[Microsound-announce] fwd: Forms Of Things Unknown -Oct 3-5, Oakland

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Forms Of Things Unknown 

Three nights of dark ambient, industrial & experimental music from artists around the world including Forms Of Things Unknown.

Orbis Nex
851 81st Ave
Oakland CA, California


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

Death of the West [San Francisco]
Nommo Ogo [Oakland]
Forms of Things Unknown [San Francisco]
Thomas Dimuzio [San Francisco]
Asianova [Taos NM + San Francisco]
Post Scriptvm [Brooklyn NY]
Amber Asylum [San Francisco]
Winston Tong & LX Rudis [SF Bay Area]

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4

James Goode [San Francisco]
Parlour Music Communications [Los Angeles CA]
Ethos [Austin TX]
Nux Vomica [San Francisco]
Illusion Of Safety [Chicago IL]
Voice of Eye [Taos NM]
Kwisp [San Francisco]

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5

A.S. [SF Bay Area]
Bloodbox [Seattle WA]
Troum [Germany]
Aidan Baker - [Canada]
Nadja [Canada]
Ure Thrall [San Francisco]

DOORS OPEN EACH NIGHT AT 7:00 - SHOWS START AT 8:00 pm sharp
Most Performances will be roughly 45 minutes to 1 hour long with approximately 15 minutes of transition time between performances. 
	
Those of you who have the time, money and willingness to venture out to Orbis Nex in Oakland this weekend for some live music will be rewarded with some ambitious and challenging sounds and visuals from a diverse array of performing artists. The "IAMINDUST" International Ambient and Industrial music festival has been a full year in planning and will take place on three consecutive nights, October 3-5. Each night features a half dozen or more performers from the SF Bay Area and nether regions as far afield as Germany. Among the genres represented will be dark ambient and industrial (of course), power electronics, darkwave/ethereal, electro-acoustic, experimental, and hybrids of all of these. Many of the participating artists will be performing with an eight-channel 'octophonic' sound system designed by James Goode and Walter Funk, with added video projections by filmmaker/videographer Brian Traylor.

This promises to be the most technically and conceptually ambitious Forms Of Things Unknown performance to date: a forty-minute work entitled "Enantiodronia" which utilizes 24 tracks of live-mixed backing material, 48 live-triggered samples, and twelve channels of assorted live acoustic instruments and effects. This piece will make its world premiere on Friday night, October 3, at 9:00 pm, accompanied by a video which the aforementioned Brian Traylor has created specifically for this performance. A brief three-minute excerpt of the FOTU video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI8wOsr9wVA (while there have a look and listen to some of the other performing artists from the festival on the IAMINDUST YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/iamindust )

All of this takes place at Orbis Nex (an underground Gothic-themed warehouse space in Oakland CA) on October 3rd, 4th and 5th, starting at 8:00 pm each night. Directions to the venue are here: http://www.vialmagazine.com/breadcrumbs.html (scroll down to bottom of page). If you are taking public transportation, the location is a short walk from the Oakland Coliseum BART station.

Advance tickets can be purchased online using PayPal by going to this page: http://www.iamindust.com/tickets.shtml - they're somewhat pricey at $25 a night, due to the extensive variety of performers and the fact that many have traveled far to perform here. Some of these artists seldom perform live and never tour, so this is a rare opportunity to see acts like Troum, Bloodbox and Ethos.

Please be advised that if you are hoping to see Forms Of Things Unknown on Friday, you would do well to arrive no later than 9:00 pm so as not to miss my set. Due to the large number of performers (eight in total on Friday night, of which FOTU is the third), programming is on a tight schedule and when it says "Show starts at 8:00" it means 8:00, not 9:30 or 10:00 like most bars and clubs.

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