Official organ of the Symbolic Sound Corporation
A Concert of Electroacoustic Music by Dick Robinson on Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 3 PM at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Atlanta Georgia at 75 Bennett St NW in Atlanta, Georgia 30309.
Read more about Dick Robinson and the history of experimental music in Atlanta in “What a long strange trip it’s been” by Chad Radford.
Wiener Klangwerkstatt’s Tonsalon, the Viennese sound workshop founded in 2007, is now open to the public! You are invited to attend three Tonsalon events at Elektro Gönner in Vienna on the 2nd Tuesday of each month:
8 March 2016
12 April 2016
10 May 2016
In June, they yield to the soccer season and will resume again in the fall.
The program for the first Tonsalon on 8 March 2016 will be:
20:00: “No random random notes”, a lecture by Bruno Liberda
21:00: “Taming of the fact”, a live perfomance by Marina Poleukhina & Alexander Chernyshkov & Bruno Liberda
For updates and information on future performances, follow Tonsalon on Facebook.
Here’s a previous performance by Marina and Alexander:
Cristian Vogel is currently engaged in a four week artist residency dedicated to exploring the possibilities of Kyma and the 4DSOUND system at the ZKM Institute in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The residency will culminate in a concert on 5 March 2016 featuring new work from Cristian along with Alyssa Moxley, an Athens-based artist specializing in experimental microphone techniques for field recordings. There will also be a presentation of Iannis Xenakis’ Orient-Occident, presented in 4DSOUND by system founder Paul Oomen.
The Central Library of The Hague will be filled with mathematical functions for the ear and textures for the eye when Roland Kuit creates poetic quadraphonic formulas for Kyma and Karin Schomaker synthesizes images of abstract beauty. Visuals and sounds together create a flow of spatial and textural experience.
Sunday 07 February 2016, 14:00 – 14:50
Spui 68, The Hague, The Netherlands
Carlos Alberto Augusto’s new opera — “TMIE: on the threshold of the outside world†(TMIE is an acronym for Trans Membrane Inner Ear) — for soprano and electronic track, interleaves three stories of audition and spirals. A single soprano plays three women — a Selene goddess, a deaf astronomer named Henrietta Leavitt who “heard what the stars were telling her”, and Beverly Biderman, a Canadian who underwent cochlear implant surgery to regain the pleasure of music.
Augusto produced the electronic track entirely in Kyma using roulette curves applied to different sonic parameters.
The libretto is based, among other texts, on books by Beverly Biderman and George Johnson.
The work, a Miso Music Portugal production with support from Widex Portugal, premiers on February 25th in Lisbon at the O’culto da Ajuda venue with two more performances on the 26th and 27th, and will start touring Portugal later this year.
Composer/producer Miguel Gil is working on new improvisation project featuring Kyma 7 and the poems of Fernando Pessoa
In this video, featuring LucÃa Flor-Laguna (voice), Jorge Cabadas (guitar) and Miguel Gil (Kyma 7 and sax), you can see Miguel using a Wacom tablet to elegantly perform a synthesis model and to process and capture the audio from the other performers using Kyma 7.
Here’s the poem:
Las pompas de jabón
(Fernando Pessoa)Las pomas de jabón que este chiquillo
se entretiene en soltar por la pajita
son, traslúcidamente, toda una filosofÃa.
Claras, inútiles y pasajeras como la Naturaleza,
amigas de los ojos como las cosas,
son lo que son
con una precisión redondita y aérea,
y nadie, ni aun el niño que las suelta,
pretende que sean más que lo que parecen ser.
Algunas apenas se ven en el aire lúcido.
Son como la brisa, que apenas roza las flores al pasar
y de la que tan sólo sabemos que pasa
porque algo se aligera en nosotros
y todo lo acepta más nÃtidamente.
Guitarist Dan Lippel and composer Scott Miller are collaborating on several upcoming concerts in St. Cloud and Minneapolis Minnesota featuring acoustic guitar and live interactive processing of the guitar and the acoustics of the space through Kyma:
January 15, 2016 @ 8pm @ The Nest Above the Pickled Loon (St. Cloud, MN)
January 16, 2016 @ 8pm Gut, Lungs, & Silicon (Minneapolis)
January 17, 2016 @ 7pm @ The Nicollet (Minneapolis)
John Paul Jones will be performing live with Kyma 7 electronics diffused through the famous Acousmonium loudspeaker orchestra
8:30 pm (doors open at 7:30)
SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2015
BÂTIMENT DES FORCES MOTRICES
GENEVA SWITZERLAND
as part of the Prèsences Électroniques Genève festival of spatialized electronic music.
Kyma had a strong presence at the 2015 International Computer Music Conference in Denton Texas, September 25 — October 1, including live performances by
Jeffrey Stolet,
Wang Chi,
Leap Motion music. #ICMC2015 pic.twitter.com/3ZlA4tRJHH
— Iacopo Sinigaglia (@iacopoconlai) September 28, 2015
Jon Bellona,
and Sun Hua,
a keynote lecture by Symbolic Sound president Carla Scaletti,
a one-hour Kyma workshop also presented by Scaletti (new music pioneer Larry Austin is seen in the audience at the lower left)
and fixed media pieces by Fred Szymanski and Jinshuo Feng. (If we’ve left anyone out, please let us know!)
Thanks to the ICMC 2015 organizers, presenters, and composers!
Special thanks to the ICMC organizers, Wang Chi, Sun Hua, and Jon Bellona for the photos and Iacopo Sinigaglia for the video excerpt.
A Little Night Music is an evening of Visualized Music—films composed to music (rather than music composed for films) featuring videos by Roxanne Rea in collaboration with composers Bill Rea, Debra Kaye, and the owner of Kyma system serial number 1: Dick Robinson!
Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore Place
Decatur GA 30030
October 10, 2015
at 8:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation $15
