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).