Keynote Derrick de Kerckhove

Friday, 10:00 – 10:40, De Balie

Derrick de Kerckhove (CA) worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author. He has published extensively on culture, technology and biology, including co-editing a book that scientifically assesses the impact of the Western alphabet on the physiology and the psychology of human cognition, and a collection of essays on the new electronic reality. Connected Intelligence (Somerville, 1997) introduced his research on new media and cognition.

Session 1 Architectures of Sound

Friday, 10:40 – 12:00, De Balie

How do composers work with spatial sound using arrays of loudspeakers? How is space constituted in music? How do we listen to the sound-space?

With Daniel Teruggi and Raviv Ganchrow.

Hans W. Koch: two rooms, flipped

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 17:00, STEIM

Musician and composer Hans W. Koch thoughtfully and delightfully remodels our ordinary tools and spaces to expose unnoticed characteristics. He will be working on an installation that connects two distant spaces within STEIM through an analytical feedback system where each room influence the other and sounds are generated by found objects within building.

Session 2 Exercises in Immersion

Friday, 13:00 – 14:00, De Balie

Surround cinema with spatial sound immerses the audience in a spectacle of sound and images. How is this done? What happens to the senses?

With Naut Humon and Christopher Salter.

Conflux

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 13:00 & 14:00, Melkweg Mediaroom

Sound artist Yutaka Makino examines with painstaking precision how sound can uniquely manifest within its given boundaries. He will be preparing for a series of intimate performances that will be held everyday in a space that he has defined for his composition.

Session 3 Utopian Spectacles

Friday, 14:00 – 15:30, De Balie

The connection of the arts and technology in the 1950s and 1960s spawned many events that by now are legendary, beginning with the Vortex Concerts of Jacobs and Belson, and ‘culminating’ in the Pepsi Pavilion of 1970. The radical approach to space and the utopian spirit of these events and works continues to inspire artists to this very day.

With Branden W. Joseph, Trace Reddell and Robert Whitman.

Session 4 The Poetics of Hybrid Space

Friday, 16:15 – 18:00, De Balie

This panel will explore the new conditions of experience emphasized by the concept of Hybrid Space through the prism of a series of artistic and interventionist projects drawing on the increased hybridity of the contemporary spaces of everyday life. The panel was selected and will be moderated by Eric Kluitenberg, and features presentations by Duncan Speakman, Lancel/Maat, Peter Westenberg (tbc) and Elizabeth Sikiaridi.

Duncan Speakman: as if it were the last time

Friday, 18:00, secret location

Imagine walking through a film, but it’s happening on streets you know well. For this subtlemob you’ll be invited to download an MP3 and arrive at a secret location and press play at a specific time. When you put on the headphones you’ll find yourself immersed in the cinema of everyday life. Sometimes you’ll just be drifting and watching, but sometimes you’ll be following instructions or creating the scenes yourself. This is no requiem; this a celebratory slow dance, a chance to savour the world you live in, and to see it with fresh eyes.

Expanded Space

Friday, 20:00 – 00:00 (doors 19:30), Paradiso

The Expanded Space programme revisits the heyday of Expanded Cinema. The 1970s saw a short-lived flourishing of artists and filmmakers who literally thought outside the box when it came to filmmaking, and who discarded the established rules about film (re)presentation and investigated all possible approaches to screening films. These ranged from projections on multiple screens to projections void of imagery that only used the light source from the projector as the subject. With performances and films by Paul Sharits, Lis Rhodes, Takashi Ito, Yann Beauvais, Daïchi Saïto, Bruce McClure, Greg Pope, Optical Machines, Gill Eatherley and László Moholy-Nagy.

Anarchic Spaces

Thursday, Friday & Saturday, from 20:00, Paradiso

Sonic Acts presents a number of games that play with the conventional experience of space in Paradiso. Usually the games industry strives for a visually realistic rendering of space, believing that this enhances the realistic game experience for the players. A better experience of space is equated with having more polygons. Sonic Acts presents games that break radically with this idea.

Shop at Sonic Acts!

During Sonic Acts, WORM.shop will offer an eclectic selection of books, magazines, CDs, DVDs and other media on electronic music, sound art, noise, avant-garde, music, film, sonology, activism, underground culture, DIY, and art & media related to the festival programme.

DISCO 3000 Sonic Acts Out in Space Special

Paradiso’s Disco 3000 and Sonic Acts present a heavyweight Out in Space Special Night. Far-out house, techno, electro and italo in the Big Hall, with Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir, the legendary underrated techno-producer from Detroit; Dutch electro and italo frontman I-F from the Hague Bunker Records scene. Theo Parrish will play a 5-hour set in the [...]