10.13.00 Walker Art Center launches two interactive sound projects as part of Sonic Flux series. http://www.walkerart.org/pa/sonicflux/ This series explores the ideas of a selection of seminal composers and Fluxus artists. This basis for the series was originally inspired by the Sonic Youth album SYR4 Goodbye 20th Century (http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/0006/details/garden2.html ). JOHN CAGE Known for his iconoclastic use of chance-determination in his compositional works, John Cage also worked to create the system from within which the chance operated. As a self-generating system which brings together elements from a variety of Cage's work, the online piece creates a Cagean environment of unforeseen relationships and fortuitous happenstance. STEVE REICH Based on his score Six Marimbas, the online piece demonstrates the composer Steve Reich's use of the phase-shifting principle he is known for. By breaking down the musical structure of the piece into a set of visual elements, some of which are then rotated, the piece allows for creating a shift in time, or phase-shift, between several canons of sound. Produced by Trudy Lane with Jeff Feddersen, Justin Bakse, and Justin Braem, these projects will be demoed as part of the Sonic Circuits VIII Festival, Nov. 2-3, information below. A Yoko Ono project will be launched in March 2001, in conjunction with an exhibition at the Walker Art Center. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Thursday, Novembe 2, 8 pm GODARD'S ALPHAVILLE WITH NEW LIVE SCORE BY SCANNER http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/0011/details/SONIC.html The Walker hosts an evening with London-based digital media artist Scanner, who presents a newly scored, live sound-track interpretation for Jean-Luc Godard's classic 1965 film Alphaville. Scanner, internationally known for his digital media manipulation and found-sound scavenging, is also a musician, writer, curator, media critic, and minimalist antihero whose eclectic mix of activities places him at the crossroads of academic and digital pop culture. This live music-film performance kicks off the eighth annual Sonic Circuits festival of electronic art created by explorers on the frontiers of technology. The festival, which runs from November 2-4, features performances, family events, and exhibitions that bring home the surprising degree to which electronic art has influenced people and cultures worldwide. For more information on Scanner and other Beggars Banquet artists, try their Web site. Copresented with the American Composers Forum, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Futureperfect, and the U of M School of Music. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday, November 3, 8-11 PM Future Perfect 10: Sonic Circuits VII http://www.futureperfect.org/ at the Landmark Center St. Paul Ambient room :Hosted by Lilith Satoshi Shinozaki, Mike Croswell (Metaphor), Chuck Zwicky, John Vance (Rexor/Wrong). DJ room: Hosted by DJ Drone (dave Jaros), with DJ Chris Mindflux, DJ Andrew, DJ Code Blue and FP mainstay TS Mainstage: Paul Higham , John Jindra , Paul Aiken from Appliancide / Unconditional Loathing, Big Daddy Jr. and the Spook (former Shape Shifter/Ousia/Passage), Susan Rawcliffe, Pop groop Pleasant Stitch, Fred Teasley (Ousia) and a few more yet to be mentioned. All night installations from Zaftig and The Radar Threat. New Media room (curated by Leonardo's Craig Harris) featuring Telemusic #1 by Steve Bradley and Randall Packer. ALSO ON THE WALKER HOMEPAGE (http://www.walkerart.org). Future Perfect: Sonic Circuts VIII will be webcast and broadcast live on TV (cable channel 35 in Saint Paul) ---------------------------------------- Steve Dietz Director, New Media Initiatives Walker Art Center subscribe Webwalker: http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/ ---------------------------------------- Steve Dietz Director, New Media Initiatives Walker Art Center subscribe Webwalker: http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/ + /creative juices flowing...? -> Rhizome.org -> post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> questions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/unsubscribe/ -> give: http://rhizome.org/support + Subscribers to Rhizome Raw are subject to the terms set out in the Subscriber Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/subscribe/
