Activating The Medium XIV

Each year, 23five curates Activating The Medium around a specific theme that seeks to underscore the connectivity between artists working with various methods and materials. Previous festivals have explored field recording, mimesis, the architectural impact from sound, and many other concepts and themes.
The 2011 festival explores the use of radio through composition and new media presentation. Looking back to the seminal works of Stockhausen, Cage, and Tenney through the culture jamming theatrics of Negativland and into the psychological minimalism of John Duncan, radio has served an invaluable and expressive tool within the continued history of avant-garde composition.
Hence, 23five will present works including Richard Garet's grey-noise constructions mined from radio interference and electromagnetic disturbances and Byron Westbrook's multichannel diffusion of live transmission and reception of radio signals.

Activating The Medium XIV : Radio

Chapter One

Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7:00pm
San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Richard Garet (New York)
Jim Haynes & Allison Holt (Berkeley)

presented in conjunction with SFCinematheque

Chapter Two

Friday, April 22, 2011 at 8:00pm
The Lab, San Francisco, CA 94103

Wobbly (San Francisco)
Ensemble Economonique (Arcata, California)
Robert Piotrowicz (Poland)
Thomas Carnacki (Berkeley)

made possible with the generous support of the Polish Cultural Institute

Chapter Three

Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 8:00pm
The Lab, San Francisco, CA 94103

Gregg Kowalsky (Oakland)
Vertonen (Chicago)
Byron Westbrook (New York)
Zachary James Watkins (Oakland)

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Links:
23five
The Lab