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REFRAINS : MUSIC POLITICS AESTHETICS
---conference update o3---
Hi everyone,
Please find below what should be the final
schedule for the conference. We've made
some minor time changes to the schedule.
Keep an eye on the website at:
http://www.shrumtribe.com/refrains
for any last minute details.
For those who don't know: this is a FREE
conference and performance focused on
electronic music and culture !
See you there!
tobias
+ cato, chris and charles
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~below please find the Conference + Performance schedules~
~updated September 25th, 2001~
~~~1. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE~~~
There are two venues for Refrains, the Coach House at Green College and the
Buchanan Penthouse in the Buchanan Block. The two are about a 10 minute walk
apart, so please bring rainjackets in case the weather is a bit unpleasant.
Individual sessions are 45 minutes long, with 15 minutes between sessions
for getting between buildings and a break. Please feel free to mix and match
talks at will (don't feel that you need to stay in one building for the
entire morning session, etc.).
Talks should be approximately 30 minutes-45 minutes, with the remainder of
the time for discussion. The moderator for the Coach House is Charles
Barbour, and for the Penthouse it is Chris Daub.
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
8AM Light conference breakfast at the Coach House, Green College
(muffins, scones, coffee, juice) for speakers and RSVP'ed attendees.
9AM Opening Remarks at Coach House.
Please get a brochure at this time, complete with handy campus map, as well
as a map to the Video-In, the site of the evening's performance.
10AM Sessions begin in Coach and Penthouse.
--COACH: MORNING SESSION
10AM Steven Shaviro, English, U of Washington, WA
"The Erotic Life of Machines"
11AM Brady Cranfield, Communications, Simon Fraser U, BC
"The Dialectics of Noise"
--PENTHOUSE: MORNING SESSION
10AM Chris Lee, English, Brown U, Rhode Island
"Diaspora, Aesthetics, and Reason: Reading Paul Gilroy with Duke Ellington"
11AM Charles Mudede, The Stranger, Seattle, WA
"The Politics of Pleasure in Hip Hop Music"
--LUNCH: 12-1:30PM: Please note that lunch will not be catered.
UBC has several places on campus to grab a bite.
--KEYNOTE TALK AND PANEL: 1:30-2:30PM : COACH HOUSE
Kim Cascone, Mille Plateaux/Anechoicmedia.com, San Francisco, CA
"The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary
Computer Music"
Panel discussion with Kim Cascone on the future and end of electronic music.
--COACH: AFTERNOON SESSION
2:30PM Henry Warwick, creativesynth.com, San Francisco, CA
"Lifecycles of Cultural Commodities"
3:30PM Steve DiPasquale, Interdisciplinary, UBC
"The Liveness of the Live"
4:30PM Janne Vanhanen, Aesthetics, U of Helsinki, Finland
"Loving the Ghost in the Machine-- Aesthetics of Interruption"
(session ends at 5:30PM)
--PENTHOUSE: AFTERNOON SESSION
2:30PM Michael Jarrett, English, Penn State U, PA
"The Railroad Refrain: Training Modern Ears"
3:30PM Richard Williams, Communications, Concordia, Montreal
"Deterritorializing Repetition"
(session ends at 4:30PM)
--5:30-8PM. DINNER/BREAK: Please note that dinner will not be catered. There
are several restaurants just off campus that are excellent. Check out
bcyellowpages.com and look up: The Eatery (sushi), Fiction (tapas), Maria's
Taverna (greek), The Naam (vegetarian), Ginger and Chili (chinese), Sophie's
Cosmic Cafe ('50s western).
~~~2. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE + OPEN CIRCUITS FESTIVAL
The performance aspect of the conference will be held at the Video-In,
an artist-run centre focused on digital, video and film work. The Video- In
is located at 1965 Main St., approximately a 20 minute bus ride (#10,
#4)from UBC or a 10 minute drive. Directions can be obtained from
mapquest.com.
The Video-In event is free and open to everyone (like the rest of the
conference), and is also the finishing night of the Open Circuits
experimental electronic music festival, which will be held at the Video-In
on the evenings of the 27th and 28th. Click here for information on Open
Circuits (please note that the thursday and friday nights cost $7).
Installation art:
Olo J. Milkman: "Ample Lamps" (I-Ching line drawing panel permutations)
Triina Linde: title TBA (rhizomatic furniture environment)
(approximate) music schedule
8PM Doors open, bar opens. DJs tobias + construct
8:30 Artifical Intelligence, Vancouver
9:00 Jovian Francey, Vancouver
9:30 Cid + Eric, Seattle
10:00 Kim Cascone, Mille Plateaux/anechoicmedia.com, SF (+video
presentation)
10:30 Ben Nevile, Context/targetcircuitry.com, Victoria BC
11:00 DJs tobias + construct until late (2ish).
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THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
The Vancouver New Music Society
http://www.newmusic.org/
The UBC Walter Gage Memorial Fund
http://www.alumni.ubc.ca/gage.htm
The UBC English Department
http://www.english.ubc.ca/
The UBC Faculty of Arts
http://www.arts.ubc.ca/FOA/
Green College
http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/
Discorder Magazine
http://www.citr.ca
The Video-In
http://www.video-in.com
Artbyte Magazine
http://www.artbyte.com
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