My work, titled “Feedback.mono” is on Explorations in Sound, Volume 4, The Sound of Live Performance, a net label release curated by Furthernoise editor Roger Mills. The release is a 23 track compilation of noisemakers responding to the theme of the incidental and unexpected audio consequences of live performance, and is free to download with printed sleeve from the February/March 2011 issue of Furthernoise.org.

This compilation on The Sound of Live Performance assembles those “sound failures, the misassigned patch, unintended playing outcomes, FX overloads, calibrations and pinnacles of performative exploration” that offer sources for eclectic new material.

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Handheld Audio Art Devices, article published in June at http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/12_3/

eContact! is the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s (CEC) online journal of electroacoustics launched in May 1998 as the successor to its print journal, Contact! …published four times a year in French and English. Guest editors have been invited to coordinate one issue per year. Articles, reviews, interviews, commentaries and analyses are featured in the journal, supported by audio and video files. All freely available to the public.

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Nic Collins just informed me that my 2007 article, about my Springboard and piezo contact mics, has topped the list of Leonardo Music Journals “Most Downloaded Articles”.

My article is a free download, please enjoy.

The Free Radio SAIC Archives are up now at http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/

Listen to the November 6th performance by my Intro To Sound students via the above link or direct link to Ear Beer at http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/76/

poster design by Hae-Sung Chung

This is a wonderful video of CHARLES COHEN at The BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL a new short film by Alex Tyson on Vimeo. Since our first meeting back in 1997, Charles has a way with this synthesizer that’s been nothing but a pleasure for me to hear.

This colorful video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970’s Buchla Music Easel. This extremely rare instrument is one of Don Buchla’s 200 series. Buchla (a pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured 14 of these units. The entire film was edited from an hour-long set of free improvisation, with audio was taken directly from Charles’ mixing board.

All of the photography and editing was produced by Alex Tyson, a sound and video artist from Pennsylvania. The film was shot in 16:9 720p High Definition format, using the Letus35 Extreme and a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL.

Tune in and listen to White Noise Phantom Room Hour, a special live radio experiment on Free Radio SAIC.

When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm [US CST (GMT -6)] Thursday, April 17, 2008

Where: http://freeradiosaic.org (QuickTime required)

Produced and performed by students of Eric Leonardson’s Introduction To Sound course.

Travel through space while staying in one place.

Each student will give a tour through a “room” or “place” they have created. There are eleven students and thus, eleven rooms that each will lead you from one student’s radiophonic room to the next for one hour.

We will enjoy hearing your feedback during the show. Call 312.345.3805 or use the real-time messaging.