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The last edition of this festival – discontinued for the foreseeable future – took place in 2017.

Archival article

The EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival was founded in 2009 by the Ljubljana based Institute for Sonic Arts Research (IRZU) and further expands the institute's focus into audio technology research, artistic productions and educational projects. The main person behind the festival is the audio engineer and sound artist Miha Ciglar, who modelled the festival as a distinctively platform-like project. It connects all sort of local institutions, from governmental and non-governmental to various protagonists from abroad – universities, networks, festivals, businesses enterprises, etc.

The festival features electro-acoustic performances, workshops, lectures and installations by invited foreign and domestic artists and sonic researchers. Though it primarily focuses on new musical works and technologies, it also touches upon the related institutional, social and political dimensions. In 2012, the festival was merged with that year's edition of the (38th) International Computer Music Conference. Earzoom in 2015 functioned like that as well and was the site of the nomadic Music Tech Fest – The Festival of Music Ideas.

Venues and co-producers

EarZoom connects with the already active protagonists in the field of contemporary sonic arts as a part of its creed. Some of its past and current partners include Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Moderna galerija, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), MoTA Museum of Transitory Art, Sploh Institute, Jakopič Gallery, Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Klub Menza pri koritu, Projekt Atol Institute, Kapelica Gallery, Aksioma Institute, ŠKUC Association, Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, Španski borci Culture Centre and Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab.

They are involved with the festival by either providing the infrastructure needed for the realisation of the festival (the most prominent partner in this respect is Cankarjev dom) or by contributing to the programme of the festival itself (such is the nature of the collaboration with the Sploh Institute), or both.

Programme

EarZoom is usually set as a three-day symposium, though it can last up to six days. International artists and scientists present the state of the art research in disciplines like algorithmic composition, new interfaces for musical expression, gesture recognition, ubiquitous computing, mobile music computing and hardware hacking, etc. The invited artists and researchers give talks on their activities, organization schemes and their artistic endeavours, and further, present those in the form of live performances, installations and workshops.

Some of the festival's focuses were live coding, in which the musician is writing computer code live onstage; the potential of music technology startups, pointing out artistic projects that emerged through the development of commercial technology and products; the survival and identity creation within the diverse institutional landscapes of sonic arts research; and the current trends and the future of music and audio technologies.

Guests

The festival has, give or take, about 50 guests annually and a significant part of them is chosen on the basis of an international call for works. Some of the more prominent ones have been Miller Puckette, author of the Pure Data software, the British composer and researcher Alex McLean, the composer Peter Ablinger and the musicians Keith Rowe, Matt Black (of Coldcut) and Graham Massey (of 808 State). Of the local artists, one can highlight Theremidi Orchestra, TILT, Luka Juhart and Miha Ciglar himself.

Moog-ish drone performance at earzoom festival by Servando Barreiro on YouTube

International collaboration

IRZU and the festival have collaborated with many other international institutes. In 2010, the festival became part of a network called T.R.A.C.E.S. – Transcultural Research, Artist, Curator Exchange Series. This trans-European collaborative platform featured Transcultures: Centre for Intermedia and Sonic Arts & Cultures (Mons, BE); Nida Art Colony: Interdisciplinary art, education & residency center (Vilnius/Nida, LT); Kitchen Budapest: Cross-disciplinary new media lab (Budapest, HU); Pixelache: Festival of electronic art and subcultures (Helsinki, FI); and MigAA: Migrating Art Academies (Cologne/DE, Vilnius/LT, Poitiers & Angoulême/FR).

Another international link is Earzoom's participation in the European-wide platform for field recording practices, called Sounds of Europe. The festival was also supported by the Queen Mary University of London, the UK-based Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and a number of private companies, who were involved by lending their hardware and software products for the different purposes of the festival.

Collaboration with ICMC

In 2012, the festival was joined with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), a travelling annual conference of the Internation Computer Music Association (ICMA), which has been the most important European forum for research, both musical and theoretical, involving computers in the creation of music since 1974. The conference was co-produced together with the Faculty of Computer and Information Science.

Collaboration with Music Tech Fest

The Music Tech Fest is a travelling festival platform that coupled with EarZoom in 2015 under the name MTFCentral. Besides the regular EarZoom features, MTFCentral arranged for exclusive access to new technological solutions produced top European research institutes. For example, the competitive 24-hour hack camp offered electronics & technologies from institutions such as Fraunhofer, IRCAM, Technische Universität Wien and the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra and, at the end, chose the best applications and implementations of these tools.

#MTFCentral Harshside - AUUG Motion Synth Performance by MTF Labs on YouTube

External links

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+The last edition of this festival &ndash; discontinued for the foreseeable future &ndash; took place in 2017.
+==Archival article==
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-The [[EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival]] organised by [[Institute for Sonic Arts Research]] in Ljubljana features electro-acoustic performances, lectures, installations by invited foreign and domestic artists and sonic researchers. It focuses on new music technologies, sonic arts research, with it’s main focus being the idea of sound as a medium. One of the aims of the festival's first edition in [[established::2009]] was to push the dialogue amongst the existing Slovene institutions which have already been involved in contemporary music and sonic arts but mainly on an individual basis. In 2010, the 6-day festival featured over 40 international scientists and artists.
+The [[EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival]] was founded in [[established::2009]] by the Ljubljana based [[Institute for Sonic Arts Research]] (IRZU) and further expands the institute's focus into audio technology research, artistic productions and educational projects. The main person behind the festival is the audio engineer and sound artist [[Miha Ciglar]], who modelled the festival as a distinctively platform-like project. It connects all sort of local institutions, from governmental and non-governmental to various protagonists from abroad &ndash; universities, networks, festivals, businesses enterprises, etc.
-EarZoomis made in collaboration with various institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, from these two fields. They are involved in the organising of the festival either by providing the infrastructure needed for the realisation of the festival or by contributing to the program of the festival itself. In 2012 the EarZoom2012 formed a platform for the 38th International Computer Music Conference in Ljubljana and in 2013 it introduced for the first time an international call for works.
+The festival features electro-acoustic performances, workshops, lectures and installations by invited foreign and domestic artists and sonic researchers. Though it primarily focuses on new musical works and technologies, it also touches upon the related institutional, social and political dimensions. In 2012, the festival was merged with that year's edition of the (38th) ''International Computer Music Conference''. Earzoom in 2015 functioned like that as well and was the site of the nomadic ''Music Tech Fest &ndash; The Festival of Music Ideas''.
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+==Venues and co-producers==
+EarZoom connects with the already active protagonists in the field of contemporary sonic arts as a part of its creed. Some of its past and current partners include [[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre]], [[Moderna galerija (MG)|Moderna galerija]], [[Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)]], [[MoTA Museum of Transitory Art]], [[Sploh Institute]], [[Jakopič Gallery]], [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]], [[Klub Menza pri koritu]], [[Projekt Atol Institute]], [[Kapelica Gallery]], [[Aksioma Institute]], [[ŠKUC Association]], [[Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station]], [[Španski borci Culture Centre]] and [[Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab]].
+They are involved with the festival by either providing the infrastructure needed for the realisation of the festival (the most prominent partner in this respect is [[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre|Cankarjev dom]]) or by contributing to the programme of the festival itself (such is the nature of the collaboration with the [[Sploh Institute]]), or both.
 ==Programme==
-EarZoom is composed as a three-day symposium. It's events feature both art projects (concerts, installations, performances etc.) and lectures from the researchers of contemporary arts. It also includes various workshops with a wide selection of different sub-topics of electronic music, ranging from mobile music computing to hardware hacking.
+EarZoom is usually set as a three-day symposium, though it can last up to six days. International artists and scientists present the state of the art research in disciplines like algorithmic composition, new interfaces for musical expression, gesture recognition, ubiquitous computing, mobile music computing and hardware hacking, etc. The invited artists and researchers give talks on their activities, organization schemes and their artistic endeavours, and further, present those in the form of live performances, installations and workshops.
+Some of the festival's focuses were live coding, in which the musician is writing computer code live onstage; the potential of music technology startups, pointing out artistic projects that emerged through the development of commercial technology and products; the survival and identity creation within the diverse institutional landscapes of sonic arts research; and the current trends and the future of music and audio technologies.
+===Guests===
-In 2013 the main focus was live coding, where the musician is writing computer code live on stage, which is then being transformed into music. While the main point of the symposium is the presenting of new trends in art, it is also a place of critical reflection. Because of the fact that IRZU is a private institution, it's main objective of researching, contemplating and producing this kind of art relies on the EarZoom Festival because the dialog about sonic arts in Slovenia is almost non-existent. The festival is a platform for discussion between the institutions and the artist and a way of creating a context for IRZU's work both in international and local networks. In 2011 the concept of the festival expanded from technology-exclusive centred art to a more wide socio-political context that tries to raise questions about power structures.
+The festival has, give or take, about 50 guests annually and a significant part of them is chosen on the basis of an international call for works. Some of the more prominent ones have been Miller Puckette, author of the Pure Data software, the British composer and researcher Alex McLean, the composer Peter Ablinger and the musicians Keith Rowe, Matt Black (of Coldcut) and Graham Massey (of 808 State). Of the local artists, one can highlight [[Theremidi Orchestra]], [[TILT]], [[Luka Juhart]] and [[Miha Ciglar]] himself.
+{{YouTube|nM0-QiWh8_k}}
 ==International collaboration==
-IRZU collaborates or has collaborated with many other international institutes: Transcultures: Centre for Intermedia and sonic arts & cultures (Mons, BE); Nida Art Colony: Interdisciplinary art, education & residency center (Vilnius/Nida, LT); Kitchen Budapest: Cross-disciplinary new media lab (Budapest, HU); Pixelache: Festival of electronic art and subcultures (Helsinki, FI); MigAA: Migrating Art Academies (Cologne/DE, Vilnius/LT, Poitiers & Angoulême/FR).
+IRZU and the festival have collaborated with many other international institutes. In 2010, the festival became part of a network called T.R.A.C.E.S. &ndash; Transcultural Research, Artist, Curator Exchange Series. This trans-European collaborative platform featured Transcultures: Centre for Intermedia and Sonic Arts & Cultures (Mons, BE); Nida Art Colony: Interdisciplinary art, education & residency center (Vilnius/Nida, LT); Kitchen Budapest: Cross-disciplinary new media lab (Budapest, HU); Pixelache: Festival of electronic art and subcultures (Helsinki, FI); and MigAA: Migrating Art Academies (Cologne/DE, Vilnius/LT, Poitiers & Angoulême/FR).
+Another international link is Earzoom's participation in the European-wide platform for field recording practices, called Sounds of Europe. The festival was also supported by the Queen Mary University of London, the UK-based Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and a number of private companies, who were involved by lending their hardware and software products for the different purposes of the festival.
+===Collaboration with ICMC===
-Together, they created a network called T.R.A.C.E.S. - Transcultural Research, Artist, Curator Exchange Series. It's purpose is the discussion about the internal workings that unfold behind the scenes, regarding both artistic and curatorial practices. The reason for this is the fact that these behind-the-curtains processes occupy a large portion of an organization’s working resources.
+In 2012, the festival was joined with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), a travelling annual conference of the Internation Computer Music Association (ICMA), which has been the most important European forum for research, both musical and theoretical, involving computers in the creation of music since 1974. The conference was co-produced together with the [[Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana|Faculty of Computer and Information Science]].
-===Collaboration with IMC===
+===Collaboration with Music Tech Fest===
-In 2012 the festival was held in connection with ICMC- International Computer Music Conference which has been the most important european forum for research, both musical and theoretical, involving computers in creation of music since 1974. It is the annual conference of the Internation Computer Music Association (ICMA). Each year it is held in different countries and in 2012 it was held in Slovenia.
+The Music Tech Fest is a travelling festival platform that coupled with EarZoom in 2015 under the name MTFCentral. Besides the regular EarZoom features, MTFCentral arranged for exclusive access to new technological solutions produced top European research institutes. For example, the competitive 24-hour hack camp offered electronics & technologies from institutions such as Fraunhofer, IRCAM, Technische Universität Wien and the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra and, at the end, chose the best applications and implementations of these tools.
+{{YouTube|Qs2CYWp7Yys}}
 ==See also==
 * [[Institute for Sonic Arts Research]]
+* [[Cankarjev dom]]
+* [[Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)]]
+* [[MoTA Museum of Transitory Art]]
+* [[Sploh Institute]]
 ==External links==
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 * [http://www.icmc2012.si International Computer Music Conference in Ljubljana 2012 website]
 * [http://www.computermusic.org International Computer Music Conference website]
-* [http://www.ccp.si/english/izpis.php?id=934 EarZoom Festival description on Slovene Culture Contact Point website]
+* [http://musictechfest.net/ Music Tech Fest website]
-[[Category:Music]]
 [[Category:Music festivals]]
 [[Category:Festivals]]
-[[Category:Festivals in October]]
+[[Category:Updated 2020]]