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Experimental sound art and environmental preservation meet through the actions and publications of EcoSono. We create conduits for the expression of free imagination through new media, pursuing commonalities between innovative musical creation and ecological awareness.

EcoSono challenges social assumptions about music by encouraging sonic nonconformity. We embrace a creative philosophy of human expression in symbiosis with the spaces that surround us -- imaginative multimedia sound art for a sustainable future.

Projects include interactive ecologies, human-computer-environment interaction, ecoacoustics, and experimental multimedia.


upcoming and recent actions  

Oceans/Elements Concert,
June 8, 2010,Caribbean Sea featuring music, soundwalks and soundscapes by Daniel Blinkhorn, Stephanie Smith, Vanessa Di Michelis, Colby Leider, Erik De Luca, Alana Dym, Grace Graham, Matthew Burtner, Alex Wallace, Kiran Kumar, Anders Fredrickson, Tim Kiefer and Adam LeGrave.

EcoSono Institute, Caribbean Sea and in Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, Barbados, Grenada, Curacao, Bonaire, and Aruba
May 27-June 10, 2010

Oceans/Elements concert at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA as part of the "Realizing our Sustainable Future" Common Theme
March 24, 2010, 7:30pm Ford Howard Hall, UW-Green Bay Campus.

EcoSono works with the World Wildlife Fund to protect polar bears!
15% of our income goes to WWF to help this important organization protect the Arctic polar bear and WWF's other causes. Read about polar bears here.
Contribute directly to WWF here.

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EcoSono T-shirt!

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agents against agency
12 Dog Cycle

Australian-based sound artists 12 Dog Cycle recorded "Brickwork" for the upcoming EcoSono "agents against agency" DVD.

"...we arrived before the sun and traffic, to spend the morning playing throughout the kiln as it slowly filled with light." Brickwork is a stunning and intimate expression by 12-Dog Cycle. In the music video, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Nigel Brown, and Rosalind Hall explore the environmental interplay between building, vibration and light.

The "agents against agency" DVD features emergent and improvised musical forms in dialog with the natural world.


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EcoSono Institute 2010 Caribbean Sea -- click here to see pictures from our recent adventure!
Daniel's crab recording Bonaire Grace with donkey dung sea cucumber Trinidad Pitch Lake recording (Kiran, Vanessa)

 

MICE World Tour CD

EcoSono presents the 2009 global circumnavigation tour of the Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble (MICE). Traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world, MICE performed an ambitious series of concerts engaging with diverse environments and cultures of the world. MICE employs interactive acoustics and a networked human/computer ensemble to create deep collaborations between ecologies, human musicians and computer systems. This album features select compositions from the tour.

2/10/10: Sandprints reached #19 on the Indie Music.com Electronica Charts!

Sandprints featured in The WIRE, Adventures in Modern Music, U.K.
listen to the radio show here:
http://thewire.co.uk/articles/3050/


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EcoSono in The WIRE, U.K.

Susanna Glaser of The WIRE lists the MICE World Tour album among her top 10 albums of 2009 in the newly published Rewind issue. The chart features releases from an eclectic and global list of labels such as Thrill Jockey, Soma, Warp and more.


Reviews of "MICE World Tour"

"Curious and striking…could serve as a healing music, so relaxing, soothing, yet elevated and artistically sounding a playful note. It is inspired and exhilarating. The use of natural sounds is not cliche and nothing is “dance/ambient", despite the computer drones or percussion rhythms. The sounds push and push and swing slowly and relax there. Folk and jazz weave themselves among the sensitive natural soundscapes, and folklore yields to sounds, voices and samples. Yet no music in the traditional sense can be heard here. Rather, an impressive audio noise builds, one that casts its spell and displaces any crisis, any stress. There is no kitsch harmony, no release, and no commonplace chumming. MICE plays real, real music for the mind and body."
- Volkmar Mantei, Ragazzi Magazine, Germany

“MICE have played all around the world, using their laptops and a variety of instruments and sound sources… sand sources even. Sandprints has a nice, poppy touch to it… an electro-dance piece with great childlike rhythms. Great. 'World Strings' processes all sorts of string instruments together in a nice piece. Quite a varied album."
- FdW, Vital Weekly in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Think Thank / EcoSono simultaneous releases

On Tuesday, August 18 the snowboard film company, Think Thank teamed up with EcoSono for a simultaneous release of the "Cool Story" movie and the "MICE World Tour" album.

"Cool Story" is the best snowboard video ever made and it features MICE's "Sandprints" as the theme song.

For more information and to order "Stack Footy" visit http://www.thinkthank.com

Reviews of "Signal Ruins"
" Matthew Burtner plays with beauty, coolness and space. Halfway between chamber music and sound sculpture! Dialogues, modulations, swirl, noise, dissonance, metallic roar, crackle: nothing can break the expressive unity."
-Sonhors e-Zine, Rennes, France, April 2009

"there is a strong sense of circular causality, the players and instruments, now strewn with tin foil, colluding or at least co-constituting each other in the seemingly blind surge into a dissonant, almost ecstatic anti-chorus of metallic shrieking, stresses, and crackle...a most trenchant experience in ritual."
- Max Schaefer, Further Noise, London, UK
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