AUDIO FEBRUARY

Calendar of Events:

OPENING RECEPTION – w/ Julie Shapiro of the Third Coast International Audio Festival
Friday, February 6, 2009 | 6-9pm
6-8pm Audio Installations: Panta Rhei, “Horses” and other audio art works on display.
8pm Julie Shapiro of the Third Coast International Audio Festival: Shapiro presents a Listening Room of well crafted and edgy audio documentaries from across the world.

LONG FORM IMPROVISATION
Sunday, February 8, 2009 | 10am – 10pm
With Andrew Lafkas, Bryan Eubanks & Jonathan Zorn. 12 hours of improvised music. Wander in and out, catch an hour here and there, or stick around for the whole event.

“IF I DO THIS 3,599 MORE TIMES THEN CAN I GO HOME?”
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 | 8pm
A participatory lecture/performance on the history and use of text as musical notation. With Jonathan Zorn and friends.

A HISTORY OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC: IMMERSION IN A WORLD OF SOUND
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | 8pm
With Steve Kemper. A concert/lecture exploring the history of music produced with technology to be played back on fixed media.

SILENT VALENTINE’S
Thursday, February 12, 2009 | 7pm
The Bridge Winter Film Series presents Girl Shy.

EXPRESSIVE MACHINES MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (EMMI)
Saturday, February 14, 2009 | 12-5pm | at The Music Resource Center
Workshop with EMMI co-founders Steve Kemper, Scott Barton, and Troy Rogers with guest performer Ted Coffey. Public performance at 5pm.

WHAT PEACHES AND WHAT PENUMBRAS!
Sunday, February 15, 2009 | 7pm
A reading of poems both classic and local-grown.

VIRGINIA’S STORIES IN SOUND
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | 8pm
Documentaries, audio art and news reports from our local and regional communities.

EXERCISE IN RESTRAINT AND THE ART OF LISTENING
Friday, February 20, 2009 | 8pm
Clifford Schwing, Wendy Hsu, Carey Sargent, & Kenneth Yates with special guests Cleek & Graham.

AUDIOPSYCHIC & HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF RADIO THEATRE
Saturday, February 21, 2009 | 8pm – An evening with Jay Purdy & Adam Soroka.

DANCE LIKE A SPEAKER
Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 6-9pm
An evening with Abel Okugawa. “Come experience the ingredients of an album.”

ADAM DILLER AND JONATHAN ZORN
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | 8pm
Improvised Saxophone and Double Bass Duets.

AN EVENING WITH POETS
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | 7pm
James Hoch & Sam Witt.

OPEN STUDIO
Friday & Saturday, February 27 & 28, 2009 | Time TBA
Two days of public studio space with evening improvisation sessions.

LAUNCH PARTY FOR FREE UNION
Sunday, March 1, 2009 | 7pm
Poet John Casteen celebrates the publication of his new book, Free Union.

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INSTALLATIONS & EXHIBITS


PANTA RHEI: by Lanier Sammons and Peter Traub. Panta Rhei is an audio/visual instrument capable of displaying an emergent system in light, allowing human interaction with that system, and translating the resulting information into music.

ADAPTIVE MUSIC: A room resonating sound installation by Peter Traub.

HORSES: A paint-by-number collaborative mural portrait of rock legend Patti Smith.

ARE THERE ANY RARE, PLASTIC PONIES? by Julie Shapiro

Girls. Horses. The bond between is deep, timeless, and
somewhat…inexplicable. From the living, breathing animals
to the mass-produced, painted ponies, one thing remains constant. Girls
dig horses.

EPHEMERA BOARD 3 a collaborative installation originally conceived by David Green

What is ephemera? Those bits of throwaway paper and minor documents of
every day life, created for a specific, limited purpose, and generally
designed to be discarded after use. But ephemera is often kept for some
reason. What ephemeral possessions can you just not bear to part with?
Grab a pen, choose a post-it note and leave some ephemera about your
ephemera.

Ephemera Board 3 consists of more than 500 post-it notes, ephemera in
waiting. This project, initially conceived by producer David Green, was
inspired in equal parts by the Third Coast International Audio
Festival’s Radio Ephemera public audio challenge and the work of the
Illegal Art Collective of New York. Ephemera Board I was first installed
at the North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, IL where David
teaches.

 

YES WE CAN by Shea Shackelford and Jennifer Deer

Number 2: Big Shed in the Can*

 

For the second year running (watch you don’t trip on the puns), the folks from the Big Shed Audio Documentary Podcast bring you an aural environment to complement your restroom experience. Reflect for a moment (or 3 or 4–nevermind that guy knocking on the door) on the recent peaceful transition of power in our nation’s capitol.