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Due to COVID-19, the 2020 MICA Vigil – All Night Music Festival had to be cancelled. But the students in Jason Sloan’s Live Electronik Musik course performed and recorded their live sets remotely for this special 3 hour mix we call The Virtual Vigil. So kick back, chill out and enjoy.
Esther Jiao – 0:00 – 16:48
Jennifer Lee – 16:49 – 21:50
Gabriel Chez - 21:51 – 34:49
Uriel Cruz – 34:50 – 38:05
Dev Valladares – 38:06 – 58:50
Ashton Redman – 58:01 – 1:07:00
Lila Church – 1:08:00 – 1:25:00
Simon Shankweller – 1:26:00 – 1:35:00
Nick Kolasny – 1:36:00 – 1:56:00
L’Avenir (Jason Sloan) – 1:57:00 – 1:59:00
Amber Roberts – 2:00:00 – 2:16:00
Xi Yu – 2:17:00 – 2:30:00
Uriel Cruz – 2:31:00 – 2:40:00
Simon Shankweller – 2:41:00 – 2:47:00
Uriel Cruz – 2:48:00 – 2:53:00
Sound Art at MICA presents a conversion about Sound Art with Musician and Author Alan Licht. Licht has lectured widely on sound art and served as faculty in the Music/Sound department at the Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. He is a contributing music editor at BOMB magazine and writes frequently for Artforum, Art Review, Parkett, Organised Sound and the WIRE.
His new book Sound Art Revisited was published last year by Bloomsbury Academic and can be purchased at all good book retailers. Alan will also have copies available for sale after the talk.
Sound Art Revisited at AMAZON
Free Admission
7pm
Fred Lazarus IV Center Auditorium
131 W North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21201
We’re excited to be offering a new Sound Art course this coming Fall 2019: The Soundscape
Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to field recording and field recording composition (phonography), acoustic ecology and concepts of deep listening through the exploration of multiple acoustic environments throughout Baltimore City and its surrounding counties. The class will also take an anthropological approach and consider how different cultures, urban development and humans have influenced our sonic environment throughout history while considering its positive and negative effects.
Topics covered will include soundscape theory and history, microphones and recorders, in field techniques and tools for recording sound, working in a variety of locations, basic sound editing and composition, working with Natural VLF (Very-Low-Frequency) phenomena, microsound, aural architecture, noise, hydrophones for underwater recording, building contact microphones and acousmatic composition.
In addition to multiple creative projects the class will also produce a future edition of Framework, a weekly sixty minute international radio program dedicated to field recording and its use in composition
Sound Art@MICA Presents the only area screening of:
Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay.
Industrial Soundtrack is the first film to trace the origins of industrial music, taking you on a journey through the crumbling industrial cities of Europe to America’s thriving avant-garde scene.
Industrial music emerged in the mid 70’s, providing a vibrant, provocative and artistic soundtrack to the picket lines, economic decline and cultural oppression of the era. Whether factory workers, students or unemployed, industrial music pioneers were all educated, artistically minded and politically aware artists who started with little to no musical background and went on to change musical history.
Industrial musicians found inspiration in Krautrock bands Kraftwerk, Faust and Can, 20th century art movements Dada, Futurism and Surrealism and post-modern writers William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and J.G. Ballard. Combining the do-it-yourself attitude of punk with mail art and underground fanzines, these pioneers were also among the first bands to incorporate tape loops, homemade synthesizers, factory field recordings and cut-up techniques in their music.
Discover the personal story of industrial music founders Throbbing Gristle, Sheffield’s prolific Dada inspired band Cabaret Voltaire, award-winning soundtrack composer Graeme Revell of SPK, noise music inventor Boyd Rice of NON and fifteen other of the genre’s most influential figures, exposing their incredible stories for the first time on film.
Maryland Institute College of Art
Fred Lazarus IV Center Auditorium – L115
131 W. North Ave, Baltimore, MD
Friday September 18th at 8pm.
Free Admission
Sound Art students spent a week in residence this past March 14-23, 2014, at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras (CMMAS), in Morelia, Mexico. MICA Sound Art faculty members Jason Sloan and Erik Spangler lead workshops in phonography (acoustic ecology and field recording), musique concréte (found-sound audio collage), and group improvisation using graphic scores (visual designs guiding the production of sounds in performance). Audio and video documentation of the local area were incorporated into a collaborative multimedia piece, performed at both CMMAS and MICA. CMMAS staff and artists in residence also presented talks on their work, and on audio technology available for use in the performance.
All workshops, including those by the MICA faculty and by musicians associated with CMMAS, were also attended by local Mexican students who also participated in the collaborative performance with the MICA students in the program.
MICA Sound Project Studio@CMMAS – Morelia Mexico from SoundArt@MICA on Vimeo.
MICA Sound Art and Interactive Arts alumni Chang Park recently spoke with Create Digital Music’s Peter Kirn about his upcoming collaborative project with Maxqueen (Kloe) in Berlin. You can read the entire interview and watch videos relating to the project over at CDM. [LINK]
We’re very excited to present a live performance by electronic musician and sound artist JesterN a.k.a. Alberto Novello on October 8, 2013 at the Wind Up Space in Baltimore.
The show begins at 9pm and is $5.
Support will be provided by Baltimore electronic artists:
- Liz Meredith
- Brune
Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN is a scientist, composer, sound and video artist born in Udine (Italy) in 1977. He studied piano and double bass at the Conservatory of Udine, and played electric bass with several Italian bands. In 2002, he graduated in Physics at the University of Trieste (Italy), he then joined his passion for music experimentation and science completing in 2004 the master “Art, Science and Technologies” at the Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble (France), under the guidance of J.C. Risset, J.B. Barriere, and C. Cadoz. He was teacher of electronic music composition at the Conservatory Ghedini of Cuneo form 2004 to 2006. From 2004 to 2009 he worked at the Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands in the field of Music Perception and Music Information Retrieval with several publications in international conferences and journals. In 2009 he received a PhD degree at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands) with A. Kohlrausch. In 2012 he graduate in electroacoustic music composition at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory of Den Haag with P. Berg, J. Ryan, and R. Barret. Since 2004 he produced several electronic audio visual pieces that can be found on his website.
His works have been presented in international festivals and institutes such as Rewire Festival, ToolKit Festival, NIME Conference, ICMC and CCMAS.
http://www.jestern.com/
http://soundcloud.com/
http://vimeo.com/jestern
On our second program exchange to STEIM, the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Sound Art program explored the the unique soundscape of Amsterdam and the sonic finger print of STEIM in a live performance Sunday evening March 24th, 2013. Five undergraduate students, led by MICA sound art faculty Jason Sloan and Erik Spangler, created a unique improvisional performance based on sampling from STEIM’s archive of vintage analog synthesizers while also drawing from an original archive of field recordings created while visiting Amsterdam. Through this process of mixing two unique and historic soundscapes this performance brought forward a unique music that celebrates both the city of Amsterdam and the STEIM organization.
http://steim.org/event/martins-rokis-and-mica-exchange-students/
MICA soundArt students at STEIM in Amsterdam
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Sound Art students and concentrators, Sasha de Koninck, Shawn Cook, Andrew Scotti, Tyler Tamburo, Faith Bocian, along with IDA/Sound Art faculty members Jason Sloan and Erik Spangler visited STEIM [STudio for Electro Instrumental Music] in Amsterdam for a week-long residency over Spring Break. Through workshops with STEIM staff and independent work in the studio, the students developed their own electronic instruments that they used in a public performance at the end of the week. An excerpt from the final performance can be streamed below.
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