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(Call For Papers below)

DATE CHANGE

The conference date has been moved to
September 29th, 2001.

KIM CASCONE

Refrains will feature Kim Cascone as our
keynote speaker and performer. Mr. Cascone is
internationally recognised as an innovator in
experimental electronic music, and frequently
lectures in California. He will be conducting a
lecture based upon his recent paper "The Aesthetics
of Failure: Post-Digital Tendencies in Contemporary
Computer Music," published in the Winter 2000
Computer Music Journal. He will also be giving a
live audio-visual performance.

Refrains will also feature--besides a packed day of
lectures and discussions--an evening of performance,
featuring live music, performance art, and poetry,
in an altered environment.

REGISTRATION

Although the conference is free, we are asking everyone
to please RSVP to:

refrainsconference@xxxxxxxxxxx

If the situation arises where we may have to charge for the evening's
performance, anyone who has RSVP'd will gain free admission.

WEBSITE

Full information on the conference, including accomodation,
the Call for Papers, registration, general information and
sponsors, is up at:

http://www.shrumtribe.com/refrains

The conference schedule will also be posted to the site
in due time.


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CALL FOR PAPERS

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REFRAINS: MUSIC POLITICS AESTHETICS


September 29th, 2001.
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC, Canada.


"What chaos and rhythm have in common is the in-between-between two milieus,
rhythm-chaos or the chaosmos: "Between night and day, between that which is
constructed and that which grows naturally, between mutations from the
inorganic to the organic, from plant to animal, from animal to humankind,
yet without this series constituting a progression?" In this in-between,
chaos becomes rhythm, not inexorably, but it has a chance to. Chaos is
not the opposite of rhythm, but the milieu of all milieus."

- Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, ?1837: Of the Refrain,? A Thousand
Plateaus


MUSIC. Digital and post-digital music merge media: music fuels social
protest; music becomes accident, consequence, and beyond our control.
Music becomes a weapon, a defence, and an escape.

POLITICS. Three thousand people in a warehouse dancing is a political
moment. MP3s stir the music industry into legislation: musical format is
political. The power arising from independent music distribution and an
aesthetics of consumer control becomes a political power with an aesthetic
agenda.

AESTHETICS. Failure acquires an aesthetic: the mistake and the glitch are
seen as new musical forms that stir a politics and redefines music. The
fight over Art is a fight over territory: the gallery, the warehouse, the
loft, the street. Reclaim The Streets becomes art on the streets becomes
protest and politics.


Who: undergraduate, graduate, professional; academic or non-academic.
What: topics that merge the above spectrums in creative & imaginative ways.
Where: .doc or .rtf format to: refrainsconference@xxxxxxxxxxx
Length: 30-50 minutes speaking time.
Deadline: August 31st, 2001.
Website: http://www.shrumtribe.com/refrains