>http://www3.sympatico.ca/rorytate/nmf2k/ > >Forest City Gallery and the Nihilist Spasm Band present: > > The No Music Festival > > March 30, March 31 & April 1, 2000 > at Aeolian Hall and Forest City Gallery > 795 Dundas Street, London, Ontario > >FCG and NSB are pleased to announce the 2000 edition of Canada's >premiere "noise" music event to be held in London, Ontario on three days >from Thursday March 30 to Saturday April 1. The Nihilist Spasm Band act >as hosts of honor to a remarkable slate of Canadian experimental >musicians plus an international line up of "friends," from Switzerland, >Japan, and the United States, all visiting Canada expressly to >participate in the third No Music Festival. This important and unique >event is presented by Forest City Gallery, a pioneering artist run >centre founded by NSB members Murray Favro and the late Greg Curnoe, >among others. > >The No Music Festival was launched in 1998 with a remarkable level of >personal and aritstic chemistry. Widespread critical receptivity to its >recorded performances, released in a 6 CD "No Music Box," quickly spread >the festival's reputation, now regarded among the most innovative and >enjoyable experimental music events in the world. These accelerated >fortunes follow the eminence and mystique of the NSB, a highly original >"anti music" group which lapsed into relative obscurity after the >sensation of its 1965 formation, until being rediscovered by a new >audience within the past five years. > >No Music is conducted in five parts over three nights. The first concert >will be held Thursday at 8 PM in Aeolian Hall - a triple bill. Opening >is a brilliant, unheralded free-jazz saxophonist Eric Stach, making a >prodigal return to his longtime home of London after a four-year >absence. Stach sprang from the same mid 60s scene at the York Hotel as >did the Spasm Band. He performs here in duet with another powerful >London musician, cellist Doug Innis. The second act, the Black Auks, >which heralds from St. John's, Nfld., also bears comparison to the NSB. >It gathers every Monday night to play go for broke music as captured on >its recent CD, No Second Takes. The first night >closes with an unclassifiable event, the world premiere of Gary >Hill/Paulina >Wallenberg-Olsson/John Boyle. Seattle based artist Hill, a 1998 >MacArthur Fellow, is towering figure in the field of sound. He brings >Wallenberg-Olsson, an astonishing Bjork-like Scandinavian vocalist, and >is joined by Boyle, the last remaining kazooist with the NSB, one of >famously creative mind. This promises to be unforgettable! > >Friday's Aeolian concert, a quadruple bill, also begins at 8 PM. Lee >Ranaldo/Paul Dutton, another world premiere, opens. Ranaldo is best >known as a guitarist, singer, and composer with the New York quartet, >Sonic Youth, which just released it's Goodbye 20th Century tribute to >the musical avant-garde. Dutton, an inimical "mouth" artist from >Toronto, has been a member of two of Canada's most storied vanguard >formations, the Four Horsemen (in the 70s and 80s) and, currently, CCMC. >They are followed by one of the most exciting emerging groups in Canada, >Undo, a Montreal duo comprised of Christof Migone and Alexandre >St.-Onge. Undo generates low level sounds from simple electronic >consoles and from mini-microphones which they swish in their mouths. >This is quiet noise. The third act on this busy night presents the North >American debut of the enigmatic Osaka artist Aube. Otherwise known as >Akifumi Nakajima, Aube's long list of recordings magnify sub-auditory >sounds (of breath, blood, or electric flow) into a tidal waves of > noise. Finally, the legendary Voice Crack, from St. Gallen, >Switzerland, make a rare Canadian appearance. The duo of Andy Guhl and >Norbert Moslang play "cracked everyday electronics," thewhir and grumble >of discarded consumer appliances. > > The Saturday Aeolian Hall concert, also beginning at 8 PM, opens with >Unclean Wiener, from Vancouver. A riotous act of noise-cabaret, this >trio features Petra Erstenuk (vocals), Shawn Bristow (bass), and Galen >Curnoe (drums) performing amidst a bevy of sight gags, costumes, and >teetering props. Curnoe is a second-generation noisician, after his >father Greg of the NSB. Another theatrical noise act follows, Mne-mic >(Mayuko Hino and Ranko Onishi, female artists from Tokyo), in its North >American debut following the 1999 release the Gulf Stream CD. Mne-mic >employ electronic effects and foghorn vocals to synthesize such >disparate modes as Butoh dance, performance art and cartoonish Japanese >erotica. In the final set, the Nihilist Spasm Band incorporates a number >of >surprise guests into an expanded festival line-up. The NSB promises >several new songs in a state-of-the-millenium address, Nihilist Party >style. The NSB is: John Boyle (kazoo, drums), John Clement (guitar, >drums), Bill Exley (vocals), Murray Favro (guitar), Hugh McIntrye >(bass), and Art Pratten (violin, water-pipe). > >Post concert jams amongst all festival musicians take place in Forest >City Gallery on Friday and Saturday nights, from approximately midnight >to 2:30 AM. The Interplay sessions have yielded consistently >exhilarating, inventive music and are a No Music Festival hallmark. >Access to Interplay is limited to pass-holders. > >On Thursday night, Forest City Gallery hosts a post-concert record >release party for No 99, a 5-CD box set documenting the terrific 1999 No >Music Festival. All are welcome! The public is also invited to attend >the opening of No Exhibition: The Art and Spectacle of the Nihilist >Spasm Band at the London Regional Art & Historical Museum, Saturday, >April 1, 2 PM. > >All No Music Festival events require ticket admission. Aeolian Hall >concerts are $15 per night. The "No Festival Pass," $40, admits the >bearer to all Friday and Saturday concerts, plus Interplay. The >"No-It-All Pass," $50, includes all three Aeolian concerts and >Interplay. Tickets are available from Dr. Disc (357 Clarence St.: >438-8494 or 1 (800) 265-1590) and from Forest City Gallery (795 Dundas >St., London, ON N5W 5X1: cash, check or money order only). > >For ticket and concert information, please call Forest City Gallery at >(519) 433-7875. For information on the artists and program, contact Ben >Portis (Festival Director) at (519) 432-9387. > >The No Music Festival is sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, >the Ontario Arts > Council, Scene Magazine, CHRW-FM (Radio Western), John Bellone Musical >Instruments, >Alchemy Records, and Pro Helvetia. > >-- >colin > http://mediacore.org/~clone > http://mp3.com/sonicatharsis > np: ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
