Here it is: Juan Rios presentation on Media, Democracy and Design for AUDO2008

AUDO is an unconventional public event that invites practitioners and theoreticians from a broad range of sound-related disciplines to discuss new strategies for the creation, production, distribution and   cultural analysis of sound and music-based work.

In a three-day series of discussion forums, performances and workshops, AUDO will address the following four interrelated aspects of contemporary artistic practices in sound:

1. Alternative models for musical composition and performance (noise as music, Intonarumori, Art of Noise, Indeterminacy, chance compositions, Futurist movement, John Cage, FLUXUS, remixing, 8bit)

2. New channels for the distribution of sound-based work (online communities, disappearance of physical sound-carrying medium, copyleft movement, independent labels)

3. New technologies for the creation and production of sounds and music (electronic and computer-based media, strategies of appropriation, hacking and DIY)

4. The diverse functions and meanings of sound (entertainment, communication, construction of cultural identity)

Ultimately, in its diverse mix of events and approaches AUDO aims to create, generate and encourage new ideas for non-market driven strategies and outlets for creative production that can ultimately be applied to all areas of artistic expression.

TAGS: ART, COMMERCIAL, COMMUNICATION, CONCRETE SOUNDS, COPYRIGHT & COPYLEFT, ELECTRONIC MUSIC, HACKING, INDUSTRY, MARKET, MARKET-DRIVEN, NOISE, REMIX, SHARING, SOUND, STANDARD (DISTRIBUTION) CHANNELS, TECHNOLOGY