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** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This guided introduction is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
** This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
FUTURE PROJECTIONS : MEMORIES OF THE SPACE AGE
Ephraim Asili + Deborah Stratman + Chris Marker + Jacolby Satterwhite + Harun Farocki + John Whitney
“Here are clouds formed from squares.” – Harun Farocki
A collection of visionary works from days not-yet-past, films and videos which peer backwards on the promises of what-is-to-be. Anchored by the late French essayist Chris Marker’s reality distortion machine and illustrated with oracular 15th century astronomical broadsides + NASA JPL footage (Stratman), gloriously CGI’d home movie footage (Satterwhite) and early computer-generated motion graphics (Whitney), this program takes Harun Farocki’s inquiry into a technology-of-representation as a metaphor for our own collective advance. Featuring music by Terry Riley and the world premiere of a new work by Ephraim Asili!
FEATURING:
Memories of the Space Age by Ephraim Asili (3:00, video, 2016)
These Blazeing Stars by Deborah Stratman (14:16, 16mm, 2011)
2084 by Chris Marker (10:00, video, 1984)
The Country Ball by Jacolby Satterwhite (12:38, video, 2012)
Parallel I by Harun Farocki (15:00, video, 2014)
Matrix III by John Whitney (10:00, video, 1971)
TRT 66
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
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This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.“The tune is never finished, you always have to continue writing it in order to keep it alive” says Thomas Fehlmann of The Orb.
Lunar Orbit takes us into the Ultraworld of the pioneers of ambient house music.
Patrick Buchanan’s feature documentary explores The Orb’s unique creative process and delves into the story behind the music, revealing the history of The Orb’s origins and the foundation of the friendships which anchor the mother spaceship.
A blend of unprecedented studio access from the duo’s Moonbuilding 2703AD recording sessions in Berlin, live concert footage, rare unseen archive material and interviews with key creative players; Youth, Guy Pratt, Mixmaster Morris, Matt Black, and many other current and former members of the Orb's extended family result in a film that is truly Orbriginal.
Alex Paterson describes his musical method, “I don’t particularly want to pick up an instrument, I want to pick up all these sounds and make musical notes out of these sounds.”
This is the North American premiere of Lunar Orbit. There will be a Q and A following the screening with producer/director/editor Patrick Buchanan and Alex Paterson & Thomas Fehlmann of The Orb.
lunarorbitfilm.com
Ghost Ramp is a record label, which alongside releasing traditional bands/producers, puts out original video game soundtracks. Lead by label manager Patrick McDermott a panel discussion will include composers, visual artists and record label personnel. The discussion will focus the vibrant and growing state of video game music - and its entrance into the physical / traditional musical landscape.
Joining us via Skype
Danny Baronowsky - Video Game Composer (Crypt of the Necrodancer, Super Meat Boy, Binding of Issac) and Hugh Myrone - Video Game Composter (Driftstage)
The Kabbalistic Synthesizer as a device is intended to offer live connection to macrocosmic events going on outside of perception. The Earth’s Magnetic Field (Ut) is the base fundimental frequency of a 22 voice FM system with arbitrary division based on John Chowni-ngs PHD 1973,on the ‘synthesis of natural sound.’
An 11 Tube Cosmic Ray Detector acts as an event handler patched to control dynamics of a Live input from a 21.1mhz Dipole/Fractal-Radio Telescope with a resonant low pass filter.
Sam Conran will be improvising with the raw inputs for 30 minutes in a session that is a meditation on the macrocosmic as much as sonic experience.
FUTURE PROJECTIONS : THE CAGE OF SAND
Edward Rankus + Barbara Hammer + Michael Robinson + Tony Conrad + OJOBOCA + Makino Takashi
“As [we] watched, [our] lean arms propped against the rusting rail, the last whorls of light sank away into the cerise funnel withdrawing against the horizon, and the first wind stirred across the dead Martian sand.” – JG Ballard
Like Ballard’s protagonist in The Cage of Sand, we-the-audience find ourselves slowly being covered over by an alien sandstorm of the decidedly televisual sort. We drift to sleep and awaken with a start, lost within a videogame daydream (Robinson). In a wash of flickering static (Conrad), post-industrial Amiga-animated “dirty pictures” (Hammer), and derelict images narrated by what seems to be a German robot (OJOBOCA), we find ourselves anew: we are chaos, we are sandstorm (Takashi). Featuring the world premiere of a new work by NC-based video artist Edward Rankus!
FEATURING:
The Cage of Sand by Edward Rankus (3:00, video, 2016)
No No Nooky TV by Barbara Hammer (12:00, 16mm, 1987)
And We All Shine On by Michael Robinson (7:00, 16mm, 2006)
Eye of Count Flickerstein by Tony Conrad (7:00, 16mm, 1967)
Wolkenschatten by OJOBOCA (15:00, 16mm, 2014)
Cinéma Concret by Makino Takashi (24:00, video, 2015)
TRT 68
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.Join RVNG Intl's Matt Werth in a discussion about today's "time traveling record label A&R." What is the reissue issue? How do reissues impact the musical landscape, both active and archived? Is there power in activation over fetishization?
With guests Jamal Moss.
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Workshops are first come, first served and limited in capacity. This workshop will begin immediately following the 6-6:30pm live performance. Entry is not guaranteed.
Open to artists, VIPs, and press. Complimentary drinks, DJ set by Laurel Halo.
Featuring:
Peter Gordon (Sax, Organ)
Ernie Brooks (Bass Guitar)
Rhys Chatham (Flutes)
Peter Zummo (Trombone)
Ned Sublette (Guitar)
Gavin Russom (Synth)
Bill Ruyle (Percussion)
Max Gordon (Trumpet, Piano)
Kit Fitzgerald (Video)
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Open to all VIP ticket holders. Donuts and biscuits courtesy of Rise Durham and Rise Raleigh. Bloody Marys on Moogfest.
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This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.Don Buchla is an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis. A contemporary of Bob Moog, Buchla designed and sold Modular synthesizers starting in 1963.
Richard Smith, an electronics technician and musician with over fifteen years of experience in the restoration of historic high-end systems by Buchla, Moog, ARP, and EMS, has amassed the world’s most complete collection of electronic instruments ever assembled by designer Don Buchla, comprised of discrete instruments as well as prototypes, historical photographs, brochures and support documentation spanning 1965 to 2005. Moogfest celebrates the work and legacy of Don Buchla with an exhibition curated from the collections of Richard Smith, Suzanne Ciani, Kurt Kurasaki, and Switched On, featuring rare Buchla devices and ephemera spanning over 50 years.
Presented by Red Bull Music Academy. Richard Smith, along with Alessandro Cortini, Morton Subotnik, Sarah Davachi, and Suzanne Ciani, honor Don Buchla in a very special concert at 3:45pm on Friday, May 20th at the Durham Arts Council PSI Theatre.** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This guided introduction is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.FUTURE PROJECTIONS : A QUESTION OF RE-ENTRY
Bill Brown + Sabrina Ratté + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Yuri Ancarani + Sara Magenheimer
“Appearing out of the emptiness and then disappearing again into emptiness.” – Harun Farocki
From an orbiting satellite, everything becomes landscape. Mountain becomes shadow, building becomes mark, that vast expanse of ocean is naught but a field of color. And for that astronaut rotating far above her home planet, the distant Earth has steadily transformed itself into an object resembling nothing more than a glorious synth mirage (Ratté). The question of re-entry becomes a question of scale: how do we return to the everyday when the micro is the macro with a Buchla soundtrack (Frampton), when even the body has become terrain (Ancarani)? The question of re-entry is a question of perspective (Magenheimer). Featuring the world premiere of a new work by NC-based film-and-zinemaker Bill Brown!
FEATURING:
A Question of Re-Entry by Bill Brown (3:00, video, 2016)
Sightings: Landfall by Sabrina Ratté (7:00, video, 2014)
Parallel II by Harun Farocki (8:00, video, 2014)
Special Effects by Hollis Frampton (10:30, 16mm, 1972)
Da Vinci by Yuri Ancarani (24:00, video, 2012)
Slow Zoom Long Pause by Sara Magenheimer (13:00, video, 2015)
TRT 68
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
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This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.“Founding the Future Of...” features innovators in North Carolina who exemplify what Moogfest is about. They are companies and entrepreneurs who see a different future for industry and are bold enough to take it on with their technology product or service. In many cases, there is intellectual property involved. Watch and listen as they demo their products or technology, and then sit down for a conversation about building their companies in the Triangle region of North Carolina.
With guests Anish Chandak of Impulsonic (Future of Sound in Media), Aly and Beth Kfalifa of Designbox/Lyf Shoes (Future of Consumer Product Manufacturing), Doug Kaufman of TransLoc (Future of Transit), Gart Davis of Spoonflower (Future of Design), Ginger Dosier of bioMason (Future of Construction), Jake Stauch of Neuro+ (Future of ADHD Treatment), and Laura Baverman of ExitEvent.What does the not-too-distant future look like when cyberconsciousness becomes part of our daily lives? Join Dr. Martine Rothblatt—creator of GeoStar satellite navigation and Sirius XM Radio, and founder and Chief executive officer of the multi-billion dollar biotech United Therapeutics — as she parses the future of humanity and how it applies to business, life, and creativity. Examine the "Promise & Peril of Virtual Humans," based in part on Dr. Rothblatt's latest book, as it relates to ever-smarter bots behind social media services matching our own personalities, and having our own thoughts, based on their smart access to comprehensive digital reflections of our lives. Learn about the automated curating of mindfiles, the open-source creation of ever-better mindware and the inevitable emergence of mindclones who will insist they are the continuation of flesh-and-blood humans. Witness how the LGBTQ movement of today, including the freedom of gender identity, will evolve to a future social creativity movement based upon freedom of form.
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FUTURE PROJECTIONS : THE DEAD ASTRONAUT
Sabine Gruffat + Jesse McLean + Harun Farocki + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Wojciech Bakowski + Peter Burr
“A dozen astronauts had died in orbital accidents, their capsules left to revolve through the night sky like the stars of a new constellation…” – JG Ballard
As virtual self is replaced by virtual selves, a rapidly expanding world of cyber-explorers is abandoned and set adrift, left to orbit the ever-infinite WWW. Left without an end command, they scale hyper-mountains (McLean), stretch themselves into depressing new pixel-shapes (Bakowski), exhibit predictively loathsome behavior (Farocki) and wander drunk and chaotic onto the Information Superhighway (Burr). Like a digital poltergeist, they materialize in the real – crashing through the touchscreen glass of our window-sized screens (Rose), transposing their uncanny visage onto every organic form they touch (Huyghe). Featuring the world premiere of a new work by NC-based digital media artist Sabine Gruffat!
FEATURING:
The Dead Astronaut by Sabine Gruffat (3:00, video, 2016)
Climbing by Jesse McLean (6:00, video, 2009)
Parallel IV by Harun Farocki (11:20, video, 2014)
Untitled (Human Mask) by Pierre Huyghe (20:00, video, 2014)
A Minute Ago by Rachel Rose (10:00, video, 2014)
Suchy Pion (Dry Standpipe) by Wojciech Bakowski (13:00, video, 2012)
Green Red by Peter Burr (10:23, video, 2012)
TRT 73
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.FUTURE PROJECTIONS : MY DREAM OF FLYING TO WAKE ISLAND
Mary Helena Clark and Lakshmi Luthra + Sabrina Ratté + Mike Stoltz + Shambhavi Kaul + Cauleen Smith + Harun Farocki + David O’Reilly + Lillian Schwartz
“I’ve been thinking that it’s time – so very time – for you to leave.” – Cauleen Smith
Herein is a kino-dream of flight, of departure, of Being Elsewhere. With a score by the Eternals and a collection of images taken from the archives of the Earth herself (Smith), our journey begins in a desert by the sea (Kaul) – no, in a digital desert by the digital sea (Farocki) – I mean, in a punk club in the shadow of Cape Canaveral (Stoltz) – wait, in a vibrating yellow synth-horizon (Ratté). Wherever we begin, beyond the horizon is Future: where the dream is forgotten and remembered again (O’Reilly), where that computer-animated vessel is revealed (Schwartz) in all of its flickering glory. Featuring the world premiere of a new work by experimental filmmaker Mary Helena Clark!
FEATURING:
My Dream of Flying to Wake Island by Mary Helena Clark and Lakshmi Luthra (3:00, video, 2016)
Sightings: Habitat by Sabrina Ratté (6:00, video, 2014)
Under the Atmosphere by Mike Stoltz (14:30, 16mm, 2014)
Night Noon by Shambhavi Kaul (12:00, video, 2014)
Songs for Earth and Folk by Cauleen Smith (10:40, video, 2013)
Parallel III by Harun Farocki (7:20, video, 2014)
Please Say Something by David O’Reilly (11:00, video 2008)
UFOs by Lillian Schwartz (3:00, video, 1971)
TRT 65:00
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark and Lakshmi Luthra + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.Don Buchla is an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis. A contemporary of Bob Moog, Buchla designed and sold Modular synthesizers starting in 1963.
Richard Smith, an electronics technician and musician with over fifteen years of experience in the restoration of historic high-end systems by Buchla, Moog, ARP, and EMS, has amassed the world’s most complete collection of electronic instruments ever assembled by designer Don Buchla, comprised of discrete instruments as well as prototypes, historical photographs, brochures and support documentation spanning 1965 to 2005. Moogfest celebrates the work and legacy of Don Buchla with an exhibition curated from the collections of Richard Smith, Suzanne Ciani, Kurt Kurasaki, and Switched On, featuring rare Buchla devices and ephemera spanning over 50 years.
Presented by Red Bull Music Academy. Richard Smith, along with Alessandro Cortini, Morton Subotnik, Sarah Davachi, and Suzanne Ciani, honor Don Buchla in a very special concert at 3:45pm on Friday, May 20th at the Durham Arts Council PSI Theatre.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This guided introduction is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.FUTURE PROJECTIONS : NEWS FROM THE SUN
Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Semiconductor + Rose Lowder + Louis Henderson + Doris Chase
“All the light in the universe had come to greet him, an immense congregation of particles.” – JG Ballard
From that fiery orb some 92.95 million miles away (Chase) comes an AV message of brilliant noise and plasmatic beauty, a broadcast echoed out through the kinetic vibrations of solar wind and rain (Semiconductor). Traveling for eight minutes and 20 seconds through the inky darkness of our universe, this gift of light is absorbed so as to be shouted back out, finding its voice in the radical 16mm vibration of organic matter (Lowder) – of life itself. Thus spoken, the trace of sun is turned to gold – interned in the earth’s crust where it awaits the hand of man - who in turn awaits his post-colonial revenge (Henderson). Featuring the world premiere of NC-based filmmakers and programmers Brendan and Jeremy Smyth!
FEATURING:
News from the Sun by Brendan and Jeremy Smyth (3:00, video, 2106)
Brilliant Noise by Semiconductor (5:45, video, 2006)
Bouquets 21-30 by Rose Lowder (14:00, 16mm, 2005)
Lettres de Voyant by Louis Henderson (40:00, video, 2013)
Circles I by Doris Chase (6:45, 16mm, 1971)
TRT 67
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
If you would like to pre-register, you can do so directly with The Forge at http://theforgedowntown.org/moogfest
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.Workshops are first come, first served and limited in capacity. This workshop will begin immediately following the 1-1:30pm live performance. Entry is not guaranteed.
Broad discussion about Afrofuturism as a discipline and practice, its current state, and what insights it holds for what's to come in arts, culture, politics, and beyond. Featuring Reggie Watts, Mykki Blanco, and more to be announced.
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.Enjoy local beer, local art, and special appearances from Moogfest 2016 performing artists. Pick up your official Moogfest merchandise and the newest apparel from RUNAWAY, North Carolina's premier lifestyle brand.
FUTURE PROJECTIONS : MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Lillian Schwartz + Basma Alsharif + Deborah Stratman + Ben Rivers
“…space was not a linear structure at all, but a model of an advanced condition of time, a metaphor for eternity which they were wrong to try to grasp…” – JG Ballard
This is a five-part proposal for a time out-of-time, for an oracular cinema that envisions the possibilities of multiple futures – as determined by histories rewritten and yet-to-be. Beginning with a visionary Moog-sountrack’d computer animation from 1970 (Schwartz); followed by an epileptic un-telling of the 1948 Palestinian exodus (Alsharif) and a new fable for our found-footage existence (Stratman); and ending with a set of sci-fi island utopias recorded in the distopian present (Rivers) – here is cinema as evidence, as proof of worlds unseen. Featuring a score by Olivia Block and the world premiere of a new work by video duo Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby!
FEATURING:
Myths of the Near Future by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (3:00, video, 2016)
Pixillation by Lillian Schwartz (4:00, 16mm, 1970)
Farther Than the Eye Can See by Basma Alsharif (13:00, video, 2012)
Second Sighted by Deborah Stratman (5:05, video, 2014)
Slow Action by Ben Rivers (45:00, video, 2011)
TRT 70
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.The ART and INSPIRATION of MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DESIGN: join Cyril Lance of Moog Music to discuss the essential ingredients that combine into the alchemy of instrument design -- legacy, inspiration, collaboration, experimentation, creativity and the practical constraints of manufacturing. This alchemy has been with us since the beginning of the human experience as the need to express ourselves through music is an essential part of who we are.
Featuring a very special selection of performances, readings, and surprises from a range of Wondaland artists, associates, and collaborators; this ‘mystery reveal’ represents the beginnings of a larger clandestine project being launched by Wondaland this year. Founded by creative visionary Janelle Monáe, Wondaland Records is home to artists like Jidenna, St. Beauty, Roman GianArthur, and Deep Cotton.
** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
Open to artists, VIPs, and press; Complimentary food and drink, DJ sets by Cosmic Ron and The Studio Gold.
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.The Kabbalistic Synthesizer as a device is intended to offer live connection to macrocosmic events going on outside of perception. The Earth’s Magnetic Field (Ut) is the base fundimental frequency of a 22 voice FM system with arbitrary division based on John Chowni-ngs PHD 1973,on the ‘synthesis of natural sound.’
An 11 Tube Cosmic Ray Detector acts as an event handler patched to control dynamics of a Live input from a 21.1mhz Dipole/Fractal-Radio Telescope with a resonant low pass filter.
Sam Conran will be improvising with the raw inputs for 30 minutes in a session that is a meditation on the macrocosmic as much as sonic experience.
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
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By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.Come see IBM Watson Beat jam at a cognitive music machine-and-man showcase. Watson Beat will interpret live music, and in turn, create original compositions inspired by those various interpretations.
FUTURE PROJECTIONS : THE MAN WHO WALKED ON THE MOON
Alee Peoples + JJ Murphy + Beatrice Gibson + Scott Bartlett + Tony Conrad
“I, too, was once an astronaut.” – JG Ballard
His lungs filled with pure oxygen and his body clad in a pressurized spacesuit, our spaceman’s foot lightly grazes the fragile surface of the moon. He stares out at the distant blue satellite as moon dust fans out in a slow eruption from his footfall; he thinks back to the disjunctive voyage that brought him here (Murphy), about Minecraft and capitalism and his hallucinatory childhood (Gibson). He thinks of the landing and of the present and he is overwhelmed (Bartlett) – he is Moon! He rotates, he moves from day to night to day; dark to light to dark to light. He is everything, Moon caught in a flicker of time (Conrad). Featuring the world premiere of a new work by filmmaker Alee Peoples!
FEATURING:
The Man Who Walked On the Moon by Alee Peoples (3:00, video, 2016)
Science Fiction by JJ Murphy (5:00, 16mm, 1979)
F for Fibonacci by Beatrice Gibson (16:25, video, 2014)
Moon 1969 by Scott Bartlett (15:00, 16mm, 1969)
The Flicker by Tony Conrad (30:00, 16mm, 1966)
TRT 70
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.Don Buchla is an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis. A contemporary of Bob Moog, Buchla designed and sold Modular synthesizers starting in 1963.
Richard Smith, an electronics technician and musician with over fifteen years of experience in the restoration of historic high-end systems by Buchla, Moog, ARP, and EMS, has amassed the world’s most complete collection of electronic instruments ever assembled by designer Don Buchla, comprised of discrete instruments as well as prototypes, historical photographs, brochures and support documentation spanning 1965 to 2005. Moogfest celebrates the work and legacy of Don Buchla with an exhibition curated from the collections of Richard Smith, Suzanne Ciani, Kurt Kurasaki, and Switched On, featuring rare Buchla devices and ephemera spanning over 50 years.
Presented by Red Bull Music Academy. Richard Smith, along with Alessandro Cortini, Morton Subotnik, Sarah Davachi, and Suzanne Ciani, honor Don Buchla in a very special concert at 3:45pm on Friday, May 20th at the Durham Arts Council PSI Theatre.** This session is free and open to the public as part of Moogfest’s STEAM program. A festival ticket is not required.
This guided introduction is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.Workshops are first come, first served and limited in capacity. This workshop will begin immediately following the 1-1:30pm live performance. Entry is not guaranteed.
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** This workshop is limited in capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to start time. Entrance is not guaranteed.
** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.** If you successfully register for this workshop, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session. Those not in attendance 5-minutes before the session begins, may forfeit their spot to the next person on the waitlist.
By registering for a workshop, you acknowledge that Moogfest may share your email address with the instructor for the purpose of planning and coordinating this event.FUTURE PROJECTIONS : MEMORIES OF THE SPACE AGE II
Stephanie Barber + Shirley Clarke + Tony Conrad + Jeremy Bailey + Lawrence Jordan + Rosa Barba + Adam Beckett
“All day this strange pilot had flown his antique aeroplane over the abandoned space center, a frantic machine lost in the silence...” – JG Ballard
For the final manifestation of Future Projections, we turn our eyes towards the utopian possibility of lives already lived. Transformations await! Watch as familiar cityscapes become alien (Clarke), as humans become monument-vessels (Bailey), as contaminated lands turn whole again (Barba), and as lines become color (Conrad). A Victorian figure, pixellated by time, is our shepherd on this forever journey from past to future to future-past (Jordan) – leaving us at the edge of consciousness, dreaming of the infinite (Beckett). We arrive, made anew, ready to begin again and again. Featuring the world premiere of a new work by Baltimore writer and video artist Stephanie Barber!
FEATURING:
Memories of the Space Age II by Stephanie Barber (3:00, video, 2016)
Bridges-Go-Round by Shirley Clarke (8:00, 16mm, 1958)
Straight and Narrow by Tony Conrad (10:00, 16mm, 1970)
Publicsculpture.mov by Jeremy Bailey (5:14, video, 2009)
Our Lady of the Sphere by Lawrence Jordan (10:00, 16mm, 1969)
Somnium by Rosa Barba (19:00, video, 2011)
Heavy-Light by Adam Beckett (7:00, 16mm, 1973)
TRT 63
FUTURE PROJECTIONS is a 9-part screening program of short film and video work drawn from 125 years of techno-prophecy and oracular future-visions. Taking its title from distopian sci-fi author JG Ballard’s short story collection of the same name, each program in Memories of the Space Age follows the thread of a different tale, tracing out a conceptual audiovisual line into the (im)possible horizons of our future planet(s) – an Earth vibrating under the heat of multiple suns, subject to the pull of infinite moons, and peopled by a population not unlike our own. Herein are 45+ short films, videos and movies-with-live-soundtracks conjured forth by the most forward-thinking media artists of our time(s): from computer pioneers to mechanical futurists, FX wizards to analogue feedback architects, landscape holographers to post-human anthropologists, cyber-essayists to Uncanny Valley voyagers, cut-up creationists to magical (un)realists, and 16mm futurologists to digital humanists – Future Projections presents a kinetic and syncretic history of All That Is Yet To Be.
Highlights include an embedded 16mm tribute to the great musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad (RIP); two radical video synth landscapes by Montreal artist Sabrina Ratté; Japanese noise filmmaker Makino Takashi’s 3D-immersive Cinéma Concrete, late German essayist Harun Farocki’s videogame dissection Parallel I-IV, French avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder’s flicker tour-de-force Bouquets 21-30, Cauleen Smith’s Eternals-track’d Afrofuturist collage Songs for Earth and Folk, commissions of 9 new shorts by local and national filmmakers, and more!
FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS BY: Alee Peoples + Bill Brown + Brendan and Jeremy Smyth + Edward Rankus + Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby + Ephraim Asili + Mary Helena Clark + Sabine Gruffat + Stephanie Barber
FEATURING FILMS / VIDEOS BY: Adam Beckett + Barbara Hammer + Basma Alsharif + Beatrice Gibson + Ben Rivers + Cauleen Smith + Chris Marker + David O’Reilly + Deborah Stratman + Doris Chase + Harun Farocki + Hollis Frampton + Jacolby Satterwhite + Jeremy Bailey + Jesse McLean + JJ Murphy + John Whitney + Lawrence Jordan + Lillian Schwartz + Louis Henderson + Makino Takashi + Michael Robinson + Mike Stoltz + OJOBOCA + Peter Burr + Pierre Huyghe + Rachel Rose + Rosa Barba + Rose Lowder + Sabrina Ratté + Sara Magenheimer + Scott Bartlett + Semiconductor + Shambhavi Kaul + Tony Conrad + Wojciech Bakowski + Yuri Ancarani
With support from the Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org