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• APPELBOOM LA POMMERIE – Accueil
  residency for sonic arts in france
  (tags: art residency)

• Association Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs open call list
  list of open calls
  (tags: art call list)
• NeMe: Calls
  calls from neme
  (tags: calls art)
• Operation Checkpoint Toy XRay Machine
  it’s a toy x-ray/metal detector machine ‘that helps children become acclimated with airport and public spaces security’. omfg.
  (tags: airport security-theater omfg)
• Security theater – Wikipedia
  Security theater are security countermeasures that provide the feeling of security while doing little or nothing actually to improve security… particularly for describing airport security measures.
  (tags: security-theatre)
• The Western Front
  gallery/artist run centre in Canada
  (tags: gallery art)
• check check reality recheck
  site designed to deprogramme the public from the security theatre of the airport
  (tags: security-theatre airport)
• Dispatx Art Collective
  interesting site – seems to be a place for artworks to be developed publicly. must check back here at some stage.
  (tags: art)

• Trafo House of Contemporary Arts
  Budapest
  (tags: gallery)
• Budapest M?csarnok | Kunsthalle
  budapest gallery, seems quite big – organises the venice biennalle bits
  (tags: gallery)

• AR – GE Kunst // Galerie Museum // Galleria Museo
  art gallery in Bolzano (?), Italy
  (tags: gallery)
• stadtgalerie schwaz
  art gallery in austria somewhere
  (tags: gallery)

• IAMIC: the International Association of Music Information Centres
  global network of interesting music resources
  (tags: music networking)

I got an interesting email out of the blue from Dmitri Soubochev. He is involved with two projects – the first is called Duo Inventum and it uses a theremin and a laptop to control audio and visuals. Nice. Also on his website is documentation of the Moscow Laptop Orchestra, which do kind of freeform improvised performances with a big group of laptops.

Also I’m especially impressed by the Concert for mr. Cheglakov and his shadow – combining video of Mr Cheglakov performing with the person himself on stage. It plays around with ideas of time and here-and-now-ness – very nice work!

• TV Links
  old tv shows, viewable online
  (tags: tv video)

The excellent Mr Nuno Molta, one of the organisers behind Sonic Scope, has put up a video on YouTube of mine + Pedro Boavida’s performance from Friday the 21st September 2007 @ NIP – Sonic Scope – Upgrade! Lisbon.

Nuno helps organise Sonic Scope events here in Lisbon, as well as performing himself in a number of different guises, and he’s a super-friendly chap as well. Thanks Nuno!

I’m in Lisbon, Portugal, which is warm, and beautiful.

I’ve done a couple of performances organised by André Gonçalves, performing with Pedro Boavida in the wonderful Estudio Bomba Suicida, and with some of the super-rad NIP folk on another night, all as part of a NIP – Sonic Scope – Upgrade! Lisbon event, last weekend. There should be audio from the night with Pedro and audio and video from the night with the NIP folk making its way here in the near future.

Also, a website reorganisation is in order. Per some advice from others I’m going to put the blog on a separate page; plus, I’d like a separate section dealing with upcoming performances and another just for documentation of said performances.

Over the last few weeks, through performing at Ars Electronica, and then coming here to Lisbon and sort of falling into a NIP workshop week, I’ve become reinspired about performing live as a musician, and I want to start developing that here in Europe a bit more.

More soon.

P.S. – do you all like Five? Comments appreciated, as always…