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a must read: Sonic Thinking: A Media Philosophical Approach Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath Sonic Thinking (short excerpt from the Introduction) I would like to start with a set of resonances. First of all, a resonance on the word “resonance”—on the one hand it means something like “echo,” or “reverberation,” on the other hand, the word “reason” is somehow hidden in “resonance.” The French verb r.sonner makes this resonance...
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fließend (b) performed at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna Ensemble Zipangu conducted by Fabio Sperandio fließend (b) • Zipangu [Download] Ensemble Zipangu Direttore: Fabio Sperandio Violini: Alessandro Di Marco, Giacomo Scarponi, Emanuele Benfenati, Anton Berovski, Elvi Berovski, Alessandro Bonetti, David Caramia, Silvia Mandolini, Elena Maury, Cosimo Paoli Viole: Corrado Carnevali, Loris Dal Bo, Emanuela Bascetta,...
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This is for Nikki This old Max Msp Jitter patch is still one of my favorite instruments. Both visuals and sound are massaging my soul and brain reminding me how beautiful is letting go of your ego while bathing in the beauty of pure sonic vibrations without needing to express anything at all. Radicalizing: listening is attention, not apprehension; to listen is...
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some beutiful spun spectra moving images Spun Spectra is a short film based on the photo series by artist Nicolas Teichrob (spunspectra.com) which showcases the natural optical phenomena of the rainbow spectra created by sunlight passing through spider webs. Of form and function unknown, certainly distinct, similarly unique yet consistently variable, the spectra of webs have likely hit everyone’s eyes from...
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scultura sonora (maple) il Guadagnini [Download] August 2-20, 2017 • 50 Canadian Things • Sunshine Coast Art Council – Sechelt, BC This piece is dedicated to the memory of French Canadian violinist Jacques Israelievitch and it is inspired by “Violin”, one of the 50 short stories written by Jane Urquhart in her book A Number of Things. Maple is a wonderful and brightly resonating...
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I’m very happy I’ll be working and playing with Doug Schmidt, my dear friend of our early 2000’s duo raw meat & butterflies. Doug has been away from Canada for many years now and it will be great to play together again after all this time. We will present a new set of pieces during Accordion Noir Festival 2017 in Vancouver • September 8, St. James Anglican Church...
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Circling Towards a Possible Present is a new media installation by Matthew Talbot-Kelly consisting of three interactive, game-engine driven and on-the-fly rendered figurative portraits. The work sits at the intersection of portraiture, film, theatre and video game traditions. It plays with and subverts the expectation of portraiture & interactive 3d games, while considering the inherent theatrical, filmic and painterly dimensions and expectations of these...
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I have been working on this new installation/project as part of Leaning Out of Windows and finally I finished all the maple resonators and finalized the audio material. It will be presented January 25- February 8, 2018 at the ECUAD new building. Leaning Out of Windows (LOoW) is a four-year SSHRCC funded interdisciplinary art and science project, involving four phases between 2016 to 2020. It involves co-designing, curating,...
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Glossary of Common Knowledge (GCK) curatorial statement Narrated by Zdenka Badovinac, Jesús Carrillo, Bojana Piškur, Ljubljana, January 2014 Our Glossary of Common Knowledge (GCK), unlike an encyclopedia, makes no attempt to unite all the world’s knowledge in a single totalizing system or to assemble a variety of viewpoints under the roof of tolerance and inclusion. What makes the glossary different from similar efforts is that it does...
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Talea Ensemble (US) Saturday, March 11, 2017 • 8PM Free pre-show chat at 7:15PM The Annex • 823 Seymour Street [Map] Program: Stefan Maier: territories III (2017)* Fausto Romitelli: Trash TV Trance (2002) Olga Neuwirth: spazio elastico (2005) Pierluigi Billone: Ebe und anders (2014) With: Oren Fader, electric guitar Jeffrey Means, conductor * World Premiere, commissioned by Vancouver New Music with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts. Last...
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One-Page Score Project with the Plastic Acid Orchestra One-Page Score Project with Plastic Acid Orchstra Conducted by Giorgio Magnanensi 28 January 2017; 8PM Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC) Program: Ian Goldman • The Meditative Cycle 0:00 George McCutcheon • Relative (for PAO) 4:45 Dubravko Pajalic • OPS1 10:50 Larry Popovitch • Wound 15:55 Matthew Talbot-Kelly • 3 [sounds in a paper bag (for prepared orchestra)] 21:55...
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EMUSE 2017 Aboriginal Electronic Music Festival Co-presented by NEC Native Education College, Warriors Against Violence Society, and Vancouver New Music March 2 – 4, 2017 Events take place at NEC Campus (237 E. 5th Avenue) and VCC Broadway Campus Atrium (1155 E. Broadway, entrance at Glen and E. 7th) Join us for three-days of FREE workshops, panel discussions and a concert! Featuring Jordan Abel,...
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Presented at CLUSTER Festival, performed by Plumes PLUMES Upcoming Shows Mar 10 2017 Montreal, QC Rocket Science Room Mar 11 2017 Toronto, ON The Music Gallery Mar 13 2017 Windsor, ON University of Windsor Mar 16 2017 Kitchener, ON Wilfrid Laurier University Mar 17 2017 Winnipeg, MB Cluster Festival Mar 21 2017 Vancouver, BC Music on Main ...
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happy lupercalia everyone “European music is based on the artificial sound of the note and the (tone) scale; it opposes the brutal and objective sonority of the world. As a result of an unbreakable convention European music is obliged from the beginning to express a subjectivity. It seems to fight the sonority of the outside world, like a sensitive being resisting the...
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from Buffy Remix Veda Hille, CBC Radio Orchestra, Alain Trudel Conductor little wheel [Download] Sometimes special songs seem to give a strong voice to the spirit of our time. This project and its making was also special in the way it manifested itself. Maybe it’s just about beauty, something we only acknowledge as an exception and not as an option. “We are helpless, we are part of,...
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I’m happy to perform TDU HRO again this month with the Hard Rubber Orchestra during the VSO New Music Festival. ….final shots https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/TDU-HRO-Jan-2017.mp4 and 2 sloooooow shots : ) https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/2-shots.mp4 ...
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One-Page Score Project with the Plastic Acid Orchestra FREE Workshop! Call for participants Registration Deadline: 15 January 2017 The workshop series is free, however space is extremely limited. Please email info@newmusic.org or call 604.633.0861 to register. Note: Preference will be given to those without previous composition experience, and who can attend all workshop and performance dates. Workshop dates 21 January 2017: 11AM–4PM 27 January 2017: 10AM–4PM Performance...
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six sound objects SCORE for the Plastic Acid Orchestra with the Lions Gate Youth Orchestra, and François Houle, clarinet & electronics video by Angela Stearns This piece is an homage to live sound making, the energy and power of imagination and the sheer beauty of sharing sound and sound-thinking together with a large group of young, passionate and committed musicians. The nature of this...
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Happy New Year! Buon Anno! A tutti gli amici, vicini e lontani. To all my friends, near and far away. For a fuller life, where artistic behaviours would fully restore what neither politics or religion will never achieve. Potentiality, lots of work, butterflies, work for love, work for poetry, the beauty of any language, voice, sound, person and imagination. Love to all! Giorgio ...
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Rough mix, recorded live at The Lido, Vancouver • November 16, 2016 Giorgio Magnanensi: upright piano / laptop | Kenton Loewen: drums | J.P. Carter: trumpet & electronics | Lee Hutzulak: DSI Tempest / recording / mix / artwork Click images below for bandcamp links Frequent Seizure After Later Space Heather Thank you Lee for the recordings and the...
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ONE-PAGE SCORE PROJECT call for participants Here is last year’s one-page score performance One-Page Scores coming to life with @plasticacid and #giorgiomagnanensi #vancouvernewmusic – check them out this Sat. Jan. 23 at 8pm at Vancouver Community College – Glen and 7th Ave. A video posted by Vancouver New Music (@vannewmusic) on Jan 22, 2016 at 3:04pm PST ...
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by Adam Curtis Published 2015 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics war on terror, False Flag, Islam, Adam Curtis, ISIS, Neocons, Israel, 911, patriot act, terror, hoax, 911, cold war, islam, enemies, false flag, inside job, patriot act, ndaa, israel The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Details the rise of the American NEOCONS (Neo-Conservative/Israeli movement and Radical Islam, with comparisons on their origins and strong similarities. Curtis argues that the threat of radical Islamism as...
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did you reset your clock? Daylight saving times… getting darker… …and scary. Watching Pence speaking right now, I can’t wait to hear Trump, …gotta go, here he is coming…. …now I can go back to read, while Santa Klaus dresses up for the occasion. […] becoming conscious of existing structures of domination always has an emancipatory effect. Becoming conscious can also transform modes...
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Dec 2-3, 2016 at The Remington 108 E Hastings St We are celebrating four years of Big Joy this December with another two days of talented artists from Vancouver and abroad! Our hope this year is to continue to present a broad spectrum of what Vancouver’s weirdo music scene has to offer, casting a wide net across many genres and styles....
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Time ago my cousin Simonetta Ferrante asked me for some music to accompany an exhibition of her work. I decided to generate some sounds sonifying a selection of her images to complement her beautiful work. Here is a nice Musicollage by Alice Airoldi putting it all together in this video. Thank you Alice! ...
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VNM Festival October 13-15, 2016 MECHANICAL MUSIC no logos without noise This year’s VNM Festival is about bringing the everyday and the aesthetic back together: to erase the barrier separating musical and non-musical sounds. Mechanical Music is not just about sounds with specific sets of causal relationships – all based on well-understood Newtonian mechanics of action and reaction, motion, energy, friction and...
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vancouver electronic ensemble • mechanical music Saturday, October 8, 2016 • 8PM Vancouver Community College Atrium 1155 East Broadway, entrance at E 7th Avenue and Glen Drive • FREE Members of VEE showcase personal projects inspired by this year’s VNM festival theme, Mechanical Music • October 13 – 15, 2016 ...
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Volière Électrique New Work by Terri Hron and Hildegard Westerkamp Friday, September 30, 2016; 8PM Vancouver Community College Atrium (1155 E Broadway, entrance at E 7th Ave and Glen Drive) FREE Recorder virtuoso Terri Hron returns to Vancouver to premiere a new work created in collaboration with Vancouver-based composer Hildegard Westerkamp, along with works by Hron and Robert Normandeau, and Hron and Monty Adkins....
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Sculpting some chaotic sound waves with the Rungler (max msp patch version not the real one unfortunately…) The Rungler is a chaotic little synth module created by Rob Hordijk, a great sound sculptor. Here is Rob with the Rungler, and here some more information: Rob Hordijk (b. 1958) was trained as a sculptor and jewelry maker in the 1970s. In the late 1970s and early...
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Plastic Acid Orchestra with Veda Hille and Friends Presented by Plastic Acid Orchestra and Vancouver New Music The Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton Street at Dunsmuir Saturday, September 10, 2016 • 8:00 pm Join Veda Hille in this rare concert as she performs with a full symphony orchestra a visionary programme of reimagined Buffy Sainte Marie songs and original pieces inspired by Emily Carr. Conduction...
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DESTROY VANCOUVER XVIII Co-presented with Vancouver New Music THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8 | DOORS 〓 8.30PM-2AM CONCERT 〓 9PM ADMISSION: $15 advance $20 door BUY TICKETS (Advance tickets will be available till Wednesday Sep 7, 11:59pm) fb event page Featuring: ■ Adriana Lopez ■ Christina Kubisch ■ Friends+War ■ Katharina Ernst ■ hazy ■ minimal violence Selectors’ Record Dj Visuals by Emily Thacker DV is an experimental...
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As I’ve been working with oscilloscopes for some time and having fun with them, I’ve created the new category Oscilloscope fun to collect the various experiments and fun oscilloscope videos I made so far. I’ve been using real oscilloscopes and software based ones. The old CRT Tektronix oscilloscopes are always my favorite, but some great results can also be obtained using other resources in Max Msp Jitter,...
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for shamisen and Japanese percussion ensemble tamas III – score tamas III [Download] Pro Musica Nipponia 40th Anniversary Composer Competition, 2ndPrize– Tokyo, Japan 2005 Pro Musica Nipponia 40th Program tamas III was premiered by Pro Musica Nipponia on January 25, 2005 in occasion of their 40th anniversary celebration Shamisen, Shika Kikai This piece is the result of a meeting in which I...
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Roberts Creek, July 22-23 SOUNDGARDEN 2 info sonification of #9761: 9761 loop [Download] here some images from last year’s soundgarden and some comments “Quite simply, the soundgarden was magical. Giorgio and Nic animated a familiar moon-kissed forest stream nook into a hallucinatory theatre of perception. Carefully choreographed, immersive, interactive, contemplative, and generous, the work playfully encouraged us to unexpected...
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VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC 2016-17 CONCERT SERIES AND FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES SUBSCRIPTIONS AND FESTIVAL PASSES NOW AVAILABLE FESTIVAL VNM 2016 Festival • Mechanical Music 13 – 15 October 2016; 8PM each night Free pre-show chat at 7:15PM each night The Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor) The 2016 Festival will present a varied selection of musicians and sound artists who have been focusing their efforts on...
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a performance with a set of replica of Luigi Russolo‘s Intonarumori in occasion of MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture February 20 – June 12, 2016 at the Vancouver Art Gallery And HERE you can find more link about Russolo and all. Performers/Intonarumoristi ; ) Kedrick James, Jules Lavern, Giorgio Magnanensi, Mariah Mennie, George Rahi Thank you to Martin Gottfrit who curated the Intonarumori Series at...
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Michael Red – 9 of Cats EP (lowi 010) VIDEOS the tenth release from low indigo. suiting that (ahem) michael red would bring the label he initiated into the double digits. four distinctly different pieces, threaded together by common metaphors and mindsets and a slower quiet mood. muted rhythms, immersive bass, subtle and not-so-subtle dub references, hints of melody, large...
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Come Saturday April 2, to the Roberts Creek Hall A stellar ensemble of musicians performing 15 new one-page graphic scores Doors open at 7:30PM, show starts at 8:00PM Roberts Creek Community Hall Download and Fold your brochure Here are some images of yesterday’s workshop drafting graphic scores Dean Schutz with workshop participants Maurice Spira with workshop participants Giorgio Magnanensi with workshop...
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PAINTING MUSIC • ONE-PAGE SCORE a new installment of one-page score on the Sunshine Coast Workshop Leaders François Houle, Clarinet • Eyvind Kang, Viola • Giorgio Magnanensi, Conduction Lisa Cay Miller, Keys • Dean Schutz, Visual Artist • Maurice Spira, Visual Artist A stellar ensemble of 12 local, Vancouver and International musicians ONE-PAGE SCORE ENSEMBLE Doug Gorkoff, Cello François Houle, Clarinet & Electronics Eyvind...
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I like this instagram clip by Anita. Yes, …still doing the “same thing!” (with François Houle, the PAO and the Lions Gate Youth Orchestra). …though never the same ; ) Saturady Jan. 30 • Centennial Theatre, great sonic dreams and reveries six sounds objects is not a piece of music, is about the energy and sheer beauty of a large group of people playing with...
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Here is the first finished Spun Spectra light/audio box! Spun Spectra audio-visual show is physically coming together finally! A million hurdles and cruxes and mistakes and struggles have happened along the way to get here, but that’s what these ‘new’ projects are about, figuring things out from square one. Learning. This is the first of what will be 20+ cedar framed light-sound boxes...
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PAO Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 8:00 pm With Guests Francois Houle, Jack Garton, Giorgio Magnanensi, Jason Nett and the Lions Gate Youth Orchestra. Join Plastic Acid Orchestra for a spectacular full symphony concert that breaks through genres from folk, rock, experimental and metal. Featuring special guests Francois Houle, Jack Garton, Giorgio Magnanensi and Jason Nett. The show features original compositions from Plastic Acid,...
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MANIFESTO Working with a paradox defining the elusive visualizing the invisible communicating the incommunicable not accepting the limitations society has accepted seeing in new ways living for a fraction of a second and penetrating light years using intellect and instinct to achieve intuition achieving total self-consciousness and self-awareness being creatively obsessive questioning, reasoning, analyzing, dissecting and re-examining understanding the finitude of human existence...
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Here are the scores we red today withj the great PAO and a fantastic group of people: 10 ONE-PAGE SCORES listen to them on the YouTube link at the bottom A beautiful dialogue among many imaginations One-Page Scores coming to life with @plasticacid and #giorgiomagnanensi #vancouvernewmusic – check them out this Sat. Jan. 23 at 8pm at Vancouver Community College – Glen and 7th Ave. A video...
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a project with Kedrick James selected for the virtual gallery exhibit at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay 2015-2016 Featured Artist Researchers The Featured Artist Researchers are selected by the jurors from open submissions. These researchers represent innovative arts integrated research from around the world. Kedrick James & Giorgio Magnanensi Series Title: Incessant Spring Medium: Transformed video data and stills University of British Columbia, Vancouver New Music, Laboratio...