Field recordings of 24-hour periods, weeks, months on Giant Ear))) the soundscape of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology. How do you hear 24 hours? How does a soundscape change over time? Curated by Scott Sherk.

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted

1-4 p.m.
Radio Lab Workshop
Pre-registration required $25 materials fee
free103point9 Radio Labs provides workshop participants with technical skills and contextual background to consider and utilize the transmission spectrum for creative expression. This workshop will address four main topics: the history of broadcasting; how transmitters work; online transmission tools; and transmission arts as a creative medium. Participants will join Max Goldfarb (free103point9), Andy Gunn (free103point9 & Prometheus Radio Project), and Tom Roe (free103point9) for a transmitter building workshop. Each participant will complete the workshop with a low-power FM radio transmitter of their own. This workshop is limited to 12 participants. Please contact transmitter@universityoftrash.org to secure your spot.

4-5 p.m.
Dinner break

5-7 p.m.
Panel
Join transmission artists neuroTransmitter, Tom Roe; engineer Andy Gunn and others for an informal discussion about their work and issues of free speech, free space, and the right to the airwaves.

7-9 p.m.
Event
Angel Nevarez (neuroTransmitter,) Radio Ruido, and Tom Roe broadcast DJ sets from Max Goldfarb’s M49 radio transmission truck to boomboxes setup around the university. Beer will be available.

About University of Trash
From April through July this year, New York based artist Michael Cataldi and London based artist Nils Norman will transform the Sculpture Center into The University of Trash, an exciting experiment in alternative city building and design. Working collaboratively and collectively with students, local organizations, activists, and academics, the artists will gather and investigate research material related to the activities of 1970s countercultural "Appropriate Technology" movement, adventure playgrounds, "Non-plan", emergency and low-impact design, and the vernacular of makeshift housing in 3D form. The result will be the creation of a crazy complex of interconnected architectural spaces, pavilions and walkways from readymade, recycled and found materials. On view May 10 - August 3, the exhibition will run parallel to an extensive series of related workshops, talks and film screenings. More information.

Field recordings and original works of the sounds of destruction on Giant Ear))) the soundscape of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology. Audio that evokes or record destruction, crashes, explosions. Curated by Mary Jeys. Tune in at www.free103point9.org.

Join free103point9 for an evening of listening at Catskill's Historic Catskill Point on the Hudson River. Sound Mapping will feature a live performance from members of the New York Society of Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE), a conversation between artists Alexis Bhagat and Annea Lockwood, and Annea Lockwood's canonical work “A Sound Map of the Hudson River.” Free admission. Audiences are encouraged to bring picnics. This is a family-friendly event, children are welcome.

This event is presented in conjunction with WGXC: Hands-on Radio in Greene and Columbia Counties, a project of free103point9. Special thanks to Patty Austin, Dick Brooks, and Greene County Economic Development, Tourism & Planning for facilitating the use of Catskill Point.

6 p.m.: Moving Water, New York Society of Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE)

Moving Water is a two-part interactive performance. The first part is a tuning of the audience-- NYSAE members will guide participants through "Ear Cleaning" exercises and help to activate their ears for focused listening to the immediate soundscape. In the second part, NYSAE conducts the audience in an improvised sound-making performance, documenting the resulting mixture of gestures and sound in the field of shared space. The audience will be split into groups and instructed to make sounds of varying timbre and texture around the theme of moving water. Through the listening exercises and performance, NYSAE aims to provide the audience with listening tools to take away from the event as well as preparing them for Annea Lockwood's subtle and beautiful work.

Performers from NYSAE: Andrea Callard, Jamie Davis, Jonny Farrow, Todd Shalom and Andrea Williams.

6:40 p.m.: Introduction and interview with Annea Lockwood conducted by Alexis Bhagat.

7 - 9 p.m.: A Sound Map of the Hudson River: Annea Lockwood, recording, mixing; the Hudson River

A Sound Map of the Hudson River is an aural journey from the source of the river, in the high peak area of the Adirondacks, downstream to the Lower Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; Lockwood traces the course of the Hudson through on-site recordings of its flow at 15 separate locations. Annea Lockwood has recorded rivers in many countries to explore the special state of mind and body which the sounds of moving water create when one listens intently to the complex mesh of rhythms and pitches. The listener will find that each stretch of the Hudson has its own sonic texture, formed by the terrain, varying according to the weather, the season and downstream, the human environment whose sounds are intimately woven into the river's sounds.

At Catskill Point (July 5, 2009,) interviews conducted by Lockwood about the Hudson River are simultaneously transmitted and accessed by attendees though portable radios with headphones. Note: a version of this project is available on CD through Lovely Music. See: http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd2081.html.

About the Artists

The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE) is a membership organization that advocates listening and promotes public dialogue about the urban sound environment. NYSAE creates and encourages new ways of encountering sound and provides resources and information on acoustic ecology. Through projects, lectures, performances, exhibitions, festivals, publications and broadcasts, NYSAE addresses historical and contemporary local, national and international sound issues. Please visit: www.nyacousticecology.org.

Alexis Bhagat's work is dedicated to the destruction of authorship and authority through the cultivation of new forms for radically poly-vocal sound, transmission of promiscuous conversation, and obsessive never-ending correspondence. He is the curator of ((audience)), a nomadic festival of surround sound compositions.

Annea Lockwood was born in 1939 in Christchurch, New Zealand where she received her early training as a composer. After completing a B.Mus (hons) she went on to study composition at the Royal College of Music in London, with Peter Racine Fricker (1961-63); at the Darmstadt Ferienkurs fur Neue Musik (1962-63); and with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Musikhochschule, Cologne, Germany and in Holland (1963-64). Returning to London in 1964, she freelanced as a composer-performer in Britain and other European countries until moving to the USA in 1973. There she continued to freelance and teach, first at CUNY, Hunter College, then, from l982 and at present on the faculty of Vassar College, NY.

During the 1960s she collaborated frequently with sound-poets, choreographers and visual artists, and created a number of works which she herself performed, such as the Glass Concert (1967), later published in Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, and recorded on Tangent Records, then on What Next CDs. In this work a variety of complex sounds were drawn from industrial glass shards and glass tubing, and presented as an audio-visual theater piece. In synchronous homage to Christian Barnard's pioneering heart transplants, Lockwood created the Piano TranspIants (1969-72), in which old, defunct pianos were variously burned, "drowned" in a shallow pond in Amarillo, Texas, and partially buried in an English garden.

During the 1970s and '80s she turned her attention to performance works focused on environmental sounds, life-narratives and performance works using low-tech devices such as her Sound Ball (a foam-covered ball containing 6 small speakers and a radio receiver, originally designed to "put sound into the hands of" dancers). World Rhythms (l975), Conversations with the Ancestors (1979, based on the life stories of four women over 80), A Sound Map of the Hudson River (l982), Delta Run (1982, built around a conversation she recorded with the sculptor Walter Wincha, who was close to death), and the surreal Three Short Stories and an Apotheosis (l985, using the Sound Ball) were widely presented in the US, Europe and in New Zealand.

She turned to writing for acoustic instruments and voices, sometimes incorporating electronics and visual elements, in the 1990s, producing pieces for a variety of ensembles: Thousand Year Dreaming (1991) is scored for four didgeridus and other instruments and incorporates slides of the cave paintings at Lascaux; Ear-Walking Woman (1996), for pianist Lois Svard, invites the pianist to discover a range of sounds available inside the instrument, using rocks, bubble-wrap, bowl gongs and other implements; Duende (1997) a collaboration with baritone Thomas Buckner, carries the singer into a heightened state, similar to a shamanic journey, through the medium of his own voice.

Much of her music has been recorded, on the Lovely, XI, ?What Next?/OO Discs, Rattle Records (NZ), Harmonia Mundi, CRI and Finnadar/Atlantic labels. -http://www.lovely.com/bios/lockwood.html

Note: This event will be documented (including videotape.)

free103point9 is pleased to present two Microradio Sound Walks at the 2009 Ingenuity Fest in Cleveland featuring Matt Bua, Max Goldfarb, and Tom Roe. Microradio Sound Walk is a multiple transmitter sound piece and walking tour of local artist-generated airwaves. The piece consists of multiple transmission stations situated along a loosly defined walking path tuned to a single frequency, but with a limited range. At each station, an artist creates a soundscape on a single FM frequency that responds to both the architecture and sonic phenomena of a specific space. Listeners with radios tuned to the project frequency proceed through the route in the order of their choosing; as they move farther away from one station and come closer to the next, the signal they receive will shift. This sonic progression maps the spatial qualities of an area's local airwaves.

The Walks will take place on Friday, July 10 at 7pm and Saturday, July 11 at 4pm. Additional details will be posted as the become available. Please us the drop-down arrows to the left to access detailed information about each participating artist.

The Ingenuity Festival returns with a weekend-long celebration of art and technology, designed for audiences of any age and experience, staged in the center of Downtown Cleveland. Prominent international masters present original works alongside the finest of Northeast Ohio's performing and visual artists. High technology firms and major colleges and universities are presented alongside acclaimed artists to create a dazzling display of exciting and immersive new work! Ingenuity pushes boundaries, creating a unique festival experience that draws and celebrates diversity, and involves the audience as both spectator and participant!

DATES AND TIMES

July 10-12, 2009

LOCATION

Once again, Ingenuity will occupy a sprawling festival campus in downtown Cleveland at Playhouse Square Center, featuring its historic theatres, E. 14th Street, Star Plaza, Idea Center, and a variety of under-utilized storefronts and alleys in the surrounding neighborhood! Performance and exhibition areas are created from the unique urban setting, encouraging the audience to see and experience the city environment from a new and exciting perspective. Find a downloadable map here.

ADMISSION PASSES

With a dynamic mix of programs and presentations occurring weekend-long, all tickets include admission to all the events throughout the day!

Single day admission is $10, a weekend pass is $15, and children 12 and under are admitted free of charge.

Special guests Tamara Yadao and Jeremy D. Slater, also known as tū, are an audiovisual performance duo. Their sound work uses field recordings, spoken word, ambient noise and drones created with oscillators, guitars, radios, voice, and other objects. Investigations include the collective experience of listening in the medium of radio, liminal relationships in sound juxtaposition, phonemic reduction and memory differentiation of sound and signifier.

Screening of remix documentary film "RIP: A Remix Manifesto" and performance from Eclectic Method, - London natives Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen - who make audio-visual mash-ups featuring television, film, music and video game footage sliced and diced into blistering, post-modern dance- floor performances. Audio streamed live on WGXC Online Radio at www.wgxc.org.

What is it about Eclectic Method that inspired U2, Fatboy Slim and Public Enemy to employ their talents? That inspired Cannes and Sundance to have them headline their closing night parties? That impressed Motown and XL Records to hire them for official remixes; Sony PlayStation to have them develop video games levels, and MTV Europe to have them kick-start the MTV Mash series? Simply put, it’s because Eclectic Method is reshaping the platforms to bring us a different view of a party. Fans of the Colbert Report will recognize these guys’ work as they were featured on the Report by accepting Stephen’s dare to remix an interview. http://www.eclecticmethod.net/video/streaming-video/the-colbert-report-remix/ Maybe you were one of those 30 Roc fans who were spreading their video remix all over the interweb http://www.eclecticmethod.net/video/streaming-video/30-rock-remixed-2/ Or maybe you’ve seen their work helping Obama get …his new puppy… into the White House. http://www.eclecticmethod.net/news/having-puppies-on-cnn/ One way or another you’re likely to have seen Eclectic Methods remixes of pop culture somewhere. And now you have the chance to see E.M. bring it to the dance floor. E.M. mixes video and music seamlessly to fill the floor with sounds and the walls with video.

And to juice it up a bit, we will be working together with WGXC (the new Columbia-Greene Community Radio Station) to broadcast the mix on their now-active website. Live web stream on WGXC Online Radio at www.wgxc.org.

The night is preceeded by a special screening of remix documentary “RIP: A Remix Manifesto” Contact: Mr Chips Contact Email: djmrchips@gmail.com Location: Jason's Upstairs Bar http://www.facebook.com/downinthevalley

Solo session by Chris Forsyth recorded live June 2009 at Studio Cyclops in Brooklyn.

Presented by Greene County Agricultural Society, with cows, goats, dogs, chickens, horses, and more. Live performances, workshops, and speakers. WGXC will record performances and hopefully create a live online radio stream of the event. Cairo-Durham High School students Michael Davis and Jordan Smith will host much of the broadcasts. WGXC is looking for other youth to host the event, interview participants, and run the radio show. WGXC's Erin Roberts, Dharma Dailey, Kaya Weidman, Alex Malmude, Tom Roe, and Galen Joseph-Hunter will aid the students, and run the broadcasts if we do not have enough youth participation. A complete schedule of events, performers, speakers, and more will be announced soon. Live from Cairo Town Park, free admission. Thu-Sat, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sun 10 a.m.-5 p.m. To join the broadcast team, e-mail info @ wgxc.org. WGXC is free103point9's new community radio station for Greene and Columbia counties in upstate New York. "Hands-On Radio" is the station's slogan.

Greene County Youth Fair: http://www.greenecountyyouthfair.com/.

Alex Turnquist performs at The Spotty Dog in Hudson, along with John Madden & the Deep Sea Divers. Check out his new album, which is getting reviewed all over the damn place: http://www.directcurrentmusic.com/july-14-2009/2009/7/5/alexander-turnquist-as-the-twilight-crane-dreams-in-color.html

Field recordings, music, and interview segments reporting on neuroacoustic research by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson recorded at the 2009 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City. Giant Ear))) considers our soundscape and is produced by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology. Andrea Callard has organized a show for July. Tune in at www.free103point9.org.