Fete Dela WSK!

Since its inception in 2008 as Fete dela Wasaque, the festival had a particular focus around performances within the field of sonic arts and innovative music. For this year’s edition, we have decided to rename the festival WSK!—as three cryptic letters, which can only provide as much as the sum of the parts. We decided to widen the focus on “parallel voices” that throughout history have worked alongside the sonic arts. Theater, dance, poetry, cinema, television, radio, and even religious and spiritual purposes have integrated the use of sound in almost every process. However, the sound world is a bit hermetic. It happens, then it’s done. It doesn’t have the same library of information that you have in the other arts. So we hope, among other things, WSK! would be a chance to explode people’s misconceptions about what contemporary music is.

The path of music evolution is never straight, god forbid. Curveballs, odd combinations, and juxtapositions feed the rich variability of production, fuel the creativity of producers, and aggravate and agitate listeners toward new territory. Artists cross-pollinate and fertilize, expanding their reach and deepening their productions with the increased richness that comes with drawing new and unexpected connections. Get carried away by a program that straddles between live video manipulation (live cinema) against a backdrop of powerful club and textured home listening; connects experimental and pop, electro and rock, classic and futuristic; exploits contrast; digs up unexpected links; and builds spontaneous bridges into the unforeseen.

In short, this year’s festival consists of live performances, an exhibition, and a digital album + book anthology of mission statements, buckshot manifestos, postmortems, essay fragments and short interviews documenting the vicissitudes of sonic life off the radar in Manila, Asia and beyond.

Visit Fete Dela WSK! official website HERE


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Experimental and Improvisation music event

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EXperimentation In Sound art Tradition (E.X.I.S.T.), in cooperation with Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue, Angely Chi and www.musikeRAW.com presents Active | De-Active: An Inventive Music Festival 2010.

Active | De-Active is an international festival to be held in the Philippines that focuses on two exciting frontiers of music — experimental and improvised music. The event is scheduled to take place this coming October 9, 12, 13, 15 and 16 at various selected venues in Cavite, Manila and Davao.

The festival will consist of a series of live performances, workshops, presentation of methods and practices, creative collaborations and artist-talks by international and local participating artists, in an effort to present and exchange artistic ideas and musical experiences that will contribute to the appreciation and understanding of these developments in new music.

This will provide a platform for informed discussions of the cultural, developmental and educational aspects of improvisation and experimentation in music, and at the same time to present the artistic or technical practices embodied in it. The festival is also an attempt to gather a community of experimental musicians, improvisers, new media art practitioners, musicologists, and teachers who can share and exchange knowledge that would benefit the understanding of improvised and experimental music.

Schedule:

9 October | 6pm | Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue

free admission

(Block 11 Lot 9 Congressional Road, Bgy. Sta.Fe Dasmariñas, Cavite - near De La Salle University – Dasmariñas)

http://www.myspace.com/siningdikato

First Half:

>artists talk by Luo Chao Yun, Sabu Toyozumi and Dok Natividad (?)

General Topic: Improvisation Music

Second Half:

>Performance

1. Double Burner

2. Luo Chao Yun Music Group + Sabu Toyozumi

3. Washing Machine

4. Seido

5. Elemento

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12 October | 8pm | Tomato Bomb Hq

php150 inclusive of one (1) beer

(No. 63-B, Xavierville Ave. Loyola Heights, Quezon City - near Xavierville Royale Condo)

http://tomatobomb.wordpress.com/

>Performance

1. Elemento

2. Luo Chao Yun Music Group + Sabu Toyozumi

3. Terraformer

4. Blend:er + Inconnu Ictu

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13 October | 7pm-10:30pm only | Penguin Gallery

php100

(9815 Kamagong St. corner Anubing St. Makati City)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Davao-City/Durian-Bar/43140148812?ref=ts#!/pages/Makati-Philippines/Penguin-Gallery/68824851120?ref=ts

>Performance and presentation by Mannet Villariba and Tengal

1. Mannet Villariba (presentation/performance)

2. Luo Chao Yun Music Group + Sabu Toyozumi

3. Caliph8 + Tengal (presentation/performance)

4. Lakbay Lahi

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15 October | University of Mindanao

(Mini-Auditorium, Matina Campus, Davao City)

http://umindanao.edu.ph/

First Half:

>Workshop by:
8:30pm - 12pm

Erick Calilan - 'Project Sabotage: A workshop on Circuit Bending'
Luo Chao Yun and Sabu Toyozumi - Improvisation Music
Charles Fournier - On Electronic Music

Second Half:

>Performance / Open Forum
2pm - 5pm

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16 October | 8pm | Durian Bar

php100 inclusive of one (1) beer

(Madrazo Compound., C. Bangoy Sr. St. Davao City)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Davao-City/Durian-Bar/43140148812?ref=ts

>Performances by:

1. Luo Chao Yun + Sabu Toyozumi

2. Charles Fournier

3. Lirio Salvador

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PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

This event is brought to you by EXperimntation In Sound art Tradition in partnership with Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue, www.musikeRAW.com and Angely Chi; with the support of Tomato Bomb HQ, Penguin Gallery, University of Davao, Durian Bar, ANIKcessories, Sonic Mind Fields Bookstore, Dighay Gulay, Seido and Genevieve, Souk Kafe, Sambalikhaan Foundation; The Japan Foundation-Tokyo for Sabu Toyozumi’s sponsor; Council For Cultural Affairs Republic of China (Taiwan) for Luo Chao Yun Music Group’s sponsor.

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