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https://www.facebook.com/events/195436094268695/ soundpedro is happening today from 5pm to 10om at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, Ca. 28 sound art installations and 11 sound art/experimental music performances with video art projections. This event is brought to you by the producers of SoundWalk, the sound art event that ran in in Long Beach for 10 years. Food trucks, including vegan options, will be on site. Wear warm clothing like jackets and caps, and bring a flashlight. Sound art installation by: Aught Collective/Hot Tomorrows, Glenn Bach, Borderline Antigone, Terry Braunstein, César Dávila-Irizarry, The Dirty Chaps, Ear Meal Webcast, Martin Espino & William Almas, Wolf Gowin & Tom Zear, heare, The Laptop Collective, Janet Lozada, MicDrop, New Culture Media Group, phog masheeen, Tom Peters, RadioMachineMagazine, sARTe, Susan Rawcliffe, Steven Speciale, TV-MA, Whereas...DivineBrick & BrenNoid, Roxanne Varzi, Elouise Walker, wikiGong, X EYES SynthLab Presents sound art performances, Building H: 5:00 - Sander Roscoe Wolff 5:45 - QRUX 6:30 - Loren Nerell 7:15 - Som 8:00 - Rychard Cooper 8:30 - Faraday Cage 9:15 - foreign native Visuals by univac Atlas Place present sound art performances, Building F: 5:00 Southern California Soundscape Ensemble 5:30 Panel Discussion: “Atlas Place: Living Sound in Los Angeles” (moderator: Glenn Bach; panelists: Steve Roden, Robert Crouch, Yann Novak) 6:30 Steve Roden 7:30 Robert Crouch 8:30 Yann Novak 9:30 Southern California Soundscape Ensemble
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Hearing protein required to convert sound into brain signals
A specific protein found in the bridge-like structures that make up part of the auditory machinery of the inner ear is essential for hearing. The absence of this protein or impairment of the gene that codes for this protein leads to profound deafness in mice and humans, respectively, reports a team of researchers in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine.
“The goal of our study was to identify which isoform of protocadherin-15 forms the tip-links, the essential connections of the auditory mechanotransduction machinery within mature hair cells that are needed to convert sound into electrical signals,” remarks Christine Petit, the lead author of the study and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and at Collège de France.
Three types of protocadherin-15 are known to exist in auditory sensory cells of the inner ear but it was not clear which of these protein isoforms was essential for hearing. “Our work pinpoints the CD2 isoform of protocadherin-15 as an essential component of the tip-link and reveals that the absence of protocadherin-15 CD2 in mouse hair cells results in profound deafness.”
Within the hair bundle, the sensory antenna of auditory sensory cells, the tip-link is a bridge-like structure that when stretched can activate the ion channel responsible for generating electrical signals from sound. Tension in the tip-link created by sound stimulation opens this channel of unknown molecular composition thus generating electrical signals and, ultimately, the perception of sound.
The researchers engineered mice that lack only the CD2 isoform of protocadherin-15 exclusively during adulthood. While the absence of this isoform led to profound deafness, the lack of the other protocadherin-15 isoforms in mice did not affect their hearing.
Patients who carry a mutation in the gene encoding protocadherin-15 are affected by a rare devastating disorder, Usher syndrome, which is characterized by profound deafness, balance problems and gradual visual loss due to retinitis pigmentosa. In a separate approach, the scientists also sequenced the genes of 60 patients who had profound deafness without balance and visual impairment. Three of these patients were shown to have mutations specifically affecting protocadherin-15 CD2. “The demonstration of a requirement for protocadherin-15 CD2 for hearing not only in mice but also in humans constitutes a major step in the objective of deciphering the components of the auditory mechanotransduction machinery. This isoform can be used as a starting point to identify the other components of the auditory machinery. By focusing our attention on the CD2 isoform of protocadherin-15, we can now consider developing gene therapy strategies for deafness caused by defects in this gene,” says EMBO Member Christine Petit.
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What does silence sound like? 
We invite you to make a recording and upload it to be added to our "Share Your Silence" Sound Map. Be sure to include the location of your recording in the description or title in our Dropbox here.
The sound map project was developed in conjunction with the exhibition There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage’s 4’33”, on view from October 12, 2013–June 22, 2014 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Recent exhibitions in London, New York, Hong Kong and Paris demonstrate how art is increasingly being explored through the ears.
Sound art is "having a moment" according to NTY.
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Clowns and Fetuses promo for SoundWalk 2013.
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Amazing resonance experiment with salt Using a vibrating metal plate connected to tone generator, Scientist Bruss Pup performs scientific magic by seemingly controlling and manipulating grains of salt to dance in specific patterns.
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October 5th, 6-10 PM @ Artwise 408 1st Street, Downtown Long Beach
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Sun Boxes Day TWO in Rochester, NY. At Rochester Contemporary Art Center. #sunboxes #roco #soundart #soundinstallation #installationart
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IRCAM is a non-profit acoustics and music research facility and school offering a Master's program in Sound Design and ATiAM (Acoustique, traitement du signal, informatique, appliqués à la musique, translation: acoustics, signal processing, computing, applied to music). IRCAM developed jMax, the basis of Opcode's and later Cycling '74's Max (also Max for Ableton Live). Max was open sourced in 1999. But in 1989 IRCAM licensed it to Opcode Systems. Aphex Twin is rumored to have used the non-Opcode branch for ICBYD and/or RDJ albums. Autechre is also known to use the Opcode and C74 versions for most of their tracks since the late 90's.
The anechoic chamber is not only are all of the studios double-walled and acoustically isolated from the largest subway station in the world just a few meters away, but this anechoic chamber is also double-walled and acoustically isolated from the other rooms in the facility.
Both student research and commercial research are done at IRCAM. We learned that the occupation of sound designer is more than just for film, tv, and video games. IRCAM faculty and stuff worked or are working on a voice synthesis that strives to sound sympathetic to the person it is interacting with when necessary, and also sounds via DSP to give cues to the drivers of electric cars as to what is happening with the car's performance since the sound of the engine and gears shifting is not present. They conducted multivariate tests with variety of sounds they chose for the project to find the best ones.
About the student with the guitar: we were told that IRCAM is developing an in-guitar DSP that will provide effects but sound as if they are coming from the body of the guitar. No, it does not just sound like a speaker inside. It seems acoustically impossible but we listened to a demo of the 1 octave up pitch shifter. The software was running on an iPhone but we were told this is just a convenient development platform, and the DSP engine will live in the guitar once this becomes a product.  He is holding the interface unit.
Most desks were Yamaha and most monitors were Tannoy.
About the photo of the room with the red trusses: Not only does this room have 339 computer controlled speakers for a surround sound-like setup (called Ambisonics), but the red trusses allow for engineers to control the room size, from very small to very large, to allow for a wide range of natural reverb. The paneling in the wall can also be altered remotely to be more reflective or more absorptive.
Thank you Deborah for the special tour.
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Scheduled between six and ten o'clock in the evening, SoundWalk 2013 will offer visitors an opportunity, through one of the newest postmodern art forms, to explore a city space as a virtual canvas on which artists transform the way in which we, through sight, sound and our other senses, negotiate with and navigate experience. This makes for a unique opportunity, while on a neighborhood stroll, to encounter life melded with art.
SoundWalk is a singular Southern California event that promises an atmosphere charged with the excitement of auditors and spectators as they mill about in search of sites and locations at which they can interact with both the art and the artists, all the while exchanging impressions.
100 years ago, Luigi Russolo's Futurist manifesto "The Art of Noises" was released. As a result, various works featured in this year's event will respond to or incorporate ideas from this seminal declaration that strove to open the sensorium to new ways of perceiving. It has been SoundWalk's mission to promote such aspirations, and we also hope it was our success to have done so. However, in order to continue to find new ways of perceiving, we must transcend the aural and move into alternate modes. This is why it will be SoundWalk's last year. 2015 will be the launch year of a more expansive and more daring event that will explore and respond to the synaesthetic experience in which cognitive boundaries dissolve and the senses converge.
This event is in partnership with Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA), Long Beach Arts Month, and Arts Council for Long Beach (ACLB), Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA).
EVENT DETAILS
WHAT: Sound Art Event "SoundWalk 2013", a one-night event of sound installations by 40 local and international sound artists.
WHERE: Throughout the area encompassed by 4th St, Linden Ave, 1st St, and Elm Ave.
WHEN: Saturday, October 5th, 2013 from 6–10 pm
ADMISSION: Free
PARKING: Metered parking is available on the street; additional parking is also available in the parking lot at the NW corner of Broadway and Elm Ave.
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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Alan Nakagawa / Alex Braidwood & Meredith Lynn Morrison / Andrew Reitsma / Astrovandalistas Æffect Lab / The Autotelics / BETAFISHMUSIC / Borderline Antigone / craque / The Church Trap Team / Clowns and Fetuses / Cypress College Media Arts Design / D. Edward Davis / The Dirty Chaps / Ellen Warkentine & Danielle Kaufman / Evan X. Merz / F. Myles Sciotto / Dr. Francene Kaplan / Gary Raymond / hop-frog kollectiv / Hope University & MLuM / Igor Amokian / Joe Newlin / John Nichols III / Julius Bucsis / Kenneth Cameron / Kyong Mee Choi / Lucid Doom / Martin Espino / Melanie Hiller / Michael Nannery / Nick Venden / osKer Llirrem / Parallax Beach / Paula Matthusen + Jacek Kolasinski + Tung-Hui Hu / phog masheeen / Rob Brown / RuckusRoots / Small Drone Orchestra / The Squeakend / Susie Leonard / Tom Zear & Wolf Gowin / Wheels / wikiGong.com
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