!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Summer 08, APO33 keep going! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Events : @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 4th July: CONFERENCE Workshop on the future of free software in sound creation – Exhibition: Unconference Expo Brighton (sound art and experimental music festival) How do free software and open source influence and open the creative process as well as art practice? And vice versa? For a few years now, free software influence has been effective through the use of creation-dedicated tools in the field of artistic production and it has begun to free itself from the hegemony of the largest proprietary software firms. Through the development of free software, a new field of concepts and principles has emerged: the logic of openness of source code, sharing and open distribution, the possibility to intervene on sources and in the sharing, the tasks of documenting and spreading knowledge and experience and thus allowing re-appropriation by others, new ways to work together or in a network, the questioning of copyrights and the search for alternative rights. Programme: Presentation by APO33 & A10LAB creative projects through free software, free software 'show' for the Sound and Install Party; debating free sofware. more information: http://expounconference.pbwiki.com/ http://expofestival.org/ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 14 to 17 July: INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE : HALBOT HALBOT in Bulgaria/Hungary – collaborative work of CS3 & APO33 HAL and BOT are two different sound installations on the Net; they have respectively been developed by: CS3 (HAL) and Apo33 (BOT). They catch the surrounding sounds and consider the sites where they have been originated as a part of their existence: the sonic context of the city, vehicles, passers-by, resounding walls, or as many sonic sources that shape the sonic picture of a place. HALBOT should be seen as a dialogue between these two projects; its 3 installations have been set up by Apo33 and CS3: in Giurgiu and Rousse, a double installation will be built, and interconnected via the Internet to a third one in Mons (Belgium). Our objectif will be to look at two different ways of considering a territory and sonic forms within similar settings of technical constraints, with some allowance for different ways to collect the various sounds and images. This interconnection demands that the installation will be de-located, or rather multi-located, as each city influences the others. The sound installations of Mons, Giurgiu and Rousse, with their mesh of cables and machines, somehow evoke a sculpture, a kind of meta-installation over different spaces and times. In each city, visitors who meet one installation will be able to imagine they hear from another space-time: capable of mixing a nearby city across the opposite bank of the river to another one, far away, close to another river. CS3 and APO33 (CIA) more information on: http://www.sound-delta.eu @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ From 15 August to 21 September: BIOBOT exhibit in COASTOMIZE & other Mixed Realities Archeological museum of Velkeze (Belgium) for the « Contemporary art in the Flanders » exhibition a crossing between the – BOT and the Biotope observatory: a networking installation in Nantes, Velzeke, Le Pellerin, Norfolk and London Initiated by Apo33, BOTs make up a virtual community in the continuation of the « Poulpe » project, creating a series of entities grafted on specific locations in order to complement them. BOTs introduce a new approach to the digital world: networks, immobile multi-geolocation, inter-connection of data produced or transformed on-line, automation of processes on reality and – particularly in the case of BOTs – an exploration of an experimentative site always accessible on-line from anywhere. 'L'observatoire biotope' is a laboratory aiming at experimenting in different ways on a territory, by considering various milieux and looking at different interactions and phenomena related to the Bios. This transdisciplinary laboratory is open to all public, it brings together researchers and creators from various sites via the Net. All the collected data and the results of the experiments will be recorded on various forms of back up to be freely consulted through different media (web-site, print, videos...). more information: http://www.apo33.org/dokapo/doku.php?id=bot http://crealab.info/ecos/doku.php?id=observatoire_biotope /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// NON-STOP LAB: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// RADIO --> APO33 keeps on investigating the web-radio issue. on-line: ---------------------------------- RADIOACT Radioact is a web-radio introducing to the public at large: sonic creations or works of various artists interested by different themes or concepts. Many points of view from many angles. Various radio creations to be diffused in a continuous flow or in specific broadcasts. Radioact as a web-radio is fully integrated in the evolution of to-day's radio. To-day, sounds, sonic pieces, can be kept, recorded, archived, or be chosen and shared in a small or large scale. http://radio2.apo33.org:8000/radioact.ogg.m3u ------------------------------------ The 'POULPE' The 'POULPE' (octopus) is an analog and digital organism that lives in a network. Each 'tentacle' is made up of a sonic inbstallation located in a place where it collects the sound effects of its context and send them on to a local digital automaton that transforms them before the outcome is distributed simultaneously to a series of local loud speakers and to the Internet, through streaming. The 'POULPE' is established in a public space. It constitutes the virtual body of the city, expressing through sounds the city's invisible movements, all its flows... The 'POULPE' spreads its tentacles to connect ever different contexts that exchange sonic flows via the Internet, continuous sonic flows that infiltrate and modify the environment. The 'POULPE' in Nantes : http://radio2.apo33.org:8000/poulpe_nantes.ogg.m3u ------------------------------------- TRANZION RADIO Radio for a transition of movements and displacements, catching as you can and then disappearing to show again a bit further! Experimentating Tranzion in 06/2008 : As I draw sinusoidal forms, I invente a new way to listen to background or active music. Constructing paradoxical entities, alternatively calm and tense, I confront an actual stage presence in this automatic music, some delay and something vague in its race to nothingness. A first sketch with oscillators, delays and samplers? This month, I try to build a synthetic automaton (no sonic source) to develop a listening position in the auditor's space. Shall I be the first auditor? I experiment and adapt the result to my own, intimate, private (?) space. And expand it to yours ? (Julien Ottavi) http://radio2.apo33.org:8000/tranzion_radio.ogg.m3u ------------------------------------------- BOT Initiated by Apo33, BOTs make up a virtual community in the continuation of the POULPE project, to create a series of entities grafted on to one location to spread further on to many more places. The BOT is a new approach to digital phenonmena: the Net, immobile multi-geolocation, inter-connection of data produced or treated on-line, action on reality through the automaton and - especially for the BOT – an always accessible site for experimentation, from anywhere. BOT is an excrescence of reality. « There are so many stories on these man-machines ; man tends to multiply and machines stand halfway between us and immortality ». In BOTs, there is a kind of game that involves time, infinity ; BOTs play with places and our present, they catch and chew moments – points in time - and transform them ; and there is in them an essential quality that transcends matter... Via their various sensors (audio, data, video...), BOTs collect information and they process it in different ways, by the BOT network (through on line transmission of digital data) and by the persons who participate in conceiving and programming them. APOBOT (Nantes) : http://radio2.apo33.org:8000/apobot.ogg.m3u A10BOT (London) : http://www.a10lab.info:8000/a10bot.ogg.m3u BIOBOT (Pellerin) : http://62.147.161.142:8000/biobot_pellerin.ogg.m3u soon : biobot of Norfolk, Velzeke...etc /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// FIBRR RECORDS --> 1st to 20 August: Exploring the inaudible this summer in Norfolk: recording and collecting hydrophonic sounds, or the noise of ants, bats and VLF... These recordings are available on the http://fibrr.apo33.org site, in the « open recording » section !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Next FIBRR concert: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -25 July - 19h30 @ Area10 - London with: Nigel Wright The radio Active Ensemble Julien Ottavi Cheap Machines and more!!! + info on www.apo33.org : fibrr records http://www.a10lab.info/beyondsignal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New CDs : !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOT « realRXtrack » (FIBRR010)::::::::::octobre 2008 JOACHIM MONTESSUIS / RANDY YAU / JULIEN OTTAVI (FIBRR011 - collaboration with Erratum & 23Five) - TBC ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// APO33 is supported by Mairie de Nantes, the Conseil Général de Loire Atlantique and the DRAC Pays de la Loire ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// APO33 http://www.apo33.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre