Articles – The EAM librarian

Hz #19

In the latest issue of Fylkingen’s journal Hz you will find an article of mine, Electronic music archives in the collection of The Swedish Performing Arts Agency. It is a translation from the Swedish original (which contains a few more pictures) from Dokumenterat no. 45. This text supersedes my earlier post on Swedish EAM archives, although the latter has some additional info.

Thanks to Sachiko Hayashi, the editor of Hz, who also contributes an article to this issue, A brief historical overview of Fylkingen’s journals. Thanks also to Isabel Thomson, who checked the translation.

The other articles in Hz #19 are:

Martyn Hudson: What, am i hearing light? Listening through Jean-Luc Nancy
Florian Cramer: What is ‘post-digital’?
Michael Betancourt: Critical glitches and glitch art
Edward Picot: Mixing it: 12 remixes by Michael Szpakowski
Laura Plana Gracia: Landscapes {soundscapes: Dronestrikes on Saturn
Ben Grosser: How the technological design of Facebook homogenizes identity and limits personal representation
Aymeric Mansoux: My lawyer is an artist: Free culture licenses as art manifesto
Robert Spahr: Cruft: art from digital leftovers
Alan Sondheim: Outline for a talk on blank that can’t be given
Kevin Logan: Rolling stones gets me no satisfaction
Gx Jupitter-Larsen: Ordinarily nowhere

ICMC proceedings online

Thanks to a collaboration with the University of Michigan Library, the International Computer Music Conference proceedings from 1975 onward are now available online. The articles are full text searchable.

Some sound art papers

The papers from the Sound Art Theories Symposium 2011 papers are now available. For those interested in digital archiving, David Grubbs’ paper “‘Remove the Records from Texas’: Parsing Online Archives” discusses two “very different kinds of online archives”, UbuWeb and DRAM (the acronym stands for Database of Recorded American Music, but the archive holds works from other countries as well).

More radio and sound art

Here are some assorted links mostly related to radio and sound art:

The radio art seminar I attended last week was mentioned by Jesper Olsson in Svenska Dagbladet: Brechts visioner för radion är nära (“Brecht’s visions for radio approach reality”). He also referred to the October issue of The Wire, Noise in the ether, devoted to creative broadcasting.
The Wire also sponsors Cut & Splice: Transmission, an annual experimental music and sound art festival produced by Sound and Music and BBC Radio 3.
Leftob is a netradio project of the Petcord netlabel. By the way, when will Electroacoustic Sweden, the webradio from SEAMS/Elektron, be available again? We miss it!
Resonance is a new European sound art network based in the Netherlands.
Hydrophonia is a festival “dedicated to hydrophonic sound art and raising public awareness of how man-made ocean noise affects marine life.”

And now for something completely different:

Canoris is a new web platform/API for sound/music analysis and voice synthesis.

New proceedings online

7th Sound and Music Computing Conference
The papers presented at the 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference that took place at the UPF from the 21st to the 24th on July 2010 are now online at http://smcnetwork.org/resources/smc2010. The papers have been published on the smcnetwork.org website under a Creative Commons license.

Interactive Sonification workshop – ISon 2010
The proceedings of the Interactive Sonification workshop – ISon 2010 are now available on-line at http://www.interactive-sonification.org/ISon2010/proceedings/. The proceedings are licensed as an Open Access publication.

Öra för ljud i SvD

A post in Swedish about some sound-related articles in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

SvD har nyligen haft en liten artikelserie om ljud och musik under rubriken Öra för ljud:

Med sikte på musikens minsta beståndsdelar – Erik Bergqvist om Gunnar Buchts Quid est tonus?
På spaning efter de ljud som flytt – Jesper Olsson om ljudinspelning och minne
Upptäcktsfärd bland oönskade surr och klick – Fredrik Stahlénius om ljudtvätt och brus

Det finns mer information och länkar till äldre artiklar i understrecket-bloggen.