SECOND APPEAL FOR SUPPORT FOR IMEB

Addressed to Colleagues, Artists, the Public and Friends of IMEB from All Countries
www.supportforimeb.org
At the end of 2009, 2513 of you from 63 countries showed your support for IMEB, in danger of being closed by the Ministry of Culture. We are extremely grateful to you all for your efforts! This wave of protest was taken up and broadcast by many personal and institutional websites all over the world, and the protest was so strong that both print and electronic media passed on the information. But despite your magnificent show of solidarity, the Ministry still stands by its decision.
We see only one possible response: start a new campaign of support louder and with even more participants than the first.
Therefore, we, the members of the Support Committee for the IMEB, call on you once more to join this second protest, even more vigorously than before, either by writing yourself to the addresses you will find at the site www.supportforimeb.org , or by signing the petition you will find there. If you sign the petition at the website, it will automatically be sent with your signature to all the parties concerned.<

You will find a report of the current situation along with additional information at the sites www.supportforimeb.org and www.imeb.net (under Support Committee). We must, by our common efforts and our joined voices from more than 60 different countries, succeed in saving the IMEB!<

For the Support Committee :  
Judy Klein
Gerald Bennett
Gonzalo Biffarella
Jean-Claude Risset
Nicola Sani

From 16th to 18th February 2010

The World as instrument: A Theoretical Workshop Taught by Francisco Lopez

http://www.nkprojekt.de
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.

He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in 60 countries of the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 200 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. [Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios]

This theoretical workshop is focused on the historical, sociological and philosophical (rather than technical) aspects of different practices that have the “real world” as a source, or an inspiration, for sonic creation. From ancestral manifestations of music derived from nature to the present massive sonic exploration of our world, analyzing the historical attempts at recording sonic reality and creatively transform it, from musical notation to digital technology. With a multitude of sonic examples, from traditional to electronic music, the workshop aims at stirring up discussion and at challenging many stereotypical and misleading conceptions about recorded sound in many diverse areas and objects of study, from bioacoustics to experimental

music, from phonographs to hard disk recorders, from birds to cosmic radio emissions.

Date: Feb 16-18 2010 (3Days)

Place: NK Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2 Etage 12059 Berlin

Time: 10:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 17:00

Participation is limited to 15 participants

Registration: Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to enka_nk@gmx.de

Fee: 150 Euros

Gracias a la invitación que el Laboratorio Nacional de Música Electroacústica de Cuba ha hecho a la AMEE, durante el Festival Primavera en La Habana 2010, que se realizará entre los días 14 a 21 de marzo, se escucharán las siguientes obras de autores de la AMEE:

Día 17 de marzo Basílica de San Francisco
Adolfo Núñez…………….Quimera en danza
José Ignacio Pecino……..Adi Shakti 
Gregorio Jiménez……….Etude de sons
José Manuel Berenguer…Trenes a la fuga
Carlos D. Perales………Electronic birds
Vicente R. Carinola…….Cielo Vivo

Día 19 de marzo Museo de Bellas Artes
Eduardo Polonio……En realidad, no
José Andrés Prieto…L003n
Joaquín Medina……Hacia la esperanza
David Vendrell……La lluita contra el temps
David Alarcón……Alet
Edith Alonso……..Presagios