Boreal Electro Acoustic Music Society
Monday, December 20, 2021
CALLOUT B.E.A.M.S. Art's Birthday 2022 Sponsored by AMAAS
CALLOUT
B.E.A.M.S. Art's Birthday 2022
Sponsored by AMAAS
Saturday, January 15th 2020
6:00pm - Midnight
CALL FOR ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC AND EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OF ALL KINDS
Deadline: Saturday, January 8th 2022
Hi BEAMERS!
Art's Birthday is just around the corner and we are looking for your
submissions!! It's going to be another 6-hour online show on twitch
this year. We are looking for:
1. 20-minute Live performances (Streamed to your twitch)
2. 1 to 20-minute max pre-recorded video performances
3. 1 to 20-minute electro-acoustic or experimental video pieces
4. Visual art in Jpeg format. No limit.
PLEASE SUBMIT TO:
beams-submission@googlegroups.com
With the subject "Art's Bday 2022"
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Sonic Projections Compilation: Call for audio works!
Sonic Projections Compilation: Call for audio works!
Deadline: December 15th 2021
The duration of the works should not be more than 5:00 minutes (THEY SHOULD BE 4:33!).
Your pieces should be submitted via file sharing service (Wetransfer, Dropbox, Mega, Google Drive, etc.) in wav or aiff file format at 44.1 KHz – 16 bit stereo quality. Please name the sound file with your name and the title of the piece.
Send your submissions by December 15th with the subject line “Compilation” to: beams-submission@googlegroups.com
For info Contact:
Contact:
Shawn Pinchbeck
shawn@beams.ca
Monday, November 22, 2021
Together Apart II…an evening of audio wonderments
Time: 8:00 pm MST
Where: https://www.twitch.tv/beamsdotca and your private parlour
https://www.myriamboucher.com/
https://www.waynedefehr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/IVImusics
http://gintask.puslapiai.lt
https://www.anapaulavillanueva.com/
http://m-o-a-i-n.ca
https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/...
https://skruntskrunt.ca/
https://villemjahu.com/
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021
3rd Edmonton Noisefest
Dear friends!
We premier on youtube at 5pm Mountain Time, click here for the: the youtube stream. Live chat will be held on youtube during the premier of the video!
Archive.org Link: https://archive.org/details/edmonton-noise-fest-2021
Twitch.tv livestream link: https://twitch.tv/beamsdotca
With Performances from (in order):
* Mutant Beatniks (UK)
* Kelly Ruth
* gintas k (Lithuania)
* Neil Wiernik (ON)
* Wayne DeFehr
* Andrew Wayne (USA)
* Trevor DePagie & James Lyons
* Holiday Special (USA)
* byte.observer
* Don Haugen (USA)
* BlipVert
* Major Tinnitus (USA)
* Nathaniel Sutton
* Erin Altomare (BC)
* Damno Te
* Tanukispidercat (USA)
* Jared Epp
* whip of the ufo (BC)
* Jacob Audrey Taves (BC)
* JUICE MACHINE (USA)
* M.O.A.I.N.
* Molena (BC)
* skruntskrunt
** Hoaxroad
AB, Canada
Project name: Hoaxroad
Attribute work to: Hoaxroad
Title of submission: Call From Above
Link to video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8xwo3V7X60
Description: Hoaxroad visits a haunted cemetery near Chip Lake,
Alberta. He is then caught in the middle of a storm.
** Mutant Beatniks
Bath , England , Europe
Project Name : Mutant Beatniks
Title of submissions : woven , Riding the Carrousel & tracey skitters
Description : Video Art
** Kelly Ruth
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Project Name: Kelly Ruth
Title of submission: Simulation Refraction
Description: Sound created using contact microphones on weaving
loom and spinning wheel, with vocals and effects pedals. Video
create within the virtual world called Second Life.
https://www.kellyruth.ca
** gintas k
Lithuania
Project Name and who we should attribute it to:
Gintas K - audio
Juodo - video
Title of submission: jesus safe my soul
http://gintask.puslapiai.lt
https://gintask.home.blog
** PhiqualPoynte
Edmonton, AB Canada
Project Name: Phiqual Poynte
Title of submission: Like Sodomizing A Garbage Disposal Unit
Description: The brilliant sound artist Phiqual Poynte returns to
mesmerize his enormous following with his ultimate noise-take on
social issues. This incredible video is only a minute long to
ensure that the resonant splendor of the contents will not totally
overwhelm his faithful disciples.
** Neil Wiernik
ON, Canada
Project Name and who we should attribute it to: Neil Wiernik
* Title of submission - The trees beyond the ridge, fade when the sun is at its brightest.
* Description - Improvised live in the studio August 2021
Artist Bio
Neil Wiernik (Canada) began composing electronic music in 1988 with
explorations in audio art and experimental music. Neil's interest
in sound and technology has lead him to experiment with altered
instruments, modified devices, and custom software environments. He
has presented his work in a variety of public spaces since the late
1980s, his projects have included works for radio, video, live or
pre-recorded concerts and internet diffusion. Neil has presented
projects at the Finland Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Subtle
Technologies Conference, La SAT, The Medusa Complex, Mutek
Festival, The Music Gallery as well as other public spaces such
derelict buildings, parks, bridges and pirate airways.
Known to push the boundaries of musical forms, Neil's music could
be described as warm, atmospheric, cinematic and experimental
electronic music. His sound design is firmly grounded in the rich
traditions of dub studio culture but can also be weighed alongside
formal contemporary experimental composition and the grittiness of
late 90's Berlin electronic music. His music has been described in
"The Wire" as having "...the kind of sharpness and clarity usually
lost amid the murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital
delays." Neil has released music on various labels from Canada, The
US and Europe under his own name as well as under the alias of
"naw". He has also released music most recently as a founding
member of the ambient post-rock project Whisper Room with Aidan
Baker (Nadja).
https://soundcloud.com/naw
https://nawmusic1.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.discogs.com/artist/49570-Naw
** Wayne DeFehr
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Project Name: Wayne DeFehr
Title: "Solidity of Fog"
The title is a nod to one of Luigi Rossolo's titular paintings from
1912, the year before he published his well-known manifesto about
music, called The Art of Noises. Rossolo's idea was that music
evolves in complexity, starting from the simple melodies of early
music to faster and more complex forms over time that reflect the
evolving sounds created by the increased speed of modern life.
Perhaps a further evolution of sonic complexity would include
responsive visual elements, adding another layer of audio
expression through visual elements that are "painted" with the
dynamics of sound.
https://www.waynedefehr.com/
** Andrew Wayne
Sacramento, CA, USA
Project Name: Andrew Wayne Is 🍃
Title: An Audible Study On Photosynthesis
Description: details below.
Credits:
Artist: Andrew Wayne Is 🍃
Title: An Audible Study On Photosynthesis
Web: https://www.andrewway.net
Video clips were taken from Encyclopaedia Brittanica video on
Photosynthesis, 1981. Produced by the BBC for the British Open
University.
Thank you for watching!
Recorded and Mastered at Neon Noodle Studios by Andrew Wayne, 8/6/2021
Video submission for the Edmonton Noise Fest, 8/28/2021
** Trevor DePagie
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Project name: Trevor DePagie and James Lyons
Title of submission: Anodyne
Description: Experimental/Noise track and first video by this duo.
Trevor and James have collaborated in the studio for ages and have
been friends for even longer. Their love of creating sound has seen
them sonically cross paths, from time to time, in projects such as
S'sE SESSIONS and AGAPERAYGUNEXPERIMENT and have a set booked to
perform together in the near future.
** Holiday Special
Sacramento, CA, USA
This is not an exclusive video, and has aired once before for the
May 2021 Audio Waffle on the Norcal Noisefest channel.
Project name: Holiday Special
Video title: Televeyes
Description: What are our eyes good for, if not to receive signals
provided by the wonders of color television?
** byte.observer
Edmonton, AB, Canada
* Project Name and who we should attribute it to
byte.observer
* Title of submission
OEIS B files A000001 to A004096
* Description
This is a sonification and visualization of the first 4096 sequences in
the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (oeis.org). The b-files for
the sequences are sorted by length and then are looped or truncated to a
canonical length. Then the inverse FFT of the sequence is taken at a few
different time scales, windowed, and added up.
https://byte.observer/
** Don Haugen
Eugene, OR, USA
Project Name: Don Haugen
Title of submission: "Man's Ruin Through Heroes"
Description: Audio and video recorded live, then edited together in
Eugene, Oregon, USA
https://soundcloud.com/don-haugen
** BlipVert
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Project: BlipVert
Title: Xurilia Atmosphere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdiIY7DTxXA
https://blipvert.bandcamp.com/
https://intonationsjournal.ca/index.php/intonations/article/view/25/49
https://thegatewayonline.ca/2017/03/what-the-fuck-is-a-blipvert/
** Major Tinnitus
CA, USA
* Project Name and who we should attribute it to: Major Tinnitus (Sacramento, CA)
* Title of submission: Double-Screened
* Description: Dual-LDR driven Schmitt Trigger Inverter Oscillator
fed by chunky CRT static and Visualizations on LCD monitor. Audio
replayed through WINAMP using Milkdrop visualizations.
** Nathaniel Sutton
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Project name: Nathaniel Sutton Experiments
Title of submission: Nathaniel Sutton Experiments
https://www.nathanielsutton.com
** Erin Altomare
Vancouver, BC, Canada
* Project name is just my name! Erin Altomare
* Title is "Excerpt from 'A Page of Madness'"
* Description:
Film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926.
Sound source: Izaiho ritual, Kudaka Island, Okinawa
** Damno Te
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Artist: Damno Te
Track: Victim Eyes
https://www.discogs.com/artist/245427-Damno-Te
https://damnote.bandcamp.com/
** Tanukispidercat
CA, USA
* Project Name: TanukiSpiderCat
* Title of submission: Demersal
* Description - noise / cello / modular / samples
https://www.tanukispidercat.com/
** Jared Epp
Edmonton, AB, Canada
* Project Name and who we should attribute it to
Jared Epp
* Title of submission
Paranoia On the Go
* Description
Most of the video shot while living in Toronto in 2020 (a couple
shots are from Edmonton taken in August 2021). I just moved back to
Edmonton and put together the noise audio section. Responding to
moving through space and feeling overwhelmed.
** whip of the ufo
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Project: whip of the ufo
Title of submission: sutinence3
Description: new noise improvisation by whip of the ufo
** Jacob Audrey Taves
Project: Jacob Audrey Taves
My artist website is:
https://www.jacobaudreytaves.ca/
Below is my artist info:
Communicating in a language of errors, hum, crackle, feedback and
found sounds, composer and improviser Jacob Audrey Taves explores
themes of alienation, post-industrial anxiety and the push and pull
between macro and micro social, political and sonic frameworks.
Utilizing the fragile nature of malfunctioning equipment and exposing
unintentional audio artifacts, Taves' work gives errors room to
develop and to have voices of their own in an emotive, free-form
structure.
Jacob Audrey Taves is best known for their ongoing plunderphonic
industrial project HOLZKOPF. They are also a member of ORGANS WITHOUT
BODIES (with percussionist John Brennan) as well as ASSAULT CHARGE (a
punk/digital hardcore band with songwriter and author Eamon McGrath).
Taves was the guitar player for the short lived no-wave three piece
OTHER JESUS. They are curator of the audio/video collage series
INTERIOR NETWORK.
Throughout their various bands and projects they have toured Europe,
Canada, USA, Mexico and Japan, sharing billing with Merzbow, Keiji
Haino, Venetian Snares, Freida Abtan, John Oswald, Mark Hosler
(Negativland), People Like Us and others. They have performed at the
Vancouver International Jazz Festival (Canada), Hamsylet (Ukraine),
Body Machine Body (Estonia), ZNFI (Slovenia), Yaga Gathering
(Lithuania), 4D Festival (Japan) and have been an artist in residence
at Les Pixels Transverseux (Sevres, France), Hammock (Vancouver,
Canada) and PAVED Art and New Media (Saskatoon, Canada).
** Juice Machine
Project Name and who we should attribute it to:
JUICE MACHINE
Title of submission:
The Word for Edmonton Noise Fest 2021
Description:
JUICE MACHINE is Heather & Roger playing electronics, tapes and
samples. recorded in July 2021 @ Jerry's PLace, Eugene, Oregon.
Video/visuals by Carl Kruger July 2021, Wilmington, North Carolina
http://juicemachine.bandcamp.com/
http://chefkirk.bandcamp.com/
https://ibizashocktroops.bandcamp.com/
https://hoodiebattle.bandcamp.com/
https://mandom.bandcamp.com/
KRIKFEHC - YouTube
https://archive.org/details/@heinrich
** M.O.A.I.N.
Project Name : m.o.a.i.n.
Title of submission: Digital Noise playground
Description: Chris in realtime using Reaktor to oscillate different
noises on 5 different tracks. Mixing them and manipulating them in
Ableton. While also trying to play with visualizing the noise using
vdmx and and Max for live Oscilloscope plugin.
** molena
Vancouver, BC, Canada
artist name: molena
song titles are: the delayed 16.26 northern rail service to leeds
** skruntskrunt
Edmonton, AB, Canada
artist name: skruntskrunt
song title: buffers
https://skruntskrunt.ca
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Edmonton Noisefest 2021
Announcing the 1st Virtual Edmonton Noisefest (3rd Edmonton Noisefest)
When: August 28th (sometime)
Where: Online (youtube, twitch, archive.org)
What: enscribed video works of noise artists from Edmonton, from
Alberta, from Canada, and from all over the world.
Call for Submissions:
Dear Noise Musicians and Noise non-musicians!
This August 2021 we are hosting Edmonton NoiseFest virtually. It
will be a streamed video event showcasing Edmonton Noise, Albert
Noise, Canada Noise, and International Noise in Video Form.
We will be releasing a curration of whatever is submitted on August
28th on Youtube and Archive.org (because they have better sound and
youtube is fundamentally unethical).
Submissions should be exclusive (self-release is fine) but if it
plays at another festival or something please warn us (youtube
likes to take things down).
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 20th, 2021
To submit, upload your video file somewhere and write an email to
BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com> with the
subject: Edmonton Noisefest Submission 2021
You should copy and paste these bullet point into the email and answer them:
* Project Name and who we should attribute it to
* Title of submission
* link to download link (wetransfer, dropbox, http, or google drive)
* Description
* Confirmation that BEAMS may post and transmit and share you submission non-exclusively and for 0 compensation
* Any copyright worries you might have (we might have to censor it
on youtube)
For the video, please try to follow these guidelines:
* Resolution 1920x1080 (16:9 aspect ratio, if your videos isn't
then add black bars because we will)
* FPS: 30
* MP4 or MKV format
* AAC or OGG or FLAC audio
* Optionally include your own titlecard, you might not like ours.
* At least 1 minute, 30 minutes at most, 15 minutes is preferred
max length.
If you don't know what this means then don't worry, just submit
ahead of time so I can deal with it.
We reserve the right to not include your work. We also need
non-exclusive permission to post your work combined with other
works to youtube, archive.org, twitch, our own website as well. We
unfortunately offer 0 compensation as everything is free on our end
as well.
Main organizer: Abram Hindle
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Across the Town-averse
Where: https://www.twitch.tv/beamsdotca
When: 8pm to 11pm
Hey BEAMERS,
Come hang out with us this Saturday on twitch for Across The TownAverse, a NinJam show! Sponsored by AMAAS
NinJam is a free open source software that allows anyone to get
together and jam or perform live over the internet. You can learn more
about it here:
https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/
Our first performers The Kaon'CPTs is a whole new take to this shows
concept, cranking it up a level by making it a virtual experience. We
will be broadcasting to Twitch but you will also have the option to
enter
Mozilla Hubs
where you will be able to walk around and explore the digital world
they created and even contribute to shows audio if you choose.
The Kaon'CPTs is an ephemeral band dedicated to flip along several time
realities. Undecided, their action oscillates, alternates from physical
to virtual, hesitates between now, before and later. Previous activities
include synchronized network music, implementing timecode-based
behaviours and listening to buffer underflows in interactive
cyberworlds. Actually, nothing periodically unusual can affect
Kaon'CPT's conservation of entropy.
The first half of their performance will be Perripplayear. A musical
immersive comprovisation for N remotely comprovising musicians and any
instrumentation in a virtual 3D world.
All this comes from distance, symbiosis, lack, virtual choreography,
simultaneous instants, drifting clocks & musical texture. Social
tropism leads them to perform where the light can shine in the forest of
live togetherness software. Unfolded into three different time layers,
the audience is invited inside a virtual world, being copresent as
avatars with the Kaon'CPT & friends. At the border of the software
forest, your browser is here, regardless the shape of your vehicle be it
a smartphone, a tablet, a computer or VR headset.
If you would like to learn more you can go here:
http://kaoncpt.art/
The second half of the show you will hear electro-acoustic performances by:
Gozu Mezu and the galactic explorer
And
Abram Hindle and Daryl Posnett
Can't wait to see you all there and hang out in the chat!
Monday, May 31, 2021
Friday, May 28, 2021
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
BEAMS Presents 2021 Western Canada Drone Day!
BEAMS Presents Western Canada Drone Day! Watch it!
Watch Western Canada Drone Day 10:30am to midnight May 29th, 2021 at:
https://twitch.tv/beamsdotca
Current LIVE Schedule in Mountain Daylight Time (NorthAmerica/Edmonton):
10:30 Prelude Video / Intro
11:00 UrTeam (30 m)
13:00 SkruntSkrut (1 hr)
14:00 m.o.a.i.n (1 hr)
16:00 Wayne Defehr (30 m)
17:30 norah lorway (30 m)
18:00 Gary James Joynes / Clinker (1 hr)
19:00 UrTeam (1 hr)
20:00 Shawn Pinchbeck (1 hr)
21:00 J Daniel Cramer (1 hr)
Enscribed Video Works presented
from 10:30 to 24:00 May 29th 2020
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Seeking performers for BEAMS Presents Droneday 2021
WeirdCanada is promoting Drone Day. So is BEAMS.
https://droneday.org/
Seeking PERFORMERS and AUDIENCE. May 29th 2021 9am to midnight mountain time.
We will be hosting a virtual drone day on twitch.
We are looking for performers for Saturday May 29th from 9am to midnight on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/beamsdotca
Do you want to listen? Goto https://twitch.tv/beamsdotca
Do you want to perform? SIgn up for a 1/2 hour to 1 hour twitch slot at: Signup
We accept drone videos and live streams.
Video Submissions
For videos please use wetransfer.com and email to
"BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com>"
with subject line "2021 BEAMS Droneday Video Submission"
Video Requirements:
- must be Drone-ish music (we reserve the right to deny or accept)
- Videos of 10 minutes or longer are preferred
- Videos should have a title card that gives your name, contact info, performance name, etc.
- currently there is 0 payment (may change, no promises)
- communication will be via email to BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com>
Live Stream Submissions
Live Stream Performer Instructions:
Please sign up for twitch and check if you can stream.
Please sign up for a timeslot at: Timesheet
For live streaming send email to BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com>
with subject line "2021 BEAMS Droneday Streaming" Welcome to BEAMS Drone Day. We're going to drone all day on twitch! The
genre of music will be drone. Interpret that as you will but we retain
curatorial control.
This sheet is for signing up for times to play. Currently first come
first serve. If you want that time too add your name to column
afterwards. Please only take up 2 continuous slots (1 hour)
Live Stream Requirements:
- must feel someway associated with Western Canada (friends, family, residence, etc.)
- must produce Drone music
- must be able to stream on twitch -- please test before signing up!
- must stream for 30 minutes or 1 hour.
- must be available on that time on that day. If you think you could be
flakey send BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com> some video to play to replace you (e.g., record one of
your twitch streams)
- currently there is 0 payment (may change, no promises)
- communication will be via email. (BEAMS-SUBMISSION <beams-submission@googlegroups.com>)
What is drone?
I don't know! Long notes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_music People have opinions.
