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NIEMANDSLANDHYMNEN Publication

NIEMANDSLANDHYMNEN

A Treize of Terze Rime

an ominous cycle of 13 poems (in English, with wonderful French translations by Louis Patrick Leroux) in a wonderfully designed artist book (Nathalie Dumont)

Limited, numbered edition.

Can$ 25 (plain) Can$ 50 (with autograph )

Prices include free shipping in North America. For Europe& Asia, add $10.

If you would like to buy one, just write to matralab@gmail.com

Treatises on Trans-Traditional Aesthetics

TREATISES ON TRANS-TRADITIONAL AESTHETICS

Ensemble Extrakte, Sandeep Bhagwati

The first album by Berlin-based Ensemble Extrakte explores experiential and intellectual phenomena and their manifestation in the music of different traditions.

Published by dreyer gaido music productions, it will be available soon through most popular online outlets that still sell physical CDs. Of course, it can be bought digitally, too.

FNAC     Amazon.com  Amazon.de  as well as on iTunes etc.

Navid Navab mini-tour in Europe

Navid tours his project “Practices of Everday Life | Cooking”

 

Fall/Winter 2017 – mini European tour

Oct 10, Milano, Italy

Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking

MilanOltre Festival, Teatro Elfo Puccini, 8:30pm

http://www.milanoltre.org/program/navab_cooking/

Oct 10, Nantes, France

SonifEye –  presentation/journal-paper

ISMAR – International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

https://ismar2017.sciencesconf.org

Oct 11, Milano, Italy

Master Class: Improvised Play with Alchemical Matter

DanceHaus, 10 am

Oct 13, Maribor, Slovenia

Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking

Kiblix Festival, KIBLA Portal, 7pm

http://www.kibla.org/en/news/news/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2740&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=1&cHash=06a6855931

Oct 18-21, Munich Germany

Sonification of Surgical Procedures Residency

Computer Assisted Medical Procedures Group , TUM

http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/ResearchGroupCamp

Oct 20, Munich Germany

Presentation/Panel, AR Storytellers teaming up to Transform Lives

AWE – Augmented World Expo, 11:20am

http://www.aweeu.com/agenda/session/204819

Dec 9 2017 – March 3 2018, Paris, France

Aquaphoneia

NEMO Biennale International Des Arts Numériques

https://www.biennalenemo.fr/?lang=en

Michal Seta releases album on Silent Records

Michal Seta just released an album on Silent Records label. The record is available for listening on their bandcamp page (https://silentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/airrors) as well as many streaming services.

Lisboa Soa festival

Between September 1-19 Jen Reimer & Max Stein will be in Lisbon creating an installation in Estufa Fria and performing as part of Lisboa Soa.

Gabriel Dharmoo Winner of the 2017 Student Composer Composition

We are proud to announce that composer and matralab affiliate, Gabriel Dharmoo, has won 1st prize at the 2017 MusCan Student Composer Composition with his piece, The Fog in Our Poise.

For more information: http://www.muscan.org/en/news/music-events/877-2017-composer-en

JOB OPPORTUNITY: ANARCHIVIST IN MUSIC

(Concordia University Montréal)

 

For a new 3-year grant project in artistic research in music called” ECSTASIES OF INFLUENCE (short: EoI – more on this below), matralab intends to hire an

 

ANARCHIVIST in MUSIC 
(starting Sep 1, 2017 for a maximum of 36 months)

 

Research Associate Position for Masters or Ph.D. Students or recent graduates.

 

For those unfamiliar with the term “anarchive”: it is a relatively recent practice that sees ongoing responsive documentation as an essential factor within a creative research process. This makes documentation and reflection instantly accessible, as well as offer avenues of critical and analytic (self-)comprehension, and thus provides a constant feedback loop for all participants in a project (also: see this definition on the website of another Concordia research project). As anarchival needs and affordances may vary greatly from project to project, you will also help define and structure what the anarchive for EoI will look like – and devise a protocol for all participants on how to provide you with useful documentation.

 

JOB
The job will involve coordinating and overseeing the documentation of all research-creation activities related to the grant, which may include writing and editing project texts, archiving relevant correspondence, archiving music notation (e.g. tracking several evolving versions of a score), audiovisual recordings and  their valorization and activation (editing, cross-referencing, hyperlinking, contextualizing) within the grant team, as well as the continuous publication on a structurally evolving website. Some of the tasks may include: developing a project glossary, interviewing participants, co-developing theoretical descriptions of our research-creation processes, co-designing and maintaining the EoI website, helping researchers prepare papers and publications arising from the project, or publishing research papers on the project yourself.

 

DESIDERATA
You should be an elegant and fast writer and a competent, sharp-eyed editor of English-language texts, have a good understanding of how to edit video and audio for research purposes, as well as have a keen interest in experimental art and music traditions since WWII.

 

You should be well-organized and reliable, meticulous and conscientious. You should also be able to plan ahead, event-coordinating the actual documentation teams in three locations around the globe (Montréal, Berlin, Pune).
As this is a music-heavy project, you must be able to read and understand contemporary music notation well enough to contextualize its contents. You would want to quickly pick up on the terms and concepts musicians and other artists use to describe their work. You should also have a good grasp of audio and video editing tools. Ease and skill in using music, website and admin softwares would be a plus, as would be a working knowledge of French or German or Hindi/Marathi.

 

WORKFLOW & PAY
You would work closely with the grant coordinators, the documentation teams, the guest artists and the researchers on this team. Your workflow would be event-driven and thus uneven: Preparing and debriefing documentation teams during workshops, a fast turnaround phase after each workshop to publish edited and annotated documentation within 2-3 weeks of the event, collecting/cross-referencing/archiving ongoing information during conceptual working phases in between workshops. The expected average number of weekly hours will lie somewhere between 5-10hrs, but it should be clearly understood that this may mean both intense periods with up to 10h workdays and more tranquil periods with only one or two hours per week. We pay according to Concordia’s TRAC union rates.

 

LOCATION
The job is not site-specific, and can in principle be done from anywhere –  but it will always require closely working with the matralab team in Montréal. We also cannot at this stage promise to provide an office infrastructure elsewhere than in Montréal, nor pay for frequent trips to any of the three project locations.

 

Please send your motivation letter, CV, portfolio and skype contact to sandeep.bhagwati@gmail.com 
 

 

Primary Deadline: July 9, 2017. Skype interviews will be conducted between July 10 and 15, but applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled.

 

About ECSTASIES OF INFLUENCE
EoI is a three year research creation grant financed by the Fonds Quebecois de Recherche – Société et Culture. Three experimental music ensembles (in Montréal, Berlin and Pune) will collaborate with leading artists (architects, poets, choreographers, film makers, storytellers etc) to create new musical works that realize creative strategies from the collaborator’s artistic discipline. EoI is led by composer, conductor, music researcher and matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati, and comprises a team of artist-researchers from various Montréal universities as well as from universities in India, USA, Australia, and Germany.

Interview for Séquence

Sandeep Bhagwati was recently interviewed by Elie Castel for RevueSéquences on the upcoming premiere of Niemandslandhymnen. In this interview, Bhagwati discusses his musical experiences as well as his cultural roots. 

To read the interview: http://www.revuesequences.org/2017/05/sandeep-bhagwati/

 

AENIGMA ET STUPOR

Iris Lichtinger‎ and Stefan Blum

Sandeep Bhagwati’s piece, Nirgun Bhajan will be performed in the concert Aenigma et Stupor by vocalist Iris Lichtinger and percussionist Stefan Blum. These musicians will be interpreting works of both the past and present. The arc of the concert program spans nearly 1000 years – with fascinating works by Hildegard von Bingen, to modern composers such as Bhagwati. 

May 27th
8pm
15 Euros
Utopia Toolbox Generatorenhalle
Wertachstrasse 29a, Augsburg
For more information: www.tkva.de/aenigma-et-stupor
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Conference TENOR 2017 – Technologies of Notation and Representation

matralab director Sandeep Baghwati will be attending Conference TENOR 2017 at University of La Coruna in Spain. During the conference, Bhagwati’s will be discussing his latest paper titled, Vexations of Ephemerality. Extreme Sight-Reading in Situative Scores – for Makers, Performers, Audiences.

Bhagwati will be hosting this conference in Montréal in 2018.

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