Spark Festival of Electronic
Music and Art 2007
2007 Festival Schedule
Concert order subject to change, composers will be notified if
pieces move to a different day or time.
Last updated Feb. 13, 2007
Check out the list of Installations.
And - check out the Bob Dylan Remix project.
Tuesday, Feb. 20
Spark Pre-Show: Twin Cities Showcase7pm, The Whole Music Club
[Directions] [Map]
Spark Pre-Show: Twin Cities Nightlife Showcase
- Ballet Méchanique
- ZOIKS (Michael Ferrier, Nathan Hanson, JamesPatrick)
- Zeitgeist
- Evan Snyder
- FoodTeam
10pm, Foundation, NO COVER
[Map and Directions]
- DJ Blackbox
- Web of Deception
- Bankie Phonez
- The Artbreaker
Wednesday, Feb. 21
Paper Session 110:00am, Ferguson Hall, room 215
[Directions] [Map]
Workshop 1
- Sean Nye, "Love Parade, Please Not Again: A Cultural Examination with Reference to he Film be Angeled"
- Jay Batzner, In the Zone: Temporal Structures in Negativland's Escape from Noise
- Guillaume Laizillon, Sound Object (objet sonore) - sound event: thoughts on listening and perception
- Joseph Koykkar, An Exploration of "Cosmic Code," an interactive/multimedia work for live performance
1:00pm, The Whole Music Club
[Directions] [Map]
Concert 1
- Circuit Bending Workshop with Beatrixjar
- Bring your own electric toy and learn how to turn it into an electronic instrument!
3:00pm, The Whole Music Club
[Directions] [Map]
Concert 2
- Headphone Festival, works TBA
- Bring your own headphones and plug into a surreal sonic joyride!"
8:00pm, Coffman Union Theater
[Directions] [Map]
Nightlife 1
- Josh Clausen, I'll See You Tomorrow
- Mike McFerron, Torrid Mix: Featuring DJ Jazzy King and Master L.T.
- Schuyler Tsuda, Meditation on Violence
- Christopher Biggs, Exterminate All the Brutes
- Andrew Walters, Variations on a Landscape 4.9/12
- Philip Schuessler, Supercell
- Ashley Nail, Transfiguration/Destruction
- Mara Helmuth, Improvisation with Qin #1
10:00pm, Nomad World Pub
[Map and Directions]
Thursday, Feb. 22
Paper Session 210:00am, Ferguson Hall, room 215
[Directions] [Map]
Concert 3
- David McIntire, A Sense of Community: Social Dimensions of the World Soundscape Project
- Anne La Berge, Resonant Dendrites
- Gary Kendall, Reconnecting Music to Spirit: The Spirtual Sound Ensemble
- Guerino Mazzola: The Rubato Music Collaboration
12:30pm, Weisman Art Museum
[Directions and Parking] [Map]
Concert 4
- Gregg Biermann, Happy Again
- Christopher Bailey, Aftermath
- Alexander Mouton and Christian Faur, Ethereal Landscapes
- C.R. Kasprzyk, Degradations III-b
- Cooper Baker, Pongulation
- Wyatt Fletcher, Wrought
- Andrew Johnson, The Annunciation II: Victeory(sic)
- Andrea Agostini, Funus
- Benjamin Kinsley, Gesichtsmusik
3:00pm, Southern Theater
[Directions] [Map]
Making Music: Morton Subotnick
- Scott Miller, Chimera No. 2
- Angela Veomett, Eve Song
- Doug Geers, Shadow
- Joshua Parmenter, Organon Sostenuto
- James Mobberley, Icarus Wept (movements 1 and 5)
7:00pm, The Whole Music Club
[Directions] [Map]
Nightlife 2
- Making Music: A free-wheeling interview/demonstration with Morton Subotnick, who will trace his career and play snippets from some of his most famous music and multimedia works.
10:00pm, Nomad World Pub
[Map and Directions]
- Joshua Fried and Radio Wonderland
- Zanana
- Caly McMorrow
- Kendall Station
Friday, Feb. 23
Paper Session 39:00am, Ferguson Hall, room 215
[Directions] [Map]
Concert 6
- Brian Kane, Aesthetic Problems of Net Music
- Christopher Burns, Complexity and Control in a Software Improvisation
- Jesse Allison, BSU Unwired: an Installation Interpreting Wireless Network Activity
11:15am, Weisman Art Museum
[Directions and Parking] [Map]
Lecture 1: Panel Discussion
- Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Free Jazz
- John Lato, Les Réactions de la Terre Abandonée
- Daniel Blinkhorn, Squeak ('n Bubble)
- Gary Kendall, Qosqo
- Irene Buckley, Steady.unsteady
- Jacob Reed, Five Sculptures in Sound
- Heather Kube, Titanic
- Giuseppe Rapisarda, The Day Before
1:00pm, 370 Anderson Hall [Map and Directions]
Concert 7
- Panel discussion on electronic music performance, featuring Morton Subotnick and other special guests.
3:00pm, Southern Theater
[Directions] [Map]
Concert 8
- Andrea Reinkemeyer, Elegy
- Anna Clyne, Choke
Performed by Pat O'Keefe of Zeitgeist- James Currie, Auratic Etude 1: For Schizophrenic and Rubbish Technology
- John Thompson, Sonofusion: for Overtone Violin
- Juraj Kojs, In Secret
- Jason Freeman, Graph Theory
- Geneviève Favre, ROBE
7:30pm, Ted Mann Concert Hall
[Directions] [Map]
Nightlife 3
- Tommaso Perego, Les jeux sont faits
- Pauline Oliveros and Monique Buzzarte, Black Hole
- Richard Dudas, Prelude for Clarinet and Computer
- Claudia Robles, Seed/Tree
- Morton Subotnick, Until Spring Revisited
10:00pm, Nomad World Pub
[Map and Directions]
- Puzzleweasel
- Improvised Explosive Device
- Three Prominent Figures
- Monoploid vs Xnografikz
Saturday, Feb. 24
Paper Session 48:30am, Ferguson Hall, room 215
[Directions] [Map]
Concert 9
- Jeff Kaiser, Back to My Routes: Freely Improvising with Max/MSP
- Don Malone, electroMusing with aMente
- Jason Freeman, Graph Theory and the Virtual Composer Residency Project
- Brad Garton, Cooperating Computer Music Languages
- R. Luke DuBois, Timelapse Phonography
11:15am, Ultan Recital Hall
[Directions] [Map]
Lecture 2: Morton Subotnick
- Oded Ben-Tal, Anemoi
- Oliver Schneller, Five Imaginary Spaces
- Geoffroy Drouin, Crispy Grain
- Mark Snyder, Mälmo
- Don Malone, Poke
- Jonathan Kirk, I've Got a Guy Running
- Asha Srinivasan, Alone, Dancing
1:00pm, 225 Ferguson Hall
[Directions] [Map]
Concert 10
- Lecture with featured artist Morton Subotnick
3:00pm, Southern Theater
[Directions] [Map]
Concert 11
- R. Luke DuBois, Current Indescretion
- Morton Subotnick, Axolotl
- TrioMetrik, multiple works, tba
7:30pm, Ted Mann Concert Hall
[Directions] [Map]
Nightlife 4
- Pamela Madsen, Sedna
Performed by Zeitgeist- Frances White, Centre Bridge
- Suguru Goto, Augmented Body and Virtual Body
- Matthew Peters Warne and Jamie Jewett, Mudra
- David Bithell, The President Has His Photograph Taken
- Morton Subotnick, Trembling
Performed by Shannon Wettstein of Zeitgeist
Performed by Maja Cerar and Shannon Wettstein (of Zeitgeist)
10:00pm, Nomad World Pub
[Map and Directions] ** $5 Cover **
- Graycode
- Choirboys (Andrew Pask and Jeff Kaiser)
- Cepia
- Gregory Taylor, Tom Hamer, and Mark Henrickson
- Paul Brinken
Sunday, Feb. 25
Paper Session 5: Symposium Fast Forward11:00am, Ferguson Hall, room 215
[Directions] [Map]
- Marc Jensen, Chance Operations and Installation-Oriented Time
- Ashley Nail, The Mulvihill Technique for Spatialization
- Justin Schell, Show 'Em Watcha Got: Hip Hop Sampling as Audible Historiography
- Patrick Flanagan, Synthesis from Analysis: Backwards Realizations of Prolongation Trees
- Christopher Baker, Mapping Personal Relational Histories
- Schuyler Tsuda, Synthesis, Analysis and Translation in Accelerated Evolution
- Ben Jordan, MC Quence: Exploring Sequence Analysis in Music
- Joshua Clausen Automatic Rhythm Generator: MAX/MSP as an Audio Sketch Pad
- Christian Gentry The Multilayered Machine: The Use of Max/MSP in a Parenthetical (Meditation)
- Jeremy Wagner Non-Realtime Synthesis Using Max/MSP
- Matthew Dotson Are Genres Relevant?
- Michael Duffy "New" Concrete: Recontextualized and Deconstructed Sound in My Recent Electroacoustic Music
- Jamie Jewett That's Interactive
- Elliott McKinley My Variable Life
- Caleb Coppack, Drawing and Sound
- Eric Brook Poi Notation - A Guide To Good Spinning
Installations by Venue
- Regis Center for Art East Building (Map)
- Urban Echo (Christopher Baker, Laura Baker, J. Anthony Allen) : Regis Lobby
- Regis Center for Art West Building (Map)
- North (Casey Farina) : Ground Floor, Building Entrance
- Graphite Sequencer (Caleb Coppack) : Under the Main Staircase
- Viento Armonico (Thadeus Frazier-Reed) : Ground Floor, Bottom of Main Staircase
- My "Variable" Life (Elliot Miles McKinley) : Second Floor Skyway between East and West Buildings
- Ambient Tide (Hitoshi Akayama (CG), Johnathan F. Lee (Music) Akira Takaoka (Music), Keiichi Tanaka (Light Art)) : Ground Floor, Room 131
- Murmuring (Lynn Lukkas, Mary Ellen Childs, Christopher Baker) : Ground Floor, Room 130
- Sensorium (Caly McMorrow and Skaht) : Second Floor, Skyway Entrance
- Ferguson Hall (Map)
- Harmonic Sounds for a Public Space (Marc Jensen) : Basement in Tunnel To Anderson Hall
- Weisman Art Museum (Map)
- Danse Macabre (Heather Kube) : Fiterman Gallery
- I've got a guy running (Jonathon Kirk) : Fiterman Gallery
Spark Software Showcase
Artist/Programmings demo their innovative software:
- David Psenicka: Fomus
- Cooper Baker: Boomerang
- Chris Conrad: Mathematica Making Music
- Donald Craig: Limn
Bob Dylan Remix Project
Listening Stations Located in the Fiterman Gallery at the Weisman Art Museum (Map)
- Jason Rabb, Song to Some
- Calder Singer, The Chaos of Dylan
- Jeff Thompson, Every Bob Dylan Song I Have
- Eric Winesett, SubHome Groove
- James Harley, BlueBob
- Noah Keesecker, I Shall Be Re-Released
- Gintas Kraptavicius, Blowing
- Jeff Morris, Blowin' Into the Wind
- Paul Reiners, Cloak of Decency (Slow Train)
- Alan Shockley, A Foreign Sound to Your Ear (What Else Can You Show Me?)
Spark Radio
Works TBA.
Curated by Abinadi Meza Spark Radio is a 4-day Internet Radio broadcast that includes contributions from sound artists, composers, musicians from around the world. Selections were made through an open call as well as special programs by guests. The broadcast will run continuously throughout the festival and is accessible to listeners using any radio/music streaming software such as iTunes or other free programs for Windows or Macintosh computers. The URL for Spark Radio will link from this website. Please tune in!