<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">SONIC ACTS - TRAVELLING TIME</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">23-26 FEBRUARY 2012</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">AMSTERDAM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">---------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">- Live performances (presale has started)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">- Exhibition and conference</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">- Specials</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">- Ticket sale</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; ">---------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); ">LIVE PERFORMANCES (presale has started)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Beyond Time</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Thursday 23 February 2012</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Paradiso 21:00 (hall opens 20:30) / €17.50 (discount €15.00)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Bass frequencies abound on the opening evening of Sonic Acts. <i>Beyond Time </i>presents an audiovisual spectacle with dubstep, subsonic minimal techno and avant-garde electronica. Roly Porter and Emptyset use the echo and low frequencies associated with dub music to create a sonic space that dislocates our perception of time. Live projections by Rod MacLachlan and </span>Joanie Lemercier (from AntiVJ) <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">reinforce the alienating potential of the sub-bass. Mark Fell’s radically asymmetric beats ignore time signatures completely in an infectious computer-generated recuperation of acid-house that is timed to the millisecond. The evening opens with the film <i>De Tijd </i>by the filmmaker Bart Vegter (who passed away in 2011). Films by Ian Helliwell and Ryohei Shimada will also be screened.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Deep Time</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Friday 24 February 2012</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Paradiso 20:00 (hall opens 19:30) / €17.50 (discount €15.00)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">On Friday, Sonic Acts pays homage to endless sound with a programme that includes music by the American composer Pauline Oliveros and her ideas about fine-tuning our perceptions by means of <i>Deep Listening</i> to enhance our experience of sound. A pioneer in electronic music, Oliveros’ participation in Sonic Acts in Amsterdam is part of her 80th birthday celebrations. The evocative compositions by Eleh (who has released an LP with Oliveros) have never been performed live in the Netherlands. Roland Kayn’s (1933–2011) cybernetic music and Carl Michael von Hausswolff’s drones almost make sound four-dimensional. The evening closes with a set by the godfather of Detroit techno Juan Atkins that includes a live performance by his legendary Model 500 project.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Natural Time</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Saturday 25 February 2012</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Paradiso 20:30 (hall opens 20:00) / €17.50 (discount €15.00)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Natural Time </i>is dedicated to biological rhythms, human speed, the cycles of stars and planets, the sounds that nature creates around us, and the natural time that human hands impose on musical instruments. Keith Fullerton Whitman composed <i>Natural Rhythms</i> for Sonic Acts and the Kontraste Festival. It sounds like free jazz in an electronic gaming arcade. The performance <i>Knowing When</i> by Joel Ryan and Spanish pianist Augustí Fernàndez is an exercise in split-second timing. The innovative post-breakbeat duo Icarus closes the evening with a brand new work. All of these musical excursions alternate with experimental films that explore time by Robert Breer, Norman McLaren and René Jodoin.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Special: Long Time</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">During the festival Ellen Fullman’s <i>Long String</i> <i>Instrument</i> will be installed in the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ foyer. On Saturday 25 February, Ellen Fullman will perform a concert on the world’s longest stringed instrument with Okkyung Lee (cello). This performance starts at 19:30.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Post Time</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Sunday 26 February 2012</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Paradiso 19:00 (hall opens 18:30) / €17.50 (discount €15.00</i>)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Music without time, music that seemingly disregards rhythm and timing, in which time simply passes. The five hour evening <i>Post Time</i> includes compositions by Michael Pisaro, one of the most interesting American composers. Pisaro is a member of the Wandelweiser group whose compositions are usually sparing in the use of notes, extremely low in volume, leaving plenty of room for silence.</span> Pisaro’s<span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"> pieces fine-tune our perception of everyday sounds and allow the listener to experience real time, in a down to earth way, as the passing of time. They subtly explore harmony and the limits of hearing. His kindred spirit Taku Sugimoto, like Pisaro both a guitarist and composer comes over from Japan. Performers on this evening include Konzert Minimal – an ensemble from Berlin that consists of the cream of contemporary musicians. Tuba virtuoso and composer Robin Hayward performs a solo concert. The <i>Post Time</i> evening ends ‘heavy’ with an electronically amplified performance by The Pitch.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">No Time</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Friday 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February 2012</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Smart Project Space 17:00 / €10.00 (discount €7.50)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Please note: limited capacity, reservations required for Festival pass holders: </i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; color: #0167e6"><i><a href="mailto:reservations@sonicacts.com">reservations@sonicacts.com</a></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Immerse yourself in a subtle drone that opens the portal to a different space with Catherine Christer Hennix + The Choras(s)an Time-Court Mirage. This ensemble will perform no less than three times during Sonic Acts! Hennix’s post-minimal drones elaborate on the work of La Monte Young, with whom she worked during the 1960s and 70s. After a hiatus of 30 years she has returned to performing her endless music that stops time. The Choras(s)an Time-Court Mirage consists of the best musicians in contemporary music when it comes to delving into pure sound, the spatiality of sound and microtonality.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">‘</span><i>As deep and heavy as the 1960’s recordings of La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music, but full of Hennix’ own musical and mathematical genius.’</i> – Marcus Boon</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Exhibition</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">The exhibition in the NIMk presents installations and films that explore time, by Julien Maire, Juliana Borinski, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Philipp Lachenmann, Joe Gilmore, and others.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Conference</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Inspiration, knowledge and discussions… The conference in de Balie includes lectures by leading theoreticians about <i>deep time</i>, technology and time, as well as interviews with artists and musicians that reveal how they deal with time in their works. Participants include </span>Siegfried Zielinski, Pauline Oliveros, Peter Kubelka, Timothy Druckrey, Ellen Fullman and David Edgerton.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">SPECIALS</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Keynote George Dyson</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum within Temporary Stedelijk 3</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Thursday 23 February</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><i>Paradiso 19:30 (hall opens 19:00) / €10.00 (discount €7.50)</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">The <i>Beyond Time</i> programme is preceded by the lecture </span><i>No Time is There: Why the Digital Universe is Different From Ours </i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">by the scientific historian George Dyson. His discussion of time and the computer is a prelude to his forthcoming book <i>Turing’s Cathedral</i>. This is a presentation by Sonic Acts and Stedelijk Museum. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Time Travelled and Time Lost</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Escape from the clutches of time by participating in a walking tour created from a concept by Jacqueline Schoemakers. </span>Participants are given a topographic map and have to do their utmost to follow the straight line that is drawn on it. The tour starts at the Paradiso, but where it ends is anybody’s guess. Time is endless.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">TICKET SALE</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Pre-sale of all individual and comprehensive tickets has started via <span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0167e6"><a href="http://www.sonicacts.com/2012/tickets">http://www.sonicacts.com/2012/tickets</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px">Do you want to attend all the events? A conference and festival pass costs €85.00 (discount €65.00). If you want to attend more than one event in the music programme, the Festival pass costs €55.00 (discount €45,00). For </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; color: #000000">reduced admission check </span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0167e6"><a href="http://www.sonicacts.com/2012/tickets">http://www.sonicacts.com/2012/tickets</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0167e6"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">FULL PROGRAMME</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">The full programme will be online via our site on 25 February: <span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0167e6"><a href="http://www.sonicacts.com">www.sonicacts.com</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div></body></html>