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23five Incorporated Presents The Eighth Annual
Activating the Medium 
Saturday, February 12th, 2005, 8:00 pm
$10 at the Door
23five Incorporated proudly presents the Eighth Annual Activating the
Medium. Founded in 1998, The Activating the Medium festivals set out to
expose and educate new audiences to trans-disciplinary themes explored
within the genre of Sound Art. Since its inception, seven festivals have
spanned the state of California.
This year's festival brings together a reunion of early pioneers of
"American Noise". In other words, this year's festival celebrates the "OLD
SCHOOL" noise scene. The eighth installment of Activating the Medium will
feature a first-time ever Bay Area live appearance from the influential
artist CHOP SHOP (New York). Also performing will be BLACKHUMOUR
(Washington), AMK (Los Angeles), and local hero THE HATERS (San Francisco).
Curated by Randy H.Y. Yau and David Prochaska.
Since 1987, Scott Konzelmann has worked under the moniker CHOP SHOP,
presenting installations, performances, and installations involving heavily
fortified speaker constructions. The assemblages of scavenged materials and
loudspeakers operate with specific sounds that reflect these objects'
particular physical and sonic characteristics. Chop Shop's contribution to
the Francisco Lopez project Buildings NYC received an honorable mention at
the prestigious Ars Electronica in 2002.
GX Jupitter-Larsen formed THE HATERS in New York in 1979 as a personal
post-punk mandate that was seaking the kind of noise not necessarily audible
through the ears, but through a kind of sociological transmission. The
Haters have performed around the globe over 150 times, focusing upon such
conceptual agendas as the celebration of entropy, the building of negative
space, the measurement of the psychic weight for sound, and the theatrical
absurdity of professional wrestling.
AMK's primary tool are records and the turntable, although he is quick to
distance himself from the realm of DJ culture. His body of work resembles an
assemblage of sounds regurgitated from broken records, scrambled and
archaically pieced back together in disembodied forms. Simply put, he
sculpts records, scratches records, cuts records, glues records, plays
records, and puts out records. AMK is also the owner of Banned Production, a
label that in its 15 years of existence has released over 115 recordings of
experimental sounds.
Finally, BLACKHUMOUR is the sensation everyone will be anticipating. We are
still uncertain of what to expect from this disguised individual or clan
from the Pacific North West. All we can expect is to not know what to
expect. BLACKHUMOUR says it all. |
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