AUX 5 Experimental Arts Festival
Saturday, May 7
Little Kings and Cine, downtown Athens
2 PM - 2 AM
Tickets: $5
http://auxfestival.com
AUX is an event and publication series devoted to experimental art in all forms. The AUX festival
features performances, installations, video screenings, guest artists, and more. The daylong event
takes place in two venues in downtown and attracts hundreds of spectators. Sponsored by Little
Kings, Cine, Vision Video, Nuci's Space, Portapro Portable Productions, Transmetropolitan,
Flagpole, and Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE).
Read this week's Flagpole feature article:
http://flagpole.com/Weekly/Features/FiveYearsOfAUX-4May11
Schedule
2:45 PM Little Kings, Courtyard
Improvised Dance Study
Dancers: Anna Bracewell, Toi Brown, Allison Gantz, Chryssy Oseni, and Amelia Reiser
Musicians: John Fernandes and Heather McIntosh
3:00 Little Kings, Courtyard
Pocketful of Claptonite Big Band
3:30 Little Kings, Inside
The Nice Machine
4:00 Little Kings, Courtyard
Hidden Noise Ensemble
4:15 Little Kings, Courtyard
This or That, a Simple Dance
Laura Hoffman and Lisa Yaconelli
4:30 Little Kings, Inside
Geisterkatzen
5:00 LIttle Kings, Inside
Trash Raft
5:30 Little Kings, Courtyard
Michael Guthrie
5:45 Little Kings, Courtyard
Merlin Olsen Twins
6:00 Little Kings, Inside
The Master's Request
6:30 Little Kings, Courtyard
Throne Room
7:00 Little Kings, Inside
Now Yes
7:30 Little Kings, Courtyard
Crow's Feet
7:45 Little Kings, Courtyard
Green Thrift Grocery
8:00 Little Kings, Inside
Nevada Gas Trio
8:30 Little Kings, Courtyard
Goldensection
9:00 Little Kings, Inside
LWOW
9:30 Cine
Demonstration of the Teletron Mind Controller for Synthesizer
Robert Schneider and Colleagues
10:00 Little Kings, Inside
Lorkakar
10:15 Little Kings, Inside
Chartreuse
10:30 Cine
Andrew Raffo Dewar
11:00 Little Kings, Inside
Raw Ass Temple
11:30 Cine
Smoggo
11:45 Cine
Abandon the Earth Mission
12:00 AM Little Kings, Inside
The Flash Card Orchestra
12:30 Cine
Grape Soda
Outdoor Installations
Little Kings, Courtyard
The Visitations
Dixie Blood Mustache
The Magic Tape Cube, brought to you by Magic Tape Research
C.D. Howe
Video Screenings
3:30, 7:30, and 11:30 at Cine
Mallory Baxley
Julian Bozeman
Virginia Broyles
RG Brown III
Dwayne Butcher
Daniel Cellucci
Dickie Cox
Matt Glass
Alessandra Hoshor
Mike Krzyzaniak
Cobra McVey
Elizabeth Owen
Robert August Peterson
Justin Plakas
Amelia Reiser
Peter Russell
Seth Nicholas Stephens
Whistling School for Boys
Mary Willoughby
Guest Artists
Apples in stereo leader, Elephant 6 co-founder and mathematician Robert Schneider demonstrates
his Teletron, a circuit-bent Mattel MindFlex toy that enables the user to control a synthesizer with
his or her mind, joined by guest synthesist Ben Phelan (Big Fresh/Apples in stereo). The conductor
of this performance, neuroscientist Marc Sommer, will read Schneider's experimental score
"Composition for Two Hemispheres" while connected with EEG sensors to two Moog synthesizers,
each filtered to represent the left or right side of the conductor's brain. Stereophonic sound and 3D
projections will be incorporated to simulate the conductor's mental activity in the brains of the
audience.
Andrew Raffo Dewar is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts in New College and the School
of Music at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He holds an interdisciplinary BA in
Anthropology, Music and Asian Studies from the University of Minnesota and an MA and Ph.D. in
ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. Dewar's research interests include experimentalism in
the arts, intercultural music, jazz and improvisation, music and technology, and 1960s intermedia
arts. In addition to his work as an ethnomusicologist, he is a soprano saxophonist and composer
who regularly performs his work internationally. He studied with avant-garde jazz legends Steve
Lacy, Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, and experimental composer Alvin Lucier. He has also had a long
involvement with Indonesian traditional and experimental music. Dewar's compositions have been
performed by the Flux Quartet (NYC), Sekar Anu (Indonesia), the Koto Phase ensemble (USA/Japan)
and the XYZ composer's collective (NYC).
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