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Tuesday, November
21
Admission: $8, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8:30pm
reservations
are recommended
The FOUR OPHONES is an interactive sound installation
that allows visitors to record sounds that are replayed infinitely
until replaced by other sounds. The installation provides a space
for playful musical collaboration and language-independent conversations
where the visitors themselves become composers, instrumentalists,
and listeners at the same time. The Ophones foster everything
from subtle interference etudes to collaborative chanting, semi-automated
social commentary to dense polyrhytmic drone parties.
AMERICAN OPHONISTE IDOL is the most prestigious
title in international Ophoniste artistry. Which Ophonistes do
you prefer? The crooners, the beat poets, or the heavy breathers?
On Tuesday November 21, at Monkey Town, the 2006 winner will be
crowned. Come and see local noisemakers, para-symphonic alarmists,
and the most infernally addicted loopaholics battle it out musically.
The Ophonistes are judged by a panel of effusive yet stern NYC
sound-passionates.
After the American Ophoniste Idol is crowned, the CELEBRATION
begins in which the Ophones are free for all to play with.
PROGRAM
8.30pm: Doors open
9 – 10.30pm: American Ophoniste Idol
10.30pm and onwards: Open Ophones
The FOUR
OPHONES have been exhibited at, among other places,
Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, PixelACHE in Helsinki, Mal au
Pixel in Paris, and the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo. The Four Ophones
are on a New York tour November 16-22, 2006, coordinated by Brooklyn
based curator Elna Svenle.
UNSWORN
consists of Erik Sandelin and Magnus
Torstensson, who are, apart from Ophone designers and
manufacturers, an art and design duo based in Malmö, Sweden.
http://www.unsworn.org/
http://www.unsworn.org/ophones/
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