Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts 2008

[Andy Wilson]

February 26 - March 2, 2008
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN.

For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul (USA) to showcase their work to the public.

Spark celebrates all uses of new technologies for artistic expression, including music, video, theatre, dance, plastic artworks, and more. Centered around Minneapolis’ west bank theatre district and the adjoining University of Minnesota West Bank Arts Quarter, Spark presents a wide variety of performances, workshops, discussions, and scholarly lectures. Nearly all Spark events are free, and all Spark events are open to the general public.

Special Events for 2008:


Iancu Dumitrescu

Iancu Dumitrescu is a Romanian composer whose compositions are based on ultra-spectralism and acousmatics from a phenomenological point of view (Ed. Husserl), in which sound is subject to analysis and dissociation, (harmonical multisounds - diagonal sounds) processes which confer a genuine force of suggestion and penetration. ...more...

*Concert 2*
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
• Mark Chambers: "...glass darkly..."
• Noah Keesecker: "Tonegoblin"
• J. Anthony Allen: "Anti"
• Benjamin Dorfan: "Arctic Circle"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Galaxy (I)"

*Concert 3*
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Ted Mann Recital Hall
Works:
• Parag Chordia: "Vadi"
• Scott Miller: "What You Have Taken
• Doug Geers: "Calling"
• Richard Devine: "Valez Mix"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Other Time - Out of Time"
• Ana-Maria Avram: "Nouvel Archae"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Meteors and Pulsars" *(World Premiere)
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*Thursday, Feb. 28
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*Concert 4
* Time: 11am
Location: Coffman Union, Whole Music Club
Works:
• Colin Holter: "There is No Going Back"
• M. Anthony Reimer: "Melancholy"
• Thanos Polymeneas: "M.P.K."
• Michael Oliva: "Apparition and Release"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Implosive Eternity"
*Lecture 3: **Iancu Dumitrescu
* The leading composer of Romania discusses his work and career.
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Anderson Hall, University of Minnesota

*Concert 5
* Time: 2:30
Location: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
• Neil Rolnick: "Shadow Quartet"
• Tilman Küntzel: "Composition for Water"
• Jen-Kuang Chang: "Sahasrara"
• Ana-Maria Avram: "Four Orphic Sketches"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Le Silence d'Or" *(World Premiere)
Installation Tour
* Time: 5pm
Locations: Various (meeting place TBA)


*Friday, Feb. 29
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*Concert 8
* Time: 2:30
ocation: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
• Cristyn Magnus: "Eartude 1"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Objet sonore mystérieux"
• Chikashi Miyama: "Piano Chimera"
• Wesley Fuller: "Details/Lines"
• Christopher Biggs: "Inconspicuous Impulses"
• Alejandra Hernandez: "Pies, para que los quiero #2"

*Concert 9
* Time: 8pm
Location: Barker Center for Dance, University of Minnesota
Works:
• Olive Bieringa: "The BodyCartography Project"
• Adam Hardin: "Echolalia"
• Ken Ueno: "Sabinium"
• Ana-Maria Avram: "Telesma"
• John Toenjes and David Marchant: "Leonardo's Chimes”
• Maja Cerar and Liubo Borissov: "Mimesis"

*Saturday, March 1
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*Concert 10
* Time: 11am
Location: Ultan Hall, University of Minnesota
Works:
• Karen Power: "Grounded"
• Joshua Parmenter: "Palimpsest"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Remote Pulsar"
• Phillip Stearns: "Apeiron | Peras"

*Concert 11
* Time: 2:30
Location: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
• Peter Helms: "Sustained"
• Scott Petersen: "Measuring Time and Place"
• Ross Karre: "Man with a Movie Camera"
• Benjamin Broening: "Dark Wood"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Galaxy (II)"


*Concert 12
* Time: 8pm
Location: Cedar Cultural Center
Works:
• Omar Daniel: "Annunciation"
• Kyle Vande Slunt: "dreambubbles"
• Iancu Dumitrescu: "Oiseaux céléestes"
• David Bithell: "Whistle from Above"
• David Wessel, Douglas Ewart, and Guerino Mazzola: "Improvisation"

*Sunday, March. 2
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*Master Class by **Iancu Dumitrescu
* Internationally-known composer Iancu Dumitrescu critques work by
young composers
Time: 2pm
Location: Ferguson Hall, Room 225

*Installations by Venue
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*Regis Center for Art /East/ Building (**Map)*
• *SEAt to SEA* (Diane Willow) : /Regis Lobby
/*Regis Center for Art /West/ Building (**Map)*
• *AANN* (Phillip Stearns) : /Second Floor, Skyway Entrance
// / • *The Hottest Year on Record* (Bart Woodstrup) : /Ground
Floor, Wall
// / • *Butterfly* (Niknaz Tavakolian) : /Ground Floor, Wall
// / • *A3.Format* (A3 Format) : /Ground Floor, Wall
// / • *Merge* (Christi Denton) : /Ground Floor, Under Stairs
// / • *Filling Vessels* (Paula Matthusen & Tom O'Doherty) :
/Ground Floor, Regis 130
/*Ted Mann Concert Hall (**Map)*
• *Covey* (Jason Freeman) : /Lobby
// / • *project CONDOR* (Casey Farina) : /Ted Mann Concert Hall
During Wednesday Night Concert
/*Barbara Barker Center for Dance (**Map)*
• *60x60 (2007 / International Mix)* (collaboration with Zlatko
Ćosić) : Barker Center for Dance Projection on East Facade

*Video Art
* • *Tonegoblin +* (Noah Keesecker)
• *dreambubbles* (Kyle Vande Slunt)
• *Sabinium* (Ken Ueno)
• *Piano Chimera* (Chikashi Miyama)
• *Composition for Water* (Tilman Küntzel)
• *Eartude 1* (Cristyn Magnus)
• *gorunded* (Karen Power)
• *Apeiron | Peras* (Phillip Stearns)
• *Man with a Movie Camera* (Ross Karre)

Note: Although this schedule is accurate as of Feb. 6, 2008, /it is
sure to change./ Please do not base flight plans or performance dates on
this schedule.