This weekend the Music Hackspace Ensemble team will join a programme of artists, performers, composers and technologists to present the Cave of Sounds installation as part of the Digital Art & Performance Weekender exhibition at Watermans Arts Centre.

When: 12pm-8pm Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd of November, 12pm-5pm Sunday 3rd of November. (Cave of Sounds only).

Where: Watermans, 40 High St, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 0DS ‎, 5 min from Kev Gardens tube station (District Line).

Entrance: Cave of Sounds installation is free to attend. See full programme to buy tickets for the events marked with a *.

The exhibition focuses around intersections and collaborations of artists through performance, dance, sound, technology and more! The weekend will include interactive and immersive installations and performances, sound and dance and choreography.

Cave of Sounds is an interactive sound installation created by artist in residence Tim Murray-Browne with members of the Music Hackspace. It’s the outcome of the Ensemble project, exploring what it means to hack new musical interfaces together. Join us and take part in an interactive sound installation through a circle of networked instruments. Created through Sound and Music’s Embedded Composer in Residence programme with the Music Hackspace. With support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England.

The Cave of Sounds is created by Tim Murray-Browne with Dom Aversano, Sus Garcia, Wallace Hobbes, Daniel Lopez, Tadeo Sendon, Panagiotis Tigas and Kacper Ziemianin. caveofsounds.com 

Special thanks for support to Duncan Chapman, Atau Tanaka, Hannah Bujic, Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut, Martin Klang, Nick Sherrard, The Centre for Creative Collaboration, Troyganic, Queen Mary University of London and Mind The Film.

 

Join us with sound sculptor Ranjit Bhatnagar, next Thursday 24th of October. Ranjit Bhatnagar will present his project entitled Singing Room for a Shy Person, an interactive sound installation, commissioned by Métamatic Research Initiative and being exhibited, along with nine other MRI commissions, at the Tinguely Museum in Basel.

When: Thursday 24th of October 2013, 7.30pm
Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, Hoxton, London
Entrance: Free

Singing Room for a Shy Person is and installation that consists of a sound-isolating booth, in which visitors can go, seal themselves off from the world, and sing, recite, blabber, or whatever they want.  On the outside of the booth, a set of computer-controlled musical instruments interprets their voice in a rickety, mechanical way.  “The installation is a way for a shy person to perform for an audience, in an odd sort of way, without revealing themselves too much. It’s software runs with Max/MSP, doing a fairly simple spectral analysis to extract peak frequencies from the singer’s voice, and sending them back off. The instruments are all controlled via MIDI, using note on and note off commands to activate various solenoids and motors”.

Ranjit Bhatnagar is a sound sculptor who works with technology, language, and found materials to create interactive installations and musical instruments. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Ranjit received a BA from U.C. Berkeley and an MS from the University of Pennsylvania. His works have been exhibited across the United States and Europe, and have appeared in performances as far from New York as Shanghai. As part of an ongoing annual project, he creates a new homemade musical instrument each day of the month during February: the Instrument-a-day project, which is now in its sixth year. He has also worked with the art collectives Flux Factory and Rabid Hands to build a large-scale installation at the Palais de Tokyo Museum in Paris this summer.

More info: http://moonmilk.com/

Join us this Thursday with performer, sound artist and teacher Marco Donnarumma. Marco will present Xth Sense, a biophysical instrument that amplifies the muscle sounds of the human body and uses these as musical material and control data.”When a performer contracts any muscle, low frequency sound are produced. By capturing these sounds with a microphone embedded in the Xth Sense sensor and live sampling them with a computer you get music in real time.”

When: Thursday 17th of October 2013, 7.30pm
Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, Hoxton, London
Entrance: Free

Marco Donnarumma performing Music for Flesh II with Xth Sense| Interactive music performance for enhanced body (Xth Sense) from Marco Donnarumma.

 

Marco Donnarumma was born in Italy and is currently based in London. He is a PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London, funded by the European Research Council and supervised by Prof. Atau Tanaka and Dr. Matthew Fuller. Marco looks at the collision of critical creativity with humanized technologies. He is known for his body-based performance works and creates custom open biotechnologies and physical interactive systems. He is a Harvestworks Creativity + Technology = Enterprise Fellow (New York, US) with support by the Rockefeller Foundation.

In the past 3 years, Marco has performed over 100 concerts and spoken in 50 countries including US and South America, Europe, India, China, South Korea and Australia. His works have been selected at leading art events (ISEA, Venice Biennale, WRO Biennale), specialized festivals and venues (FILE, Panorama, EMPAC, New York Electronic Arts Festival, Sonorities, Némo, Mapping, Piksel, Re-New, Laboral) and major academic conferences (NIME, ICMC, Pure Data Convention, Linux Audio Conference @ Stanford CCRMA, SICMF). He curated a comprehensive journal publication on biotech and performing arts entitled Biotechnological Performance Practice (eContact! 14.2). His writings have appeared in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press), in the book “New Art/Science Affinities” (CMU and Studio for Creative Enquiry, US), and several times in specialised conference proceedings.

His biophysical system, the Xth Sense, (XS) was recently awarded the first prize in the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Tech, US 2012) as the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument”. The XS was publicly launched during summer 2012 at the Scotland Music Hack Day.

His latest work “Nigredo”, a private installation for altered self-perception with Marije Baalman, was recently awarded the 2nd prize in the TransitioMX New Media Art Award (MX). He has been artists in residence at STEIM (NL), Inspace (UK), and National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance (DK). His work has been funded by the European Commission, British Council, Creative Scotland, New Media Scotland, and the Danish Arts Council. His projects have been reviewed on BBC, Reuters, Wired, RTVE, El Pais, Weave, Create Digital Music, We Make Money Not Art, Rhizome, and Digicult.

More info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/

The Cave of Sounds (project documentation) from Tim Murray-Browne on Vimeo.

This video documents the first two exhibits of the work at the Barbican 19-26 August 2013 and the Victoria and Albert Museum 21 September 2013. Check out caveofsounds.com for more details about the project and future exhibitions.

The Cave of Sounds is an interactive sound installation exploring the power of music to bind individuals together and the visceral urge to use technology to broadcast our identity. It is formed of eight original electronic instruments, each designed and created over a period of ten months by a member of London’s Music Hackspace as a personal and interactive embodiment of the ideas and mind of its creator. It was created during a Sound and Music Embedded residency with the Music Hackspace by Tim Murray-Browne working with Music Hackspace members Dom Aversano, Sus Garcia, Wallace Hobbes, Daniel Lopez, Tadeo Sendon, Alex Sonom, Panagiotis Tigas and Kacper Ziemianin.

Documentation film by Mind the Film – mindthefilm.co.uk.

Many thanks for support to Duncan Chapman, Atau Tanaka, Hannah Bujic, Nick Sherrard, Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut, Martin Klang and Jenny Attwater. Embedded is funded by Esmee Fairbairn and realised with support from Arts Council England.

 

http://caveofsounds.com/

When: Thursday 3 September 2013, 7.30pm

Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, Hoxton, London

Entrance: Free

Somehow, ten months have already passed since I started here at the Music Hackspace and my time as Embedded Composer in Residence is now complete. This Thursday, I’ll be talking at Troyganic about the outcomes of my residency and my experience here.

Nearly all my efforts during my time here have been focused on creating The Cave of Sounds, with seven regulars of the Music Hackspace. Over the past two months, we’ve toured this work to the Barbican and the V&A. On Thursday, I’ll be describing how the project developed over the residency, listening to how its sound has evolved since my last update in May and discussing what we’ve learned through recent exhibitions as well as the future of the project.

So please join us this Thursday at Troyganic. Grab a drink and some food at 7pm, the talk will begin at 7.30.

Tim Murray-Browne
Composer in Residence with Sound and Music / Music Hackspace