different fields, from architecture to sound creation. The way we see a landscape is a result of the culture in which we live. Since the emergence of the idea of ​​soundscape we could  say that a landscape can not only be seen, but also heard. The application of this concept, the soundscape, in sound creation with the use of field recordings, has created an aesthetic that sometimes approaches the idealization of the spaces and nature. A conflict between the real and the ideal.

The content of this talk is intended to question the idea of soundscape. Does the soundscape really exist? Can the sound recording of a space be considered landscape? What idea of soundscape are we creating?

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• Grants

Wednesday, 2013, April 24 - 15:00 Seminar by Mikel Nieto - Phonos grant 2012 April 24th at 15:00h Room 55.410 Universitat Pompeu Fabra C/ Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona  

The word "landscape" is heard more and more in different fields, from architecture to sound creation. The way we see a landscape is a result of the culture in which we live. Since the emergence of the idea of ​​soundscape we could  say that a landscape can not only be seen, but also heard. The application of this concept, the soundscape, in sound creation with the use of field recordings, has created an aesthetic that sometimes approaches the idealization of the spaces and nature. A conflict between the real and the ideal.

The content of this talk is intended to question the idea of soundscape. Does the soundscape really exist? Can the sound recording of a space be considered landscape? What idea of soundscape are we creating?

Category:

• Grants

The upcomming Avgarde concert features Electric Audio Unit (Natasha Barrett/Ewa Jacobsson/Anders Vinjar), Sofya Dudaeva & Per Inge Hove, a new piece by Alwynne Pritchard for Victoria Johnson, and more.

More info at the Avgarde web site

Tid: Lørdag 27. april kl 19-22
Sted: Østre (Østre Skostredet 3)