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SONIC CIRCUITS

PRESENTS

 

QUEERING SOUND
RED RAG + PINK FLAG

AN EVENING OF SOUNDS + SPOKEN WORD + DIGITAL ARTS FROM LGBT ARTISTS + ALLIES

 

SATURDAY 02 JUNE

7:30 PM

 

ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

SPENGER THEATRE

1333 H STREET NE

WASHINGTON DC 20002 USA

 

QUEERING SOUND gathers together artists – with a non-exclusive curatorial focus towards gay, lesbian and post-gender-identified participants -- who explore alternative avenues of expression through audio, the digital arts, performance art and spoken word. The annual event – now in its twelfth year – features live performances from established and upcoming local and touring talents as well as seeks to introduce Washington DC audiences to new sounds and challenging visions from across the globe through digital contributions.

 

LIVE PERFORMANCES + SPOKEN WORD

ARTHUR LOVES PLASTIC

BLK w/BEAR

BRYIN DALL [ THEE MAJESTY : NYC ]

PINKCOURTESYPHONE [ RICHARD  CHARTIER ]

DAN VERA

MICHELLE WEBB

KATHI WOLFE

 

DIGITAL CONTRIBUTORS

MARY COBLE [ DENMARK ]

NICK LOPATA

NOWHEREIANS [ ENGLAND ]

TEHO TEATRO [ ITALY ]

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ARTHUR LOVES PLASTIC is Bev Stanton, who was born in the Bahamas and raised near Walt Disney World. She has won over a dozen Washington Area Music Awards in the Electronica category. Her music has appeared in shows on the Discovery Channel, VH1, MTV and other cable television networks. Stanton is one of 24 female electronic artists and deejays profiled in Pink Noises: Women in Electronic Music and Sound (Tara Rodgers; Duke University Press, 2010), alongside Anne Lockwood, Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, Le Tigre and Mira Calix. Stanton recently released a 30-minute download EP influenced and created with iPhone apps. She has also made loops of her music available as themes for the Mikrosonic SPC sketchpad app for Android. Her YouTube channel and blog feature product reviews and demos. For QU12, Bev will be performing deconstructions from her latest release ‘Special When Lit’ on her Android tablet and phone.

 

[ LIVE PERFORMANCE ]

 

  Arthur Loves Plastic online

 

  Listen to selections from Arthur Loves Plastic ‘Special When Lit’

 

 

 

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BLK w/ BEAR – JS Adams; Doug Poplin; Renée Shaw; and PD Sexton – have garnered glowing reviews and international airplay for the thought-provoking and moving 'Wish for a World without Hurt' collaboration with London's Rothko and the limited edition 'fahrenheit_drafts' 12-inch single (Trace Recordings). Their audio has accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London and selections from 'Wish for a World' were used in the Discovery Channel's poignant 'The Flight that Fought Back' program. The four-track 'Version 3' extended play is available for download at the Long Division with Remainders '14 versions of the same EP' project site and also available in a box-set collection with all fourteen versions plus an additional digital-download outtakes EP including a 21-minute remix of BLK w/ BEAR's Version 001. The mini-album ‘Sorry about your (remixes)’ was released on Front & Follow (UK) in 2011. Additional material has been released through Ultra-red’s free download site Public Record, Little Red Squirrel Collective (UK), Cohort Recordings and Sonic Circuits’ District of Noise imprint.

 

“...like Basic Channel at their most abstract, and after a severe nervous breakdown” – Wire Magazine

 

[ LIVE PERFORMANCE ]

 

  BLK w/BEAR online

 

  View the film by Renée Shaw to accompany 'Casey Jnr' from 'Sorry about your (remixes)'

 

 

 

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MARY COBLE uses her body to explore and push the boundaries of codes, routes and rules and problematize the limitations of norms, expectations and progress. Through performance, video and installation Coble challenges herself and others to critically consider their reactions and interactions with issues of injustice. Coble’s works manifest problems of bodily, social and historical navigation that is marked with the physicality of struggle. She has performed as part of ‘Global Feminisms’, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York; ‘Performa 05’, Artists Space, NYC, New York; ‘Commitment Issues’, FADO Performance Art Network, Toronto, Canada. Her work has been included in exhibitions such as ‘Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive’, Nikolaj Center of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, the Anaid Gallery in Bucharest, Romania and at Galerie Nina Menocal in Mexico City, Mexico. Originally from North Carolina, USA Coble lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a professor at the Funen Art Academy in Odense, DK. For QU12, Coble has submitted her first ever audio artwork "The Sound of Fighting Cocks" – based on sound files from her 2011 live performance Fighting Cocks, a 3-hour-long towel fight enacted in a locker room of a Toronto sex club addressing the ideas of violence, play and queer masculinity. Coble is represented in Washington, DC by Connor Contemporary Art.

 

[ DIGITAL PERFORMER ]

 

  Mary Coble online

 

 

 

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BRYIN DALL stands as one of the most exploratory artists in the underground music scene. His talent for creating decrepit soundscapes and otherworldly and occasionally nightmarish atmospheres has garnered him an impressive reputation, although he is probably most renowned for his unique stage presence, often utilizing unorthodox methods and techniques for playing guitar using various objects like a machete. Dall met Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at his local post office in NYC and within a month was half of the musickal project Thee Majesty, playing shows all over the world. Collaborators for the Hirsute Pursuit side-project with Harley Phoenix on Cold Spring and Up & Coming Records include Boyd Rice and the late Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson. Bryin will perform a live soundtrack performance to his short film ’The Life and Death of Jordan.’ (Please note: This film does contain brief nudity.)


[ LIVE PERFORMANCE ]

 

  View a preview of ‘The Life and Death of Jordon’

 

 

 

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Pinkcourtesyphone is amorphous, changing, and slipping in and out of consciousness; Pinkcourtesyphone desires to capture the sonic essence of some nicely dressed 1960′s housewife wistfully peering out her window while reclining on some lovely couch or divan, with, of course, a slowly sipped cocktail and perhaps half of a Valium. Perhaps she is waiting for the phone to ring; Pinkcourtesyphone operates like a syrup-y dream; Pinkcourtesyphone strives to be both elegant and detached; Pinkcourtesyphone remained dormant for a long time.


Pinkcourtesyphone is actually
Richard Chartier (b.1971), some sound and installation artist, considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist electronic sound art which has been termed both “microsound” and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself. Chartier’s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. QUEERING SOUND 12 marks the first Pinkcourtesyphone performance in 13 years. The first Pinkcourtesyphone full-length recording ‘Foley Folly Folio’ is out on LINE May 15.


[ LIVE PERFORMANCE ]

  Pinkcourtesyphone online

 

 

 

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NICK LOPATA creates and edits video for Blowoff, the popular deejay event thrown by Bob Mould and Richard Morel first staged at Washington DC's 9:30 club and now held nationwide including residencies in NYC, San Francisco, San Diego, Provincetown and Chicago. In addition to his video work, Nick's other projects include photography, lighting design and independent film.

 

[ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR ]

 

  Blowoff online

 

 

 

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NOWHERIANS is the solo ambient, drone project from London-based sound engineer/editor and bassist Crawford Blair. He performs in Rome Pays Off formed by original Rothko members Mark Beazley and Blair in February 2010, with Chris Gowers from Signals and Karina ESP now joining them on treated electric guitar. Their new album 'We were Wrong' is soon to be released on Trace Recording. Blair: "All Nowherians music is created as quickly as time will allow, and destroyed immediately after mixing. Nowherians music makes me think of the patterns I see when I close my eyes and push my eyeballs in slightly, not the actual dots drifting past but the warmth and childlike familiarity of that feeling."

 

[ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR ]

 

  Trace Recordings online

 

  Listen to Crawford’s contribution for QUEERING SOUND 12

 

 

 

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TEHO TEARDO is an Italian composer, musician and sound designer interested in developing the possible combinations between electronic and acoustic sounds. He has collaborated with artists such as Blixa Bargeld, Girls Against Boys, Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Graham Lewis (Wire), Mick Harris, Jim Thirlwell and many others. Teho is also one of the most active musicians involved with cinema, having created many soundtracks for important directors such as Paolo Sorrentino, Andrea Molaioli, Daniele Vicari, Gabriele Salvatores, Guido Chiesa. UK label Expanding Records recently released the album "Soundtrack Works 2004-2008", it is a selective compilation of Teho's film music, which has won him many major awards and much critical acclaim. The album includes incidental music from the international hit and Cannes jury prizewinner “Il Divo” (by Paolo Sorrentino) for which Teardo also won the Ennio Morricone prize at the Italia film festival. Ennio Morricone himself presented the prize to Teho and the Il Divo soundtrack went on to win the David di Donatello prize, the most important prize for music in Italian cinema.

 

[ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR ]

 

  Teho Teardo online

 

  View ‘Suite from the museum of guilt’ (Music by Teho Teardo; Video by Enrico Zanetti, 2009)

 

 

 

 

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Dan Vera‘s poems have appeared in Beltway Poetry, Delaware Poetry Review, Tawdry Bawdry, Gargoyle, Divining Divas, Full Moon On K Street, DC Poets Against the War and his book The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books, 2008). He publishes poets through Vrzhu Press and Souvenir Spoon Books, and serves on the boards of Split This Rock and Poetry Mutual of America.

 

[ LIVE READING ]

 

  Dan Vera online

 

 

 

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MICHELLE WEBB is recognized as an incredibly creative and innovative guitarist and improviser, an electrifying and original musician and composer. In 1988 Webb attended the Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Washington DC and studied jazz with DC guitar legend Tom Newman and Saxophone great Davey Yarbrough and in 1992 Michelle received what was at the time the second largest scholarship given to a conservatory student to attend Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin OH. Here she studied with guitarist Bob Ferreza and jazz educators Jimmy Owens and the late Wendell Logan. Michelle moved to Brooklyn New York in 1995 where she expanded her musical career to include becoming a professional composer & sound designer as well as a DJ. After many concerts over the years, Michelle decided to assemble various groups of her own. These groups were instrumental in making Webb more well-known. Her vast, poliedric repertoire is particularly oriented towards contemporary nu-jazz forms and music from different parts of Africa, particularly Zanzibar and Cape Verde. Her activities span across performing in her own group Michelle Webb's KING KONG, solo performances, contemporary and avant-garde music and free improvisations. She has been invited to play across Europe, Mexico and Lebanon. In 2010 Michelle released two new CD's DC / Istanbul and coined the phrase Afro/Arabic Nu-Jazz Funk to describe her new sound. She has also released the CD - The Michelle Webb Group Live in Brooklyn. Current projects include a recording and tour with drummer Joe Gallivan and guitarist Tom McNalley as part of the new LOVE CRY WANT on the Indigo and Stars label. In 2011, Webb launched her label AFRO TURK.

 

[ LIVE PERFORMANCE ]

 

  Michelle Webb online

 

 

 

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Kathi Wolfe is a poet and writer. She is a columnist and senior writer for Scene4, an arts magazine, and a contributor to the Washington Blade. Wolfe was a finalist in the Pudding House 2007 Chapbook competition and her chapbook Helen Takes the Stage: The Helen Keller Poems was published by Pudding House. Her work has appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Gargoyle and other publications. She was a 2008 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Writer Fellow .Wolfe is a contributor to the anthology" Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability." She has been awarded poetry residencies by Vermont Studio Center, received a Puffin Foundation grant, and appeared on the radio show "The Poet and the Poem."

 

[ LIVE READING ]

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

 

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Sonic Circuits is a Washington DC area promoter for experimental music. Sonic Circuits seeks to expose audiences to cutting edge contemporary music that defies genres, and offer artists new platforms to present their music and opportunities to network and collaborate with artists from around the world. In addition to organizing an annual festival since 2001, Sonic Circuits programs performances year round. Sonic Circuits is presented in part by Improv Arts Inc., a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to supporting the artistic and career development of artists and creating new markets for contemporary music.

 

  SONIC CIRCUITS online