It’s that wonderful time of the year once again, when we gather and celebrate the winter with an evening of live performances at Passos Manuel in Porto. This year, the program of Natal dos Experimentais will feature five performances and DJs, as well as the usual freebies. In the main stage we’ll have performances by …
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“Gamelan Descending a Staircase†reviewed by Taz
Ob so etwas im Berliner Schloss auch noch möglich sein wird? Der litauische Klangkünstler Arturas BumÅ¡teinas hat für sein Album „Gamelan Descending a Staircase“ im Jahr 2013 die Archive des Ethnologischen Museums Dahlem nutzen dürfen, um auf Perkussionsinstrumenten des traditionellen indonesischen Gamelan-Orchesters das Material für sein Titelstück, eine fünfzigminütige Großkomposition, einzuspielen. Als Inspiration diente ihm …
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“Gamelan Descending a Staircase†reviewed by Rockerilla
Gamelan Descending a Staircase by Arturas Bumšteinas
Christian Faubel at FBAUP
Besides performing at this year’s Natal dos Experimentais, Christian Faubel will also present a lecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. In this Faubel will present an overview of his work, including robotic installations, participatory workshops and live performances. Central to his work is the use of robots as philosophical …
Christian Faubel at Natal dos Experimentais 2015
Christian Faubel is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist. He is currently working at the laboratory for experimental computer science within the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and has completed research on autonomous systems at the Institute for Neural Computation from 2002-2012. In 2002 he founded derstrudel a collective …
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Hugo Paquete at Natal dos Experimentais 2015
Hugo Paquete (b 1979) Intermedia and sound artist, which in his research uses concepts about space, noise, error, glitch and micro-tonality as a visual and audible ecosystem according to spatial and Post-digital conditions. In his works he uses technical elements and practices from the field recording to computer generated sound synthesizing and audio spacialization. Denoting …
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Eosin at Natal dos Experimentais 2015
Eosin (Diana Combo) started composing and performing with vinyl records with fragmentation and collage in a process akin to plunderphonics. This approach gradually gave way to a more elaborate composition work, that also started to include field recordings. Diana has performed widely using vinyls as instruments for improvisation, crossing paths with Andrea Neumann, Ana Veloso, …
Futurónica 154
Episode 154 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, November 27th. The playlist of Futurónica 154 is: Bernard Parmegiani, Incidences / Résonances (1975, De Natura Sonorum, Recollection GRM / Editions Mego) Bernard Parmegiani, Accidents / Harmoniques (1975, De …
@c at Intermediale Festival 2015
Next Saturday, November 28, @c (Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela) will perform at the Intermediale Festival in Legnica, Poland. The evening will also include performances by Inire and Tombola.
Vertixe Vigo
Angelica V. Salvi and Miguel Carvalhais will perform works for harp and electronics by Kaija Saariaho, Eric Chasalow, Maria José Belenguer, and Fuzzy, at the Vertixe Vigo festival 2015. Next Thursday at 19h at Fundación Laxeiro.