Submissions for the 2022 Electric Eclectics Festival (July 29-30) are now open.
From now until 11:59 PM EST on January 15th, submissions are open! We are accepting submissions from musicians, performance artists, installation artists, DJs, and filmmakers.
Please fill out the form on our submissions page with a short bio/project description, and links to relevant materials (i.e. your website, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, YouTube, Instagram, etc.). It is not necessary to make use of all link fields, but please submit at least one link to your material. We do not accept links to files that require download (eg. Dropbox, etc.).
Successful applicants will hear from us by mid April. Please note that due to the high number of submissions, only successful applicants will be contacted.
4 PM ET: Gordon W “Smells Like Teental Spirit”. Gordon W is a cooking-performance artist and musician who traveled to India in the 1970s to study Hinduism, Indian cuisine and Tablas. During the 1980s/90s he was active in Toronto performing many “bread-actions” and culinary interventions such as the Chapati Cart, which was a fixture on Queen Street West. He has continued to cook and perform in Berlin since 1995. He has performed with Jack Smith, Henning Christiansen, Tony Conrad, Alexander Hacke, Gordon Monahan and Laura Kikauka.
4:30 PM ET:Still Boys “Breakfast in Bognor”. Still Boys is a grand cyclopean pop spectacle. Members of a well-groomed boy band have been fused into the facial features of a pyramid-shaped alien being that performs music and enthusiastic dance. With equal doses of catchy riffs, grotesque prop drama, and absurd lyricism, Jason the Eye (Charlie Murray), D-Wayne the Lips (Sebastian Butt), and Randy the Tongue (Randy Gagne) steer the audience down a delicious rabbit hole.
Breakfast in Bognor finds the boys in their first virtual rendezvous, marooned on the sprawling grounds of The Funny Farm. Battling the elements, they are forced to entertain scarecrows in order to survive. With no humans in sight, will they subsist on locally foraged straw effigies? Or will they be forced to travel to Bognor for brunch? Featuring a special guest appearance by Frosty Valentine.
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4 PM ET: Alexis O’Hara is a transdisciplinary artist whose work comprises elements of cabaret, pop music, spoken-word, stand-up comedy, vocals and electronics, photography and installation.
4:45 PM ET: This collaboration by Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan uses brainwave sensing technology to produce sound, music, and movement. An EEG interface worn by dancer-choreographer Coleman sends data to several Max/MSP software patches in real-time. As Coleman shifts through various states of mental and physical concentration and movement, he is able to produce and control alphabrainwaves while dancing. He uses these alpha waves in conjunction with Monahan’s software manipulations, to produce various responses in musical instruments such as piano and percussion, to control the fading of stage lights, and to control sound spatialization and audio processing, all in realtime. Monahan simultaneously controls several Max/MSP software patches on stage that harness Coleman’s brain signals to sculpt soundwaves, light, instrumental composition and kinetic actions into a progressively layered multi-media artwork.
Historical note:
This piece follows in the tradition of brainwave music composition pioneered by Alvin Lucier, David Rosenboom, Richard Teitelbaum, and others, beginning in the 1960s. In fact, the history of brainwaves and sound reproduction dates back to 1928, when the British scientist Edgar Adrian (1889–1977) successfully sonified human brainwaves (EEG) in laboratory experiments.
Click on the EE Twitch TV button on the right side of this page to watch it live. Please consider a donation to support the artists by clicking on the donate button, thank you!
Sponsored by Experimental Sound Studios, Chicago, and Public Energy, Peterborough. Piano donation by Yamaha Canada. Coleman-Monahan video production by UNAVOX (Ottawa).
