The Fifteenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A)

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Dec 19 3 - 11pm, Dec 21 at 6pm, all others at 9pm,
 

architect of foundsoundscapes, his improvised concerts are an evocatively woven soundscape combining abstract electro-acoustic source material with long forgotten vinyl alterations; an evolving dense stream of macrosonic [close focus] sound textures, pulses and frequencies which conjure up images of an architectonic landscape, traversing though Ballard's 'Drowned World

Emi Maeda is a Tokyo born harpist living in Helsinki; she plays harpy hard core digital maximum music for world peace, crossover between western academic world to all over the underground; she operates electronics and computer within japanese noise music aesthetics and finnish architectural invisible sound approach

The Lary 7 performance will be a totally live improvised non haptic event incorporating the existing setup of surround sound speakers in addition to rotating "leslie" type speakers fed by a special joystick matrix; the sound sources will be minimal such as a light sensor & contact mic; it will attempt to explore the hypnotic effects of sound in motion through phase/ doppler occurrences B.J. Nilsen lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden; he is focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, sometimes electronically treated; he will present an specially made scandinavian excursion in sound

'HUMA HUMA' - [mxHz.org]'s xgz (brussels/amsterdam) and [bubblyfish.com] (new york)will perform a set based on sound and structure found in music by: django reinhardt, moba, nicolette, sonic youth, tony conrad; but most of all they are watching/listening to the french movie 'hiroshima mon amour' (alain resnais, 1959); they propagate a human-political attitude towards creativity; not about any definite political view or idealogy, but about people and emotion; any result will be protected by the creative commons licence [www.creativecommons.org]

Tubist, composer, sound designer, presents some of his own music, improvised and composed, with and without extended tuba and/or live electronic transformations; among other things, he'll play some old favorites never presented in New York: ONE, TWO, THREE and TUBASSOON; and new material too: GERADE AUS (Straight ahead) for voice and live electronics

Jon Abbey (Erstwhile Records) and Tim Barnes (Quakebasket) program a very special day/night of electroacoustic music created from 2001-2004; at times, multiple selections will be playing simultaneously, and Barnes may occasionally join in with live accompaniment

Six hours of music and film/video, for his 71st winter solstice, with some guest performers; several new works will be played; the days will get longer from now on, or at least until June 21; this concert begins at 6pm, and lasts until 12am