From June 14 through 23, 2014, Hans Tammen’s DARK CIRCUITS FESTIVAL features performers who work in contemporary electronic music practices such as circuit bending, no-input mixers, laptops, turntablism, analogue circuitry, network sniffers, live coding and soldering, plus other instruments we may have never heard of yet.

VENUES: EYEABEAM, OUTPOST, REVERSE, SPECTRUM, SILENT BARN, MAKE MUSIC NY, FIREHOUSE, HARVESTWORKS, SHAPESHIFTER


OVERVIEW

[Jun 14/15] Workshop: Pure DatrocessorduinoMOS at Harvestworks
[Jun 16] Concert: Joker Nies & Miguel Frasconi’s Omnichord Madness at Harvestworks.
[Jun 17] Concert/Lecture/Screening: Michael Vorfeld’s Light Bulb Music at REVERSE
[Jun 18] Concert/Party: Dark Circuits Festival Party at Silent Barn
[Jun 19] Concert: Andrea Parkins / Matthew Ostrowski, Vortex, and the LittleBits Quartet at Spectrum
[Jun 20] Concert: Die Schrauber, w/Paul Geluso, Michael Vorfeld and Satoshi Takeishi at Outpost Artist Resources
[Jun 21] Workshop/Concert: MakeMusicNY and Dark Circuits Festival at The Firehouse
[Jun 22] APHERESIS: littleBits Monster Synth & Third Eye Dark Circuits Orchestra at Eyebeam’s CT-SWaM
[Jun 23] Concert: Lars Graugaard, Jean-Michel Pilc, Philip White at Shapeshifter
[Jun 23] CT-SWaM at Eyebeam: The Last Picnic (Goodbye Chelsea)

The festival highlight will be the performance of APHERESIS on June 22 at EYEBEAM: a large multi-movement piece by Hans Tammen for 14 laptop and electronics performers. APHERESIS was commissioned by Harvestworks with funds from The Multi-Arts Production Fund. The MAP Fund is a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This work is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and Wave Farm Fiscal Sponsorship. littleBits Electronics supports MakeMusicNY and the Dark Circuits Festival by providing their LittleBits x Korg Synth Kits. Eventide supports MakeMusicNY and the Dark Circuits Festival by providing their Eventide H9 Stompboxes.

Special thanks to Emilio Vavarella, Digital Media Strategist and Photographer of the festival: http://emiliovavarella.com/ - and to Wayne Ashley for his invaluable contributions to the concept: http://futureperfectproductions.org

For more information and the detailed schedule visit: darkcircuitsfestival.com