Dada and Surrealism Festival on 08/29/08

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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 12:00am to Sat, 08/30/2008 - 12:00am

Beginning on Wednesday, August 27 at 7:00pm and running continuously until Sunday, August 31 at midnight, KBOO will become a generator of altered states of consciousness as we do our best to shed the world of reason and rules and explore the Marvelous with a rich and wildly varied collection of material created locally, nationally and internationally over the almost 100 years since it all began.  For more information, on the One hundred one hours of innumerable small events which may or may not be related to one another, please see the special page.

Friday

12:30a—Brion Gysin. In the late 1950's in a beat hotel in Paris, Brio Gyson rediscovered Tristan Tzara's cut-up method and shared his discovery with Alan Ginsberg and William Burroughs. While Ginsberg was appauled, Burroughs latched onto the idea and the rest is history. A presentation of Gysin's own cut-up audio pieces including excerpts from Poems of Poems and his surrealist prose poem Dilaloo. Presented by Rolf Semprebon.

2a—2001 at 2: More recordings from our 2001 Festival including readings of Brain Damage  and The Report by Donald Barthelme; “In 80 Days”, an hommage to Jules Verne and “Let's Move No More,” both from The Magnetic Fields by Andre Breton and Phillipe Soupault; and Mike Patton's interpretation of Pranzo Oltranzista by Tommaso Marinetti from his Futurist Cookbook. Readings by John Aegard, Pere Fagereng, Richard Francis, Victoria Garcia, Orion Grey, Jamie Manuel, Jennifer Robin, Rolf Semprebon, DJ Wagner, and Emily Young. Also Kenneth Patchen reading excerpts from The Journal of Albion Moonlight.

4a—To be announced.
7a—Music by Full Contact Botany.

8a—The Wildest Cats provide tone-poem-ish ululations performed by human beings but in the guise of cats.

9a—John Cage Theater: The City Wears A Slouched Hat is a radio play for actors and “sound orchestra” to a text by Kenneth Patchen featuring Paul Schmidt as “The Voice” in a recording of the original 1942 radio broadcast. Also Cage's 1985 But what about the noise of crumpling paper which he used to do in order to paint the series of “papiers froisses” or tearing up paper to make “papiers dechires”? Arp was stimulated by water (sea, lake, and flowing waters like rivers), forests. For percussion ensemble and realized by Jan Williams.

11a—Mike Hollenbeck performs musical cut-ups.

Noon—Noon Classics: Kurt Schwitters. Both historical and contemporary recordings of the works of Schwitters, including performances by Schwitters himself.

1p—Fraritjaritjaka provide live musical cut-ups.

2p—Surrealist Matinee: Such A Divine Soul, a brisk, brief play full of adventure and intrigue by Louis Aragon produced by Grace HagueAlso Gertrude Stein's immortal play Turkey and Bones and Eating and We Liked It, where under the guise of various Europeans comparing luxurious possessions, a sub-text about war and what a human really needs inserts itself but if you blink you'll miss it. Presented by the Highway 30 Art Players.

3p—Soup Purse provide both text and sonic landscapes live from our studios.

4p—DJ Broken Window is a Dadaist turntablist who will be performing live.

5p—KBOO News. See KBOO News for Thursday at 5p for details.

6p—Surrealist Game Show and/or Open Mic. See Thursday at 6p for details.

7p—Spirit Duplicator (formerly Celesteville who performed so brilliantly for us in 2001) providing improvised songs featuring guitar, cut-up text, and Language Master, live.

8p—A Story of Your Own by Raymond Queneau of the “Oulipo School” which explored chance operations in literature and poetry, is a short story about the fate of three little peas read by Kelly Bryan. Listeners are invited to phone in with options and the story changes based on their choices, with no ending in site.

9p—Cable Access Dada/Surrealist Film Simulcast. As we go to press, KBOO has coordinated time with Portland Cable Access for Channel 23 from 9p-3a. We plan to show silent Dada and Surrealist films and invite any and all to come to our radio station at 20 SE 8th to help us provide soundtracks for the films.

11p—Naughty Bits: Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry. At this point in the simulcast our soundtrack producing group at the station will take a break as we present this audio/video puppet play version of Ubu Roi from our 2001 Festival.When this drama premiered on the stage in 1896, violence and pandemonium exploded in the theatre. Act 1 is performed by the Rolf Radio Theatre Players. Further acts of vengeance performed by many ... Puppets and video by The Dada S(chl)ockmeisters.

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