Hi,
I am
going to let you in on a little secret, the Twin Cities has an absolutely
huge electronic scene, no really by some accounts the second or
third largest, course it's sort of hard to tell since they removed
the "are you an Electro-acoustic musician?" question form the last
census. If you've been to the SC/FP events for the past two years
you know what I mean, ( six stages running simultaneously over four
floors, and a thousand or so people). You don't see shows or audiences
like that in other places, really.
When
you say Minnesota music most people think of the usuals ; prince
and Jimmy Jam, or if they are more the Indy type the Mats and Husker
Du, then there are the pop enthusiasts; Semisonic, Mint Condition,
or gasp shudder Kid Johnny Lang. Trying to map music choice to any
plot of land seems to be a silly notion, but it becomes particularly
silly when that plot of land is Minnesota. Just a look at that list
of Minnesota music you see a pretty broad range, and that's just
the stuff that gets airplay. It's an eclectic place, and when you
refer to music that falls into the " electric" category well look
out, cause there are more genres and sub-genres then I can keep
track of.
This
program which celebrates this wiggly little genre started roughly
9 years ago in a chapel at McAlester Collage., It has since grown
into an International traveling loose association of electronic
music. Playing at more venues then any number of people could, or
would care to shake a stick at. Although no one is going to confuse
it for Lollapalooza, it's still pretty darn cool. It's been my privilege
to be a part of it for seven years, both as a one of the curators
of the national festival, but really has The producer of the Twin
Cities Event., and for the past few years as the head of Future
Perfect.
When
I started with SC The concerts took place in 100 seat theater called
the Red Eye, and half the music was pre-recorded. But it was in
that little space that a lot of what became the Mpls electric boom
started, it marked a point to where Electronic music was liberated
from greying academics drooling over the tired bones of Clara Rockmore
and company. This seemed as good as time as any to reflect a bit,
go back to our roots, and explore this little "somewhere ", The
place between the anonymous commercial thud of techno , and the
oscillated Bird songs of professors ,this the little musical crawl
space in which we live. Here's to making it bigger.
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riday
Sonic
Circuits: Liquid Music Selections from the Sonic Circuits festival
in order
of appearance
Pre show:
Sonic Circuits9 CD
video:
Ballet - video Piece
Aaron
Barnell:
Preston
Wright
Tom Heasley
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Video:
Katherine Gordon
David
Birchfield (NY): -
Jack
Pavlik/ LorrenStafford:
Our Mine
Post
show: Future perfect, The Nature of Time
Saturday
Sonic
Circuits : Future Perfect : Solid
members
of Future perfect sound system doing their thing solo
in order
of appearance
Pre show:
Future perfect, The Nature of Time
Metaphor:
DJ Andrew
Grid
Drone
Chuck
Zwicky
DJ Terra
Incognita
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