Off The Radar
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Thursday's Off The Radar festival: A Listening Evening
The Intimate Theatre, Michaelis Campus, Orange Street
8pm sharp
Free
James Webb will host an informal listening evening presenting a selection of his personal favourite music and sound art from around the world, including work by the artists he hopes to bring out for next year's Unyazi Festival of Electronic Music. This listening evening, the first of many to be hosted by a variety of South African and international artists, forms part of the Unyazi Festival of Electronic Music scheduled for March 2008.
Friday's Off The Radar festival: Francis Mcc & James Webb
The Intimate Theatre, Michaelis Campus, Orange Street
8pm sharp
R30
James Webb will be performing live at the Off The Radar festival with a new work created out of mutated field recordings from natural, urban and domestic environments. Taking the festival title as his thematic impetus, Webb has prepared recordings as varied as air-conditioning ducts from downtown office blocks, radio transmissions from space, and swarms of honey bees.
Webb's set will be followed by Francis Mcc, who weaves breakbeats through dubby basslines, and coats the result in eerie ambience. Coming from almost a Warp-label aesthetic, and infusing local and African flavours into his sound, Francis Mcc's work uses real and virual instruments, textural field recordings and his voice to build his soundscape. The resulting experience is both cinematic and abstract. He has just defected to iKapa from Jozi.
Wednesday's satelite festival also featuring Righard Kapp and Chris Rainer in Stellenbosch will feature Webb's more abrasive work, also created out of his field recording activities, only this time from sources such as night insects, Japanese garbage collector vans and some other dark and smelly things. (Klein Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch, 8pm, R30)
The Intimate Theatre, Michaelis Campus, Orange Street
8pm sharp
Free
James Webb will host an informal listening evening presenting a selection of his personal favourite music and sound art from around the world, including work by the artists he hopes to bring out for next year's Unyazi Festival of Electronic Music. This listening evening, the first of many to be hosted by a variety of South African and international artists, forms part of the Unyazi Festival of Electronic Music scheduled for March 2008.
Friday's Off The Radar festival: Francis Mcc & James Webb
The Intimate Theatre, Michaelis Campus, Orange Street
8pm sharp
R30
James Webb will be performing live at the Off The Radar festival with a new work created out of mutated field recordings from natural, urban and domestic environments. Taking the festival title as his thematic impetus, Webb has prepared recordings as varied as air-conditioning ducts from downtown office blocks, radio transmissions from space, and swarms of honey bees.
Webb's set will be followed by Francis Mcc, who weaves breakbeats through dubby basslines, and coats the result in eerie ambience. Coming from almost a Warp-label aesthetic, and infusing local and African flavours into his sound, Francis Mcc's work uses real and virual instruments, textural field recordings and his voice to build his soundscape. The resulting experience is both cinematic and abstract. He has just defected to iKapa from Jozi.
Wednesday's satelite festival also featuring Righard Kapp and Chris Rainer in Stellenbosch will feature Webb's more abrasive work, also created out of his field recording activities, only this time from sources such as night insects, Japanese garbage collector vans and some other dark and smelly things. (Klein Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch, 8pm, R30)
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