Sonic Acts – The Dark Universe

The Sonic Acts team is working very hard on finalising preparations for the opening of The Dark Universe exhibition on 12 January 2013 starting at 21:00 at NASA. We hope to see all of you at this belated New Year’s party. And it’s free until 00:00 hrs. Together with Viral Radio and NASA, we present Peter Swanson, Raime, Lee Gamble andCut Hands as well as DJ-sets by H-sik and Juha. See you there! (more info).

Sonic Acts – The Dark Universe: additional names announced

We are very excited to announce that Trevor Paglen, Michael Doser, Joris Luyendijk, Ewald Engelen and David Munns have been added to The Dark Universeconference line-up.
Author of the book A Single Sky, David Munns will explain how the radio telescope emerged from a new scientific community uniting the power of radio with the international aspirations of the discipline of astronomy. Non-fiction author and news correspondent Joris Luyendijk, and professor of financial geography Ewald Engelen, will discuss the topic of Dark Finance. Michael Doser, high-energy physicist from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), is going to offer tantalising glimpses into the future of science with his talk on antimatter.

Furthermore, In addition to Lustmord, Biosphere & MFO, Maja Ratkje and HC Gilje and freq_out 9, we are proud to announce several more confirmed performances:
The Synchronator Orchestra is a live performance project in which the performers produce the sound and visuals using the Synchronator device. The device translates three channels of audio input into the primary RGB colour channels of an analogue video signal. Participants: Justin Bennett (UK/NL), Tina Frank (AT),Bas van Koolwijk (NL), Jérôme Noetinger (FR), Gert-Jan Prins (NL) and Billy Roisz (AT). This amazing project premiered at the Kontraste Festival in Austria last year (link). It was commissioned by Kontraste and Sonic Acts.

Also at Sonic Acts: Experimental film performances by William Raban and Makino Takashi. Wave Formationsby experimental filmmaker William Raban (UK) is an abstract film using three screens and sound. It articulates a seascape by using primarily colour fields and sounds to demonstrate that ‘waves’ are a fundamental phenomenon in nature, film and sound.Makino Takashi’s overwhelming abstract works make full use of all the various film and video techniques, treating the image and the sound as elements of equal importance. At Sonic Acts, Takashi will show a special 3D version of his film 2012.

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