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:UPCOMING: || (:all events:)
THE EXPANDED FIELD || Thursday, April 26, 2012. 4pm || Taking field recording as a starting point, this collaborative event will showcase works that demand a redefinition or reconsideration of what is one of the foundational activities in the development of sound art. :more info:
SAIC MFA THESIS SHOW || Friday, April 27, 2012. 8pm (Reception) || :more info: :FB:
SAIC MFA SHOW AFTERPARTY || Friday, April 27, 2012. 11pm || Selections from "Three and Thirty Revolutions per Minute" :FB:
Tomorrow is GAME NIGHT.Amongst all the shenanigans and goings-ons, I’ll be conducting two workshops using electronic noise-makers and communal bio-mechanical feedback systems.Should be squawky! Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St, #7, Chicago Saturday, May 5 4:30 –7:30 p.m Event is free and open to the public.

Tomorrow is GAME NIGHT.

Amongst all the shenanigans and goings-ons, I’ll be conducting two workshops using electronic noise-makers and communal bio-mechanical feedback systems.

Should be squawky!


Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St, #7, Chicago

Saturday, May 5 4:30 –7:30 p.m

Event is free and open to the public.



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cusps

Edward Breitweiser, 2012

Light-sensitive electronics, real-time digital video, text

cusps is an audio/visual/textual feedback network. Three independent feedback loops, constructed from light-sensitive audio circuits that are amplifying electromagnetic fields generated by the piece, are being routed to custom computer software. This software analyzes these audio signals and uses this analysis to synthesize three real-time video signals, which are projected back onto the electronics. The light from these projections in turn affects the characteristics of the audio circuitry. The independence of microscopic “sections” of the piece becomes indiscernible as small catastrophic events shape the macroscopic organization as a whole. Theoretical texts that informed the direction of this project were passed through custom software that revealed ruptures and loops within the texts. When printed, these idiosyncrasies were accentuated by the use of a font whose (incorrect?) programming presents atypical behavior in response to traditional word processing commands.

cusps will be on display in the Sullivan Galleries (33 S. State St., Chicago) until May 18, 2012.  Full details about the exhibition can be found here.

On Thursday, May 3, HARD R will be presenting DISTRIBUTIONS, in which they insert their performance rig into cusps’ networked signal flow. This event will be from 4:30-5:30p (free and open to the public, although space is limited).

EWB DJing "After..." @ Carousel Space

“After…”

Friday, April 27

11p-1am

Carousel Space, 1310 N. Hoyne, Chicago

Featuring DJ sets By:

  • Daniel Luedtke
  • The North 
  • Robby MacBain
  • Edward Breitweiser
  • Alex Valentine

Special thanks to GURL DON’T BE DUMB, for a generous beverage donation!

Additional refreshments are BYOB

I’ll be doing a set of selections from Three and Thirty Revolutions Per Minute, my collection of remastered Top-40 hits from the past two years.

SAIC MFA Thesis Show 2012 Opening reception: Friday, April 27, 8pm 33 S. State St., 7th fl. Chicago, IL Amongst the work of my fellow MFA candidates, my new piece cusps (2012), an audio/visual/textual feedback network, will be shown for the first time. An event that is not to be missed! FB event page. (Image: cusps (2012), by Edward Breitweiser)

SAIC MFA Thesis Show 2012

Opening reception: Friday, April 27, 8pm

33 S. State St., 7th fl.

Chicago, IL

Amongst the work of my fellow MFA candidates, my new piece cusps (2012), an audio/visual/textual feedback network, will be shown for the first time.

An event that is not to be missed!

FB event page.

(Image: cusps (2012), by Edward Breitweiser)

Thesis is finished.

Thesis is finished.

The Expanded Field Thursday, April 26, 4-6pm The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 37 S. Wabash, 5th Floor I will be presenting a reading of Minus One, Plus One: Or, The Geography of Clipping, an account of fictionalized field recording and poeticized reportage.

The Expanded Field

Thursday, April 26, 4-6pm

The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

37 S. Wabash, 5th Floor

I will be presenting a reading of Minus One, Plus One: Or, The Geography of Clipping, an account of fictionalized field recording and poeticized reportage.

Eaton Gallery && HARD R present: “A Collaborative Environment…A Visual and Improvised Audio Experience.”

Tomorrow evening:

Eaton Gallery && HARD R present:
“A Collaborative Environment…A Visual and Improvised Audio Experience.”

Thursday, March 22
Eaton Gallery, 411 North Center St, Bloomington, IL
7-8pm
Light refreshments will be served.
Donations accepted at the door.

HARD R will be performing a concert-length improvised work for custom electronics, laptops, and multiple loudspeakers.

Herb Eaton will be displaying new works, including “musical sculptures” that will soon be installed in Uptown Normal, IL.


Eaton Gallery collaborates with local and visiting artists to showcase and exhibit new work and talent to local patrons.


www.eatonstudiogallery.com

www.hardr.bandcamp.com

Hard R on Facebook

Prototyping a new circuit, The Graveyard Shifter.  Phase shifter/vibrato with additive and subtractive modulation and an ultra-low LFO phase sweep. :)

Prototyping a new circuit, The Graveyard Shifter. 

Phase shifter/vibrato with additive and subtractive modulation and an ultra-low LFO phase sweep.

:)

HARD R

As you may have noticed, I’ve been posting lots of content related to HARD R.

For clarification, HARD R is a new collaborative project between me and Mike Junokas. Together, we have been designing concert-length improvised musical performances for custom electronics, laptops, and multiple loudspeakers. We have presented two site-specific performances at Elmhurst College and plan to organize a number of exciting events over the coming months. (First up is Nicolas Maigret and HARD R at The Nightingale Theater [Chicago] on Tuesday, February 21 at 7.)

We have been posting lots of recordings on our Bandcamp site and will be using our Facebook page to promote events. Of course, I’ll continue to post information about our projects on this site.

:)

HARD R & Nicolas Maigret @ Nightingale Theater

Upgrade!Chicago presents Nicolas Maigret [Paris] && HARD R [Chicago]

Tuesday, February 21 @ 7pm

The Nightingale Theater (1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago)

$5 suggested

[Facebook event page]

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For my money, focalized information is character, voiced ideas are as passionate as humans get, and any literary language that reflects our times must beat to the cadences of technology-inflected consciousness.
Richard Powers, “Making the Rounds”. Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers. Edited by Stephen J. Burn and Peter Dempsey. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.

HARD R @ Elmhurst College

HARD R (Mike Junokas + Edward Breitweiser)

Live concert-length improvisation with electronics and laptops

Presented in Buik Recital Hall @ Elmhurst College

190 Prospect Ave, Elmhurst, IL

7:30p, Free and open to the public

HARD R

<Facebook event page.>

Das Lied von der Nerd: Informational Improvisation in Bay Area Network Music

As promised in my last post, I am offering free digital copies of my new paper “Das Lied von der Nerd: Informational Improvisation in Bay Area Network Music” in conjunction with the Network Music Festival in Birmingham, UK. The festival begins this Friday and is sure to delight.

“Das Lied von der Nerd: Informational Improvisation in Bay Area Network Music”

By Edward Breitweiser 2012

Abstract: In a step toward elaborating a theory of creative improvisation grounded in chaotic play and informal exploration, this paper will examine the network music of The League of Automatic Music Composers and The Hub. Uniquely situated to appropriate contemporaneous developments in personal computing, network technology, and radical social thought - all of which were significantly informed by information and communications theories - these Bay Area musicians cultivated musical and social structures that brought traditional relationships (composer/performer, ensemble member/individual agent, human/machine, network/node, sender/signal/receiver, etc.) into a gestalt informational model of improvisational performance. Through elaborately designed DIY assemblages of networked personal computers, electronic instruments, and data and signal chains, they pioneered the use of digital tools to sonically illustrate the complex nuances inherent in the newly-arrived world of high-speed human-computer interaction, networked data exchange, and bio-mechanical feedback within ever- expanding systems of social and political culture. Cast within a larger artistic traditions of improvisation, traditional musical ensembles, information art, and computer music, the output of these ensembles will be analyzed as “network-as- art” in which works of art are invoked through the medium of formalized systems of organization based upon user feedback, nodal agency, and dynamic metastructures.

Please feel free to distribute this paper. Copies are also being distributed on the NMF website. I hope that you’ll provide me with feedback!

E.W.B. @ Network Music Festival U.K.

My recent paper “Das Lied von der Nerd: Informational Improvisation in Bay Area Network Music” is going to be distributed at the upcoming Network Music Festival in Birmingham, U.K. 

Abstract: In a step toward elaborating a theory of creative improvisation grounded in chaotic play and informal exploration, this paper will examine the network music of The League of Automatic Music Composers and The Hub. Uniquely situated to appropriate contemporaneous developments in personal computing, network technology, and radical social thought - all of which were significantly informed by information and communications theories - these Bay Area musicians cultivated musical and social structures that brought traditional relationships (composer/performer, ensemble member/individual agent, human/machine, network/node, sender/signal/receiver, etc.) into a gestalt informational model of improvisational performance. Through elaborately designed DIY assemblages of networked personal computers, electronic instruments, and data and signal chains, they pioneered the use of digital tools to sonically illustrate the complex nuances inherent in the newly-arrived world of high-speed human-computer interaction, networked data exchange, and bio-mechanical feedback within ever- expanding systems of social and political culture. Cast within a larger artistic traditions of improvisation, traditional musical ensembles, information art, and computer music, the output of these ensembles will be analyzed as “network-as- art” in which works of art are invoked through the medium of formalized systems of organization based upon user feedback, nodal agency, and dynamic metastructures.

I plan on hosting the paper on this site, and it will be available to the public within the month.

The festival was recently previewed in The Financial Times.

Happy 2012!

My Concrete Experience of Keys w/ Mordine & Co. Dance Theater

 

My Concrete Experience of Keys || @ Architectural Artifacts

Sunday, December 4, 2011 @ 5pm. An interactive sound composition, presented by Mordine & Co. Dance Theater for Fête Champagne 2011. Event is free and open to the public.

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