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<div>S P R A W L June 2008 bulletin</div>
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<div>Thanks to everyone who came to SonicRecycler4</div>
<div>last month - an extraordinary evening!</div>
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<div>NEXT MONTH:</div>
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<div><i><b>Horatio Oratorio</b></i></div>
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<div>A concert & sound installation by Aleksander Kolkowski</div>
<div>aka<i> Recording Angels</i> with Federico Reuben - live
electronics</div>
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<div>ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI</div>
<div><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kolkowski"
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kolkowski</a></div>
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<div>FEDERICO REUBEN</div>
<div><a
href="http://www.myspace.com/freuben">http://www.myspace.com/freuben</a
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<div><i>"There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than
are</i></div>
<div><i>dreamt of in our philosophy...I am a graphophone and my
mother</i></div>
<div><i>was a phonograph."</i></div>
<div><font size="-1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size="-1">Charles Tainter's first recorded words on his
newly developed wax cylinder Graphophone,</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">the successor to Thomas Alva Edison's tinfoil
Phonograph, in 1881.</font></div>
<div><font color="#010101"><br></font></div>
<div><i>Horatio Oratorio</i> is an audio-visual exploration through
the early history</div>
<div>of recorded sound. It uses as it's libretto, the first recorded
utterances</div>
<div>transcribed onto metal and wax and reproduced by styli,
diaphragms</div>
<div>and horns. The era of recorded sound as material object,
whether</div>
<div>cylinder, disc, wire, magnetic tape or CD, has been overtaken by
the</div>
<div>rise of the digital file.<i> Horatio Oratorio</i> sings of the
transformation of</div>
<div>sound into object and it's return into the ether.</div>
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<div>The earliest sound reproducing technologies and rare
mechanical-acoustic</div>
<div>string instruments are here combined with vintage and
custom-made</div>
<div>electronics and state-of-the-art digital sound transformation in
a unique</div>
<div>liaison between the contemporary and the obsolete.</div>
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<div>A multitude of antique wax cylinder phonographs, gramophones,
stroh</div>
<div>violins and a cornucopia of ornate horns adorn the performance
space</div>
<div>and are played or manually operated during the concert, using
specially</div>
<div>made wax cylinder and disc recordings. These include recreations
of</div>
<div>some of the earliest speech and music transcriptions known to
exist.</div>
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<div>The sound installation, featuring the machines and
suspended</div>
<div>horns will run autonomously.</div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Information:
<contact@recording-angels.info></font></div>
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<div>Co-produced by Sonic Arts Network's EXPO</div>
<div>and the PRSF<i> Live Connections</i>.</div>
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<div>In association with Sprawl</div>
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<div>A Wire-supported event .</div>
<div><a
href="http://www.thewire.co.uk"><i>http://www.thewire.co.uk</i></a></div
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<div><b>Thurs. 10th & Fri. 11th July, 2008.</b></div>
<div>*Friday event closes with a party and 78rpm DJing session in the
Arena*</div>
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<div>Installation opens at 6pm, Performances start at 8pm.</div>
<div>Installation continues 16th - 19th July, 6pm - 12am
(Sat.19th from 8pm).</div>
<div>NB closed sunday/monday/tuesday</div>
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<div>Tickets:</div>
<div>Day membership is £5 on Wed. & thurs. & £10 on Fri. &
Sat.</div>
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<div>The Arena</div>
<div>Shunt Vaults,</div>
<div>Joiner Street,</div>
<div>London Bridge SE1.</div>
<div>(entrance inside London Bridge tube)</div>
<div><a
href="http://www.shunt.co.uk"><i>http://www.shunt.co.uk</i></a></div>
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<div>funded by PRSF<i> Live Connections</i></div>
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<div>JUNE 21</div>
<div>IRIS GARRELFS live</div>
<div>with Rabbitt, Ampersand</div>
<div>from 8pm, £3</div>
<div>Utrophia, 136 Tanners Hill,</div>
<div>Deptford, London SE8, UK</div>
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<div>JULY 3<br>
DOUGLAS BENFORD live</div>
<div>with Alexander Wendt, Janek Schaefer, Jasper Leyland</div>
<div>6.30pm. 108 Pieces Demolition</div>
<div>LABAN Creekside, London, SE8 3DZ, UK</div>
<div>http://www.laban.org, http://12X50.com</div>
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JULY 5<br>
IRIS GARRELFS live</div>
<div>Sonic Arts Network Expo, Brighton UK</div>
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<div>JULY 29<br>
IRIS GARRELFS residency with Urbania</div>
<div>Grizedale Art, Coniston, Cumbria, UK</div>
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<div>SI-CUT.DB / d. benford:</div>
<div>* new douglas benford CD album</div>
<div>due on 12X50 / carbon series, late summer</div>
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** Join the Sprawl Facebook group **</div>
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<div>best wishes<br>
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Iris Garrelfs<br>
http://www.irisgarrelfs.com<br>
http://www.myspace.com/irisgarrelfs</div>
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si-cut.db [d.benford]<br>
http://www.douglasbenford.co.uk</div>
<div>http://blog.myspace.com/sicutdb</div>
<div>http://www.myspace.com/sicutdb<br>
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from<br>
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SPRAWL<br>
http://www.sprawl.org.uk</div>
<div>E-MAIL <sprawl@benfo.demon.co.uk></div>
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