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Open Circuits is a two-day festival of local experimental electronic music – music produced somewhere between contemporary electronica and academic electro acoustic composition. Producers in this dynamic grey area test the aesthetic status quo with the spirit of any active cross-border music subculture, such as with early rock and roll or punk. This time, however, digital technologies rather than amplified guitars are the main tools that are used in the process, while silence as much as noise is employed for effect. Increasingly commonplace, a growing international community surrounds this type of production, signified by the many independent producers that have turned their home computers into powerful music studios, as well as by the popularity of record labels such as Mego, Mille Plateaux, and Alien 8. This year's festival is going to take place September 27th to
28th at the Video In, a local artist-run video, digital video, and film centre, enabling the participants to show images with their music. In addition,
this year's Open Circuits festival coincides with the conclusion of the Refrains conference held at the University of British
Columbia, an interdisciplinary academic conference organized by UBC graduate and undergraduate students.
Participants include:
Thursday September 27th: Sam Maklin (Too Hectic) and Kris Rothstein, Robin
Mitchell and Lawrence Sim (Lsim), Brady Cranfield (Agriculture) and Jonathan
Eric, Julian Gosper (Jgosper), and Joshua Stevenson (+outhern acific-).
Friday September 28th: Ki Wight and Stefan Smulovitz, Nicolas Bragg and Vera
Gamboa, Kevin Bolster (Object/3EPKALO), Kerry Uchida (DJ Aural), and Scott
Morgan (Loscil).
Last year's Open Circuits festival called for all participants to make work that was not beat-based. This requirement was given to encourage work that did not follow the conventions that often accompany beat-based electronic music. However, this 'no-beat' challenge has been
opened this year to accommodate the experimental beats of the Refrains conference.
Admission for Thursday and Friday is $7.00 each night at the door.
Admission for Saturday is free.
Doors are at 8:00 PM. Performances start promptly at 8:30 PM.
more information - contact
brady cranfield
Thanks to the Video-In for their generous support.
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