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.
12:15a—Elvis and the Creepy Tales Ensemble. Very improvised ghost stories from Portland's beloved Elvis who has played in Portland's Saturday Market street scene and in the cabaret scene for years backed up by several well-known experimental musicians. Performing live.
2a—2001 at 2. Tonight the material we present from our 2001 Festival will include The Cancer and Infinitely ... On the Grass by Joyce Mansour, The Debutante by Leonora Carrington, The Angel Closet by Jose Pierre, and The Folly Stone by Fernando Arrabal; all in readings by Kathy Fors, Richard Francis, Joanne Oleksiak and DJ Wagner with music by Cory Dow, Kathy Fors, Brandon Morrill, and Charlie Vater.
7a—Automatic Writing by opera composer Robert Ashley is one of his early pieces where he stimulates his own mild form of Tourette's syndrome into performance art in a piece which sometimes got him into legal difficulty. This is a recording of a very mild attack from 1979 with electronics.
9a—John Cage Theater: james joyce, marcel duchamp, erik satie: an alphabet, a play by John Cage recorded in 1990 at the WDR Sound Art Festival in a performance with John Cage and friends (including George Brecht, Alvin Curran, Charles Dodge, Christian Wolff, Malcolm Goldstein and more).
Noon—Noon Classics: Music of Marcel Duchamp created using chance operations.
1p—Bill Horist on treated guitar.
1:30p—Argumentix provide live music and spoken word.
2p—Surrealist Matinee: In A Tight Spot, a play in two acts by Louis Aragon.
Man: Watch out, can't you?
Kindly pause your high-wattage illuminigenic intimacies and attent to this under-attenuated gem produced and performed by the radio theater stalwarts of the Sudden Radio Project.
4p—Sean Ongley in collaboration with the Portland New Music Society of young composers and improvisers present a piece based on Cage's Indeterminacy (see John Cage Theater. Indeterminacy on Thursday at 9a) were performers will be scattered and isolated in various parts of our studios to react to time-based cues for chance-based sounds using both instruments and found objects discovered around the station. Also a musique concrete piece involving Linnton, Oregon's fading industrial district.
5p—DADA Yow!'s Knotcast: Refried Dada in a Lint Basket. In this extended KnotCast, many audio artists from the DADA Yow!/391 Community have stitched together this tapestry of odd sound especially for the 101 Hours Festival. DADA Yow!/391 is an unusual collective of individual artists and musicians from all around the world who join together for communal projects and to present their works in the online galleries. For track listing and artist information please visit the DADA Yow! at www.omphalosdada.org.
6p—Surrealist Game Show and/or Open Mic. See Thursday at 6p for details.
7p—Another Portland Community Media Dada/Surrealist Film Simulcast. Another simulcast (see Friday at 9p) only this time with musicians who have volunteered to come in to provide the soundtracks to old silent Dada and Surrealist films. This time the films will be appearing on Portland Community Media Channel 11.
9p—Electronic Cabaret: Guidance Counselor, Babies Got Rabies, Air Fortress, Danny Nono and other musicians electronically emanate surreal sounds until midnight when our festival ends.