Music
Music creation, concerts, radio appearances.
See the posts with video,
listen to collaborations on soundcloud,
or solo works on http://myspace.com/xmtbf.
13.05.2010
Concert–Conference at STEIM, Amsterdam
Conferences and concerts by Diemo Schwarz, Kaffe Matthews, Daniela de Paulis, Takuro Mazuka Lippit
MTBF with live corpus-based concatenative synthesis with Hans Leeuw on Electrumpet.
See steim.org for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
MTBF tracks played on the framework radio show
Three recent MTBF tracks (Knochenmühle, Hertzquelle, Trowel and Seal) were played in the fantastic field-recording oriented radio show framework on radio Resonance 104.4fm in London presented by Patrick Mcginley.
framework – phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity presented by patrick mcginley
07.03.2010
Radio play on the framework show
The field-recording oriented radio show framework on radio Resonance 104.4fm in London, presented by Patrick Mcginley, aired another MTBF soundscape as introduction on 07.03.2009.
See this post for more information about the show.
04.03.2010
Interpretation of Je suis l’écho de l’ombre d’une ombre by Emmanuelle Gibello, Paris
infos: http://www.youtube.com/user/nosuninparis, http://myownspace.fr/946
video excerpt 1, video excerpt 2
20h à la société de curiosités
9, Cité des 3 Bornes, 75011 Paris
Diemo Schwarz interprétera Boucle #1 d’Emmanuelle Gibello, pièce pour deux ordinateurs et 7 interfaces de contrôles
http://www.myspace.com/xmtbf
http://www.myspace.com/catartsoftware
Julie Rousse jouera live
http://julie.la.rousse.free.fr/
Karine Dumont diffusera “dans ma nuit obscure”
http://www.myspace.com/kalalunaticproject
20.01.2010
Hertzquelle (50Hz source)
The piece Hertzquelle (50Hz source) reveals the very source of the ubiquitous hum of 50Hz that surrounds everyone of us, everywhere, everytime. It can be heard from alarm clocks perturbing the nightly silence, from power adapters that are never switched off, when you touch a blank audio cable, or from badly ground-lifted amplifiers.
This is where it is all coming from, the very place where the world-wide hum originates to radiate all around the earth, tuning the world to its frequency. Read the rest of this entry »
13.12.2009
Radio play on the framework show
The fantastic field-recording oriented radio show framework on radio Resonance 104.4fm in London presented by Patrick Mcginley aired an MTBF soundscape as introduction on 13.12.2009.
framework – phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley Read the rest of this entry »
23.07.2009
Live Performance at Sound and Music Computing Conference, Passos Manuel, curated by Evan Parker, Porto
SMC Concert 2, Curated by Evan Parker
Program:
* “Porto_xx0709_Radio_Remixed”, Hannes Raffaseder – live electronics
* “BrainWash”, Yasuhiro Otani – live electronics
* “Corpus-Based Improvisation”, Diemo Schwarz – acoustic instrument & live electronics
* “Hands On Stage – Untitled 1″, Chi-Hsia Lai – Custom-built electronic interface
* “LiveImprovS~”, Koray Tahiroğlu – live electronics & solar panel musical instruments
* “Superimpose I”, Alexander Schubert – piano, double bass, saxophone, percussion & electronics
http://www.passosmanuel.net
Venue: Sound and Music Computing Conference, Passos Manuel, curated by Evan Parker , Rua Passos Manuel 137 , Porto, Porto 4000 385 , PT
21.06.2009
Rooftop Concert, Paris
Oldine invites to his 10th floor…with 12 more above…
Venue: ROOFTOP CONCERT , Telegraphe , Paris, Ile-de-France 75019 , FR
DVD documentation is available.
Photo by Marie-Eve Bouillon
06.06.2009
Exciting sound art festival, Montreuil
The first deambulatory sound art event “FESTIVAL D’EXPÉRIMENTATIONS SONORES” takes place in Montreuil, France, with performances in unusual places such as a whig workshop, a van, a hairdresser’s saloon, an elevator. MTBF will team up with guitar magician Cyril Touzé for a musical exploration of the earth’s stratigraphy.
http://www.myspace.com/circuitsonore
13.03.2009
Improvisation with Victoria Johnson, Bergen, Norway
Concert with classical-turned-experimental violinist Victoria Johnson organised by BEK at the Landmark Gallery in the Bergen art museum Kunsthall.
Also playing: James Webb.
04.01.2009
Live Performance at La Guillotine , Montreuil
Une très bonne année 2009 à tous, et pour bien commencer, il y a un sound-in des Dimanches de l’Impro à la Guillotine de Montreuil aujourd’hui vers 17h avec Alexis Baskind à la basse, Cyril Touzé à la guitare, Jac Pochat au Sax, et Diemo Schwarz à CataRT et cymbale sur caisse claire.
Venue: La Guillotine , 24 rue Robespierre , Montreuil-sous-bois, Ile-de-France 93100 , FR
12.12.2008
Live Performance at La Vapeur, Festival D’Jazz en Scènes, Dijon
E5T > création e5t = Electronic Quintet. Comment fusionner les genres de l’ambient au free-jazz à partir de la notion d’improvisation
07.12.2008
Live Performance at le CUBE – Sublime Sonus 2 (with theconcatenator)
http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/breve.php?id=413 Après le succès du premier rendez-vous de Sublime Sonus : à la découverte de la musique électroacoustique, proposé par Roland Cahen en mars 2008 au Cube, prolongez l’exploration passionnante de ce genre musical en découvrant quatres grands noms de la musique électroacoustique qui interprèteront quelques unes de leurs œuvres. theconcatenator présenteront un live audio-visuel improvisé, Christian Zanési jouera sur différents dispositifs une version live de 2006, l’aube rouge. Xavier Garcia, aux claviers, présentera Solo, performance improvisée selon le lieu, la circonstance, la pression de l’air et la température ambiante. Enfin, Marco Marini jouera une nouvelle pièce sur Piège à Rêve, l’instrument textile de Maurin Donneau
Venue: le CUBE – Sublime Sonus 2 (with theconcatenator) , 20, Cours Saint Vincent, 92130 Issy-les-moulineaux , Paris, Ile-de-France 92130 , FR
24.10.2008
Silver Sounds Exhibition with MTBF soundscape wins award
See the exhibition’s site at http://www.naughtongallery.org/silversounds.
The exhibition is unique because visitors can ‘hear’ as well as see the University’s silver collection, through using handheld computers to highlight objects and listen to the artists’ interpretations. Ten internationally renowned sound artists created sound pieces to accompany 22 of the silver objects, exploring their origins and the reasons for their creation and use. Read the rest of this entry »
Trowel and Seal Silver Sounds exhibition soundscape, Naughton Gallery, QUB, Belfast
 |
 |
This composition was commissioned by Queens University, Belfast, for the QUB Silver Collection soundscapes project, a permanent exhibition at QUB’s Naughton Gallery that presents the universities rich silver collection in a setting where each piece is accompanied by a soundscape, commissioned from one of ten internationally renowned sound artists. These soundscapes respond to the provenance of a particular piece of silverware and explore the reasons for its creation, donation and use and combine with the silver objects to create a new immersive artwork.
The exhibition won the 2008 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.
The soundscape for the two exhibition objects Presentation Seal and Trowel (1896) is based on the re-contextualisation of sounds stemming from the life cycle and environment of the exposed objects: their creation, their materiality, their usage, and the concepts and entities they refer to. These sounds are re-contextualised into a soundscape according to their sonic characteristics by corpus-based synthesis, creating a reminiscence of the objects’ presence in its multiple facets, a sort of sonic cubism.
Live Performance at Agence XP
see http://www.leplacard.org/2007/Placardée l’agence XP 12:00 (CEST) .Mean Time Between Failure. – .improvisation + decontextualisation. – .mtbf solo with drones, bidules et field recordings. .12:30 (CEST) .ring sax modulator. – .Etienne Brunet. – .longue traine roll & catenary samba. .13:00 (CEST) .Diemo Schwarz + Etienne Brunet. – .improvisation + recontextualisation. – - .MTBF invite Etienne Brunet pour un Bass corpus clarinet concatenative free drone, ou l’inverse.
Venue: Agence XP , 15 rue de l’aude , Paris 14e, Ile-de-France , FR
28.10.2007
Live Performance at Agence XP
see http://www.leplacard.org/2007/Placardée l’agence XP ::: 12:00 (CEST) .Mean Time Between Failure. – .improvisation + decontextualisation. – .mtbf solo with drones, bidules et field recordings. .12:30 (CEST) .ring sax modulator. – .Etienne Brunet. – .longue traine roll & catenary samba. .13:00 (CEST) .Diemo Schwarz + Etienne Brunet. – .improvisation + recontextualisation. – - .MTBF invite Etienne Brunet pour un Bass corpus clarinet concatenative free drone, ou l’inverse.
Venue: Agence XP , 15 rue de l’aude , Paris 14e, , FR
27.07.2007
Live Performance at Placard 2007
le placard headphone festival http://leplacard.org/2007/placard%20X%20paris/
Venue: 6 grande rue , Sevres, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France , FR
27.07.2007
Live Performance at placard 10, la generale en manufacture
19.12.2006
Rien du tout Performance at Live Algorithms for Music Conference, London
Concert 2: New Computer Music by LAM Network members
Performance “Rien du tout” with Diemo Schwarz and Sam Britton using real time concatenative synthesis:
Drawing on compositional models proposed by John Cage and Luc Ferrari, we assert that it is possible, through a process of re-composition to record environmental sounds and interpret and contextualise them into a musical framework. We propose to demonstrate the possibilities of such an approach by using the CataRT corpus based concatenative synthesis engine as a tool for real-time analysis and catagorisation of recorded sound whilst simultaneously affecting a process of re-synthesis using specific compositional strategies and techniques. We will present various derivatives of this approach in a performance scenario where the emphasis will be based on capturing sound events in real-time using microphones and processing these recordings using CataRT. During the duration of the performance we hope to be able to start with nothing at all (Rien de tout) and by recording and re-composing environmental sound, evolve a musical structure by tracing a non-linear path through the increasing corpus of recorded sound and thereby orchestrating a counter-point to our own linear perception of time. Our aim is to construct a compositional framework from any given source material that may be interpreted as being musical by virtue of the fact that it’s parts have been intelligently re-arranged according to specific sonic and temporal criteria.
2 – 4 pm Venue: <i>Great Hall</i>, Goldsmith’s University , New Cross, London , UK