[curatorial.net] Free Summer Weekend Festival: Expo Plymouth (22-25 June)

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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 make
landfall 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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B [Birgitte] Aga
Outreach Curator
i-DAT
Institute of Digital Art and Technology
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School of Computing, Communications and Electronics,
University of Plymouth,
Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Devon, UK.
0044-01752-232560 
0044-07966685179
0044-0044-01752-232540

birgitte.aga at plymouth.ac.uk
http://www.i-dat.org


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