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Creative Musical Misuse

Please join us at 92YTribeca for a selection of historical and contemporary short videos and live performances featuring inappropriate, inadvisable and occasionally disastrous creative musical mayhem.

When: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 8:00pm
Where: 92YTribeca Screening Room, 200 Hudson Street
$$$: $10.00 (SOLD OUT!)

Appearing LIVE!

• Loud Objects: Men's Noise Choir (with light guitars!)
• Victor Adán: dot matrix cicadas
• LoVid: toy turntables with wrecked records
• Neg-Fi: music in negative fidelity, with walkie talkies and the Neg-Box

• Michelle Rosenberg
• Jon Kessler
• Cory Arcangel
• Thessia Machado
• Ranjit Bhatnagar
• Nicolas Collins
• David Watson
• Lesley Flanigan
• Sugar Wings

WOW THAT WAS FUN!!! Thanks again to the performers, 92YTribeca, and to YOU for coming out!

Cristina Cacioppo took some pics of the LIVE action!

For those of you playing at home, the full program was:

• Intro loop: Van Halen plays Jump with Eddie's guitar out of tune
• Trimpin: The Sound of Invention trailer
• LoVid: toy turntables with wrecked records (LIVE!)
• Lesley Flanigan: Speaker Feedback Instruments from Bent Festival 2009
• Edward Anatolevich Hill: Indeed, I am very glad that I finally am returning home
• Arnold Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke Opus 11, No. 3 excerpt performed by Mitsuko Uchida
• Cory Arcangel: Drei Klavierstücke Opus 11, No. 3 performed by cats
• Screenshot of YouTube video Pachelbel Canon in D Major Perfect Version featuring painting of Mozart
• James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti: It's A Man's World (excerpt)
• Parrot singing opera
• Jon Kessler: The Last Birdrunner
• Michelle Rosenberg: Whistle Wall
• The University of Iowa Radio and Plasma Wave Group: Earth Chorus
• Dr. Fiorella Terenzi: Acoustic Astronomy on CNN
• Portsmouth Sinfonia: Also sprach Zarathustra
• Neg-Fi (LIVE!)
• Young@Heart: Schizophrenia
• Joe Cocker: With a Little Help from My Friends (captioned for the clear headed...)
• YouTube Double: Usher's Papers vs. Man Goat
• Bear Pole Dance
• Caninus: No Dogs No Masters
• YouTube collage of cats playing guitars
• Hatebeak: Bird Bites Dog Cries
• Death Metal Rooster
• Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: Les Oiseaux de Céleste (Barbican promo video extracts)
• Victor Adán: dot matrix printhead performance (with audience paritipation) (LIVE!)
• Nicolas Collins: Tall Poppies
• David Watson: improvisation @ Schindler House in LA
• Thessia Machado: pluck
• Jon Kessler: Music Box
• Ranjit Bhatnagar: How to make a junk guitar (Science Friday video)
• StSanders: Eddie Van Halen Shreds
• sugarWings: jump
• The Rock-afire Explosion: Arcade Fire's Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
• StSanders: Passing Stones
• the Loud Objects: Men's Noise Choir (with audience participation and light guitars!) (LIVE!)
• Outro loop: Van Halen plays Jump with Eddie's guitar out of tune

(Next regular dorkbot meeting: 07 April 2010)