Travelling 1 Time 2012 23–26 February Travelling Amsterdam V I X Time S SONIC ACT Explorations in art,Explorations music science, and technology Travelling 3 Time machine time time machine ruin alternate history neutrinos human time media archeology immune to time deep history mach 9 need for speed water clock sound of time time capsule chronocracy non-linear time shock waves historiography echo fossil fuels stealth time restoration pompeii time dilation image as time shock waves colonising time erosion sound of time timeless region what is Art else remains after everything destroyed is forgotten or – Jack Burnham (1974) Introduction 4 Travelling 5 Time Travelling Travelling , this year’s festival offers an an offers festival year’s this , Art is a time machine. Sonic Sonic machine. time a is Art Sonic Acts is a four-day festival festival four-day a is Acts Sonic performances, concerts, of and presentations lectures, exhibitions. Titled and Time time of experience intense relating ideas radical explores and complex a is Time it. to Ongoing concept. ambiguous developments technological notions our change continually Communication time. speed of light at operate networks data process computers and human without time real gap in a in resulting mediation, the and time machine between Music it. of experience to us human enable arts other the time and of nature the investigate tangible, concept the making by intensifying or changing by and our experience of time. Acts is a journey through time. to the the to of Time An Ode Ode An Experience Experience Table of Contents 6 Travelling 7 Time Specials Dyson George by Opening Lecture Sharits Paul Shutter by Interface Chora(s)san The + Hennix CC Time-Court Mirage Long String Instrument by Ellen Fullman Conference & Film Performances Live Exhibition Walk Publication & CD & Masterclass Information Practical Tickets & Public Transport Time Schedule Map Credits 07 08 10 12 14 15 31 47 52 54 55 56 58 62 63 Specials Opening Lecture 8 Travelling 9 Thursday 23 February Time Leibniz’s Digital Universe, 1697, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The RCA Selectron, 1950 Trinity Nuclear Test, 1945, New Mexico 20:15 Paradiso ! . , it is is it , 19:30 Stedelijk @ Sonic Acts Stedelijk bits clocks is the fruit of of fruit the is , about the drive to to drive the about , made a case for for case a made No Time is There Project Orion: The The Orion: Project , 1986). His 1997 book book 1997 His 1986). , Turing’s Cathedral: The The Cathedral: Turing’s (US/CA) is a historian and a and historian a is (US/CA) have come to be known as George Dyson George No Time is There more by growing now – universe digital The George Dyson George Dyson kicks off the festival with a keynote keynote a with festival the off kicks Dyson George lecture about time in the digital universe. a to back goes – second per 1946. bits in form trillion took 5 that than matrix alternatives, 32-by-32-by-40-bit elementary initiated between are ‘Decisions decisions these of independent an enforcement as and time to Julian reference sequence’, to with not matrix, according rather 5-kilobyte but this of variable to architect the customary was it Bigelow, before – 1949 in explained index an as serve refer to these elementary alternatives as not ‘but does added, he therefore, ‘Time, information’, these of Because location the used’. for are readings counter instead is universe digital the in counters time that nothing but – believe to universe easy our in time to equivalent could be further from the truth. of son The future. the and one science in of up grew philosopher George Dyson, research Freeman scientific of physicist hotbeds adulthood fervid most early the his of spent He Age. and Atomic the designing in and book house, his tree in a in living (chronicled kayaks Aleutian building Baidarka: The Kayak evolving an organism, Darwin Among the Machines his growing from a as story a Internet the published he 2002, In force. life extraordinary childhood, Saturn. at aimed Atomic Spaceship 1957–1965 rocket nuclear-powered a build His forthcoming book of future and history Origins of the Digital Universe the into research of years computing. with collaboration in 3 organised is Stedelijk lecture This Temporary within conference Museum the from Stedelijk separately visited be can and and the festival. Installation 10 Travelling 11 23 February / 24 February / 25 February / 26 February Time Study 4: Shutter Interface, 1975, Paul Sharits © Estate of Paul Sharits 23:00 (23 February) (23 23:00 " 23:00 Paradiso Small Hall Small Paradiso 23:00 " – recently recently – 19:00 16:00 Lost in Time Shutter Interface (US, 1943–93) was a visual artist artist visual a was 1943–93) (US, Paul Sharits Shutter Interface Paul Sharits (1975, 32’50, four-projector installation, colour) Film Anthology and In the hypnotic work Naftali version Greene by four-screen restored by long-unseen, side its to stand Archives a projectors mm 16 facing of pedestals quartet a – are imposing on lengths varying figure-like, of side, films looped swathes Four wall. jewel-like in long re-spooled and un-spooled of colour interspersed with single black frames. avant-garde in work his for known known best became is what who in with particularly along filmmaking, movement, and film Frampton Structural Hollis the as Conrad, Tony focused as such primarily work artists film His multiple loops, Snow. film Michael infinite using installations on projectors, and experimental soundtracks. Shutter Interface, 1975, Paul Sharits © Estate of Paul Sharits Live Performances 12 Travelling 13 24 February / 25 February / 26 February Time (AT) (flugelhorn, (flugelhorn, (AT) (UK) (microtonal tuba) is is tuba) (microtonal (UK) (UK) is a trombonist and and trombonist a is (UK) (DE) (live sound, live electronics) electronics) live sound, (live (DE) Paul Schwingenschlögl Hilary Jeffery Hayward Robin Meinz Ralf CC Hennix + The Chora(s)san Time-Court Third Entry © Hilary Jeffery Mirage © Laura Gianetti is who musician jazz, open-minded an is modern from trumpet) styles and musical many in contemporary fluent to afrobeat and funk soul, music. improvised other of number a with Lysn performs He Zeitkratzer, composer. including is He musicians, and Corporation. groups Doomjazz forms Fuji Mount The compositional and new dimensions researching spatial currently explore to maps as conceived of sound. redefined has He composer. noise and of areas player the tuba in a and both tuba for potential tuba’s compositions the His experimental, microtonality. similar and a reflect many in instruments active is other He approach. including medium-specific ensembles music Berlin. 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Live Performance 14 Travelling 15 Saturday 25 February Time Musicians, academics, sound sound academics, Musicians, adepts media new and Acts artists Sonic the for gather will of days four conference: and immersion inspiration, numerous with discussions, and presentations artists lectures, how reveal that art, of interviews boundaries the at operate The science. and technology opportunity an also is conference philosophers, theorists, for share to artists and composers their thoughts and ideas. 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