| the interaural experiment we are experimenting with exploring new medias, sonic perception, levels of concentration, isolation as inspiration, and spontaneous modification within a global community of eclectic culturejammers, curious engineers, instigators and self-sufficient sound artists. listeners at the event plug into headphone amps [ approximately 60 output jacks ] provided throughout the venue the festival may also be heard via the pirate radio broadcast at 104.1 fm and streaming live audio/visuals through LE PLACARD initiated in 1999 by parisian musician erik minkkinen who broadcast a performance from his apartment to listeners in japan, LE PLACARD is a nomadic "festival within a festival" that fuctions under a mode of open program: open for headphone people to create performance spaces where artists perform using the inscription site to self-organize the global program. there are both transmitting headphone concerts as well as listening rooms where the transmissions are received as virtual headphone concerts. LE PLACARD is remarkably free of corporate culture in both form and content. there is no central authority, only an automated scheduling site governing this phenomenon; no rules exist, and all evolution of the original artistic concepts and technical conventions have occured organically. this refreshing absence of hierachy quickly spills over into the general attitude toward performers, and into the performances themselves. the highest priority in the performance program is to keep the focus on this emerging culture's diversity of sound itself, rather than attempting to promote only those artists with a "guaranteed draw" or to support any misguided money-making schemes. this festival is a living illustration of decentralized self-organization, mutual aid and deregulation. admission is free. 5lowershop 992 peralta san francisco 09.09.2006 concon |
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