Dada and Surrealism Festival on 08/30/08

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Sat, 08/30/2008 - 12:00am to Sun, 08/31/2008 - 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.

Saturday 

Midnight—Cable Access Dada/Surrealist Film Simulcast continues, this time with musicians improvising the soundtracks.

2a--2001 at 2. More recordings of events from our 2001 Festival including an interview with Beatrice Wood, the Mama of Dada, by S.W. Conser made in 1997 when she was 104; an interview with Pietro Ferrua conducted by Victoria Garcia in 2001; and Maldorer by Comte de Lautremont read by Rolf Semprebon with music by Frank Defay, Brendon Morril, and Pixie and Dot.

4a—To be announced
7a—Music. More treated piano from Ethan Rose.

8:30a—Composite Poems from Alexa.

9a—Young People's Programming. Dada and Surrealist material performed by and for young people from pre-teens to teenagers to the young at heart including readings and performances by KBOO'S Youth Collective, Dada writings on war performed by BreAna Loranger, and perhaps a pirate tale by Donald Barthelme read by Richard Francis with music by Kathy Fors andDina Sore by Jaap Blonk, plus we hope to reprise our 2001 remote broadcast of a race between a typewritter and a sewing machine.

Noon—Noon Classics: Jaap Blonk is a Dadaist sound-poem artist of the highest caliber and a man of our own time who presents performances of material both classic and contemporary.

1p--Portland Sinfonia Phonographic Orchestra's Sound Effects Suite. Deliciously difficult listening from the PSPO presenting a live chance composition. A dozen or so turntables, each with its own different sound effects lp, each manned by a participant who, on cue, will drop the needle at the start of their record. The multiple assortments of differing sound effects of differing lengths with differing spaces between them will then begin their cacaphonous journey to the center of the records until the last sound on the last lp is heard from, ending the piece.

2p—Surrealist Matinee: The Mirror Wardrobe One Fine Evening by Louis Aragon, directed and edited by Grace Hague. Who is hiding in the Mirror Wardrobe? Is Lenore unfaithful to Jules? Why is she guarding the Mirror Wardrobe? And what about those Siamese Twins? Somehow it all comes together, but not before disintegration and mayhem ensue.

3:30p—Arrington de Dionyso interprets the music of Kurt Schwitters.

4p—Music live from Craig Burke.

5p—DADA Yow! presents TymeCast 101: What is Dada in Six Incidences. In this special 101 edition of Justynn Tyme's experimental TymeCast, Justynn performs four selected texts by four classic Dadaists: X-Images by Theo Van Doesburg, Grind by Shinkichi Takahashi, Subjoyrides Pt. 3 by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Paradadagraphs by Joek Friis. AND MORE!!! For more information please visit www.justynntyme.com/101hours.html.

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

7p—Music live by Boyd Anderson

8p—The Herbed Brie Period by B. Blatherscape, Even. World Premiere of Broken Hours' next radio-only production following its patently romantic The Wreck of the Broken Landscape is this Festival exclusive, a criticism of generalization, a scathing putrefaction of clinical depression, and an indictment of reality and its progenitors, in the guise of a soft, fermented krautsoul cheese.

9p—Rob Walmart provides music and spoken word. They show up in a van, plug in, and commence to emit and evoke science-fictional cartoonish landscapes which manage to combine images of world-wide wrestling, magic dust, and cat burglary. Live and parked in front of our studio.

10:30p--Antonin Artaud's Artaud the Momo. After spending 8.5 years in insane asylums, Artaud reemerged to literary Paris in 1946 with this account of his Phoenix-like rise after receiving massive electro-shock treatments. “In Artaud the ancient, black springs of poetry are graspable, like a writhing piece of star gristle. Antonin Artaud is the stamina of poetry to enact in a machine-gunned hearth the ember of song.” A radio-theater dramatization of Artaud's poem produced by Rolf Semprebon.

11p—Naughty Bits: Ubu Unchained by Alfred Jarry produced by Rolf Semprebon, a radio dramatization of another of Jarry's Ubu Plays. Savagely satirical and hilariously profane, the Ubu plays from the late 1890s were the tinderbox that sparked the flames of Dada and Surrealism. Ubu Unchained follows the repulsive Pa and Ma Ubu into further absurdity. “...a heightened, outrageous satire on the concept of freedom in its varying guises and interpretations.”

 

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