Monday, 1 February 2010, 18:57
Sound waves broadcast in space and captured by powerful antennas. A steamy repetition creating an environment open to different contributions, pervaded by the energies of the artists themselves, who were invited to focus their attention on those deceitful mechanisms that are always in play at the interchange between infosphere and psychosphere. Different types of data, sounds and magnetism: all these elements poetically meet in multimedia, which is here the synesthetic melting pot of experimental sound compositions. This collective, which promotes the Radio Tower Xchange project, by connecting online performances and audio art events, wants to pay homage and at the same time criticize the “broadcasting philosophies”, embodied in the “symbolism” of radio towers themselves. Technologies for sharing that are evolving towards direct transmission, not “for the audience” but “from the audience” which, thanks to WiFi networks and the multiplication of “emission points” and the simultaneous demand for those inputs, pave the way to the emergence of new systemic chains. Neural Review.
The idea behind this event is both paying homage and a critique of the broadcasting philosophies and histories the radio towers represent, and an investigation into the evolving practice of unregulated online broadcasting. [Adam Hyde]
In 2007 Xchange network for alternative audio content providers and Net broadcasters celebrated its 10th anniversary. RTX event was co-organised by RIXC (Riga, Latvia) in collaboration with partners: Okno (Brussels/BE), Tesla (Berlin/DE), Ellipse (Tours/FR), Projekt Atol (Ljubljana/SI), and Performing Pictures / Interactive Institute (Stockholm/SE) in the framework of the project “Waves – electromagnetic waves as material and medium for arts” (2006-2007). Live audio and sound art contributions; Martin John Callannan. Sonification of You. Horia Cosmin Samoïla / Spectral Investigations Collective. VLF in Paris Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag. Campa-Sacrow Nils Edvardsson. Power Lines in Sweden Clausthome. Solar Radio Station Superfactory. Ringsendungen live stream from Bratislava (elpueblodechina, Isjtar, Annemie Maes and code31) live stream from Brussels (Society of Algorithm) live stream from Orleans (GSA Psy Ops Soundsystem) stream from Ljubljana (DJ Woo and Fennesz) Support: Latvian State Cultural Capital Foundation, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Culture 2000
Friday, 5 September 2008, 16:06
Sonification of You will be installed at Netaudio London 2008.
Netaudio’08 will take place from 22nd to 25th October 2008 at Shunt Lounge, London SE1. It will celebrate the creative output of networked musicians and online communities with talks, workshops, showcases and performances.
Netaudio’08 will play host to a broad range of live musical acts all the way from well established musicians through to undiscovered new talent – the only criteria is that they sound good and that they engage via the medium of the Internet. Musically Netaudio’08 will provide a programme spanning genres and cultural boundaries and embracing the widest possible selection of sounds humming through the Internet.
Within the conference side of the festival, Netaudio’08 will explore the creative practice and merit of digital networking tools. Workshops will share knowledge about music production and digital distribution whilst presentations will take a lead in the discussion of altered user behavior in the networked society – both aiming to engage the thought provoking process of music production, distribution and consumption in an age of networked communication.
Friday, 7 December 2007, 20:16
…attended the opening.
Friday, 7 December 2007, 14:13
Did a couple of interviews for Slovenian TV etc, not yet seen any of the tapes; hope my Slovenian was up to scratch.
Sunday, 2 December 2007, 21:49
Sonification of You (Sonifikacija tebe / Sonificazione di te) will be at 8th Pixxelpoint Festival
, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, in December 2007. I shall also be giving an artist’s talk. [PDF: Festival Program, includes translation of Sonification of You into both Slovenian and Italian]
I’ve been invited to stay in Slovenia 5-15 December 2007.
Pixxelpoint is one of the most successful and renowned festivals of new media art in Slovenia and also abroad. Its purpose is firstly, to bring the information technology and new media art closer to the general public, and secondly, to raise awareness about a different potential to use computer among the young. In previous editions the festival had a big media response and over 3000 visitors visited it every year, so this is a challenge for the organizers to further expand it and trespass the boundaries of the gallery space which has become too small for all the projects which are to be carried out. The exhibition of new media art projects, as the central event of the festival will be mounted at City Gallery Nova Gorica but will include also other locations (Mostovna, Kulturni dom Gorica (Italy) and DAMS (Italy)), besides we will also include a symposium on the given topic, as well as workshops run by guest-lecturers. Accompanying activities will include numerous concerts by well-known music performers.
Curated by Narvika Bovcon and Aleš Vaupotič, organized by the city of Nova Gorica.
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 0:15
I shall be attending a one day international symposium in honour of Sir Andrew Huxley (OM FRS Nobel Laureate) on the occasion of his 90th Birthday. [interesting family tree]
Monday, 29 October 2007, 9:12
Today I shall be speaking on noise in relation to my research, as a guest lecturer at University College for the Creative Arts at Maidstone to Experimental Artists Film Video and Photography research group.
Saturday, 21 July 2007, 21:17
Helen Thorington writes about Sonification of You on Networked Music Review
Monday, 7 May 2007, 21:49
Adam Hyde writes: Radio Tower Xchange (RTX) is a networked performance event, a DVD, and collaborative installation. At the same time, the RTX is also a closing activity of the “WAVES“ project, and it will be coordinated by the RIXC and co-organisers, and sound artists from all over the Europe and the globe.
RTX is intended as an global networked net.radio event using experimental networked performances from Xchange (global net.audio network) artists located at Radio Towers around the world. The aim is to have each Xchange representative streaming from a Radio Tower in their city.
As well as being architecturally significant, Radio Towers have played a remarkable role in history and a valuable role in the evolution of radio science since the beginning of last century.
However with the recent developments in wireless internet technologies these towers that were sites exclusively used for government and commerical broadcasts, are now largely symbols of frequency commodification. The stately towers and masts now are encircled by a multitude of self-organising public wifi networks. Thousands of wireless routers form chaotic meshs of public radio space around these huge broadcast icons similar to how rambling city markets surround the towering commerical buildings in many cities of the world. In these places public broadcasting takes on a new meaning, it is the public that broadcasts, nota broadcast provided FOR the public. Regulated broadcasts are monolithic, like the towers built to support them which require huge amounts of resources to sustain and generations to change. Unregulated space, the new public broadcast space, is infectous, it finds new ways to communicate new things, and broadcasting is becoming a behaviour which is daily and inevitable. Transmitting, is becoming part of the fabric of urban existence, it is perhaps now a more common practice to many than receiving…
In these unregulated spaces Xchange has been provoking cultural, artistic and theoretical practice and discourse since the advent of streaming media in the mid 90’s. Xchange reflected the new approach to collaborative, autonomous ad-hoc broadcasting. Network broadcasts were common place for the first years of Xchange, with each node in the network contributing to a online cacophony where no single node could be distinguished in the mix from another. Ownership was impossible to maintain and hence forgotten. Participation became the goal. The sharing of transmissions was more exciting than the simultaneous reception of the same transmission. The doors to the broadcast towers were not forced open by these pioneers but ignored, and the landmark symbols of one-to-many broadcasting was replaced by rambling a network of many-to-many net.casters.
RTX is both a homage and a criticque of the broadcasting philosophies and histories these towers represent, and an investigation into the evolving practice of unregulated online broadcasting.
The Eiffel Tower, in Paris France, home of the Xchange group TNC, has been used for radio transmission for over 100 years. For the first 50 years of last century long wave antennas ran from the top of the tower to the Champ de Mars. In 1909 the tower was to be demolished but was saved because of its role as a radio antenna. The Eiffel tower is also the first place that cosmic rays were detected in 1910 by Father Theodor Wulf. In 1920 radio pioneer Lee De Forest started broadcasting music using the tower as an antenna from Paris to America to demonstrate his belief that radio was the new media for entertainment in the 20th century. During WW2 the French cut the elevator cables to the tower so that Hitler would have to walk the nearly 2000 steps to the summit.
Berlin, home of well known Xchange practitioners Bootlab, and convex.tv, is also the home of many remarkable transmission towers including the European Unions highest structure – the Fernsehturm in Alexsanderplatz. The tower was built in the 60s by the reigning Socialist powers. Berlin also houses the Funkturm Berlin tower, which (in 1935) was the site where the first ever regular television broadcasts began.
Rigas “radio un televizijas tornis” (Radio and Television Tower) is the second highest radio tower on Europe, and Riga is of course the home of the Xchange founders RIXC. Perhaps more famously The RT32 parabolic antenna is located close to Riga and is where the Acoustic Space Lab experiments of 2000 occurred.
Budapest, where early Xchange net.radio contributers Pararadio are still located, is also where you will find the Radio tower of Lakihegy, which was the worlds tallest structure when it was built in 1933. At 314 metres it is probably the worlds largest inactive monument to radio.
Fakeshop (New York) contributed to the Xchange network from the beginning and was one of the few that also experimented with net.video. New York has many famous radio towers including of course the Empire State building, and Wardenclyffe on Long Island where Tesla wanted to build his “Radio City”.
Centerpoint Tower is Sydney’s tallest structure, and it is here we envision the House of Laudanum would contribute. The tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere is the Sky Tower, which is used to house many major radio and television transmitters for New Zealand (where radioqualia originate).
These towers are examples of some of the places Xchange participants will site themselves to participate in the RTX performance. Although the participants will use spaces like the Sky Tower, Wardenclyffe, and the radio tower of Lakihegy as a physical platforms for their performances, the carrier medium for their broadcasts will be the many pervasive public wireless networks than radiate through and around these towers.
Monday, 7 May 2007, 21:21
Sonification of You live at TakeAway Festival 2007, at London’s Science Museum.
Friday, 27 April 2007, 23:51
Today, my work Sonification of You was active and broadcasting live from Europe’s second tallest man-made structure – The Riga TV and Radio Tower – as part of the Radio Tower Xchange, a live event from some of Europe’s radio towers.
more…
English text including archived audio
Latvian text including archived audio
event archive on my website
Friday, 27 April 2007, 19:52
mobilo sakaru frekvenču sonificēšana Rīgas TV tornī…Mūsu tehniskās ierīces pasīvi skenē dažādas radio spektra frekvences, kuras izmanto mobilie telefoni, WIFI bezvadu tīkli un citas mobilās ierīces, kuras tiek pielietotas kādā noteiktā telpā. “Sonification of You” mērķis ir padarīt šos datus redzamus cilvēkiem, kuri šīs ierīces aktīvi pielieto. Lai sonificētu Rīgas mobilo radiofrekvenču sakarus, mākslinieks (kas ir RIXC laboratorijas rezidents februāris-aprīlis 2007) veiks mobilo komunikāciju frekvenču skenēšanu no Rīgas TV torņa.
Thursday, 26 April 2007, 16:25
Center for Research and Independent Information on Radiation ElectroMagnétiques writes:
Sonification of You, de Martin John Callanan (UK) a pour objectif lui de “rendre visible et audible les flots continus de données transmises par les objets communicants” : téléphone mobile, bluetooth, wifi… Des flux “à la fois invisible et souvent inconnus pour la plupart des gens”.
Saturday, 7 April 2007, 21:54
Sonification of You ascended to Rhizome ArtBase
Sunday, 7 January 2007, 21:52
Sonification of You at Sound:Space 2007
Sound:Space – A day of artist talks, demonstrations and performances exploring contemporary artistic use of sound and environment. This event provides an opportunity to absorb a wealth of the latest developments in audio research and the field of Sound Art and experience a series of fascinating sonic exhibitions.
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 22:05
Sonification of You ran live for an hour as part of NOMUSIC Festival X (live transmission / 24 hour performance):
-< 48 Participants >-
-< 24h Continuous Streaming Audio Festival >-
-< Realtime Simultaneous Dual Live >-
-< Audio Live Performing only via Internet >-
-< Creative Commons Audio License - No Archivz >-
-< Stream Live Audio - Double/Split Channel >-[GMT+0 - Greenwich Time] * lasting 24 hours forming a terrestrial revolution completes online without interruption between 48 participants.
START : the 13th, December, 2006 (00h00 / 00:00am) [GMT+0 - Greenwich Time]
END : the 13th, December, 2006 (23h59 / 11:59pm) [GMT+0 - Greenwich Time]PRESENTATION :
(((NOMUSIC))) started on June 2001, according to the principle that a diffusion site on Internet should correspond to the representation of the singular performances of a new generation of artists, musicians, performers and other actors of the electronic scene. The creation of this open diffusion site proved to be necessary because of today’s difficulty to perform disembodied concerts of electronic music on stage, in a classical frontal (actor/audience) representation space.
Nowadays, these emerging new multimedia performances allow everybody to approach music in a more singular way, with a different listening practice and on a more sharing scene.Every year since 2001, (((NOMUSIC))) offers one or more festivals which programming is geographically variable and which function is to relay in a coordinated way a 24 hours earth revolution of no-musicians @ home. This virtual earth revolution materializes a world wide sound cover of 24 time zones according to the universal time [GMT 0]. This gives to participants who are scattered all over the world the opportunity to take part in the festival. The participation is free of charge and the recruitment is made exclusively on Internet through diffusion lists. The selection is not made according to practices and genres criterion but rather according to the approaches and artistic positions which should echo the logic of the festival.
(((NOMUSIC))) platform offers two types of live. In its classical form, the participant plays alone at home for one hour. He can also play in dual. Dual is a live in which two geographical sites are linked via Internet and mixed together in stereo (participant 1 on the left channel and participant 2 on the right one).
(((NOMUSIC))) wishes to generate improbable duals and gatherings between two participants during one hour time in a web audio performance. We make no storage because we think that Internet is a huge database which conveys already a great amount of dead informations and we don’t want to pollute it further. We are thus in favour of instant access to a selective event. The mechanism of the programming is not automated; it is relayed manually for 24 hours without any interruption by laboiteblanche and Carl.Y., two real human routers who are at the service of continuous audio stream and who endure technical difficulties and give rapid formation on the technologies of streaming to all the participants.
(((NOMUSIC))) stands between musical negation and anti-bruitism, in a non-silent interstice of audio manifestation. It allows the composer-performer to be his own auditor, in a place where nothing should be heard but just felt as a new entity to observe.
FOUNDERS :
From 1999 on, laboiteblanche and Carl.Y, have both experimented streaming through series of interconnected web concerts and programming via the site NOWEB thus creating a form of festival which dimension is tailor-made for the web.
The support of the late CICV Pierre Schaeffer ’s residence at Hérimoncourt [Fr] gave more opportunity for further development of the interface system; it allowed also an access to a bandwidth of great capacity, which is essential to bear the year after year rising load of the connections. Technically speaking, (((NOMUSIC))) is now autonomous and provides its own lodging on Internet since the creation of the NOHOST platform.
laboiteblanche & Carl.Y play regularly together in concerts or on the net, from Berlin to Fournos via Paris or other cities. At the same time, each of them develops different projects related to the new technologies:
Radio WNE
[Self Radio]
Radio WNE concentrate his programs on diffusion of new emergent musics and musicians, performers and the broadcasting of stranges audio-contents, events retransmissions and acoustics phenomena, on a collaborative open-plateform online
Audiotrace
[Installation / Performance / Website]
Random listening system of the radio frequencies of police, airports, trains, emergency services…
StreamYourself
[Workshop]
Workshop on the techniques of audio and video streaming in Art schools
DM-NOMUSIC
[Audio 3D Map / Performance]
Audio 3D environnement mixed on webSTATS :
5 years and 10 festivals
226 participants during 212 hours
More than 8000 listeners from 25 countries over 4 continents
Review at Ecrans:
24 heures de « Nomusic » non stop
par Marie Lechner
tag : musiqueLa dixième édition du Nomusic festival, marathon du streaming orchestré depuis cinq ans par Carl Y. et La boîte blanche, débute ce soir à minuit pour 24 heures de musique non stop (le 13 décembre de 0h à 23h59) around the globe.
Pour cette nouvelle session, diffusée exclusivement sur le net, ils seront 48 musiciens dispersés aux quatre coins de la planète (Suède, Italie, Russie, Allemagne, France, Japon, Royaume-Uni, Autriche, Québec, Belgique, ou encore Pérou, Hongrie, Pologne…) à se relayer. Dans les premières éditions, les solos se succédaient, chaque musicien jouant tout seul depuis sa chambre pendant une heure, désormais c’est le duo qui prime. Les duettistes, tirés au sort, émettent l’un sur le canal de gauche, l’autre sur le canal de droite, recréant une stéréo artificielle. Ils jouent chez eux à distance, et « Nomusic » les réunit sur le réseau, suscitant d’improbables rencontres audio par exemple entre Kaffe Matthews (Londres) et Erik Minkkinen (Paris), entre les noiseurs alsaco-roumains Sun Plexus (Cluj) et le suédois Jon Eriksen (Malmö), entre Carl Stone (Tokyo), pionnier de la musique live sur ordi, et Neil Kaczor (Londres) ou encore Cat Hope (Singapour) et Davidly (Berlin).
Nomusic, qui dit se situer entre « la négation musicale et l’anti-bruitisme », propose une instantané du réseau en matière d’expérimentation sonore, offrant une plate forme de diffusion et de création adaptée à une génération d’artistes, musiciens, performeurs aux pratiques singulières.
Nomusic privilégie l’instantanéité du live et refuse l’archivage. « Nous n’archivons pas parce que nous pensons qu’Internet stocke déjà une quantité énorme d’informations mortes, nous ne voulons pas le polluer davantage. » C’est donc ce soir ou jamais…
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 22:11
Sonification of You live at Trampoline Festival, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham, November 2006
Trampoline is dedicated to the promotion of new technology art and artists and aims to present cutting edge art in an informal atmosphere; encouraging new artists to exhibit work to a real audience, whilst providing a platform for established artists working in new directions.
Trampoline began life in 1997 as Nottingham’s first ever platform event for new media art. In 2001, founders Miles Chalcraft and Anette Schäfer moved to Berlin and expanded Trampoline to Germany. Co-founder Gareth Howell continued Trampoline Nottingham throughout 2001 and 2002. Since then Trampoline has been left in the capable hands of a series of guest curators including Sharmila Cogger and Lizzy Whirrity, Nottingham art based collective, REACTOR and now Emma Lewis.
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 22:00
A whole series of my work featured in issue 5 of Vague Terrain
Vague Terrain is a web based quarterly publication showcasing work from various artists, musicians, and writers. The quarterly samples the focus and methodologies of academic and art journals, and examines contemporary issues in an immediate and accessible manner that reflects the nature of the web. Content consists of curated visual, audio, and written works.
Saturday, 16 September 2006, 15:23
Sonification of You at the Blumberg Gallery as part of Paraflows06
Thursday, 7 September 2006, 22:15
Sonification of You live as part of Paraflows06 in Vienna, Austria, September 2006, at Blumberg Gallery.
paraflows 06 focusses on the idea of a ‚net behind the net’ which can mean both the digital behind the social net, and the social behind the digital net. paraflows (the Greek prefix ‘para’ meaning: beside, near, moreover) emanates from the main motors of freedom of the net and its para-experts, the wikipedias and slashdots of all areas within which consumers help each other voluntarily to become and remain critical users and experts in their fields.
Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 22:23
Sonification of You live on Resonance FM as part of FRAMED, a Node.London event.
Resonance 104.4 fm is the world’s first radio art station, established by London Musicians’ Collective. It started broadcasting on May 1st 2002. Its brief? To provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting. Resonance 104.4 fm features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scenes, with regular weekly contributions from nearly two hundred musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists and instigators; plus numerous unique broadcasts by artists on the weekday “Clear Spot”.
Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 22:18
Sonification of You live at FRAMED, London, March 2006
Framed was a performance event/showcase which took place in the new Slade Research Centre space in Woburn Square at the end of March 2006 to coincide with the NODE.London
From works exploring transmission, networking and time to palm pilot drawings, sound performances as well as experimental works developed in collaboration with UCL’s Immersive VR Laboratory exploring physiological input devices, this event was intended to provide a snapshot of the broad range of interests, exploration and investigations in this area.
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