We have also launched a new YouTube channel and Flickr site and will be posting more video and audio clips of the incredible performances and artist talks in the coming months. Thank you to all the artists, sponsors, supporters, volunteers for making MOVE>SOUND the most phenomenal season ever.
May 01 , 2008 ME'D1.ATE Announces
Soundwave>Series ((3)): MOVE>SOUND
Full schedule, online ticket purchase, artist bios and performance details is available at www.projectsoundwave.com/series. Infoline: 415-216-3102
ME’D1.ATE NETWORK is excited to announce the most daring and ambitious Soundwave>Series ever. A record 11 extraordinary events will start June 27, 2008 through to August 17, 2008 at leading San Francisco art and music institutions The Lab, Community Music Center, and Intersection for the Arts…as well as on a moving bus venue hosted by New Langton Arts, Queen's Nails Annex, Art Engine and the spectacular de Young Museum.
The acclaimed series is launching its third season with a theme of MOVE>SOUND. An eclectic group of sound artists and musicians will create sonic performances around the theme of “Movement”. They will explore how movement intersects with sound, in its composition or performance, or in collaboration or interaction with artists, technologies and mediums involved in movement. View Press Release.
Full schedule, online ticket purchase, artist bios and performance details is available at www.projectsoundwave.com/series. Infoline: 415-216-3102
November 26, 2007 Project>Soundwave Exhibits at the
Singapore Design Festival 2007
ME’D1.ATE is honored to be invited
to showcase Project>Soundwave
at the 2007 Singapore
Design Festival from November 27 to December 08 2007.
It will be a part of 'My
Universal Home', an installation by Singapore-based Belgian
designer and artist Anita
Nevens in collaboration with designstudio Little
Red Dots and artist Noriko Suzuki-Bosco and sponsored
by Fortis and Design Flanders Belgium.
My
Universal Home reflects the increasing necessity of changes
in the idea of ‘home’ due to the growing trends
in nomadic and cross-border living.The house is a living environment
with furniture, design, art, video and performance hosting
works by international and local designers and artists including
soundworks by Project>Soundwave.
The
Singapore Design Festival is a biennial platform initiated
by the Design Singapore Council (Ministry of Information,
Communication and the Arts), with the aim to celebrate and
promote design as a propeller of the new economy in Singapore,
and to provide a gateway to Asia's design community, and Asia
to the world.
November 09, 2007
Call For Artists:
Soundwave>Series ((3))
ME’D1.ATE is
seeking artists and musicians for the third season of the
Soundwave>Series, the innovative multi-venue event series
exploring imaginations in sound. Scheduled for the Summer
of 2008 in San Francisco USA, this season’s theme is
titled MOVE>SOUND, where artists and musicians explore
the intersection of motion and sound, in its production, collaboration,
performance and interaction, and how this engages, inspires,
and challenges audiences and performers with a new, bold and
intense aural experience.
Thank you to all artists
and musicians who submitted proposals. Due to an overwhelming
response, notifications will be during the week of February
4-11, 2008, instead of February 4th as previously announced.
September 09, 2007 ME'D1.ATE Partners with The LAB
We are so excited to announce that ME'D1.ATE Network has partnered
with The LAB, San Francisco's leading art institution supporting
new visual, performing, media and literary art since 1984.
They have earned a reputation as one of the foremost presenters
of experimental art in the country and showcasing some of
the most important work of today's emerging experimental artists.
Check out
www.thelab.org
The LAB, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, will act as ME'D1.ATE's
Fiscal Sponsor which means a huge change for our little organization:
Supporters will now be able to send donations (monetary and
equipment) that are TAX-DEDUCTIBLE to ME'D1.ATE. There is
no better time to donate as we prepare for our third season
of the Soundwave>Series and needing to raise an additional
$10,000 to help finance the performing artists and production.
Save money on taxes by donating to ME'D1.ATE and receive ME'D1.ATE
gifts as our way or saying thank you! Details at www.me-di-ate.net/donate.html
Send checks payable to THE LAB with the memo line: ME'D1.ATE
to ME'D1.ATE NETWORK, P.O. Box 170305, San Francisco, CA 94117-0305
or donate online below:
August 21, 2007 San Francisco Magazine Honors Project>Soundwave
as the Best
In the 'Are you serious?' category, comes
word that our beloved Project>Soundwave
has been awarded "Best Sound Sculptures - Future Classic"
by San
Francisco Magazine in their annual BEST issue. We are
so very humbled by the honor which we share with all the past,
present and future artists of Project>Soundwave and hope
to live up to the tilte of a San Francisco future classic.
We'll post our lovely certificate soon.
Check out our press release here.
August 03, 2007 Watch Soundwave Videos
SPARK* Television Feature on KQED-TV PBS featuring
guest curator Matt Davignon and KUSF 90.3FM radio session
and Soundwave's LIVE PLAY show.
Radio Session at KUSF 90.3 FM San Francisco
featuring Alan So, Matt Davignon, Moe! Staiano. Hosted by
Stereo Steve. Track by The Drift off of Soundwave Series Live
CD.
Radio Session at No Other Radio Network
at KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley featuring Alan So, Justino, David
Graves and Damon Smith hosted by daS and Ninah Pixie. Track
live performance by Justino.
As we develop the new upcoming season,
check out the new videos of Soundwave>Series ((2)) now
available on YouTube.
Enjoy the SPARK* television feature and videos from the radio
sessions audio clips from the show at KUSF 90.3 FM San Francisco
and KPFA 94.1 Berkeley. More videos will be posted soon so
stay tuned!
Also available on our Project>Soundwave's
MySpace
page! Be our friend!
November 06, 2006 SPARK* Rebroadcasts Matt Davignon/Live Play
Feature on PBS November 22
SPARK*, the Bay Area's arts program, will rebroadcast the feature
on Soundwave>Series guest curator Matt Davignon and the Soundwave>Series
event LIVE PLAY in June of this year. The show's episode called
"Performance Ideas" will be broadcast across Northern
California on its PBS-affiliate KQED Channel 9. The show's premiere
broadcast was on July 12th 2006.
What: Matt Davignon/Live Play Feature on SPARK*
Show: SPARK* Episode#414 Performance Ideas
Where: KQED Channel 9 (PBS Northern California)
When: Wednesday November 22, 2006
Time: 7:30PM PST
August 24, 2006 Soundwave>Series ((2)): Gallery Online
A Soundwave>Series gallery full of photos, videos and mp3s
of the surround sound events, live radio performances, press,
interviews and a TV show from this past season is now available!!
Relive moments or check out performances you might have missed!
Soundwave>Series ((2)) I AM SOUND Thursday July 20, 2006 | 8PM
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street, San Francisco 94103
$6-10 sliding scale
THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR LAST EVENT OF SOUNDWAVE>SERIES
((2)) ANOTHER INCREDIBLE FULL HOUSE SHOW!!
****Audience Members asked to bring love letters and texts
to the show****
Curated by Alan So
With Performances by:
• Albert Ortega (A Village Array) Objects
• Alon Nechushtan f. Damon Smith (Dark Forces
3) Electronics/Double Bass
• Stefan Smulovitz & Viviane Houle Electronics/Vocals/Viola
Project>Soundwave proudly presents
the fourth and final show of the Soundwave>Series 2nd season.
I AM SOUND explores the experiences where the audience becomes
an integral part of sound production. This is part of a series
of events exploring SURROUND>SOUND in June/July at ATA,
The LAB and Luggage Store Gallery.
Soundwave>Series ((2)) SOUNDSPACE Friday July 7 & Saturday
July 8, 2006 | 8PM
The LAB
2498 16th Street, San Francisco 94103
$6-10 sliding scale | Soundspace (2-show) Pass $12 | All Access
Pass (final 3 shows) $14
Thank you for making SOUNDSPACE an UNBELIEVABLE sell out success!!
Curated by Alan So
JULY 7: SONOLOGY Performances:
• Justino (Ice)
• Garland Villanova (A Tunnel Life: An Exploded
View)
• David A. Graves (Deciduous)
JULY 8: MUSICOLOGY Performances:
• Night Night (Laptop A/V)
• GroundChuck (Laptop)
• Tim Gallaher (Film/Vocal)
• Special Collaboration: Night Night/Don Seaver/Mae
Williams & Natalie Greene (Electro/Theater/Dance)
Night Night performs with dancers Mae Williams & Natalie
Greene improvising to theater compositions of Don Seaver in
the surround environment
Project>Soundwave proudly presents
the second and third show of the Soundwave>Series 2nd season.
Artists and musicians will perform in a specially-designed
circular 6-channel-speaker sound space that will have audiences
experience sounds in an all-encompassing surround environment.
This is part of a series of events exploring SURROUND>SOUND
in June/July at ATA, The LAB and Luggage Store Gallery.
Soundwave>Series ((2)) LIVE PLAY Friday June 9, 2006 | 8PM
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia St, San Francisco 94110
$6-10 sliding scale
Thank you all for making it a smash
sellout success! Watch for the LIVE PLAY segment on an upcoming
edition of KQED's
SPARK*
Guest Curated by Found Objects Festival'sMatt Davignon
Videos curated by 21 Grand'sSarah Lockhart
With Performances by:
• Myrmyr (Laptop/violin/cello duo of Marielle
Jakobsons & Agnes Szelag)
• Luz Alibi/Mr. Maurader (trumpet/electronics
duo)
• Adhoc Quintet (Moe! Staiano/Percussion,
Kanoko Nishi/Koto, Lance Grabmiller/Laptop,
David Michalak/Steel Lap Guitar, Matt Davignon/Turntable)
Project>Soundwave proudly presents the first show of the
Soundwave>Series 2nd season. Artists from Bay Area’s
experimental music scene converge to improvise scores for
an unusual array of films they have never seen before. This
is the 1st in a series of events exploring SURROUND>SOUND
in June/July at ATA, The LAB and Luggage Store Gallery.
(San Francisco, USA) – Two years after the launch of
the SOUNDWAVE>SERIES, MEDIATE NETWORK is proud to announce
the production of its 2nd Edition in June and July 2006 with
the theme of “SURROUND>SOUND”. More ambitious
in scope, the multi-venue series invites contemporary artists
and musicians to push boundaries of sound and music and envelope
audiences in a sonically astonishing experience.
“Artist works involve gourds as speakers, visual/audio
improvisation, theatre reinterpretation, and ice and tunnels
in an environment where audiences will have sonic experiences
like never before”, says curator and producer Alan So.
“SURROUND>SOUND intends to blow away the general public’s
preconceived notions of how they experience sound. This will
be a fascinating foray into the contemporary sound art scene,
with the hope that audiences come away stunned and inspired
at the same time.”
Artists, including prominent Bay Area sound artist Matt Davignon,
LA artist Albert Ortega and Canadian musician/programmer Stefan
Smulovitz, will be performing at leading art institutions
in San Francisco beginning with LIVE PLAY on June 9 at Artists
Television Access (ATA), then SOUNDSPACE at The LAB for 2
nights on July 7-8 and finally I AM SOUND at The Luggage Store
Gallery New Music Series on July 20. Go to www.projectsoundwave.com/series
for full performance details and schedule.
Using a multi-venue format, the Soundwave>Series connects
these innovative works on sound to diverse audiences by creating
an open forum to explore sound making and its connections
to the human experience. The Soundwave>Series is a grassroots
not-for-profit and artist-centered initiative, which gratefully
relies on community support. Ticket prices will run from $6-$10
sliding scale in support of event production and series artists.
The Soundwave>Series is part of Project>Soundwave (www.projectsoundwave.com),
a MEDIATE-initiated project dedicated to the exploration of
sound and music with the production of CDs, exhibitions, and
live events from contemporary artists across the sound spectrum.
ME'D1.ATE will be promoting Project>Soundwave
and The.ME.Project
while generating excitement for the forthcoming 2nd season
of the Soundwave>Series
with a Limited Edition CD GIVEAWAY of "SOUNDWAVE>SERIES
LIVE", recordings from season 01 of the Project>Soundwave
event series. "SOUNDWAVE>SERIES LIVE"
features live performances by Night
Night, justino[ruidobello],
Tim
Gallaher, Matt
Davignon and The
Drift recorded last year at 21
Grand and 111
Minna Gallery. Come Early! The CD will be available while
supplies last. We will also be selling a selection of amazing
CDs and publications by ME'D1.ATE artists and accepting demos
and portfolios for future shows and exhibits.
The Expo is an all-day extravaganza featuring
about 120 Bay Area arts organizations, free workshops, performances
and hundreds of local artists and musicians. Attendees can
browse tables staffed by local galleries, nonprofits, collectives
and small businesses; present their portfolios and music demos;
and participate in seminars on marketing their art, finding
grants, starting a collective, building a home recording studio,
understand artists' legal issues and much more. The Expo exists
to help creative people and organizations of ALL types find
resources, promote themselves and connect with like-minded
individuals. In order to keep the Expo affordable and accessible,
admission is only $2 at the door, and no one is turned away
for lack of funds.
Food by Memphis Minnie's BBQ Joint & Smokehouse and Juicy
Lucy's Juice Bar and Organic Foods. Beverages courtesy of
Frey Vinyards, Sapporo Brewery, Nub Chai and The Switch. Sponsored
by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Hostelling International,
Kearny Street Workshop, KUSF-90.3 FM, Laughing Squid, the
San Francisco Bay Guardian, and SoundSafe.
The Sixth Annual Expo for the Artist
& Musician
Saturday, September 10, 2005, 11:00 am-6:00 pm
SomArts Gallery, 934 Brannan St. (x 8th St.), San Francisco
CA
Admission: $2 -- no one turned away for lack of funds. http://artsandmedia.net/expo/
April 19, 2005 BBC Features Project>Soundwave
(London, United Kingdom) – Project>Soundwave
debuts across the pond this Friday
April 22 when the BBC Radio 3 program "Mixing
It" features "Sound Collage 1998-2002"
by Tom Thayer off of ME'D1.ATE's new release "Project>Soundwave:
An Exploration into the Nature of Sound". Catch the
live stream at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/mixingit/
at 2:30 PM Pacific Standard Time(10:30 PM UK Time) with
an archived stream available the following week.
"Mixing It" is UK's preeminent new
music program broadcast worldwide which has long been celebrated
as a bastion of experimental music radio. Courageous and innovative,
"Mixing It" is music without limits, covering a
wide range of styles, including left-field areas of modern
classical, dance, rock and world music.
"Sound Collage 1998-2002" is a sewn-together chronological
journal of sounds found through various objects and machines
collected at thrift stores and coaxed throughout a five-year
period by Tom Thayer, a Mulfreesboro, Tennesse-based artist.
Working with canvas, paper, electronics, performance and sound,
Tom has exhibited across the United States including the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Soundwave>Series events
in San Francisco and Oakland. He is currently a professor
at Middle Tennessee State University and recording his debut
CD "Songs of Animal Land".
Project>Soundwave has already been making waves in North
America being featured on New York City's WNYC "New
Sounds", Canada's CBC Radio 2 "Brave
New Waves", and many college/independent radio including
KKUP (Cupertino),
KZSU
(Stanford), WLUW
(Chicago), WMBR
(MIT).
The SF Examiner calls Project>Soundwave "...a breathtaking
assortment of experimental sounds, noises and rhythms,...
that approach sound from a uniquely artistic perspective...
testing the limits of sound's raw emotional capability."
East Bay Express reviews it as "...avant-garde sound
artists using everything from loops to found objects to electronic
permutation, to push the frontiers of what we call "music"
far beyond what we're accustomed to hearing."
February 20, 2005 HarS: Loft Concert#2
(Montréal, Canada) – Paris-based Dutch artist
and Project>Soundwave contributor, HarS, performs tonight
the second of two 'Loft Concerts' as part of his ETAY
residency. Guest artists include : Esther Bourdages, i8u,
and Kathy Kennedy. Etay Loft: 2019 Rue Moreau, Montreal, QC.
Saturday Feb 19, 2005. Doors open at 7pm.
Project>Soundwave presents sounds, performances, words,
and photos of HarS' ETAY visit (Feb 14-Feb22) at www.projectsoundwave.com/harS/
February 19, 2005 HarS: Loft Concert#1
(Montréal, Canada) – Paris-based Dutch artist
and Project>Soundwave contributor, HarS, performs tonight
the first of two 'Loft Concerts' as part of his ETAY
residency. Guest artists include David Turgeon, Esther Bourdages,
Tomas Phillips, Chantale Laplante, Anna Friz, and Jen Morris.
Etay Loft: 2019 Rue Moreau, Montreal, QC. Saturday Feb 19,
2005. Doors open at 7pm.
Project>Soundwave presents sounds, performances, words,
and photos of HarS' ETAY visit (Feb 14-Feb22) at www.projectsoundwave.com/harS/
February 10, 2005 HarS at ETAY_Montréal
(Montréal, Canada) – ME.D1'ATE's Project>Soundwave
presents Paris-based Dutch artist and Project>Soundwave
contributor, HarS at the ETAY loft (www.etay.ca)
in Montréal, Canada. He will travel there for a week-long
residency from February 14 to 21, 2005. The ETAY Loft is equipped
with digital video-cameras, capturing video 24/7 and 'audio-wired'
by an earlier residency of Jake Elliot (http://structuredsound.net/).
During the week, HarS will be recording and exploring sounds
(and near silences) inside and outside the loft. HarS is also
inviting several Montreal-based musicians and (sound)artists
to visit him at the ETAY loft and talk about their work and
collaborate on a short recording session with him. Artists
in the Montréal area interested in participating can
contact HarS at chronson@harsmedia.com.
The work will culminate with a presentation
at the Upgrade (http://theupgrade.sat.qc.ca/)
on Thursday, February 17th, 2005 and two informal public 'loft-concerts'
on Saturday, February 19th and Sunday, February 20, 2005 which
will include solo and improvised group sessions with artists
that have visited with him during the week.
Stay tuned to http://www.projectsoundwave.com/harS/
for detailed information about the project and developments
from HarS in Montréal. HarS will also be reporting
in his SoundBlog http://soundblog.net,
and in an audio reportage-collage available as "Podcasts"
(or as a downloadable mp3-file) at Park4DTV http://raudio.park.nl
in Amsterdam.
