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BIO
Where performance art and sound art converge through technology, here lies Marco Donnarumma’s work. Italian born, living and working in London, Marco focuses on how to configure human bodies and machines through sound. He uses biotechnologies, software algorithms and body sensors to create intensely physical performances, concerts and live installations.
http://marcodonnarumma.com
http://marcodonnarumma.com
Embodied Sound: bodies, sounds and performance - concerts in London 13 May
Dates:
Wed May 13, 2015 18:00 - Wed May 13, 2015
Location:
London,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
You are warmly invited to attend this symposium curated by Guy Harries and organised by CPAD (Centre for Performing Arts Development) at UEL.
'Embodied Sound'
an evening symposium about contemporary live performance
Free entry, no booking required.
Wednesday 13 May at University of East London, University Square Stratford - US.3.38 (Studio 2)
1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF
SYMPOSIUM - performances, paper, panel talk: 6.00-9.00pm
WORKSHOP- "live sound/live vision": 4.15-5.45pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/452454428255574/
The symposium ‘Embodied Sound’ is an evening’s exploration and discussion of the connection between sound and the performer's body in current live practice. The wide range of approaches includes vocal experimentation, use of the body’s various ‘signals’ captured through sensors, and the translation/interpretation of sound into live illustration.
Performers will be presenting and discussing their live work, including: Marco Donnarumma, Sharon Gal and the Live Hazard Collective (Guy Harries and Valerie Pezeron.
Guest speaker Zeynep Bulut (King’s College London) will present a paper on the connection between sound and the body, and Michael Bunce (UEL) will chair a panel with all the presenters, including Q&A.
The symposium is preceded by an afternoon ‘live sound / live illustration’ workshop organised by Live Hazard Collective (4.15-5.45pm). All workshop participants will collaborate on an improvised sound piece, as well as live illustration in response to sound. ALL WELCOME (including those who do not consider themselves 'musicians' or 'illustrators').
The Centre for Performing Arts Development (CPAD) at the University of East London (UEL) is focused on developing original and innovative research in Performing Arts including Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, Music, Dance and Creative Writing with a particular emphasis on socially engaged practices, performance philosophy and cultures, practice-based research, digital and interdisciplinary research.
'Embodied Sound'
an evening symposium about contemporary live performance
Free entry, no booking required.
Wednesday 13 May at University of East London, University Square Stratford - US.3.38 (Studio 2)
1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF
SYMPOSIUM - performances, paper, panel talk: 6.00-9.00pm
WORKSHOP- "live sound/live vision": 4.15-5.45pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/452454428255574/
The symposium ‘Embodied Sound’ is an evening’s exploration and discussion of the connection between sound and the performer's body in current live practice. The wide range of approaches includes vocal experimentation, use of the body’s various ‘signals’ captured through sensors, and the translation/interpretation of sound into live illustration.
Performers will be presenting and discussing their live work, including: Marco Donnarumma, Sharon Gal and the Live Hazard Collective (Guy Harries and Valerie Pezeron.
Guest speaker Zeynep Bulut (King’s College London) will present a paper on the connection between sound and the body, and Michael Bunce (UEL) will chair a panel with all the presenters, including Q&A.
The symposium is preceded by an afternoon ‘live sound / live illustration’ workshop organised by Live Hazard Collective (4.15-5.45pm). All workshop participants will collaborate on an improvised sound piece, as well as live illustration in response to sound. ALL WELCOME (including those who do not consider themselves 'musicians' or 'illustrators').
The Centre for Performing Arts Development (CPAD) at the University of East London (UEL) is focused on developing original and innovative research in Performing Arts including Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, Music, Dance and Creative Writing with a particular emphasis on socially engaged practices, performance philosophy and cultures, practice-based research, digital and interdisciplinary research.
Xth Sense Biophysical Music NYC workshop, make your own biowearable - Oct. 4-5
Dates:
Sat Oct 04, 2014 11:00 - Sun Oct 05, 2014
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
(apologies for any x-post)
HYPHEN HUB WORKSHOPS
Xth Sense™ - Biophysical Music with Marco Donnarumma
Make your own low-cost biowearable for interactive music and video
OCTOBER 4TH - 5TH 2014, NEW YORK
This weekend course offers hands-on experience and theoretical training in the performance of biophysical music and visuals with the wearable instrument Xth Sense™ (XS). Workshop participants will build from scratch their own XS biosensors, then learn how to analyze and map the sound and data from their muscle, blood flow and body movements to generate music, visuals, and do live processing of sound. Attention will also be paid to aesthetic considerations when using the XS system in artistic contexts.
At the end of the workshop, participants will take home the XS bioacoustic sensors they built, and the related software for their own continued creative use.
WATCH the Xth Sense in action:
Some topics covered in the workshop include:
- Theoretical background on the state of art of gestural control of music
- Introduction to the Xth Sense (XS) framework (technical overview, capabilities)
- Building the biosensor
- An introduction to the open source artistic programming language PureData, tips and tricks for using PureData in live settings
- Explorations of bioacoustic sound design capabilities
- Building audio modules and signal processing chains
- Aesthetics of bioacoustic sensor-based performance
- Mapping muscle energy to control values and real-time processing
- Designing an aesthetic vocabulary for body-sensor performance
ABOUT THE XTH SENSE
The Xth Sense™ (2010-14) is a free and open biophysical technology. With it you can produce music with the sound of your body. The XS captures sounds from heart, blood and muscles and uses them to integrate the human body with a digital interactive system for sound and video production. In 2012, it was named the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument” and awarded the first prize in the Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (US). Today, the Xth Sense is used by a steadily growing community of creatives, ranging from performing artists and musicians, to researchers in physiotherapy and prosthetics, and universities and students in diverse fields. @xthsense
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/
DETAILS
REGISTER AT: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/xth-sensetm-biophysical-music-workshop-with-marco-donnarumma-at-hyphen-hub-tickets-13341421551
DATE: 4-5 OCTOBER, 2014
TIME: 11AM-5PM
COST: Regular: $280, Members & Students (with ID): $250 (+ $40 Materials Cost)
Registrants are reminded to bring the $40 for the materials cost in cash to the workshop.
MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 10
CONTACT FOR QUESTIONS: mark@hyphenhub.com
LOCATION: The Red Door, 140 West 24th Street, New York (between 6th and 7th ave)
COMPLETE WORKSHOP INFO: http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/xth-sense-biophysical-music/
INSTRUCTOR
Italian-born Marco Donnarumma is a performer, musician, sonic artist and writer based in London and New York City. He has performed, spoken and taught in over 50 countries worldwide for leading festivals, institutions, media labs and universities, such as Sonar+D, Festival Transmediale, FILE, New York Electronic Arts Festival, RPM Sound Art China, ISEA, Stanford CCRMA and STEIM, to name a few. His practice is considered a conceptually elaborated combination of physical actions, intense sonic experiences and forceful sensorial stimulation.
His work has been featured on BBC, Forbes, Reuters, ARTE.TV, Wired, RTVE and ResonanceFM, amongst the others.
Full bio and CV: http://marcodonnarumma.com/bio/
wishing you well,
HYPHEN HUB WORKSHOPS
Xth Sense™ - Biophysical Music with Marco Donnarumma
Make your own low-cost biowearable for interactive music and video
OCTOBER 4TH - 5TH 2014, NEW YORK
This weekend course offers hands-on experience and theoretical training in the performance of biophysical music and visuals with the wearable instrument Xth Sense™ (XS). Workshop participants will build from scratch their own XS biosensors, then learn how to analyze and map the sound and data from their muscle, blood flow and body movements to generate music, visuals, and do live processing of sound. Attention will also be paid to aesthetic considerations when using the XS system in artistic contexts.
At the end of the workshop, participants will take home the XS bioacoustic sensors they built, and the related software for their own continued creative use.
WATCH the Xth Sense in action:
Some topics covered in the workshop include:
- Theoretical background on the state of art of gestural control of music
- Introduction to the Xth Sense (XS) framework (technical overview, capabilities)
- Building the biosensor
- An introduction to the open source artistic programming language PureData, tips and tricks for using PureData in live settings
- Explorations of bioacoustic sound design capabilities
- Building audio modules and signal processing chains
- Aesthetics of bioacoustic sensor-based performance
- Mapping muscle energy to control values and real-time processing
- Designing an aesthetic vocabulary for body-sensor performance
ABOUT THE XTH SENSE
The Xth Sense™ (2010-14) is a free and open biophysical technology. With it you can produce music with the sound of your body. The XS captures sounds from heart, blood and muscles and uses them to integrate the human body with a digital interactive system for sound and video production. In 2012, it was named the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument” and awarded the first prize in the Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (US). Today, the Xth Sense is used by a steadily growing community of creatives, ranging from performing artists and musicians, to researchers in physiotherapy and prosthetics, and universities and students in diverse fields. @xthsense
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/
DETAILS
REGISTER AT: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/xth-sensetm-biophysical-music-workshop-with-marco-donnarumma-at-hyphen-hub-tickets-13341421551
DATE: 4-5 OCTOBER, 2014
TIME: 11AM-5PM
COST: Regular: $280, Members & Students (with ID): $250 (+ $40 Materials Cost)
Registrants are reminded to bring the $40 for the materials cost in cash to the workshop.
MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 10
CONTACT FOR QUESTIONS: mark@hyphenhub.com
LOCATION: The Red Door, 140 West 24th Street, New York (between 6th and 7th ave)
COMPLETE WORKSHOP INFO: http://marcodonnarumma.com/teaching/xth-sense-biophysical-music/
INSTRUCTOR
Italian-born Marco Donnarumma is a performer, musician, sonic artist and writer based in London and New York City. He has performed, spoken and taught in over 50 countries worldwide for leading festivals, institutions, media labs and universities, such as Sonar+D, Festival Transmediale, FILE, New York Electronic Arts Festival, RPM Sound Art China, ISEA, Stanford CCRMA and STEIM, to name a few. His practice is considered a conceptually elaborated combination of physical actions, intense sonic experiences and forceful sensorial stimulation.
His work has been featured on BBC, Forbes, Reuters, ARTE.TV, Wired, RTVE and ResonanceFM, amongst the others.
Full bio and CV: http://marcodonnarumma.com/bio/
wishing you well,
Neanderthal electronics meets Biophysical music - summer events in Estonia
Dates:
Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:25 - Mon Aug 04, 2014
Location:
Estonia
(sorry for possible x-post)
Dears,
hope to find you well.
Here to inform you about this humble and exciting tour in Estonia that Derek Holzer and myself are starting today and the ways you can join us.
The tour includes an artistic residency in a remote spot, a one-day bus tour to play music in abandoned villages, and a double workshop on Soundboxes and Biophysical music performance.
Soundboxes homepage: http://macumbista.net/?page_id=1897
Xth Sense homepage: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense
\\\\\\\\\\\ Artistic Residency at MAAJAAM
Valgamaa, EE.
- The residency will serve to develop new writing towards the realisation of a new musical performance for body technologies to be premiered at Spectrum, NYC, this October.
MAAJAAM is a project space in an old farm in Estonian countryside where art meets technology. Substituting the urban environment with a hilly rural landscape allows us to observe technology in it’s pure form and analyze it’s connections to us and the nature.
http://maajaam.ee/
\\\\\\\\\\\ Olematute kylade projekt / Project for Non-existent Villages
Võru, EE.
- One-day tour playing electro-acoustic and biophysical music across several abandoned villages in the Estonian countryside.
Expect some modular and visceral sounds resonating crackling walls:
http://macumbista.net/?page_id=482
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/ominous/
Audience, curators and artists travel together on a bus throughout a whole day of sound, silence, ghost houses and unexpected acoustics. Those villages are considered as null pointers; those points existing on maps and in cultural memory but which have lost the objects being refered to. Participating artists excavate embedded meanings in these culturally changing environments and search for intersections of traditional and contemporary cultural practices.
Book a spot for on the bus for 1 Euro by emailing to buss@taavisuisalu.com.
\\\\\\\\\\\ Soundboxes + Xth Sense workshops
Tallinn, EE.
Intensive two days crash course on building and making noise with the Soundboxes handmade electronics, and the Xth Sense biophysical wearable instrument.
http://www.kultuurikatel.ee/makerlab/event/soundboxes-workshop-with-derek-holzer/
http://www.kultuurikatel.ee/makerlab/event/xth-sense-make-your-own-biophysical-sensor-for-interactive-music-and-video/
Dears,
hope to find you well.
Here to inform you about this humble and exciting tour in Estonia that Derek Holzer and myself are starting today and the ways you can join us.
The tour includes an artistic residency in a remote spot, a one-day bus tour to play music in abandoned villages, and a double workshop on Soundboxes and Biophysical music performance.
Soundboxes homepage: http://macumbista.net/?page_id=1897
Xth Sense homepage: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense
\\\\\\\\\\\ Artistic Residency at MAAJAAM
Valgamaa, EE.
- The residency will serve to develop new writing towards the realisation of a new musical performance for body technologies to be premiered at Spectrum, NYC, this October.
MAAJAAM is a project space in an old farm in Estonian countryside where art meets technology. Substituting the urban environment with a hilly rural landscape allows us to observe technology in it’s pure form and analyze it’s connections to us and the nature.
http://maajaam.ee/
\\\\\\\\\\\ Olematute kylade projekt / Project for Non-existent Villages
Võru, EE.
- One-day tour playing electro-acoustic and biophysical music across several abandoned villages in the Estonian countryside.
Expect some modular and visceral sounds resonating crackling walls:
http://macumbista.net/?page_id=482
http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/ominous/
Audience, curators and artists travel together on a bus throughout a whole day of sound, silence, ghost houses and unexpected acoustics. Those villages are considered as null pointers; those points existing on maps and in cultural memory but which have lost the objects being refered to. Participating artists excavate embedded meanings in these culturally changing environments and search for intersections of traditional and contemporary cultural practices.
Book a spot for on the bus for 1 Euro by emailing to buss@taavisuisalu.com.
\\\\\\\\\\\ Soundboxes + Xth Sense workshops
Tallinn, EE.
Intensive two days crash course on building and making noise with the Soundboxes handmade electronics, and the Xth Sense biophysical wearable instrument.
http://www.kultuurikatel.ee/makerlab/event/soundboxes-workshop-with-derek-holzer/
http://www.kultuurikatel.ee/makerlab/event/xth-sense-make-your-own-biophysical-sensor-for-interactive-music-and-video/
STEIM Concert of Bodies Sat. 15 March, AMS
Dates:
Sat Mar 15, 2014 20:00 - Sun Mar 16, 2014
Location:
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
What your body can do? It can breathe, sweat, pulsate, bleed, cry, jump, walk and run, stay still, wait, think, feel and perceive, see, touch, smell, read, write and learn, communicate, surprise, seduce, entertain, love, die and become ashes.
Concert of Bodies brings before your eyes sounding bodies in all their physicality. Sonorous, invisible, imaginary, impalpable, yet physical, visceral, pulsating and alive bodies!
Join us for a night of music where sound materiality is caressed, touched, molded and torn only to escape the digital and reach out for your ears.
Line Up:
Marije Baalman (NL)
Erfan Abdi (IR/NL)
Marco Donnarumma (IT/UK)
More: http://steim.org/event/concert-of-bodies/
DETAILS:
DATE: 15th of March, 2014
TIME: 20:00
COST: €7,50 (Students with a student card get a €2,50 discount)
LOCATION: STEIM Concert Space, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Curated by Marco Donnarumma and STEIM
Concert of Bodies brings before your eyes sounding bodies in all their physicality. Sonorous, invisible, imaginary, impalpable, yet physical, visceral, pulsating and alive bodies!
Join us for a night of music where sound materiality is caressed, touched, molded and torn only to escape the digital and reach out for your ears.
Line Up:
Marije Baalman (NL)
Erfan Abdi (IR/NL)
Marco Donnarumma (IT/UK)
More: http://steim.org/event/concert-of-bodies/
DETAILS:
DATE: 15th of March, 2014
TIME: 20:00
COST: €7,50 (Students with a student card get a €2,50 discount)
LOCATION: STEIM Concert Space, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Curated by Marco Donnarumma and STEIM
[NL] Xth Sense: make your own biowearable for interactive performance
Dates:
Sat Mar 15, 2014 10:00 - Sun Mar 16, 2014
Location:
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
This weekend course offers hands-on experience and theoretical training in the performance of biophysical music and visuals with the Xth Sense (XS). Workshop participants will build from scratch their own XS sensors, then learn how to analyze and map the data from their muscle and body movements to generate music, visuals, and do live processing of sound. Attention will also be paid to aesthetic considerations when using the XS system in artistic contexts.
At the end of the workshop, participants will take home the XS bioacoustic sensors they built, and the related software for their own continued creative use.
DETAILS:
DATE: 15-16 MARCH, 2014
TIME: 10-17h each day
COST: €110 (includes €25 sensor kit & parts)
MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 12
LOCATION: STEIM Concert Space, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
More info: http://steim.org/event/xth-sense-make-your-own-biophysical-sensor-for-interactive-music-and-video-2/
The Xth Sense in action: https://vimeo.com/86766860
Some topics covered in the workshop include:
- Theoretical background on the state of art of gestural control of music
- Introduction to the Xth Sense (XS) framework (technical overview, capabilities)
- Building the wearable biosensor
- An introduction to the open source artistic programming language PureData, tips and tricks for using PureData in live settings
- Explorations of bioacoustic sound design capabilities
- Building audio modules and signal processing chains
- Aesthetics of bioacoustic sensor-based performance
- Mapping muscle energy to control values and real-time processing
- Designing an aesthetic vocabulary for body-sensor performance
At the end of the workshop, participants will take home the XS bioacoustic sensors they built, and the related software for their own continued creative use.
DETAILS:
DATE: 15-16 MARCH, 2014
TIME: 10-17h each day
COST: €110 (includes €25 sensor kit & parts)
MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 12
LOCATION: STEIM Concert Space, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
More info: http://steim.org/event/xth-sense-make-your-own-biophysical-sensor-for-interactive-music-and-video-2/
The Xth Sense in action: https://vimeo.com/86766860
Some topics covered in the workshop include:
- Theoretical background on the state of art of gestural control of music
- Introduction to the Xth Sense (XS) framework (technical overview, capabilities)
- Building the wearable biosensor
- An introduction to the open source artistic programming language PureData, tips and tricks for using PureData in live settings
- Explorations of bioacoustic sound design capabilities
- Building audio modules and signal processing chains
- Aesthetics of bioacoustic sensor-based performance
- Mapping muscle energy to control values and real-time processing
- Designing an aesthetic vocabulary for body-sensor performance