Dear all, New Emergences #12 with Charles Celeste Hutchins, Joel Ryan and Looi
van Kessel will take place upcoming Sunday at Broedplaats Lely in Amsterdam:
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| event no.12 – trans and noise
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• lecture and performance by Charles Celeste Hutchins
| joined for a discussion by Joel Ryan
| moderated by Looi van Kessel
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• WHEN & WHERE:
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| 25 feb 2018, 15:00–18:00
| Broedplaat Lely, Schipluidenlaan 12, 1062 HE, Amsterdam
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• An event on trans gender and noise music with a lecture and a performance by
composer performer Charles Céleste Hutchins and a discussion moderated by Looi
van Kessel (Leiden University).
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• Why noise? In English, the word ‘noise’ comes with myriad connotations which
all play to the plurality of lots of things happening at the same time, it
makes it hard to focus. In communication, noise can distract and distort
meaning which particularly in gender expression might be a useful tool and used
intentionally. Noise as a sonic and visual phenomenon is deeply complex and
allows its context to become the main player. One pays attention to the frame
and the space where it is being produced and presented and becomes aware of
ones own body. As a transgressive phenomenon, noise embodies a catharsis. It
has a purifying effect, evoking a kind of trance that lets us reach out to a
different level, crossing borders within oneself. As noise is sound that is
pushed to its limits, it reasons that, just like challenging 'gender
limitations', identity boundaries may become fluid.
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• Charles Céleste Hutchins was born in San Jose, California in 1976. Growing up
in Silicon Valley, he started programming at a young age and has continued to
do so, even after leaving dot coms to persue music composition – obtaining an
MA form Wesleyan University in 2005 and a PhD from the University of Birmingham
in 2012. His recent work has focused on gendered labour and AI. Charles will
speak about the history of noise music and relate music historical aspects to
issues concerning gender identities and trans people.
| www.berkeleynoise.com
| charleshutchins.bandcamp.com
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• Joel Ryan has been performing Electro-Acoustic music since 1979 when he first
hacked an Apple II for live sound processing. Convinced of the musical future
for personal computers he left hacker’s paradise in Northern California to work
in New York for Warner/Atari and then to Europe where he joined with George
Lewis inventing and evangelize real-time digital electronic music. From IRCAM
in Paris they went to Amsterdam and Michel Waisvisz’ STEIM. There and at the
Institute of Sonology they seeded a tradition of performance and improvisation
that is still bearing fruit.
| jr.home.xs4all.nl/bio1.03.html
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• Moderator Looi van Kessel (Leiden University) is a PhD student at the Leiden
University Center for Arts in Society, specializing in American literature and
gender studies. He recently co-edited an issue of the Dutch Journal for Gender
Studies on trans* studies and as a member of the university's LGBT+ core
advisory team he makes it one of his key points to improve gender dynamics in
the classroom situation, including the attempt to make teachers more aware of
trans and genderqueer expressions and identifications among their students.
| www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/looi-van-kessel
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• New Emergences is an initiative that serves as a platform to openly discuss
issues regarding gender equality in electronic music and sound art. Within
these fields, it focuses on the presence and absence of women, alongside LGBTQ+
communities and diversity issues in the broader spectrum of under-represented
voices. The New Emergences lecture and discussion series provides a Safe Space
for professionals – and for the public - to share their experiences, tell their
stories and to discuss a wide range of perspectives, opinions and theories:
male and female stereotypes are questioned and strategies to achieve Change are
discussed.
| newemergences.com
| www.facebook.com/events/154210188634230/
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• This event is made possible with the financial support of the Creative
Industries Fund (Stimuleringsfonds).
Many thanks to STEIM, to Urban Resort and to Broedplaats Lely for their support.
| steim.org
| www.urbanresort.nl
| www.facebook.com/pg/lely.amsterdam/events/
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• N E W E M E R G E N C E S
| [email protected]
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