Come check out Columbia’s very own ElectroAcoustic Ensemble for their last performance of the year, and indeed for most of us as Columbians!

Jam to a set of original compositions, obscure covers, and free improvisations that represent the past year of musical collaboration between Carl Majeau (ts), Jacob Sunshine (g), Mark Micchelli (p), David Halpern (b), and Ian Marsanyi (d).

For more info go here, or check out the facebook event here. Hope to see you there!

Columbia ElectroAcoustic Ensemble Spring Concert
Sulzberger Parlour (3rd Floor Barnard Hall)
Monday, May 6th – show starts at 8pm
(Free Jazz is up first, we’ll probably hit between 8:30 and 8:45)

The next dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 at Location One in SoHo. This is the LAST DORKBOT OF THE SEASON!

Featuring the antigenic drifting of:

• Chris Jordan, Enki Andrews, Glen Duncan, Sean McIntyre: Experiments in A Historic Clock Tower in Queens
• SENSORSTAR Labs: Graffiti Fone
• Michelle Levy: Never Letting Go of the Myth

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc

Sunday April 7, 2013
8:00 pm
$10

The Firehouse Space
246 Frost St
Brooklyn, NY
L Train to Graham Ave

Composed by:
Zosha di Castri, Bryan Jacobs, Lu Wang, Ryan Pratt, Andres Cremisini, Amadeus Regucera, Lily Chen, and Dan VanHassel

Performed by:
Natacha Diels, flute; Kiku Enomoto, violin; Jessie Marino, cello; David Broome, keys, Maria Stankova, voice; Andrew Greenwald, drums

Like Buckminster Fuller, reversible sweaters, or Mr. Potato Head, Ensemble Pamplemousse’s BLOCKS are a rearrangeable construction of elements. Prefab modules by the composers are reconfigured into new structures of sonic architecture. As each block maintains its own internal logic, the listener is pulled forward through the linear unfolding of time. Intertwining patterns of material emerge and dissolve, connect, obstruct, and confer with each other, unveiling new angles of hearing each sonic unit.

A BLOCK consists of 8 short pieces composed for any arrangement of voice, flute, violin, cello, percussion, piano, and electronics. The pieces are written keeping in mind that the parts will be pulled apart, recombined, split into pieces, etc.,- merging with any of the other works. For example, the first line of flute from a trio may be played with the third line of another composition’s piano part, followed by the merging into the last bit from another composition layered with the electronics of yet another composition. The order is determined in concert, unique to each performance.

The Columbia University Computer Music Center is hosting a day-long workshop on issues arising from ‘production’: the impact of contemporary recording studio and digital-signal processing tools in crafting the sonic presentation of music. We will be especially focussing on the use of these tools, how they influence our musical creativity and the role recording technologies play in shaping the work we do. Towards that end, we have invited a group of musicians and researchers involved in music technology to help lead a community discussion of these issues. All are welcome to participate in this event.

Composition/Production — a workshop on the sound of music

Sunday, April 14, 2013; 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Computer Music Center; Columbia University; Prentis Hall; 632 W. 125th Street, NY

with:
Ted Coffey, UVa
Luke DuBois, NYU
Tom Erbe, UCSD
Brad Garton, CMC
Darwin Grosse, Cycling ’74
Terry Pender, CMC
Todd Reynolds, MSM
Gregory Taylor, Cycling ’74

contact: garton@columbia.edu
free and open to the public

The 2013 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival that will be taking place this coming week, April 2 – 6pm at venues including the CUNY Graduate Center’s Elebash and Segal Halls, the Skirball Center at NYU, the Shapeshifter Lab, and the Galapagos Art Space.

The details for the numerous concerts (21 in total!) can be found on the event website:
http://www.nycemf.org/

Past and present Columbia affiliates are participating in this event:

• Terry Pender’s work A Gentle Man will be presented on Concert One (April 2nd, 7:30pm at the NYU Skirball Center)
• Douglas Geers’s Obsessive Currents will be presented on Concert Six (April 4, 11:30am at Segal Hall)
• Nina C. Young’s Sun Propeller will be presented on Concert Nine (April 4, 4pm at Elebash Hall)
• Eric Chasalow’s Are You Radioactive, Pal? will be presented on Concert Seventeen (April 5, 7:50pm at Elebash Hall)
• Judy Klein, The Wolves of Bays Mountain (April 2, Skirball Center, NYU, 7:30–10 PM)
• Michael Gogins, Blue Leaves 5a (April 3, 1:30 PM–3 PM, Elebash Hall)
• Mara Helmuth, Expanding Space (April 4, 7:30–9:30 PM, Elebash Hall)
• Elaine Thomas-Freitas, The broken is the beautiful (April 5,12:30–1:30 PM, Elebash Hall)
• Brian House, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (April 5, 10 PM–1 AM, Galapagos Art Space)

Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00

A filmed conversation between one of America’s greatest living choreographers, Mark Morris and Wellesley College neurologist Bevil Conway as they explores how the brain responds to dance and motion.
Post-screening discussion with neuroscientist Dave Sulzer and computer musician Brad Garton.

visit the Rubin Museum Lunch Matters website for tickets

Part 2 of the 2012-13 BEI Undergraduate Series

March 13, 2013
7:00–9:00pm
Room 1219, International Affairs Building

This event—a film screening and commentary—will examine how the research and development of electronic music technologies enabled Europe to develop a strong electronic music culture, both in avant garde and popular forms.

Film screening: Totally Wired (Dir. Niamh Guckian, 2008, 79 min.), a documentary film about “Schneider’s Buero,” Andreas Schneider’s electronic musical instrument shop in former East Berlin. Commentary will be provided by Brad Garton, Professor of Music and Director of the Columbia Computer Music Center.

All Columbia and Barnard undergraduate students are welcome to attend!

Noise Non-ference March 29th and 30th, 2013, New York, NY

March 29th, 7:30pm at Dixon Place

March 30th, 3:30pm at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural And Educational Center (Flamboyán Theater)
107 Suffolk St., New York, NY 10002
installations start at 3:30pm, music starts at 4:00pm

March 30th, 7:30pm at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural And Educational Center (Flamboyán Theater)
107 Suffolk St., New York, NY 10002
installations start at 7:30pm, music starts at 8:00pm

A two-day festival celebrating noise in a variety of media, featuring visual, sonic and written artwork from around the world

About: The title of the event, a “Non-ference”, signifies Qubit’s attempt to present a serious and thorough survey of the most creative minds tackling the subject of noise today, without the limited presentation style that exemplifies the typical conference style setting. Conventional formatting, such as paper presentations, question periods, poster sessions, etc., combine to create a divide between the scholars and atendees.

Instead, Qubit aims to consider noise from the perspective of the art itself, eliminating superfluous ritual and approaching it the way Carolyn Christov-Barkargiev summarizes dOCUMENTA(13); a way to “explore commitment, matter, things, embodiment, and active living in connection with, yet not subordinated to, theory.”

http://qubitmusic.com/2012-13season/

Some new and old ideas combining voice and live electronics
Miller Puckette, Music Department, UCSD

Thursday, February 28th, 2013
5:30PM
Room 320H Prentis Hall

The human voice and electronic music have a long and fruitful history together
(Gesang der Junglinge, Speech Songs, Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion,
Chreode 1, …) and the possibilities seem far from exhausted. In this talk
I’ll describe some of the successes and failures I’ve had working with the
Convolution Brothers, Juliana Snapper, and Philippe Manoury on various
electronic music projects for live voice over the last two decades..

Miller Puckette won Putnam and NSF fellowships to study mathematics at MIT and
Harvard, where he finished his Ph.D. in 1986. From 1979 through 1986 he also
worked on real-time techniques for live music performance at the MIT Media Lab.
He then joined IRCAM where he wrote Max, a seminal computer music environment.
In 1994 Puckette joined UCSD where he is now professor and chair of the music
department, and is developing a software environment for computer music named
Pure Data. In 2008 Puckette was recognized with the SEAMUS Award.

CMC-Colloq No. 2
February 14th, 2013
5:30-7:00pm
Prentis Hall – Room 320H

Ed Osborn discusses his work in sound sculpture, installation and video. His pieces show a tactile sense of space, movement, image and aurality combined with a precise economy of materials. Osborn has received grants and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, the Banff Centre for the Arts, STEIM (Amsterdam), and the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts at UC San Diego. He has presented his work worldwide and is on the faculty of the Visual Art Department at Brown University.
For more information see www.roving.net

Oscillator
February 8th-April 14th
Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin

http://sciencegallery.com

What oscillates? From swinging pendulums to throbbing beats and harmonics, Oscillations are repetitive variations from one state to another that occur usually over time. Found in human-made systems and in physical, biological, and informational processes, they can arise, either by design or by accident. Sometimes they’re a critical component, essential to the correct function of a system, other times they might be a curiosity or a nuisance, or even a catastrophic force. Although well documented there are oscillations that we still can’t quite mathematically explain, from the vibrations of Eulers disk to the peculiar regular and chaotic motion of a Swinging Spring. In short, oscillations are ubiquitous and as such the perfect fodder for a Science Gallery exhibition!

OSCILLATOR sees us reunite with two previous Science Gallery curators — Douglas Repetto [ARTBOTS 2008) and Stefan Hutzler [BUBBLE 2009], to explore a vibratory world of motion and cycles. Like many of our exhibitions, the idea for OSCILLATOR came directly from our community. Proposed initially by Douglas just over twelve months ago, the theme lends itself remarkably well to interrogation by a wide audience of artists, designers, chemists, physicists, engineers, geologists, economists, biologists. mathematicians and musicians. We’re indebted to Douglas, Stefan and colleagues in the Schools of Physics, Physiology and Chemistry who have given of their time and expertise in bringing the exhibition together.

You will find a range of diverse exhibits, experiments and events at OSCILLATOR exploring electricity, economics, pulsars, brainwaves, tectonic plates, musical harmonies, pendulums, chemical reactions, algorithms, heart beats and feedback. Whether you’re marvelling at the synchronicity of a pendulum wave or intrigued by your own brain activity, we’ve put together an interactive exhibition that should have something for everyones tastes and interests. And hopefully, at the same time, expose the sometimes unseen motion, cycles and vibrations of our oscillatory world.

Curated by the CMC’s Douglas Repetto and Stefan Hutzler, a physicist and musician at Trinity College, Dublin.

THIS WILL BE SO MUCH AMAZING FUN! YES IT WILL!

Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 6-10 PM

Come on down to the Computer Music Center for an evening of food, drink, and snazzy performances/demos/videos/etc.
Featured CMC (current and alums) guests include:

Victor Adan/Paul Clift/Luke Dubois/Brad Garton/David Halpern/Damon Holzborn/Daniel Iglesia/Bryan Jacobs/Cassandra Nozil
Jaime Oliver/Terry Pender/Sam Pluta/Douglas Repetto/Jeff Snyder/Maeve Sterbenz/David Su/Nina Young/The MIDI class
and Natacha Diels as The Keeper of the Randomness!

Food/drink starts at 6 PM, presentations start at 7 PM. At the CMC, Prentis Hall, of course.

December 9th
10-Year Celebration and Fundraiser for 10 more!
8pm to midnight

P a r t y / F u n * r a i s e r
P a m p l e m o u s s e – S t y l e .

at the
Brecht Forum
451 West Street
between Bank & Bethune Streets
NYC

Ensemble Pamplemousse invites you, our amazing fans, friends and families to our annual winter time Fun(d)Raiser.

This year we will be buzzing about the Brecht Forum, on Sunday December 9th, with delicious treats both edible and audible !

You may be asking:
What are these audible treats you speak of?

This year we have an unbelievable line up!!
1.) the formidable George Lewis + Ensemble Pamplemousse
2.) glitchtastic Sam Pluta + Andrew Greenwald + Philip White
3.) and the sweet crooning styles of Mr. Richard Bennett.

AND we’ll have raffles with amazing prizes like hand silk screened tote bags and Pamplemousse umbrellas.

Please come, and please consider supporting our awesome upcoming Spring season and beyond!! Such as: a DVD release featuring the compositions of Juraj Kojs on Innova Records; an East Coast tour featuring a trip through the Magnifying Glass; a West Coast tour of BLOCKS, a series of 10 short works written for – and rearranged, chopped, sliced, and smashed back together by – Pamplemousse; and a collaboration with the Berlin Ensemble Adapter, also part of our very first international tour.

The next dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public.

Featuring the adiabatic expansions of:

* Daniel Temkin: esoteric programming languages
* Double One Design: Autonomous Interactive Radio
* Aisen Caro Chacin: New Sensory Pathways for the Plastic Mind

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc

Through three short pieces that evocatively combine music, images, electronics, and spoken word, RadioMemento explores the threshold between the experiences we remember and those that forever vanish from our minds. Running fifty minutes in length, it features virtuosic performances on the piano as well as on invented electronic instruments, and proposes a unique staging that places antique radios at heart of the action

Friday, December 07 at 10:00PM, at Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street
Btwn Rivington & Delancey
http://www.dixonplace.org/html/music_index.html

INTAR THEATER Presents The 1st INTAR ROOTS & NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
Friday and Saturday, November 16-17, 2012. 6.30 pm – midnight.
(Miguel and Damon will play at 9:40 on Friday)
INTAR Theater. 500 W. 52nd Street, 4th Floor.
Cover charge: $10 for one night/$15 for both nights
http://www.intartheatre.org/intar-roots-new-music-festival

The INTAR Roots & New Music Festival is a forum for some of NYC’s leading
and emergent composers, performers, and genre-bending musicians.

A Conversation With Dan Ellis, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012

This talk will present the basic tools of audio signal analysis for music information retrieval, and discuss the prospects for their useful application in jazz music collections. This work is part of a project led by the Center for Jazz Studies to build a collaborative online resource for information on jazz recordings known as J-DISC. Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is a young field that applies tools from machine learning and signal processing to obtain information about musical items. Despite significant work with pop and classical music, jazz remains almost completely unaddressed by the MIR community. Features like rhythmic/harmonic complexity and improvisational structure mean that jazz poses a set of novel problems to explore in the context of these tools.

Dan Eillis is. Director of the Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio. The talk will be moderated by Moderated by Douglas Repetto, Director of Research, Computer Music Center, Columbia University.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must RSVP by calling 212-851-9270 or emailing ym189@columbia.edu.

Location:
Prentis Hall
Columbia University
632 West 125th Street
Room 101 (Between Broadway and Riverside Drive)
New York, NY 10027

Event Cost: Free and open to the public. RSVP required.
The talk is at 7:30 p.m.

The next dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public.

Featuring the Oortcloudian emissions of:

* Chris Kaczmarek: Alpha-Bit
* On Structure: twisTisch
* Langdon C Crawford: new controllers

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc

Marginal Utility (Philadelphia)
7 December – 20 January
Opening reception Friday, 7 December 2012, from 6 – 11 pm

Marginal Utility is proud to present forever wild (nest machine), an exhibition of a new project by the New York based artist Douglas Repetto.

Preemptive nostalgia for wilderness and creatures lost.
A run down workshop on a generation ship or a boutique factory making knick knacks for terraformed lands.
What will we fill our wild places with when wild things are gone?

“forever wild (nest machine)” is the first in a series of speculative machines that generate artifacts no longer produced by natural processes. It is an inefficient factory built from scraps and debris, making elaborate nests for forgotten creatures.

http://www.marginalutility.org/exhibitions/2012/douglas-irving-repetto-forever-wild-nest-machine

Performing on his Silent Drum and MANO controllers, Jaime Oliver presents four works from 2008-2012 at the National Academy Museum, on the occasion of the exhibition the “Sight of Silence”.

http://www.nationalacademy.org/art-museum/public-programs/