15.11.2014

ONCEIM at Conservatoire de Clamart

Les pros de l’impro donnent une leçon aux élèves du conservatoire de Clamart, puis se donnent en spectacle au grand complet, soit plus d’une vingtaine de musiciens sur scène!

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Grand ensemble de musiciens improvisateurs, l’Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales (ONCEIM) entend porter haut et fort la voix d’une musique contemporaine atypique.

Créé et dirigé par le pianiste improvisateur Frédéric Blondy, l’ONCEIM rassemble des instrumentistes de haut vol,
membres de formations reconnues et exigeantes venant d’horizons musicaux hétéroclites : musique improvisée, jazz, musique classique et contemporaine, rock et musique expérimentale.

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28.10.2014

Diemo Schwarz, Hans Leeuw, PA Tremblay and more innovative improvisers at Zaal 100, Amsterdam

A concert in the nicest and oldest impro place in Amsterdam: Zaal 100facebook event

PA Tremblay (electrique bass + electronics, Huddersfield)
Diemo Schwarz (Gesture controlled CataRT, Paris)
Stephan Reidl (acoustic bass + electronics)
Dirk Bruinsma (sax + electronics)
Hans Leeuw (electrumpet)
Alan Purves (percussion)
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25.09.2014

CRAK Festival, Saint-Merri, Paris

Festival Crak des musiques affranchies – 3rd edition
25–27 september 2014 @ Saint-Merri church (Paris)

http://crakfestival.com/facebook event

Spectacular edition uniting 3 orchestras and John Tilbury  to play Cage and Feldman, Michel Doneda, Le Quan Ninh, Metamkine, Stephen O’Malley, Ingar Zach, Kim Mhyr, Thomas Lehn, Oiseaux Tempêtes, Tim Hodgkinson, Roger Turner, and many others…

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31.07.2014

Even More Interesting Music Podcasts

Adding to the loose series of posts about essential listening podcasts, experimental music, or unmissable podcasts about the history of technology and music, here are even more links to interesting music podcasts:

Epsilonia
the mother of all experimental music radio shows on Radio Libertaire, interviews, studio lives, concert tips, much too much talking (french).
not an actual podcast, but downloadable at http://epsilonia-radio.blogspot.com/

w-h-y
mostly danceable electronic and rock, with a sprinkle of hip-hop (if you can stand that), sometimes guest DJs, no talking
http://www.w-h-y.org website also with infos, Paris concert tips, giveaways

Tapage Nocturne
Radio France show by Bruno Letort featuring clean, respectable avant-garde music, with a more adventurous cronicle by Eric Serva, some talking (french).
http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/tapage-nocturne

A l’Improviste
Radio France program on jazz and post-jazz improvised music by Anne Montaron, quite some talking (french).
http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/limproviste


30.06.2014

DIRTI installation at NIME, Goldsmiths Uni, London

Create music and graphic animation with expressive gestures, mold sonic landscapes by plowing through tapioca beads with the Dirty Tangible Interfaces!

DIRTI is installed at the 14th International Conference on
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)

30 June – 4 July 2014
New Academic Building, 1st floor Mezzanine, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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29.06.2014

Concert with Fred Marty, festival Les Dimanches de l’Impro, La Guillotine, Montreuil

Improvisation with Fred Marty (double bass) and Diemo Schwarz (gesture-controlled CataRT) at 17h30

La Guillotine, 24 rue Robespierre, Montreuil

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27.06.2014

ONCEIM improvisers orchestra, Saint-Merri, Paris

Concert of the Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales (ONCEIM) at Les Rendez-vous Contemporains, Saint-Merri church.

Two new pieces Morph by Bertrand DENZLER and
Encore by Arnaud RIVIÈRE, followed by a collective improvisation.

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13.06.2014

2π4evR by Emmanuelle Gibello, Maison du Geste et de l’Image, Paris

Concert by Emmanuelle Gibello, Olivier Guillerminet, Diemo Schwarz and the pupils of Lycee Colbert, interpreting the piece 2π4evR by Emmanuelle Gibello on each performers’ own (software) instrument and Emmanuelle Gibello’s spinning-top instrument called the Molf:

Chaque joueur a le choix de ses armes, il utilise ses propres machines, instruments et sons. Le tout est décontrôlé lors de batailles à la toupie sur Le Molf, la nouvelle machine imaginée par Emmanuelle.

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07.06.2014

Xe-Rocks Installation for Photocopiers by Cécile Babiole, NAISA, Toronto

P1000327_800Xerocks by Cécile Babiole (also part of NXNE)
June 7, 2014 to July 13, 2014
Presented by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in partnership with the Consulate General of France in Toronto.

Xerocks is an interactive installation designed to turn two copying machines into musical instruments. Press a button on the machine and that will trigger a copying cycle, simultaneously generating a sequence of sounds. By (mis)appropriating and thereby alienating this familiar piece of office equipment, Xerocks ironically morphs an imaging apparatus into a sound production device. Read the rest of this entry »


23.05.2014

Inner Space by Christian Delecluse, Mapping Festival, Geneva

On show 22.5.–1.6.2014 at Mapping Festival,Le Commun (BAC), Geneva

The second iteration of a light and sound installation, Inner Space offers viewers a dual experience that questions the process of how we build our perceptions. First, viewers are welcomed to contemplate a dynamic room where beams of light move in sync with sound, constantly shifting the intensity of the space and allowing the viewer to be carried away into a hypnotic trance. The piece offers a behind-the-scenes look where viewers observe the mechanical aspects of the project, with its low-tech counterweight mechanism and rough structural reinforcements. The spatial changes proposed by the installation occur randomly in real time, producing a succession of contrasting perceptions, switching between order and disorder, between determinism and chance, between mind control and letting go. Read the rest of this entry »


16.05.2014

Ensemble Soli X Ilos, Festival Imprudences, St. Merri, Paris

Festival Imprudences

Concert with MASSIMO CARROZZO clarinette – LAURENT HOEVENAERS violoncelle – HAMPUS LINDWALL orgue - PASCAL MARZAN guitare – JOAKIM SANDGREN percussion – DIEMO SCHWARZ électronique

support: SOPHIE AGNEL piano – MICHEL DONEDA saxophone


28.03.2014

Improvised Concert at St. Merri church, Paris

Concert in quintet with Massimo Carrozo (clarinet), Laurent Hoevenaers (cello), Parcal Marzan (guitar), Joakim Sandgren (percussion), Diemo Schwarz (live CataRT), St. Merri church.

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20.02.2014

Sonic Arts No.80 — Instrument Identities, UEA, Norwich, UK

Sonic Arts Ensemble with Jane Dickson (piano)


11.02.2014

Concert with Fred Marty, Instants Chavirés, Paris

Q#2014 [20h-entrée libre] [facebook event]
ALEXEI BORISOV & ANTON MOBIN
BELMONT WITCH
DIEMO SCHWARZ & FRED MARTY
+VIDEO SELECTOR FOCUS

mardi 11 février
Instants Chavirés
7 rue Richard Lenoir
93100 montreuil
metro Robespierre

RESTAURATION LÉGÈRE SUR PLACE

ouverture à 20h, début des concerts à 20h30 précises.
ENTRÉE LIBRE

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10.01.2014

DIRTI for iPad nominated for IxDA awards, public voting open!

DIRTI for iPad, the world’s first tapioca interface, lets young children control an audiovisual experience by playing with a bowl of tapioca.
The project has been nominated for the prestigious IxDA interaction design awards, and the people’s choice award is now open for voting by going to http://awards.ixda.org/entry/2014/dirti-for-ipad/vote.


14.11.2013

SI13 Concert: Audiovisual, Interactive, Gaming, Live…, Singapore

ADM Auditorium, School of Art Design Media, NTU, Singapore

The concert is part of  the SI13 NTU Symposium on Sound and Interactivity 14-16 November 2013 (http://www.si13.tk), chaired by PerMagnus Lindborg.

Program

Diemo Schwarz “Playing the Sound Space”
Roger T. Dean “Serial Collaborations 2″    
Dean & Schwarz
improvised duo
Stefano Fasciani “One at a Time by Voice”
Renick Bell “Live Coding Improvisation”
Luis Galvàn Hernandez “…and everything he touched, was turned into Gold…”
Steve Dixon & Joyce Beetuan Koh “The Fire Sermon (part 3 from The Waste Land)”

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11.10.2013

PANDA sound installation, Dairy Art Centre, London

Franck Leibovici & Diemo Schwarz present a sound installation derived from the PANDA mini-opera for non-musicians as part of the show ISLAND at the Dairy Art Centre, London.

11 October – 8 December 2013

http://dairyartcentre.org.uk/

Artists’ List:

Ai Weiwei, John Armleder, Sylvie Auvray, Tom Benson, Valentin Carron, Jake and Dinos Chapman, George Condo, Ann Craven, Thomas Demand, Fang Lijun, Urs Fischer, Théodore Fivel, Sylvie Fleury, FOS, Cyprien Gaillard, Gunjan Gupta, Anthea Hamilton, Thilo Heinzmann, Terence Koh, Sergej Jensen, Rashid Johnson, Per Kirkeby, Adriana Lara, Franck Leibovici & Diemo Schwarz, Ursula Mayer, Takashi Murakami, Order of the Third Bird, Jagannath Panda, Mai-Thu Perret, Sigmar Polke, Laure Prouvost, R.H. Quaytman, Ugo Rondinone, Sterling Ruby, Tomàs Saraceno, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Dirk Skreber, Haim Steinbach, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Thukral and Tagra, Andro Wekua, Douglas White, Zeng Fanzhi.


26.09.2013

CRAK Festival, Saint-Merri, Paris

Festival Crak – 2nd edition
26–29 september 2013 @ Saint-Merri church (Paris)
http://babbelproductions.com/crakfestival2013.html

Contest of Pleasures – John Butcher (saxophone, GB), Axel Dörner (trompette, ALL) et Xavier Charles (clarinette, FR)

ONCEIM – L’Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et d’Improvisations Musicales (23 musiciens)

Splitter Orchester – Le grand orchestre Berlinois d’improvisation (17 musiciens)

Electronic Sextet (Rencontre #3) – Arnaud Rivierre (électronique, FR), Diemo Schwarz (ordinateur, ALL), Mario De Vega (électronique, MEX), Marta Zapparoli (dispositifs analogiques , bandes, field recordings, IT), Boris Baltschun (ALL) et Jean-Sébastien Mariage (guitare, FR)

Tempest – Franck Vigroux (live machine, FR) et Antoine Schmitt (vidéo, FR)

Duo Hayward/Olsen – Robin Hayward (tuba, GB) et Morten J. Olsen (percussions, NO)

Trio Sowari – Phil Durrant (ordinateur, UK), Bertrand Denzler (saxophone, FR), Burkhard Beins (percussion, objets, ALL)

John Kirby Sextet Revival – Louis Laurain (trompette, FR), Sébastien Beliah (contrebasse, FR), Benjamin Dousteyssier (saxophone, FR), Jean Dousteyssier (clarinette, FR), Elie Duris (batterie, FR) et Maxime Sanchez (piano, FR)

Rencontre #1 – Antonin Gerbal (batterie, FR), Werner Dafeldecker (contrebasse, AU) et Andrea Neuman (cadre de piano, ALL)

Rencontre #2 – Joris Rühl (clarinette, FR), Liz Allbee (trompette et objets, USA), Anthea Caddy (violoncelle, AUS) et Benjamin Duboc (contrebasse, FR)


17.07.2013

DIRTI for iPad — the World’s First Tapioca Controller

Dirty Tangible Interfaces (DIRTI) are a new concept in interaction design that forgoes the dogma of repeatability in favor of a richer and more complex experience, constantly evolving, irreversible & infinitely modifiable. The video resuming 4 days of experimentation with a tangible interface and iPad app specially designed for kids at the Maison des Petits of the cultural centre CENTQUATRE in Paris is now online.


12.07.2013

Videos of installation ACCLRTR in a disused particle accelerator, Orsay


Video documentation of the Journées Arts-Sciences at Printemps de la Culture 2012 of Orsay featuring the interactive sound and video installation ACCLRTR with Ianis Lallemand, situated in the former collider ring ACO Science at Orsay University. ACCLRTR appears from 19:11 in the first video documenting the installations, and interspersed in the second video documenting the setup. More videos of the event are on http://webtv.u-psud.fr/