[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[microsound] NYC :- Tune(In))) Brooklyn: free103point9's 8th anniversary free concert on 5 channels

To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [microsound] NYC :- Tune(In))) Brooklyn: free103point9's 8th anniversary free concert on 5 channels
From: ianepps <icraigepps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:27:38 -0500

my apologies for a rather large posting, but this is an interesting event to take note of.

................................................................................................................................................
free103point9 transmissions 03.12.05
http://www.free103point9.org

CELEBRATE EIGHT YEARS WITH FREE103POINT9

Saturday 03.12.05

TUNE(IN))) BROOKLYN

free103point9 8th anniversary benefit concert
Silent concert heard on radio headphones on five channels.

@ East River Bar, First Floor, 97 S. 6th St.,
btw Bedford Ave. and Berry St.,
Southside, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

8 p.m.-1 a.m.
free admission.
$8 radios for sale to hear the performances.
Performances will be in projections and
monitors, and some in the room.
Tune in on free103point9 Online Radio
at www.free103point9.org
and Radioo, www.radioo.org.

free103point9's Tune(In))) is a silent concert, with performers
playing into transmitters rather than amplifiers. Attendees listen
to performances on radio with headphones. free103point9's
Tune(In))) is a sound installation/event in designed for a
virtually silent environment in which listeners hear live
performances through individual radio headsets.

Sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund
of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc.

Attendees can bring their own radio with headphones, or buy
or rent a radio from free103point9 for $8. You cannot hear
the show without a radio with headphones. You will be able
to see the show in person at the East River Bar, and on video
projections and monitors in the East River Bar.

Free admission to a show with over 40 performers.

This is free103point9's 8th anniversary benefit.
$8 donations are also accepted.

SCHEDULE

88.7-FM
Video projection and audio transmission
will be beamed in from a nearby location.

8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years:
Carlos Giffoni, "untitled" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03;
Matt Valentine + Erika Elder, ""Contemporary Mountain
Hymns and Microtonal Sun Ragas" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03.
8:45-9:30: Tianna Kennedy + guest
9:30-10:15: CJMJS: Christopher McIntyre (trombone)
+ Michael Schumacher (G4 laptop)
10:15-11 p.m.: Matt Mikas + Tom Roe + Daniel Carter + Tony Flynn
11 p.m.-11:30: Tianna Kennedy + Tyler Nolan
11:30 p.m.-12:15 a.m.:Imaginary Folk: Peter Evans, trumpet;
Jessica Pavone, viola; Brandon Seabrook,
banjo; and Amie Weiss, violin.
12:15-12:30 a.m.: Tianna Kennedy + guest
12:30-1:15 a.m.: Andrew Barker + Jesse Dulman
+ Christopher McIntyre + Jessica Pavone
+ Charles Waters.

89.3-FM
Performers on First Floor, some audio/visual, streamed live on
free103point9 Online Radio, www.free103point9.org.
8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years:
Transmaniacon MC, "Klipshow" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03 (35 min.);
Scanner, entire set from Tune(In))) The Kitchen 04.22.04 (30 min);
9 p.m.: Radio Ruido
9:30 p.m.: Matt Pass
10 p.m.: Radio Ruido
10:15 p.m.: Sawako
10:45 p.m.: Radio Ruido
11 p.m.: Ian Epps
11:30 p.m.: Radio Ruido
11:45 p.m.: Ben Owen + Andy Graydon
12:15 a.m.: DJ Kelly Kombat

91.9-FM
Video projection and audio transmission
will be beamed in from a nearby location.
Performers on First Floor streamed live on Radioo, www.radioo.org.
8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years.
Tatsuya Nakatani + Vic Rawlings + Ricardo Arias,
from Assembled 06.26.04 (45 mins).
8:45-9:15: Matt Bua
9:15 p.m.: 31 Down
"...My Last .45"
Mike Sharpie walks down the steps into his own grave.
Designed and developed by Ryan Holsopple,
Mirit Tal, and Shannon Sindelar.
Thanks to Matt Bua and Ontological-Hysteric Theater
Outside/Input.
10-10:15: Matt Bua
10:15 p.m.: Damian Catera
11-11:15: Matt Bua
11:15 p.m.: neuroTransmitter
mid-12:15: Matt Bua
12:15 a.m.: Sudden Infant

99.9-FM
Archived free103point9 performances from the last eight years
on video monitors and FM radio.
8 p.m.- 9:05 p.m.: "Radio 4x4 at 'Rock's Role
(After Ryoanji)'" DVD
9:05 p.m.-9:15 p.m.: "Of The Bridge" DVD
Matt Bua + Matt Mikas + Tom Roe
9:15-10:20 p.m.: "Kids Discover Radio visits free103point9"
04.24.99.
10:20-1 a.m.: "Tune(In))) The Kitchen footage from Rob Hall,
04.22.05. Performers include Espers, Scanner,
I-Sound, Marina Rosenfeld + Aan Licht, others.

103.9-FM
Archived free103point9 performances from the last eight years
on video monitors and FM radio.
Performances from Damian Catera and others from the
"International Night of Noise" 06.01.01;
WTC benefit Sept., 2001; Dave Kay's "The Spider Inside Me,"
from 1999; Michael Przytarski's free103point9 recordings of
Emil Beaulieau (09.25.01), Ortho (2001), A Thousand Points
of Light, Monotract 06.01.01, Bunny Brains (06.01.01), others.

For more information see:
http://www.screwmusicforever.com/free103/tuneinbrooklyn.html

((((( )))))

Review of Tune(In))) Santa Fe from The New York Times:
from New York Times, 08.22.04

Something very new indeed was taking place at the Santa Fe Art
Institute, where a strangely affecting event called a "Tune(In))"
had been organized by the New York transmission arts group
free103point9. Cameras planted throughout the building sent
live feeds to monitors in a room where small audiences were
listening -- through headphones plugged into FM radios --
to live transmissions from computer-sound artists
responding to the videos.

"It was so quiet it was hard to believe we were at a public sound
event," said Christian Marclay, a biennial artist. "You didn't know if
anyone was listening or what they were listening to.

"Listening," he added, is "a lot more private than looking."

--Linda Yablonsky

................................................................................................................................................

New York Times review of
free103point9's Tune(In))) The Kitchen
04.24.04

Five Concerts All at Once, and It's Quiet

The audience at the Kitchen listened
to performers on portable radios.

By Jon Pareles

It was the quietest concert of the year and perhaps the noisiest.

For long stretches of the Tune(In))) the Kitchen, a four-hour
electronic music gathering on Thursday night that was as conceptual
as its title, the only sounds in the Kitchen came from people strolling
around and sporadic conversations.

But the airwaves in the room were alive with abstract sounds. Four
simultaneous performances and a channel of video soundtracks were
broadcast to the FM radios and headphones of the audience. The
musicians worked at tabletop setups, never knowing who was listening.

Tune(In))) was a small-scale fulfillment of many avant-garde
musicians' dreams of being heard on the radio. It was also both a
throwback to 1960's-style multimedia events -- with Nam June Paik videos
from the 1960's -- and an embrace of the latest laptops and other
gizmos.

The aesthetics looked back to the 1960's, as most of the performers
offered uninterrupted, slowly evolving textural works. Performers like
John King, Damian Catera, Transmaniacon MC, Tom Roe, Jeremy Novak,
I-Sound and the duo of Alan Licht and Marina Rosenfeld each created
distinct, dense soundscapes that could be meditative or jolting. In
this context Sybarite lived up to his name by using samples of music
with melodies and friendly acoustic guitars.

There were some low-tech offerings, too. Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
played a perpetual-motion electric guitar improvisation, shifting from
jumpy picking to frantic strummed chords to blaring effects-pedal
distortion with Carlos Giffoni applying additional electronic effects.
Mr. Giffoni also played his own electronic set. At one point he looped
someone saying "Repetition breeds suggestibility" followed by a new
loop: "I am not suggestible."

Espers used cello, acoustic guitar, electric bass and keyboard in
ghostly, reverberating instrumentals.

Gregory Whitehead, backed by his own recordings, sang and spoke an
elaborate fantasy involving George Bush in a performance somewhere
between Meredith Monk and the radio satirist Harry Shearer. Matt Bua
set up two suitcases holding motors, switches and sound generators that
silently broadcast dense swaths of booping, crunching noise.

In a high-tech/low-tech duo, Ikue Mori used her laptop to play quick,
quiet sounds -- like a slapstick routine at a flea circus -- while Zeena
Parkins added textures from crumpling, ripping, tapping items like
bubble wrap and a pair of clogs. And 31 Down played a dense, throbbing
piece with film noir dialogue samples while he snapped photographs, ate
donuts and used a coffee cup to trigger buzzes and swoops.

In an event that couldn't help prompt thoughts about radio as audience
members dialed toward the Kitchen's frequencies, Scanner had the most
intellectually germane performance. He was scanning radio broadcasts
for sounds to sample, adding ominous undercurrents to things like a
Sibelius symphony. At the end, like Tune(In))) itself, his segment
dissolved into static.

For more information see:
http://www.screwmusicforever.com/free103/tunein.html

.........................................
i a n e p p s
i a n @ i a n e p p s. com
i a n e p p s . c o m
.........................................

Prev by Date: Re: [microsound] lane-line phone recording
Next by Date: [microsound] noise to signal
Previous by thread: [microsound] Interzone radio show
Next by thread: [microsound] noise to signal
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread