Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art 2006
February 22 - 26, 2006: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2006 Featured Artists
Lucier has pioneered many areas of music
composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures,
the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound
in vibrating media
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British artist Robin Rimbaud - traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and
form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways.
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Praised by The New York Times as "an inventive musician," "fresh and surprising," and
"vividly lyrical," saxophonist Brian Sacawa (born 1977) has firmly established himself as
an important contemporary voice for his instrument. A winner of awards for solo performance
from both national and international competitions,
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Critics have consistently praised Maja Cerar as a "magnificent violinist" with "breathtaking
technique" and "a completely natural musicality," an artist who "listens to her inner self."
International media enthusiastically cover her concerts, Compact Disk releases, television
appearances and radio recordings.
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Randy Jones is a musician and software designer whose current work
focuses on interrelated sounds and images. He has spent the past eight years working
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Ben Neville designs new ways to make and perform
house music with computers
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Electropolis will perform one of their free-wheeling, gravity-defying sets,
and will also perform the soundtrack to the 1920 silent film
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