[EMS-NEWS]

23.vi.2004

Hi All,

Greetings!

If you're going to the FEEDBACK gig this weekend...

Some preambulary articles related to FEEDBACK on LMC's website.

FEEDBACK IS EVERYWHERE
by Knut Aufermann (curator of the show)
http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/texts/feedbackka.html

A FEW OF MY WAKING TIMES
by Toshimaru Nakamura
http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/texts/feedbacktm.html

MY AFFAIRS WITH FEEDBACK
by Alvin Lucier
http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/texts/feedbackal.html

ALL THIS AND BRAINS TOO: THIRTY YEARS OF HOWLING ROUND
by Nicolas Collins
http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/texts/feedbacknc.html

Plus...
How to get to the venue - LSO St. Luke's (Barbican)
http://www.lso.co.uk/howtofindus/

Oh, and the ticket is 15 squids if you buy on-line, plus 45p booking fee,
regardless of number of tickets.  http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
(Select ANY event, and set the date to 27/06/2004.)  Or you can call this
number: 0845 120 7543 (Barbican Box Office)

Best regards
Chuan

> From: John Levack Drever <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: John Levack Drever <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:48:50 +0100
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Feedback tour - Unmissable!
>
> [EMS-NEWS]
>
> FEEDBACK: ORDER FROM NOISE: "Contrary to most conventional music
> instruments that function in a mechanistic style, feedback takes the
> attention away from the production of sound (which is inherent in the
> system) towards a manipulation of the internal structure of the actual
> instrument that brings about a change in sound. The instrument can be
> defined as all the parts that are included in the feedback loop, such as
> mixing desks, effects units and amplifiers but also microphones and whole
> rooms, where for example the movement of the audience can influence the
> sounds. Playing this instrument is not a question of precise control, but
> of intuition, anticipation and experiment. Every performance provides a new
> environment and the potential for new sounds to emerge from the noise." -
> Knut Aufermann. Knut curates and performs in our major presentation this
> year, a tour of England for the Contemporary Music Network. The tour takes
> in Leicester (24 June, Phoenix Arts Centre, 0116 255 4854), Newcastle (25
> June, Newcastle Arts Centre, 0191 261 5618), Norwich (University of East
> Anglia, 01603 508050), Colchester (Arts Centre, 01206 500900), Brighton
> (Komedia, 01273 647100) and Exeter (Phoenix, 01392 667080). Tickets for the
> London gig, on 27 June at the Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke's, Old Street, is
> the Barbican box office: 0845 120 7543.
>
>
> Feedback: order from noise gathers together ground-breaking performers from
> around the world to explore this most exhilarating area of contemporary
> music, at the point where total chaos gives way to pure art. The performers
> include the elder statesman of American experimentalism, Alvin Lucier, wild
> Japanese turntablist Otomo Yoshihide and mind-boggling instrument builder
> Nicolas Collins. Making the environment audible and aesthetic, feedback
> brings forth unpredictable and organic musical forms that use both the
> internal architecture of (often bizarre) instruments and the acoustic space
> in which they are played, with startling results. Feedback: order from
> noise ranges from delicate, fragile and numinous solo performances to
> specially commissioned ensemble works of towering intensity and visceral
> physical power.

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