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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>A brief reminder about<BR>
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Sonic Arts Network & University of Manchester present:<BR>
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Sonic Arts Network brings the Expo festival to Manchester for a weekend packed with over twenty free events including concerts, installations, performances, exhibitions, happenings, workshops, gigs, conferences and DJ sets. Expo is the hub and playground of the UK’s experimental music and sound art scene and features very special guests from around the world. This year’s Expo festival is a sonic exploration of the inner, outer and public spaces of Manchester.<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2>FRIDAY 23 June<BR>
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STAALPLAAT SOUND SYSTEM / HELMUT LEMKE / BOB LEVENE<BR>
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18:00 - 20:00 / CORNERHOUSE, 70 OXFORD ST.<BR>
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Expo kicks off at Cornerhouse with the launch of three solo sound exhibitions. Get strapped to a hospital bed and put your life in the hands of Staalplaat Soundsystem as they present their extreme and immersive sound installation – ‘The Ultrasound of Therapy’. Helmut Lemke invites you to create your own sound pieces in his new work ‘KLANGELN VIII’, which transforms fishing rods into intriguing instruments. Bob Levene will explore playful and humourous concepts in a jointly commissioned, performance to camera, audio piece - ‘The Space Between: Experiments for Speakers’<BR>
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Cornerhouse Galleries open: Tue - Sat 11.00am – 6.00pm; Thu 11.00am – 8.00pm; Sun 2.00pm – 6.00pm; Closed Mon; Exhibition runs from 23 June – 30 July<BR>
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Exhibition produced in partnership with Cornerhouse. <BR>
<a href="http://www.cornerhouse.org">http://www.cornerhouse.org</a><BR>
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10:45 - 20:00 / Martin Harris Centre and Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester - All day back-to-back gigs showcasing the best emerging talent in the UK radical electronic music and sound art scene. See <a href="http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/expo">http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/expo</a> for full details.<BR>
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20:00 - 20:45 / COSMO RODEWALD CONCERT HALL, MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER<BR>
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Ultra-rare appearance of Fluxus maverick Joseph Byrd. The founder of legendary US psych band The United States of America presents White Elephant; his first graphic score for almost 40 years, performed by all-girl Norwegian electro-improv group Spunk and sound art activists Dreams of Tall Buildings.<BR>
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“Combining improv, abstract electronics, chamber music, a dash of jazz, and enough punk aesthetics to go around, Spunk’s music uplifts you in ways that are almost unimaginable.”<BR>
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No tickets or reservations, arrive early to avoid disappointment<BR>
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21:30 - UNTIL LATE / ROADHOUSE, 8 Newton st.<BR>
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Mashed up club night of hardcore sonic treats, ranging from the beautiful to the bizarre and topped off with a showcase from broken electronica label Tripel.<BR>
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“Charming and cool whilst refreshingly untrendy and lacking in art-core pose”<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2>SUNDAY 25 June<BR>
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</B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><H3>VICTORIA BATHS: No Petting, No Running, No Bombing<BR>
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12:00 – 17:30 / MANCHESTER VICTORIA BATHS, HATHERSAGE RD. <BR>
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Sonic Arts Network takes over Manchester’s vast and historic Victoria Baths, winner of the first series of BBC’s Restoration, with a specially curated programme of sound installation, sonic intervention and performance. Headliners The Owl Project will blend the historic craft of wood turning with hectic glitch electronica; Artists will perform in the derelict and empty swimming pools; Turkish baths will be replaced with experimental noise and a man will drown his computer.<BR>
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19.30 - UNTIL LATE / ROADHOUSE, 8 Newton st.<BR>
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Phase two of the late night merriment - the reclusive Quartet Electronische emerge from the tweed soaked academic sabbatical of their own imaginations to disrespectfully rip up the sounds of Manchester past and present. “Like Lowry on acid.” – HIT<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2>MONDAY 26 June<BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><H2>IMAGE – ACTION - SOUND<BR>
GUEST SPEAKER JOSEPH BYRD<BR>
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10.00 – 17.00 / MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER<BR>
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Papers and research presentations day<BR>
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