Very happy with my new set of hydrophones – thank you, Jez R. French! Although the Danube was really quiet, I’ve made some nice recordings!

While sipping a “domestic” coffee in my favorite cafe on the Danube in Belgrade I read this beautiful essay by Brandon LaBelle, “Sonic Site-Specifities,” from the huge book Sound Art, edited by Peter Weibel. Brandon’s text deals with the political, social, and ethical benefits of sound art; IMO, it is a must-read for anyone interested in this art form. Simultaneously, I was listening to this beautiful underwater recording by Sharon Stewart, which connects so very well to Brandon’s message.

https://soundcloud.com/sharonrstewart/under-the-algae-marsh-serenade

Wonderful Colloquium in Paris on September 26 with a keynote by Richard Sennett

On November 29 and 30 the International Conference The Role and Position of Sound and Sounding Art in Public Urban Environments will take place at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Guest speakers (among many others): Salome Voegelin, Michael Bull, Gascia Ouzounian, Jean-Paul Thibaud, Edwin van der Heide, and Raviv Ganchrow.

Here’s the full program:

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 29

Opening

09:30 – 10:00: Registration

10:00 – 10:20: Falk Hübner/Maarten Zaagman: “I Will Carry You Over Hard Times”

10:20 – 10:30: Welcome (Marcel Cobussen)

Theme 1: Sound and Urban (Atmo)Spheres (Chair: Vincent Meelberg)

10:30 – 10:50: Miguelangel Clerc: “NS Den Haag-Groningen”

10:50 – 11:10: Jean-Paul Thibaud: “Atmospheric Impregnation”

11:10 – 11:30: Coffee Break + Cathy van Eck: “Für Kopfhörende”

11:30 – 11:50: Rene van Egmond: “Soundscapes in Human Product Interactions”

11:50 – 12:15: Gabriel Paiuk: “Technological conditions and engagement”

12:15 – 12:45: Discussion

Theme 2: Sound Art in Public Spaces (Chair: Jan Nieuwenhuis)

14:30 – 14:50: Salomé Voegelin: “Sound Art as Public Art”

14:50 – 15:10: Raviv Ganchrow: “Latent Aurality of Anechoic Chambers”

15:10 – 15:30: Irene van Kamp: “Understanding perceived soundscapes”

15:30 – 16:00: Discussion

Theme 3: Contemporary Urban Acoustic Experiences (Chair: Sharon Stewart)

16:30 – 16:50: Falk Hübner/Juan Parra: “Jukebox”

16:50 – 17:10: Gascia Ouzounian: “Acoustic Urbanism”

17:10 – 17:30: Tjeerd Andringa: “Experiencing Sound Annoyance”

17:30 – 18:00: Discussion

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 30

Opening

09:30 – 10:00: Registration

10:00 – 10:20: Justin Bennett: “Hyper-Forum: listening to the social”

10:20 – 10:25: Marcel Cobussen

Theme 4: Towards an Auditory Epistemology (Chair: Marcel Cobussen)

10:25 – 10:45: Edwin van der Heide: “Son-O-House, Spectral Diffractions, and Schwingungen – Schwebungen”

10:45 – 11:05: Michael Bull: “Sirens: From Sonic Myth to Sonic Materiality?”

11:05 – 11:35: Coffee Break + Cathy van Eck: “Für Kopfhörende”

11:35 – 11:55: Paul Craenen: “On sound art and listening time”

11:55 – 12:15: Christopher Williams: “Opening Ears and Selling MorrowSound”

12:15 – 12:25: Michiel Huijsman: “Is place confinement a form of deafness?”

12:25 – 13:00: Discussion

13:00 – 13:25: Cilia Erens: “Moving the Masses” (Soundwalk)

The Dark Precursor

Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium, 9 – 11 November 2015

Submissions are now open to DARE 2015, the first international conference explicitly addressing possibilities, uses and appropriations of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophies in the field of Artistic Research.

The conference is hosted by the Orpheus Institute, the European leading center for artistic research in music, and the MusicExperiment21 research program, funded by the European Research Council.

Confirmed presentations are by Éric Alliez, Ian Buchanan, Marcel Cobussen, Erin Manning, Taina Riikonen, Anne Sauvagnargues, Peter Stamer and Mick Wilson.

Submissions are welcome from all scholars of Deleuze and/or Guattari with a specific interest in artistic research, as well as from all artist and artist researchers specifically interested in Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy. This year’s theme is Deleuze’s concept of dark precursor and suggested areas of presentations include, but are not limited to:

• Film, music, painting, writing, etc. (Practices of creating and researching)
• Abstract machine, assemblage, diagram, dark precursor, etc. (Ontology)
• Dramatization, experimentation, rhizomatics, schizoanalysis, etc. (Epistemology and Methodology)
• Imaginary, figure, rhythm, sensation, etc. (Aesthetics)
• Code, form, sign, utterance, etc. (Logic)
• Becoming-x, habit, life, nomadism, etc. (Ethics and Politics)

Artists, artist researchers, and scholars are encouraged to experiment with all modes presentation (performative, participatory, collaborative, interactive, etc.) and within or across all art forms (performing, visual, aural, tactile, new media, design, literary, etc.). Please submit your outline of presentation in English or French using the DARE 2015 abstract submission system: http://dare2015.exordo.com/

The closing date for submission is Monday, 1 June 2015.

Conference website: darkprecursor.org

Conference coordinator: Paolo Giudici conference@darkprecursor.com

In October 2014 I gave a lecture at the University of Sao Paolo (Brazil) about research in and through the arts, with an emphasis on its methodological aspects. Here you can find an integral registration of this talk.