Rooftop Concert, Paris
Oldine invites to his 10th floor terrace above the highest elevation spot in Paris in the 19th arrondissement.
Sorry, private only.
Installation Grainstick at Cité des Sciences, Paris
Production version of the Collaborative sound installation Grainstick, originally developed by the IMTR and room acoustics team at Ircam, and the composer Pierre Jodlowski, for the EU project SAME, using the “Rainstick” instrument gestural control metaphor.
Applied technologies: WFS spatialisation, motion tracking, gesture analysis, corpus-based synthesis.
First prototype presented at the Agora Festival 2009.
Concept and musical creation: Pierre Jodlowski
Video: Raphaël Thibault
Stage design and project management: Christophe Bergon
Sound design: Jacky Mérit
Programming: Robin Meier
Room acoustics: Olivier Warusfel, Grace Leslie
Real-Time Musical Interactions: Frédéric Bevilacqua, Emmanuel Fléty, Diemo Schwarz, Bruno Zamborlin.
22.05.2010
live performance at placard headphone festival, Instants Chavires
cataRT, binaural field recordings
MTBF live at the placard headphone festival, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, Paris.
Video documentation is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppxN5YtfZVA
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.
06.03.2010
Favourite Experimental Music Podcasts
Rare Frequency: drone, experimental, up to Turkish Psych
minimal talking (english)
http://www.rarefrequency.com/radio/podcasts/
Framework (Resonance FM et. al.): field recordings, phonography
minimal talking (english)
http://www.frameworkradio.net
[Update: New podcasts as of sept. 2014 seem no longer available via feedburner, but now directly via RSS feed http://frameworkradio.net/rss]
Brainwashed Radio – The Podcast Edition: dark pop, experimental
minimal talking (english)
http://brainwashed.com/
Songs of Praise (Radio Aligre): experimental and weird music
lots of talking, invited artists, Paris concert tips (french)
http://songsofpraise.hautetfort.com/
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
27.06.2009
Xe-Rocks Installation for Photocopiers and Sound System
Xerocks is an installation by video and sound artist Cécile Babiole designed to turn two copying machines into musical instruments.
Development and adaptation of the real-time sound synthesis system CataRT by Diemo Schwarz for audio analysis and granular (re)composition of the 4 audio channels from the photocopiers by navigation through descriptor space.
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
16.06.2009
Installation Grainstick
Collaborative sound installation, developed by the IMTR and room acoustics team at Ircam, and the composer Pierre Jodlowski for the EU project SAME, using the “Rainstick” instrument gestural control metaphor.
Applied technologies: WFS spatialisation, motion tracking, gesture analysis.
Max/MSP development (CataRT sound synthesis, gesture analysis, interaction control) by Diemo Schwarz, Grace Leslie, Bruno Zamborlin.
First prototype presented at the Agora Festival 2009.
Also on show July 2010, Cité des Sciences, Paris.
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 »