[microsound] PHANTOM POWER FESTIVAL, NORTH BAY, ONTARIO

[Jon Vaughn <keith_lab@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.kennedygallery.org/index.html

Kennedy Gallery of North Bay, Ontario Presents:

Phantom Power

May 21-23, 2004

Tickets for this three-day festival of sound and video art are available at 
the Capitol Centre Box Office (705-474-4747)
or at the WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay (705-474-1944 ext. 231)
$20 for the whole weekend!
($15 for students)
If you'd like to speak to someone at the gallery about our festival, feel 
free to call Perry or Dermot at (705) 474 1944, ex. 231 or 227 or if you'd 
prefer to email, it is gallery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Participating Audio Artists Include:

Tomas Jirku (Vancouver) (No 
Type/Force-Inc/Substractif/Intr_Version/Traum/Klang/Audio.nl)

Carrie Gates (Saskatoon) (BricoLodge/Vinyl Interventions/CFCR 90.5 FM/Paved 
Art & New Media)

Kero (Windser/Detroit) (Shitkatpult/Bpitch Control/Detroit Underground/Satan 
Techno)

Thinkbox (Windser/Detroit) (www.thinkbox.ca)

Max Haiven (Halifax) (No Type/BricoLodge/Panospria)

Jon Vaughn (Saskatoon) (No Type/BricoLodge/Panospria/Slapart)

Marinko Jareb ($t. Catherine$) (Ghetto Systems/Mono Records/Vinyl 
Interventions)

tobias c. van Veen (www.quadrantcrossing.org)

Magali Babin (No Type)

Friday night, May 21
	DJ and Live PA set
	Hugo Crazy?s Bar, 151 Main St. East, North Bay, ON
Saturday, May 22st
	The Turntablist Workshop featuring the Jareb, Gates, van Veen Turntable 
Trio.
	12 am - 3 pm, W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, 150 Main St. East, North Bay, ON
	The workshop focuses on experimental turntablism and haunted house by a 
pan-canadian trio. We
	are limiting enrolment to this hands-on intensive learning session to 20 
people. This event will be
	of interest to dj?s, musicians, sound artists and video artists.
	Cost: $15 per participant
Saturday afternoon, May 22
	Matinee Program
	2pm - 5pm, Capitol Theatre, 150 Main St. East, North Bay, ON
Saturday night, May 22
	After Dark Program
	7pm - 1am, Capitol Theatre, 150 Main St. East, North Bay, ON
Sunday, May 23rd
	Discussion Session (led by Haiven & Vaughn)
	1pm - 3pm, W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, 150 Main St. East, North Bay, ON

FEATURING SUBMITTED VIDEOS BY:
Maureen Bradley (Regina SK)
Karri O. and Carey Toane (Helsinki, Finland)
Takuro Mizuta Lippit (New York, N.Y.)
Mercedes Cueto (Sudbury, ON)
Liam Hanrahan (North Bay, ON)
Andy Fabo and Michael Balser (Toronto, ON)
The Envelope Project (Colorado)
Juan Jose Rivas (Tlalpan, Mexico)
Victoria Prince (Winnipeg, Man.)
Marinko Jareb (St. Catharines, ON)
Jonathan Culp (Vineland, ON)
Ian Haig (Winnipeg, Man.)
Thea Pratt (Montreal, Q.C.)
Eric Gamache (Bonfield, ON)
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (Winnipeg, Man.)
Jason Margolis (Vancouver, B.C.)
Patricia Rodriguez (Toronto, ON)
Karen Hoeberg (Winnipeg Man.)
Graeme Patterson (Winnipeg, Man.)



About Phantom Power

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In 2002 a group of artists, sound and otherwise, got together and invaded a 
golf dome in Saskatoon. The resulting "immersive" electronic performance and 
associated festival of sound and video art was dubbed: Digidome. Phantom 
Power is the next step forward from Digidome. Think of it as the further 
adventures of an odd mutant creature!

This next chapter includes some of the same players, some of the same roles, 
but many changes and a totally different "locale". Phantom Power is a 
three-day Festival (as was Digidome) of video, computer animation, live 
video mixing, live audio mixing, and live sound art performances. The event 
this time around takes place in a vintage theatre in downtown North Bay in 
Northern Ontario. The theatre actually prompted the thematic flavour for the 
event. Whereas Digidome aimed at "B-movie" aesthetics and digital 
abstractions and the "happy accident" or glitch, Phantom Power is intent on 
awakening the spirits of this vaudeville and silent film stage. Videos that 
touch upon themes of "horror", the spiritual, phantasms and the ephemeral or 
ghostly will combine with musical performances from 10 sound artists from 
across the country. Again then, this festival of electronic art will bring 
together a whole new generation of digital artists from across Canada.

In the theatre technicians and artists from North Bay will build an 
"immersive" environment including multiple hanging screens, multiple stages, 
a projection "complex" and various seating locations. The audience is 
invited to leave their seats and experience different performances from 
different vantage points. The theatre seats 1500 people and includes a large 
balcony seating area. And yes, there is a ghost in the Capitol Theatre, or 
at least so the stories go.







The Festival kicks off on Friday night, May 21st with a live "dance" set and 
video mixing evening at the Hugo Crazy?s bar in downtown North Bay. This is 
where we combine DJ?s with live PA performances and where the sounds may hit 
everything from techno to disco. This first session starts at 8 and runs 
until 2 in the morning.

The next day includes two events: the Turntabilist Workshop featuring the 
immense DJ talents of Carrie Gates (Saskatoon), Marinko Jareb (aka machine) 
and Tobias C. Van Veen (Montreal). Kicking off at 11:30 a.m. and running for 
two sessions, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, this workshop focuses on 
vinyl, turntables and mixers as an art media.

Later on the Saturday, the main event of the weekend, the marathon of sounds 
and images, starts at 2 pm in the theatre. Performances by the Polyesther 
Thought & Thinkbox will run simultaneously with the screening of the Matinee 
Program. This first session runs until 5 pm. After a two-hour break the 
After Dark Program begins at 7pm with performances by Magali Babin (Montreal 
sound and performance artist), Kero (Windsor/Detroit), Jon Vaughn and Max 
Haiven (Saskatoon and Halifax), Carrie Gates (Saskatoon vinyl video/audio 
person) Marinko Jareb (Niagara area Machine) and Tobias Van Veen (Montreal 
techno-turntablist) & Tomas Jirku, who?s performance will complete the 
?spiritual? journey.

Another similarity to Digidome is the fact that most of the audio artists 
will be producing their sounds in concert with and in support of the 
projected digital videos and computer generated animations. The audio 
artists were selected for their commitment to new audio art forms, their 
distinctive styles, and their ability to improvise within their chosen 
media. So, on that evening, audiences will see and hear a completely 
spontaneous collaboration between audio art and video art. It promises to be 
an amazing night and a truly one-of-a-kind event.

We're expecting a diverse crowd of media artists and aficionados, musicians 
from the regional electronic music scene, students and probably a few 
surprises!

Get your tickets - either for a single event or the weekend Festival 
Reserved Special. Tickets are available at the Capitol Centre Box Office 
(705-474-4747) or at the WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay (705-474-1944 ext. 
231)

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