Birmingham Sound Matter with Helena Gough, Bobby Bird, Cormac Faulkner, Annie Mahtani, Mark Harris, Nicholas Bullen and Francisco Lopez released on audiobulb

The Gruenrekorder compilation Autumn Leaves won the Qwartz Electronic Music Award for best compilation. Track 1 is my recording from inside the furnace Rugeley power station as it was being renovated.

just discovered discogs

lucid from alicja rogalska on Vimeo.

Contos do Paiva was screened at the LA film forum on 15th February 09.

Did some recording in Shetland over Christmas for an upcoming film by Richard Mosse.

Spazz Stick from rockscottage on Vimeo.

More from comedian Laurence Clark. This time reactions to the US caffeinated lip balm, the “Spazz Stick”…

Spastic Fantastic from rockscottage on Vimeo.

Vox pops with comedian Laurence Clark outside Tate Modern in May 2008. Laurence asked people if they thought Heather Mills was a suitable role model for the disabled…

More details about Laurence and his show at www.laurenceclark.co.uk

Binaural U.S. Tour 2009
Lectures | Workshops | Concerts
January, 21st – February, 17th 2009
www.binauralmedia.org

Binaural is a Portuguese media arts collective that promotes the exploration and research in sound, visual and new media arts, focusing on the crossing of media and languages and on the articulation between artistic production and the surrounding context, particularly through its activities in the rural space of Nodar.

Binaural runs Nodar Artist Residency Center, located in an ancestral rural mountain community of northern Portugal. Through an annual program of residencies, are organized and produced the development of media arts projects from international artists, followed by public presentations in the surrounding villages. The resident artists are encouraged to establish interactions with the place, its inhabitants, geographic space and memory.

Between January, 21st and February, 17th 2009, Binaural founder and sound artist Rui Costa and the sound/video artist Maile Colbert will conduct a series of lectures, workshops and concerts hosted by US universities and cultural organizations. Through this tour, Binaural seeks to share with artists, students and communities from across Atlantic the experience of an immersive and committed site-specific art practice and of creative interaction with rural communities. A particular focus will be given to the different possibilities of working with sound in a site-specific manner.

As part of the lectures, some excerpts of works developed in Nodar will be presented, by such sound / video artists as Martin Clarke & Alicja Rogalska, Vered Dror, Maile Colbert, John Grzinich, Aaron Ximm, Pablo Rega & Oscar de Paz, Jurate Jarulyte Weiss, o.blaat, Pali Meursault, Viv Corringham, Rui Costa & Manuela Barile, Suzanne Caines, Christine Niehoff and Xesús Valle.

Full Program:

Wed, Jan. 21st – 8.00 pm
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
http://www.massart.edu/
Screening and Lecture

Sat, Jan. 25th – 9.00 pm
Share NYC, NY
http://www.share.dj/
Concert by Maile Colbert and Rui Costa: “The Future Memory Project”

Wed, Jan. 28th – 9.00 pm
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
http://www.hallwalls.org/
Concert by Maile Colbert (“Transit”) and Rui Costa (“The Future Memory Project”)

Thu, Jan. 29th – 3:15 pm
State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
http://www.buffalo.edu/
Screening, Lecture and Workshop

Mon, Feb. 2nd – 4.30 pm
State University of New York, Binghamton, NY
http://www.binghamton.edu/
Lecture and Workshop

Thu, Feb. 12th – 8.00 pm
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
Screening and Lecture

Sat, Feb. 14th – 4.00 pm
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
Workshop

Sun, Feb. 15th – 7.00 pm
Los Angeles Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com/
Screening and Lecture

Tue, Feb. 17th – 7.00 pm
California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA
http://www.calarts.edu/
Screening and Lecture

Our best wishes for 2009

Luis Costa

Binaural – Associação Cultural
Alameda Padre Álvaro Proença, Nº 10 – 12ºA
1500-475 Lisboa
Portugal

http://www.binauralmedia.org
Email: info@binauralmedia.org
Tel. +351 91 895 18 57

Recorded for The Gloaming, dir. by John Bradburn/Andy Paton, ScreenWM, May 2008.

Recorded in Wszerzecz, Poland, August 2006.