School of Music: University of Minnesota

Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art 2006

February 22 - 26, 2006: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Schedule

Note: This schedule is subject to change.
Last updated: Feb. 15, 2006

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Don't forget about the installations and Spark Radio works.

Tuesday, Feb. 21

8:00 pm: Opening Celebration | Coffman Memorial Union, Whole
      Electropolis Plays "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"
      Live soundtrack played to the cult classic movie.
      Free pizza and drinks.

Wednesday, Feb. 22

11:15 am: Scanner Keynote Lecture | Anderson Hall, Room 370
      Keynote lecture by Spark 2006 featured artist Scanner.

3:00 pm: Video Concert No. 1 | Weisman Museum of Art
       Zois, Maurizio Goina
       Fruit Juice Sunbathing, Morten Larsen
       Metropolitain, Tom Lopez
       Salt and Glue, Daniel Nass
       Condolence, Kyong Mee Choi
       Chalazae, Bruce Pennycook/Krukowski
       Selah: A Psalm, Zack Bent
       Mappaemundi, Lawerence Fritts

7:30 pm: Making Music: Scanner | Coffman Memorial Union, Whole
       Scanner talks about his music and the tech behind it with local
       music legend JP Everett.

8:30 pm: Scanner and free103point9 live Internet performance | Coffman Memorial Union, Whole
       Scanner performs a live show with free103point9 DJs:
      Damian Catera + Matt Mikas + Tom Roe + Bryan Zimmerman       via a cross-continent Internet feed.

9:30 pm: Spark Nightlife No. 1 | Nomad World Pub
       Eric Lyon – Stem Cells
      Choirboys – Andrew Pask and Jeff Kaiser
       Jeff Morris
       Mark Kirschenmann, Brad Townsend, Nick Zielinski
       Buss Konduktor
       Sounding Spirals

Thursday, Feb. 23

9:00 am: Paper Session No. 1 | 215 Ferguson Hall
      Jay Batzner: Meaning(s) and Structure in The Wondrous Delight
            of Profound Ineptitude by Per Bloland
      Michael Ethen: Before You Count 1-2-3: Borrowing Techniques
            in Björk's Unison (2001)
      David Muth: Sodaconductor 2006
      David Wetzel: Performing Jonathan Kramerʼs Renascence
            (1974)
11:15 am: Electroacoustic Concert No. 1 | Coffman Memorial Union, Whole
      Featured performer Brian Sacawa plays works by the Dal Niente
      Composers Group
      Hyperacusis, J. Anthony Allen
      Fight to Flow Between, Zachary Crockett
      Luna, Lou Bunk
      Quintet, Per Bloland
      Trance, J. Anthony Allen

12:30 pm: Panel Session No. 1 | Coffman Memorial Union, Whole
      Netlabels and Modern Emusic Distribution / Networking
       Technique, speakers include JP Hungelmann, Reid Gorder,
      and Ryan Simatic, and special guest TBA.

2:00pm: Installation Crawl | Weisman Museum of Art

3:00 pm: Video Concert No. 2 | Weisman Museum of Art
      Max, Cooper Baker
      Beluga's Dream, Thanos Chrysakis
      Aleph, Bill Alves
      Anamnesis – Brad Decker
      Ether, Bruce Tovsky
      Autarkeia Aggregatum, Brett Battey
      Cross Contours, Denis Miller
      Games IV, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi

4:45 pm: "Picture Music" Performance | Regis, Room W130
      Eric Carroll and Abinadi Meza

7:30 pm: Electroacoustic Concert No. 2 | Southern Theater
      A Conversation with Death, Michael Theodore and Tim Eriksen
      Renascence, Jonathan D. Kramer (David Wetzel, clarinet)
      Intoxication and the Plastic Energy Complex, Zac Crockett
      Into the Forest of Stars...(I), Miyuki Ito (Taimur Sullivan,
            saxophone)
      Stranger, Sheldon Smith (Smith/Wymore Dissapearing Acts)
      Rondo, Joshua Clausen (Andrew Martin, marimba; Christine
            Taylor, flute)
      Rag, Don Malone

9:30 pm: Spark Nightlife No. 2 | Nomad World Pub
      Nathan Wolek and Matt Roberts
      Improvised Explosive Device
      Joseph Grimm
      Funkenspiel
      Caly Mcmorrow

Friday, Feb. 24

9:00 am: Paper Session No. 2 | 215 Ferguson Hall
      Don Malone: aMente: an essay on electroMusing
      Christopher Hopkins: Soundfont Banks as a Compositional
            Utility for Voicing Inharmonic Pitch Structures
      Christopher J. Keyes: New Tools New Approaches to the
            Multi-channel "Animation" of Stereo Audio
      Don Sinclair/Nur Intan Murtadza: Three by Three: reflection
            and dialogue on a model for interdisciplinary
            collaboration

11:15 am: Alvin Lucier Keynote Lecture | Anderson Hall, Room 370
      Keynote lecture by Spark 2006 featured artist Alvin Lucier.

2:00 pm: Electroacoustic Concert No. 3 | Southern Theater
      A Tribute to James Tenney, Alvin Lucier (Elizabeth Draper,
             Bass)
      For Thich Quang Duc – Jonathon Kirk
      The Age Of Paper, Jan Trutzschler von Falkenstein
            (Video: MXZEHN - 25 Masterpieces per Second (Stefan
             Kraus, Bahadir Hamdemir)
      Silver Street Car for the Orchestra, Alvin Lucier (Heather
            Barringer, amplified triangle)
      Cyclic Math Shred, Chapman Welch

4:00 pm: Paper Session No. 3 | 225 Ferguson Hall
      Zachary Crockett: A New Framework for Genetic Parameter
            Evolution
      Brian Kane: Improvising Tape Music
      Roger Dannenberg: Using Audio Feedback in Live Performance
      Gregory Taylor: Transcoding and Its Discontents

7:30 pm: Electroacoustic Concert No. 4 | Ted Mann Concert Hall
      Nothing is Real, Alvin Lucier (Matthew McCright, piano and
            teapot)
      Room: by Johari Mayfield and Randy Gibson (Johari Mayfield,
            Dance; Randy Gibson, Computer)
      Piéce pour Violon et Electronique, by Gilles Gobert (Maja Cerar,
            violin)
      Synchronism No. 3 for cello, Mario Davidovsky
            (Madeleine Shapiro, cello)
      Petals, Kaija Saariaho (Madeleine Shapiro, cello)
      Arioso/Doubles, Ben Broening (Pat O'keefe, clarinet)
      Fun House, Scott Miller (Pat O’Keefe, clarinet)
      Autopoiesis, Liubo Borrisov and Maja Cerar (Maja Cerar,
            violin; Douglas Geers, computer)
      Music for Accordion with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators,
            Alvin Lucier (Marc Jensen, accordian)
      Fountain Resonances, Samuel Burt (Brian Sacawa,
            saxophone)
      Dick and Don, Mike Olson (Maggie Bergeron, choreography
            and dance)

Spark Nightlife No. 3 | Nomad World Pub
      Noah Keesecker
      Gregory Taylor/Tom Hamer
      John Kannenberg
      Kid Kadian

Saturday, Feb. 25

9:00 am: Paper Session No. 4 | 225 Ferguson Hall
      Lawrence Fritts: Group Actions on Grains
      Pamela Madsen: The International Women's Electroacoustic
            Listening Room Project: Voices on the Edge
      Arun Saldanha: Music as Force: Sonic Interventions of
            Psy-trance

11:15 am: Electroacoustic Concert No. 5 | Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
      Almaquae, Giuseppe Rapisarda
      Moving Boundary Problem, Thomas Ciufo
      (Thomas Ciufo and David Birchfield, computer instruments)
      Pepper, McGregor Boyle
      Hot Tempered Arpeggios, Tim Polashek
      I’ll Have an Electric Mahabarata, Please, Anthony Cornicello
            (Madeliene Shapiro, cello)
      Canon, David Kim-Boyle
      Christopher Tignor, Distant Light Slow Six:
            Stephen Griesgraber, electric guitar
            David Nadal, electric guitar
            Leanne Darling, viola
            Christopher Tignor, violin, software
            Melissa Mathews, violin
            Rob Collins, piano
            Lee Whittier, video
      In memoriam Jon Higgins, Alvin Lucier (Pat O'Keefe, clarinet)

1pm – Panel Session No. 2 | 225 Ferguson Hall
      A discussion on the history and state of the Rave Culture.
      DJs JT, DVS1, organizer Josh Slivken, and Prof. Arun
      Saldanha

3:00 pm: Electroacoustic Concert No. 6: "Audio Immersion" | Influx Space, Regis Art Center
      Shapestudy and Fanfare, Michael Berkowski
      untitled, Katherina Rosenberger
      That which is bodiless is reflected in bodies, Matthew Burtner
      Transformations, Joseph Dangerfield
      ∆p∆x≥h/4π, Mike McFerron
      Et Ignis Involvens – Joao Oliveira
      Vocal Work No. 3, Kevin Schlei
      Scrunch, Hubert Howe

4:30 pm: Special Guest Lecture: Audio-Visual Interaction in Jitter | 225 Ferguson Hall
      Ben Nevile and Randy Jones

7:30 pm: Electroacoustic Concert 7: Brian Sacawa/Maja Cerar | Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

Brian Sacawa, saxophone:
      Spira Mirabilis, by Alvin Lucier
      Triptych, by Timothy Edwards
      Memories of Xiaoxiang, by Lei Liang
      Breathing Charlie, by Michael Edwards
      The Capgras' Patience Wanes, by Christopher Biggs

Maja Cerar, violin:
      Violynn, by Alvin Lucier
      Feedback, by Roger Dannenberg
      Shatter Cone, by Panayiotis Kokoras
      Enkidu, by Douglas Geers

9:30 pm: Spark Nitelife 4 | Nomad World Pub
      Thinkbox
      Cepia
      Ben Nevile
      Randy Jones

Sunday, Feb. 26

12:00 - 5pm: Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room | Weisman Museum of Art

Installations and Guerilla Performances:

“9 Beet Stretch,” by Leif Inge

“Mahler Died”, by 31 Down theater

"Examination of the Tendencies...", by Adam Tourek

“Picture Music", by Eric Carrol

Michael Takeo Magruder "[ FALLUJAH . IRAQ . 31/03/2004 ]"

Barry Anderson & Mara Gibson: "Fountain"

Cooper Baker: "Crickets"

Nate Harrison: "Can I Get An Amen?"

Anat Pollack: "Breathe"

Mark David Hosale "DEFENDEX-ESPGX"

David Kasdorf: "Smile (Just Breathe)"

Spark Radio Curated by artist Abinadi Meza, Spark Radio will broadcast numerous works and live perfromances during the festival. URL will be linked from this location. Don't forget to tune in! UPDATE: Spark Radio is now online. Tune in Here.

60x60 project, Robert Voisey

Works by Marc Ainger, Christopher Ariza, Jeremy Baguyos, Christopher Bailey, Jennifer Bernard, Colin Black, Jason Bolte, Marley Carroll, Chien-Wen Cheng, Chad Clark, Viv Corringham, Charles Fairbanks, Jason Fick, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Carlo Giordani, Jefferson Goolsby, Kip Haaheim, Mara Helmuth, Eric Honour, Craig Hultgren, Kazuya Ishigami, Michael Kaufmann, Georgina Lewis, Cyprian Li, JC Loewe, Bernhard Loibner, Charles Nichols, Sean ONeill, Samuel Pluta, Tim Reed, Jacob Roske, Philip Schuessler, Gerriet Krishna Sharma, Asha Srinivasan, Yu Tao, Eldad Tsabary, Martin Williams, Mark Zaki, and Jonathan Zalben

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