Experimental music house show series, NW Detroit. 

Talk & performance for Technology in Music and Related Arts class TECH 350: Creating Interactive Electronic Music with Machine Listening and Learning, Oberlin Conservatory

Take part in a collaborative sound installation/performance! In this workshop, participants will explore relationships between people, sounds, and spaces using portable microcomputer technologies. Working with microphones, portable speakers, and sensors, and using simple feedback loops and delay lines on embeddable microprocessors (Bela), participants will learn about musical and technical approaches for artistically responding to and participating in a given site as a collective. We will develop an in-situ installation/performance in which each participant and their system becomes part of a larger, emergent sonic structure.

No experience is necessary. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop if possible.

On the evening of Friday, March 3rd, we are delighted to present electronics improviser/sound artist Lauren Sarah Hayes (AZ), experimental electronic musician Laura Feathers (NYC), Michael Busch’s (CLE) ambient project Auroragami, and multimedia performance group [Inter Modal] (CMH). Doors 7:30pm, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $9.25 prepaid ($8 + $1.25 TicketTailor processing fee), $10 per ticket at the door.

We’re incredibly excited to welcome Scottish electronic musician and composer Lauren Hayes in to Chicago to perform on the Elastic stage. This will be a part of a US tour and their only solo performance in Chicago. Sharing the night we’ll have new-to-Chicago artist Kim Nucci opening the night with a set of modular synth and electronics, then the incredible engineer, educator, and artist Alex Inglizian will also play a solo electronics set. It’s going to be a great night!

The Southwest Improvisers Convergence

Co-facilitated by Michael Begay & Thollem

Compositions by Raven Chacon and Michael Begay, plus free and structured improvisations with Chelsey Lee Trejo, Edie Tsong, Chris Jonas, Red Cell, Carlos Santistevan, Igloo Martian, Dan Howarth, Rob Wallace, Cyrus Campbell, Brian McOmber, Naïm Amor, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Vicki Brown, and Navajo (Diné) Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe, featuring screening of ACVilla’s 2016 video project 'Who Are US'

Wednesday, November 9th, Algae & Tentacles will release The Mouth is a Resonant Field at the Golden Saguaro in Tucson, Arizona. NYC's 99Hooker and Lauren Sarah Hayes from Phoenix will open the evening beginning at 7 PM (record will be available along with pre-release bundle).  The Golden Saguaro is located at 609 East 6th Street and hosts a monthly experimental music series on the second Wednesday of each month. 

Shift is a platform for experimental sound and musical performance.

411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn NY 11249

All shows @8pm, Doors 7:30.

Lauren Sarah Hayes – drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software + Local Luminaries

Monday October 17 * 7pm * TICKETS

Lauren Sarah Hayes

(improvised electronics from Scotland)

‍https://www.laurensarahhayes.com/

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with Emily Rodger
https://emilyrodgers.bandcamp.com/
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and Swampwalk
https://swampwalkin.bandcamp.com/

In the IDeATe Media Lab (HL A10A) in advance of her performance, Lauren Sarah Hayes will present an artist talk and workshop that presents an overview to her approach to electronic music performance, instrument design, and machine learning research.

Electronic Music Improvisation by Lauren Sarah Hayes with Freida Abtan. Free and open to the public.

Tomorrow, October 12, at 2pm in the IDeATe Media Lab (HL A10A) in advance of her performance, Lauren Sarah Hayes will present an artist talk and workshop that presents an overview to her approach to electronic music performance, instrument design, and machine learning research.

Justice Yeldham / Lauren Sarah Hayes (solo + friends) / Off Brand

 The Waverley Bar, Edinburgh, EH1 1TA

 Thu 1st September 2022 8:30PM

Pianodrome Live is back – each night of the Fringe we showcase local and international acts, sharing uniquely intimate performances with you in our bespoke, in-the-round amphitheatre made entirely from junked pianos. No two nights are the same – search Pianodrome or head to our website for full listings. 'Come for the concept, stay for the incredible music that’s performed every day and night. A truly special space' ***** (Annie Reiser, EdFestMag.com).

Music is theatre in this unique in-the-round performance space, which intentionally blurs the boundaries between performer and audience and brings people together in these turbulent political times. The Pianodrome as architecture functions to focus attention on all that happens in the space, creating an immediate theatrical environment which transgresses traditional understandings of the performer and audience divide.

El Foro Abierto Sobre la Enseñanza de las Artes en México (FASEAM) tiene el propósito de fomentar la reflexión y el conocimiento sobre la labor educativa en el ámbito de las artes en el país, ello a partir del estudio y la discusión de los puntos medulares en dichas prácticas desde los diversos enfoques y contextos. Además, el FASEAM tiene el doble propósito de colaborar en la formación de los docentes y de las y los interesados en la investigación educativa en el área artística.

An Earth Day Gathering in Paradise Valley, Arizona

Friday, April 22, 2022 • 5 - 7 pm

Art Installations  | Arizona Sustainability Leadership Award Ceremony

Presentations by Sustainability Experts | Light Appetizers from Local Farms

AME and PARIESA in solidarity with Ukraine are hosting a fundraising event in support of all people affected by the Russian invasion.

We want to celebrate the freedom-loving and powerful Ukrainian electronic music scene.
Anton Lapov, Ukrainian artist, musician and curator (studying now at SOA, ASU) will give a brief introduction to the history and harsh nowadays reality of Ukrainian musical community.

Also, for your enjoyment, he will play a DJ set exclusively consisting of tracks by Ukranian producers.

Thursday 14th April, 6pm - 8pm
iStage, 2nd Floor Matthews Center,
950 S. Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281
Masks encouraged.

All donations will go to Charity Foundation East-SOS providing humanitarian aid and assistance for civilians in Donbas, Ukraine.

https://vostok-sos.org/en/i-wanna-help/rekvizyty-dlia-hroshovoho-perekazu/

Panel on Ability and Accessibility

Presentation at composition seminar.

Performing Arts Technology Seminar

MMus Practice Research module guest visit

Algorithmic Art Assembly conference & festival. https://aaassembly.org/

https://grayarea.org/event/algorithmic-art-assembly-2022/

Lauren Sarah Hayes

Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 8pm PST
$15

Until further notice, proof of vaccination against COVID-19 is required for entry into all events. Masks are required to be worn at all times indoors.

In this workshop we will demystify some of the processes surrounding live electronic music making. Led by electronic musician, improviser, and sound artist Lauren Sarah Hayes, participants will be guided through building low-cost, DIY electronic synths, and explore strategies for improvising using these new creations. Using techniques derived from embodied interaction, enactive approaches to music cognition, and improvisation traditions, the group will work together to playfully explore collaborative electronic music making. No musical or electronics experience is necessary.

Factory Streams: Live Vids for COVID-19.

Broadcast performance

Talk for Technology in Music and Related Arts group, Oberlin Conservatory

Computer music seminar at the Peabody Institute

Izzy Estes performers her Barrett Honors thesis final project at the Digital Culture Showcase.

OPTION is a weekly music salon curated by Chicago musicians Andrew Clinkman, Tim Daisy, and Ken Vandermark. Its programming explores contemporary perspectives on improvisation and composition in a 'salon' format, enabling local, national, & international artists to publicly discuss their practice and ideas as well as perform. 

Canal Convergence returns to the Scottsdale Waterfront for 2021 with a new central theme: "Art & Technology." The combination of cutting-edge technologies with public art has made possible some of the most exciting and innovative artworks to appear at Canal Convergence. Through this year’s theme, alongside the event’s perennial themes of Water + Art + Light, Interactivity, and Sustainability, Scottsdale Public Art intends to expand the public’s understanding of technology’s role in art making.

NEGATIVLAND AND SUE-C

with

Steev Hise, Lauren Sarah Hayes

SENTIENCE:

A Virtual Lecture Series

Concordia University, Montreal.

Fall Term, 2021

Lauren Hayes was recently a guest speaker at the pre-conference "AI, Music and Improvisation". The pre-conference focuses on discussion around AI in music and improvisation, inviting scholars and artists that are experts of these fields, to share their work. The conference will focus on the artistic practices in music using AI and improvisation, which can be considered a collective, emergent organizational process.

Invited guest for interdisciplinary improvisation class. 

https://www.norcalnoisefest.com/

Executive Summary is a streaming concert series of synthetic noise, experimental, non standard and/or weird musics. Short sets will get you up to speed with every important glitch and squelch needed to inform the decisions in your time constrained schedule.

Listening Session at London South Bank University

with Atau Tanaka

organized by Adam Parkinson

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international conference about musical expression and artistic performance. The conference started as a workshop in 2001 and, since then, has been held annually around the world. Broadcast performance.

This online workshop aims to start a conversation with members of the NIME community on how we may implement such pedagogies of performance practices with DMIs, by critically addressing existing epistemological and practical issues in NIME pedagogies, as well as by sharing and discussing existing pedagogical approaches among DMI designers, performers, practitioners, and pedagogues in the community. We also aim to ideate and generate new strategies together.

Organizers:

Adnan Marquez-Borbon, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 

Juan P. Martinez Avila, The University of Nottingham

Mauricio Prieto Astudillo, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

There will be three 20-minute presentations from the following artist/educators:

• Andrew Robinson (Max Certified Trainer): Designing Real-time AV Max Patches for Live Performance

• Lauren Sarah Hayes (artist and professor at Arizona State University): Live Electronics: examples from my pedagogy and creative practice research involving creative coding

• Crystal Cortez (artist and professor at Portland Community College): Live Performance with Ableton Live and Max using field recording, data sonification, and 3D sounds specialization

Uncommon Senses III: The Future of the Senses will be taking place May 1-4 2020 at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Submissions are invited from scholars across the social sciences, humanities and arts interested in exploring the future of the senses in a changing world. Panel session x2.

A series of online performances broadcast from @DiscoFridays via Facebook Live. Curated by @professor.lofi Fridays from 5:30 to 7:30 UK (GMT +1) with John M. Bowers and Kerry Hagan

SEAMUS 2021 Virtual National Conference The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)

Panel: Telematic for the People: Making Music Online in Less Than Ideal Conditions

The world’s greatest orchestra of teenagers

NYO exists to give thrilling experiences of orchestral music to teenage musicians and audiences who need them most. We believe in the unlimited potential of teenagers and as the future of orchestral music, our musicians are powerful advocates. By harnessing the power of peer inspiration, we target those with the greatest musical commitment and cultural need, enriching the lives of 10,000 young people every year through live performances, and activity in our NYO Inspire and NYO Open programmes.

In this workshop we’ll train neural networks to control synthesis parameters using regression and classify incoming sounds, all in Max. We’ll also cover some basic concepts like, What is machine learning? What kind of data do we need to do machine learning? Why might we use machine learning for music? After the workshop participants will be equipped to envision and execute new music applications using neural networks.

Presented by the Entertainment Technology department of the New York City College of Technology (CUNY City Tech). Lyn Goeringer, Akiko Hatekeyama, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Kristina Warren, and Cecilia Wu : Can you hear me? (DIY software and hardware instruments)

Invited guest talk. The Max Meetup is an online meetup for anyone interested in programming using Max. It is an informal meeting of Max users for sharing ideas, projects, techniques or simply to help each other out. Often, this is the most effective and inspiring and fun way to move forward with any technology and Max is no exception to this.

Conceptualizing musical systems as sets of relationships between living things, machines, and the environment, I will discuss two case studies: firstly, a large-scale installation which was presented in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, United States, the second case study took place as a series of experiments at the Ars Bioarctica residency in the sub-arctic tundra at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, University of Helsinki, Finland. Participants will be invited to explore some of the techniques developed within this research through a workshop that will specifically address their own personal situation with respect to site.

Invited Lecture

Talk for Concordia Electroacoustic Studies Students' Association.

The Interference Series in Flagstaff, Arizona aims to present the work of local, national, and international artists that is experimental, avant garde, or radical in nature. By providing a consistent home for this innovative and exciting art, we hope to serve as a platform for musicians, poets, performance artists, visual artists, dancers, and other yet to be defined styles of performers as well as building a borderless community that supports it.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha Music Technology area started a guest lecturer series in the Spring of 2014, and the lecture series continues to this day as one of UNO’s important cultural offerings, in addition to providing curricular enhancement for our Music Technology area. 

Nuanced and Interrelated Mediations and Exigencies (NIME): Addressing the Prevailing Political and Epistemological Crises

Nearly two decades since its inception as a workshop aspart of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), NIME exists as an established international conference significantly distinct from its precursor. While this origin story is often noted, the implications of NIME’s history as emerging from a field predominantly dealing with human-computer interaction (HCI) have rarely been discussed. In this paper, we highlight many of the recent—and some not so recent—challenges that have been brought upon the NIME community as it attempts to maintain and expand its identity as a site for multidisciplinary research into HCI, interface design, and electronic and computer music. We discuss the relationship between the mar-ket demands of the neoliberal university—which have underpinned academia’s drive for innovation—and the quantification and economisation of research performance which have facilitated certain disciplinary and social frictions to emerge within NIME-related research and practice. Draw-ing on work that engages with feminist theory and cultural studies, we suggest that critical reflection and moreover mediation will be necessary in order to address burgeoning concerns which have been raised within the NIME discourse in relation to methodological approaches, ‘diversity and inclusion’, ‘accessibility’, and the fostering of rigorous interdisciplinary research.

Gender Imbalance in Electronic/Electroacoustic Music 

Center for the Study of Women in Society and School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon.

Aside Theatre Company Presents: Stop! Silence! Now!


An evening of Sound Art to raise awareness of human rights

Sound art is an artistic discipline in which sound is utilized as a primary medium. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. Sound art can be considered as being an element of many areas such as acoustics, psycho-acoustics, electronics, noise music, audio media, found or environmental sound, soundscapes, explorations of the human body, sculpture, architecture, film or video and other aspects of the current discourse of contemporary art. 
Some artistic lineages from which sound art emerges are conceptual art, minimalism, site-specific art, sound poetry, electro-acoustic music, spoken word, avant-garde poetry, and experimental theatre.

The paradigm of enactive music cognition offers an anti-representational framework for understanding musical activity as both corporeal and culturally-situated. In this talk, Lauren Hayes will discuss live electronic musical improvisation as an exemplary model for the enactive framework in its ability to demonstrate the importance of participatory, relational, emergent and embodied musical activities and processes. Following Gallagher, she argues that the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition — where performers develop from novices to experts who may eventually achieve a state of "mindless flow" — does not adequately account for what can happen during various forms of musical play. A critical study of improvisation reveals that a more generous conception of meaningful musical activity is needed, particularly in terms of who is able to take part as an improviser. She contextualises these ideas from the position of being an improviser of live electronic music performed on self-built hybrid analogue/digital instruments, my background in creating expressive musical systems for people with profound and complex learning difficulties, and through my recent explorations of both pedagogical and research approaches to interdisciplinary improvisation.

In a concert exploding with software, five of the world’s leading electronic performers show us what it’s all about. Looking at the spaces around them, the artists involved in the University of Huddersfield’s Fluid Corpus Manipulation project intertwine digital and physical worlds. With a stash of computer processes that manipulate sounds, their music flows together, juggling up techniques and ideas they’ve been sharing for 14 months as a virtual community. 

Co-produced by hcmf// and the FluCoMa project This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 725899)

Fluid Corpus Manipulation (FluCoMa) plenary presentation talk.

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 725899)

The AME Listening Group takes place biweekly on Mondays, 1:45-3pm in Matthews Audio Lab. This is a forum for those interested in dedicating some time to the practice of listening. We listen to new music (including experimental, electroacoustic, contemporary classical, sonic art, glitch, post-digital, multi-media, noise etc.). The format is a short (approx. 2 minute) introduction by the host, followed by up to 50 minutes of listening (full album length). A short discussion may follow. All welcome!

This session can also be used to present works in progress, demonstrate an idea, and get feedback from peers. ASU Student Group Site.

REAL-TIME SYSTEM FOR MAPPING AUDIO TO HAPTICS FOR COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS

The AME Listening Group takes place biweekly on Mondays, 1:45-3pm in Matthews Audio Lab. This is a forum for those interested in dedicating some time to the practice of listening. We listen to new music (including experimental, electroacoustic, contemporary classical, sonic art, glitch, post-digital, multi-media, noise etc.). The format is a short (approx. 2 minute) introduction by the host, followed by up to 50 minutes of listening (full album length). A short discussion may follow. All welcome!

This session can also be used to present works in progress, demonstrate an idea, and get feedback from peers. ASU Student Group Site.

Collaborative performance at MOCO 2019.

Co-constructing Events in Responsive Environments

ABSTRACT. A series of workshops, performances and installations hosted by Synthesis & AME at the iStage

We present a suite of approaches to how ensembles of people, technical objects, and processes can co-construct events that make ethico-aesthetic sense to the participants. The intents and techniques range widely: from creative uses of gesture-following or vibro-tactile feedback or whole body interaction in performance works (e.g. Naccarato, MacCallum, Hayes, Rajko, Ziegler, Thorn), to using body-borne sensing, and camera / acoustic feature following and realtime media to study the dynamics of rhythm, sense and affect. (e.g. Sha, Ingalls, Johnson, MacCallum, Naccarato, Rajko.)

The AME Listening Group takes place biweekly on Mondays, 1:45-3pm in Matthews Audio Lab. This is a forum for those interested in dedicating some time to the practice of listening. We listen to new music (including experimental, electroacoustic, contemporary classical, sonic art, glitch, post-digital, multi-media, noise etc.). The format is a short (approx. 2 minute) introduction by the host, followed by up to 50 minutes of listening (full album length). A short discussion may follow. All welcome!

This session can also be used to present works in progress, demonstrate an idea, and get feedback from peers. ASU Student Group Site.

The Studio 300 Festival explores creative manifestations of technology through concerts and exhibitions of digital art and music. This year’s festival will feature concerts in Haggin Auditorium, and multimedia gallery exhibits in the Morlan Gallery and the online Studio 300 BYTE Gallery. Artists and musicians from Lexington and across world will be participating. A late-night concert will take place off campus at Al’s Bar. Works exploring or utilizing the python computer language, artificial intelligence, haptic interfaces, data visualization/sonification, robotics, hardware and internet hacking, virtual/augment reality, ecological art/music, and interactive internet art/music are particularly welcomed, although all digital art and music submissions on other topics are also encouraged and will be equally considered for programming. Also, “Resilience” is the campus-wide theme for the university for the 2019-2020 academic year, so works that also broadly address resilience (or ephemerality) in digital art/music or human experiences are welcome. Finally, proposals for demonstrations, talk/paper presentations, workshops, or panel discussions are invited.

Economics, access to health services, genetics, the environment, geography, age – all of these and more form a complex web of interdependent influences on wellbeing. The Arizona Wellbeing Commons brings scientists, clinicians and partners together in a powerful network of researchers to tackle the health issues that impact wellbeing in Arizona.

The AME Listening Group takes place biweekly on Mondays, 1:45-3pm in Matthews Audio Lab. This is a forum for those interested in dedicating some time to the practice of listening. We listen to new music (including experimental, electroacoustic, contemporary classical, sonic art, glitch, post-digital, multi-media, noise etc.). The format is a short (approx. 2 minute) introduction by the host, followed by up to 50 minutes of listening (full album length). A short discussion may follow. All welcome!

This session can also be used to present works in progress, demonstrate an idea, and get feedback from peers. ASU Student Group Site.

AMELG presents Ben Cooper 

Visiting from Sydney, Australia, Ben Cooper presents his work with Spinstruments, which just was awarded 3rd place in the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. The Spinstruments are designed to be reactive to the users movements. The device is programmed to assign sounds to particular types of movements so that as the artist builds a choreography, they can also create a song.  The sounds themselves can be interchanged and there are limitless possibilities for combinations of sounds.

The AME Listening Group takes place biweekly on Mondays, 1:45-3pm in Matthews Audio Lab. This is a forum for those interested in dedicating some time to the practice of listening. We listen to new music (including experimental, electroacoustic, contemporary classical, sonic art, glitch, post-digital, multi-media, noise etc.). The format is a short (approx. 2 minute) introduction by the host, followed by up to 50 minutes of listening (full album length). A short discussion may follow. All welcome!

This session can also be used to present works in progress, demonstrate an idea, and get feedback from peers. ASU Student Group Site.

CeReNeM’s Creative Coding Lab (CCL) is an international research hub for audio software research, led by Dr Alex Harker and linked to Dr Hyunkook Lee’s Applied Psychoacoustics Lab within the School of Computing & Engineering. The CCL focuses on software programming for creative purposes, with current projects covering applied psychoacoustics, 3D spatialisation, interactive analysis, large database navigation and resynthesis, and creative DSP tools. The aim of the CCL is to produce high-quality research that leads to new open-source software tools, and to enable the further development of these tools through relationships with the lab’s industry partners.

The CCL holds regular open meetings and presentations to provide a platform for its members and guests to share work in progress. The CCL holds an annual symposium as part of the University’s annual Electric Spring Festival.

YSWN in partnership with Electric Spring, supported by the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM)

Open to all women, female-identifying, non-binary and gender non-conforming people. Attendance is by ticket only, with limited places available.

Description: Explore using bespoke technology for experiencing sound as haptic feedback. Can physically feeling your music offer insight into something about the music or compositional process itself? Does it offer new potential strategies for building digital musical instruments? In this workshop, I will give a brief outline of how and why I have used haptic technology in my own musical practice and then guide participants through various ways to map sound to sensation through DIY technologies. Participants are encouraged to bring their own tracks, performance setups, or synths to plug into the system and experience sound through their bodies as well as their ears!

Electric Spring is an annual festival of sonic exploration of cutting-edge practice in electronic music. The five-day programme of concerts, installations and symposia brings together a collection of people from diverse musical backgrounds to share their knowledge and perform music. The festival is curated by the Music and Music Technology staff of the University of Huddersfield.

The AME Listening Group takes place biweekly on Mondays, 1:45-3pm in Matthews Audio Lab. This is a forum for those interested in dedicating some time to the practice of listening. We listen to new music (including experimental, electroacoustic, contemporary classical, sonic art, glitch, post-digital, multi-media, noise etc.). The format is a short (approx. 2 minute) introduction by the host, followed by up to 50 minutes of listening (full album length). A short discussion may follow. All welcome!

This session can also be used to present works in progress, demonstrate an idea, and get feedback from peers. ASU Student Group Site.

The AME Listening Group takes place biweekly on Mondays, 1:45-3pm in Matthews Audio Lab. This is a forum for those interested in dedicating some time to the practice of listening. We listen to new music (including experimental, electroacoustic, contemporary classical, sonic art, glitch, post-digital, multi-media, noise etc.). The format is a short (approx. 2 minute) introduction by the host, followed by up to 50 minutes of listening (full album length). A short discussion may follow. All welcome!

This session can also be used to present works in progress, demonstrate an idea, and get feedback from peers. ASU Student Group Site.

In advance of her DC Talk, Stanzi Vaubel talks to Site-Responsive Sonic Art class.

Composer Angélica Negrón visits Introduction to Digital Sound to discuss her artistic approach and give a short performance.

Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón writes music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys and electronics as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras.

Moogfest Presents
“HUMAN AND THE MACHINE” FEATURING MICHAEL STIPE (AUDIO/VISUAL WORK), AUTHOR & PUNISHER, LAUREN SARAH HAYES, DEANTONI PARKS, A SPATIAL SOUND PIECE BY ERIC MARTY AND VARIOUS MODULAR SYNTH PERFORMANCES TO CLOSE A2RU CONFERENCE

The 2018 theme, Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability, is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.

University of Huddersfield Fluid Corpus Manipulation plenary.

Chairing panel on Feminist Perspectives on Computer Music Practice

Celebrating our 43rd ICMC, we invite the community to consider this year’s theme preserve | engage | advance as it broadly relates to the diverse field of computer music including auditory display, cognition, composition, digital audio effects, digital libraries, DSP, MIR, musicology, multimedia, NIME, performance, perception, soundscapes, and WebAudio.

Workshop on Haptics and Sound

Celebrating our 43rd ICMC, we invite the community to consider this year’s theme preserve | engage | advance as it broadly relates to the diverse field of computer music including auditory display, cognition, composition, digital audio effects, digital libraries, DSP, MIR, musicology, multimedia, NIME, performance, perception, soundscapes, and WebAudio.

The Politics of Sensation Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities
Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018 We have been selected to present on the panel: The Politics of Sensation. Part II. Aesthetics

5th International Conference on Movement and Computing.

Collaboration with IUCRC BRAIN, University of Houston. Residency at University of Houston. 

Lauren Hayes visiting as Distinguished Speaker sponsored by the IUCRC BRAIN, College of the Arts, IEEE EMBS Houston chapter and the UH Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA). 

The Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology (BRAIN) Center is an Industry/University Collaborative Research Center at Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Houston (UH). This partnership will allow rigorous testing of efficacy, safety and long-term reliability of neurotechnology that would not be otherwise possible within the traditional ‘silos’ of academic, industry, regulatory and clinical communities.

The sixth installment of LLEAPP takes place at Arizona State University from 4/9 - 4/13.

Heather Kelley (@PerfectPlum) is an award-winning game designer, media artist, and curator.  She is a founder of the experimental game collective Kokoromi, with whom she produced and curated the renowned GAMMA events from 2006 to 2010, promoting experimental games as creative expression in a social context. In 2016 Kokoromi released the retrofuturistic VR puzzle game SUPERHYPERCUBE. Ms. Kelley was named by Fast Company magazine as one of 2011’s thirty most influential women in technology. In 2012, she co-curated Joue le jeu, a groundbreaking 5000 m2 exhibition of video games and commissioned play installations in Paris, France. Ms. Kelley’s extensive career in game development has included design and production of touchscreen vibrator controllers, AAA next-gen console games, interactive smart toys, mobile and handheld games, research games, installation games, and web communities for girls.  In 2015 she became Assistant Teaching Professor in the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.

Visitor Ion Map “Intersections”, The Sixteenth Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium at Connecticut College is a major international conference of papers, exhibitions, performances, concerts, and panels devoted to exploring the increasing links in the interdisciplinary worlds of arts, sciences, media and technology. This conference features three stimulating days filled with a keynote address, papers, installations and performances by noted leaders in their fields. 

Aesthetics of Touch: Performance Practices and New Media Design 

Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology Conference, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Simian or Pivot? for live electronics

Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology Conference 2018 University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Pauline Oliveros The autobiography of Lady Steinway
Pauline Oliveros The Wheel of Time UK Premiere
Enno Poppe Fleisch UK Premiere
Ann Cleare the square of yellow light that is your window UK Premiere
Lauren Sarah Hayes Mini Savior Opt. World Premiere (hcmf// commission)
Archer Spade Improvisation

In what has in recent years become a tradition during the Festival’s closing weekend, hcmf// presents an eclectic mix of work across multiple stages, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3’s flagship new music programme Hear and Now. This year, The Riot Ensemble perform works by the late iconic American artist Pauline Oliveros, including the rarely heard The Wheel of Time, for string quartet and tape. Nikel present the first performance of a new work by Enno Poppe, while Arizona-based Scottish electronic music composer and performer Lauren Sarah Hayes presents the world premiere of her latest work, commissioned by hcmf//. Philadelphia duo Archer Spade complete the line-up.

Produced by hcmf// as part of the Arts Council England International Showcase

In this workshop we will demystify some of the processes surrounding live electronic music making. Led by electronic musician and sound artist Lauren Sarah Hayes, participants will be guided through building low-cost, DIY electronic instruments, and explore strategies for improvising using these new creations – as well as learning ways of augmenting them digitally. Using techniques derived from embodied interaction, somatic practices, Deep Listening, and established improvisational exercises, the group will work together to playfully explore collaborative music making.

For female identifying participants only; no experience necessary. Produced by hcmf//

By considering the presence of electromagnetic wave field within the context of the history of electromagnetic induction & the meanings and implications throughout history for magnetic force, this talk invites us to question how we engage with, produce and document our relationship with EMF.  Drawing on the EMF based sound art of Christina Kubish, Joe Banks and Joyce Hinterding, we will talk about how these artworks and the technology that used to make them provides insight into the unseen world of electricity. We will also have a chance to use devices that allow the user to listen into the ambient wave fields present in the environment.

Loop is three days of discussions, performances, presentations, studio sessions, installations and interactive workshops aimed at exchanging ideas at the cutting edge of music, creativity, and technology. Bringing together artists, technologists, educators and other creative thinkers, Loop is a collective exploration of what it is to make music today and what it could be tomorrow.

Come explore the many avenues of Arts, Media and Engineering's research teams - including an improvisational computer music jam session, augmented reality, and an exploration of time and movement with the SERRA project.

Gabby Isaac will be presenting her noise-textured force-feedback controller which was recently presented at NIME 2017.

'Immersion, Interaction and Participation in Art and Technology' by Marije Baalman

2017 International Conference on Neuroscience and the Arts This unique and intellectually-stimulating conference brings together thought leaders, practitioners and innovators working at the intersection of the arts, sciences, engineering, technology, medicine, and education and developing trans-disciplinary approaches to the study of brain dynamics in action and context,  innovation, creativity, aesthetic experiences, emergence of intent and emotional intelligence, emotional buildings and sensing spaces, art therapy, STEAM education, as well as the latest wearable high-definition brain-body technologies.

2017 International Conference on Neuroscience and the Arts This unique and intellectually-stimulating conference brings together thought leaders, practitioners and innovators working at the intersection of the arts, sciences, engineering, technology, medicine, and education and developing trans-disciplinary approaches to the study of brain dynamics in action and context,  innovation, creativity, aesthetic experiences, emergence of intent and emotional intelligence, emotional buildings and sensing spaces, art therapy, STEAM education, as well as the latest wearable high-definition brain-body technologies.

The Bioartsociety is an association based in Helsinki with more then 80 members from Finland and other countries. It was established in May 2008 in at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland. The Bioartsociety is  developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences, with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences. Together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki it runs Ars Bioarctica, an art&science program with a focus on the the sub Arctic environment.

Sound + Environment 2017 is a four day conference bringing together artists and scientists to explore the ways that sound can deepen our understanding of environments. For example, recent developments in the field of ecoacoustics are proving fruitful in assessing ecosystem change. Sound is also increasingly used to monitor built structures and to inform urban design. We can use sound for scientific and artistic exploration, to inform and expand our knowledge of environments and our relationships to the world around us.

MOCO is the International Workshop on movement and computing. MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modelling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. MOCO is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art & science.

Live electronics, sound design, creative music practice and digital composition selected by Edinburgh College of Art’s Jules Rawlinson, featuring staff and postgraduate students from The Reid School of Music. Bar and MARK WALLINGER MARK exhibition open.

The 2017 edition of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference will take place in Copenhagen from May 15th to May 19th, organized by the Sound and Music Computing Group at Aalborg University Copenhagen.

New Music Gathering is an annual three-day conference dedicated to the performance, production, promotion, support and creation of new concert music.  

New Music Gathering is an annual three-day conference dedicated to the performance, production, promotion, support and creation of new concert music.  

Evening Preview.

The third biannual Southwest Electronic Music Festival features concerts given by international, local and student composers and performers, as well as workshops and masterclasses.

The New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit is a concert series featuring music by artists focused on the integration of music improvisation and real-time interactive computer systems. NYC EIS is made possible by faculty, staff, and students in the Emerging Media and Entertainment Technology programs at CUNY's New York City College of Technology.

For this new and ambitious work, Jessica Rajko partners up with eight Phoenix-based artists to create a world in which big data is brought to life. By combining dance, digital music, & laser art with familiar objects such as books, yarn, and household appliances, “Me, My Quantified Self, and I" reimagines our digital world as the messy, cluttered, complicated ecosystem it is.

This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers of mind, physiologists, psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, computer scientists, artists and designers to explore emerging cognitive neuroscience & theories of embodied cognition. The goal is to develop new discourses around arts practices by interfacing traditions of practice with emerging paradigms of Embodied (and Enactive, Situated, Distributed, Extended) paradigms of cognition.

Creative Technologies: Relationships In Between. Our annual symposium, Two Thousand+, will again feature this year. This event has been running since 2006 and brings together performance practitioners from areas such as music, sonic arts, dance, theatre, new media, architecture and theory to discuss research in performance / composition / sound art and critical theories. 

Welcome to Belfast’s longest-running festival of contemporary music, the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music. Over 30 years the festival has build a reputation for attracting high calibre composers and performers from all over the world to present exciting new music in Belfast. The 2016 edition has at its focus the theme of ‘Creative Technologies’.

Live electronic musical performance.

Invited performance & panel discussion at Stonybrook University, New York, USA.

Invited research seminar presentation.

ICMC 2016 will be hosted in the city of Utrecht, by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, HKU Music and Technology and the new music organisation Gaudeamus Muziekweek.