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

• 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: 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: 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.

- “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, Ireland.

- 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, Ireland

- “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, Portugal

- “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, Portugal

- 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”.