Sonorities 2005 [29th April]


				Friday 29th April
			Sonorities @ The Cathedral Quarter: A day of events in the Cathedral Quarter and Belfast City Centre, in collaboration with the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.

11:30	Fruit Music @ The Market		St.George's Market
13:15	Auto-Route#2: The Lagan Boat Tour		Donegal Quay
16:00	Opening: Ed Osborn's Cline Series		Place
18:45	primitiveFailed: Orchestral Pre-Mix		Ulster Hall
19:45	Ulster Orchestra: Dog Breath Variations, The Music of Frank Zappa		Ulster Hall
22:00	Club Night		The Front Page Bar



			11:30
			*Fruit Music @ The Market* [World Premiere]

		Venue: St. George's Market Admission : FREE



Let your senses mix... An improvisation facilitated by Franziska Schroeder Banana Music Apple Music Orange Music Kiwi Music .


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			13:15
			Auto-Route#2: The Lagan Boat Tour [World Premiere]

		Venue: Donegal Quay Admission : £6/£5 (Places limited to 40)
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See Belfast from its river and hear it as never before! Auto-Route#2 by Martin Parker (operated by Tom Davis) has been engineered to work with a voice in noisy environments. The system strips silence out of sentences and stores the remaining sound in a database. These words are then re-sequenced automatically to create a new sentences and new meanings, while the punctuated silences are modified to create a spontaneous, rhythmic background. Departing from Donegal Quay beside the Lagan Lookout at the Lagan Weir. Tickets can be obtained from www.cqaf.com


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			16:00
			Opening: Ed Osborn's Cline Series Installation

		Venue: PLACE Built Environment Centre Admission : FREE



This is the opening of the Cline Series installation which runs until the 4 th May at the PLACE Built Environment Center. The Cline Series is a composition designed specifically for a set of custom-designed metal loudspeaker-objects that exhibit variations in shape and contour. Organic in appearance, the objects contain multiple permutations of simple visual forms. The title comes from a biological term that refers to the graded sequence of differences within a species, and the Cline Series uses this concept as its launching point. This installation reflects on the relationship between the built environment and sound. The work introduces acoustic sources as architectural objects in an exploration of a sense of place through sound. Opening Hours: 28 th April - 4 th May Tuesday/Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm Thursday 12:00pm - 9:00pm Friday/Saturday 9:30am - 5:30pm


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			18:45
			primitiveFailed: Orchestral Pre-Mix [World Premiere]

		Venue : Ulster Hall Admission : FREE



The technological fragmentation of Frank Zappa's orchestral music primitiveFailed (Henry Vega and Jason Dixon) is the trio project inspired by the Million Dollar Man. Part man, part machine, this group performs on an instrument controlled by everybody and by nobody in particular, each member being at any time a hub or a node on the meta instrument. Highly connected networks of sound are created and destroyed in an instant at the whimsy of The Button.

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			19:45
			Dog Breath Variations: The Music of Frank Zappa
			Ulster Orchestra: BBC Invitation concert
			Philippe Nahon, Conductor

		Venue : Ulster Hall Admission : Compimentary ticket



Frank Zappa was the 'father of invention' - one of the most individual, accomplished and provocative composers that rock music has produced. But he was as at home with the music of the avant-garde, such as Varèse and Stockhausen, as he was with rock-and-roll. Zappa's orchestral music has been recorded by such luminaries as Pierre Boulez, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble Modern. This is a unique opportunity to hear the Ulster Orchestra perform music by one of American music's true originals! Programme includes: Dog Breath Variations The Perfect Stranger Naval aviation in Art? Dupree's Paradise Be-Bop Tango Get Whitey Outrage at Valdez G-Spot Tornado Revised Music for Low Budget Orchestra Admission for BBC concerts is by complimentary ticket. To apply for tickets and for further information please contact: By phone: BBC Northern Ireland Ticket Line: 0870 - 333 1918 Textphone: 08000 153350 My mail: BBC Ticket Unit (concerts): Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ Or log on to: www.bbc.co.uk/ni/tickets

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			22:00
			Club Night
			A night of extreme audio-vision from around the world.

			8GG - Unregistered [UK/Irish Premiere]
			Martin Stig Andersen - Ring Road (A141)
			Lietterschpich
			Parker/Raffaseder/Hörbst - staTdT_kunst_Belfast [World Premiere]

		Venue :The Front Page Bar Admission : £10/£6
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Unregistered is an audio-visual performance system created by Chinese multimedia art group, 8GG. Real-time images are reconstructed through music, and at the same time, remodeled images produce new sounds. Lietterschpich is an eight-piece noise band from Israel, which manages to fuse an experimental sonic approach with a witty, energetic and campy live show. While they draw influences from specific music sub-cultures such as Metal, Industrial, Punk and Hard-Core, without ever really being pulled into mere genreisms, their sound remains rich and unconventional, with thick, uncontrolled textures.

staTdT_kunst_Belfast by the Austrian/UK trio Parker/Raffaseder/Hörbst proposes two different meanings: "statt Kunst" (instead of art) deals with the role and significance of contemporary art in our society, while "stadt kunst" (city art) uses sounds, pictures and videos sourced in the city of Belfast as basic material for a multimedia art project. Tickets can be obtained from www.cqaf.com or purchased at the door.





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