Basinski and Taylor Deupree, the North American debut of Berlinners Smith-N-Hack, and a rare performance of the audio/visual theater piece Interruption staged by Joshua Kit Clayton and Sue Costabile of San Francisco. This year, the festival continues its express mission of furthering appreciation and production of digital and electronic arts in Baltimore city and the surrounding region, hosting an impressive array of nationally and internationally renowned artists. This year’s edition of the festival will also include a video screening to be curated by renowned video artists Scott Pagano and Sue Costabile, along with Joe Reinsel, digital audio specialist of the Johns Hopkins University Digital Media Center.
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The opening night of the 2004 festival presents a multiplicity of sub-genres and styles, sharing a common artistic fold in aesthetics of decay, residue, and grit. Two headliners, Dabrye and Ghislain Poirier, operate from the hazy space of new hip-hop and deconstructed beats, while Jimmy Edgar is the newest addition to
the impressive roster of Warp records. Local terrorists of sound Nautical Almanac bring their agenda of audio intensity to the bill, and Baltimore’s Marc Lussier opens the event.
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Few labels, if any, have maintained the consistent dynamism responsible for Berlin’s surplus of reinvented house and techno more than Perlon. Inaugurated by Markus Nikolai in 1997 and since maintained by Zip, Perlon has pieced together the quirky sub-genres of minimal dance music with an unrefined edge of
comedic funk, expanding its roster to include producers across Europe and North America. Friday’s performances highlight these artistic linkages with three innovators from Canada, Germany, and the United States.
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AUDIO/VIDEO COLLABORATIONS – The final night of the festival features performances that encompas both the visual and aural, with three groups of regular collaborators and one solo performance. The new Mattin Arts Center on the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus offers the ideal space for the evening’s event, which showcasing audio and video talent with ample proficiency in both the newest of digital technologies and
conceptual artistic clarity. Overlapping the seen and the heard, these artists generate a distinct space for
contemplation of relationships between technology and artistic expression, the organic and the inorganic, and spatio-temporal presence within substantial and generated environments.
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