Baltimore SDIY Group's HomePage
Hello & welcome to the homepage of the Baltimore SDIY Group, formerly known as The ElectroAcoustic Orchestra & the Baltimore SDIY Variable Ensemble.
 
I started this group in November of 2007 here in my hometown of Baltimore MD, in what was to have been an electronic music synthesizer users group to have discussions & demonstrations amongst like-minded individuals in the Baltimore/DC/VA areas. By May of 2008, the group quickly morphed into a live shows performance-based entity under the former title of The Baltimore SDIY Variable Ensemble

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State Department cables released by WikiLeaks offer sometimes-vivid glimpses into cultural diplomacy involving musical performances abroad.

The Australian performance artist with an ear on his arm discusses his work challenging what it is to be human

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Muriel Louveau sings her piece "Together". Video created and designed by the english artist Holly Warburton

Electronic music has always had a funny relationship with musicianship. It isn’t playing a traditional instrument; instead, it lies somewhere between instrumentalism and composition, between playing and conducting. Sometimes, that scale is tipped away from virtuosity of any kind.

Open Ears Music Series is curated by Jeff Albert. Its simple goal is to provide an accessible venue for interesting music. There is no cover charge, but there will be passing of the hat and begging. All money donated each night goes to the performers.
Many performances are recorded and posted on this site (with the permission of the artists). Click an artist’s name in the sidebar to see all of their recorded Open Ear performances

q3osc combines the fast-paced virtual playgrounds of FPS video games with the limitless possibilities afforded by dynamic interactive music programming languages. By exporting a variety of parameters from within the modified ioquake3 game engine over a data protocol called Open Sound Control, player movements and fired projectiles can be used to control sound synthesis and playback in a variety of computer music software. In short, this turns quake3-style levels into musical playgrounds, where hoardes of networked performers can play with sound and music in a communal experience.

The members of the New York band Atomic Tom found themselves in a dire position when their instruments were stolen earlier this month. Rather than give up the good fight, the scrappy musicians turned to their iPhones to make ends meet, rocking an impromptu performance of their song “Take Me Out” to a captive audience on an NYC Metro train.

The Cincinnati RealTime Composers was founded at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2005 under the instruction of Alan Bern. Moving from individual impulses to complex forms, the class sought to expose classical musicians to group improvisation. Now a regularly performing ensemble, the group has performed at a variety of venues, from concert halls to cafes. In December of 2006, the group presented their work at the first ever conference of the International Society for Improvised Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan

in order of most recent to oldest - with the exception of the Philosopher's Union Members Mouthpieces & the HiTEC documents - which are organized together regardless of how they fit the overall chronology

... explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated essays uncover shifts that have occurred globally in the aesthetic understanding of performance within computer-augmented virtual and networked environments.

Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist. He directs the Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University, West London. He is author of "Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism;" "Media and Performance;" and "Performance on the Edge." He is co-editor of "Dance and Cognition."

From the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first, artists and musicians manipulated, cracked, and broke audio media technologies to produce novel sounds and performances. Artists and musicians, including John Cage, Nam June Paik, Yasunao Tone, and Oval, pulled apart both playback devices (phonographs and compact disc players) and the recorded media (vinyl records and compact discs) to create an extended sound palette.

Vladimir Horowitz, one of the great pianists of the 20th century, left Russia to settle in the United States in 1939. But, once the Cold War thawed, he famously returned home and played before rapt audiences. What we have here, I believe, is Horowitz playing Mozart’s Sonata in C Major during a 1986 recital Moscow.

NK is a 500 square meter factory floor, dedicated to Sound Art practices, situated at Elsenstr 52 in the Neukolln area in Berlin. NK houses 7 Resident artist studios for International sound and media artists working in new technologies and unconventional forms of musical expression.

New Media, Sound and Performance