10th Annual Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival
"Video Action Painting (Big Timber, Chop!
Chop!) by Sean Clute
When: September 28, 2007 [8pm]
Where: 21 Grand, 416 25th St. (at Broadway) Oakland, CA 94612
Info: http://thingamajigs.org/festival.html
About Music For People & Thingamajigs:
The
Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event
dedicated to promoting music of made/found instruments and
alternate
tuning systems. Originally conceived as a forum for
composers/performers who develop new and unique ways of producing
sound, it soon broke out of the college environment and into a
large
public offering. Now in its 10th year, MFP&T is the only
annual event of its kind in the United States. Each year,
MFP&T
invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join
in a
festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the
goal of
reaching a larger audience than they might usually connect with.
It is
also a festival where the public can participate in instrument
building
and tuning workshops, as well as hear unique sounds
and compositions
from up and coming artists. Past participants include
Pauline Oliveros,
Peter Whitehead, Brenda Hutchinson, William Winant, Walter
Kitundu, and
Karla Kihlstedt.
Friday the 28th:
Orkest Asfalto -junk percussion group playing a mix
of traditional latin rhythms and house beats.
Ji-Yoon Chun
-from
Seoul Korea, Ji-Yoon introduces traditional and improvised music
for haeguem (vertical Korean Fiddle).
Zachary Watkins -amplified strings playing a tuning
system built on room resonances.
Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson -micro-tonal piece for
rice bowls, water and electronics.
Sean Clute - incorporates hand draw creatures,
surreal landscapes, and American iconography with interactive
video and sound.
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Saturday, September 29th:
Leatitia Sonami - Bellow-activated electronic
memories.
The Crank Ensemble -Music for homemade hand-cranked
instruments.
Nicci Reisnour - micro-tonal music for new and
adapted instruments.
Dylan Bolles/Keith Evans -hochikku and kinetic
sculpture duet.
James Goode -presenting a work-in-progress
featuring electro-mechanical objects and devices
and electronics.
Sunday, September 30th:
Ranjit Bhatnagar -circuit-bent marching band.
Betsey Biggs
-presents a shadow-activated sound installation, Inside
Out. Inside Out
works as a real-time audio mixer controlled by the movement
of people's
shadows upon a video projection.