Listen Again: The Changing World of Everyday Sound, Audio and Noise, and The Future of Sound Studies
This one-day symposium with an eclectic set of participants features panels, talks and a performance that will build on the legacy of the World Soundscape Project (WSP), whose local history has achieved global recognition and influence on consecutive waves of audio art. This symposium will present ideas that explore new trajectories of research and analysis that build on such influential concepts in sound art as “soundscape” and “sound ecology”.
I’ll be a guest on a panel discussing my research on “Noise & Resistance." I’ll be joined by keynote speaker Jonathan Sterne, Adam Frank, Tim Hecker, Hisham Mayet, Ellen Moffat, and Jennifer Schine.
Andy Dixon, aka Secret Mommy, will also be performing.
Saturday November 20, 8:00 PM Admission: $10 at the door VIVO 1965 Main Street,
This night will mark the debut of the Volunteer Ecstatic Orchestra, a free form collective of local experimental musicians performing a propulsive electro-acoustic synthesis of rhythm and drone. Features members of Basketball, Nam Shub, Her Jazz Noise Collective, Myths, Brady Cranfeild and myself. Joy, energy and dancing encouraged.
Hisham Mayet's latest film explores the music and landscape of the Songhai,around the Niger River in Western Niger. with Zarma mock possession hoedowns, Wodaabae trance vocal performances, Spirit possession ceremonies, Godje one string laments, Contigi string masters, Comsaa Griots and Sahel night markets create a bizarre and fascinating glimpse into the arid and culturally vibrant bend in the Niger River. 30 mins.
Filmed in 2005 by Hisham Mayet predominantly at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh Morocco, 'Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway' captures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string and drum specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth. Ancient mythical brotherhoods have been flourishing for centuries in and around the cities of Marrakesh and Essaouira in Morocco where trade caravans have gathered from their long journeys across the Trans-Saharan Highway. This is some of the last great music on Earth. A must see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins and the Gwana sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes!
Guitarist Chris Cooper (of fat worm of error) will blow your mind.
Film Maker and Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet will be present for Q&A after all screenings, and will have Sublime Frequencies merchandise (records, cd's, dvd's) for sale.
Shot over the course of two years (2006-2008), Palace of the Winds is an intimate and dreamlike journey exploring the music of Saharawi culture from Guelmim in Southern Morocco to the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott. With spectacular images from inhospitable landscapes, chimerical phenomena that transpire by the sheer remoteness of the land, and haunting indigenous music from a people that have long been shrouded in mystery, this is a genre-defying film of profound beauty. Explore the intoxicating tapestry of sight and sound that this obscure region has to offer through its most awe-inspiring musicians. Featuring live performances by Group Doueh, Group Marwani, Sadoum Oueld Aida and Group Bab Sahara.
Sublime Frequencies Archives Vol. 3 30 minutes
Rare screening of Sublime Frequencies archives of Unreleased Material. Opening the program will be an exclusive glimpse into Southeast Asia captured in Cambodia, Burma, and Thailand by Hisham Mayet and Alan Bishop.
Film Maker and Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet will be present for Q&A after all screenings, and will have Sublime Frequencies merchandise (records, cd's, dvd's) for sale.
11/13/10 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
l'Envers Gallery 185 Van Horne @ Esplanade (2 streets east of Parc) bus: 80 parc from place des arts or 55 st-laurent
Saturday, November 13, 2010
This will be a screening consisting of two films:
'LAND OF THE SONGHAI' - PREMIER SCREENING Hisham Mayet's latest film explores the music and landscape of the Songhai, around the Niger River in Western Niger. Zarma mock possession hoedowns, Wodaabe trance vocal performances, Spirit possession ceremonies, Godje one sting laments, contigi string masters, comsaa griots and Sahel night markets create a bizarre and fascinating glimpse into the arid and culturally vibrant bend in the Niger river. 30 mins. 'MUSICAL BROTHERHOODS FROM THE TRANS-SAHARAN HIGHWAY'
Filmed in 2005 by Hisham Mayet predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh Morocco, 'Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway' captures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string and drum specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth. Ancient mystical brotherhoods have been flourishing for centuries in and around the cities of Marrakesh and Essaouira in Morocco where the trade caravans have gathered from their long journeys across the Trans-Saharan Highway. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins and the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes!
Film Maker and Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet will be present for Q&A after all screenings, and will have Sublime Frequencies merchandise (records, cd's, dvd's) for sale.
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