A Sonic Circuits Phantasmagoria

Friday, November 5, 8-11 pm
$5 ($3 Walker and ACF members and Intermedia Arts partners)
Ticket price includes complimentary Sonic Circuits VII CD.

Landmark Center, 75 West Fifth Street, St. Paul
Tickets available at the door or in advance by calling 612.375.7622.

The Future Perfect Sound system joins Sonic Circuits in creating a one-of-a-kind multimedia/sensory experience in St. Paul's historic Landmark Center that includes five environments, more than fifty performers, installations galore, a giant video billboard (courtesy of Future Perfect video god Keri Halverson), and a complimentary compact disc (with paid admission).

Curators: Philip Blackburn, Steve Dietz, Craig Harris, and Chris Strouth

MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCES BY :
Tzadik-label artists Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier from New York.
Franz Kamin and friends: "Slow Train" for narrator and six electric guitars.
Nicky Hind's "Ripples" for guitar and digital delay.
Paul Rudy's "Grandchild of Tree" for amplified cactus (after John Cage).
Harold Fortuin's microtonal "Branchings."
Hip-hop by students from the High School for Recording Arts.

VISION ROOM:
A video of electronica in the history of pop music (Sun Ra, Kraftwerk, King Crimson, Throbbing Gristle, Laurie Anderson, Gary Numan, and many more).
Premiere of New Yorker Annie Gosfield's video commission, "Shoot the Player Piano," on wacky mechanical musical instruments.
Reynold Weidenaar's new documentary on the Telharmonium, the world's first synthesizer.
Video art works by John Hitchcock, Philip Mantione and Alysse Stepanian, James Croson, and Mark Webber's tribute to the peacock.

ACTION ROOM:
The poppier side of electroacoustic world music from a variety of local DJs along with musical groups Terpsicore and Pleasant Stitch.

AMBIENCE ZONE:
An ambient jam featuring the likes of Jim Anton, Satoshi Shinozaki, John Vance, Tim Donahue, and the Minneapolis Improv Group with special guest star Carl Stone.
Miasmic lighting by the Magic Lantern Show.

LISTEN ROOM:
Selections chosen from the 120 international Sonic Circuits submissions. Listen for Jose Halac's ultimate homage to divorce, Thomas Gerwin's "Rollenspiel" that will spin your head, Brian Heller's multi-dub classic "Send in the Clowns," and Chris de Laurenti's radio documentary "Cocaine."

INSTALLATIONS AND SUCH:
Carei Thomas and Friends: "Nolemon|nomeloN."
Paul Vanouse: "Terminal Time."
Patrick Lichty & Co: "Silicon C."
Paul Higham with his data glove performing neural nets of cellular automata.
Scott Miller with William Gorcica: "Eyes and Ears," a sound and light installation from St. Cloud.
Jeff Fedderson's virtual instrument kiosk featuring the Winslaphones.

Future Perfect is a Sound System for Multimedia Events. A blending of Electronica, using all the ammunition in the pop culture canon, to create a sound track to your best nights' dreams. A seamless blend of live and recorded music. Portrait of a DJ as a young artist. Like a Be In but about Now, without forgetting about yesterday. Receptors on full, just on the edge of sensory overload. In this pre-millennial age we need to come together, if not to a higher sense of consciousness, at least into a state of conscious, an awareness of the things going on around you, and there it is: Future Perfect. Not tomorrow, just today.

Support provided by the Jerome Foundation, the Schubert Club, Pioneer Profiles, and the Saint Paul Cultural STAR Grant.