[Voxnovus] Circuit Bridges: First Bridges - Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:30 pm

[Robert Voisey (Vox Novus)]

Circuit Bridges is collaborating with Sprawl to present new audio works by
students from the London School of Communication (University of the Arts
London) and The New Schoolin two special concerts in London and New York
City. The concerts, which feature sound art and electroacoustic music, are
scheduled for Machines Room, 45 Vyner Street, London on April 16 as part of
sonica.fm, and at Gallery MC, 549 W 52nd St, New York, New York on April 30.
Pieces will also be streamed at sonic.fm and later broadcast via Resonance
fm. 

Students from the BA Sound Arts and Design and MA Sound Arts at London
School of Communication (University of the Arts London) include: SebBruen,
Robin Buckley, PärCarlsson, Serena Emtiaz, Jacques Everiss, Andrew Ford,
Tomoko Hojo, Rahel Kraft, YasminKuymizakis, DominykasMorkunas, Pascal Louis
Mowla, Lutfi Othman & Clive Vella, Dominic Stephens. Students from The New
School for Public Engagement, School of Media Studies and ParsonsSchool of
Art, Media, and Technology at The New School include: Emil Boserup, Marc
Fiaux, Oscar Gracida, Fatima Mendez, Eric Romeo, and Evan Viola.

A range of influences and processes inspire the audio works: a listening
ritual in Sufi meditation, attention economics, sounds produced on
hand-built instruments, free improvisation, imaginary acoustic spaces
creating a sensorial experience, rhythm, music, and noise, urban drone, and
others.The audio pieces will be presented as fixed stereo sound.

Sprawl is an artist led organization that has been curating experimental
sound events since in 1996. It was founded by Iris Garrelfs and Douglas
Benford. Artists featured have included Kim Cascone, David Toop, Scanner,
Talvin Singh, Kaffe Matthews, Christian Fennesz, Hayley Newman and more.
Events include the Interplay Festival, Sonic Recycler, the Groundswell
Festival at ICA, Presenting Vladislav Delay - a concert organized in
conjunction with the Tate Modern’s educational department and the Finnish
Institute. They have teamed up with Sonica.fm, an online radio 'gallery'
dedicated to sound art, experimental electronics and radio art. First
Bridges works will be showcased during a Sonica.fm residency at the Machines
Room. http://www.sprawl.org.uk/http://www.sonica.fm

Circuit Bridges is a monthly concert series dedicated to highlighting the
community of electroacoustic music creators. Founded in 2014 by Robert
Voisey and under the artistic direction of David Morneau and Melissa Grey,
Circuit Bridges strives to explore all music under the electroacoustic
umbrella. This includes but is not limited to sonic art, radio art, glitch,
circuit bending, electronica, real-time improvisation, network performance,
audiovisual composition, mash-up, and data sonification. Our mission is to
connect with artists from around the globe to present the wealth of
electroacoustic music being written today.

For more information visit: www.CircuitBridges.com

First Bridges London
Machines Room
Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:30 pm
45 Vyner Street 
London E2 9DQ
http://machinesroom.org/


First Bridges New York
Thursday, April 30, 2015 7:30pm (doors open at 7:15pm)
Gallery MC
(ride the freight elevator to the 8th floor)
549 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019
Between 10th Avenue and 11th Avenue
Closest subway A/C/E at 50th Street, 8th Avenue
$15 admission
$  7 students
www.GalleryMC.org