Borders of Experiment: AGF & Mary C // Tim Shaw & Dirty Electronics
Master class and concert as part of the next series of the Borders Experiment at the Brno House of Arts.
/// BORDERS OF EXPERIMENT ///
AGF & Mary C - How to be in this world
Tim Shaw & Dirty electronics - Transmission lines
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6.00pm AGF & Mary C - Master class (If you would like to attend, please email vasulkakitchen@gmail.com in advance. Thanks!)
8.30pm Tim Shaw & Dirty electronics - Transmission lines
9.30pm AGF live
10.15pm Mary C dj set
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Ondřej Merta about the dramaturgy of the evening:
"This evening will go beyond the previous boundaries of the experiment.
There will be more than one concert on the program.
Two different tours, one night. I wouldn't say they're part of the same scene, but they fit together more than anything else. Because this meeting brings up themes that sometimes I'm afraid to even think about. I hope to get rid of that fear at the AGF and Mary C master class, which we'll be starting all evening at 18 hours.
You are cordially invited to the concert and master class.
(I'm trying to suppress the urge to write that this will be the Brno concert of the year.)
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/// ABOUT THE PROJECTS ///
AGF and Mary C come to discuss the burning issues of the scene. The pair of Tim Shaw and Dirtyelectronics are sure to be electrocuted, as they say.
Two approaches to the world, to music, two worlds and between them runs a line that I'm afraid to write about as a border."
AGF & Mary C team up to tour former Eastbloc territories by train in spring 2023 to connect and discuss pressing issues with other musicians and organizers around Eastern Europe and map current sound and political territories.
TOPICS:
Systems of Power
Sound, music and sound technologies, instruments, tools
Deep Listening
Degrowth
Music industry - ethics and streaming, collapse of live music industry
Organizing otherwise - access, care and mutual help
Copyright, copyleft - sampling /ownership
Live performance - vulnerability and multilogue vs one way confidence
Eastbloc – east scene
Feminism and anti-gender movements
antifascism
Co-opting important concepts
sonicwilderness
political sound & listening
feminist transnational organizing
networking, what works and what does not and how.
TIM SHAW & DIRTY ELECTRONICS –TRANSMISSION LINES
A new performance-installation for spark-gap transmission and electromagnetic spectrum. Spark gaps made from everyday objects used as conducting electrodes. Scrap metal, tin cans, chairs, barrels, cooking utensils, a bicycle wheel are hung and agitated by performative action and motor mechanisms to create intense electrical sparks and raw sound. Whilst radio waves omitted from the high voltage constructions are picked-up by DIY coils, sound-circuits and portable radios. Sequences of charged Xenon camera flashes, Franklin bells, Jacobs Ladders and electromagnetic pumps are folded into the environment. A wayfaring journey through the danger zone of high voltage light and sound.
Dirty Electronics & Tim Shaw’s Transmission Lines was developed during a recent residency in an old timber yard in Yamaguchi, Japan.