Sunday, September 27, 2009

Soundtrackcity Amsterdam

Soundtrackcity Amsterdam

nodigt je uit om de straat op te gaan en de stad opnieuw te ontdekken via acht geluids-wandelingen gemaakt door kunstenaars. De wandelingen zijn in verschillende wijken van de stad en vertellen elk een ander verhaal over heden, verleden en toekomst van het gebied, gebaseerd op verhalen en ervaringen van bewoners. Laat je meevoeren door een unieke mix van stemmen, geluiden en muziek.

Hoe werkt het?

Met een geluidsspeler, koptelefoon en plattegrond wandel je een aangegeven route. Onderweg luister je naar een op de route toegesneden geluidsmix van stadsverhalen, muziek, de stem van een gids, archiefmateriaal en een speciaal gecomponeerde ‘soundscape’.

De wandelingen zijn gratis
en duren circa 60 minuten.

Wanneer kun je wandelen?
Je kunt wandelen wanneer het jou uitkomt. Tussen zonsopkomst en zonsondergang wordt aangeraden. De wandelingen zijn vanaf september 2009 zeker twee jaar beschikbaar.

Hoe kom je er aan?
Als je zelf een mp3-speler hebt kun je de wandelingen van tevoren via deze website downloaden.

Je kunt het jezelf nog gemakkelijker maken met een abonnement op onze podcasts.

Als je geen mp3-speler hebt kun je ook bij het startpunt in de buurt een voorgeladen audiospeler lenen. Je bent dan wel gebonden aan de openingstijden van het startpunt en moet een legitimatie plus 50 euro borg meenemen. Kijk bij de wandelingen hoe dit precies in zijn werk gaat.
Let op: Het aantal spelers is beperkt, dus het kan voorkomen dat ze allemaal al in gebruik zijn.

De geluidswandeling lopen met je eigen speler is verreweg de beste optie!

Friday, September 25, 2009

Der müde Tod (Destiny)








Friday 25 September 2009 - 19.30h

Der müde Tod (Destiny)
Dir. Fritz Lang - Germany - 1921 - 82 Min
New live soundtrack by: Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva

Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Herengracht 470
Entrance fee: 5 ¤

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In a small town a long, long time ago, Death
promised a young woman to give back to her the
life of her lover, if only she could save the
lives of three young men or even only one of
them. The young woman is then transposed to three
different worlds. Three times the young woman
fails in her attempts, and finally submits to
death herself in order to be reunited with her
lover.

Visual artist and musician Bruno Ferro Xavier da
Silva is one who is always busy searching for
new possibilities to give shape to thought,
inspiration, wonder and excitement. This has led
him to be involved with a myriad of projects
spread out over a multitude of artistic fields.

He is a member of the Rotterdam based art
collective ANTISTROT with solo exhibitions and
performances held in the Netherlands and abroad.
As a musician he is member of cutting-edge bands
like Stöma, Dr Schnitt & BxR, the Danish music
and dance group Wego and has played with
musicians like Jaap Blonk, Rene van Barneveld,
Bong Ra, Coolhaven, eNi-LesS & Tok Tek.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

MCN ELEKTRO-ACOUSTIC

* MCN September 17th : Music for Games en Experience
* MCN October 24th : Algoritmic Music
* MCN December 8th : This is how Sound Design works


MCN-Music for Games & Experience

Making music for games is more than writing music. One has to develop the proces where the gamer generates music as well. In other words: “ Applied composition for non-lineair systems”. In this afternoon you’ll learn how this is done.

Lecturer: Kees Went, componist / sound designer and teacher @ the HKU
Thursday 17 September 2009, 15.00 - 17.00 @ MCN


MCN- Algoritmic Music

Some componists do not compose notes or sound, but computerprogrammes which generates music ‘automaticly’. How to document this way of musicpratice and how to promote?

Lecturer: different composers and Hannah Bosma (MCN)
Saturday 24 October 2009, 14.00 - 17.00 @ MCN


MCN-This is how Sound Design works

How does your car sounds? And your computer? Sound design is almost
music, an mature industry and a hyper interesting. During this afternoon, experts will share their knowledge about this subject.

Lecturer: dr. Elif Ozcan Vieira (TU Delft) e.o.
Tuesday 8 December, 15.00 - 17.00 @ MCN

Edwin van der Heide wins Art+Technology Award 2009


The winner of the 2009 Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award is sound artist/composer Edwin van der Heide. An independent jury nominated him for the strength of his unique position within the new media and the visual arts. His innovative constructions incisively interconnect contemporary music, visual arts and architecture.

Van der Heide born (1970) studied music technology at the Utrecht School of the Arts (1988). One year later he switched to studying sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he graduated in 1992. Since then he has produced a closely knit oeuvre. Van der Heide makes installations centring on sound-time-space parameters, composing with sound and with spatial experiences.

Award presentation on 12 November 2009
The Art+Technology Award will be presented at the Bergkerk church in Deventer, the Netherlands, on 12 November 2009 (16:30 hrs). The presentation will be followed by the opening of an exhibition. Edwin van der Heide is developing a new work that is especially made for this location. This installation can be seen and above all experienced at the Bergkerk until 5 December 2009.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

THE NIGHT OF THE UNEXPECTED

upcoming weekend:


// Date: September 11 2009
// Time: 20.30
// Address: Weteringschans 6-9 Amsterdam
// Tickets: 15 EUR (excl. membership 3.50 p/m)

Pan Sonic, Talibam!, Knalpot, Wilbert Bulsink en Thomas Myrmel, Lunapark, Andre Avelas Octet, Yu Tao, Sensational en Spectre, Huba de Graaff, Amsterdams Bach Consort, Los Siquicos Literalenos, Jan-Bas Bollen, Robin Hayward and Martijn Tellinga, Steve Shaw and works of Luigi Nono, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and more.

Go to Paradiso 'The night of the Unexpected'

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

STRUCTURES NODE 2: BLIND CAPTURE

upcoming weekend:


// Date: September 11 & 12, 2009
// Time: daily 15-22:00
// Venue: General Public
// Address: Schoenhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin
// Tickets: 10 EUR /day & 15.- EUR both days
// Presale



The two-day symposium Blind Capture is a prologue to the CTM.10 festival Overlap - Sound and Other Media (29.1 - 6.2.2010). Three elected themes are central to what connects these events: the balance between visual art and contemporary experimental music, from images and sound to a look at the structure of the music scene in contemporary Berlin. Blind Capture presents as a process the exploration of happenings that are not immediately visible or graspable, and their capture in words. Participants from diverse disciplines present the current state of their research from different perspectives. The results will be presented together as short essays in the CTM.10 catalogue.

Participants:
David Stubbs (UK), Jesper N. Jorgensen (DK), Sandra Naumann (AT), Lillevan (DE), Geoff Stahl (CA/NZ), Brandon LaBelle (US), Boris Debackere (BE), Gudrun Gut (DE), Ronald Lippok (DE)

Next to the lectures and presentations, two installtions will be on display:
'25.Sec-Structures Preview' by Angelika Middendorf & Andreas Schimanski (DE)
'!' by Anke Eckardt (DE)

Read the full program with descriptions of the individual presentation and biographies of the participants on our website:
PROGRAM BLIND DATE

Structures is a two year scheme investigating the structural conditions and future possibilities for independent music-making and experimental audio-visual cultures today. Node 2: Blind Capture is the second in a sequence of three smaller events that connect the two main parts of the Structures-project, the CTM.09 respectively CTM.10 festivals.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

soundtrackcity

premiere week : 18 - 25 september

Make a soundscapetour through different areas in Amsterdam

soundtrackcity.nl