Marco Donnarumma | new media art, live media performance, sound design

• Date: 30 June, New York, US

- Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture for the Xth Sense biophysical instrument.

Other artists include Laurie Anderson, Maja S.K. Ratkje, Pauline Oliveros, Joshua Light Show.

Ominous is part of an evening of concerts and performances, providing audiences with an opportunity to experience cutting-edge electronic artwork from artists working across the arts and technology spectrum. The New York Electronic Art Festival brings talent into Lower Manhattan from around the globe to showcase new technologies and new artistic practices, and to celebrate the transformational intersection of the two.

• Date: 18 June, Amsterdam, NL

- Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture, and “Music for Flesh II”, solo piece for enhanced body.
Both pieces will be performed with the Xth Sense, biophysical instrument.

Other artists on stage include Mazen Kerbaj, Laetitia Sonami and James Fei, among the others.
June 18th is the official STEIM summer party day. It’s a day to celebrate the (hopefully near) summer days with concerts by some of the most innovative and creative musicians in live music making.

STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is an independent live electronic music centre unique in its dedicated to the performing arts. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely physical interfaces and is widely considered as the pioneering place for the new live electronic concepts.

• Date: 27-30 May, Daejeon, Seoul, South Korea

- Performing “Liminal Corpus”, an audio-visual piece for networked bodies, generative video, and the Xth Sense. Featuring Anna Weisling, Miguel Ortiz, and Marco Donnarumma.
- Paper “Muscular Interactions: Combining EMG and MMG sensing for musical performance”. Talk about current research in biosignal-based multimodal musical instruments.

NIME is an annual interdisciplinary conference discussing contemporary topics in electronic musical interface design, research and practice. NIME brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of academic fields including computer science, electrical engineering, human-computer interaction, musicology, electro-acoustic music, dance and composition, and has routinely attracted interest from electronic music industry as well.

• Date: 9-12 May, Graz, A

- Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture

The Linux Audio Conference is the international conference about Open Source Software for music, sound and other media with Linux as the main platform.
This year the LAC takes place at IEM (Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics), University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria’s leading research institution in acoustics and audio engineering.

• Date: 3-4 May, Troy, New York, US

- Large-scale biophysical performance for self-organising dance, generative video, multi-channel sound, and the Xth Sense.

[radical] signs of life is a multi-disciplinary, interactive dance performance that externalizes the inner working of the mind’s non-hierarchical distribution of thought. Music is generated from dancers’ muscles and blood flow via the Xth Sense biophysical sensors that capture sound waves from performers’ muscular tissue. The corporeal data triggers complex neural patterns to be projected onto multiple screens as 3D imagery. As the audience interacts with the images, they enter into dialogue with the dancers.

• Date: 3 April, Lodz, PL

- Performing “Hypo Chrysos”, action art for vexed body and biophysical media.

Also on stage Maciej Ozog and Gerard Lebik.

Bios@Techne@Art is a program of performative events spanning 4 major cities in Poland. The aim is to foster discussion around the role of biotechnologies in performance art, and explore how such framework can inform the cultural perception of the body.

• Date: 2 April, Lodz, PL

- Panel discussion on biologically informed performance art, music, and other creative media.

With Maciej Ozog and Gerard Lebik.

Bios@Techne@Art is a program of performative events spanning 4 major cities in Poland. The aim is to foster discussion around the role of biotechnologies in performance art, and explore how such framework can inform the cultural perception of the body.

• Date: 29 March, Wroclaw, PL

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture.

Also on stage:

Gerard Lebik
Tractography Neural Tracts Noise

Maciej Ożóg
Transient Body/Liminal Space – Interactive performance for body and electromagnetic waves.

• Date: 28 March, Warsaw, PL

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture.

Also on stage:

Gerard Lebik
Tractography Neural Tracts Noise

Maciej Ożóg
Transient Body/Liminal Space – Interactive performance for body and electromagnetic waves.

• Date: 27 March, Gdansk, PL

Also on stage Maciej Ozog.
- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture.

• Date: 11 March, Plymouth, UK

Lecture on biophysical instruments for music and performance art. Insights into our current research at Goldsmiths, University of London focusing on biological media and the arts, bodily performance and technology, machine learning and gestural control of music.

Plymouth University is the largest university in the South West of England, with over 32,000 students and is 9th largest in the United Kingdom by total number of students.

• Date: 9 March, Bristol, UK

Lecture and demo on biophysical instruments for music and performance art. Biological media and the arts, bodily performance and technology.

The event is organised by Supernatant Laboratories. Supernatant Laboratories is a UK-based organisation conducting independent multi-faceted research programmes exploring the fertile interfaces between technology and modernity; creativity and artistic practise; metaphysics, ontology and meaning, and the future trajectory of the human race.

• Date: 2-3 March, Amsterdam, NL

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is an independent live electronic music centre unique in its dedicated to the performing arts. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely physical interfaces and is widely considered as the pioneering place for the new live electronic concepts.

• Date: 28 February, Amsterdam, NL

Lecture discussing biological media and arts, bodily performance and technology.
Starts at 2pm, free.

STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is an independent live electronic music centre unique in its dedicated to the performing arts. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely physical interfaces and is widely considered as the pioneering place for the new live electronic concepts.

• Date: 14-28 February, Amsterdam, NL

- Two weeks residency at STEIM to develop a new work entitled “Nigredo” to be previewed at Sonic Acts Festival.

STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is an independent live electronic music centre unique in its dedicated to the performing arts. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely physical interfaces and is widely considered as the pioneering place for the new live electronic concepts.

• Date: 10-13 February, Barcelona, ES

- Presenting research on multimodal interaction of biological and spatial sensing for musical performance with the paper:
“Body and Space: Combining Modalities for Musical Expression”
- Presenting Hypo Chrysos, an action art piece for vexed body and biophysical media with the paper:
“Hypo Chrysos: Mapping in Interactive Action Art Using Bioacoustic Sensing”

TEI 2013 is the seventh international conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. The work presented at TEI addresses HCI issues, design, interactive art, user experience, tools and technologies, with a strong focus on how computing can bridge atoms and bits into cohesive interactive systems.

• Date: 31 January, London, UK

- Performing improv duet with Diemo Schwarz (IMTR Team, Ircam, Centre Pompidou, FR)
Xth Sense biophysical music + CataRT real time concatenative synthesis

• Date: 24-26 January, Mexico City, MX

- Directing the twelfth edition of LPM, which this year host over 500 international artists.

LPM offers the unique opportunity to experience 4 days of audiovisual performances, VJing, workshops, panel discussion, product showcases presented by hundreds of audiovisual artists, new media professionals, VJs, and thinkers from around the world.

• Date: 17 January, Nantes, FR

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

• Date: 15 November, Rio de Janeiro, BR

- Performing Hypo Chrysos, a action art for vexed body and biophysical media (Xth Sense, interactive multi-channel audio and video).
- Performing new biomedia collaborative work with Anna Weisling and Miguel Ortiz (SARC, US/UK)

In a year of clear expansion of boundaries, Panorama asserts itself as the largest contemporary art festival in the city and welcomes within the program its loud and innovative cousin, the Happenings, curated by Batman Zavareze. Sound installations, musical performances and many surprises occupy Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica. Performances are possible thanks to the joint support of the Sonic Arts Research Center and the British Council.

• Date: 3 November, Antwerp, Belgium

- Performing a new piece for the Xth Sense for the finals of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music Competition.

Final concert of the 5th ECPNM European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects.
Also on stage John Eckhardt, double bass and electric bass.

• Date: 15-18 October, Bergen, NO

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

• Date: 11 October, Belfast, NIR

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Performing a new piece for musical biotechnologies with Miguel Ortiz Perez.

The Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) is a unique interdisciplinary facility which unites internationally recognised experts in the fields of musical composition, signal processing, Human Computer Interaction and auditory perception. The Centre is established in a purpose-built facility located alongside the engineering departments of Queen’s University Belfast. SARC’s centrepiece, the Sonic Laboratory, provides a unique space for cutting-edge initiatives in the creation and delivery of music and audio.

• Date: 5 October, Maribor, SI

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;

Robots and Avatars Exhibition showcases the most exciting visions and innovations from international artists, designers and architects, exploring their impact on the future of work and play. The exhibition presents immersive experiences – from physical limbs rendered into pixels through the act of touch, collaborative landscapes stretching beyond the confines of popular gaming, to wearable and interactive technologies.

• Date: 1-4 October, Budapest, HU

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Talk “Biophysical Music: when biotechnology meets the corporeality of performance”

The Data is Beautiful – Arts event is organised by the Doctoral School (DLA), Hungarian University of Fine Art as part of the ‘New Interfaces, Interactive Technologies and Stereoscopic Real-time Imaging’ research programme funded by the European Social Fund through Hungarian Social Renewal Operational Programme. Events and activities will create a diverse platform of knowledge exchange for artists, scientists and designer including symposiums, an exhibition, workshops, hacking events, demo talks and a concert.

• Date: 19-24 September, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

The Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness is a major international symposium and series of events exploring the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art, technology and nature.
This performance is supported by an Alt-w award from New Media Scotland.

• Date: 18-19 September, London, UK

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Speaking at Robots and Avatars Symposium.

Robots and Avatars Exhibition showcases the most exciting visions and innovations from international artists, designers and architects, exploring their impact on the future of work and play. The exhibition presents immersive experiences – from physical limbs rendered into pixels through the act of touch, collaborative landscapes stretching beyond the confines of popular gaming, to wearable and interactive technologies.

• image: 17 September, London, UK

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Performing free noise improv with the Xth Sense and analog electronics.

Also on stage Kyle Evans (US), Stanier Black Five & Malcolm Riddoch (AU/NZ).

• Date: 7-8 September, Leeds, UK

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

Live Interfaces is a conference on live, technology-mediated interaction in performance. The conference seeks to investigate cross-disciplinary understandings of performance technology with a particular focus on issues related to the notion of liveness in interaction.

• Date: 24 August, Edinburgh, UK

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

Music Hack Day Scotland is an exciting event for musicians, makers, experimentalists and digital tinkerers to make ingenious musical projects in 24 hours. The event is kicking off with a series of sessions from music inventors and innovators. It’s free, and you don’t have to be going to the full hack event to come along – ideal for musicians, labels and anyone interested in the future of music technology

• Date: 20 July, Sao Paulo, BR

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival the biggest art & technology festival in Brazil, and it serves as a lead indicator of the plurality of the work created in the interactive art field not only nationally but also internationally.

• Date: 19 July, Sao Paulo, BR

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival the biggest art & technology festival in Brazil, and it serves as a lead indicator of the plurality of the work created in the interactive art field not only nationally but also internationally.

• Date: 14-15 July, Berlin, DE

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

BodyControlled is a new exhibition and performance series at the Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance (LEAP), presenting artists who are dedicated to performance art and have explored in their work the medium of sound in electronic as well as other expressive art forms.

• Date: 13 July, Berlin, DE

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

Also on stage Claudia Robles Angel and Peter Kirn.
BodyControlled is a new exhibition and performance series at the Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance (LEAP), presenting artists who are dedicated to performance art and have explored in their work the medium of sound in electronic as well as other expressive art forms.

• Date: 6-17 July, Portimao, PT

- “The Invisible Suns Project” Autonomous system for permanent, real time, cinematic representation of worldwide stock prices.
- Workshop “Live Media and FLOSS – Pure Data”.
Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS: Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.

• Date: 4 July, London, UK

A durational performance for Xth Sense, biophysical music, extended voices, and blood machines.

In the forest (greater London metropolis), omen[act0] begins with witches messaging prophecy and prediction. Inside the castle, classic and contemporary tales of remorse[act1], betrayal[act2] and overthrow [act3] unfold. Each act is realized by collaborating visual, sound and performance artists making use of all mediums, elaborating operatic manoeuvre into an escalating scheme of conspiracy and its contemporaneous political manifestations.

Outside the castle, the mobile forest, electronically updated with antennas, electronic magnetic waves, geolocation, armed with bytes and pixels, signals and slogans, is assembled for simulated insurgency measures. Mobilized urbanites, empowered by free network emissions, carry the camouflage tree antennas, in a spider-shaped movement, towards the Castle Central. As the sheer strength of signals forces an entry into the Castle, a final merging of forest and castle occurs during the act4 – Insurgency; a moment of downfall, jubilation and loss. The act of eternal return[act5] brings us back to [act0]omen set admist a dusted, ruined castle.

• Date: 30 June, 1 July, Sheffield, UK

- Workshop Live Media and FLOSS – Pure Data.
Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS: Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.

• Date: 22-24 June, London, UK

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

BEAM is a high-tech music weekender, a playground of homemade instruments and sonic installations, where you can listen to, watch and learn how to create your own physically living electronic music.

• Date: 31 May, 3 June, Rome, IT

- Directing the eleventh edition of LPM, which this year host over 500 international artists.

LPM offers the unique opportunity to experience 4 days of audiovisual performances, VJing, workshops, panel discussion, product showcases presented by hundreds of VJs, audiovisual artists, new media professionals and thinkers from around the world.

• Date: 21-23 May, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Poster “Music for Flesh II: informing interactive music performance with the viscerality of the body system”

The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) is an annual interdisciplinary conference discussing contemporary topics in electronic musical interface design, research and practice. The NIME conference brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of academic fields including computer science, electrical engineering, human-computer interaction, musicology, electro-acoustic music, dance and composition, and has routinely attracted interest from electronic music industry as well.

• Date: 20 May, New York, USA

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

SHARE is: Support and infrastructure for new media communities worldwide. A regular open multimedia jam. A place to experiment. Growing.

• Date: 19-20 May, New York, USA

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

Hosted by Harvestworks. Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology. Its mission is to support the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies.

• Date: 19 May, New York, USA.

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

Also on stage Atau Tanaka & Adam Parkinson with their mobile musical instruments.

• Date: 15 May, Washington DC, USA

A night of Biophysical music with Marco Donnarumma.

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Performing “Nascent”, incarnated sound sculpture;
- Talk “Performing incarnated sound: the Xth Sense”.

• Date: 7 May, Houston, Texas, USA

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

“They, Who Sound” is a series in Houston for experimental sound-making, improvised music, free jazz, underground noise, electro-acoustics, psychedelia, improvised dance, the performance of art, and “musique brut”.

• Date: 5-10 May, Austin, Texas, USA

- Lecture “Xth Sense: recoding visceral embodiment”
Other presenters include Adam Parkinson, Toby Harris, Maria Lantin and Leila Sujir, among the others.

The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. CHI 2012 focuses on the centrality of experience—from the models, theories and practical insights we need to understand and design for user experience to experiencing innovation through hands-on interactivity.

• Date: 25 April, Mexico DF

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

‘Liveness’ is the first Mexican gathering of international artists whose main interest lies in the critical investigation and distribution of a discourse around theater, dance or performance practices that rely on a tight relationship between body and technology.

• Date: 25-27 April, Mexico DF

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body;
- Invited speaker at the symposium along with Mark Coniglio, Daito Manabe, Ivani Santana and Martin Bakero, among the others.

‘Liveness’ is the first Mexican gathering of international artists whose main interest lies in the critical investigation and distribution of a discourse around theater, dance or performance practices that rely on a tight relationship between body and technology.

• Date: 12-15 April, CCRMA, Stanford, CA, USA

- “The Invisible Suns Project” Autonomous system for permanent, real time, cinematic representation of worldwide stock prices.

The Linux Audio Conference is the international conference about Open Source Software for music, sound and other media with Linux as the main platform. 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the event and it is the first time the LAC takes place in the United States, namely at CCRMA, Stanford University.

• Date: 10-12 April, Bangor, UK

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.

In collaboration with Electroacoustic Wales, Risk of Shock, GEMINi (Gestural Music Interaction) Research Group and Bangor Sound City. INTER/actions will be a three-day symposium and mini-festival focusing on performance and interaction in electronic music. Keynote presenter and composer: Karlheinz Essl, Vienna.

• Date: 6 April, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

- Performing “Music for Flesh II”, interactive music piece for enhanced body.

Throughout the Edinburgh International Science Festival, Inspace will be transformed into LateLab – a creative, social and participatory space for adults where they can make, do and interact with art, science and technology. LateLab is a collaboration between the Edinburgh International Science Festival, New Media Scotland and the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics.

• Date: 4 April, London, UK

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.

BEAM festival presents a special one-off taster event held at café OTO. Following BEAM’s mission, the acts tonight were all featured at BEAM 2011 and all use unusual and/or homemade interfaces to perform.
Also on stage Atau Tanaka and Adam Parkinson, Bruno Zamborlin and Tom Bugs.

• Date: 22-27 March, Belfast, IRL

- Speaking at a plenary panel session. With keynote speakers Ben Knapp, Atau Tanaka, Susan Kozel and Franziska Schroeder.

The Two Thousand + symposium is an annual research event in the area of music performance and new technologies, which has been running since 2006 at the School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen’s University Belfast.

• Date: 22-27 March, Belfast, IRL

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.

The Sonorities Festival is the longest-running new music festival in Ireland and is one of the cornerstone Festivals in Europe presenting innovative new music. It is run by the School of Creative Arts and the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast.

• Date: 16-17 February, Atlanta, GA, USA

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.

“Music for Flesh II” and the Xth Sense technology have been selected to battle during the finals of this prestigious contest.
The Guthman Competition is an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design and engineering. Wired magazine has called the competition an “X-Prize for music,” and contestants have likened it to a TED Conference for new musical instrument designers.

• Date: 7 January, Lisbon, PT

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.

The NetaudioLx aims to promote and disseminate free culture around music, digital arts and technology.

• Date: 6-7 January, Lisbon, PT

- Live Media and FLOSS – Pure Data Workshop.
Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS: Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance.

The NetaudioLx aims to promote and disseminate free culture around music, digital arts and technology.

• Date: 20 December, Gijon, Spain

- Hypo Chrysos, a new biomedia performance for enhanced body, interactive multi-channel audio and video (Xth Sense biophysical interaction technology).

Trendelenburg is a lively platform dedicated to the public dissemination of cultural projects focused on the more experimental advanced art and postdigital culture, and mainly focused on audiovisual projects whose maximum value is obtained in their live performance.

• Date: 16 December, Madrid, Spain.

- Premiere of Hypo Chrysos, a new biomedia performance for enhanced body, interactive multi-channel audio and video (Xth Sense biophysical interaction technology).
Also on stage Herman Kolgen.

MADATAC (Muestra de Artes Digitales Audiovisuales y Tecnologías Contemporáneas) is an innovative platform for the audiovisual culture and new experimental media.

• Date: 12-15 December, Madrid, Spain

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for audiovisual performance. Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

MADATAC (Muestra de Artes Digitales Audiovisuales y Tecnologías Contemporáneas) is an innovative platform for the audiovisual culture and new experimental media.

• Date: 23 November, Newcastle, UK.

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.
Also on stage Atau Tanaka Kaffe Mathews, and Ben Freeth. Very special guest Phil Niblock.

• Date: 20-25 November, Newcastle, UK

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

Culture Lab was founded in May 2006 to provide a central hub for a range of creative activities within the University and the wider region. Culture Lab is both a physical building and a group of collaborators in the field of creative practice. It is home to a core group of permanent staff, led by Culture Lab’s Director Professor Atau Tanaka.

• Date: 17-20 November, Bergen, Norway

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.
- Talk “Xth Sense: a biophysical, wearable and open source technology”.

The 9th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom. The festival subtitle re:public connects to various strategies for rethinking and redefining public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context.

• Date: 11-13 November, Cuernavaca, Mexico

- LPM, Live Performers Meeting presentation of the project and upcoming edition in Rome and Mexico DF.

Mediaxion is a series of events offering a platform for the diffusion of all artistic practices whose main creation means is the live action and its interaction with the new technologies.

• Date: 8-11 November, Mexico City

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.
- Talk “Incarnated sound: from bodily vibrations to biophysical music”.

• Date: 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 November, Mexico City

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

• Date: 18-23 October, Seoul, South Korea

- Paper “Xth sense: a biophysical framework for the application of muscle sounds to interactive music performance”.

The Seoul International Computer Music Festival, one of the biggest electro-acoustic music festivals in Asia, is in its 18th year. The festival will be held from October 18th till 23rd at Jayu Theater in Seoul Arts Center.

• Date: 22-25 September, Minsk, Belarus

- Workshop Live Media and FLOSS – Pure Data.
Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS: Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.

• Date: 17-20 August, London

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.

• Date: 15 August, London

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.
Also on stage Atau Tanaka, Ryan Jordan and Marinos Koutsomichalis.

Concerts for sensors, flesh, audiovisual and noise.

• Date: 8-14 August, Weimar, Germany

- Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Use your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.
- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.
- Long Paper “A Pd framework for the Xth Sense: enabling computer to sense human kinetic behaviour”.

A Pure Data convention is an event where users and developers meet, discuss and present their research and artworks. It consists of a Conference program, Workshops professionals, Exhibition, Concerts and Performances with music made with Pure Data.

• Date: 31 July to 5 August, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

- Long Paper “Xth Sense: researching muscle sounds for an experimental paradigm of musical performance”.
- Screening “Music for Flesh II” solo performance for augmented muscle sounds.

Since 1974 the ICMC has been the major international forum for the presentation of the full range of outcomes from technical and musical research, both musical and theoretical, related to the use of computers in music.

• Date: 2 July 2011, Desio, Italy

- “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.

• Date: 24-26 June, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

- Awarded a Bursary for outstanding work: “Music for Flesh II” interactive music performance for enhanced body.
- Pechakucha 20×20 presentation “Xth Sense, biophysical generation and control of music”.

A high-tech music weekender, BEAM is a playground of homemade instruments and sonic robots, focused on electronic music being performed or created LIVE.

• Date: 24 May to 6 June, Copenhagen, Denmark

- Director of a two weeks seminary in partnership with the Skolen for Moderne Dans (Danish National School of Contemporary Dance).

Training and formation of dance and music students to develop “Raw/Roar” an intermedia piece for enhanced bodies and reactive environment, based on the Xth Sense biosensing wearable technology. Marco Donnarumma with Jeannette Ginslov

• Date: 19-22 May, Rome

- Artists and program direction.

LPM is a leading international annual meeting for live media artists.
Latest edition hosted 470 artists from all over the world.

• Date: 13 May, Wroclaw, Poland

- Audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature v.3.0 for augmented bass guitar and butterfly.

The WRO Biennal is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe.

• Date: 6-8 May, Maynooth, Ireland

- Paper presentation “Xth Sense: Researching muscle sounds for an experimental paradigm of musical performance”
- Music for Flesh II interactive music performance for enhanced body.

The LAC is an international conference about Open Source Software for music, sound and other media with Linux as the main platform.

• Date: 9 April, Berlin

- Audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature v.3.0 for augmented bass guitar and butterfly.

• Date: 6-9 April, Berlin

- 3-days Workshop. Xth Sense, biophysical generation and control of music.
Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance; creating your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds.
- Talk “Xth Sense: researching muscle sounds for an experimental paradigm of musical performance”.

• Date: 31 March, Derry, Ireland

- Presenting Xth Sense technology within the talk “Performance and Pure Data” with Richard Graham.

Imagine Create is a digital arts festival which brings together a world-class line-up of talents and minds from the worlds of art, design, new media and software development.

• Date: 15 March, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

- Solo sonic piece Music for Flesh II interactive music performance for enhanced body.
- Premiere of a new, site specific, multi-channel and participatory piece for Xth Sense.

• Date: 13 March, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

- Solo sonic piece Music for Flesh II interactive music performance for enhanced body.
Also on stage Jasper TX and Kevin Hay.

• Date: 12-16 March, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

- New work residency within the Non-Bio Boom research program.
Development of a site specific, multi-channel participatory concert for Xth Sense Biosensing Technology.

• Date: 4-5 March, Dublin, Ireland

- Paper presentation “Xth Sense: Researching biological sounds of the body for an experimental paradigm of musical performance”.
- Solo sonic piece Music for Flesh II interactive music performance for enhanced body.

• Date: 3 February, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

- Talk “Pure Data and hacktive behaviours”, Pd and Open Source tools for creative practice.

• Date: 18-21 November, Bergen, Norway

- Presentation Golden Shield Music.
A multi-channel generative sound installation for censored Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

Piksel is a festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom. The festival subtitle (Un)stable points to the temporarily placed and unsteady constructions – mobile spaces, code in constant development, a globally charged political climate.

• Date: 15 October to 18 November, Townsville, Australia

- Nomination for Golden Shield Music.
A multi-channel generative sound installation for censored Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
- Nomination for The Invisible Suns Project.
An autonomous system for permanent, real time, cinematic representation of worldwide stock prices.

• Date: 09 October, Rome

- Audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature v.3.0 for augmented bass guitar and butterfly

• Date: 04 September, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

- Audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature v.3.0 for augmented bass guitar and butterfly.

• Date: 03, 04 September, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

- Workshop Live Media and FLOSS – Pure Data Workshop.
Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS: Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance.

• Date: 26 August, Avellino, Italy

- Audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature v.3.0 for augmented bass guitar and butterfly.

• Date: 25-28 August, Avellino, Italy

- Workshop Live Media and FLOSS – Pure Data.
Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS: Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.

• Date: 26-30 July, London

- Seminary Live Media and FLOSS Extended Production.
5 Days In-depth Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance seminary using FLOSS: Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool.

• Date: 15-16 July, Glasgow, United Kingdom

- Workshop Pd aka Pure Data intro.
Two lessons to learn Pure Data basic idioms and get familiar with audio and video real-time processing, interaction and creative networking.

CCA provides a platform for exciting and inspiring cutting edge contemporary visual art, performance, film, music and spoken word.

• Date: 04 July, Sollefteå, Sweden

- Online performance, nowave/noise/electroacoustic for augmented electric bass guitar.

• Date: 27-30 May, Rome

- Artists and program director.

LPM is a leading international annual meeting for live media artists.
Latest edition hosted 350 artists from all over the world.

• Date: 20-22 May, Reykjavik, Iceland

- Presentation Golden Shield Music.
A multi-channel generative sound installation for censored Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
- Audiovisual Concert I C::ntr::l Nature for augmented bass guitar and butterfly.

Pikslaverk is the Icelandic festival of software art. It is presented by Lorna, the Icelandic organisation for electronic arts, and is part of the international network of Pixelache Festivals.

• Date: 18-22 May, Copenhagen, Denmark

- Open air multi-channel participative concert and sound installation High Spheres. Opening event.

The annual re-new digital arts festival presents a wide selection of the newest ground-breaking works in digital music, video, installations, performative, and distributed / collaborative art.

• Date: 08-09 May, Geneva, Switzerland

- Workshop FLxER, flash and remote vjing.
Gianluca Del Gobbo, Marco Donnarumma, Ioann Maria.

The Mapping Festival is dedicated to the advancement of the VJ medium. It does so by initiating events where the medium of projecting images is combined with other currents in contemporary culture, and bringing these events to the people of Geneva and international visitors.

• Date: 07 May, Geneva, Switzerland

- Audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature v.3.0 for augmented bass guitar and butterfly.

The Mapping Festival is dedicated to the advancement of the VJ medium. It does so by initiating events where the medium of projecting images is combined with other currents in contemporary culture, and bringing these events to the people of Geneva and international visitors.

• Date: 02, 03 April, Munich, Germany

- Presentation Golden Shield Music.
A multi-channel generative sound installation for censored Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

• Date: 20 March, Rome

- Audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature v.3.0 for augmented bass guitar and butterfly.

• Date: 25-27 February, Cagliari, Italy

- Workshop Live Media and FLOSS.
Theoretical and practical laboratory of audiovisual performance with FLOSS.

• Date: February, March, April, Brescia, Italy

- Teaching a Sound Design annual course: “Designing Sound for Sensitive Environment with FLOSS”.