Two Identical Showings Friday
Two Different from Friday but Identical to Each Other Showings on Saturday
It’s High Zero’s DIFFUSION FESTIVAL, the festival of music made out of sounds.
Just to remind you, DIFFUSION is our festival concerned with multi-channel electro-acoustic music, both brand new and historical.
Some of these sound pieces are made with just microphones, some of them are made with only electronic instruments, much of it is made with a combination of both. Some of them are played on 4 speakers, some on 6 speakers and some on 8 speakers!
Listening, in this medium is different from “normal” music, I like to think of it as the difference, on a hot day, between standing in front of an air conditioner, and soaking in a cool lake. Seats are taken, the lights are dimmed, and the sound commences, there is nothing to see, everything is seen with the ears.
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The 7th and the 8th are for the large part contemporary, with a few older pieces mixed in. The 12th is all brand new work and all from Baltimore! The 14th is just two artists: RM Francis from Seattle and A.M. from The Birmingham Electro Acoustic Sound Theatre both playing their own work. On the 15th A.M. will diffuse her selection of works representing a historical overview of multichannel electro acoustic music from the United Kingdom.
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We haven’t sequenced the festival yet, so I can’t tell you what pieces will be played on any given day. But I can tell you that they will be beautiful and strange. There will be pieces from France and China and Germany, The United States and The United Kingdom.
So, TWO shows a night on the 7th and 8th and 12th, but Friday and Saturday are different programs.
For the early one arrive at 7:30pm, for the late arrive at 9:30,
the program is roughly an hour and a half with a brutally short break.
IF YOU ARE COMING TO THE LATE SHOW (arrive between 9:30 and 9:50, but not after!) at The Red Room, please please please be quiet as we will be still running the early show while you arrive!
The first three nights are at The Red Room at Normals Books on 31st Street and the last two nights Friday and Saturday the 14th and 15th will be at The Voxel a beautifully refitted film theater on 25th Street. There will only be one show at the Voxel per night and you can pre-purchase tickets if you like at voxel.org AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE.
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PLEASE JOIN US FOR ALL FIVE NIGHTS! November 7th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 15th
