SuperCollider Meetup at NOTAM

Online SuperCollider Meetup facilitated by NOTAM.

At these meetups, SuperCollider users present a project, class library, instrument, or artistic practice. The presentations are informal, vary in their format, and are intended to showcase the diversity and flexibility of expression SuperCollider permits.

Presenting on the 26th of March are Marije Baalman and myself.

'In this talk, I reflect on the relationship between fixed structures and dynamic musical processes in my current artistic practice. Using three recent projects as points of departure, I examine how relatively stable code frameworks interact with the evolving and contingent nature of sound production and compositional decision-making. I explore how these frameworks operate not simply as technical tools but as environments that both constrain and enable musical activity. The presentation focuses on how compositional ideas emerge through interaction with these systems, where musical outcomes are shaped by iterative processes, feedback loops, and acts of listening. '

NOTAM

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GRM Sonology Concert

'The Institute of Sonology and the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris (GRM) are among the few institutes whose history extends in an uninterrupted line back to the early years of electronic music and musique concrète. Despite the initially large differences in theoretical and aesthetic principles, mutual respect has always been strong. On the initiative of then GRM director Daniel Teruggi, a partnership with the Institute of Sonology was established in 2009 that has led to cooperation in organising concerts and symposia on several occasions.'

'To mark the 200th anniversary of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and to celebrate that the Institute of Sonology has been part of the Royal Conservatoire for 40 years, GRM will visit The Hague with its Acousmonium from 5 to 7 March 2026. In a series of concerts in the Conservatoriumzaal, works by teachers, students and alumni of the Institute of Sonology, as well as classics from the GRM repertoire, will be spatially performed on this extensive loudspeaker system.'

I will present a new piece, Ora (2026). 8 channels. Fixed Media. 12:28.

Ora takes its name from the Latin ōra, meaning border, rim, frontier, or edge. The piece unfolds along such boundaries, between sound and process, between tone and texture. All musical material is derived from a small set of sine waves that act as both source and constraint. These sets are stretched, multiplied, and transformed by algorithms, generating textures that continuously reorient themselves. Ora is part of an ongoing project exploring process-based composition through generative design, emphasizing continuity and sustained temporal processes.

Sonology

Selective Retention: Interfacing the Past through Queries and Graphs

My research catalogue exposition, "Selective Retention: Interfacing the Past through Queries and Graphs", is now published in the 36th edition of The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR). It examines two projects that utilise queries, graphs, and networked relations in a musical context.

Fracas is an accompanying Bandcamp release featuring four of the network pieces connected to the research. The title track was first released as a one-track album on @superpanghq and later as part of their No Catalogue compilation. This new edition places Fracas alongside three related works that have grown from the same research environment.

JAR, Issue 36

Article on the Research Catalogue

Fracas on Bandcamp

Recomposing Data: Machine Learning As Compositional Process

Article published on the Research Catalogue.

This research proposal concerns an approach to computer music that seeks to combine modern approaches in machine learning with established processes of algorithmic composition. The idea is to critically question the use of generative algorithms within the creative process and how the training and creation of data for machine learning can become an important part of that process.

Article on the Research Catalogue

Misplaced Objects

Guest appearance on Misplaced Objects, a radio show on Amsterdam's independent Echobox Radio.

Hosted by Anahit, the program explores electroacoustic music and composition, examining the intersection of sound, art, and technology through interviews and discussions with composers and sound artists.

During the broadcast, we discussed recent research projects including 'Recomposing Data: Machine Learning as Compositional Process' and explored the broader implications of combining machine learning with algorithmic composition techniques.

Misplaced Objects on Echobox Radio

Kudos to Living Artists 06 – Farzané – Bjarni Gunnarsson

Farzané (Farzaneh Nouri) is a sound artist, composer, and researcher based in the Netherlands. Her work delves into speculative approaches to sound, science, and technology, encompassing various disciplines such as electroacoustic music composition, computer science, instrument development, epistemology, and linguistics.

For this episode, Farzané created a one-hour mix featuring exclusively my music, including tracks from Heap, Blindni, Blur, Signac, Dried Up, Ubieties, Wreck, and Pedicel.

Kudos to Living Artists 06 – Farzané – Bjarni Gunnarsson

Radio Interview with Árni Matthíasson

A radio interview with the journalist Árni Matthíasson on RÚV.

Radio Interview on RÚV

Lectorate Presentation

On 7 February, the lectorate 'Music, Education and Society' will present the outcomes of the research projects of 2024, as well as introduce the research group of 2025. The meeting is also the festive closing of the lectorate year.

I will present my project: 'Recomposing Data: Machine Learning As Compositional Process'

Event in Amare

The Project

Article on the Research Catalogue

Live at De Keuken with Marie Guilleray

A collaborative project between Marie Guilleray and Bjarni Gunnarsson, the duo explores diverse musical formats including fixed-media electronic compositions, improvised performances, site-specific residencies and field recording experiments.

Their focus is on voice and live electronics through composed and improvised music.

Live at De Keuken

Joint Research Day '24 (JRD24) - On Collective Practices & Collaboration

The Joint Research Day 2024 (JRD24) will take place on Friday, 22 November at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) and Royal Conservatoire (KC) in The Hague, in collaboration with the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University. This year's theme, Collective Practices & Collaboration in Research in the Arts, will feature over 50 artist-researchers from the KABK/KC/ACPA network sharing their work through workshops, roundtables, a soundwalk, performance lectures, PhD info sessions, research presentations, discussions, and screenings. The final programme booklet is now available online, and registration is open until Tuesday, 19 November 2024.

During the session Relationships & Networks in Music, moderated by Paul Craenen, research group 2024 member Bjarni Gunnarsson will present and perform the progress of his project Striations.

Joint Research Day '24 (JRD24)

Perfromance at Zaal3 / STUDIO LOOS

Arsis vs Thesis, The Hague International Sound Art Festival

The 2nd Annual Hague International Sound Art Festival invites audiences to explore the captivating contrasts of sound through the theme "Arsis vs Thesis."

The concept delves into extreme opposites, like fast versus slow, high versus low, and heavy versus light, using sound as a powerful medium for expression.

The festival brings together these stark dichotomies to craft a sonic experience that challenges perceptions and invites reflection. Audiences will witness performances that transition from serious to cheerful, from short bursts to elongated compositions, highlighting the dynamic range of sound art.

It's a celebration of contrast, where boundaries blur, and sound shapes meaning in profound, unexpected ways.

Arsis vs Thesis, The Hague International Sound Art Festival

Presentation at Sonology

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Selective Retention: Sound and Process

`In this presentation, I will explore recent projects involving live-coded sound, dynamic networks, and generative processes with machine learning. The models presented aim to blur the boundaries between tool-making, creation, and research, while also seeking to uncover their possible meanings. Central to this exploration is the idea of perceiving a tool as a gateway to accessing material across different points in time. The talk includes reflections on the interaction between algorithmic activity and manual intervention, themes of relational causality, and the dynamic interplay between algorithmic processes and creative agency.`

Presentation Slides

'Ever-present change' at To Listen To, festival of experimental listening – Third edition, in Turin, Italy.

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Developed as an experiment in dynamically evolving networks, Ever-Present Change merges live coded sound with generative processes, creating a piece that evolves through continuous interaction between algorithmic activity and manual intervention. Rather than simply presenting collections of successive sounds, the work delves into formative principles, emphasizing how sonic elements develop relationships through the technical processes that shape them. This exploration responds to synthetic sound sources, observing the interplay between human agency and automated systems.

As part of an ongoing project on live coding and spatial behaviors, Ever-Present Change seeks to explore the underlying principles that drive the flow of events in time. Echoing a reflection on causality as a cognitive construction, the work questions how listeners attribute order and control, revealing that what seems like a predetermined sequence may actually emerge from the fluid, real-time interaction of the processes themselves. In this way, the piece not only comments on its own formation but also invites the audience to engage with the unfolding relationships that give rise to a sensation of causality and structure.

https://www.to-listen-to.it

Presentation and Performance at AIMC 2024

Presenting and Performing a new piece and system 'Streamlines' at the The International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity @ The University of Oxford, AIMC 2024.

'Streamlines' is a software, piece and performance created using SuperCollider, the Keras API and P5.js. The piece is based on an inference process that has been trained using synthetic sound sources mapping to custom data structures that are designed to appear as nodes in a network. During a performance, a stream of live-coded sonorities is produced that is analyzed and then used to make predictions of suitable nodes. These then recall a dynamically growing network of short, articulated sequences that form a counterpart to the synthetic sound.

The idea is to critically question the use of generative algorithms within the creative process and how the training and creating of data for machine learning can become an important part of that process. I try to think of the presented tools as a gateway to access material from different points in time. Defining such procedures involves an exploration of the intersection between selection processes and generative means for representing the selected as something original.

https://aimc2024.pubpub.org

Live Performance at Adela festival

Performing a new live set in Ljubljana on June 1st as part of Adela, International Festival of Generative Arts along with Wolfgang Ernst, Joost Rekveld, Alexandra Cardenas, Saskia Freeke, beepblip, Timo Hoogland, Pondskater, Sol Sarratea, Sabrina Verhage and others.

For about a week, in between Kino Šiška, osmo/za and Slovenska kinoteka, you will be able to catch a glimpse of Adela – a transitional state that, in its unravelling of generative systems, will this year lean towards the practices of sustainable computing (#permacomputing), establishing a media-archaeological dialogue with machines and invoking the latent potentials of analogicity.

https://wiki.ljudmila.org/Adela_2024_(en)

'Ever Present Change' at Sonology Discussion Concert 4

Performing a new live piece at Sonology Discussion Concert 4.

Conceived as an experiment in dynamically evolving networks, 'Ever-Present Change' combines live coded sound with generative processes. This piece emerges from an observation process that responds to synthetic sound sources, exploring the relationship between algorithmic activity and manual configuration. 'Ever-Present Change' is part of an ongoing project on live coding and spatial behaviours.

https://sonology.org/

Talk at the IIL Open Lab

I will give a talk on Software, Sound Synthesis and Composition at the Intelligent Instruments Lab in Reykjavík. This Friday at 15:00.

´In this lecture, I will discuss my recent projects involving software making, sound synthesis, and composition. I will reflect on the use of algorithms and the nature of generative sound created through reconfiguration and live coding. The featured approaches highlight the scope and potential boundaries of computational systems by relating sound-making to the development of generative environments. I will outline the process of developing such systems, but also the act of using them within a dynamic musical context. The goal is to review and combine the thinking of sound, control and causality for compositional approaches in computer music. During the talk, software applications will be presented, the ideas behind them discussed and examples of music composed with them be played.´

https://iil.is/openlab/67

ICLC 2023

Playing as part of ICLC 2023 'Alternative Algorithms'. Doors 19:30 / Show: 20:00, EKKO in Utrecht.

'Blocking Behaviours' concerns the real-time interpretation of two simulations of complex behaviour through an agent-based system. The simulations enforce a way of thinking that revolves around balancing behaviours, an attitude that considers musical output as something that emerges from an interaction with an autonomous system. The simulation acts as a generative, rule-based system producing output that is subject to different kinds of observation algorithms. The idea is that evolving processes are set in motion where the creator/composer becomes an observer of various developments. The output can not always be controlled in detail but is instead interpreted and further processed. The interpretation involves a mapping between different modes of representations in order to simplify or combine. In 'Blocking Behaviours' the idea is to explore the boundary of generative behaviour, control and and direct access to computer sound synthesis.

https://iclc.toplap.org/2023

https://ekko.nl/event/alternative-algorithms

Article on Orpheus Institute's ECHO journal

"Balancing Behaviours" was published on 17 February 2023 as part of the Orpheus Institute's ECHO journal and the New Mimesis edition curated by Jonathan Impett.

The article presents ideas relating to the creation of computer music using emergent systems based on rules and local interactions. It involves a reflection on algorithms, interaction, and the behaviour of sound processes. It questions the scope and potential boundaries of computational systems through the space relating compositional practice with the development of generative environments.

Three open-source software systems are also introduced, including Wildfires, which can be used to generate WFSCollider scores.

https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/balancing-behaviours

https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/issue/4

New Release, UPICS on Flag Day Recordings

My latest album UPICS was released on the American label Flag Day Recordings. The pieces on the album are the outcome of his research into database-driven reconstructions based on sound analysis. All the source material has been created with Iannis Xenakis's UPIC system: a graphical computer system where users draw shapes, waveforms, and modulations on 'pages' which form a composition or composed sound.

The material was recorded between September 2006 and March 2007 at the CCMIX institute in Paris. None of those recordings ever made it to a completed work until now, through the use of a newly developed system, SNDArchive (github.com/bjarnig/SNDArchive), which allows to recompose and combine sound parts based on different dimensions discovered through offline analysis processes.

The idea was to create methods for engaging with sound archives in novel ways, to review them from a different angle, or to reveal previously unknown aspects of material already loaded with meaning.

https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/upics

https://bjarni.bandcamp.com

SØVN Records showcase, Turin

SØVN Records is throwing a showcase this month, Giulia Rae and I will take over the Archivio Tipografico for one night of algorithmic music at its purest.

Multichannel sound system inside one of the most special place in Turin.

Moving Downstairs

Presented by The Grey Space, curated by Yota Morimoto.

'Music is a tool for communication and at The Grey Space, we seek to enhance the interaction with the audience. For this edition of Moving Downstairs, composer and researcher Yota Morimoto, informed by cutting-edge research and experiments in sound, brings you a night of refined hypnotic noises & chaotic audio swarms. The live acts revolve around new kinds of behavior in sound, a sonic flux; one that challenges the very static nature of electronic music. Immerse your ears with organic microsounds and AI-driven audio textures.'

Live Acts by Mehrnaz Khorrami, Tselem Enosh, Bjarni Gunnarsson, and Axel Chemla—Romeu-Santos. DJ-set Anni Nöps

WFS Festival

The WFS festival will take place on 3 and 4 June 2022 in the New Music Lab at Sonology.

Works will be performed by Ran Perry, Paolo Piaser. Anni Nöps, Ida Hirsenfelder, Henri Colombat, Suzana Lașcu, Otso Aho, Hugo Lioret, Margot Domart, Leslee Smucker, Casper Schipper, Bjarni Gunnarsson, Siamak Anvari, Lou Kim, Luca Faraldi, Alberto Tombolan and Kristin Norderval.

My contribution is a new piece, 'Wildfires' (2022).

'Based on the idea of distributed entities, 'Wildfires' questions virtual relationships between artificial sound sources. The piece consists of 22 generated scores that are activated in real-time but in no predefined order.'

Ukraine Appeal

We're all shocked by the tragic events in Ukraine and, following a conversation with Tom from Good Weather for an Airstrike, decided to ask artists if they would be able to contribute a track for a compilation to support the war victims in Ukraine.

While this compilation is free, we'd like to encourage and invite you to give whatever you can.

All money goes to the Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.y.

LP 1 Recordings from the Institute of Sonology

This collection of recordings aims to showcase music produced at the Institute of Sonology, including works with analogue modular synthesis, algorithmic compositions, live electronic music, and compositions based on field recordings.

Justin Bennett – Aura
Bjarni Gunnarsson – Cendres
Kees Tazelaar – Berglandschap
Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble – 20200129

Project & Artist information contained in the booklet that accompanies this LP has been included in Braille. The objective is for the contents to reach as many people as possible, this is also why the information has also been translated into 11 languages; Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish (accessible via QR code provided in the last page of the booklet).

https://clone.nl/item68063.html

Radio New Babylon

Radio New Babylon, initiated by Justin Bennett, is a collection of audio pieces by local and international artists made specifically to be listened to in and around the "New Babylon" office and apartment complex in Den Haag.

The artists and musicians were encouraged to think about the connections and discrepancies between the contemporary building and Constant Nieuwenhuys' visionary city of play. The pieces include ambient soundtracks, spoken-word podcasts, electronic experiments, field recordings from deep caves, reggae songs, insect songs, compositions for piano, organ, strings and percussion, instructions to the listener etc, etc.

This is an ongoing project. So far, artists include Topp & Dubio, Fani Konstantinidou, David Helbich, Roel Meelkop, Johan Nystrom, Jad Saliba, Anthony Blokdijk, Flavien Gillié, Barbara Ellison, BMB con., Francisco Lopez, Hendrik Hohlfeld, Yota Morimoto, Scanner, Bjarni Gunnarsson, Marie Guilleray, Felix Kubin, Ji Youn Kang, Double-W and Section 28. The collection also includes two excerpts from Constant's own 1960's soundtracks for New Babylon.

Sonology Staff Concert

8 December 2021, 19:30, Arnold Schoenbergzaal: Concert with staff members. The last one in this hall.

I present a new piece, Judder, 8 channels. Fixed Media. 11:42 (2021)

Through lines of repeated impulses, 'Judder' consists of enframing events and movements that emerge as the result of a shared agency and interconnected sounds. The idea is to gather simple resonances with repetitive rhythmic lines forming multiplicities through its layers, transformations, and juxtapositions.

'Judder' is part of an ongoing project focused on the use of interactive algorithms for scheduling and organizing generative sound processes.

Anticlines

'Anticlines' is released today on Playneutral

Digital synthesis based on dynamic waveforms and atomic sound operations.

Sound as behaviour, occurring through operations sequences and generative processes.

bjarni.bandcamp.com

playneutral.bandcamp.com

bjarni.bandcamp.com/album/anticlines

Fracas

'Fracas' is released today on Superpang

A 17-minute recorded improvisation and released as part of Superpang's a new series of exclusive one-off live sessions by members of their roster celebrating their 100th release.

bjarni.bandcamp.com

superpang.bandcamp.com

bjarni.bandcamp.com/album/fracas

Tonband festival 2021

This week: Tonband festival 2021 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Friday night Electric Audio Unit will present music by Mike McCormick, Bjarni Gunnarsson, Marie Guilleray, Juhani Silvola, Lola Ajima, Giuseppe Pisano, Frank Ekeberg, Natasha Barrett and Ernst van der Loo.

https://www.audiorama.se/events/2021/tonband

All pieces on Audiorama's 24.4 speaker set up.

Puls binaural stream concerts

Electric Audio Unit (NO) and Audiorama present:
PULS BINAURAL HEADPHONE CONCERT #6
Curated by Ernst van der Loo

Program:
Bjarni Gunnarsson - Polytree (2018)
Edwin van der Heide - Pneumatic Soundfield (2006) (binaural recording from 2019)
Ji Youn Kang - Dong-Nae Gut (2013)

webstream.audiorama.se:7070/stream.m3u

'Synthesis and Operation Flows' at xCoaX 2021.

xCoAx 2021 takes place this week exploring "the frontiers of digital art with a multidisciplinary investigation on aesthetics, computing, communication and the elusive X factor that connects them all." xCoaX 2021

xCoAx 2021 goes hybrid in Graz, Austria and is open and free to everyone online. I'm presenting my paper 'Synthesis and Operation Flows' on the 16.07 at 14:00. Paper session 2

Presentation

Sounds

Code

Paper

FIFO on 'Music for queuing at the supermarket'

Celebrating their 30th release SØVN releases the compilation 'Music for queuing at the supermarket'.

It includes my piece 'FIFO'.

Music for queuing at the supermarket

Tour Mode on Superpang

The SUPERPANG compilation is out with a whole bunch of new music including my piece Crest

https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/tour-mode

Festival Ecoutes

Binaural pieces will be featured in Festival Ecoute including l'Imaginaire du parleur by me and Marie Guilleray. The binaural mix has been skillfully created by Kees Tazelaar. Many thanks for the effort.

About the festival: Après l'intense alchimie d'écoute(s) diffusée hier soir sur les ondes, le Festival Ecoute.s. se poursuit cet après-midi avec une riche programmation de documentaires sonores. Sur le site internet du festival vous retrouverez également des podcasts et des contenus annexes, dont « Mondes Fragmentés », la sélection de pièces électroacoustiques en version binaurale que j'ai concoctée en complicité avec A P N É E S.

Here on Soundcloud:

'Cendres' on SØVN Records

Released on the 18th of November. Order here

Cendres consists of two electroacoustic compositions that have been performed in a multichannel setting: respectively, on the Acousmonium at GRM's Sonology concert in Paris in October 2019, and at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague in June 2018.

Rewritten here and extended in duration while reduced to a stereo format.

Audiosfera 1980-2020

Audiosfera 1980-2020 is happening now in Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, Spain. Curated by Francisco Lopez. Many soundworks are featured including my piece 'Fingrafjall'.

Volume & Void

New release out on Superpang

Composed through experimental scheduling algorithms that explore the duality of immediate, direct events with gradual and evolving processes.

System and sounds created during the summer of 2020 in Scheveningen, The Hague.

Design: Joe Gilmore

ATTN Compilation

New track on ATTN

ATTN:SPAN compilation is out on Bandcamp. Every penny will be going to the charity Cool Earth, which works with local people to halt deforestation and climate change.

LKS

Mix / Music selection made for LKS podcast.

Sonix #9

Ji Youn Kang (KR/NL)
Bjarni Gunnarson (IS/NL)
Amen Tma (SK)
Panáčik (SK/CZ)
Ramin Kuliev (AZ/CZ)
Rudolf Růžička (CZ)

Darkness and deep listening - an evening of international electroacoustic music working with both rich sound spectra and space, will present new compositions by composers from the Institute of Sonology (The Hague, NL), JAMU (Brno, CZ) and the surrounding area. The concert will be performed in darkness in 8 channel surround sound. Dramaturgy and organization: Jiří Suchánek. Brno, Czech Republic.

Sonix #9

Discussion Concert #3

The third Sonology Discussion Concert of the Academic Year 2019–2020 with participants from Czech Republic, Italy, Iran, Iceland, Germany and Syria.

The concert will start at 19:30, please be on time.

As usual, entrance and drinks are free.

May we also have your attention for the Royal Conservatoire's annual Open Day, which takes place on Saturday 25 January 2020 from 10:00 until 17:30. Sonology's studios will be open from 11 and there is a Sonology concert presentation at 16:00. Please pass by when you are interested in one of our educational programmes or just would like to see what is going on in the studios.

Last but not least: have a look at our new website www.sonology.org, which has a lot of additional information, including a calendar.

sonology.org

RASK #2

RASK #2 is the second edition of event series promoting new media art and experimentation in Reykjavik. It is organised by a collective of young Icelandic artists working in the intersection of art and technology.

EXHIBITION IN INGÓLFSSTRÆTI 6 - 14:00 - 19:00
Ásdís Birna Gylfadóttir & Ragnheiður Erla
Hákon Bragason
Logi Leó Gunnarsson
María Guðjohnsen
Rúnar Örn Marinósson
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir

CODE CAFÉ AT LOFT HOSTEL - 15:00 - 17:00
Snæi Jack
Hexia (Ólöf Rún Benediktsdóttir)
Bjarni Gunnarsson

LIVE PERFORMANCES IN MENGI - 19:30 - 22:30
Doors open 19:30, performances start at 20:00:
Kaðlín Sara Ólafsdóttir
Halldór Eldjárn & Sól Ey
Höskuldur Eiríksson & Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir
Bjarni Gunnarsson & Marie Guilleray

Rask #2

Akousma 18 Octobre 2019 / Mpaa Saint-germain. Sonologie @ GRM.

Concert Institut de Sonologie de La Haye

L'Institut de Sonologie adopte une position claire concernant l'utilisation de la technologie en musique : la technologie n'est pas simplement un complément à la pratique musicale existante, mais doit être principalement utilisée pour explorer de nouvelles formes de composition et de présentation publique de la musique et de l'art. En même temps, la sonologie n'est liée à aucun dogme stylistique.

Akousma

CRXSSINGS (fundraiser for City Plaza)

CRXSSINGS is a compilation remix album as a fundraiser for Refugee Accommodation and Solidarity Space City Plaza. Almost four hours of music, with 34 artists, remixing each others tracks. It contains my rework of BJ Nilsen and his of mine.

'Mass migration is one of the most pressing humanitarian and political topics we face today. Rutger Zuydervelt (a.k.a Machinefabriek) and Gabriel Saloman of Yellow Swans initiated the compilation CRXSSINGS as a means to support migrants and refugees in Europe. They called upon friends and colleagues from Europe, North America and Australia to get involved, the conceptual idea being that duos of two artists would collaborate and donate their exclusive tracks for CRXSSINGS.'

'CRXSSINGS will be released digitally on July 1 via a special Bandcamp account for a donation of 10 €. All the funds generated will be donated to City Plaza Hotel, a squatted refuge in the heart of Athens, Greece organized for and by migrants from Africa and Asia, which was covered by The Guardian back in 2017.'

https://crxssings.bandcamp.com

Music, Humans and Machines (ODC 2019)

'This conference explores musician's long relationship with their instruments and instrumentalities, questioning issues of autonomy and agency in the apparent dichotomy between tools and musical expression.'

'From the "mechane" of Greek theatres from which gods were suspended, to Mozart's description of the Stein fortepiano's knee-lever as "Die Maschine", to the epoch-defining technologies of recording, sound synthesis, and algorithmic composition of more recent times, performers and composers have relied on mechanical means to create magic in their art.'

I will perform a new piece: Translation, traces and intervention

'Technical autonomy usually depends on abstraction or attempts to generalize behavior. Generalizing often involves a translation, a mapping between different modes of representations in order to simplify or combine. However, processes of abstraction can distantiate agency from its origin, sometimes introducing a by-product "a remainder, a set of discarded information—the différance, or the crucial distinction and deferral of meaning that goes on between the map and the territory. In 'Translation, traces and intervention' the idea is to explore the boundary of software abstractions and direct access to computer sound synthesis.'

Music, Humans and Machines (ODC 2019)

Inspired by immersive artificial worlds, the idea of a Synthetic Environment refers to generated (usually quite detailed) surroundings or spaces of virtual worlds. Example of current work, now on Vimeo.

The path one navigates within the environment determines the resulting algorithm of the produced sound. Such an environment functions as a map of the compositional space but also as a medium to continue interaction with generative activity.

Simulation and Computer Experimentation in Music and Sound Art

'The seminar aims to bring together practitioners and scholars to discuss the wide-reaching implications of the 'agential cut' (Barad) or 'ontic cut' (Rheinberger) – the separation between operationalised model or abstract theory and perceived or experimentally verified 'reality', the fissure already indicated by Husserl and realised in experimental computational systems.'

These introduce a new type of interface between the machinery and what is implemented, allowing for the ongoing production of new data and going beyond the traditional atemporal theoretical models; crucially, simulations also allow new and mobile perspectives onto the 'object' modelled by tracing contingent, situated, multiple paths through what DeLanda describes as 'a space of possibilities' – alternative realities within a space that displays stability or consistency at another level. In Rheinberger's words 'it becomes urgent to ask whether computer simulations represent a new category of epistemic object altogether.'

I will present my project 'Synthetic environments and compositional context'

Simulation and Computer Experimentation in Music and Sound Art

Publications on the Research Catalogue

'... issues of algorithms, agency, proximity, context and the becoming of sound processes. It questions the scope and potential boundaries of an algorithm, the creative space relating compositional practice with computers and the idea of an algorithmic environment.'

Context and Scope

'... how to represent a generative algorithm as distributed (open), with multiple entry points instead of being closed and result-oriented only. How to introduce dynamic modifications of goals (or heuristics) as a creative interaction mode or how the attitude of evolving criteria (variable intentions) can be made audible through the characteristics of the corresponding sound processes.'

Interrupts and Intervention

Lectorate Music, Education and Society - Festive Presentation

On 25 January, the Music, Education and Society lectorate, under the direction of lector Paul Craenen, will present its plans for the coming year. From the research group, three new research groups set to work with themes such as "Building Blocks of Musical Training", "Making in Music" and "Musical Curation and Engagement". They discuss their research plans and engage in dialogue with each other and the public.

The event is also a closure for the research group of the past year. In short artistic interventions and a social interview, Joe Puglia (violin), Petra Somlai (fortepiano), Raviv Ganchrow (sonology), Patrick van Deurzen (music theory) and Bjarni Gunnarsson (sonology) will explain what research has done for their artistic practice. There is also a small exhibition in which the completed projects can be viewed at the Research Catalog.

Royal Conservatory, The Hague

ATTN, Crucial Listening interview

Discussion with Jack Chuter on ATTN Magazine

'Energetic phenomena, Romanian spectral music, hidden pulsations. The Icelandic composer talks about three important albums.'

New LP, Lueur released by Tartaruga records

Lueur consists of four electroacoustic compositions; the product of unfolding and unpredictable generative processes spread across 38 minutes. An exploration of process as much as tone and texture, the album takes shape through a series of ever-changing movements, interweaving dense low passages and abrupt changes of atmosphere and sound.

Tartaruga publishing

Sonology Concert 17 October 2018, Arnold Schoenbergzaal

Discussion Concert 1

The concert will feature multi-channel fixed-media pieces by Laura Agnusdei, Marie Guilleray & Bjarni Gunnarsson, Cort Lippe and Kees Tazelaar. There will be a live performance by Instruments & Interfaces students Görkem Arikan and Slavo Krekovic, and an improvised music session with the Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble.

Today's Art 2018

Presenting a new live set as part of the great Azimuth program at TodaysArt 2018 next week.

From a festival organization to an international platform for trans-disciplinary creativity: ever since the launch of its first edition in 2005, TodaysArt has been bringing artists, thinkers, and audiences together in an ever-changing, yet inspiring setting.

Inspired by relevant political and artistic topics, TodaysArt aspires to promote and foster innovation and creativity as well as public interest for current developments within arts, culture, and society.

The network specializes in the presentation and development of emerging digital culture and contemporary visual and performing arts. By doing so, TodaysArt connects local and international talent to established creators and pioneers to collectively explore new possibilities and forms of expression. The festival is known for its surprising settings: every year, the festival travels through the city of The Hague before temporarily finding its niche in a wide array of unconventional public spaces and venues.

Sound and Music Computing 2018

Presenting a poster (Block-based scheduling through interrupts and intervention) + piece (Prisme), at the Sound and Music Computing 2018.

The theme of the conference focuses on researching different approaches of computer music and interactive music systems and monitoring the impact of technology on composition, performance, musicology and education through a discussion around the wide concept of 'crossings'. A special focus will be given to sonic crossings in our mind, in our close environment, in our society, in our natural soundscape and in our imaginary landscapes of the ocean and the space searching the dream of the Varesian "deserts".

A special tribute to commemorate the thirtieth year since the passing of Giacinto Scelsi, a composer who embodies the fluid border between sound and music, is also planned. Other areas of focus will be soundscape aesthetics, sound borders - which always broaden through technology - biotechnology issues, ethics of sound and music, virtual spatialisation and cultural heritage.

Frá Íslandi/ From Iceland/Uit IJsland

Participating in SCHIJNDEL - Frá Íslandi (From Iceland) a collective exhibition that opens on Saturday, July 4 in the KEG exhibition space in't Spectrum in Schijndelwas.

Onder internationale kenners genieten IJslandse schrijvers, muzikanten, schilders en beeldhouwers grote faam – al zal die vaak het Europese publiek niet bereiken. Maar vanaf 7 juli hoeft u niet naar het afgelegen eiland om hun kunst te ontdekken - hedendaagse beeldende kunst uit IJsland is dan gewoon in de Keg Expo in Schijndel te zien.

ARC kickoff event

Presenting and performing live ('Command and Autonomy') at the ARC (art_research_convergence) kick-off of the season 2018 (July 2, 2018).ARC.

P O W E R is the ability to act and have others act in particular ways. Now, since acting and causing others to act is precisely what puts society in motion, then social life must be about power too, that is, about acting in relation to one another. But is there anyone behind the wheel? Who are the players in the network of power that keeps the world turning? Different versions of these questions are explored by the artists-researchers featuring in this ARC session, the first one of the season 2018.

Ingrid Verweijen- Audition Audition- performance
Lucy Cordes Engelman -Heresy of the free spirit- performative lecture
Bjarni Gunnarsson - Command and Autonomy - Algorithmic composition
GVN908- Guardians of Peace- performance

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/academy-of-creative-and-performing-arts/acpa-outreach

Hisolat - Various Artists One

'Various Artists One' out now on Hisolat as Cassette + Digital Album, with Lea Bertucci, Kyle Eyre Clyd, Bjarni Gunnarsson, Marie Guilleray, David Fyans, Sayaka Botanic.

1. Lea Bertucci, Kyle Eyre Clyd 11:54
2. Bjarni Gunnarsson 16:24
3. Marie Guilleray 09:12
4. David Fyans 30:00
5. Sayaka Botanic 07:28

Sonology Discussion Concert 5

It is our pleasure to invite you for another Sonology Discussion Concert. This concert will feature our third Konrad Boehmer Visiting Professor Nicholas Collins, who will perform a solo work and will collaborate with the Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble. Doors are open at 19:15, the concert starts at 19:30.www.sonology.org.

I will diffuse a new piece 'Polytree' (2018)

"Sound processes can be defined by the composition of relations and interconnected parts, where many levels form a greater coherence. Polytree explores how a certain focus on the singular (or local) can introduce movements in time and associations among different elements. Acting on objects that one does not clearly perceive, and their potential to generate new concepts reflects a creative situation in which musical materials are being produced according to their position within a specific context. Instead of autonomy, or isolation, such activity displays a tendency of becoming connected and to be able to adapt. It could be how things originate that gives them their place in time. Perhaps everything is a matter of details, of local conditions and context. Such a contextual based view is an important element of the piece. Polytree is composed in 2018 for an 8-channel immersive sound environment."

Azimuth #6 Weekender

March 23-24, 2018
iii workspace at WD4X, Willem Dreespark 312, The Hague
Doors open at 20:00
Concerts start at 20:30

Friday, March 23
Francisco López – NL Premiere Solo Performance

Saturday, March 24
Erik Nyström (SE)
MGBG (Marie Guilleray (FR) en Bjarni Gunnarsson (IS)
Casper Schipper (NL)
Iannis Xenakis performed by Siamak Anvari (IR)

https://www.azimuthfoundation.net