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Australasian Computer Music Conference

The Australasian Computer Music Conference was held 11–13 July 2006 at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, Australia. The conference was entitled Medi(t)ations: Computers, Music and Intermedia, and sought to highlight new areas of aesthetics and interrelationships in computer music. Topic areas included cross-media relationships and the role of technology, interface and control systems, media as aesthetic agent, psychoacoustics, and connections between computer music and intermedia practices in other areas such as education. Scheduled keynote speakers included Mitchell Whitelaw from the University of Canberra, and Fredrik Olofsson and Nick Collins of the audiovisual performance duo known as klipp av.

Web: www.acmc06.org.

Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art

The fourth annual Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art was held 22–26 February 2006 at the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Douglas Geers directed the festival, which featured artists such as Alvin Lucier, Scanner (Robin Rimbaud), Randy Jones, and Ben Nevile. The festival included 15 concerts, 5 paper sessions, and featured lectures. Special sessions were offered on topics such as the work of the featured artists, the inner workings of net recording labels, and Max/MSP/Jitter.

Web: spark.cla.umn.edu/index2.html.

Sound and Music Computing

The third Sound and Music Computing (SMC '06) was held 18–20 May 2006 in Marseille, France. The conference was supervised by organizations from France, Italy, and Germany, and aimed to promote exchanges between European countries around the conference theme. This year, the conference put special emphasis on research involving image and video such as music representation and visualization, image-based control of sound and music, multimedia performance systems and languages, and multimodal perception and cognition.

Web: www.gmem.org/smc06.

Connectivity in Connecticut

The tenth biennial Ammerman Center for the Arts and Technology Symposium, Connectivity, was held 30 March–1 April 2006 at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA. The events included keynote speeches, multimedia performances, interactive installations, a gallery opening, and concerts, many free and open to the public. International artists, composers, theorists, and scientists attended the symposium. Three collaborative teams consisting of visual artists, composers, dancers, and computer scientists were awarded commissions and residencies to create works that were produced with the help of Connecticut College students and premiered at the symposium.

The events included a keynote address and a multimedia performance by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) composer Todd Machover, and a performance of Perceivable Bodies using projection and motion-sensing technology by Palindrome Intermedia Performance Group of Germany (see Figure 1).

Web: aspen.conncoll.edu/news/2416.cfm.

Subtropics Experimental Music and Sound Arts Festival

The Subtropics Experimental Music and Sound Arts Festival celebrated their 18th year with a series of concerts and events in Miami, Florida, on 23 February–4 March 2006. Headquartered at the Dorsch Gallery with hosting and presentation spread among several Miami and Miami Beach arts organizations, the festival included simultaneous performance of David Dunn's In Air, In Water, In Trees and Three Strange Attractors, Music on a Long Thin Wire by Alvin Lucier, and the experimental opera entitled I by Gino Robair.

Web: www.subtropics.org.

Gem-Days

The Music Department at the University of Huddersfield, UK, presented Gem-Days, a six-day festival of electronic music and mixed media, on 23–28 March 2006. The festival included the Gmebaphone loud-speaker orchestra pioneers Christian Clozier and Françoise Barrière, as well as music from Robert Normandeau, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Phil Niblock, and Jean Piché.

The festival was also the occasion for a conference on the use of Max/ MSP in composition, improvisation, and performance.

Web: www.gemdays.co.uk. [End Page 7]


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Figure 1.

Palindrome Inter-media Performance Group of Germany performed at the Connecticut College Art and Technology Symposium. (Image by Freider Weiss.)

Sonoimágenes

The seventh edition of the International Acousmatic and Multimedia Festival, Sonoimágenes, was scheduled to be held 22–25 August, 2006, at the National University of Lanús and other concert halls in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The festival is organized around three categories of presentation—acousmatic work, audiovisual...

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