08:00
BARRY WEISBLAT, DAVID DANIELL, MARGARIDA GARCIA, TOSHIO KAJIWARA
The opening performance is centered around Barry Weisblat's amazing sound installation entitled "Chord of the Fifth Force" premiered in 2004 at the Diapason Gallery in NYC. The installation examined the effects of electromagnetism on radio transmission using battery powered fluorescent lights. It creates the same effect of signal interference caused by lightning when listening to AM radio during a thunderstorm. The performers will be surrounding the field of radios, tuning in and out of the unfolding metamusic, adding a sort of psychic frequencies to the aurora-like electromagnetic soundscape.
09:00
GONZO MURAKAMI & TAKEHIRO NISHIDE
Takehiro Nishide plays table-top guitar. Takehiro currently resides in London, where he improvises regularly at festivals and local sessions such as Eddie Prevost's workshop. Gonzo Murakami from Osaka plays synthesizers and electronics. Gonzo is undoubtly a legendary character in the wildly offbeat and mutant improvisation happenings in Japan.
10:00
MPLD
prepared and processed slide projectors The photoacoustic continuum of mpld's projection slowly flows into the performance space carrying fragments from unidentified places and times. Fades and cuts play with memory's subjective persistence, as light and darkness keep carving out each one from the other. The mechanical sounds of this projection are tapped and processed to become its own soundtrack. Color, density, texture, frequency become simultaneous qualities of the light and the sound, as they are explored in a way somewhat analogue to the distorted enlargement of a magnifying glass.
11:00
UNCLE WOODY SULLENDER & KEVIN DAVIS
Since migrating to Chicago from North Carolina in 1999, Woody Sullender has been performing improvised music on the banjo under the not-so-clever moniker of "Uncle Woody Sullender". His most recent recorded appearances include Nothing is Certain but Death, an album of banjo improvisations, Sound Writing, a lathe-cut record compilation/art object, and Instant Landscape, the first studio release by Fred Lonberg-Holm's large improvisation ensemble the Lightbox Orchestra. He has also recently collaborated with sound artist Maryanne Amacher, incorporating his banjo recordings into an installation scheduled for Spring 2005 at the Palacio de Belles Artes in Mexico City. Kevin Davis plays cello.