BRANDON LABELLE

Proposal to the Mayor II (Culture and Communication)
April 17 to June 6, 2009
Ybakatu Gallery
Rua Itupava 414
Curitiba, Brazil
http://www.ybakatu.com.br/

Extending past work exhibited at Ybakatu - Proposal to the Mayor I was presented in 2003 - LaBelle presents two new projects that explore aspects of sound, architecture and the urban life of Curitiba. Working with a group of participants, the artist developed a work based on interpreting sound through physical models: sending recordings of his apartment in Berlin to architects, designers, and artists in Curitiba, he requested the participants to listen to the sounds and make a physical model of his apartment in response. The models become a means for bringing the act of listening forward into the spatial imagination. The models are further presented as proposals for future buildings in Curitiba. As a second work, the artist presents a portable object for the presentation of an exhibition of frequency: experimental audio works by different artists and composers from 1950 to the present. Basing this work on the artist Bruno Lechowski, a Polish artist who in the 1920s presented his paintings in a portable tent structure in Curitiba, the work acts as a mobile museum able to locate audio within public space. The mobile museum is proposed as a permanent addition to the network of museums in the city of Curitiba.

http://www.errantbodies.org

Participants:
Coletivo Interluxartelivre
Guilherme Caldas
Joana Corona and C.L.Salvaro
Liz Sandoval
Malu e João de Lara
Margit Leisner
Mário Sampaio
Paulo Chiesa e alunos do curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da UFPR
Roberto Arad and Rafael Lino

I8U

i8u will be in New York May 4th -12th 2009
taking part in an artist residency with CHiKA
at ETC, Experimental Television Center.

This residency will enable them to put the finishing touches
on their new work entitled "Traverse"

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Traverse, 2009

In today’s connected world we have many new methods of collaborating, and
many technical and artistic problems that arise in the process.

These two artists bring this chasm into focus and explore the
possibilities given by these constraints.

This project intersects i8u's minimal yet powerful sound sculptures and
CHiKA's geometric minimalist patterns to create a work that expresses the
examination and limitations of itself.

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NOW OUT on ROOM40: 10 cm


www.i8u.com

"(H)ear XL"

An exhibition of sound art at KUS, Heerlen NL: "(H)ear XL"
Also with Steve Roden, Stephen Vitiello, William Engelen, Gill Arno, Pierre Berteth, Chacha, Slavek Kwi, Erwin Stache, Ronald van der Meijs, Pierre Bastien, Funckarma, Nowy, Incite/ and David Toop!
Curated by Mike Kramer.
http://www.kunstencentrumsigne.nl/expositie.aspx?id=102

SPEAKING IN CODE

2009 INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL OF BOSTON
ADDS WORLD PREMIERE OF 'SPEAKING IN CODE' to Line Up

Boston, MA – The 2009 Boston Independent Film Festival has announced that Amy Grill’s feature documentary film, SPEAKING IN CODE, will have its world premiere at the festival. In 2005 Amy Grill, currently on faculty at Emerson College, began filming a verité account of characters within electronic music. The result is an intimate, inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking look into a world where people get lost in music.

After interviewing many characters, Grill trained her camera on eight individuals: an innovative inventor, two rambunctious bad-boy producers, two DJs and their different label families in Germany, a jet-setting journalist, her then-husband, a tireless Boston-based promoter, and, ultimately, herself. In three years via SPEAKING IN CODE, each go through life events which transcend music altogether and make the film a compelling tale of humanity.

Shot on location by Grill with a young and gifted Director of Photography, Scott Sans, SPEAKING IN CODE was filmed in 11 cities in 5 countries. Whether an ammunition plant-turned-nightclub in the country, a sleek record store with sleeker offices or a suburban childhood home, the screen comes alive with brilliant images of lives consumed in sound.

Amy Grill is currently a Producer-in-Residence at Boston’s Emerson College. She recently launched the College Outreach program at Current TV in 2007. Grill built the student television network at Emerson and served as the faculty advisor to several projects while at Emerson including the Kevin Bright Workshop. She has worked in various capacities in network and cable television in New York and public television in Boston. After producing an experimental short and a photography exhibit, she took to making SPEAKING IN CODE.

SPEAKING IN CODE features journalist PHILIP SHERBURNE, the production and DJ team WIGHNOMY BROTHERS, BPitch Control recording artists and (Radiohead favorite) MODESELEKTOR, BPitch Control owner ELLEN ALLIEN, DJ and producer TOBIAS THOMAS, the KOMPAKT label family, software developer/artist MONOLAKE plus Boston promoter and current A&E Editor of Boston’s Weekly Dig, DAVID DAY.

Director Amy Grill is available for interviews prior to and during IFFBoston.

For more on SPEAKING IN CODE, please visit our website at http://www.speakingincode.com
or the long-running blog http://www.squar3.com

Official trailer:
http://blip.tv/file/1071134/

QWARTZ ELECTRONIC MUSIC AWARDS

http://www.qwartz.org/

What is the new music all about?

Its origins , its development, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

The composers who gave it life and those who have continued to shape it and bring it to our turntables in all its “classical” and “light” versions.

Its features and specifics today, with the advent and use of the new technologies. Its differenct genres, styles and currents ...

In the eyes and ears of many people, contemporary electronic and digital music still remains to be discovered. Qwartz invites you to do just that, with the help of independent artists and labels the world over.

http://www.qwartz.org/index.php?/Focus/Bjork-Qwartz-d-Honneur/menu-id-94.html

http://www.qwartz.org/index.php?/Focus/FM3-la-longue-marche-de-la-Buddha-Machine/menu-id-94.html

YOU CAN LISTEN TO ALL THE ALBUMS AND TRACKS IN FULL LENGTH IN A WEB PLAYER. , SELECT THE ALBUM OR THE TRACK YOU WOULD LIKE TO HEAR.

MOTEL MOZAIQUE

http://www.motelmozaique.nl/2009/

WORLD MINIMAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

http://www.muziekgebouw.nl

DICK VERDULT

Nathalie, heel lief van je, en elke keer zie ik je glimlach als je me schrijft.
ik lig nu in La Boca, BsAs, in bed te tiepen (airport--verbindingen zijn hier ook) en iets verderop ligt de vriend van een zoon die een documentair aan het draaien is over me...
ik treed vandasag op voor zo'n (klote) balkanfeest waar tweeduizend goedgebitte jeugdigen komen.

Hoe minder tanden op de poster hoe beter het gebit van het publiek...dat ......is..........balkanmuziek !

Heb afgelopen zondag gefilm in Bogota (kijk naar streaming, met een crew van 15)
http://reyesmagossss.blogspot.com/

ben de koemnde maanden afwezig, dwz in arg / chuile en colombia.

maaar, ik stuur je dit keer snel wat spul...
succes, enzovoorts, vr groeten, dick

URBAN JEALOUSY BELGRADE

International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, curated and organized by Amirali Ghasemi and Serhat Koksal,chose Istanbul as its first station .The idea of this independent, low-budget exhibition started out both as a critique of the situation in Tehran, and of the international "biennialization" and '' gentrification '' process . Featured works by artists from different countries from all around the world, selected from an open submission call, which has had an overwhelming response.Berlin is it's 2nd station.

http://www.biennialtehran.com/belgrade.html
http://www.myspace.com/biennialtehran

SOUNDMUSEUM @ ROKOLECTIV BUCHAREST MNAC

http://www.rokolectiv.ro

many more

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AKOUSMAFLORE by SCENOCOSME (FR)
Sensitive and interactive musical plants installation
10 & 11 April / The Ark
Akousmaflore is a small garden composed of living musical plants or flowers, which react to human gestures and light contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact or heat by a specific sound. The plant language occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator.The plants sing when the audience lightly stroke or pass in the immediate vicinity to them. A "floral" concert is, thus, created. The installation will be running in the basement of The Ark, on both 10t and 11th of April.
http://www.scenocosme.com/akousmaflore_en.htm

http://www.rokolectiv.ro

STRP ART & TECHNOLOGY

http://www.strp.nl/
2-13 april 2009