A new cymatics project / school where people can learn about and share experiments in visualizing sound through different materials.

The School of Cymatics has officially opened it’s doors with it’s first virtual classroom lesson “Cymatics 101″ going live today. The school already has 67 members and the doors are currently still open for free admission.

http://cymatica.com/2010/02/28/school-of-cymatics-officially-opens/

We’re excited to ramp up more Overlap releases and introduce more publishing opportunities this year.

In 2010 you can expect new work by Electricwest, Tom Hall, Groopies, Flossin, and Matmos/Willits/Boyce. !

More info, music, and videos soooon.

Overlap Shop :

hello friends,

my new album went live yesterday and I want to share a tune with you, I play all the instruments, guitar & drums. if you care to know more :

http://www.pearsonconstantino.com

hear more :

http://shop.pearsonconstantino

http://myspace.com/pearsonconstantino

I live in new york but would love to work with all of you.

thanks

pearson

 

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This pieces were constructed from improvisations that were later edited and reamped. Experiments for WAV guitar. Unavoidably there are derailings, explotions, clouds of dust and bandits. We all want to be the no-name cowboy.

The sound is reconfigurated and transfigurated showing it’s plastic nature. The digital representation creates new mediums and ways. Freedom in manipulation is the key of mutation.

simulacro: construcción y ensamble, guitarras materiales y espirituales, amplificadores y procesos.

minimal thrash, drone metal

http://www.archive.org/details/rlsm02ep

That time of year again. Any overlap users submitting to Prix Ars Electronica this year ?

From its very inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica is an open platform for various disciplines at the intersection of art, technology, science and society. Again more than 3,000 submissions in 2009 have further enhanced the Prix Ars Electronica’s reputation as an internationally representative competition honoring outstanding works in the cyberarts.
The aim of the competition is to continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.

http://www.aec.at/prix_about_de.php

Hey folks,

What an interesting week. NAMM started in earnest, Google told the Chinese government that they weren’t going to censor their search results any more, and in Melbourne we started the week with a heat wave.

So.. whilst you’re catching up on all of that, grab this week’s Symbiosis..

Cheers,

Simon

Symbiosis Episode 42 - Gunshae: A History Of Invocations

“When people jump through time, they give themselves up to the rhyme and reason of the heavens.”

-Julian Cope

These words are kind of the motto for Gunshae, the Panambient side project between myself, Kuma, and my dear friend and sonic sparring partner, Lady Eve.

It’s molten woodwinds and Satie references. It’s a heavy drones and show tunes played by a band sitting on a veranda after too many mint julips. It’s discrete music for the wifi generation.

It’s completely improvised ambient, classical and experimental stuff and things. It’s the sort of thing where sets go by in the blank of an eye and jams disappear because we give ourselves up to time and to chance. It just is.

In the grand tradition of what we do, this piece does exactly that, it jumps through time. Taking selections from our first album, the multi-track recordings of brand new songs “Madroning”, “Air Into Gold,” “Oceanic Yet Celestial” and “Celestial Yet Oceanic” and unreleased jams with Japan’s Hataken, we’ve woven together a history of Gunshae. Completed in one improvised session, this is the way of the Gun in 35 mins.

Gunshae for the purposes of this piece were:

Kuma
Lady Eve
Aya Oshida
Hataken
Lee Hutzulak
Rowan Lipkovitz
Vanessa Stovall
Little Jen

http://www.thekonspiracygroup.com
http://www.myspace.com/gunshae

Get in touch, leave your comments and shout about overlap to the world…

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/symbiosisradio
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Send me your track

Next week:

Drop me a line if you have got an artist you want to see featured or if you want to submit something to Symbiosis.

Until next week..

Simon

 

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NAMM starts tomorrow in LA and it will, as usual, be a rip roaring ride.

Overlap folks should head over to Wham Bam Thank You Namm Afterhours, an event that Overlap.org is sponsoring at the Downtown Independent Theatre this Friday night. The event is also sponsored by Friendly Integration, Electronic Creatives and Droid Behavior.

Check it out..

Downtown Independent Theater
251 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Friday, January 15 2010
8:00pm - 4:00am | $10 - $20 | 21+

Performances by:
John Tejada, Richard Devine, Deru, Laura Escudé, Scott Pagano, CPU, DJ Kero, Acid Circus, Derek Michael, Baseck, Eezir, DJ Modesty, John von, Trifonic, DJ G Ov, Moldover, Henry Strange, Peter Kirn

Visuals by:
CPU, VJ Fader, Jay Smith, Peter Nyboer

:: INCLUDED IN THE NIGHT ::

8:00pm -10:00pm:
Special music technology discussion and panel with Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music

THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY:

Overlap.org
Dubspot
Create Digital Music
Livid Instruments
Propellerhead
Rob Papen

Giveaways from:
Fixed Noise, Livid Instruments, Native Instruments

More details here.