There’s an immense festival this coming weekend (April 19-22nd, 07) that any sound fan (read: music, video, noise, electronica, brave new waves fan) should, in all decency, attend with all their heart and baud. I speak of the Signal & Noise (S+N) Festival at VIVO (Video in, Video Out), a show-off of underground experimental music to tantalize and seduce the eardrums, to saturate the music-lover in a heap of sonic and visual experience.
Yes, (and here i’m totally stretching the analogies, but i trust my readers will understand) think of a radical Shambhala, think of an indoor Burning Man, think of a festival on Main Street bringing Frankfurt, New York, Quebec, Argentina (etc.) - something along a quadrangle of all these, indeed.
What is this festival all about? Well, in a keyword: “underground” sounds, alternative and non-commercial sound culture, or a “welcoming oasis of danger,” or, more prosaically, a weekend of experimental Sound, Noise, and Video that explores the substance and content of work of technology-based art, one that takes a “critical stance towards their technologies, or the technological means of realizing that [artistic] content” by de-emphasizing the tools, mechanisms, and machinery to construct that content, yet without dismissing either form and technique.
Technically speaking, and this is where the music geek starts to nod to her/himself, this festival is where “desperate genres co-exist” and often suture the categories which ordinarily “divide artists and genres.” The music fiend will fancy events like “eightchannel diffusion” which “can not only be experienced by those familiar with it, but [also] by a whole new audience more familiar with underground music,” thus bringing old techniques to new audiences. In so doing, enchanting and unexpected sound-surprises result.
Admission: $7 Video, $10 Sound, $15 Both
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