[microsound-announce] Birdcage: Zeedijk – Amsterdam, July 4 – Featuring: Audrey Chen (US), Wun Thong (AU), Byungjun Kwon (KR/NL), and dj sniff (JP/NL)

[daniele balit]

Birdcage: Zeedijk
Featuring: Audrey Chen (US), Wun Thong (AU), Byungjun Kwon (KR/NL),
and dj sniff (JP/NL)

Saturday, July 4, 2009
19h – 21h
at Toko Dun Yong store front
Zeedijk 88
1012, Amsterdam

Curated by: Daniele Balit and Mathias Geoffroy
Support by: Association 2028, Toko Dun Yong, CRTV, STEIM, softskin  
productions, Pallet Boy

One of the first things you notice in the Netherlands are exposed  
windows.
Whether it's a family having dinner or a half naked lady luring you  
into her red lit room, the interface between the interior and exterior  
is often transparent. In contrast, for many Asian cultures you can  
barely catch a glimpse inside. Perhaps this has to do with how each  
culture deals with the gaze - looking at or being looked at. However,  
what is more interesting to us, is how do we listen within the  
politics of this gaze.

Birdcage: Zeedijk is a listening experience, about the way our ears  
can focus or drift in a given multi-sensory environment. Surrounded by  
coffeeshops and the windows of the Red Light District, Zeedijk Street  
is a mash-up of Asian cultures. dj sniff chose this context to host  
his sonic laboratory for one night and deliver episode 2 of the  
Birdcage sound project. He has extended his invitation to Audrey Chen,  
Wun Thong, and Byungjun Kwon, who are all active members of the  
experimental music scene, and all of Asian descent living and working  
in the Western world. Through the bare windows of an empty storefront,  
four stages will be created and installed by designer Mathias  
Geoffroy, purposefully skewing the visual and auditory relationships  
for both the audience and the performers.

Listening is less directional and less definitive than looking, it can  
deal with complexity on a higher level of presence or "there-ness." If  
you listen hard enough you can always hear what you cannot see.

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Contact and info:
birdcagespace at gmail.com
ph. 0031 6 17 017 549

Links:
Birdcage
http://www.birdcagespace.com

dj sniff
http://www.djsniff.com

Audrey Chen
http://www.myspace.com/audreychen

Wun Thong (Carolyn Teo)
http://www.carolynteo.com
http://www.plumindustries.org/tag/carolyn-teo/

Byungjun Kwon
http://byungjun.pe.kr/xe/

Steim
http://www.steim.org
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