EARZOOM 2009 PROGRAM

25th. May - 19th. June 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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25. May

Murcof / The Leaf Label (Mexico)

PERFORMANCE / Kosovelova Dvorana, Cankarjev dom @ 20.00
www.murcof.com

26. May

Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (Slovenia / Netherlands)

INSTALATION / Argentinski park @ 15.00

A tree is dreaming of Uipapuru (2007)

Sound installation in a tree

Takuro Mizuta Lippit / Artistic director of STEIM (Netherlands)

Daniel Schorno / Creative projects advisor at STEIM (Netherlands)

LECTURE / Dvorana M3/M4, Cankarjev dom @ 17.00

STEIM - 40 years in live electronic arts

The presentation will introduce the general history of STEIM and it’s work method through various examples of artists and projects.
www.steim.org

DJ Sniff / Takuro Mizuta Lippit / STEIM (Netherlands)

PERFORMANCE / Galerija Kapelica @ 21.00

Turntable Reconstructions

www.steim.org

Daniel Schorno / STEIM (Netherlands)

PERFORMANCE / Galerija Kapelica @ 22.00

11-of-12 (subcategory 53), crackleScorpio (Zitegeist)

www.steim.org

27. May

Luka Juhart (Slovenia)

Concert / Studio14, Radio Slovenija @ 20.00
PROGRAM - Harmonika / Accordio
1.) Dialog ueber die Luft (1994) - Vinko Globokar
2.) Meditacija o blizini (2008) - Bojana Saljic Podesva
3.) Accordica for accordion solo (2009) - premiere - Uros Rojko
www.lukajuhart.com

TILT

Tomaz Grom (Slovenia)

Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (Slovenia)

PERFORMANCE / Studio14, Radio Slovenija @ 21.00
Grom - Double Bass
Vrhovec Sambolec - Live electronics (Max/Msp)
www.taogvs.org/TILT

28. May

Diemo Schwarz, PhD / IRCAM (Germany)

LECTURE / Galerija Kapelica @ 20.00

Current research and applications at the Real-Time Music Interaction Team (IMTR), Ircam-Centre Pompidou

The IMTR team works on interactive systems, real-time sound modeling, analysis and synthesis, gesture capture systems and interfaces, applied to music and dance performance.
imtr.ircam.fr

29. May

Xavier Serra, PhD / MTG (Spain)

LECTURE / Galerija Kapelica @ 18.45

Current Research at the Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona

The MTG carries out research in sound processing and synthesis; music content description interactive music systems, computational models of music cognition and the technologies related with music social networks.
mtg.upf.edu

Diemo Schwarz, PhD (Germany)

Luka Juhart (Slovenia)

PERFORMANCE / Galerija SKUC @ 21.00
Live audio input (accordion) processed by the realtime corpus-based concatenative synthesis software CataRT, developed with the IMTR team at IRCAM.

30. May

Florian Krebs / IEM (Austria)

Josef Klammer (Austria)

WORKSHOP / Galerija Kapelica @ 12.00-16.00

HyperDrums

A workshop on how to connect the game-controller Wiimote to the computer and use it as a human-computer interface. The sensor data is then processed and mapped to sound parameters.
www.iem.at
klammer.mur.at

Josef Klammer (Austria)

PERFORMANCE / Galerija Kapelica @ 20.00

HyperDrums - Toysrus 3.0 - (2003/09)

A live-composition with real-time modulation of the percussion sounds from gestures, dynamics, and diadochokinesia of the four extremities.

6. June

Keith Rowe (UK)

WORKSHOP / Jakopiceva galerija @ Workshop times are next to their descriptions

Treatise

Workshop @ 11.00-15.00
The participants (instrumentalists) will work on the realization of the composition Treatise (1967) by British composer Cornelius Cardew. Treatise is a graphic musical score comprising 193 pages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Rowe

7. June

 

 

Treatise

Workshop continues @ 11.00-15.00

8. June

 

 

Treatise

Workshop continues @ 11.00-15.00

Keith Rowe (UK)

PERFORMANCE / Galerija Kapelica @ 20.00
Rowe will improvise with a guitar, demonstrating rather unconventional playing styles, while modifying its sound by electronic means.

9. June

Donald Glowinski, PhD / InfoMusLab (Italy)

LECTURE / Jakopiceva galerija @ 18.00

Research work at InfoMus Lab - Casa Paganini, University of Genova, Italy

InfoMus Lab carries out scientific research and systems development of multimedia and multimodal human-computer interfaces. A main research focus is on the understanding and exploitation of non-verbal expressive gestures.
www.infomus.org

Roberto Doati / Music Conservatory Niccolo Paganini Genova (Italy)

LECTURE / Jakopiceva galerija @ 19.30
Doati will analyze some of his works and will describe the use of gesture both as articulation in acousmatic music and as gestural control of live electronics.

10. June

Donald Glowinski, PhD / InfoMusLab (Italy)

WORKSHOP / Jakopiceva galerija @ Workshop times are next to their descriptions

EyesWeb

EyesWeb is a graphical programming language designed to assist in the development of real-time multimedia analysis and processing applications.
www.infomus.org
 

EyesWeb 1

Workshop @ 10.30-12.30
How to build a patch in EyesWeb XMI; datatypes, I/O, generators, blocks taxonomy.

EyesWeb 2

Workshop @ 15.00-17.30
Processing of video-camera images in real time.

11. June

 

 

EyesWeb 3

Workshop @ 10.30-12.30
Techniques of background subtraction.

EyesWeb 4

Workshop @ 15.00-17.30
Tracking of blobs; expressive motion analysis.

15. June

Miller Puckette, PhD / CRCA (USA)

LECTURE / Galerija Kapelica @ 20.00

Research work at the Center for Research in Computing and the
Arts (CRCA) - at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA

UCSD has been involved in computer music research and production for over 30 years. Today, activity is largely driven by students, who design new interactive musical instruments and do research in acoustics and spatial audio.
crca.ucsd.edu

16. June

IOhannes Zmoelnig / IEM / PD-Graz (Austria)

Lukas Gruber / PD Graz (Austria)

Georg Holzmann / PD-Graz (Austria)

WORKSHOPS / Jakopiceva galerija @ Workshop times are listed next to their description

Pure Data - PD

Pure Data (PD) is an Open Source software environment for real-time generation and processing of audio, graphics, video and sensor data.
www.iem.at
www.myspace.com/vjlux
pd-graz.mur.at
 

Pure Data (PD) 1

Workshop @ 10.30-13.00
General introduction to PD: Installation of PD

Pure Data (PD) 2

Workshop @ 15.00-17.30
A loud introduction to audio: Open Worklab

IOhannes Zmoelnig / IEM / PD-Graz (Austria)

Georg Holzmann / PD-Graz (Austria)

PERFORMANCE / Jakopiceva galerija @ 20.00

Blind Date

Blind Date is an audiovisual performance where the performers start with a blank canvas (i.e. an empty patch), and gradually buildup and modify a running program, in the tradition of Live Coding.

17. June

 

 

Pure Data (PD) 3

Workshop @ 10.30-13.00
More basics in PD: Doing visuals in PD: GEM

Pure Data (PD) 4

Workshop @ 15.00-17.30
Open Worklab

Miller Puckette (USA)

PERFORMANCE / Galerija Kapelica @ 20.00
Guitar, live electronics
Sound, can be used as a source of control for musical parameters. The strings of a guitar directly provide phase and amplitude information that will be used to drive classical synthesizer algorithms.

Mats Lindstrom / EMS (Sweden)

Anna Koch / WELD (Sweden)

PERFORMANCE / Mestni muzej @ 22.00

One (2009)

One is a reference to David Tudors legendary piece Fluorescent Sound performed on fluorescent light banks in 1964.

Scratch Memory (2009)

Scratch memory is about rediscovering and recycling body movements and questioning their original value.
www.ems.rikskonserter.se
www.weld.se

18. June

 

 

Pure Data (PD) 5

Workshop @ 10.30-13.00
Audience topics: Networking with PD (netpd)

Pure Data (PD) 6

Workshop @ 15.00-17.30
Open Worklab

Mats Lindstrom / EMS (Sweden)

Anna Koch / WELD (Sweden)

LECTURE / Galerija SKUC @ 18.00

The concepts behind One and Scratch Memory

 

 

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