experimental music oct/nov

[prof_lofi]

hi everyone,

i'd like to invite you to some of my upcoming

installations and performances taking place in

aberdeen over the next several weeks. all of this

information can be found in detail on my site here:

www.billthompson.org/news.htm

hope to see you there,

b.

* 10/21-11/6 'toward sublimity' a multiple speaker,

audio/visual installation included as part of

urbanNovember's exhibition "Oil and the City" at the

maritime museum aberdeen.

the installation explores a very small segment of

video taken by an off shore oil worker. an mp3 excerpt

available here:

http://billthompson.org/mp3s/sublimity.mp3

the opening is friday oct 21st, 6:30 to 8pm [free]

(food, drink, artist talks, and more.) other artists

presenting works include duncan hart (visual art and

documentation relating his experiences exploring life

without the use of petrol-chemicals), the new social

art school (eva merz's new artist initiative)

premiering a documentary focusing on the impact of the

oil industry on aberdeen, as well as a short talk by

peter troxler, the chairman of urbanNovember. for more

information visit:

http://www.oilandthecity.org.uk/site/

**10/29 friday, performing live electronics with

Mickel Mass opening for FAUST at the tunnels in

aberdeen. doors at 7pm, 15 pounds. info/tix:

http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/9007/Faust.html

***11/01-12/01 in/transience installation opens within

aberdeen's railway station as part of the SOUND

festival of aberdeen. the installation explores the

transient nature of public spaces. [free]

****11/19 EMS#4: the experimental music showcase

returns with its fourth installment featuring out of

town texas artist doug ferguson

(http://www.distilleryrecords.com/), and sets by bill

thompson, andy le kipp/patrick keenan/steve morrison.

doors open at 7, aberdeen university, mcrobert

building, main lecture hall, 5 pounds suggested

donation/3 concessions. map:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/vcampus/kings/macrobert.shtml

*****11/22 sea/hear inverurie... young artists of

inverurie work with pete stollery, adam proctor, and

bill thompson to produce sonic and visual compositions

of their impressions of inverurie. their works will be

projected and performed on multiple speakers and

visual turntables using cutting edge technology. also

on the bill are new works by the facilitators

themselves (adam proctor, pete stollery, bill

thompson, and james wyness).

+++finally, if you haven't heard about the sound

festival in aberdeen, there is far more than the above

going on this november. please check out their site

for more listings and information. hope to see some

of you at these events!

http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/events.htm

sound is a new and exciting contemporary music

festival in North East Scotland. sound has been set up

by local organizations with the aim of presenting an

eclectic but very broad range of contemporary music -

classical, traditional, popular, jazz, experimental -

to a large and varied public.

As part of sound, Evelyn Glennie and the BBC Scottish

Symphony Orchestra will be playing a new work by Sally

Beamish on the 24th November at the Music Hall in

Aberdeen. Other events will include concerts,

workshops and electroacoustic installations featuring

artists and composers including Paul Anderson, the

Edinburgh Quartet, Haflidi Hallgrimsson, the Hebrides

Ensemble, mckenzie medbe, Naresh Sohal, Pete Stollery

and many others.