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This festival over 5 days of contemporary sound practices, covers a range of positions, from musical composition to conceptual noise, featuring Belfast based sound artists, composers and improvisors. Each day is curated under different themes, presenting multiple artists and works.
This project is inspired by the recent electronic music sessions by Barry Cullen in PS². As such it is spontaneous, with little preparation time for the two curators Barry Cullen and Min Kim and consequently for the involved musicians, composers, sound designers....

The curators
Barry Cullen is a sound artist with a broad experience in teaching. He recently completed his 'Noise Box V1' project in PS² - see.

Min Kim is a sound artist and improvisor who mostly works publicly under the name 'Una Lee'. For more info see. Throughout the festival, the audience of each day will be asked to write down their feedback between a word and a sentence in length on a post-it. The notes will be displayed in the gallery and used as the score for the solo improvisation by Una Lee.

PS² would like to thank Sonic Arts Research Centre, SARC, Queen's University, Belfast, for the support of this festival. 

Tuesday, 17 June

5.30pm Re-imagining Traditional Voices
Presenting works of sound artists re-defining the usage of vocal and traditional music.
Performances
Lisa Conway + Marty Byrne + Meabh Meir: Compositions, improvisations, and experiments for voices and electronics. Singing as magic, shape-shifters, and time frames beyond the everyday.

Jan Jeffer
Violin + Live electronics. soundcloud.com/jan-jeffer

Aonghus Mcevoy + Stuart Geelon
Hairy primal barbers and junk collectors bend steel and warble vocal chords, no art only confusion. desertedvillage.

Wednesday, 18 June

5.30pm Unusual Inspirations
Introducing sound artists that take their inspirations from non-musical and historical aspects.

Performance
Helena Hamilton
Sound generating through gesture tracking and overhead projector.

Presentation
Ciarán Ó Meachair: Making James Tenney's Spectral Variations.

Screening Short experimental films
Chris Lynn: "Black Canary" "Rolling Mind".
Ian Kubra: "Elegy" BEW

Thursday, 19 June

5.30pm Customized Tools
Presenting sound artists and their works engaging with both digital and analog tools that are self-made or adjusted to suit the artists' needs. There will be an open jack session with DIY devices provided by Barry Cullen.
Performances Barry Cullen: Performance with DIY electronics.

 Enda J O'Reilly: Engine beat generator

Jose Manuel Paez: Hura Kan for Charango and circuitry

Friday, 20 June

5.30pm: Acousmatic- Music for Speakers
A concert introducing contemporary electroacoustic compositions and a live performance of emerging artists.

Performances
Daimhin Kavanagh
"Tell Him Something Pretty"

Pablo Sanz
"Limnee"

Rob Bentall
"A Berry Bursts"

Michael Dzjaparidze
A live performance set

Saturday, 21 June

1pm: Improvisation and Audience Interaction
Improvisation sessions with artists from the previous 4 days and many more, including a little game based improvisation set with audience participation.

Performance lecture
Caroline Pugh
A reflection on the traditional music and its purpose in our time.

Performance
Una Lee: "Googling"
Throughout the festival, the audience of each day will be asked to write down their feedback between a word and a sentence in length on a post-it. The notes will be displayed in the gallery as they come in and used as the score for the solo improvisation by Una Lee.