September, 2010

Collected Ear: Framework Afield – 9/26/10

Posted in Listen, News on Monday, September 27th, 2010

Framework – phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity Presented by Patrick Mcginley Framework broadcasts: – Sunday, 10pm, London, UK on *resonance 104.4fm* – Tuesday, 2pm, London, UK on *resonance 104.4fm* – Wednesday, 12am, Thessaloniki, GR on *cooradio* – Wednesday, 3am, Lisbon, PT on *radio zero* – Thursday, 7pm, Lisbon, PT on *radio [...]



RENDER

Posted in Listen, News on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

RENDER // 9pm-10pm // 24th September 2010 // Free Radio SAIC Sound graduate student Kim Walker will be live on Free Radio SAIC talking about her art practice and her position as committee member and founder of on-line gallery Stramash Space, based in Scotland. Software, hardware, and humanware. Render is a weekly show featuring an [...]



Students and Faculty on SoundCloud

Posted in Listen on Friday, September 17th, 2010

You can now listen to audio work by some of our students and faculty on-line at SoundCloud. Click here or see our Listening page. Shawn Decker Kyle Evans Eric Leonardson Kim Walker



Visiting Artist Program – Rhys Chatham

Posted in Events on Monday, September 13th, 2010

Rhys Chatham // 4pm // Wednesday 15th September // Sensorium // 4th Fl // 112 S. Michigan Ave // Chicago Chatham aimed for naturalism and transcendence: simultaneously beautific and horrifying, his music can sound like a tornado or a swarm of bees, as peaceful as a nave or as chaotic as an avalanche. Sumptuously designed… [...]



Motion Studies (Prairie)

Posted in Events on Friday, September 10th, 2010

Sound faculty Shawn Decker presents Motion Studies (Prairie) at the Experimental Sound Studio. This piece  is a large-scale sound installation that investigates simple sounds combined with architectonics, landscape and unpredictable patternmaking. A field of thin rods, each with a small loudspeaker and motor, produces clicking sounds and  slight quivers in computer-generated patterns. The effect is [...]



Visiting Artist Program – Ben Frost

Posted in Events on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Ben Frost // Wednesday 8th September 2010 @ 4pm // Sensorium // 4th Fl // 112 S. Michigan Ave // Chicago Frost’s music is more than a cerebral exercise and has an undeniable visceral presence, felt as much as heard. His compositions are created with an acute awareness of the listener and their comfortable thresholds, [...]



Listening for the Future – ASAE

Posted in News on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Faculty Eric Leonardson’s report about Listening for the Future, the first American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE) symposium and retreat, has been published on the September/October World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) website. Eric has been appointed as president of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology. You can read his report and find out more [...]



Dialogues at Links Hall

Posted in Events on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

the dialogues – Nine Monday nights this fall, a new set of two award-winning performers are put “on the line” with someone they don’t know and cannot see. What ensues is a live and lively conversation led only by voice and meaning – dreams, stories, humor, controversy, and communion in 50-minutes of totally unplanned dialogue.  [...]