Illuminated Corridor Project &
Outsound presents...
The 2005 Edgetone New Music SummitFilm & Music
THE ILLUMINATED CORRIDOR PROJECT
In association with
The Edgetone New Music Summit &
Bayennale
Film on the exterior facades of the Oakland Metro starting at 8:55 pm
CINEPIMPS
THE SPROCKET ENSEMBLE
EPIC[abridged]
WHORE
FRANZ KELLER
OAKLANDISH
SOUND SHACK
Rare and experimental Film inside the Oakland Metro
11:00 pm PORNORCHESTRA
10:00 pm TRI-CORNERED TENT SHOW
9:00 pm BIG CITY ORCHESTRA
THE CINEPIMPS, a collaboration of filmmakers Alphonso Alvarez and Keith Arnold and vocalist Laurie Amat will improvise collages of found and abstract 16mm film loops, combining found and processed sound to create cinematic dreamscapes.
EPIC(ABRIDGED), a collective of Bay Area experimental filmmakers / musicians led by Christian Bruno and Charles Kremenak and embracing a roster of intermedia artists (Steve Dye, Ben Furstenberg, Liz Albee, Dina Maccabee, Arturo Cesares, Caroline Chung, Stefan Gustafsson, Joel D. Miller and Steve Yamane) will create live performance soundtracks to super-8 "digest" films.
FRANZ KELLER, multimedia artist recently immigrating from Southern California will present Transcape, a multi-projection live video collage of the artists and audiences of the Corridor itself.
OAKLANDISH, Oakland's local gallery collective of film, music, visual art and spoken word artists will be screening Bay Area Aerosol Heritage Society's "Legendary Eightees" digital slideshow from their second story windows.
SOUND SHACK, a collaborative of video and sound artists will construct a installation that immerses visitors in an exploration of site-specific imagery and audio.
THE SPROCKET ENSEMBLE
What performance art companies like New York's Wooster Group did to create a forum for unusual stage talents like Spalding Gray, The Sprocket Ensemble project attempts to do for the rich new talents of independent filmmakers and animators. A collaborative performing arts endeavor between composer/performers of live music and directors of short film and animation, The Sprocket Ensemble liberates the excitement of live concert performance to create a new milieu for the appreciation of diverse new forms and talents in the cultural development of American film. The Sprocket Ensemble's
collaborative series of screenings set to original live musical performance is entitled Ideas in Animation.
WHORE, a visual art, film and rock music ensemble will present the original films of co-founder Jol Butler. Whore features the vocals of visual artist Katherine Copenhaver, George Cremaschi (bass), John Hanes (drums), and notorious guitarist Myles Boisen (Club Foot Orchestra, Splatter Trio, Tom Waits, David Lynch).
PORNORCHESTRA
The PornOrchestra is an attempt to radically reinterpret the soundtrack to pornographic film. This complicated genre has taken its share of scorn: from adult film producers who refuse to pay it any mind to legions of consumers who instinctively snap the sound off after pressing Play.
Performing live improvised and composed scores to pornographic film, the PornOrchestra invigorates the mysterious experience of the Voyeur-cum-Auditeur. The equivalent of a circus band with its collective eye on the trapeze artist: the PornOrchestra teases out the thrill, amplifying the collective gasp at pornographic triumph —and tragedy— using the most eclectic and creative musical minds working in the Bay Area today.
With representatives from every active genre of music in the Bay Area, although slightly skewed to those using cake pans in their work, this ensemble of ingenius improvisers brings exemplary musicianship and an awful case of the jitters to each pornorchestral scoring. For the benefit of the Edgetone Summit, the PornOrchestra will attempt to perform in its largest incarnation ever. Which is to say this is the one PornOrchestra where you may consider simply bringing an instrument of your own on the off-chance you'll be asked to make a sound.
We must report right here that the porn will not be shown outside. Stop, already.
And, as you might have guessed, the PornOrchestra is an official presentation of the Bayennale de Refusees.
Conducted by Moe! Staiano
alphonso alvarez, visuals
laurie amat voice
alan anzalone alto saxophone
keith arnold, visuals
myles boisen electric guitar, banjo
jol butler, visuals
barbara crawford drums
matt davignon turntable
dina emerson voice, accordion
jeff hobbs, brass, reeds, violin
aaron kierbel drums
schlermie crenshaw [alan korn, do not publish real name] electric bass,
synare
dave mairs drums
bob marsh electric cello, violin, processed voice
william minnozi oboe
kurt morgan guitar, double cello
peter nyboer electronics
rent romus saxophones, accordion
tom scandura drums
david slusser slussomatic
rebekah varela cello
vicky the bass player electric bass
allen whitman voice
theresa wong cello, amplified bicycle
TRI-CORNERED TENT SHOW
Urban, Electro-Acoustic Folk Improv. Free improvisation and orchestrated sound sculpture. Almost everyday in the news there are stories about how a group of scientists after so many decades of painstaking research and work create a new drug or make new discoveries, but how many times does one read about a group of musicians that have done the same thing?
Philip Everett and Ray Schaeffer (later joined by Andre Custodio) called the Tri-Cornered Tent Show has done just that. It has taken them the last part of the last century of dedicated practice, research, and patience.
The musical journey began with initial tracks of their first three releases being recorded using the ancient anti-deluvian technology of electronics from the 70’s. Though methodical deciphering of the Lovcraft short story “The music of Eric Zann”, other related stories expanded upon Lovecraft’s Greater Cthulu Mythos they began recording free improvisation and orchestrated sound sculpture over those many years to create the projects now available on the new bay area label Edgetone Records. Their newest creation Legion of Dagon features guest artists Rent Romus and Jeff Hobbs based on the 28 sonnet by Lovecraft, The Fungi of Yuggoth.
Around 2000 they came out from their exile held up in a well-insulated dank little studio in the depths of Richmond California for almost three decades. By the shear force of will and their dedication to the world of improvisation, they have a unique set of music to merit them worthy of attention. In a world of pop can music they could teach a class in patience and creation.
C.J. Reaven Borosque, noise pedals
Andre Custodio, electronics, t-rodimba
Dina Emerson, voice
Philip Everett, drums, autoharp
Bob Marsh, cello, voice
Ray Schaeffer, electric bass
Rent Romus, saxophones, electronics, acordian, voice
BIG CITY ORCHESTRA
Big City Orchestra is a wild romp through sound and broadcast media that isn't afraid to kick commercialism where it counts while rubbing salt in the wounds of the RIAA. This band of self proclaimed "mutant folk" artists have been around since 1979 commenting on society in a variety of musical styles. At times their music is little more than dark ambient, built with ominous sounds and eerie atmospheres. But, there are times when Big City Orchestra overlays those tracks with samples that add vicious biting commentary. Revamping commercial moments of nostalgia, reworking The Beatles, and producing recordings of animal sounds is just a small tidbit of what Big City Orchestra has done to tweak the musical perspective of folks everywhere. Big City Orchestra should hold great appeal for just about anyone with a warped sense of humor and major distaste for today's commercial tactics and America's political state. From creeping ambient tracks to noise intermingled with amusing use of samples, Big City Orchestra's tongue in cheek humor have people gasping and giggling across the nations.
cait mcwhirr (squeezing a box the color of her hair)
ninah pixie (squeezing a box the color of her hair)
melissa margolis (squeezing a box the color of her hair)
cyoakha grace (squeezing a box the color of her hair)
werner v. slack (pushing bit of light)
and dAs will plug things in
Cost: Indoor $10, Outdoor Free