4for8 Call for Works

Call for Works

Submission deadline: Friday, 23.3.2012.

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TAI Studio invites composers and artists to submit works to be presented in a concert taking place at TAI Studio, MediaLab Helsinki, 25.4.2012.
We welcome works by composers, performers, improvisers, as well as media and sound artists primarily based in and around Helsinki. Two types of submissions are encouraged:

1. electronic live performance, and
2. electro-acoustic fixed media.

The submitted works should make use of 8 audio channels. The work’s duration should not exceed 4 minutes. For further information, please see the original call.

CityBeat installation opening at 26th of August

The CityBeat public art installation at the Lasipalatsi square opening on the 26th of August makes it possible to touch the heartbeat of a city.

European wide Public Technologies exhibition shows artists Mina Arko and Ben Dromey’s CityBeat installation in Lasipalatsi Square, starting from 26.8. until the end of September 2011. The work invites the public to touch and feel the ‘heartbeat’ of four European cities. CityBeat is produced by Finnish Bioart Society and it is part of European Public Art Centre’ Public Technologies exhibition.

The installation appears as a large cube on the corner of Lasipalatsi Square near Simonkatu. By touching its surface, people can feel and compare the heartbeats of four cities – Helsinki, Riga, London and Lisbon. We are live recording sound in central places in these cities and translating it to a heartbeat. You are able to feel and compare the changing pace of the cities by touching the installation form. We expect the heartbeats to alter during the day depending on the amount of activity in each respective city.

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Electronic music concert at Kapsäkki

Electronic music from ambient to strange machine sounds at Music Theatre Kapsäkki (Hämeentie 68, near Sörnäinen) on Friday Aug 19th at 19:00

Performers:

• Sigma, http://www.studiomanus.com
• Rihmasto, http://www.rihmasto.com
• Veijo Midi ja Modulit, http://www.tommilindell.com
• Esa Kotilainen, http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Kotilainen

Tickets at the entrance 10€
(thanks for the hint, antti)

Svamp Helsinki improvisation workshop, Sun 24.7

Svamp Helsinki, July 2011
Sound improvisation workshop
Sun 24.7.2011, 13:00-16:00

@ Chamber music hall,
Sibelius Academy R-building
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9
00100 Helsinki

Svamp is a monthly workshop for music improvisation, organized as a collaboration between Ptarmigan and Äänen Lumo. It does not involve money, careers or obligations – only interpersonal and sound relationships. Svamp sessions may range from free collective improvisation to directed exercises or game-playing. You do NOT have to be a professional or trained musician – just someone with an interest in sound, an open mind, and the ability to listen.

The session is open to anyone interested – please bring with you something to make sound with (an acoustic or electronic instrument, voice, objects/devices etc). We’ll meet at Chamber music hall (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9) at 1pm on this week’s Sunday. If the front door is locked, I’ll be waiting there from around 12:55 till 13:05. If you suspect you’ll come later than that, send me an email (visa [dot] kuoppala [at] gmail [dot] com). Chamber music hall is on the 2nd floor, stairs lead to it to the left from the lobby with the coat-racks.

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Svamp Helsinki, heinäkuu 2011
Ääni-improvisaatioworkshop
Su 24.7.2011, klo 13:00-16:00

@ Kamarimusiikkisali,
Sibelius-Akatemia R-talo
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9
00100 Helsinki

Svamp on kuukausittaisesti järjestettävä musiikillisen improvisaation työpaja, joka järjestetään yhteistyössä Ptarmiganin ja Äänen Lumon kanssa. Siihen ei liity rahaa tai muitakaan velvoitteita – vain äänten ja ihmisten välisiä suhteita. Svamp-tapaamiset saattavat vaihdella vapaasta ryhmäimprovisaatiosta ohjatumpiin harjoituksiin tai peleihin. Liittyäksesi mukaan sinun ei tarvitse olla ammattilainen tai muusikko – soittamiseen tarvitaan ennenkaikkea kiinnostusta ääneen, avointa mieltä ja valmiutta kuunnella.

Workshop on kaikille avoin – tuo mukanasi jotain, jolla voit tehdä ääntä (akustinen tai elektroninen soitin, ihmisääni, esineitä tai laitteita tms). Tapaamme Kamarimusiikkisalissa (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9) tämän viikon sunnuntaina klo 13. Jos etuovi on lukossa, odottelen sen edustalla n. klo 12:55-13:05. Jos epäilet tulevasi myöhemmin, ota yhteyttä sähköpostitse ((visa [dot] kuoppala [at] gmail [dot] com)). Kamarimusiikkisali on 2. kerroksessa, raput menevät vasemmalle ylös aulasta, jossa on vaatenaulakot.

Dream House – 24 Hour concert

whitecolors collective collaborating with Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts
are organizing a 24 hour long Dream House concert, inspired by the minimalist
composer La Monte Young. Young, who is considered one of the pioneers of Drone music, realized in the 60s concerts called Dream House’s, where sounds and lights created extended experiences.

Twelve different performers (solos and groups) have been asked to come to the island of Harakka’s Kasematti IV gallery and realize Young’s composition #10
from the year 1960: “draw a straight line and follow it”, each with their own
means with no genre restrictions. Every player is going to perform twice in one
hour long periods.

line up

• Chi-Hsia Lai
• Cleavage (Tuukka Salonen & Joonas Siren)
• Kulkiya (J.Koho)
• Kuupuu (Jonna Karanka)
• Petri Kuljuntausta
• Pimp Freud (Joakim Pusenius & Jussi Vento)
• Radiopharm (Jani Purhonen)
• re-clip
• Shinji Kanki
• Yumruk Pusu (Tommi Lehtovirta & Esa Mäkitalo)
• Varropas (Juuso Paaso & Samuli Kytö)

Optional entrance fee. All profit goes to performers.

General information

Begins Wed 22.6. 8PM
Ends Thu 23.6. 8PM

Connecting boat to Harakka island from 8AM until 00AM from Ullanlinna pier.
Invite the boat by lifting up the sign in the pier. Boat ticket back and forth 3.80 EUR.
During the night it isn’t possible to leave the island, unless with ones own
boat.

Connecting boat timetable (pdf)

Take your own food/drink with you. The floor space of the gallery will be
covered with mattresses, enabling sleeping inside the sound. If you feel like
it, take your own blankets and sleeping bags with you.

You can´t bring the dogs to Harakka (conservation area).

Fast food for ears

The workshop is an introduction into the world of building your own diy synths, making contact microphones and having fun with CMOS chips. The workshop will be conducted in three hours (Harakka +1h!) but after that there will be dining session and presentation of the projects done in the workshop + concerts by the workshop leaders (in mail art exhibition opening) so be prepared to spend some time in the island. During the workshop three different stages of a circuit will be presented:

1. Prototype on breadboard
2. Soldering on copper stripboard
3. Mount electronics in a box for ready-to-play version.

Participants will build the circuit first on the breadboard. After that they are encouraged to experiment with the circuits, listening to the differences between components (resistors, capacitors etc.). Projects include: Preamp, making a contact microphone, nand synth, simple matrix synth.

Workshop tutors

Dennis Tan is a singaporean sound artist living and working in Bremen, Germany. As a sound artist, he makes sound installation which are both sculptural and compositional. He has also written graphical notations for musicians or none musicians alike.

Jukka Hautamäki is media artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. He is founding member of Turku based experimental electronics association Kokomys (kokomys.org). Hautamäki has kept sound art and electronics workshops and lectures in Finland, Germany and France.

Disclaimer

Workshop is for max. 8 people only!
Previous knowledge of electronics is not required. Small fee for materials, synth kit prices starting from 5 euros. Pre-payment (5€) required. Please send SMS to mobile phone number 0504318898 (Anna Yaarkilli / Nomadinen akatemia) “I want to apply to FFfE-workshop 22.6″ + your name. You will get as an answer the number of the bank account to where you pay your 5 e reservation and the email address where you can write about the project/projects that you want to do in the course. Deadline for any application for the workshop is 15.6.

Bring with you

• cash for the materials
• soldering iron, if you have / find one
• box (not metal! wood, plastic ok) for your synth
• open mind for learning new things

Media Lab Demo Day, spring 2011

You are cordially invited to this springs Media Lab Demo Day!

When

on Thu 26.5.2011

Where

Room 822 with it’s surroundings, in the eighth floor in the Arabian building of Aalto Univertsities  School of Art and Design.

More info and the program can be found here, directions can be found here.