New Years Eve with CMKY and Frivolous
CMKY 2011 Sponsorship Kit Online & Festival News
Shows We Like!
I.C.A.S. News
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CMKY NYE
Friday December 31st 2010

Featuring very special guest..

Frivolous

(Cadenza, Karloff, ~scape, Background)

and local heros
Brandon Brown
Patty Hertz
Fuck and Play
Papyrus
James Reagent

located at:
Apex Movement
5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit C-2
Boulder, Colorado 80303
10pm-6am
All Ages
$20
$10 with Boulder Theater Wristband

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CMKY 2011 Sponsorship Kit Online & Festival News

Communikey 4th edition will be April 13 – 17, 2011 in Boulder, Colorado USA.

The 2011 Sponsorship Kit is now online! CMKY is excited to partner with you.
Please get in touch, we are available to discuss the unique experience you are
looking for. Download our kit on our website. Contact info@communikey.us for more
details.

The preliminary festival lineup will be announced early next year, so keep your
eye on the website and facebook! Pre-sale tickets will be on sale
starting January 15, and the new website will be live February 1!

2011 Festival Theme
Reclaiming The Festival
The festival once served as a celebratory interval in the day to day
experience. The entire community would engage in this process, extending the
celebration from nights into days into weeks, through food, dance, performance,
parade and exploration of cultural traditions. Our era is one of structure,
working hours, and weekends, national holidays defining when and what will be
celebrated, and never for more than a moment at a time.

While these structures have served the modern world greatly, we intend to
reclaim the festival, embracing structure and chaos in its complexity, and
honoring the liminal, the space where festival came to be. There is a tension
and release in these liminal spaces, which is where we will play with this
year’s programming, exploring time, space and the limitless potential of what
can be, in the space in between. Exploring the spontaneous and the unexpected,
this year’s theme holds space to a series of secret passages, occurring within
and without the overarching events, reclaiming the idea of festival.

The ancient concepts of jubilee and saturnalia originate in an intuition that
certain events lie outside the scope of “profane time,” the measuring-rod of
the State and of History. These holidays literally occupied gaps in the
calendar–intercalary intervals. By the Middle Ages, nearly a third of the year
was given over to holidays. Perhaps the riots against calendar reform had less
to do with the “eleven lost days” than with a sense that imperial science was
conspiring to close up these gaps in the calendar where the people’s freedoms
had accumulated–a coup d’etat, a mapping of the year, a seizure of time
itself, turning the organic cosmos into a clockwork universe.
(Hakim Bey – The Temporary Antonymous Zone – Pirate Utopias)
http://www.hermetic.com/bey/ taz3.html

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Shows we Like!
Support your local music community!

Laura Goldhamer & The Silver Nail, Princess Music, Pee Pee, and
Shenandoah Davis – Jan 8 – Mercury Cafe

Hot Box w. Ivy, Ejay, Khalib, & Mathyou – Jan 15 – Astroland

Long Spoon Series Launch – Dovekins & More – Jan 22 – Mercury Cafe

Liminal States DJ Nights with JL Kane & This That and the Other – every
Thursday late night – Georges

Pillow Biting  w. Ivy, Patty Hertz, F*ck & Play, Ductape – Feb 5 – Astroland

Make Mistakes & Communikey Fundraiser – Feb 12 – TBA

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I.C.A.S News

International Cities of Advanced Sound (ICAS) is a global network of
independent
non-profit Organizations dedicated to advancing sound cultures, music and
related arts.
For more information please visit the [19]ICAS website.

Upcoming I.C.A.S. Festivals:

Club Transmediale (Berlin, Germany) Feb 1 – 6
Micro MUTEK ES  (Barcelona, Spain) Feb 9 – 11
Unsound Festival New York (New York City) April 1 – 10

info@communikey.us            cmky loves you.

Space is the Place 2.0!
Saturday December 4th
2450 Central Ave. Unit J Boulder Colorado
9pm-4am
$10
All Ages / Libations Available for 21+

Live Music / Prizes / Photo Booth / Ridiculousness!

With your cosmic musical hosts:

9pm – 10:45pm – Steofan
10:45pm – 11:15pm – Doo Crowder
11:15pm – 12am – Normal Ones
12am – 1am – Naudio
1am – 2am – Mango
2am – 3am – Ivy
3am – 4am – Attentat

Costumes are strongly encouraged! There will be a contest and the winner will
receive two CMKY 2011 Festival Passes!!!

For one night only Presale passes for Communikey Festival 2011 are for sale for
the highly discounted price $45!

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CMKY NYE
December 31st 2010

Featuring very special guest..

Frivolous

(Cadenza, Karloff, ~scape, Background)

and local heros
Brandon Brown
Patty Hertz
Fuck and Play
Papyrus
James Reagent

located at:
Apex Movement
5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit C-2
Boulder, Colorado 80303
10pm-6am
$20
21+

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CMKY 4th Edition Theme Announced

Communikey 4th edition will be April 13 – 17, 2011 in Boulder, Colorado USA.

Reclaiming The Festival
The festival once served as a celebratory interval in the day to day
experience. The entire community would engage in this process, extending the
celebration from nights into days into weeks, through food, dance, performance,
parade and exploration of cultural traditions. Our era is one of structure,
working hours, and weekends, national holidays defining when and what will be
celebrated, and never for more than a moment at a time.

While these structures have served the modern world greatly, we intend to
reclaim the festival, embracing structure and chaos in its complexity, and
honoring the liminal, the space where festival came to be. There is a tension
and release in these liminal spaces, which is where we will play with this
year’s programming, exploring time, space and the limitless potential of what
can be, in the space in between. Exploring the spontaneous and the unexpected,
this year’s theme holds space to a series of secret passages, occurring within
and without the overarching events, reclaiming the idea of festival.

The ancient concepts of jubilee and saturnalia originate in an intuition that
certain events lie outside the scope of “profane time,” the measuring-rod of
the State and of History. These holidays literally occupied gaps in the
calendar–intercalary intervals. By the Middle Ages, nearly a third of the year
was given over to holidays. Perhaps the riots against calendar reform had less
to do with the “eleven lost days” than with a sense that imperial science was
conspiring to close up these gaps in the calendar where the people’s freedoms
had accumulated–a coup d’etat, a mapping of the year, a seizure of time
itself, turning the organic cosmos into a clockwork universe.
(Hakim Bey – The Temporary Antonymous Zone – Pirate Utopias)
http://www.hermetic.com/bey/ taz3.html

Relive some memories and check out all the amazing photos from this year’s
festival on our website www.communikey.us
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Shows we Like!
Support your local music community!

Long Spoon Ladies Night – Dec 8 – Meadowlark

Liminal States DJ Nights – every Thursday late night – [6]Georges

KGNU Secret Show Dec 9 – Oddfellows Lodge

Kneebody & Endangered Blood – Dec 9 – Old Main Chapel

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I.C.A.S News

International Cities of Advanced Sound (ICAS) is a global network of
independent
non-profit Organizations dedicated to advancing sound cultures, music and
related arts.
For more information please visit the ICAS website.

Upcoming I.C.A.S. Festivals:

Club Transmediale (Berlin, Germany) Feb 1 – 6 [11]
Micro MUTEK ES  (Barcelona, Spain) Feb 9 – 11
Unsound Festival New York (New York City) April 1 – 10

info@communikey.us
cmky loves you.

artificiel live @ CMKY2010 from samcam on Vimeo.

D Numbers DJ Set, Emeralds, & Caribou – THIS TUESDAY!
Sza/Za & Polanski Shorts – Nov. 8
CMKY 4th Edition Dates Announced
CMKY 2011 Festival Call for Submissions
Shows We Like!
Communikey Internships Available
ICAS News & ECAS Open Call for Submissions

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D Numbers DJ Set, Emeralds, & Caribou
Tuesday October 12
Doors 8:30pm ALL AGES
$15 presale / $20 day of
Fox Theatre 1135 13th St
Boulder CO 80302
www.foxtheatre.com

Don’t miss D Numbers when they DJ this Tuesday night at the Caribou &
Emeralds show. If you have not seen this Santa Fe based trio do one of their
signature tag team DJ sets, than you are in for a surprise. Like a D Numbers
live performance, this opening DJ set will set the tone for a night of not to
be missed music in Boulder.

Emeralds is John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt and Mark McGuire. They are
currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. Their music is of an improvisational nature
and is synthesizer and guitar-centric, however vocals, electronics and field
recordings are often utilized to create dynamic textures amidst melodious
backdrops and minimal structures. Though their sound cannot be pinned down to
one specific genre, it recalls the organic/electronic explorations of Tangerine
Dream, Ashra, Coil, Terry Riley and Popol Vuh to name but a few.

Caribou is Canadian Dan Snaith, who formerly recorded under the name
Manitoba. Known for altering his sound with each subsequent release, he
incorporates electronic psychedelia, krautrock rhythms, and breakbeat drums and
creates a swirling, lush, musical panorama.

Reviews:
Emeralds – Pitchfork
Caribou – Pitchfork

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Polanski Shorts with live score by Sza/Za
Monday November 8
7:30pm
$12.50 General Admission
$20.00 Reserved Seating
All Ages

Boulder Theater
2032 14th Street
Boulder, CO
303.786.7030

http://bouldertheater.com

Between 1957 and 1962, the acclaimed Polish-French director and Academy Award®
winner, Roman Polanski  made a series of short films. In the late 50’s and
early 60’s  jazz had become a fascination of many Polish filmmakers and it
remained an essential element of Polanski’s cinema for a long time. We are
pleased to present the short films with the live accompaniment by
SzaZa, paying tribute to the Polish jazz master Krzysztof Komeda,
Polanski’s long time collaborator both in Europe and Hollywood.

Sza/Za’s music is a unique blending of seemingly opposite extremes – of
noise and silence, pop and contemporary chamber, beauty and ugliness, of
sophisticated wisdom and pure, naive thoughtlessness. Using clarinets, violin,
analogue loop stations and subtle effects, the musicians seek to unite those
extremes, attempting to free both the stage and the audience from the bonds of
rules and cultural givens. Their concerts will often take a form of a
grotesque, dark play, a performance, sometimes a deep musical statement, but
always in interaction with the audience.

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CMKY 4th Edition Dates Announced

Communikey 4th edition will be April 13 – 17, 2011 in Boulder, Colorado USA.
live music : workshops : parade : discourse : magic : kids-patch : dancing :
bicycles : surprises : live cinema : experience

Relive some memories and check out all the amazing photos from this year’s
festival on our website www.communikey.us

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Call for Artist Submissions

Communikey is interested in hearing and seeing all of your amazing art! We are
looking for submissions for the 2011 Festival. Anything from live and
electronic music, video, installations, interactive projects…new
ideas….surprise us!

Please send live sets, show recordings, links, etc. to info@communikey.us
by December 1, 2010.

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Shows we Like!
We have started a new section of our newsletter that includes upcoming events
in the Boulder / Denver area that we endorse. Support your local music
community!

Caribou, Emeralds, D Numbers – Oct 12 – Fox Theatre

DJs at Georges – every Tuesday and Thursday late night

Frank Nitt + Illa J (J Dilla’s Brother) + DJ CheckOne – Oct. 14 -
Astroland

1st Annual DIY or DIE Halloween Megafest – Oct. 29 – Astroland

Six Feet Underground w/ Hipp-E, Ivy, Ejay, Khalib, Styles Davis, Roy
England – Oct. 30 – Theory & Practice

Dabrye & Eric Cloutier w/ MESS/CrowdPleaser DJs – Oct. 30 – Cluster
Studios
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Communikey Internships Available

We are looking for hard working, creative, and fun people to intern for the
preparation of the 2011 Communikey Festival. Positions in marketing, street
team, video editing, sustainability, and more will be available soon, and
college or high school class credits are available.

Please send an email to matthew@communikey.us letting us know what aspects
of the festival you’re possibly interested in working on, why you are
interested in Communikey, and any other questions you may have.

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ICAS News & ECAS Open Call for Submissions

International Cities of Advanced Sound (ICAS) is a global network of
independent non-profit Organizations dedicated to advancing sound cultures, music and related arts.

For more information please visit the ICAS website.

European Cities of Advanced Sound (ECAS) is a new European festivals network
supported by the European Union within the CULTURE PROGRAMME (2007-2013) which
strives to create collaborative partnership between the international
festivals.

ECAS Call for Submissions – To launch the ECAS network, a Euro 10,000
Commission is available for a new project responding to the ECAS 2011 theme of
‘Festival as Lab’. This call for proposals seeks projects that take the form of
an experiment, a prototype or a trial of a new type of art object, technology
or form of participation. For more information on the program and how to
submit, click here.

Upcoming I.C.A.S. Festivals:

Dis-patch Festival 9th Edition is happening NOW, Oct. 7-17 featuring a
series of projects from [32]Boris Hoppek, NYC based interdisciplinary act
Sweat Shoppe, and renown artists Atom TM and Ben Frost, to name a
few.

Musikprotokoll (Graz, Austria) Sep 25 – Oct 17

MUTEK takes over Mexico October 13 – Nov. 7, with feature events through
out the Cervantino Festival.

Unsound (Krakow, Poland) Oct 17 – 24

Insomnia (Tromso, Norway) Oct 22 – 24

CYNEART (Dresden, Germany) Nov 11 – 17

info@communikey.us

cmky loves you.

Mount Kimbie, Sza/Za & Polanski Shorts
CMKY 2011 Festival Call for Submissions
Shows We Like!
Communikey Internships Available
I.C.A.S. News

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Mount Kimbie
with Ivy & Miraja
Monday September 27
Doors 8:30pm
$10 presale / $12 day of
Fox Theatre 1135 13th St
Boulder CO 80302
www.foxtheatre.com

Following the highly anticipated recent release of their debut album, Crooks
& Lovers on Hotflush Recordings, the London duo Mount Kimbie will be
bringing their mix of dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock,
UK garage and film scores to the Fox Theatre in Boulder. The sound of Mount
Kimbie has been described as “sceneless” and unattached from the confines of
any one genre.

The album has received high reviews on both Pitchfork and Resident Advisor and
led to an extensive tour the we are lucky to get to experience in our small
town.

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Polanski Shorts with live score by Sza/Za
Monday November 8
7:30pm
$12.50 General Admission
$20.00 Reserved Seating
All Ages

Boulder Theater
2032 14th Street
Boulder, CO
303.786.7030

http://bouldertheater.com

Between 1957 and 1962, the acclaimed Polish-French director and Academy Award®
winner, Roman Polanski made a series of short films. In the late 50’s and
early 60’s jazz had become a fascination of many Polish filmmakers and it
remained an essential element of Polanski’s cinema for a long time. We are
pleased to present the short films with the live accompaniment by SzaZa,
paying tribute to the Polish jazz master Krzysztof Komeda, Polanski’s long time
collaborator both in Europe and Hollywood.

Sza/Za’s music is a unique blending of seemingly opposite extremes – of
noise and silence, pop and contemporary chamber, beauty and ugliness, of
sophisticated wisdom and pure, naive thoughtlessness. Using clarinets, violin,
analogue loop stations and subtle effects, the musicians seek to unite those
extremes, attempting to free both the stage and the audience from the bonds of
rules and cultural givens. Their concerts will often take a form of a
grotesque, dark play, a performance, sometimes a deep musical statement, but
always in interaction with the audience.

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Call for Artist Submissions

Communikey is interested in hearing and seeing all of your amazing art! We are
looking for submissions for the 2011 Festival. Anything from live and
electronic music, video, installations, interactive projects…new
ideas….surprise us!

Please send live sets, show recordings, links, etc. to info@communikey.us
by December 1, 2010.

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Shows we Like!
We have started a new section of our newsletter that includes upcoming events
in the Boulder / Denver area that we endorse. Support your local music
community!

Offthesky, Pillow Garden – Sept 24 – Astroland
Princess Music, Pillars & Tounges – Sept 29 – Meadowlark
DJs at Georges – Starting Sept 23 – every Tuesday and Thursday late night
Caribou,Emeralds – Oct 12 – Fox Theatre
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Communikey Internships Available

We are looking for hard working, creative, and fun people to intern for the
preparation of the 2011 Communikey Festival. Positions in marketing, street
team, video editing, sustainability, and more will be available soon, and
college or high school class credits are available.

Please send an email to matthew@communikey.us letting us know what aspects
of the festival you’re possibly interested in working on, why you are
interested in Communikey, and any other questions you may have.
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I.C.A.S. News

International Cities of Advanced Sound (I.C.A.S.) is a global network of
independent non-profit Organizations dedicated to advancing sound cultures,
music and related arts.
For more information please visit http://icasnetwork.org

Upcoming I.C.A.S. Festivals:

Decibel Festival in Seattle, Washington kicks off this week, with
appearances from emerging state side talents Audio Pixel, Mux Mool and
Kyle Hall.

Dis-patch Festival enters its 9th edition next month, featuring a series of
projects from Boris Hoppek, NYC based interdisciplinary act Sweat
Shoppe, and renown artists Atom TM and Ben Frost, to name a few.

MUTEK takes over Mexico in October, with feature events through out the
Cervantino Festival.

Full Pull (Malmo, Sweden) Sept 24 – Oct 3
Decibel (Seattle, Washington) Sept 22 – 26
Today’s Art (The Hague, Netherlands) Sept 24 – 25
Dis-patch (Belgrade, Serbia) Oct 7 – 17
Unsound (Krakow, Poland) Oct 17 – 24

info@communikey.us
cmky loves you.

LG: The plan for the performance had been to bring in an international electronic musician and have him guide the performance.  But when that ceased to be the case, I suggested to Kate Lesta (Creative Director of Communikey) that we bring AU to town because it seemed like the perfect fit for the project, the collaboration, and the night of music.  AU bridges electronic (digital) and acoustic (analog) elements in such an explosively energetic way, the likes of which I had never seen before.

LW:  Lucky for Dana and I (of AU) those plans fell through and we were asked to come and collaborate with our good friends Laura Goldhamer and the Dovekins.  We’ve known Laura for a few years now and have played show with both her solo group and the Dovekins, to much success I might add. Our last show in the area was actually for Communikey at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art last fall, which is when we first met Kate Lesta…things unfolded from there. Laura and I have been talking for years around doing something of this sort, and had just been waiting for the right opportunity.

LG:  We had originally talked about collaborating on a residency at the ATLAS building on CU campus, but this seems like the best of many and all worlds that we get to participate together on a crash course collaboration that culminates in a live performance on April 16th with the Books!

LW:  For AU, it’s just Dana and I coming down to Denver/Boulder. Add in the Dovekins and most likely a few others and the group will most likely fill out to a healthy 8-12 people. Thus far, most of the set will be comprised of AU songs from previous albums, though there will be the debut of an epic 3 part suite that has yet to be released on an official AU album. All in all my songs are pretty malleable and can be performed as a duo or at their most with 20+ people on stage (choir and all). We’re also be working with Laura’s unique approach to the use of speakers (removed from their cabinets…etc) as both sounding devices and as microphones to bring a more spatial and sculptural presentation to the evening… she’ll do a better job of explaining this than I.  And of course we’ll also work in some of the Dovekins songs as well. It’ll be a glorious celebratory mess I’m sure. Can’t wait.

LG:  I have been working on getting 8 speakers (used with a switch box that changes their functionality from being speaker outputs to being microphone inputs) to all emit individually looped rhythms.  I set them on drums (snares, toms, even bass drums), and the percussive sound coming out of the speakers actually resonate the drums… It is something that is coming together quickly but is still very much a machine in process!!!!  It will be exciting to see how we can all use this nutty instrument machine in a song structure.  Glorious celebratory mess indeed!

AU + Dovekins will be performing after The Books at the Future Folk showcase on Friday April 16th at the Fox Theater. We hope you can join us for this special performance. The show will also be LIVE BROADCASTED from KGNU Boulder 88.5 radio station. If you can’t make it to the show, tune in to check it out!

Support for this collaboration comes from Theory + Practice, a Denver gallery/venue space in the Santa Fe Arts District. They are really helping make this come together by providing the space for all the artists to stay, and for the bands to practice and explore this unique opportunity to create something out of working together. More information on this collaboration can be expected as we gather pictures and talk to the bands as they work… And then we will all see what they come up with on Friday!

Although he has held several art director and senior designer positions at several marketing agencies, Nebojsa is still dedicated to freehand drawing, comics and character design, and has proven to be a real trendsetter when it comes to illustration and design in Serbia. He has been developing the noted Dis-patch visual identities since the first edition.

GRAPHISMS is a project he has started two years ago, and has been exhibited several times in Serbia. Now, through the ViceVerse network, it will reach out to far audiences all around the USA. Exposure that he definitely deserves! Since April, Nebojsa is also a part of the special creative team at the Bruketa&Zinic agency in Zagreb, the most respcted innovative design agency in the region of SouthEast Europe.

The exhibit is presented as a series of 10 hi-quality prints which will be setup in proper gallery context wherever possible. Nebojsa has also contributed all of the illustrations for the ViceVerse tour identity. Do check his other exciting work as well, just follow the links!

LINK / LINK / LINK

Our beautiful CMKY headquarters will be open today at 4pm until 9pm. Located in downtown Boulder at 1825a Pearl Street, HQ provides a full information hub with festival staff present to answer your questions. You can pick up and purchase festival passes there, as well as tickets for the Bus to the Bunker Party. If you have already purchased a ticket from one of our retail locations, you can bring it to HQ to get your photo taken for a pass. At headquarters you can also find out about renting one of our bikes, just check out the bike station with Andrew Sieving! Other things that can be found at HQ: merchandise, Boulder tourist info, and excited bunnies!

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we will be running DJ Boutiques from 2 to 7pm which feature other local crews of electronic artists. In staying with our namesake, we think it’s important to include as many of our fellow artists as possible in the process of throwing such a huge event, so we’ve invited three local Denver crews to come spin records at HQ while people are there to pick up passes and information. On Thursday we’ve got Spellbound Music joining us with music provided by Ejay, Mathyou and Khalib. Plastic Sound Supply, one of the sponsors of the 2009 festival, will be rocking it on Friday night with Scaffolding, c.db.sn, and Cacheflowe. And on Saturday, Mother Earth Sound System, a sometimes collaborator with CMKY, will provide the beats with Scott Everett and Trip Coffin. We’re psyched to have these crews keep the beats coming throughout the weekend!

Headquarters Hours of Operation:

WENESDAY APRIL 14: 4:00pm – 9:00pm

THURSDAY APRIL 15: 11:00am – 9:00pm

FRIDAY APRIL 16: 11:00am – 9:00pm

SATURDAY 17: 11:00am – 7:00pm

SUNDAY 18: closed

We also hope that you will join us tonight for a warm up to the week’s festivities, with the Wednesday Nightcap at the Bombay Bistro in downtown Boulder! It is free and open to the public, intended to warm everyone up for the Communikey Festival launch that begins tomorrow night at BMoCA! Join us for a night of disco grooves and dubby techno with Ivy (Blackbridge), Roy England (Make Mistakes, Denver), and Ejival (Static Discos, Tijuana) who played for us last year at the Unsung Heroes showcase at the b.side Lounge. Come out and meet the Communikey crew, mix and mingle with other festival goers, and prepare for the crazy festival week ahead!

On Saturday April 17th from 1pm to 5pm, festival goers are encouraged to come down to CMKY Headquarters at 18th and Pearl for the second part of the project, Listen: Soundwalk. Rob will be giving introductory lessons on using field recorders to record found sounds from around Boulder. After a quick tutorial, we’ll take the field recorders out on a walk around Boulder to find natural/street sounds and ambient noise. This workshop is based on participatory involvement, and the idea is that average people can find creativity in the ambient world, when they stop to listen to all that is around them. The sounds that are captured on Saturday’s Soundwalk will then be incorporated into a loose musical structure to create an ambient loop of Boulder’s sounds.

This music will be exhibited on Sunday night at the Fiske Plantetarium, during the third part of the project, Listen: Headroom. Attendees of the the Dub Galaxies Finale showcase are invited to take a moment during this show to relax on beanbags and cushions in the lobby of the planetarium and listen on headphones to the ambient piece of music created by Rob Fitzgerald and attendees of the Soundwalk, incorporating the field recordings from Saturday. The collaborative recording experiment will be re-interpreted with harmony, rhythm, and spacial character in a seamless, continuously evolving music piece. The soundscape environment will provide a contrast and complimentary space to the Dub Galaxies Showcase. As listeners, when we are given the opportunity to re-examine these recorded moments in a separate listening environment, our minds can freely associate our memory with fresh perspective and new context. Headroom is intended to be a relaxing way to end the festival, perhaps providing a moment of contemplation for all you’ve heard throughout the festival in Boulder.

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Listening Station Locations:

+ KEYS @ Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts
1750 13th St.

offthesky (Denver, Colorado)
Title: CommuniKeys
interactive sound sculpture

+ BOOKS @ Boulder Public Library
1001 Arapahoe Ave.

Kim Cascone (San Fransisco, California)
Title: anti-musical celestial forces (27:47)
from the 2009 Anechoic release, anti-musical celestial forces

+ RECORD PLAYERS @ Espresso Roma
1101 13th St.

Hallopatric (Denver, Colorado)
Title: Last Dance (5:11)
unreleased 2010

+ VHS @ ATLAS Institute
1125 18th St. at CU campus

Morgan Packard (Denver, Colorado)
Title: Moment (8:24)
from the upcoming Anticipate release, Moment Again Elsewhere

Listen is made possible in part by the Boulder Arts Commission Mini-Grant and the Boulder County Arts Commission Mark Addison Mini-Grant.

Recently showcased at both the Polish and New York editions of the Unsound Festival, Xavier van Wersch from the Netherlands will be joining the lineup for the Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts 2010.

“Comparing himself to Frankenstein, Dutchmann Xavier Van Wersch employs deceased and discontinued devices to create music, exploring the relationship between man and machine. Erratic behaviour is the principal condition for interaction. A rarity in the often too-serious world of experimental art, Van Wersch also employs humour during his live appearances, often donning a white professor’s coat as he works intensely to control the chaos that emerges from the end of his fingertips. Van Wersch has performed at major festivals across Europe, including Unsound Krakow, Club Transmediale, Dis-Patch, Ultrahang, and many others.” (from the Unsound Poland website)

Our A/Visions showcase is sponsored by the performance series of the same name at the MUTEK festival; dedicated to the exploration of cutting edge new media and audio-visual arts, A/Visions spotlights some of the best international talent in the experimental art world.

Also on the roster for the evening is Artificiel’s POWEr project, which comes courtesy of MUTEK Montreal:

Alexandre Burton and Julien Roy are two of the artists that make up Artificiel (along with Jimmy Lakatos), a group based in Montreal, Canada that operates in the new media realm. The duo will be bringing their latest project, POWEr, to the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The world-premiere of POWEr took place at MUTEK 2009, and it was one of the most memorable audiovisual performances of that festival.

POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations. Using an audio-modulated Tesla coil as a live instrument, electrical arcs are generated and transformed in an ongoing, realtime audiovisual process. Electricity is used as a subtle yet intense material, manifested as an instrinsically synesthesicphenomenae . Building on a context that is halfway between a musical presentation and a media arts installation, POWEr takes its place by raising the stakes of spontaneity and working with evermore complex musical and visual structures.

On the visual side of this showcase is Lissom (aka Tana Sprague), a sound + video artist, transfixed with micro details. With focus fluctuating between digital and organic, her work creates a space where one complements the other. Inspired by the elegant complexity of organic forms, she utilizes various electronic and digital devices to synthesize a similar enveloping intricacy. A skilled producer, programmer, sound engineer, electronic hardware artist, video editor, and live visualist, she has worked closely with Recombinant Media Labs founder and Director Naut Humon, and currently she is involved with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) in San Francisco, serving as the director of operations.

We hope you can join us for this special night of cutting edge audio-visual performances! The show will begin at 7pm at the Black Box Theater, in the ATLAS Institute @ CU Campus. Tickets for this show are $20 and are NOT INCLUDED in the festival pass! You can purchase tickets online or at the door before the show.

(As a side note, if you are planning to attend The Bunker show on Saturday night, you can catch the Basics Fund Techno Bus to Denver from the ATLAS building, after the A/Visions show. For more info on the bus party or to purchase a ticket to ride the bus, go here.)

(Both photos are of Xavier van Wersch at Unsound Festival New York, February 2010. Credit: Stephen Cardinale)