source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 18:46:52 +0200 Subject: FWD: EMF calendar From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 12:56:47 -0400 From: EMF@emf.org (Electronic Music Foundation) THE EMF WORLDWIDE CALENDAR May 23, 1997 In and around New York City Hartvestworks 'Listen In' Lisa Karrer, on stilts with MIDI Impact Triggers generating sampled sounds, David Simons, with his MIDI Theremin, and Jeff Gompertz, wearing his Inflatable Polyethylene Bubble Suit fitted with tiny fans and studded with MIDI Proximity Triggers, will demonstrate these devices as they relate to their in-progress chamber opera 'The Birth Of George'. >Friday, May 30 from 6 to 8 pm at Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Suite 602. Suggested donation: $5.00 More info: (212)431-1130. Or go to: http://www.avsi.com/harvestworks Ben Manley's 'wind-blown, fire-red' Remote electroacoustic ready-mades, amplified and translated in real time to the listening room, and the light from sound-sensitive flicker bulbs, source of wireless radio transmissions to resonant reliquaries, will happen next on May 24 & 31 from 2 to 6 pm at Studio Five Beekman, 5 Beekman Street. Free. Call (212)587-8107. Jin Hi Kim's 'Dragon Bond Rite' 'Dragon Bond Rite' is a cross-cultural mask dance drama that brings together virtuoso mask dancers and musicians from Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia, Tuva, and the United States. >June 4, 5 & 6 @ 8pm at Japan Society, 333 East 47th St, New York City. More info: (212) 832-1155. It will also be presented on June 9 at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC. More info: (202)293-2174. Texaco New York Jazz Festival A major and up-to-date jazz festival with Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Marty Erlich, Carla Bley, Jean-Luc Ponty, Gerry Hemmingway, Reggie Workman, Henry Threadgill, and such a list of other well-known participants that we don't have space here to mention them all. Some of them play electronic instruments. Presented by The Knitting Factory. >June 16 to 30 at various venues around New York City. For information call (212)219-3006. Or look at: http://www.knittingfactory.com http://www.nyjazzfest.com Morton Subotnick's 'Intimate Immensity' 'Intimate Immensity', Subotnick's most recent multimedia composition, is for two vocalists (Joan La Barbara and Thomas Buckner), a traditional Balinese dancer (I Nyoman Wenten), two electronically-controlled pianos, electronic sounds, and interactive video and lights. >July 16, 18 and 19 at Lincoln Center Festival, New York City. For information call the Festival Box Office at (212)875-5030. Or look at http://www.lincolncenter.org/festival Pauline Oliveros Foundation Pauline Oliveros and Ione, with friends including Joe McPhee, Joe Giardullo, David Gamper, Joel Chadabe, Pierre Joris, Xavier Chabot, Benjamin Chadabe, Stray Light, Jeremy Starpoli and others, will perform a benefit concert for the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. >June 1 @ 7 pm at the Kleinert-James Performance Center in Woodstock, New York State. More info: http://www.deeplistening.org First International Theremin Festival First International Theremin Festival Don't miss it! There'll be films with and about the theremin, a theremin 'jam', a museum exhibition for children, concerts, and a symposium. >Monday, June 16, through Saturday, June 21, in Portland, Maine (USA). Thereminist Lydia Kavina performs on Friday, June 20 @ 8 pm, and Eric Ross performs on Saturday, June 21 @ 8pm, at the Portland High School Theatre. On Saturday, June 21, from 10 am to 5 pm, Robert Moog, Elliott Schwartz, Albert Glinsky, and Olivia Mattis will lead the way through an all-day symposium at the Portland Museum of Art. Call: (207)761-5555. More info: http://www.nashville.net/~theremin/festival.html Other events around the world Synthese 97 It's the annual Bourges festival with all manner of electronic music, some of it presented indoors, some of it outdoors in the beautiful Jacques Coeur courtyard. >Friday, May 30 through Sunday, June 8, in Bourges (France). For more info: http://www.gmeb.fr JIM '97 This year's Journees d'Informatique Musicale will include papers by Todor Todoroff, David Wessel, Daniel Arfib, Leonello Tarabella, Tom Johnson, Francis Rousseaux, and others on new software and hardware systems for interactive music, sound synthesis and processing, spatialization, performance systems, and other matters having to do with new musical technologies. There'll also be a concert performed by the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain. >June 6 and 7 at Bibliotheque de la Part-Dieu, Lyons (France). More info: http://www.grame.fr/jim97 Hurta Cordel '97 This annual international festival of improvised music will include many plugged-in musicians, among them Wade Matthews, Pedro Lopez, the French quartet Hyperion (with Le Quan Ninh, Mari Kimura, and others), and the Swiss trio Voice Crack (with cracked electronics). >June 16 to 20 in Madrid, Spain. More info from Wade Matthews: wadematthew@arannet.com. Time of Music Festival This year's festival will include music by Iannis Xenakis, Kaija Saariaho, Elliott Carter, Mauricio Kagel, John Zorn, Vinko Globokar, Niccolo Castiglioni, Isang Yun, Tristan Murail, Jarmo Sermila, George Crumb, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and R. Murray Schafer. >July 3 to 9 in Viitasaari, Finland. For more info: http://www.festivals.fi/tom/ Consciousness Reframed The first International CAiiA Research Conference, subtitled "Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era", will take place July 5 & 6 at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales College, Newport, UK. The term "post-biological" is intended to cover all aspects of life which are mediated, extended or transformed by technology, including, and in the case of this conference, the mind and consciousness. Interested? Contact: aces@newport.ac.uk. Or go to: http://caiiamind.nsad.newport.ac.uk Eric Ross at the Montreux Jazz Festival If you're attending the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland this summer, stop by at the New Jazz Cafe Series on July 13 to hear thereminist Eric Ross perform a solo multi-media concert with videos by Mary Ross. More info: mross@spectra.net Deep Listening Retreat The 7th Annual Deep Listening Retreat, with Pauline Oliveros and Heloise Gold, is happening at the Rost Mountain Retreat Center from July 13 to 18. An advanced session will take place from July 20 to 25. More info: deeplisten@aol.com. Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival 1997 Not completely electronic, but special. >Early July,Yogyakarta, Indonesia. If you're interested in going, contact Sapto Raharjo. Email: sapto_r@yogya.wasantara.net.id. And visit the web site: http://www.sover.net/~frogpeak/AGI/YGF1997.html Meeting in a castle in Hungary The Electroacoustic Music Studio of the Hungarian Radio (HEAR Studio) and the Austrian Society for Electroacoustic Music (GEM) are hosting an international electronic music get-together. >July 27 to August 3 at Nadasdy var, a castle in Sarvar, Hungary, about 200 km from both Budapest and Vienna. For more info: hear@prosi.radio.hu. 4th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music These symposia bringing together composers, researchers, and engineers from around the world to present their work and exchange ideas. >August 2 to 8 at the Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil. More info at: http://www.cic.unb.br/sbc97i/sbc97i.html Summer workshops Music for the XXI Century New York University's summer program in New York City in music technology and tonmeister studies starts in May. To learn more: http://www.nyu.edu/education/music.summer/ Harvestworks In general, check in at Harvestworks for the details of ongoing courses in art technology and multimedia. Call: (212)431-1130. Or go to: http://www.avsi.com/harvestworks Oberlin College Sequencing, music printing, and synthesizer programming at Oberlin. >Sunday, June 15 to Sunday, June 29. Oberlin, Ohio (USA). Contact: anna_hoffmann@qmgate.cc.oberlin.edu. More info: http://timara.con.oberlin.edu/dept/wrkshp.htm CCRMA Summer Workshops The CCRMA workshops will deal with different aspects of computers and music including audio & haptics for virtual reality, computer-assisted musicology, algorithmic composition, digital signal processing, interactive composition, and performance devices >Monday, June 16 through August at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calfornia. Contact: aledin@ccrma.Stanford.edu. More info: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Courses/SummerWorkshops/97/ IRCAM Summer Academy Classes in composition, IRCAM software, instrumental techniques, sound recording, and other subjects, taught in English and French. If you're interested, act fast because the deadline for applications is May 31. >June 23 to 28 at IRCAM, Paris. Contact: berthy@ircam. More info: http://www.ircam.fr/activities/creation/aca.html Les Ateliers UPIC Study electronic music with the UPIC System and other equipment. Sessions will be conducted in English. >June 23 to July 18 at Alfortville, near Paris. For further info: http://www.emf.org/cal_ex.education.html CNMAT Intensive Workshop Study with David Wessel, Adrian Freed, Edmund Campion, and others at the Center for New Music & Audio Technologies to learn about prevalent and emerging methods of sound synthesis, tools for organization of timbral resources, real-time control strategies, and sound diffusion. If you're interested, move fast because the deadline is June 15. >August 11 to 22 at CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley, California. Contact Richard Andrews at richard@cnmat.berkeley.edu. More info: http://cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU/SummerWorkshop1997/ CREATE Digital Sound Institute Study computer music with Curtis Roads, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, and Stephen Travis Pope, with lots of studio time and a full array of Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX computers, synthesizers, processors, and multitrack recording equipment. >August 18 to 22 at the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Contact: rcoggins@xlrn.ucsb.edu. 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