2008 Schedule
Note: Although this schedule is accurate as of Feb. 6, 2008, it is sure to change. Please do not base flight plans or performance dates on this schedule.
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Tuesday, Feb. 26
Twin Cities Showcase 1
Time: 7pm
Location: Coffman Union, Whole Music Club
Works:
- Shield Your Eyes
- Nic Buron: "Knee Bone"
- Beatrix Jar: Performance Set
- Mystery Palace
Twin Cities Showcase 2
Time: 10pm
Location: Temple
Sets by:
- Marcos Romero
- The Push
- Ryan Simatic
- James Patrick
Wednesday, Feb. 27
Paper Session 1
Time: 9am
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 280
Presentations by:
- Peter Shea: "Communicating Digital Art to the World"
- Juergen Schmitt: "Gestalt Revolution"
- Christopher Burns: "Networking Infrastructure for Collaborative Laptop Improvisation"
Time: 11am
Location: Coffman Union, Whole Music Club
Works:
- Greg Carr: "The Sounds of Your Voice"
- Christopher De Laurenti: "Thrill"
- David Morneau: "Familiar Voices"
- Jason Wilhelm: "The Pavilion EP"
- Duncan Laurie, Todd Thille: "Rock Music"
- Bob Siebert: "Rrrrring Tones!"
- Sean O'Neill: "Fmusak"
- Natalie Bell: "Undercurrence"
- Michael Pounds: "Collection"
Brookyn-based artists' collective discuss their guerilla-style approach to creating and showing work.
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Regis Center for Art, Influx Space
Concert 2
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
- Mark Chambers: "...glass darkly..."
- Noah Keesecker: "Tonegoblin"
- J. Anthony Allen: "Anti"
- Benjamin Dorfan: "Arctic Circle"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Galaxy (I)"
Bring your bicycle, take a riding tour with Brooklyn-based GRL, and project art onto buildings.
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Meet in Regis Center for the Arts East Lobby
Concert 3
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Ted Mann Recital Hall
Works:
- Parag Chordia: "Vadi"
- Scott Miller: "What You Have Taken
- Doug Geers: "Calling"
- Richard Devine: "Valez Mix"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Other Time - Out of Time"
- Ana-Maria Avram: "Nouvel Archae"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Meteors and Pulsars" (World Premiere)
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Nomad World Pub
Sets by:
- Chikashi Miyama
- Caly McMorrow
- Sam Tymorek
- Planet 9
Thursday, Feb. 28
Paper Session 2
Time: 9am
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 280
Presentations by:
- Paulo Chagas: "Polyphony and Technology"
- Megan England: "The Online Graphical Community as a Potential Interface for Interactive Music Performance"
- David Kim-Boyle: "Network Music - Engagement and the Democratization of Performance"
- Duncan Laurie, Todd Thille: "Rock Music"
Time: 11am
Location: Coffman Union, Whole Music Club
Works:
- Colin Holter: "There is No Going Back"
- M. Anthony Reimer: "Melancholy"
- Thanos Polymeneas: "M.P.K."
- Michael Oliva: "Apparition and Release"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Implosive Eternity"
The leading composer of Romania discusses his work and career.
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Weisman Art Museum, East Bank, University of Minnesota
Concert 5
Time: 2:30
Location: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
- Neil Rolnick: "Shadow Quartet"
- Tilman Küntzel: "Composition for Water"
- Jen-Kuang Chang: "Sahasrara"
- Ana-Maria Avram: "Four Orphic Sketches"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Le Silence d'Or" (World Premiere)
Sneak Preview: Max/MSP version 5
Gregory Taylor and Andrew Pask, Cycling 74 Time: 4-5pm
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 105
Installation Tour
Time: 5pm
Location: Meet in Regis Center for the Arts East Lobby
Concert 6: Making Music With Richard Devine Time: 8pm
Famous composer and remix artist discusses how he works, and then plays a set.
Location: Coffman Union, Whole Music Club
Nightlife 2
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Nomad World Pub
Sets by:
- Ugress
- Brett Bullion
- Joshua Fried
- Andrew Bucksbarg
Friday, Feb. 29
Panel Session 1
Time: 9am
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 280
Presentations:
- Paper: Guerino Mazzola: "Recent Innovations in Rubato Composition Software"
- Panel Session 1: "100 years of Sound and Choreography: The Evolution and Praxis of a Collaborative Art Form"
- Panelists: Linda Shapiro- [Moderator; dancer, journalist]
Manjunan Gnanaratnam [Composer]
Guerino Mazzola [jazz composer/pianist, music theorist]
John Toenjes [composer]
Joeseph Koykkar [composer]
Julie Kerr Berry [Chair, Dance Dept., U. Minnesota, Mankato- dance scholar and researcher.]
Tom Kanthak - [Composer]
Time: 11am
Location: Coffman Union, Whole Music Club
Works:
- Kip Haaheim: "Meditation on the Nature of Dragonflies"
- Jean Ahn: "Berkeley Arirang"
- David Coll: "Position, Influence"
- Phil Curtis: "Sonaurium"
- Kaija Saariaho: "From the Grammar of Dreams"
Internationally-known new media artist discusses his work and career.
Time: 12:30
Location: Influx (Regis Center for Art)
Concert 8
Time: 2:30
ocation: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
- Cristyn Magnus: "Eartude 1"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Objet sonore mystérieux"
- Chikashi Miyama: "Piano Chimera"
- Wesley Fuller: "Details/Lines"
- Christopher Biggs: "Inconspicuous Impulses"
- Alejandra Hernandez: "Pies, para que los quiero #2"
Music critic and author of books such as "Generation Ecstasy" discusses today's music and its role in our culture.
Title:"Just 4 U London: Place and Race in UK Dance Culture, 1990 to 2008"
Time: 5pm
Location: Room 230 Anderson Hall, University of Minnesota
Gallery Opening / Reception : "culturing nature :: culturing technology"
Participating Artists: Kelly Dobson, Sheila Pinkel, Andrea Polli, Sabrina Raaf, Gail Wight, Diane Willow and Amy Youngs
Time: 6-8:30 PM
Location: Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art West Building (Map)
More information: here and here.
Concert 9
Time: 8pm
Location: Barker Center for Dance, University of Minnesota
Works:
- Olive Bieringa: "The BodyCartography Project"
- Adam Hardin: "Echolalia"
- Ken Ueno: "Sabinium"
- Ana-Maria Avram: "Telesma"
- John Toenjes and David Marchant: "Leonardo's Chimes”
- Maja Cerar and Liubo Borissov: "Mimesis"
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Nomad World Pub
Sets by:
- Alex Rae
- Greg Brosofske
- Andrew Pask
- Toiletooth
- Heckadecimal
- Puzzleweasel
Saturday, March 1
Panel Session 2
Time: 9am
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 225
Presentations by:
- Panel Session: "Influences of New Technologies on Music and Theater Traditions"
- Moderator, Maja Cerar
- Panelists:
- David Bithell
- Ali Momeni
- David Wessel [composer, computer musician, Director, CNMAT, U.C. Berkeley]
- Philip Bither [Curator of Performing Arts, Walker Arts Center]
Time: 11am
Location: Ultan Hall, University of Minnesota
Works:
- Karen Power: "Grounded"
- Joshua Parmenter: "Palimpsest"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Remote Pulsar"
- Phillip Stearns: "Apeiron | Peras"
Composer and remix artist discusses his work and techniques.
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Room 225 Ferguson Hall, University of Minnesota
Concert 11
Time: 2:30
Location: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
- Peter Helms: "Sustained"
- Scott Petersen: "Measuring Time and Place"
- Ross Karre: "Man with a Movie Camera"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Galaxy (II)"
Party
Time: 6pm
Location: Ground Floor West Building Regis Center for Art
Concert 12
Time: 8pm
Location: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
- Omar Daniel: "Annunciation"
- Kyle Vande Slunt: "dreambubbles"
- Iancu Dumitrescu: "Oiseaux céléestes"
- David Bithell: "Whistle from Above"
- David Wessel, Douglas Ewart, and Guerino Mazzola: "Improvisation"
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Nomad World Pub
Sets by:
- Freida Abtan
- Greg Taylor
- Slutmachine
- Richard Devine
Sunday, March. 2
Symposium Fast Forward
10-minute talks on new media art issues.
Time: 11am
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 225
Works:
- David Hearon: "A Social Research Applet for Graphical Interfaces"
- Greg Carr: "Sound as object – AKA Am I my mix"
- Eric Brook: "The Poi Notation Animator"
- Adam Murphy: "A Sonic Evolution of Life on Earth"
- Greg Surges: "Networked Resources for Collaborative Improvisation"
- Natalie Bell: "The Joy of a Jet Engine"
- Nic Buron: "Using Consumer Effects Pedals in Realtime to Loop Performance In-Order to Fulfill the Role of Multiple Players"
- Scott Petersen: "An Essay on Improvisation and the Zen Experience"
Title:"Historia Electronica: The Principles and Praxis of Electronic Dance Culture"
Time: 1pm
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 225
Master Class by Iancu Dumitrescu
Internationally-known composer Iancu Dumitrescu critques work by young composers
Time: 3pm
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 225
Installations by Venue
Regis Center for Art East Building (Map)
- SEAt to SEA (Diane Willow) : Regis Lobby
- AANN (Phillip Stearns) : Second Floor, Skyway Entrance
- The Hottest Year on Record (Bart Woodstrup) : Ground Floor, Wall
- Butterfly (Niknaz Tavakolian) : Ground Floor, Wall
- A3.Format (A3 Format) : Ground Floor, Wall
- Merge (Christi Denton) : Ground Floor, Under Stairs
- Filling Vessels (Paula Matthusen & Tom O'Doherty) : Ground Floor, Regis 130
- Covey (Jason Freeman) : Ground Floor, Regis 131
- project CONDOR (Casey Farina) : Ted Mann Concert Hall During Wednesday Night Concert
- 60x60 (2007 / International Mix) (collaboration with Zlatko Ćosić) : Barker Center for Dance Projection on East Facade
Video Art
- Tonegoblin + (Noah Keesecker)
- dreambubbles (Kyle Vande Slunt)
- Sabinium (Ken Ueno)
- Piano Chimera (Chikashi Miyama)
- Composition for Water (Tilman Küntzel)
- Eartude 1 (Cristyn Magnus)
- gorunded (Karen Power)
- Apeiron | Peras (Phillip Stearns)
- Man with a Movie Camera (Ross Karre)
You can view the complete schedule of previous festivals here:
Spark Festival, 2007
Spark Festival, 2006
Spark Festival, 2005