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- JUNE 23rd to the 26th 2005 - Olympia, WA - USA -
The Olympia Strange Music Society was founded in 1995 by Arrington de Dionyso and Jim McAdams, two KAOS dj's who agreed that while Olympia was certainly a fertile ground for independent rock music, there were other genres of very visceral music that were under-represented in the "scene".
What is Experimental Music? The Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics does not concern itself with answering this question directly, but each year presents a very diverse group of performers, each with their own very different approach to working with sound and performance.
The Eleventh Annual Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics was curated by Arrington de Dionyso. This year more than fifty performers arrived from Seattle, New Mexico, Vancouver BC, Japan, Los Angeles, Germany, Sweden, and Italy. We were especially pleased to present some very special international guests- NA, from Japan, Luciana Manca, a sound poet/voice performer from Pisa, Italy; Johannes Bergmark, of Sweden, residing at the time in Poland; and Jeffrey Morgan, born and raised in Olympia but residing in Cologne, Germany. Mr. Bergmark, in addition to his performance on Friday night, gave a special lecture/workshop on Saturday afternoon of June 25th detailing some of the many unique instruments he has invented, as well as his involvement in the International Surrealist Movement.
To close out the Festival, there was a screening of experimental films from the Pacific Northwest and beyond at the Capitol Theater on Sunday June 26 at 9:00 PM. Many of the films featured live soundtracks performed by experimental and improvising musicians. Curator Eric Ostrowski premiered a work with live soundtrack by Experimental Music Festival perennials Noggin, which was their first electric performance in over a year.
- Thursday June 23rd, 2005 -
7PM -
- at Traditions Cafe - 300 Fifth Ave -
- Jeffrey Morgan and Michael Bisio (Germany/Olympia/Seattle)
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- Luciana Manca, Jamie Peterson, and Cristin Miller (Italy/Seattle) -
- Super Unity Group (Portland) -
- Arrington de Dionyso, Cat Lamb, Derek Johnson, Tom Swafford, Jonah Fortune,
Jeffrey Allport, Thollem McDonas (Olympia/Vancouver BC/California) -
- NA (from Japan) -
- Friday, June 24th, 2005 - 7PM
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- at Traditions Cafe - 300 Fifth Ave -
- Adam Diller and Matt Crane (Seattle) -
- Thollem McDonas solo (Pacifica, CA) -
- Johannes Bergmark solo (from Sweden, Poland) -
- Gust Burns, Kelvin Pittman -
- Jeffrey Morgan Large Ensemble Conducted Improvisations -
- Saturday June 25th, 2005 -
2pm to 5pm - (free) -
- at K Records (Old Synagogue) -
Lecture/Workshop/Demonstration by Johannes Bergmark
- Saturday, June 25th, 2005-
7pm -
- at Midnight Sun - 113 Columbia -
- Mutatis Mutandis (Olympia) -
- Skye Archer and Johnny Enero (Olympia, Manzanita) -
- Late Severa Wires (New Mexico) -
- Eaglebee (??) -
- Dead Air Fresheners (Portland, Olympia) -
- Gregory Reynolds solo (Seattle) -
- Hazardous Guadalupe (Baltimore) -
- Jill Campoli Project (Olympia) -
- Wood Paneling (Olympia) -
- Sunday June 26, 2005- 9pm -
- at Capitol Theater - 206 5th Ave SE -
(A Special Program of Experimental Films and Music, curated by Eric Ostrowski)
Richard Reeves (Canada)
Rena del pieve Gobi (Canada)
Devon Damonte
Bridget Irish
Jon Behrens and RK Adams – Antipode and Polychromasia
Thorsten Fleisch (Germany) – Kosmos
Danielle Morgan – Vent - featuring live soundtrack by Gust Burns
Doug Lane – Noise A Rama
Johannes Bergmark (Poland) – a video demonstration of instruments he has
built
Eric Ostrowski – Live soundtrack by Noggin
- Additional Press Links -
this article is from the Daily Olympian, our local paper.
http://home.comcast.net/~charlesswaim/olympian9.html
This is a very good longer piece reviewing what one writer saw
of the festival several years ago.
http://www.signumpress.com/Issue12/marrow/Oly/oly.html
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