WSK! -- three cryptic letters, which can only provide as much as the sum of the parts. It is organized by SABAW Media Art Kitchen – a not-for-profit organization whose primary interests lie in curatorial and research-based production towards the imminent intersections of art and technology.
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Fete dela WSK! (2010)
WHAT: FESTIVAL OPENING performance by TUJIKO NORIKO (Japan/France)
WHEN: Friday, November 19 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm
WHERE: Parallax Studio 7389 Bakawan St. San Antonio Village Makati
INFO:
9.00PM: “SONIC KITCHEN” by Malek Lopez and guests
An audio-visual performance involving a chef, a mobile kitchen set, and a sound designer culminating into a climax of exquisite culinary and sonic delights.
10.00PM: Un Escargot Vide?
A creation of Sebastien Szczyrk, the festival’s resident artist, will present an experimental performance using field recordings, and present these sounds absorbed by our earlaps as image-like frames t…o audience’s cerbral cortex. A real “cinema for the ear” treat!
11:00PM: TUJIKO NORIKO
Paris-based singer, Tujiko Noriko is steadily rising in becoming one of Japan’s most popular avant-pop acts. Tujiko Noriko’s introduction to the world at large was one of the most astonishing of the last years. She has been participating at some of the biggest international festivals such as Transmediale, Sonar and Mutek; and has established herself as one of the foremost songwriters in the realm of experimental electronica.
TICKET PRICE
250Php / Pre-sale 200Php
Festival Pass (all access to all events, VIP) = 800Php / Pre-sale 700Php
Contact: sabawmediahub@gmail.com or 09206045559
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WHAT: WEEKEND ONE: EXHIBITION OPENING AND EAR2EYE I WHEN: Saturday, November 20 at 7:00pm - November 21 at 5:00am WHERE: Outerspace Gallery and B-Side, THE COLLECTIVE7274 Malugay St. Makati City INFO: 7PM EXHIBITION OPENING … “EVOL-KI SUM” Kawayan De Guia (Baguio) <Outside> MANIMAL by Immortal Productions DJ MITURA (SWI) ************************************************************* WHAT: BEDROOMLAB.05 WORKSHOP & OPEN JAM SESSION WHEN: Sunday, November 21 · 4:30pm - 9:30pm WHERE: The Living Room, Unit 24, North Syquia Apartments 1991 MH del Pilar, Malate, Manila, Philippines INFO: WHY NUMBERS MAKE SOUND? **************************************************
WHAT: BEDROOMLAB0.6 ARTIST TALK & HOUSE PARTY WHEN: Wednesday, November 24 at 8:00pm - November 25 at 1:30am WHERE: The Living Room, Unit 24, North Syquia Apartments, 1991 MH del Pilar, Malate, Manila, Philippines INFO: Artists share and talk about their works-in-progress, wherein afterwards artist and professionals open discussions amongst themselves. **************************************************
WHAT: WEEKEND TWO: SHORTWAVE PIXELS, EAR2EYE II, DUBPLATE WHEN: Friday, November 26 at 7:00pm - November 27 at 5:30am WHERE: B-Side, THE COLLECTIVE, Free Press Parking Lot (Yakal St.) 7274 Malugay St. and Yakal St. INFO: 8.00PM CONCERT *********************************************
WHAT: VIDEO_KO : LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCES WHEN: Saturday, November 27 · 8:30pm - 11:30pm WHERE: Pamantasan ng Makati (University of Makati) Main Theater J.P. Rizal Ext. West Rembo ************************************************** WHAT: VICTORIA COURT BEDROOMLAB : SONIC THEATER, HEADPHONE GIG *********************************************
CONTINUOUS PROGRAM 20 > 27 NOV* FROM HERE TO EAR exhibition Outerspace Gallery
Bell website: http://cavemanifesto.blogspot.com/ Insonoresonance website1: http://www.unescargotvide.eu/ website2: http://tengalgorhythm.blogspot.com/ The Differend Machine website: http://www.kennethfeinstein.com/ Siren Shields* *This site-specific installation will be situated on the streets of Metro Manila until the end of the year. EVOL-KI SUM STIGMA (Part of the CLIMAX Series) Martin Bricelj Baraga and Tengal website: http://climaxmanila.tumblr.com/
FROM HERE TO EAR (ongoing until Nov 27)
Featuring sonic-sculptures and site-specific installations:
“Bell” Tad Ermitano
“Insonoresonance” Sebastian Syzyck (Paris) and Tengal
“The Differend Machine” Kenneth Feinstein (USA/Singapore)
“Siren Shields” HeHe
9.30PM CONCERT & PARTY
“EAR2EYE I”
Handmade music that blur the lines between electro-acoustic, free improvisation, industrial, free jazz, popular electronica, performance art and freeform-noise, and will be paired with the intensity of live video performances (vjing), exquisite homemade machines, real guitars, absurd costumes, and even more live action on stage.
<Inside>
Space 360 (Changmai)
Kijazz (Bangkok)
Autoceremony
Francis de Veyra and Radioactive Sago Project
EXPANSIONS + Elemento super psych group (Mark Zero, Elemento, Ill Primitivo)
wyxmm (Terence Lau) (Singapore)
VJing by Edsel Abesames, Clang Sison, Dennis Lagmadeo
DJ TOM TURNER (SWI)
JUSTIN DE GUZMAN
TICKET PRICE
200Php / Pre-sale 150Php
We offer a sale for two-nights for Ear2Eye I and II and Dubplate for only
350 / Pre-sale 300. The Ear2Eye II + Dubplate event costs 200 fixed price.
Festival Pass (all access to all events, VIP) = 800Php / Pre-sale 700Php
Contact: sabawmediahub@gmail.com or 09206045559
A lecture-workshop on Ableton Live and Max/Msp by MALEK LOPEZ and NOEL DEBRACKINGHE (Rubber Inc.).
Bring your laptops and instruments if you want to join in the open jam later!
4:30PM
LIMITED CAPACITY. FREE*
*Only the people who bought any ticket for any of the concerts of the festival, or possess a festival pass, shall be allowed to enter.
Featuring: Un Escargot Vide? (Paris), Magdalena Peseva (Prague) and other guests.
Popular djs, Mark Zero and Pasta Groove, spin eclectic mixes over beer and food.
8:00PM NO DAMAGE FREE BOOZE
LIMITED CAPACITY. FREE*
*Only the people who bought any ticket for any of the concerts of the festival, or possess a festival pass, shall be allowed to enter. OR you have to bring either any booze or food.
“Shortwave Pixels”
In cooperation with Future Shorts International
Future shorts screenings of Mowelfund experimental films plus live shortwave radio transmission of live music scores by E.X.I.S.T. sound art collective, Video artists, Edsel Abesames and Pierre Alex Sigmoon (France), present live video mapping over nearby building structures.
…Tags: Street Car Party - Future Shorts – Live radio transmissions - Video Mapping
Venue: Free Press Parking Lot, YAKAL St., Makati City
***To participate and fully enjoy the performance, please bring your car with radio or bring a portable radio boombox.
9:30PM CONCERT & PARTY
“EAR2EYE II” and DUBPLATE
Free-form noise from Merzbow (the god of noise) contemporaries straight from Japan, intense breakcore from Prague, experimental hiphop from local hitters, cutting-edge dubstep from Germany, and a potent mix of performance art, sludge-doom-core, and heavy metal – you get a night of wall shaking acoustic-meets-digital assault stirring acts of positive madness.
<Inside>
ASTRO (Tokyo)
Ježíš táhne na Berlín (Jesus Marches to Berlin) (Prague)
Seido (Tokyo)
The Hermetic Order
Noel deBrackinghe
SUBFLEX: Caliph8, Ill Primitivo, Inconnu ictu, Ampon collective
Vjing: Clang Sison, Mardigrass, Tad Ermitano, Sigmoon (France)
<Outside>
DJ DOSHY (Germany)
Redi Soundsystem
Mulan
SoulFlower
Don-P
TICKET PRICE
200Php Fixed price (Dubplate price to be paid at the gate)
We offer a sale for two-nights for Ear2Eye I and II and Dubplate (Nov20 and 26) for only 350Php / Pre-sale 300Php - to be bought only before Nov 20.
Festival Pass (all access to all events, VIP) = 800Php / Pre-sale 700Php
Contact sabawmediahub@gmail.com or 09206045559
INFO:
VIDEO_KO
Live cinema, modern networked computer performances, contemporary electro-acoustic Taiwanese music, and live dance captured on video delay machines.
8.30PM: Chih-Fang Huang and Chao-yun Luo (Taiwan)
9:00PM: “Twinning Machine” by Tad Ermitano
9:30PM: “gangan_osc” by Gangan Ensemble
10:00PM: “Lost Projections” by Zen Tight Collective (France) and Un Escargot Vide? (France)
MAP to Venue: http://bit.ly/aPFQpF
TICKET PRIC
100Php/ Pre-sale 50Php
Festival Pass (all access to all events, VIP) = 800Php / Pre-sale 700Php
Contact sabawmediahub@gmail.com or 09206045559
WHEN: Sunday, November 28 · 7:30pm - 11:30pm
WHERE: Victoria Court, 207 Hillcrest Drive, Pasig City
INFO:Private performances at one of the country’s top love motel.
Featuring sonic theater works, and audiovisual peep shows…
8.30PM “Subtitles not Included” by INC (performance, live video) and Un Escargot Vide? (sound)
9:30PM “The sexual act is in time what tiger is in space” by Moon Fear Moon (sound) and special guests
10:00PM Special performance by experimental theater troupe Sipat Lawin Ensemble
Featuring a site-specific video installation by Martin Baraga Bricelj (Slovenia): “STIGMA” (excerpt from the CLIMAX Series)
http://www.victoriacourt.b iz/
TICKET PRICE
250Php / Pre-sale 200Php
Festival Pass (all access to all events, VIP) = 800Php / Pre-sale 700Php
Contact sabawmediahub@gmail.com or 09206045559
CLOSING PARTY
At B-Side’s IRIE SUNDAY
Malugay St. Makati City
Featuring sonic-sculptures and site-specific installations:
Tad Ermitaño
Bell is a sound installation by Tad Ermitaño that revisits the principle of transduction – the process of converting one type of energy into another – as a field of sonic exploration. Ermitaño’s work abandons the use of prefabricated speakers and surrounds the audience with a curved wall of metal suspended from the ceiling, which is then vibrated by electromagnets driven by high-voltage audio signals. Sounds ripple, bounce, and interfere within the wall before being released into the air. Bell, - a title that recalls both the object and the inventor of the speaker - imagines an alternate reality where the speaker is not as a transparent transmitter of sonic content, but an instrument of architectural proportions.
Sebastian Szczyrk (Paris) and Tengal, etc
Sebastian Szczyrk, the creator of the project, Un Escargot Vide? is a French artist whose visual research (drawings, illustrations, performances) to sound experimentations (CD, concerts, installations) reach a diffusive panorama. As the festival’s residency artist, he’ll conduct a month long field research on public memory, urban structures and sound ecology. Insonoresonance is a result of various collaborations with local artists in Manila, which are presented in various outputs: as an installation for an exhibition, a cd, and series of computer drawings, and urban space intervensions. The work questions the viewer’s perception - the truth of representation - outlining a journey from the initial visioning of a series of “audio memories” with synthetic images and ending up in an encounter with a physical interactive object which co-opts information flows, sound and light transmission.
Kenneth Feinstein (USA/Singapore)
A audio-reactive video installation inspired by the writings of Jean-François Lyotard. In his bookThe Differend, Lyotard writes, “I would like to call a differend [différend] the case where the plaintiff is divested of the means to argue and becomes for that reason a victim. If the addressor, the addressee, and the sense of testimony are neutralized, everything takes place as if there were not damages”.
HeHe (Paris)
Mixing wit and cutting-edge tech to critique systems of control and police presence by using the very same surveillance systems against it. Siren Shields v1.0 is a personal counter surveillance software that monitors police activity. It records video upon hearing the same frequency of a police siren, not just on the streets but also on television. With humor, HeHe turns the tables and returns control to citizens who in turn can monitor those who control us. This software is freely available for download. Made with Maxime Lethelier & Norbert Schnell. HeHe is Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen. website
Kawayan De Guia (Baguio)
Known for his uncanny take on Filipino jukeboxes, German-Filipino artist Kawayan De Guia will construct a pseudo-jukebox: combining circuit-bent techniques and hand-made machine music playing what barely resembles its original sound source – music from jeepneys. Artist comment: “My concept is simple, to basically transform your every day jeepney ride music which consists of mostly “love music” from the 70s into something mysteries dark and unrecognisable from its original form and structure. To do so I will layer tweak and what not i also intend to include stolen or found conversations along side with AM commentators and radio drama.”
Dark Lady enters the Corridor. She walks and as she walks her steps become lighter and atmosphere darker. As she enters the room, she slowly takes her clothes of and slips into her white square bed. She feels another body in the room… The video installation projected on the surface of bed in Victoria court hotel, shows Stigma sleeping with her own reflection. On special channel of the hotel television, Stigma’s way to the room will be broadcasted in slow motion.
