This video example is very clear about Trevor’s nice madness:

Look at this site too, read and then click on the NEXT button.

Favignana Island Italy

AntiTesi in collaboration with the Superintendence for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Trapani,, is announcing a Call for Proposals for Sound installations to present at Ex Stabilimento Florio delle Tonnare di Favignana e Formica in Favignana island.

This call is connected to the Eighth edition of the Live!IXem festivals of music, sound and electronic arts. 

The aim is to highlight the works of those artists who, involved in an experimental and creative exploration, use sound, integrating it with electronic audio-visual and digital design for Art installations in specific sites. 

Another aim is to witness the new aesthetic in contemporary art through a new way to conceive and carry out works within (or outside) of architectural spaces. 

In this regard, the spaces that will host this could not be more appropriate: the former Florio Tuna factory on the island of Favignana in Sicily, the largest of the Mediterranean, which takes its name from a family of entrepreneurs that at the beginning of the twentieth century was the great protagonist in Sicily, the Belle Epoque. The ancient structure located in the largest of the Egadi islands, were obtained after the recent restoration of museum space, a conference room with 400 seats and a guest room. 

 To make this call even stronger there will be a collaboration between Live!iXem and OpenSound a platform that brings together seven European partners to create a project for cooperation and exchange that puts the sound in the middle of a series of outreach and artistic initiatives. 

 Open Sound is in fact a Grundtvig project for mobility and partnership in the training supported by the EU through through the agency LLP – Life Long Learning Programme. Thanks to this partnership, Sicily will be the first venue where the festival will converge with some of the major representatives linked to the European art scene and musical sound research. During the festival, workshops will be conducted by some of the guest artists (the access to workshops is free of charge): this will contribute to become familiar with the locations of the former Florio Tuna factory on the island of Favignana.

 SUBMISSIONS

We encourage proposals for site specific Sound Installations that will have to be set up in one of the locations of the Ex Stabilimento Florio della Tonnare di Favignana e Formica in Favignana Island Italy. Subscription and participation to the call are free of charge. It will be necessary to explore the locations through specific preparatory visits during Live!iXem Festival 2011, from 8 to 11 december 2011.

 Suggested topics for presentations include, but are not limited to:

• Best practices in Sound and architecture
• Techniques used for Sound/Art Installation
• Sound and environment/Sound ecology
• Site specific
• Software & network management
• History & aesthetic theory of Sound Art/Installation
• Teaching & pedagogical strategies
• Hardware (audio, interface, computers, loudspeakers)
• Software environments & frameworks
• Artists/Composers’ perspectives on their own works

For more information and instructions for submissions, please refer to the website, or download Call in PDF in english or PDF in italian

Email contact: info@antitesi.org

The deadline for submission is February 26, 2012, but preliminary and preparatory visits will take place btw 8-11 dec 2011.

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Roberto Laneri – Dreamtime Project

Release / World

aprile 26, 2011

Le musiche raccolte sotto questo titolo sono le musiche di scena composte ed eseguite per lo spettacolo multimediale omonimo, senza gli interventi dal vivo di Ilaria Drago e Roberto Laneri e senza le immagini di Alberto Tessore. La prima dello spettacolo ha avuto luogo a Roma, teatro Vascello, l’8.10.2005.

Un’antica leggenda parla di razze umane per le quali l’esperienza reale era invece quella del sogno, e lo stato di veglia una fase assai meno creativa e produttiva. Alcuni pensano che gli aborigeni australiani siano tra gli ultimi rappresentanti di queste antiche civiltà, portatori di un sapere le cui origini e modalità ci sfuggono nella loro profondità e complessità, ma che tuttavia entrano in risonanza con le nostre radici più profonde.

Il suono diventa allora una porta di accesso ad altri mondi altrimenti preclusi, ma accessibili purché ci si ponga in uno stato di ascolto e di apertura non condizionato da fattori culturali. Purché si tratti di suoni ricchi di vibrazioni universali, che parlano un linguaggio senza tempo, originario e complesso al tempo stesso.

Questa musica è un tentativo di accedere ad un mio dreamtime personale oltre che collettivo, senza tuttavia in alcun modo cercare di rifarsi in modo letterale a modelli aborigeni. Gran parte di essa ha avuto origine come ricordi e spunti onirici, ed anche la sua elaborazione è spesso avvenuta in stati di coscienza indotti da tecniche di yoga nidra, nelle quali si ricerca il sogno cosciente. (R.L)

Eccettuato il primo pezzo, per la voce di Ilaria Drago, il CD è stato interamente realizzato da Roberto Laneri, con i seguenti strumenti:
voce (soprattutto nella modalità “canto armonico”), clarinetto, clarinetto basso, sax sopranino, sax soprano, vari didjeridoo, tubi di plexiglas intonati, k’ang-kling (strumento tibetano costituito da un osso femorale umano), varie zucche intonate costruite dall’autore, scacciapensieri, tamburo etiopico*, sanza del Burundi*, cembali tibetani.

Ampio uso è stato fatto di tecniche digitali di registrazione e di sound processing; al contempo, molti effetti apparentemente elettronici sono il risultato della pura e semplice scrittura e sovrapposizione di parti.

*grazie ad Alberto Tessore per il prestito di questi strumenti

Mp3 Download
1. “Se fosse…” (testo: Mara Cantoni) [2:09] (5.2 MB)
2. Canto sussurrato [3:43] (9.8 MB)
3. Didges’ Hocket [2:44] (4.4 MB)
4. Talkin’ Bone [3:38] (10.8 MB)
5. Great Ancestors [7:25] (13.2 MB)
6. Pathways [2:40] (19.4 MB)
7. Fulgatore [2:40] (20.4 MB)
8. Within’ [2:40] (13.9 MB)
9. Dream a Little Dream of Me (Schwarz-Andrée) [2:40] (5.2 MB)

Full Release Download
Dreamtime Project – Full Release [2:40] (99 MB)

Cover Download
Full Release CD case (3.4 MB)
Digital Cover

From wolfram.com:

Founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987, Wolfram Research is one of the world’s most respected software companies—as well as a powerhouse of scientific and technical innovation. As pioneers in computational science and the computational paradigm, we have pursued a long-term vision to develop the science, technology, and tools to make computation an ever-more-potent force in today’s and tomorrow’s world.

 

Their software Mathematica, not for free, allows to compute data to create interactive demonstrations; look at some examples here.

There is the possibility to examine for free a lot of  their applications downloading and installing their player, unfortunately for Windows only, after that it is enough you visit the demonstrations page, browse a topic – e.g. Physical Sciences …

… and choose a subtopic, e.g. Physics and then Acoustics …

Now you can try about some demonstrations; here some examples from wolframmathematica youtube channel:

and others from the subtopic  Physical Sciences/Physics/Waves:

Obviously you can try a lot of interactive demonstrations by tags, … sounds, audio, harmonics, … so:

• download and install the player
• choose an interactive demonstration
• enjoy

Again, at wolframalpha.com/widgets you can try or create  widgets  for your site/blog.

Is the Ning platform demented? I don’t know, but I think, thanks to its new commercial/profit strategy, many Ning creators (like me) will close their networks. I’ll wait for other news but… what a pity.

It was a good platform.

from cacm.acm.org

From eurekalert:

Baby monitors of the future could translate infant cries, so that parents will know for certain whether their child is sleepy, hungry, needing a change, or in pain. Japanese scientists report details of a statistical computer program that can analyze a baby’s crying in the International Journal of Biometrics.

As any new parent knows, babies have a very loud method of revealing their emotional state – crying. Unfortunately, the parenting handbook does not offer guidance on how to determine what the crying means. Parents sometimes learn with experience that their child’s cries may be slightly different depending on their cause, whether hunger or discomfort…

Now, engineers in Japan have turned to an approach to product design, known as kansei engineering, invented in the 1970s by Professor Mitsuo Nagamachi, Dean of Hiroshima International University, which aims to “measure” feelings and emotions.

Tomomasa Nagashima of the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, at Muroran Institute of Technology, in Hokkaido and colleagues explain that the fundamental problem in building an emotion detector for baby’s crying is that the baby cannot confirm verbally what its cries mean. Various researchers have tried to classify infant emotions based on an analysis of the crying pattern but with little success so far.

The team has employed sound pattern recognition approach that uses a statistical analysis of the frequency of cries and the power function of the audio spectrum to classify different types of crying. They were then able to correlate the different recorded audio spectra with a baby’s emotional state as confirmed by the child’s parents. In their tests recordings of crying babies with a painful genetic disorder, were used to make differentiating between the babies’ pained cries and other types of crying more obvious. They achieved 100% success rate in a validation to classify pained cries and “normal” cries.

The research has developed a sound theoretical method for classification of infant emotions, although limited to a specific emotion, based on analysis of the audio spectra of the baby’s cries. The technique might one day be incorporated into a portable electronic device, or app, to help parents or carers decide on a course of action when their child is crying.

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“Statistical method for classifying cries of baby based on pattern recognition of power spectrum” in Int. J. Biometrics, 2010, 2, 113-123

A note from the editor Punto d’Incontro:

La voce dell’arcobaleno rappresenta un testo unico nel suo genere, che ci aiuta a leggere il cammino della civiltà orientale e occidentale in chiave sonora e secondo una filosofia “armonicale”. Questo libro potrà dunque rappresentare uno strumento di riferimento e di studio non solo per i musicisti, ma anche per tutti coloro che desiderino leggerlo da un punto di vista storico e antropologico. Il testo è infatti in primo luogo un libro sul suono, che tratta di tecniche vocali antichissime non insegnate nei conservatori e nelle scuole di musica, e che fornisce una lettura della civiltà in chiave sonora.

Here a degree thesis (in italian language) by Massimiliano Buldrini, italian overtone singer, actor and experimental music/sounds lover. The subtitle, Similarity and contaminations between East and West, give us the idea about his work. From vocal acoustics and hearing to eastern and western styles (America, Africa, Sardinia and Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva).

M. Buldrini

At the end some interesting interviews.

In my opinion, a simple but very clear discussion dedicated to beginners and neophytes.

Link: Buldrini_Massimiliano_Tesi2009 Unlinked for some time.

We are proud to be again online with a new name, new website and a new catalog that we inaugurate with the compilation We Want To Beehivemind, a projects that we launched before the closure of  the netlabel dharmasound.

new release

You can listen or download my track Apiarium Humanus, the full release and artwork.

dsound netlabel = Alfredo Serafini aka Seralf, Luca Frigo aka Knob Alchemist and LostCore.

VERONA

WORKSHOP:

CANTO ARMONICO E ANALISI VOCALE

Roberto Laneri

Marco Tonini

INFORMAZIONI E PRENOTAZIONI:

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