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UBC CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS
ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND CULTURE
Refrains: Music Politics Aesthetics | September 29th 2001
From hip-hop to rave culture, digital music and its political and social movements have fuelled the minds and bodies of society’s youth for over a quarter of a century. What brought about digital music culture, and what can we expect from it in the future?
Refrains: Music Politics Aesthetics hopes to answer some of these questions in a free conference and performance on Saturday, September 29th. Organised and run by UBC undergraduate and graduate students, Refrains is a liberating step toward opening academic traditions to modern day social movements and culture. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Featuring internationally renowned experimental electronic composer and cultural theorist Kim Cascone (Mille Plateaux Records, Stanford U, San Francisco), as well as Montreal’s Tim Hecker aka Jetone (Concordia U, Mille Plateaux Records) and speakers from Helsinki to Denver, Seattle, Montreal and Pennsylvania, Refrains is a grassroots conference designed to not only entertain the mind, but also stimulate the ears. Many of the presentations are multimedia based, and the day will culminate in a free performance at the Video-In at 1965 Main Street, with music from international and local experimental electronic musicians including Kim Cascone
and Ben Nevile, and installation art by Triina Linde and Olo J. Milkman.
And in an exciting move of local camaraderie and solidarity, Refrains is the final night of the second annual
Open Circuits experimental electronic music festival, also to be held at the Video-In from September 27th-28th. (For more information on Open Circuits, please contact
Brady Cranfield.)
The conference begins at 9am in the Coach House, Green College at UBC, with presentations split between the Coach House and the Buchanan Penthouse. The conference ends at 5:30pm. The performance begins at 8pm at the Video-In, until late.
Full information on the conference and performance can be found on the website at:
www.shrumtribe.com/refrains. Please visit the website for the schedule, directions, full list of speakers and their topics, etc. Some musicians and speakers may be available for interviews.
Press contact and information for Refrains: tobias van Veen
Thanks to our sponsors: The Vancouver New Music Society, UBC Faculty of Arts, UBC English Department, The Walter Gage Memorial Fund, Green College, Discorder Magazine and the Video-In.
Questions? refrainsconference@hotmail.com
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