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Sonorities
Festival of Contemporary Music 2005
26th April - 4th May 2005
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast

The Sonorities Festival is the longest-running new music festival in=20
Ireland and is one of the cornerstone Festivals in Europe presenting=20
innovative new music.  The Festival has always brought to Northern=20
Ireland innovative ideas and sounds from across the world and the 2005=20=

Festival is no exception in this regard.  For 2005 we present the work=20=

of artists who deliberately explore the space in between established=20
cultural forms. The festival explores the diversity of technological=20
arts, which better than any other, reflect the micro-cultures that=20
characterise our society. We are proud to present a programme that=20
showcases the variety of artistic practice at the beginning of the 21st=20=

Century.

Luc Ferrari and Frank Zappa are two of the most thought-provoking and=20
controversial musicians of the last one hundred years. Zappa's You Call=20=

That Music?, (incidentally not presented at this festival) is a work of=20=

experimental music situated in a rock concert context. Zappa's=20
typically adept title summarises the importance of how an artist can=20
place his or her work in order to question cultural norms that are=20
associated with particular types of art practice. Luc Ferrari's visit=20
to Sonorities celebrates the work of the electronic music pioneer who=20
has constantly challenged genres and pre-defined music cultures.=20
Ferrari's playful and ironic approach to music-making provides an=20
alternative perspective on modernity and on the role of music in=20
contemporary society.

In a celebration of modes of creativity which go beyond the definitions=20=

of music, visual and performance arts, this year=92s festival features:

Ensemble Proxima Centauri (France) with UK and World Premieres of works=20=

by Hespos, Talla, Leroux, Havel and Aperghis [26th April] and=20
especially commissioned audio-visual work by SARC=92s composer in=20
residence Sebastian Castagna [27th April]

New work with live-electronics with Pianist Maki Namekawa (Germany)=20
[26th April]

Renzo Spiteri (Malta), Iain McCurdy and Michael Alcorn (UK) with Found=20=

Objects and Live-electronics [28th April]

A celebration of electronic music pioneer Luc Ferrari (France) with a=20
unique orchestral performance of En un tournement d'amour [27th April],=20=

and an evening of Sons M=E9moris=E9 on the 30th April.

The Ulster Orchestra performing new works with live-electronics by=20
Ricardo Climent (Spain) and especially commissioned Ed Bennett (UK)=20
[27th April]

Audio Visual performance with Paulo Raposo (Portugal) and Murmurists=20
(UK) 28th April

Sonorities @ the cathedral quarter (in collaboration with the Cathedral=20=

Quarter Arts Festival): A full day of events in venues around the=20
city's cultural district including Fruit Music at St. George's Market,=20=

a Lagan boat tour with Martin Parker=92s Auto-Route #2, Ulster Orchestra=20=

playing the music of Frank Zappa, and a club night of extreme=20
audio-visual work with 8GG (China), Lietterschpich (Israel) and=20
Raffaseder/Parker/H=F6rbst (UK/Austria) [29th April]

John Kenny and Chris Wheeler (UK) with a program of works written for=20
the duo which explore the combination of natural sounds with=20
instruments such as the trombone and the carnyx [30th April]

A site specific sound installation for the PLACE Built Environment=20
Centre by sound artist Ed Osborn (US)

SHE - Transformations: Vocalist Frances Lynch (UK) with a program of=20
electroacoustic music theatre and the limits of the human voice [1st=20
May]

Performances of semi-improvised live-electronic music by Uli Mitzlav=20
and Miguel Pereira and Miso Ensemble (Portugal) [30th April and 2nd=20
May]

Sound artist and hardware hacker Nic Colins (US) performing with a=20
range of modified musical instruments [2nd May]

Audio Visual performance project UNFAIR (Austria) featuring extreme=20
vocalist Dietmar Bruckmayr [3rd May]

Show-reel of audio-visual work by Jo Thomas, Mario Verandi, Germ=E1n=20
Toro-P=E8rez, Yasuhiro Morinaga, Paulo Chagas, Mark Pilkington and=20
Hopkinson

Other participating artists include:
John Young, Jo=E3o Pedro Oliveira, Albert Ortega, Martin Franklin, =
Rajmil=20
Fischman, David Berezan, Andrew Czink, Michael Clarke, laut, Christian=20=

Eloy, Renzo Spiteri, Martin Parker, Eduardo Miranda, Scott Krejci, Eric=20=

Lyon, Annette Vande Gorn, Ludger Br=FCmmer, Adrian Moore, Ian Stewart,=20=

Antonin de Bemels and Gordon Delap, dis.playce, Jason Dixon and Henry=20
Vega, Gavin Morris and Tom Davis, Jonty Harrison, Martin Stig Andersen,=20=

Jason Geistweidt, Christopher McClelland, Franziska Schroeder, Frank=20
Ekeberg, Wojciech Kosma, Jonathan Impett, John Bowers, Phil Archer,=20
Cesar Villavicencio, Matt Rogalsky, Ed Kelly, Alexis Perepelycia,=20
Shigeto Wada, Alex Sanders, James Dexter, Nick Melia, Simon Waters,=20
Stefano Scarani, Ireland String Quartet

A large number of events take advantage of the unique Sonic Laboratory=20=

at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University. The centre was=20
officially opened by Karlheinz Stockhausen during Sonorities 2004. The=20=

Sonic Laboratory includes arrays of loudspeakers strategically located=20=

around, above and below the audience area. Audiences walk out onto a=20
suspended, acoustically transparent floor and experience a=20
multi-dimensional sound world in the centre of a cube.

Sonorities counts with the support of the Arts Council Northern=20
Ireland, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Arts Council England, Queen=92s=20
University Belfast
For full listing and ticket information please check the Sonorities=20
website at
http://www.sonorities.co.uk

BOX OFFICE
TEL: +44 (0)28 9097 4829 FAX: +44 (0)28 9027 4828
EMAIL: sarc@qub.ac.uk

Pedro Rebelo
Chair, Sonorities

=09=

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<bold><smaller>Sonorities=20

Festival of Contemporary Music 2005

26th April - 4th May 2005=20

Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast

</smaller></bold><smaller>

The Sonorities Festival is the longest-running new music festival in
Ireland and is one of the cornerstone Festivals in Europe presenting
innovative new music.  The Festival has always brought to Northern
Ireland innovative ideas and sounds from across the world and the 2005
Festival is no exception in this regard.  For 2005 we present the work
of artists who deliberately explore the space in between established
cultural forms. The festival explores the diversity of technological
arts, which better than any other, reflect the micro-cultures that
characterise our society. We are proud to present a programme that
showcases the variety of artistic practice at the beginning of the
21st Century.=20

<bold>Luc Ferrari</bold> and <bold>Frank Zappa</bold> are two of the
most thought-provoking and controversial musicians of the last one
hundred years. Zappa's <italic>You Call That Music?</italic>,
(incidentally not presented at this festival) is a work of
experimental music situated in a rock concert context. Zappa's
typically adept title summarises the importance of how an artist can
place his or her work in order to question cultural norms that are
associated with particular types of art practice. Luc Ferrari's visit
to Sonorities celebrates the work of the electronic music pioneer who
has constantly challenged genres and pre-defined music cultures.
Ferrari's playful and ironic approach to music-making provides an
alternative perspective on modernity and on the role of music in
contemporary society.

In a celebration of modes of creativity which go beyond the
definitions of music, visual and performance arts, this year=92s
festival features:=20

<bold>Ensemble Proxima Centauri</bold> (France) with UK and World
Premieres of works by Hespos, Talla, Leroux, Havel and Aperghis [26th
April] and especially commissioned audio-visual work by SARC=92s
composer in residence <bold>Sebastian Castagna</bold> [27th April]

New work with live-electronics with Pianist <bold>Maki Namekawa</bold>
(Germany) [26th April]

<bold>Renzo Spiteri </bold>(Malta), <bold>Iain McCurdy and Michael
Alcorn </bold>(UK)<bold> </bold>with<bold> </bold><italic>Found
Objects and Live-electronics</italic> [28th April]

A celebration of electronic music pioneer <bold>Luc Ferrari</bold>
(France) with a unique orchestral performance of <italic>En un
tournement d'amour</italic> [27th April], and an evening of
<italic>Sons M=E9moris=E9</italic> on the 30th April.

The Ulster Orchestra performing new works with live-electronics by
<bold>Ricardo Climent</bold> (Spain) and especially commissioned
<bold>Ed Bennett</bold> (UK) [27th April]

Audio Visual performance with <bold>Paulo Raposo</bold> (Portugal) and
<bold>Murmurists</bold> (UK) 28th April

Sonorities @ the cathedral quarter (in collaboration with the
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival): A full day of events in venues
around the city's cultural district including <italic>Fruit
Music</italic> at St. George's Market, a Lagan boat tour with
<bold>Martin Parker=92s</bold> <italic>Auto-Route #2</italic>,
<bold>Ulster Orchestra</bold> playing the music of <bold>Frank
Zappa</bold>, and a club night of extreme audio-visual work with
<bold>8GG</bold> (China), <bold>Lietterschpich</bold> (Israel) and
<bold>Raffaseder/Parker/H=F6rbst</bold> (UK/Austria) [29th April]

<bold>John Kenny and Chris Wheeler</bold> (UK) with a program of works
written for the duo which explore the combination of natural sounds
with instruments such as the trombone and the carnyx [30th April]

A site specific sound installation for the PLACE Built Environment
Centre by sound artist <bold>Ed Osborn</bold> (US)

<italic>SHE - Transformations</italic>: Vocalist <bold>Frances
Lynch</bold> (UK) with a program of electroacoustic music theatre and
the limits of the human voice [1st May]

Performances of semi-improvised live-electronic music by <bold>Uli
Mitzlav and Miguel Pereira</bold> and <bold>Miso Ensemble</bold>
(Portugal) [30th April and 2nd May]

Sound artist and hardware hacker <bold>Nic Colins</bold> (US)
performing with a range of modified musical instruments [2nd May]

Audio Visual performance project <bold>UNFAIR</bold> (Austria)
featuring extreme vocalist <bold>Dietmar Bruckmayr</bold> [3rd May]

<italic>Show-reel</italic> of audio-visual work by<bold> Jo Thomas,
Mario Verandi, Germ=E1n Toro-P=E8rez, Yasuhiro Morinaga, Paulo Chagas,
Mark Pilkington and Hopkinson

</bold>

Other participating artists include:

<bold>John Young, Jo=E3o Pedro Oliveira, Albert Ortega, Martin Franklin,
Rajmil Fischman, David Berezan, Andrew Czink, Michael Clarke, laut,
Christian Eloy, Renzo Spiteri, Martin Parker, Eduardo Miranda, Scott
Krejci, Eric Lyon, Annette Vande Gorn, Ludger Br=FCmmer, Adrian Moore,
Ian Stewart, Antonin de Bemels and Gordon Delap, dis.playce, Jason
Dixon and Henry Vega, Gavin Morris and Tom Davis, Jonty Harrison,
Martin Stig Andersen, Jason Geistweidt, Christopher McClelland,
Franziska Schroeder, Frank Ekeberg, Wojciech Kosma, Jonathan Impett,
John Bowers, Phil Archer, Cesar Villavicencio, Matt Rogalsky, Ed
Kelly, Alexis Perepelycia, Shigeto Wada, Alex Sanders, James Dexter,
Nick Melia, Simon Waters, Stefano Scarani, Ireland String Quartet

</bold>A large number of events take advantage of the unique Sonic
Laboratory at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University. The
centre was officially opened by Karlheinz Stockhausen during
Sonorities 2004. The Sonic Laboratory includes arrays of loudspeakers
strategically located around, above and below the audience area.
Audiences walk out onto a suspended, acoustically transparent floor
and experience a multi-dimensional sound world in the centre of a =
cube.<bold>

</bold>

Sonorities counts with the support of the Arts Council Northern
Ireland, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Arts Council England, Queen=92s
University Belfast

For full listing and ticket information please check the Sonorities
website at=20

http://www.sonorities.co.uk

<bold>BOX OFFICE

</bold>TEL: +44 (0)28 9097 4829 FAX: +44 (0)28 9027 4828

EMAIL: sarc@qub.ac.uk

Pedro Rebelo=20

Chair, Sonorities=20

</smaller>=09=

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