We have a new CD titled Surface, Texture, Line, coming out this month, just in time for our Australian New Music Network concert at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Saturday September 27 at 6:30PM.  You can book tickets online or purchase them at the door. 

Hear Cyberdidj

or sample BowlChant

Garth & Michael performing ‘glitch percussion’ - the first music performance (filmed by Brett Marriage at VIPRE on the Bankstown Campus of the University of Western Sydney. VIPRE(Virtual Interactive Performance Research Environment) is a new facility under construction. It is part of the MARCS Audio Laboratories. The VIPRE initiative was led by Dr Garth Paine and generously funded by the University.

SynC now have a page on MySpace - www.myspace.com/syncsonic . But in reality if you have this blog on your RSS reader you will get it all here - music - gig listings etc.

Cheers

Garth

Buecher zur Musik publish and excellent series on New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century

I have just purchased a set and am delighted to see the direct and thoughtful manner in which many topics including the predjucies often shown towards electronic music are dealt with here. I highly reccommend:

Electronic in New Music
Musical Morphology
and the The Foundations of Contemporary Composing edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, which as he says addresses:

“The goal of this volume is to appraise, on a theoretical and artistic level, the foundations of contemporary composition, whereby by “contemporary” the recent past and direct present was understood. The following reasons were decisive in choosing this topic: a) the musicological research in the domain of new music is concentrated on the now historical preiod from ca. 1950 to 1970; b) writings about contemporary music since the 1980s have been increasingly lacking in seriousreflection an d theoretical perspective; c) a clearly perceptible transformation from a First to a “Second Modernity”, obscured by the postmodern phenomenon and now awaiting serious critical appraisal, should be supported, above all in view of its artistic and creative potentials; and d) finally, the increasing pluralization of the discourse of contemporary composition demands a dialogical confrontation of divergent approaches.

In The Foundations of Contemporary Compoising, the composers and musicologists, along with one philosopher and one interpreter explore the terrain of contemporary composition in a systematic fashion. These researches are presented in four sections: categories (Progressm reflection, deconstruction, conceptuality), material and form (Harmony, polyphony, spectralism), technology (algorithmic and electroacoustic composition, Sound composition), and interdisciplinary reflection/ contemporary performance practice. The contributors to this volume are the following: Mark André, Sebastian Claren, Frank Cox, Gunnar Hindrichs, Wieland Hoban, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Barbara Maurer, Johannes Menke, Chris Mercer, Nicolai Sani, Anne Sedes, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi.”

SynC performed at the Liquid Architecture Festival at the Performance Space in Sydney to lauch there new CD Parallel Lines available through Celestial Harmonies , and can be previewed on the SynC site

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