<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><b>Kim Cascone at the Hamburger Klangwerktage 2008, Germany</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">What: Hamburger Klangwerktage | Contemptronics</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">When: 24.- 30. November 2008</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Where: Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik GmbH, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, Germany</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 48.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">From the 24th – 30th November 2008 the music festival „Hamburger Klangwerktage“ will celebrate its 3rd anniversary at the International Kulturfabrik Kampnagel. This years festival motto is CONTEMPTRONICS, which comprises the three terms CONTEMPORARY – TEMPTATION – ELECTRONICS.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Don’t miss out on a well-balanced mix of concerts, lectures and a variety of interactive hardware and software seminars. </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">For more information about the festival and tickets please refer to:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.klangwerktage.de/en/Home"><u>http://www.klangwerktage.de/en/Home</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><b>Tutorial with Kim Cascone</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Thursday 27.11.2008 | 4PM - 6PM</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">»The Grain of the Auditory Field«</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">with Kim Cascone</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Borrowing the central idea from Roland Barthe's »The Grain of the Voice« Kim Cascone will talk about the emerging intersections between microsound and field recording.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Suggested reading and listening:</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">reading:</font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">"The Aesthetic of Failure" by Kim Cascone</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">"The Grain of the Auditory Field" by Kim Cascone</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">"Schizophonia vs. l’objet sonore: soundscapes and artistic freedom" by Francisco López</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">"Environmental sound matter" by Francisco López</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">"Rhythmanalysis" by Henri Lefebvre</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">"Location Environmental Performance: Some Dimension Theory and Considerations of Practice" by Dallas Simpson (Please refer to <a href="http://www.phonography.org/writings.htm">www.phonography.org/writings.htm</a>)</font></li> </ul><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">listening:</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Eric la Casa - (mp3's at his site)</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">'Far Afield' (compilation) – <a href="http://www.webbedhandrecords.com/"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>www.webbedhandrecords.com</u></font></a></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Jacob Kirkegaard – 'Loop Tower' (mp3 at his website)</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Toshiya Tsunoda – 'O respirar da paisagem' (SIRR Records)</font></li> </ul></b></span></font></body></html>