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| Hosted by Kevin Kissinger and Shane
Morris, the KC Regional electro-music festival encompasses all
styles of electronic music, DIY instruments, performances,
collaborations, and demonstrations. The KC Regional formed from the increasing need for a live performance outlet for experimental electronic music in the mid-western states. The festival is not limited to participants in the region alone, but does seek to consolidate and network with artists in the extended area. The intention is to create a cooperative community where artists and enthusiasts participate and benefit together. Hosting both stereo and 5.1 surround sound, the Walnut Creek Clubhouse is a wonderful setting just of the Missouri River with the KC skyline on the horizon. The venue has large vaulted wooden ceilings, wonderful lighting, comfy couches, and great acoustics. To see photos of last year's festival, visit Kansas City Regional Electro-music festival on myspace. |
| 12noon | Equipment staging, setup, meet and greet | |
| 5pm | Panel Discussion on hardware and software DIY | Kevin Kissinger - moderator |
| 6pm | Tensor Sensellation: Complex noise from simple electrons. Collaborative improvisations by Damon Mar and David Herpich with a hint of personal endangerment. Now with oat clusters. | Tensor Sensellation |
| 7pm | To honor the 30th Anniversary of Taped Rugs Productions, Goff will orchestrate selections from the Taped Rugs Catalog which have never been performed previously in public, employing electronic guitar, vocoder, synthesizer, electronic toys, tapes, and sound effects. | Charles Rice Goff III |
| 8pm | Ambient synthesizer music/noise with synthesizers and guitar | Damon Mar, Overland Park KS |
| 9pm | Emerald Adrift: floating ambient through propulsive sequencing influenced by space music, jazz, new age, and classical. | David Herpich, Lawrence KS |
| 10pm | Cody Loyd: Guitar processed with Pure Data | Cody Loyd |
| 11pm | Lecture/demo: Ambiophonic Sound | Howard Moscovitz |
| Midnight | 60x60: Sixty electronic compositions by 60 composers in 60 minutes. | 60x60 |
| 1am | Collaboration | TBA |
| 1030am | Drum Circle (all invited) | Shane Morris |
| 11am | Demo: Creating a Front Panel with Front Designer and DecalPro | Kevin Kissinger |
| Noon | Lunetta History, Construction, and Sounds | Howard Moscovitz and Damon Mar |
| 1pm | Collaborative Performance | Dane Minoza and Shane Morris |
| 2pm | "Ritual Observances" - Transcendental soundscape meditations for 8-string extended-range guitar. | Dan Minoza |
| 3pm | Ambient Electronic | Shane Morris, Fayetteville AR |
| 4pm | Kevin will perform his own
compositions on the Theremin. |
Kevin Kissinger |
| 5 pm | Setup for Evening Performances /
Meal break |
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| 7pm | Performance | River Cow Orchestra |
| 8pm | Synth Invasion is Chris Hodges from
Lincoln, Nebr. A blend of synthesizer music with elements of acid techno, tribal, breakbeat and sampling. Energetic, rhythmic dance music. |
Synth Invasion |
| 9pm | Darrell Burgan will be performing an hour of his Palancar "Ambient Train Wrecks", which are his nickname for live improvisational ambient space music performances. | Palancar |
| 10pm | Metlay!: an hour in the depths of Subterranean Scumbarge Studios with the Man From Atomic City. Electronic ambient landscaping from a variety of sound sources, tinged with dark humor. | Metlay |
| 11pm | Burning Artists Sale (Barbara Vesey and
Kevin Haller) will present music to accompany footage from the early 20th century by Martin Lewis Thompson. Included will be scenes in and around Vermillion, South Dakota, as well as family vacations in Estes Park, Colorado. |
Burning Artists Sale |
| Midnight | Performance | Howard Moscovitz |
| 1am | Collaboration: Late night Ambient Drift |
| 1030am | Drum Circle (all invited) | Shane Morris |
| 11am | Smoke and Spark, the lab rats turned bodhisattvas, will regale the audience with the second chapter of their quest for enlightenment beyond their cage. Thrills! Chills! Burning Copal incense and licking batteries! | Labrathisattva |
| Noon | Demo: electro-music DIY projects -- the MPS, Klee Sequencer and MIDI Clock sync | Kevin Kissinger |
| 1pm | Demo: How to use impulse
responses for creative processing of sounds. |
Darrell Burgan |
| 2pm | Machine Sounds Project --
collaboration |
Chris Hodges (coordinator) |
| 3pm | TBA | TBA |
| 4pm | Collaboration | Howard Moscovitz, Kevin Kissinger, Shane Morris |
| 5pm | (Take down equipment / clean up) |