SoundNetwork@Futuresonic07
Manchester Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Longsight, Manchester
Friday 11th - Sunday 13th May 2007
Fri 11th, 11am - 5pm / Sat 12th, 11am - 8pm / Sun 13th, 12am - 3pm


SoundNetwork return to Futuresonic at the Victoria baths with a programme reflecting the diversity of its membership across disciplines and practice. This year Futuresonic proposed that 3 events; SoundNetwork@Futuresonic, Steve Straight's Drowned in a Dull Roar and Ray Lee's Siren, come together to share resources, networks, venues and audiences across the Futuresonic07 programme.

In an amazing venue, The Victoria Baths award winning Restoration project all are welcome to come and listen, explore discuss and network. Featuring artist talks & discussions, experimental performance, drones, steam engines & sirens, listening in changing rooms, cement mixers, sand filters, pavilions of dreams, tea, coffee and cake.

NETWORK EXPOSED
All weekend
An exhibition of stereo works from across the membership of the network exploring the diversity of sonic practice in contemporary art and experimental music around the world.

(MAYMING WILL BE STUCK ON REPEAT ALL DAY)

Installations and other works in and around the grounds of the baths from SoundNetwork artists
4 Channel Mixer - Dan Barrett Fri/Sat/Sun
Pavilion of Dreams - Greg Byatt Fri
Untitled - Samantha Jones Fri/Sun
Sonic Biographies - Werner Moebius - Fri/Sun
Stone Circle - Markus Soukup & Greg Byatt Fri/Sat/Sun
Sunday In Hilbre - Two Postcards (2007) Mariella Greil Fri/Sun
Bathing in SoundWaves - Mark Pilkington Sun 12PM


Special event
SIREN by Ray Lee

Installation and performance
Fri 11th 4pm
Sat 12th 3.30pm and 6.30pm
Sun 13th 2pm
"a choir of rotating sirens, their individually strident voices congealing into a thick mutating chord that transfixed listeners in its sticky flux." David Toop, The Wire
http://www.invisible-forces.com/

REFUGE: Artist Talks
Friday 11th May 1.30pm - 4pm
A series of SoundNetwork artist talks and open discussion presented by Liverpool's The Library Project; an artist led organization committed to supporting and facilitating artist's contextual and theoretical practice. Arguments against software, artist laboratories, electronic noise, the borders of language and things thrown down stairs; listen and contribute.

12-1300 Daniel Barrett - Fake Palast with Fake Funding - Deleting of site place & memory
1300 - 1400 Samantha Jones Too Soft - Discussion over software in music and fine art
1400- 1500 Katherine from The Library Project - To Be confirmed
1500 - 1600 Simon Bowes and Mariella Greil - Sunday with Me

http://www.myspace.com/thelibraryproject

DROWNED IN A DULL ROAR
Saturday 12th May 2pm - 8pm
Colin Potter / Birds of Delay / Lee Patterson / Johnathan Fisher / Straight / Disco Operating System / Canvasdance / Ray Lee

An exploration of space, sound, movement and vision, and a celebration of those currently setting the world on fire with their own take on transcendental noise. Cutting edge sound and performance in inviting and unique surroundings.
This is a Futuresonic07 EVNT organised by SN member Steve McLaughlin
http://www.myspace.com/adullroar

RESTORE@SoundNetworkCAFE
All weekend
Take the weight off those tired festival feet and listen to artist talks over coffee and cake

http://www.futuresonic.com
http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/thelibraryproject