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Thur, 04 April 2002

Hello unto you.

With a heavy heart, I announced the passings of Frank Tovey (Fad Gadget, April 3), John Watermann (April 2), and Kevin Smith (of Say Yes to Apes fame, February 15, but not realised until only recently).

4 April 2002 12:41
"It is with great sadness that I have tell you that Frank Tovey has died. The circumstances of his death are not yet known.
Frank was the first artist I ever worked with on Mute, he made some very special and influential records and was an exceptional live performer. Frank played a big part in helping to lay the foundations of what the label was to become in the ensuing years, I will miss him greatly.
My deepest sympathy and condolences go out to his family.
Love,
Daniel Miller"

Frank Tovey's final post on his website went as follows:
02-04-2002 - SAMA and beyond
"Thank you, my children of the night. Fad loves you. The Sama festival in Gotenburg was great. We all had a good time, even though our dressing room was burgled while we were on stage. Gunther had his jacket stolen, Tommy lost his shades and Huw (our sound engineer) had his sweatshirt nicked. Luckily, my collection of severed hands and my complete set of hand drills were untouched. Also, an idiot from some Norwegian band was upset that we left the stage covered in feathers and started shouting at my girlfriend. You find these amateurs everywhere, unfortunately. Apart from these minor hiccups, the show was a great success and the band enjoyed themselves tremendously.

It was fun to meet some of Sissy Prozac and Statemachine back at the hotel. Thanks for the beers Sunil. The short European tour was a gas and we were pleased to see so many of our fans. I read all the messages in the guest book. It's good to see what real people think. The music biz is so full of bullshitters. The guestbook keeps me in touch, so don't stop writing.

As you may know, I'm currently writing new material. Be patient, my little rodents, I know you crave blood but these things take time. You may not see me again for a few months while I check my circuits, reprogram my nerve system and regenerate some new flesh for you to devour. I hope that there will be something for you to consume by the end of the year but, in the meantime we will be playing some festivals in the summer (dates to be announced when gigs are confirmed). And for our Amercan fans (North & Latin) and Japanese fans, we hope to visit you as soon as we find suitable agents in your territories. Keep the letters coming in.
We will see you soon.
Love, Fad Gadget x"

Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 23:32:39 +1000
From: "shannon o'neill" <alias@aliasfrequencies.org
Subject: John Watermann 19.2.1935 - 2.4.2002
"The artist John Watermann died last night @ 5:50P, Brisbane time, April 2nd, in Ward 4B Royal Brisbane Hospital, from infection associated with myeloma."

Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:21:28 -0500

From: "Vallor" <vallor@attbi.com
"On a sadder note, ex Say Yes To Apes / Hyphen-Smythe co-leader Kevin Smith passed away in February. Smith was working on a film in China and died after falling from a tower on the adjacent set. For those who don't know Say Yes To Apes et al, they were one of south New Zealand's (Invercargill) most bent DIY treasures and the starting point (?) for one Duane Zarakov who's post I am herein re-ing.

Smith left the world of DIY to become an actor and apparently was a bit of a soapstar in NZ when he heard the call of Xena and took the roll of Ares on the Warrior Princess's show. He had just been cast in an American blockbuster with Bruce Willis (presumed to have been his road to Russell Crowe-dom) when the accident took his life. Sad news."
- Dan Vallor
 
Somewhat more positively, I'm performing as \\\ tomorrow night in Los Angeles...


APRIL 5 - 6
OREN AMBARCHI
LAWRENCE ENGLISH
I/O & SCANNER - exhibition
"Biospheres: Secrets Of The City".

"Exploring the hidden resonances and meanings of sound and image that lie beneath our everyday surroundings. Taking the urban environment, architecture, streets and the neighbourhoods that map the framework of the city itself as the inspirational focal point, this work attempts to re-assemble Brisbane and its surrounding spaces through its fringes. Focusing on the sounds that have become invisible through familiarity, "Biospheres: Secrets Of The City" also explores the neglected architecture that dominates the urban environment."

PIMMON
DAVID TOOP
Fabrique Festival
Spark Bar
Brisbane Powerhouse
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/02_program_2002/rev.htm for information
(culled from Robin Rimbaud - thanks!)


APRIL 5
ROBERT RICH
Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
514 843 3738 fon
http://www.robertrich.com/rrconcerts for information
(culled from Robert Rich - thanks!)


APRIL 5

GOLD CHAINS
JETONE
KID606
JAMIE LIDELL
...and you will know us by the trail of pregnancies tour (Lidell's gotta get citizenship somehow!)
Tequila Lounge
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
http://www.tigerbeat6.com for information
(culled from Tigerbeat6 - thanks!)


APRIL 5
ROGER PARRY - lecture
"John Oswald, Plunderphonics and before."
The Listening Room Presents
7:30P, The Neptune Room (free)
Bluecoat Arts Centre
School Lane
Liverpool L1 3BX, ENGLAND
http://www.frakture.freeserve.co.uk/lr.htm for information
(culled from Phil Morton - thanks!)


APRIL 5 - 6 - SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT!
ANTONY (of THE JOHNSONS)
BACKWORLD
CURRENT NINETY THREE
(Michael Cashmore, Maja Elliott, David Tibet)
Saint Olave's Church (£30)
London, ENGLAND
mailorder@worldserpent.demon.co.uk for information
(culled from David Tibet - thanks!)


APRIL 5 - 6 - SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT!
APRIL 5 - CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED! (due to Notwist illness)
BERNARD FLEISCHMANN
THE NOTWIST
University of London Union
London, ENGLAND
http://www.morrmusic.com for information
(culled from Dense - danke!)


APRIL 5 - CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED! (due to Notwist illness)
APRIL 5
HOWIE B & JON HASSELL & BAABA MAAL
Only Connect
Barbican
London, ENGLAND
020 7638 8891 fon
http://www.barbican.org.uk/onlyconnect for information
(culled from Janice White - thanks!)


APRIL 5
EDDIE PREVOST - improvisation workshop

"This provides an opportunity for musicians of all stages or development to present their work and engage in workshop activity within a friendly but critical context. The objective is provide a space to perform and to offer a sounding board for musicians interested in the nature and relevance of this most intriguing and perplexing creative activity."
6:30P, Community Music House (£3)
35 Union Street
London SE1, ENGLAND
0207 403 1922 fon
lmc@lmcltd.demon.co.uk for information
(culled from the AMM site - thanks!)


APRIL 5
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - scoring
"Legend of the Overfiend".

"Japan's psychedelic earth worshippers Acid Mothers Temple perform live a score to the cult, X certificate Japanese Manga classic "Urotsukidji - Legend of the Overfiend". The perfect accompaniment to Hideki Takayama's 18 certificate 108 minute long animated classic. Acid Mothers Temple unleash a lethal concoction of guitar solos, Jazz inspired improvisation and
Krautrock-like noise to one of cinema's darkest fantasies. Graphic sex, demon-induced gore and supernatural shenanigans make for a night of deliciously uncensored hardcore horror. Take your warning. Adults only!"
2002: A Space Ordinance Tour (£6 advance / £8 door)
7:30P, Queen Elizabeth Hall (£12.50 / £15)
London, ENGLAND
http://www.acidmothers.com/ for information
(culled from Squealer - thanks!)


APRIL 5
TANIA CHEN / DAVE COATES / JOHN EDWARDS / DAVE RYAN / MARK SANDERS
MATT HUTCHINSON / DAVE RYAN / TONY WREN
HOWARD RILEY / PHIL WACHSMANN / TONY WREN
7:30P, London St. Cyprian's Church
London, ENGLAND
020 7392 9032
(culled from The Wire - thanks!)


APRIL 5 - 9

LES MONSTRATIONS INOUIES
(Bertrand Auger, Laurent Dailleau, Jean-Philippe Dartois, Michel Risse)
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe
37, boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris, FRANCE
01 44 16 64 38 fon
(culled from Laurent Dailleau - merci!)


APRIL 5

HYPNOSKULL
NOISEX
re/work
Groupieshocktour 2002
Kulturfabrik
Krefeld, GERMANY
Roucka@t-online.de for information
(culled from Raoul Roucka - danke!)


APRIL 5
POLE
Muenich, GERMANY
bp@scape-music.de for information
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 5

ANNETTE KREBS & ANDREA NEUMANN
TORE H. BOE & MICHAEL F. DUCH
Avant Garden
Trondheim, NORWAY
http://www.kunst.no/origami/ka or thboe@online.no for information
(culled from Tore Boe - thanks!)


APRIL 5

RUSSELL HASWELL
MANHEIM
LASSE MARHAUG
NO
Club Blå (80 kroner)
Oslo, NORWAY
(culled from Lasse Marhaug - thanks!)


APRIL 5
@c + LIA
9:30P, Forum FNAC Norte Shopping
Matosinhos, PORTUGAL
http://www.at-c.org for information
(culled from Pedro Almeida - gracias!)


APRIL 5
PEACHES
B2
Moscow, RUSSIA
http://www.kitty-yo.com/tours/index.php4 for information
(culled from Kitty-Yo - danke!)


APRIL 5
EN HALVKOKT I FOLIE
L.E.A.K.
THE PAIN MACHINERY & FETISH 23
TARMVRED
9P, Fylkingen / Münchenbryggeriet
Torkel Knutssongatan 2
Stockholm, SWEDEN
intermedia@fylkingen.se for information
(culled from Nicolas Chevreux, and Marten Saahlen - thanks!)


APRIL 5
BRANDON LaBELLE
8P, Meridian Gallery ($5 / $10)
545 Sutter (between Mason and Powell)
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA
415 398 7229 fon
ryokan@value.net or http://www.meridiangallery.org for information
(culled from Philip Gelb - thanks!)


APRIL 5

SPIRITUALIZED
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA
http://www.spiritualized.com/nf_tour.html for information
(culled from Thighpaulsandra - thanks!)


APRIL 5

JEROME BRYERTON / JACOB LINDSAY / TORSTEN MUELLER
HARRIS EISENSTADT / DAMON SMITH / BIGGI VINKELOE / MARK WEAVER
8:30P, 21 Grand
449B 23rd Street
Oakland, CALIFORNIA
http://www.balancepointacoustics.com for information
(culled from Balance Point - thanks!)


APRIL 5

GREG DAVIS
HRVATSKI
KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN
Stork Club
Oakland, CALIFORNIA
(culled from Bruce Adams - thanks!)


APRIL 5

CRIB
DIMETRODON COLLECTIVE
\ \ \
9P, Dimetrodon at Labor Fruit (a/a, $5)
1200 North Alvarado Street
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA 90026
213 413 5550 fon
http://home.earthlink.net/~mlev/dmthollymatter.html for information
(culled from Marc Levinthal - thanks!)


APRIL 5

FLASH EXPRESS
Knitting Factory Hollywood / Alterknit
7021 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CALIFORNIA 90028
323 463 0204 fon
323 463 0262 facs
http://www.knittingfactory.com/kfla for information
(culled from Courtney Knopf - thanks!)


APRIL 5

ALLAND
DEAN DECOSTA
ZHAO
9:30P, Wonder Bar
2692 South La Cienega
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA
info@dub23.com for information
(culled from Leo Zhao - thanks!)


APRIL 5
JACQUES DERRIDA - conversing
Inaugurations - Opening Celebration of the International Center for Writing and Translation
4P, International Center for Writing and Translation
172 Humanities Instructional Building
University of California
Irvine, CALIFORNIA 92697-3375
949 824 9596 fon
develop-the-humanities@uci.edu for information
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 5

PLAID
Cow Haus
Tallahassee, FLORIDA
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 5
DANIEL ASH
9P, The Chamber
2115 Faulkner Road (off Cheshire Bridge Road)
Atlanta, GEORGIA
404 248 1611 fon
http://www.chamberatlanta.com for information
(culled from Steven Ledbetter - thanks!)


APRIL 5

DAVID J
10P, Echo Lounge
551 Flat Shoals Avenue
Atlanta, GEORGIA
404 681 3600 fon
http://www.echostatic.com for information
(culled from Steven Ledbetter - thanks!)


APRIL 5

KEN DYBER - dj
THE ETERNALS
HOOD
PULSEPROGRAMMING
Aesthetics Records Showcase
10P, Empty Bottle
Chicago, ILLINOIS
http://tisue.net/chicagonow/ for information
(culled from Chicago Now - thanks!)


APRIL 5 - 6
ARCHETYPE OF A CRIME
BACKBREAKERNECKBRACE
CEX
RICHARD CHARTIER
DISKETTE
JEFF DONALDSON
FARBEN
THOMAS JIRKU
IAN NAGOSKI
CATHERINE PANCAKE - screening
SAFETY SCISSORS
SUTEKH
TELIA
TIMEBLIND
TWINE
WHILE
Once.Twice Festival of Sound
Whole Gallery
405 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MARYLAND
pneuma@oncetwicesound.com or http://www.oncetwicesound.com/oncetwicefestival.html for information
(culled from Dense, and Richard Chartier, and Ian Nagoski - thanks!)


APRIL 5
JACK WRIGHT
DAN BREEN / JOHN DIERKER / ANDY HAYLECK
The Red Room
Normals Books and Records
25 East 31st Street
Baltimore, MARYLAND
http://www.redroom.org for information
(culled from John Berndt - thanks!)


APRIL 5
JOHN HUDAK
IF, BWANA
8P, Institute of Contemporary Art ($7)
955 Boylston Street
Boston, MASSACHUSETTS 02115
hstelzer@hotmail.com for information
(culled from Al Margolis, and Howard Stelzer - thanks!)


APRIL 5
"Dirges and Sturgeons" - screening
ANIMAL CHARM (Sunshine Kitty and/or Lightfoot Fever, Slow Gin Soul Stallion)
PIERRE YVES CLOUIN (The Little Big)
LAWRENCE ELBERT (Whitney: Mama's Little Baby, 2000)
JACQUELINE GOSS (The 100th Undone, 2001)
MIRANDA JULY (Getting Stronger Every Day, 2001)
BJORN MELHUS (Das Zauberglas/The Magic Glass)
SETH PRICE (Industrial Synth, 2001)
8P, Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave South
Minneapolis, MINNESOTA
612 871 4444 fon
la@astriasuparak.com for information
(culled from Astria Suparak - thanks!)


APRIL 5
VIDUO
7P, Pseudo ($10 - $15)
600 Broadway (South East corner at Houston) 6th floor
New York City, NEW YORK
klapidus@aecom.yu.edu for information
(culled from Kyle Lapidus - thanks!)


APRIL 5
JOHN ZORN (Masada String Trio)
10P, Tonic
107 Norfolk Street (between Delancey & Rivington)
New York City, NEW YORK
212 358 7501 fon
http://www.tonicnyc.com for information
(culled from Tonic - thanks!)


APRIL 5
MITCHELL AKIYAMA
BENEATH AUTUMN SKY
DESORMAIS
STROMKREIS
JOSHUA TREBLE
9P, SSNova ($6)
Mockbee Building
2260 Central Parkway
Cincinnati, OHIO
http://www.ssnova.org for information
(culled from C. Spencer Yeh - thanks!)


APRIL 5

CARLA BOZULICH & THE NELS CLINE SINGERS
Performing Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger" album in its entirety.
Dante's
Portland, OREGON
info@nelscline.com for information
(culled from Nels Cline - thanks!)


APRIL 5

NATURALISTE
USA FOR LSD
Jeremy's House
Nashville, TENNESSEE
torsosrot@yahoo.com for information
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 6
BARBARA MORGENSTERN
Phonotaktikfestiva
Wien, AUSTRIA
http://www.m-enterprise.de for information
(culled from Monika Enterprise - danke!)


APRIL 6

AH CAMA-SOTZ
INADE
KLOOD
SIDHARTA
VIDNA OBMANA
Independent Music & Arts Festival No. 14
O.J.C. Kompas vzw
Driekoningenstraat 48
9100 Sint-Niklaas, BELGIUM
http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/festival/programme.htm for information
(culled from Herman Klapholz, and Geert de Decker - thanks!)


APRIL 6
DIDI de PARIS
WILFRIED HOU JE BEK
PETER KUESTERMANN
EMILIO MORANDI
SISTER DOLORES
SZTUKA FABRYKA
KRISTEL van HILST - installation
14th International "Independent Music & Arts" Festival
Sztuka Fabryka Gallery
Kerkstraat 290
9140 Tielrode, BELGIUM
32 03 770 84 64 fon / facs
art@sztuka-fabryka.be or http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ for information
(culled from Geert de Decker - thanks!)


APRIL 6

GERARD MALANGA - speaking

"To celebrate the publication of his new book "Archiving Warhol" (Creation Books), the ICA is delighted to welcome Gerard Malanga, the photographer and film maker whose name is synonymous with the work of Andy Warhol's Factory.

Film screenings will include the very rarely-seen Andy Warhol:
"Bufferin" (dir Andy Warhol US 1966 col 33 mins) in which Malanga recites a poem describing the life and loves of the New York avant-garde scene.
"Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man" (dir Gerard Malanga US 1964-65 b/w silent 21 mins)
Gerard will present a spoken word performance and participate in a question and answer session before signing copies of his book."
9P, Cinema 1 (£7, £6 (concs), £5 ICA Members)
ICA
London, ENGLAND
020 7930 3647 fon
(culled from Creation, and Secret Cinema - thanks!)


APRIL 6

CYLOB
Wang
The Premesis
Hackney Road
London, ENGLAND
(culled from Sonomu - thanks!)


APRIL 6 - CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED! (due to Notwist illness)
BERNARD FLEISCHMANN
THE NOTWIST
Hop & Grape
Manchester, ENGLAND
http://www.morrmusic.com for information
(culled from Dense - danke!)


APRIL 6 - CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED! (due to Notwist illness)

APRIL 6
EVOL
Purple Institute
Paris, FRANCE
http://www.mego.at for information
(culled from Dense - danke!)


APRIL 6
BALDUR BURWITZ
88
Clemens Schultz Str. 88
Hamburg / St. Pauli, GERMANY
jens-foerster@t-online.de for information
(culled from Jens Foerster - thanks!)


APRIL 6

HYPNOSKULL
NOISEX
re/work
Groupieshocktour 2002
Siegen, GERMANY (formerly at Factory in Magdeburg)
Roucka@t-online.de for information
(culled from Raoul Roucka - danke!)


APRIL 6
COIL
Teatro Delle Celebrazioni
Bologna, ITALY
http://www.peoplelikeus.org for information
(culled from Vicki Bennett, and Mike Harding - thanks!)


APRIL 6

FUNKSTOERUNG
PEOPLE LIKE US
WANG, INC.
Coil action afterparty.
12M, Link Club
Bologna, ITALY
http://www.linkassociated.org/gallery/gallery.htm for information
(culled from Vicki Bennett, and Mike Harding - thanks!)


APRIL 6

ROBERT DUCKWORTH / KOWUN-RYUSUI / SAWAKO
6P, Art Lab Goldenshit
Tokyo, JAPAN
03 5380 8755 fon
http://www.thing.net/~roddys/robertspringtour.html for information
(culled from Robert Duckworth - thanks!)


APRIL 6

YANKO VALSKEY & JAM
(Artur Lason (live and programmed electronics), Sebastian Lewicki (alto saxophone, clarinet), Mercedes Starzynska (cornet, vocals)
Dzielnicowe Centrum Promocji Kultury
274 Grochowska Street
Warsaw, POLAND
4822 813 79 98 fon
http://www.dcpk.art.pl for information
(culled from Artur Lason - thanks!)


APRIL 6

MOLR DRAMMAZ
UWE SCHNEIDER & PAUL WIRKUS
OPT
Wroclaw, POLAND
terra@terra.pl for information
(culled from Krzysztof Piekarczyk - thanks!)


APRIL 6

CORNUCOPIA
MHX
PUNTITO SINIESTRO
SHHH
9P, Transylvania ($4)
Recinto Sur
San Juan, PUERTO RICO
necrovox@prhc.org or http://www.nullvoid.net/cornucopia for information
(culled from Jorge Castro - thanks!)


APRIL 6
PEACHES
Red Club
St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
http://www.kitty-yo.com/tours/index.php4 for information
(culled from Kitty-Yo - danke!)


APRIL 6
THE PHANTOM RIDERS
The Red Cove
Ventura, CALIFORNIA
theciceros@earthlink.net for information
(culled from Michel Cicero - thanks!)


APRIL 6
CODED SOURCE
(G.E. Stinson - ex.tech. gtr, implements, machines; Kaoru - vocals, toys, objects, electronics; Carole Kim - live feed video projection)
CRIB & G.E. STINSON
DJ CHOWDERHEAD
9P, The Smell (a/a, $5)
247 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA
213 625 4325 fon
http://www.thesmell.org/ for information
(culled from G.E. Stinson - thanks!)


APRIL 6 - 7
HANNE DARBOVEN
7P, The Schindler House ($5 / $10)
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CALIFORNIA
323 651 1510 fon
makcenter@earthlink.net for information
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 6
PALOMA PARFREY
8P, Billiards (a/a)
12249 West Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA
310 391 9310 fon
(culled from Paloma Parfrey - thanks!)


APRIL 6
BILLY BANG / HAMIETT BLUIETT / KAHIL EL'ZABAR
Fresh Sound Music Series
8P, Spruce Street Forum ($15 / $20)
San Diego, CALIFORNIA
619 295 0301 fon
http://www.sprucestreetforum.com for information
(culled from Bonnie Wright - thanks!)


APRIL 6
SPIRITUALIZED
San Diego, CALIFORNIA
http://www.spiritualized.com/nf_tour.html for information
(culled from Thighpaulsandra - thanks!)


APRIL 6

RALPH GEAN
LITTLE FYODOR & BABUSHKA
10P, The Lion's Lair
2022 East Colfax
Denver, COLORADO
http://www.grantrproductions.com/pages/fyodor.html for information
(culled from David Lichtenberg - thanks!)


APRIL 6

BURNING STAR CORE
DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
N-TRON
8P, McKee Living Room
600 Western College Drive
Miami University
Miami, FLORIDA
(culled from C. Spencer Yeh - thanks!)


APRIL 6
PLAID
Sapphire Supper Club
Orlando, FLORIDA
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 6
DAVEY WILLIAMS
9P, Eyedrum
290 MLK Jr. Drive
Atlanta, GEORGIA
404 522 0655 fon
http://www.eyedrum.org for information
(culled from Steven Ledbetter - thanks!)


APRIL 6

KEN DYBER - dj
THE ETERNALS
HOOD
PULSEPROGRAMMING
Empty Bottle
Chicago, ILLINOIS
http://www.aesthetics-usa.com for information
(culled from Ken Dyber - thanks!)


APRIL 6
GRAND ULENA
BRENT GUTZEIT
MARK 4
RUBBER O CEMENT
SICBAY
VERTONEN
10P, Fireside Bowl
2646 West Fullerton
Chicago, ILLINOIS
http://tisue.net/chicagonow/ for information
(culled from Seth Tisue - thanks!)


APRIL 6

GOLD CHAINS
KID606
JAMIE LIDELL
WWJD (What Would Jason Do?)
...and you will know us by the trail of pregnancies tour (Lidell's gotta get citizenship somehow!)
Magic Stick
Detroit, MICHIGAN
http://www.tigerbeat6.com for information
(culled from Tigerbeat6 - thanks!)


APRIL 6

RON KUIVILA - installation
"An Outgoing Message".

"'Outgoing Message' uses forty telephones and eight channels of sound synthesized to the exacting standards of the world's best telephone systems to explore the transition zone betweensounds and commands.
Watching the clock, waking to an alarm, waiting for the phone to ring, waiting for your call to beanswered, refusing to answer the phone. All of these moments of suspension and discontinuityhave a kind of Pavlovian force. Our response to these stimuli is not cerebral - it is spinal. The dial tones, ring, and busy singals of the world's telephone systems comprise an odd collection of simple musical gestures, immediately and inescapably recognizable to some andconfusing to others. For example, the charming 10/8 pattern of the Italian dial tone can be disconcerting to someone used to the droning dial tones of the rest of the world. The frequencies of the North American phone tones (350, 440, 480, 620 Hz) spell out a pleasingly exotic scale with a quarter tone sharp fourth and a very flat seventh. The transition from a peaceful Javanese pelog to an irritating busy signal occurs the instant two tones are pulsed together at a steady 120 times a second. One final oddity - in the movies, a dialtone appears whenever one person hangs up on another. In life, dialtones are harder to come by."
Diapason
1026 Sixth Avenue, #201
New York City, NEW YORK 10018
212 719 4393 fon
http://www.diapasongallery.com
(culled from Michael J. Schumacher - thanks!)


APRIL 6

RASHID BAKER / ROY CAMPBELL, JR. / DANIEL CARTER / JOE McPHEE / WILLIAM PARKER
Other Dimensions in Music
8P, Synapse Studios
10 Broad Street, 3rd Floor
Red Bank, NEW JERSEY
732 219 6662 fon
musicmargaret@earthlink.net for information
(culled from Margaret Davis - thanks!)


APRIL 6

SAM RIVERS TRIO
(Anthony Cole - drums, piano, tenor saxophone; Doug Matthews - acoustic and electric basses, bass clarinet; Sam Rivers - tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, piano)
8P, MECA ($13)
1900 Kane
Houston, TEXAS
713 666 5555 fon
(culled from David Dove - thanks!)


APRIL 6
CARLA BOZULICH & THE NELS CLINE SINGERS
Performing Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger" album in its entirety.
I-Spy
Seattle, WASHINGTON
info@nelscline.com for information
(culled from Nels Cline - thanks!)


APRIL 6
blackhumour
8P, Second Avenue Pizza (a/a, free)
2015 2nd Ave (at Virginia, kitty corner from the Moore)
Seattle, WASHINGTON
206 956 0489 fon
munderwood@RAILPRODUCTS.COM for information
(culled from the Vital Weekly - thanks!)


APRIL 7

MERLIN COLEMAN
10P, Something Else
WLUW 88.7 FM
Chicago, ILLINOIS
http://www.wluw.org - webcast http://www.timezoneconverter.com for a time near you
(culled from Philip von Zweck - thanks!)


APRIL 7
MATHEW DOYLE
KEITH MANNING
PETER SCHAEFER
Sonic Alchemy
2P, Brett Whitely Studio ($7 Adults / $5 Concession)
2 Raper Street
Surry Hills 2010
Sydney, AUSTRALIA
922 51881 fon
splitrec@ozemail.com.au for information
(culled from Oren Ambarchi - thanks!)


APRIL 7
DREAMSTATE
ROBERT RICH
8:30P, Art Systems ($12 / $15)
327 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
416 542 1222 fon
http://www.robertrich.com/rrconcerts for information
(culled from Robert Rich - thanks!)


APRIL 7 - CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED! (due to Notwist illness)

BERNARD FLEISCHMANN
THE NOTWIST
Medicine Bar
Birmingham, ENGLAND
http://www.morrmusic.com for information
(culled from Dense - danke!)


APRIL 7 - CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED! (due to Notwist illness)
APRIL 7
CYLOB
Ocean Rooms
Brighton, ENGLAND
(culled from Sonomu - thanks!)


APRIL 7

CRAIG ARMSTRONG & ANTYE GREIE-FUCHS
Barbican Hall
London, ENGLAND
http://www.kitty-yo.com/tours/index.php4 for information
(culled from Kitty-Yo, and Janice White - thanks!)


APRIL 7
"Unscene Films - Avant-garde Landscape Films" - screening

"As part of Unscene, an exhibition of contemporary art about landscape, Gasworks presents an afternoon of unique experimental films about landscape from the 1960s & 1970s.


There are few exceptions to the accepted role of landscape in the cinema as a backdrop to human agency. The short films presented in this screening have no actors other than the land itself, no narrative other than the natural environment and its relationship to the mechanical eye of the camera. Their landscapes range from the remotest regions to urban parklands. What all these filmmakers have in common, and in common with many of the artists showing painting and
photographs in Unscene, is a systematic approach to understanding and framing the landscape. Most of these films were made in the 1960s and 1970s within a conceptual framework more applicable to contemporary art practice than to earlier pastoral representations of the landscape in painting and the cinema."

"Fog Line" - Larry Gottheim, 1970 (12 mins)
"Baum in Herbst" - Kurt Kren, 1960 (5 mins)
"Whitchurch Down (Duration)" - Malcom Le Grice, 1972 (8 mins)
"Walk" - Jenny Okun, 1975 (5 mins)
"Moonshine" (double screen) - William Raban, 1975 (10 mins)
"Angles of Incidence" (double screen) - William Raban, 1973 (12 mins)
"Surfacing on the Thames" - David Rimmer, 1970 (8 mins)
"2 films from the Short Film Series" - Guy Sherwin, 1976 - 79 (8 mins)
"Hackney Marshes" - John Smith, 1977 (15 mins)
"Aerial" - Margaret Tai, 1974 (4 mins)
"Seven Days" - Chris Welsby, 1974 (4 mins)
2P, Gasworks Gallery (free)
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11, ENGLAND
(culled from Secret Cinema - thanks!)


APRIL 7
HYPNOSKULL
NOISEX
re/work
Groupieshocktour 2002
Loop (formerly at Work)
Nürnberg, GERMANY
Roucka@t-online.de for information
(culled from Raoul Roucka - danke!)


APRIL 7
JONATHAN COLECLOUGH
Tokyo, JAPAN
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 7
BEEQUEEN & GIRLFRIENDS
NOEL LAWRENCE
Extrapool
Tweede Walstraat 5
Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS
024 3888234 fon
extrapol@desk.nl for information
(culled from the Vital Weekly - thanks!)


APRIL 7

MOLR DRAMMAZ
UWE SCHNEIDER & PAUL WIRKUS
RE
Krakow, POLAND
terra@terra.pl for information
(culled from Krzysztof Piekarczyk - thanks!)


APRIL 7
ANENZEPHALIA
INDUCING THE PLEASURE DREAMS
PLAGIARISM IS ART
9P, Lounge: Ritmo y Compas (15 Eu)
c/Conde de Vilches, 22
Madrid, SPAIN
kittysalon@hotmail.com for information
(culled from Klaus Hilger - danke!)


APRIL 7

ASSEBLAGE 23
NOXIOUS EMOTION
9P, DNA Lounge (21+, $14 / $17)
375 11th Street
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA
(culled from Mark Wilson - thanks!)


APRIL 7
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
"If the back rent isn't paid the Roxie - S.F.'s oldest theater - may disappear! Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many other notables will read, perform, socialize and sign your books, etc. Party donation requested $20, or as much as you can afford."
The Roxie Theater - the benefit rent party
6P, The Roxie ($20)
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA
415 864 2767 fon
info@researchpubs.com for information
(culled from V. Vale - thanks!)


APRIL 7

BEG TRIO
(Bob Marsh - prepared vibes; Ernesto Diaz-Infante- piano/guitar; Garth Powell - drums/percussion)
MOXIE
(Niels Myrner, drums; Bill Noertker, bass; Jim Peterson, alto/tenor sax & flute; Annelise Zamula, Tenor sax & flute)
7:30P, SIMM Series (Static Illusion/Methodical Madness)
Musicians Union Hall
116 Ninth Street @ Mission Street
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA
415 905 4425 fon
itzat@earthlink.net for information
(culled from Ernesto Diaz-Infante - thanks!)


APRIL 7
SPIRITUALIZED
Mayan Theatre
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA
http://www.spiritualized.com/nf_tour.html for information
(culled from Thighpaulsandra - thanks!)


APRIL 7
ECKANKORE
10P, Studio 56
7000 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA
(culled from Ron Karlin - thanks!)


APRIL 7

The Third Annual Edible Book / High Low Tea - consumption

"The International Edible Book Festival is a yearly event on April 1 throughout the world from 2 - 4 PM (depending upon time zone). The edible books are exhibited and, at 4PM, tea and / or coffee is served and the books are consumed. For this High / Low tea, all works of art must be edible and have something to do with books! Each participating group or individual is responsible for its / his / her own audience and website. From 2 - 4 PM, you sip High / Low Tea while viewing the edible exhibit. At 4 PM, you photograph the work and eat it too.

Initiated by Judith A. Hoffberg over a Thanksgiving turkey with book artists in 1999, the Edible Book High / Low Tea has become a sensation. Look for the website at created by Beatrice Coron who was a catalyst for making this a worldwide event!"

Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Eagle Rock, CALIFORNIA
http://www.geocities.com/Books2Eat for information
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 7
PLAID
Polish American Club
Miami, FLORIDA
(culled from the news - thanks!)


APRIL 7

ARAM SHELTON
10P, Hungry Brain
Chicago, ILLINOIS
http://tisue.net/chicagonow/ for information
(culled from Chicago Now - thanks!)


APRIL 7

GOLD CHAINS
KID606
JAMIE LIDELL
...and you will know us by the trail of pregnancies tour (Lidell's gotta get citizenship somehow!)
Empty Bottle
Chicago, ILLINOIS
http://www.tigerbeat6.com for information
(culled from Tigerbeat6 - thanks!)


APRIL 7

MOTHER MALLARD PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO.
8P, The Gallery at Deep Listening Space
75 Broadway
Kingston, NEW YORK
845 339 6858 fon
Cuneiform2@aol.com for information
(culled from Joyce Feigenbaum - thanks!)


APRIL 7

MELLITS CONSORT
(Cristina Buciu - violin, Dominic Frasca - electric guitar, Marc Mellits - keyboard, Elizabeth Simkin - cello, Danny Tunick - marimba)
4:30P, Nicole Klangsbrun Gallery ($10)
526 West 26th Street NYC (10th & 11th Avenues)
New York City, NEW YORK
212 243 3335 fon
http://www.strangemusic.com/ for information
(culled from Strange Music - thanks!)


APRIL 7

SAM RIVERS & THE MECA IMPROVISATION ENSEMBLE
4P, MECA (free)
Houston, TEXAS
dovedavedove@yahoo.com for information
(culled from David Dove - thanks!)


APRIL 8

ROB CLUTTON & PAUL DUTTON
9:30P, C'est What
67 Front Street East
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
soundlst@audiolab.uwaterloo.ca or http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/~soundlst/ for information
(culled from the Soundlist - thanks, eh!)


APRIL 8

RUFUS CAPPADOCIA
MATTEW GOODHEART & MARK HUNDEVAD
9P, Music Gallery / St. George-the-Martyr ($15)
197 John at Stephanie
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
soundlst@audiolab.uwaterloo.ca or http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/~soundlst/ for information
(culled from Soundlist - thanks, eh!)


APRIL 8

HYPNOSKULL
NOISEX
re/work
Groupieshocktour 2002
K17
Berlin, GERMANY
Roucka@t-online.de for information
(culled from Raoul Roucka - danke!)


APRIL 8
BRAAXTAAL
Café Wilhelmina
Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS
http://www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/ontour.html for information
(culled from the Jaap Blonk site - thanks!)


APRIL 8

MOLR DRAMMAZ
UWE SCHNEIDER & PAUL WIRKUS
Gugalander
Katowice, POLAND
terra@terra.pl for information
(culled from Krzysztof Piekarczyk - thanks!)


APRIL 8

HOOD
Danny's
Chicago, ILLINOIS
http://www.aesthetics-usa.com for information
(culled from Ken Dyber - thanks!)