SFEMF: Electric Words

june 20-22 and 27-29, 2002

@ venue 9

Week One June 20-22, 2002

Thursday June 20th, 2002

Kyle Gann: Excerpts from his one-man voice/electronic operas Custer and Sitting Bull
Hmmm… (Mark Briggs & Herb Heinz with guest performer Amy X): Improvisations for voices, textures, beats, and the “Fudgie,” with improvised video text projection by Dale MacDonald
Silvia Matheus: Cloy and Splutter for tape and interactive performance, exploring the emotional breadth of human utterance.

Friday June 21st, 2002

Joel Davel (w/guest performer Don Buchla): Langston Looks (at rhythm) for Marimba Lumina and Lightning gestural controller, featuring the voice of Langston Hughes
Amy X Neuburg: Avant-cabaret songs for voice, processing and electronic drums, plus a collaboration with Joel
Amanda Piasecki: Silverworn performed with an electronic skirt made from 100 pieces of silverware

Saturday June 22nd, 2002

Kyle Gann: So Many Little Dyings for voice and electronics, plus a new microtonal work
Laetitia Sonami: SILENCE! — exploring the spaces between the words
Pamela Z: Nihongo de Hanashoo from Gaijin and other works for voice, processing, video, and the BodySynth™, plus an improv with Amy X

Week Two June 27-29, 2002

Thursday June 27th,2002

Charles Amirkhanian: Works for voice(s) and electronics
Joel Davel: 2 Movements for Marimba Lumina and Lightning, exploring words about movement
Allison Hennessey: Songs with beats, loops, guitar and found sound

Friday June 28th, 2002

Hmmm… (Mark Briggs & Herb Heinz): Improvisations for voices, loopers, beats, and the “Fudgie,” with improvised video text projection by Amy X
Wobbly: Improvised sample-based cultural recycling
Pamela Z: Different from Gaijin and other works for voice, processing, video, and the BodySynth™

Saturday June 29th, 2002

Charles Amirkhanian: Works for voice(s) and electronics, plus the U.S. premiere of the video Im FrŸhling: Part 1 by Carol Law and C.A.
Eric Lyon: Second Skin for spectrally altered vocal samples
Amy X Neuburg: Avant-cabaret songs for voice, processing and electronic drums, plus a collaboration with Pamela Z
Dean Santomieri: A book bound in red buckram… — spoken word with electronic soundscape and video