Montreal 05.29.2009 – Mutek 2008

May 29, 2008

MUTEK 2008 | Open_Lab_Ouvert
Mutek is once again hosting Le Placard May 29th -30th 2008 @SAT
(see below for schedule)

Placard is a headphone concert festival, playing with concentration, intimacy,time warp,and teleportation.This year it goes on for 97 days non stop, in different cities. It functions under a mode of open program,open for headphone rooms to create performance spaces where performers are welcomed to perform. Both the headphoneroom ‘owner’ and the performers use the inscription site to self organize the global program. The placard ‘owner’ receives in his room performers who have submitted a inscription via the site , and streams the shows to the other headphonerooms either passive listeners or waiting to perform.The site is designed to simplify communication inbetween the performers and the organizers, using automatic emails notifying of incomming inscriptions , accepted deplaced or refused perfomances ; also notifying performers of the creation of headphonerooms in their city.

The ring has grown , last year quite a few new cities got involved ;( helsinki , stralsund , benicassim .. (link to last year’s archive) ) .This year has allready started with a few prologues (maybe a preview of what might be one day a non stop placard network) – one in berlin during club transmediale – one in bratislava – and one in bologna -(see pictures and line-ups here) The official placard festival opening will be in montreal for the mutek festival and then move on.

May 29th 2008 @ 15:20 (EDT)

i8u will present: 10-33 cm resonance

i8u’s audio is inspired by the concept of string theory; 10-33 cm being the theoretical size of the strings that makes up the universe. Resonance is the vibrational pattern, which determines what kind of particle the string is. The type of particle is the movement of the string and the energy associated with this movement.
The soundscapes created mirror our limited understanding and imagination of these strings as they slip in and out of the dimensions we are aware of.

Schedule Open_Lab_Ouvert:

May 29, 2008

.12:00 (EDT) .Element Kuuda
.12:40 (EDT) .Ghislain Roy
.13:20 (EDT) .Jim Bel
.14:00 (EDT) .Katherine Kline
.14:40 (EDT) .grkzg
.15:20 (EDT) .i8u
.16:00 (EDT) .David Kristian
.16:40 (EDT) .Nathan McNinch
.17:20 (EDT) .Wapstan. – .19-Jan-67
.18:00 (EDT) .Mark Templeton
.18:40 (EDT) .Ezekiel Honig
.19:20 (EDT) .Babin Magali
.20:00 (EDT) .Steve Bates
.20:40 (EDT) .Thierry Gauthie
.21:20 (EDT) .Victortronic
.22:00 (EDT) .Martine H. Crispo
.22:40 (EDT) .Le Rossignol et Lafrance
.23:20 (EDT) .Winston Phillips

May 30, 2008

.12:00 (EDT) .Orphx
.12:40 (EDT) .gmackrr
.13:20 (EDT) .kvik. – .sluiten
.14:00 (EDT) .Pon De Replay
.14:40 (EDT) .anne-f . Jacques
.15:20 (EDT) .Nicolas Dion
.16:00 (EDT) .AUN. – .MOTORSLEEP
.16:40 (EDT) .FSK 1138
.17:20 (EDT) .Nancy Tobin
.18:00 (EDT) .Szkieve
.18:40 (EDT) .le Peuplier de Simon
.19:20 (EDT) .Deluge
.20:00 (EDT) .des cailloux et du carbone
.20:40 (EDT) .Thames
.21:20 (EDT) .Matt Fuzz
.22:00 (EDT) .Vorpa
.22:40 (EDT) .Michel Pontbriand
.23:20 (EDT) .???

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1195 boulevard Saint-Laurent
Montréal (Québec) H5B 1C2 Canada