Category: audio art

sketches and finished works

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bochum

back from germany, country of easter goodness.

i had a very nice gig at the great and funky goldkante, home of the homewreckers and other ruhrgebeit funkiness. had about 50 people i think. tried out projections for the first time, which seemed to work quite well.

i’d like to thank tobias koth, the other tobias, sebastian, and johannes for helping me out with setting up the gig, and also andreas for writing a very excellent press release (in german!) for coolibri and taking some pictures. the pix below are by jutta brendemuehl. go to my myspace page for a musical sample of the night.

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new audio installation

just got word that i received funding to create ice field, an 8 channel audio installation that will use digital noise and audio detritus and south asian rhythmic theory. look for it in a flourescent-lit bare white room near you.

thanks are in order to the toronto arts council.

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coming soon….

UPDATE: where you are has been featured in both weekly arts magazines in toronto!  click here for the eye weekly mini interview (scroll about halfway down for where you are).  click here for the excellent writeup about the piece in now magazine (the piece is at the bottom of the page):

Next to smell, sound often gives us the most powerful sense of time and place. Debashis Sinha puts callers in two cities at once: any reveller walking through Zone B need only call 1-888-432-5995 to hear audio art pieces constructed from sounds recorded on the streets of Kolkata , India. Sinha’s piece accentuates the odd transpositions of time and space constantly foisted upon us by telecommunications and media. Walk around with both sides of your mind on opposite sides of the planet.

see  you @ nuit blanche

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selected in madrid

one of my audio pieces was just selected for the soundworks program at madrid abierto, a festival of intervention and performance art, TV and radio in february 2008. i had the chance to visit the city this past summer and it is really enchanting, an amazing place.

if you are planning to go, choose february 2008.

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robert lippok will soon be eating my chicken curry

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robert lippok is coming to the goethe institute to present a radio theatre workshop. i will be attending and i can’t wait. besides being a very nice fellow he has been behind some of the most interesting projects i have had the pleasure of discovering.

and—bonus for me!—we will be presenting a concert together at the music gallery of course, thanks to the goethe institute and raster-noton. deets below, and hope to see you there.

Thursday, October 4, 8 pm
Music Gallery, 197 John St., Toronto
Tel: +1 416 2041080
Admission at the door: students and Music Gallery members $5, general public $10

Robert Lippok and Debashis Sinha collaborate in a live concert setting, each artist presenting his own sound world to the other and the audience, reacting, creating, and making music together in the moment. The acoustic and electronic combine to create something unique and new, skin and computer chip, groove and texture, past, present and future joined together.

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nuit blanche coming up–live and installation

nuit blanche is fast approaching and i am busily navigating the web interface for the cell phone piece that i am presenting (see the nuit blanche website for details).  also that evening i will be performing (solo+, 9pm) at the music gallery where a whole slew of some of toronto’s best improvisers and sound experiementers will be performing throughout the night, including ima ensemble members ben grossman (7pm), and andrew downing (10pm).  the whole evening will be mixed in 12 speaker surround by new adventures in sound arts AD darren copeland.  really, its the best way ever to start your evening.

see you there!

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live in berlin aug 4

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i’m in berlin right now. spent the day sightseeing, although that is the worst word for it.

its a city so full of history. i’m staying in mitte, right near the wall in east berlin. 2 min walk from here is an old guard tower. i have been so overwhelmed with history. its been a very emotional day. i can see why the war is still so alive in the collective memory of the german people.

but, on another note, i too will be contributing a bit to the culture of berlin. i make my laptop debut on aug 4 as part of the daskleinefieldrecordings festival, mangling sound i recorded on my latest trip to kolkata and also plundering my own archives of music and phonographic sound in a live improvised set.

deets:

@ wendel (one of the best places in berlin for organic beer!), Schlesische Strasse 42, U-bahn Schlesisches Tor, Kreuzberg (of course).

21:30 doors, 5 Euro.

peace.

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nuit blanche

i’ve started working on the (scotiabank) nuit blanche cell phone pieces.  its really a lot  of fun and a great challenge to try and make pieces that actually work that are 45s or under….

here’s one.

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where you are

hi

so the nuit blanche project is to create a series of audio art pieces (20) out of sound recorded on the streets of kolkata.  you will dial a number (on your cell phone) as you walk the streets of nuit blanche and listen to the audio soundtrack in one ear, and the spontaneous soundtrack of nuit blanche in the other.  it is a ritual to open your ears to the sound of the night around you, and to listen to what is happening as something beautiful, art.

lately i have been a lot more interested in attention and focus and the results of being in this way.  the rewards are tremendous on so many levels….

i’m still looking for a service provider….!