[microsound] Seeking musicians: San Francisco Found Objects Festival

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone, 

I'm putting together the 3rd Annual San Francisco
Found Objects Festival, and am looking for 2 or 3 more
musicians to create music using only sounds from
household objects submitted by the audience. If you're
interested, please read the info below.

General: 
The dates are Thursday and Friday, November 4th and
5th in San Francisco. Venues are the Luggage Store
Gallery (thursday) and 964 Natoma (friday). Set time
is 20 minutes per performer/group. (That'll make more
sense when you read the rest.) There's no payment
guarantee or anything. Artists will get an even share
of the door after the venue takes its fee. 

The challenge: 
All the sounds used in your set must be generated from
an object that was submitted by an audience member.
Musicians are allowed to bring any equipment to MODIFY
sounds, including bows, malletts, laptop computers,
samplers and effects. You can't use guitars, drums,
voice, etc, unless it's the sound of the found object
that we're hearing. (For example, using a spring as a
prepared guitar implement is not allowed, but using a
guitar as a midi device to control samples of a spring
is allowed.)

The objects submitted by the audience will be placed
in a loose mess around the performance area. During
your set, you're free to pick up and use any of the
objects you feel are appropriate for what you're
doing. All the acts in the night will be working from
the same pool of objects. I try to book a variety of
musical styles in each night though, so different acts
will use different objects, or the same objects
differently. In order to keep the event on schedule,
we ask the artists to have their equipment set-up
before the show starts.

Anyway, if you're interested, please email me
off-list.  Right now we're only looking for 2 or 3
people, but we keep "extra" folks in mind for future
installments. 

Matt Davignon


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