EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival

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The EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival + 2009

- "diversity of this seemingly niche musical discipline"

- organised by Institute for Sonic Arts Research in Ljubljana - audio technology research (digital signal processing, sonic interaction design, music information retrieval, non-linear acoustics, etc.), artistic productions (performances, exhibitions, installations, films) and educational projects (lectures, workshops

- the man behind - Miha Ciglar

- features electro-acoustic performances, lectures, installations by invited foreign and domestic artists and sonic researchers. - focuses on new music technologies, sonic arts research, with it’s main focus being the idea of sound as a medium.

- push dialogue amongst the existing Slovene institutions which already are involved in contemporary music and sonic arts but mainly on an individual basis. - made in collaboration with various institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, f - 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 formed a platform for the 38th International Computer Music Conference in Ljubljana - in 2015, the fest was Music Tech fest - The festival of music ideas - before, took place in Berlin, Paris, London and Umeå

- Sveta trrojica - workshiop, lecture, performance

The aim of the festival is to create a referential international platform for discussing the latest developments within audio technology research and the artistic trends in sonic practices. EarZoom is featuring international artists and scientists presenting state of the art research in exciting disciplines like machine listening, algorithmic composition, new interfaces for musical expression, gesture recognition, ubiquitous computing, ambisonic systems for virtual sound environment synthesis, etc. The invited artists and researchers give talks on their research activities, organization schemes and their artistic productions, and further, present those in form of live performances, installations and workshops. The festival also aims to creating a dialogue amongst existing Slovenian institutions which are already running individual cycles of contemporary music and sonic arts. Those are involved in the organization of the festival by either offering the infrastructure or producing individual festival components (events or concert series).

Venues

- Cankarjev Dom and +MSUM, the Museum of Modern Art (2015) - Mota, Sploh, jakopič, škuc, kapa, kataman, kapelica, rtv 2009 - 2011 ljudmila, šiška, kinoteka, aksioma, mdoern galerija, škuc, menza, cd - 2011 pridzceti sploh, aksioma, cd - 2010 nič novga - 2013 epsrc fioreign podpora, queen mary uni of londion, - zavodporjek atol

- 2014 sponzorji:_ private neterpreners involve

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.

- While the main point of the symposium is the presenting of new trends in art, it is also a place of critical reflection. - 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 - 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.

- 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. - In 2010, the 6-day festival featured over 40 international scientists and artists. - and in 2013 it introduced for the first time an international call for works.

- not only performances, exhibitions and installations by established international artists, but also workshops and lectures on a wide selection of different sub-topics of electronic music, ranging from mobile music computing to hardware hacking. - shifting the focus from an exclusively technologically inspired concept of sonic arts towards a somewhat wider, socio-political context of contemporary arts

a concept of performing and composing called live coding. It is a special approach where the musician is writing computer code in real-time (live on stage), which is continuously being transformed into music

- presenting state of the art research in exciting disciplines like machine listening, algorithmic composition, new interfaces for musical expression, gesture recognition, ubiquitous computing, ambisonic systems for virtual sound environment synthesis, etc. - In Slovenia, these research areas are not yet developed, which was also one of the main reasons for establishing an Institute for Sonic Arts Research. - creating an international context for IRZU’s activities within the local environment.

- For this reason they decided to put these and other questions, concerning survival and identity creation within the institutional landscape, in the focus of this years festival edition. This kind of perspective extends the scope of the festival and opens a discussion concerning a broader range of cultural workers sharing a similar situation.

- „Music technology startups“ is the central theme of this year's festival and points out artistic projects that emerged through the development of commercial technology and products. The choice of this topic is based on our own experience with establishing IRZU – the Institute for Sonic Arts Research, which was founded in 2009. IRZU is actively engaged in three different areas within the field of music technology, that is: technological research and development, artistic production and education. Based on the results of IRZU's R&D activity, the spin-off company Ultrasonic audio technologies was established in 2011,

- showcase a selection of hardware and software projects, most of which refer to performance practice in contemporary electro-acoustic music and include state of the art technologies and concepts from the field of human-computer interaction, algorithmic composition and music information retrieval. EarZoom 2014 will try to outline the current trends of music and audio technologies that aim to address the needs of broader user groups, as well as offer a glimpse into the future of audio technology development.

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

guests

- Keith Rowe, tilt, luka juhgart, tao (zavod sploh) - Miller Puckette, avtor Pure Data programa c(2009) British composer and researcher Alex McLean theremidi eduardioroan Philippe Pasquier Matt Black (Ninja Tune peter ablinger

International collaboration

IRZU collaborates or has collaborated with many other international institutes: 2010 projekt

- 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).

- 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.

- TRACES is a series of artistic, research and curatorial dialogue and trans European exchange with a focus on interdisciplinary and transcultural practices in contemporary art and performance, resulting in a publication/DVD of the program and ongoing collaborative platform.

- A common ground and activities based in sound, media, performance and urban site-specific arts (interdisciplinary) links the partners, working in a series of critically engaged dialogues on the transmission, infection and dissemination of contemporary creative practices. - Imagining an ongoing partnership towards a mobile cultural practice going beyond the frontiers of individual countries, cities, artists and curators.

Project leader:Transcultures,Mons (BE)

2011 - sounds of europe, music technology group, crisap, aksioma

Collaboration with IMC

- 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.

- Venues: Stara Elektrarna (the old power station), Španski borci, Kino Šiška, Menza pri koritu, Jakopič Gallery, ŠKUC Gallery, Kapelica Gallery, Kiberpipa,

- In February 2011 we established a spin-off company: Ultrasonic audio technologies Ltd., with the purpose of commercializing some of our research results. Ultrasonic Ltd. will also be one of the main sponsors of the ICMC 2012.

- Co-producer: University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Computer and Information Science, - 6 dni - Key-note: Seth Kim-Cohen, Diedrich Diederichsen - Invitied compsoer: Johannes Kreidler

- Had a listening room, concerts, installations,

Music Tech fest

Music Tech Fests which took place in Berlin, Paris, London and Umeå

- #MTFResearch Network coupled with earzoom and had itas sympsium here

- 24-hour hack camp and the research symposium

Music Tech Fest Central Europe and take part in the #MTFCentral Hack Camp!

The best hackers, makers, designers, inventors, artists & musicians will join forces to help create the future of music, with exclusive access to brand new tech coming out of the top research institutes in Europe.

We will be announcing challenges and allowing time for team formation & brainstorming on Friday evening after Music Tech Fest begins. Hacking begins on the Saturday of the festival and runs through the night, finishing after 24 hours - and you'll showcase your projects on the #MTFStage on Sunday evening. We've got exclusive electronics & technologies from institutions such as Fraunhofer, IRCAM, Technische Universität Wien and the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra - and you'll get your hands on these before anyone else. There will be awards for the best entries in a range of different categories - and we have some money set aside to support promising projects to develop beyond the festival into real world commercial prototypes.

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

External links

www.irzu.org expired. Vprašat Miho Ciglarja kaj je na stvari. --Ziva 17:14, 2 November 2011 (CET)
Sedaj dela. --Anže Zorman (talk) 19:29, 8 December 2015 (CET)

EarZoom Sonic Arts Festival

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