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Sonic Arts Network & i-DAT present:
Expo Plymouth
22 - 25 June 2007
http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/expo
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The Expo festival is a free and fun annual event. It is the hub and
playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and
beyond.
Like a sonic circus the festival travels across the UK and this year we
Makeland fall in Plymouth. Join us for a packed weekend of installations,
Sonic ferry tours, performances, exhibitions, film-screenings, happenings, a
large-scale sonic picnic, workshops and gigs.
Expo presents something for everyone at sites all across Plymouth.
You'll hear new and amazing things, enjoy places and spaces in new ways and
be part of a truly unique event.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE, JUST COME ALONG!
See http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/expo for a full festival programme.
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Highlights of this year's Expo festival include:
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Friday 22 June
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Evan Parker and the Behaviour Ensemble
Terraces Cafe, Plymouth Hoe
8.30pm - 9.30pm
Plymouth Sound becomes the backdrop for this festival launch fanfare and
outdoor site-specific performance by free improvisation legend Evan
Parker and 17 strong cracked electronics ensemble, Behaviour.
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Saturday 23 June
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Lock, Stock and Barrel
The New Cooperage Building, Royal William Yard, Stonehouse
12.30pm - 5.30pm
Expo refills this historic space, once the backbone of the British Navy,
with sound and activity, curating a packed programme of sonic
production.
This event will include a brand new festival installation featuring 60
robotic birds by Jane Edden, Dada spirited high jinx from Patrizia
Paolini and the celebrated Adam Bohman, amplified marble races, river wading
and groundbreaking research into conceptual sonic photography.
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Sunday 24 June
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Sonic Picnic
Western King Point, Stonehouse
1pm- 5pm
A Sunday afternoon public intervention in this disused military
installation. Bring a hamper, entertain the kids, walk the dog and enjoy
An afternoon of outdoor sonic art. Highlights of this surreal happening
Include mutilated trombone and electronic sound from Tom Bugs and Hilary
Jeffery, an orchestra of roving performers led by semaphore signals, a
pirate mini - opera and a see-saw reimagined as a multichannel interactive
sound installation.
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Other Expo attractions:
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Louise K Wilson
Tinside Lido, Plymouth Hoe
Friday 9.30pm
Saturday and Sunday 10.00am - 6pm
Audio-cultural archaeologist Louise K Wilson launches a new Expo
commissioned installation that traces the resonances of sound, memory
And meaning echoing through the bricks and surrounding waters of this
extraordinary, newly restored public space. Friday evening will feature
A stunning sound and light show and on Saturday and Sunday bring your
Bathers to experience a unique underwater sound installation during the
Lido's weekend opening hours.
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Sonic Ferry
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Take a seafaring audio ride from Plymouth Hoe to the Royal William Yard
festival sites on the Expo Sonic Ferry. Laptop duo The Splicegirls
Provide the soundtrack to your seaborne journey.
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Expo Late
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Three nights of ear and eye bending late entertainment. A fringe night
featuring local labels, DJs and artists at Fandangos.
Multichannel sound and video abuse with a sonic jigsaw and a 6 turntable
freakout thrown in for good measure at The Hub.
Grizzled noise punks battle for breath with electronic improvisers and
circuit bending pranksters at the White Rabbit in the brutalist
Surroundings of Plymouth central bus station.
Acts featured over the three nights include Semiconductor, Portable,
Icarus, Grewtronic and Monstrous Little Women.
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Expo Youth
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With the support of Creative Partnerships, a diverse range of Plymouth's
young people of all ages muscle in on Expo adding a virulent avant-local
twist to our programme. Their work features sub bass triggered animated
fish, raisin situationism at Devil's Point, a voice-mangling hot dog
Cart and giant sound reactive inflatables.
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Distributed City
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Web based interventions, sound walks and city-wide spontaneous
performances.
We listen to Plymouth and Plymouth listens to us.
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Expo Conference Day
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Monday 25 June
University of Plymouth
10.00am-5.30pm
A day of research presentations exploring sound in space and perceptions
Of the aural experience with guest speaker Leigh Landy (Organised Sound/ De
Montfort University).
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ALL EXPO EVENTS ARE FREE
See http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/expo for a full festival programme
and
further details on joining the mailing list.
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