Hi Friends:

Follow this link to read a short interview I gave to the good folks at Art in Odd Places regarding my (and NYSAE‘s) participation in last year’s SIGN festival.

http://artinoddplaces.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Curated/Organized by: New York Society for Acoustic Ecology

Deep winter approaches. Instant, drastic climate change aside, it will be getting colder. In the majority of New York City buildings this means old steam radiators will be sputtering to life. The first half of today’s broadcast is collection of recordings of these radiators from various apartments. Listen for the water hammer…it’s getting hot in here. We follow that with paranoid, beyond-the-grave wax cylinder recordings and a journey to mystical Surakarta, Indonesia. False gong – neither a beginning nor an end, a start nor a finish. With work by Edmund Mooney, Jonny Farrow and Bleakley McDowell.

http://www.nyacousticecology.org/

What?: The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology Presents another installment of GIANT EAR)))

When?: Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

How?: free103point9 Online Radio — click here to go to their site and launch your media player

Description: This edition of Giant Ear))) is hosted by Hunter Inter-Media Arts/MFA candidate Bleakley McDowell focusing on Hunter graduate student work from NYSAE Co-Chair Jonny Farrow’s Sound Environments class. You will hear a wide range of NYC sounds from the Bronx to the Battery and points east and west. The show will feature works by: DaHye Lee, Elizabeth Knafo, Meredith Goncalves, Melissa Hacker, Samantha Stalling, Satoko Sugiyama, Bob, Kate Kunath, Megan Sperry, Nicole McNeill and Sean Weiner.

Click the link below for more about NYSAE.

http://www.nyacousticecology.org/

Hey Friends –

Make sure you tune in tonight’s new edition of GIANT EAR))) curated and hosted by NYSAE member Mikhail Ilitaov!

Goto www.free103point9.org to stream the show. 7-9 pm

See Playlist below:

Giant Ear))) Playlist: ‘Cricket Crawl’ by Florence Blanchard, an event that took place in New York on September 12, 2009; A baby woke up in the middle of the night and was fed; A short lesson in how to listen to pre-natal ultrasound; an excerpt from the film ‘Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance’ (Daigoro makes a choice between a toy and his father’s sword); ‘I am the Walrus’ from Lol Coxhill’s album ‘Ear of the Beholder’ on Dandelion records; Place Lane and Play School Opening by acclivity, a member of freesound.org; ‘Die-opening school day’ by Jean Francois Cavro, soundtransit.nl; some thoughts about kids in Marrakech; childern’s song from ‘Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance’; ‘We don’t have no slippers’ by acclivity of freesound.org; Riga Arsenal by Maksim Shentelev a.k.a. MyYu (soundtransit.nl); Children playing in Osaka Hirano Shrine by Jean Francois Cavro (soundtransit.nl); an excerpt from a Russian film ’17 Moments of Spring’; Giggling French Girls by acclivity (freesound.org); WC Fields in The Bank Dick; Classroom Ambiance by dobroide (freesound.org); ‘a bird-like singing child and birds’ by Lasse-Marc Riek (sountransit.nl); WC Fields, from the film ‘Golf Specialist’; ‘hello mammie chocolate’ by Frank Geeraert (soundtransit.nl); Casablanca kids playing police and thiefs; Kids Club 1 and 2 by acclivity (freesound.org); Children’s Playground in Seoul, South Korea by sazman (freesound.org); ‘pigeon and child’ by dobroide (freesound.org); children playing in a swimming pool in Fort Myers by John Hopkins (soundtransit.nl); Extra classroom noise by Andrea Callard (http://www.andreacallard.com/); sounds from El Tajin, Mexico; Yi Er San Si Wu Liu Qi Ba by Matthias Kispert (soundtransit.nl); Brooklyn crickets.

NYSAE AND FREE103POINT9 RADIO FEST MOBILE SOUNDWALK

Presented in collaboration with Art in Odd Places and free103point9

Date: Saturday 24 October

This project is a co-presentation with both Art in Odd Places and free103point9’s Radio Festival NYC 2009, a fall festival of radio art and experimentation which takes place at The Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church in the East Village 20-24 October. Audiences will participate in the walks whose trajectories will lead them to the Ontological Theater for the Radio Festival installations and performances on Saturday 24 October.
Members of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE) will lead public soundwalks involving mobile broadcasting equipment. The public (soundwalkers) will use small FM receivers and headsets to tune in to multiple, simultaneous broadcasts from three mobile broadcasting units (carried by NYSAE members) all broadcasting different material on the same frequency starting from three different (Madison Square, Washington Square, Tompkins Square) parks north and south of 14th street. The different broadcasts will be a mix of several elements, pre-recorded nature sounds, historical soundscapes, and live broadcasts of the walk itself. The walkers will be lead, meandering across and around 14th street, eventually converging/colliding their broadcast perimeters separating again –hearing their own walk and hearing the other walk simultaneously. Walkers will also be able to hear the soundscape over their headphones as they walk and listen to the broadcast, experiencing a sort of hyper-reality through physical presence in the soundscape, the sounds of the broadcast and the overlapping of the broadcasts when the broadcast areas collide.
The walks will all begin at the same time and are timed to strategically overlap. The approach to the end of the walk is marked by the eventual reception of a broadcast from the Ontological Theater location. The groups then all arrive at the prescribed time at St. Mark’s church and enter the theater for the evening’s performances and installation presentations. Total time for the walk would be approx. 60-90 minutes.

Meet Time: 6:00 PM SHARP!

Duration: approx. 90 minutes

RSVP: jonnysounds@gmail.com

Meet @: various locations — you will receive an email with your meet-up location once you have RSVP’d

Visit this weblocation for more information: http://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/nysae/wordpress/?page_id=146

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Presented in conjunction with:

Art in Odd Places 2009
SIGN
Direction. Ban. Authority. Solidarity. Advertisement. Ownership. Gesture. Enticement. Omen. Signature. Trace.
October 1-26, 2009
14th Street, New York City
A festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.
2009 guest curators:
Erin Donnelly and Radhika Subramaniam.

Dear Friends:

Yes, the Art in Odd Places festival kicked off in grand style on October 1 and it continues all month!

I am writing this post to you to invite you to participate in one or more of several soundwalks that I and my NYSAE colleagues will be leading in the Union Square/14th Street area.

I am leading two different walks this weekend, one on Saturday  and one on Sunday (10/10-11). The Saturday walk begins at 4pm, meets at the Gandhi statue on the SW corner of Union Square Park and is a “listen-in” where we will sit calmly in Union Square and listen for a full 30-minutes. This will be followed by assisted ‘blindfold walks’ around the park’s perimeter. Duration of the walk is approximately 1 hour.

Sunday I am leading a ‘wildlife walk’ in the Union Square area where we will attempt to hear the living things that are usually drowned out by the noise or ignored by the thousands of people zipping through the area. This walk begins at 2pm, will last about an hour and also meets at the Gandhi statue.

More great news!!! It is 100% free to participate. So, RSVP for my walks by replying to jonnysounds@gmail.com and indicating which walk you would like to attend.

If these walks don’t fit your weekend schedule, there are others that will!!! If you can’t walk with me, I promise your ears will be in great hands with my colleagues Jamie Davis, Todd Shalom and Andrea Williams.  Please visit the AiOP page on the NYSAE site for the full schedule and RSVP details.

Also, don’t forget to check out the Art in Odd Places website for details of the entire festival. There are dozens of participating artists and projects the whole month long! Don’t miss it!

Best,

Jonny

Hi Friends:

I’m writing to announce the next NYSAE meeting. Ned thought it would be a good idea to reprise the High Line walk that I canceled in late August. SO—we will meet at the entrance to the High Line Park (stairs @ Ganesvoort and Washington — see link to map below) for a soundwalk and then after, we can stroll over to the Art in Odd Places opening night party (see link below). We will meet at 7pm. If it is raining (depending on the severity of the weather) I will come up with a rain plan, but plan on meeting at those stairs in any event. Bring recording devices if you so desire!

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Jonny

http://www.thehighline.org/about/maps

http://aiop.tumblr.com/post/188825365/opening-party-thurs-oct-1-6-9pm-theaterlab-137

Hi Friends:

I’m writing to announce the next NYSAE meeting. We will meet at the entrance to the High Line Park (stairs @ Ganesvoort and Washington — see link to map below) for a soundwalk and then on to a deli to grab a refreshment and over across the west side to ‘listen” to the sunset. We will meet at 7pm. If it is raining (depending on the severity of the weather) I will come up with a rain plan, but plan on meeting at those stairs in any event. Bring recording devices if you so desire!

http://www.thehighline.org/about/maps

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Jonny

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Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN
391 Bond Street #3
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Erin Donnelly
Radhika Subramaniam
2009 Guest Curators, Art in Odd Places

Ed Woodham
Director, Art in Odd Places

artinodd@gmail.com
www.artinoddplaces.org