Special Events

Another Timbre present the first Unnamed Music Festival for improvised and new music with performances in London and Leeds. London's Café Oto host the first two evenings with performances on 11 June by Om Chant, Angharad Davies, Benedict Drew, John Edwards, Rhodri Davies, Lee Patterson, Luisa Martin & Lucio Capece, Sebastien Lexer and Aleks Kolkowski then 12 June Keith Rowe, Martin Küchen, Seymour Wright, Bechir Saade, Clive Bell, Matt Milton, Jamie Coleman, Paul Abbott, Ute Kanngiesser and Grundik Kasyansky. Leeds Seven Artspace, 13 June will feature performances by Keith Rowe, Martin Küchen, Seymour Wright, Jez riley French and Patrick Farmer. Click upon here for more information.

The Wire contributor Marcus Boon is to give a talk on ‘ethnopsychedelia’ as part of the Berlin leg of the Sublime Frequencies European tour presented with Club Transmediale. Structures Node 1: Global Alchemy is a two-day event featuring sounds from around the world and events reflecting on musical transformations induced by globalisation. On the lineup are concerts by Omar Souleyman & Group Doueh, DJ sets by Sublime Frequencies, films, talks and discussions. Click here for details. Berlin Festsaal, Skalitzer Strasse 130 Kreuzberg, 13-14 June, first day €14, second day €5

Museo d'art Contemporanei Barcelona (MACBA) will be opening an exhibition of visual work by John Cage entitled John Cage and Experimental Art: The Anarchy of Silence opening 23 October. To accompany this, on 29 October a concert of Cage's music will be performed by Malcolm Goldstein (violin) and Matthias Kaul (percussion) where they'll perform Cage's compositions "Eight Whiskus", "Variations II", "Composed Improvisation", "Cheap Imitation (violin)" and "Ryoanji". Exhibition: Barcelona MACBA, Spain, 23 October - 4 January 2010

A two day festival showcasing underground metal and noise music from the Toronto area along with national and American artists including The Rita (Vancouver), The Endless Blockade (Toronto), Orn (Toronto), Body Collector (Detroit), Ride at Dawn (Toronto), Remlap (Toronto), Orodruin (Rochester), Slaughter Strike (Toronto), Paranoid Time (Michigan), Crux of Aux (Hamilton), The Murder Squad (Toronto), Warlock Moon (Toronto), Grand Nord (Montreal), Zenta Sustained (Toronto + Vancouver). Toronto Rearview Mirror, Canada, 193 Baldwin Street, 26 - 27 June.

Breakthrough is a 12 hour experimental art event distributed via radio, the internet, "practical endophysics" and "brain writing" (amongst other methods) across various Berlin locations. The event will be created through a three-day "Constructivist Workshop" with lectures and performances by artists, theorists, researchers, and hackers. Participants include backyardradio Berlin, Oswald Berthold, Benjamin Cadon, Ewen Chardronnet, Alejo Duque, Verena Friedrich, Brendan Howell, Jonathan Kemp, Yunchul Kim, Martin Kuentz, Olga Panadés Massanet, Shintaro Miyazaki, Douglas Park, Otto Rossler, Gordan Savicic, Danja Vassiliev. Workshop takes place 24 - 26 June and the event 27 June 12PM-12AM. Click here for full details.

Photographer, videographer and writer John 'Hoppy' Hopkins will be having an exhibition of his work at the Idea Generator Gallery 19 June - 19 July. Hopkins moved to London in the early 1960's and quickly became part of the underground cultural scene with his political activism, art and writing. As a photographer, Hopkins documented a wide array of important British and international musicians including The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Thelonius Monk, Cecil Taylor (pictured above) and John Coltrane along with other events and figures on the scene at the time. Over the years Hopkins was also involved with setting up the International Times, The London Free School and co-founding the legendary UFO club in 1967 with Joe Boyd. Check out his website for a wide selection of his photographs, writings and info on his other activities. London Idea Generator Gallery, 11 Chance Street, E2

DRAW, a collaboration between artists Michael J Schmacher and Nisi Jacobs, have constructed a multi-channel sound and video installation, Spectrum at Brooklyn's Diapason Gallery. The work is a sound and image sculpture utilising spectrographic analysis and multiple audio and video channels throughout the exhibition space. Brooklyn Diapason Gallery 882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street), 10th Floor, Sunset Park, New York, 13, 20 & 27 June, 2 - 8PM, free

For its seventh edition the CitySonics festival of sound arts "enchants" the city of Mons, Belgium attempting "poetic resistance against the dark planetary times that are upon us and the chaosounds that aggress us daily" with over 30 installations throughout 12 locations. Participating artists include Pierre Bastien, Sébastien Roux, Eric Van Osselaer and Lavender Hill amongst many others. Various locations Mons, Belgium, 26 June - 26 July, click here for more information.

Sonic Youth's retrospective exhibition of their multidisciplinary activities and myriad collaborations since 1981 moves on to Malmö's Konsthall, Johannesgatan 7, 30 May - 20 September. Artists involved include Dan Graham, Vito Acconci, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, John Miller, Christian Marclay, Jutta Koether, Isa Genzken, Tony Conrad, Reena Spaulings, Maya Miller, and Rita Ackermann. Click here for more information.

Barcelona's Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB) have an open call out for submission of electronic sound works to be broadcast 10, 11 & 12 December 2009 as part of their forthcoming Zeppelin 2009: Sounds Of Power / Listenings Of Fear event. The show is focused around the Zeppelin organisers concerns "about signs that might suggest we’re going backwards in terms of hard-won social and intellectual achievements and freedoms" and they ask artists to respond to a set of 10 questions pertaining to these concerns. Deadline is 15 November 2009, works should be in WAV or AIFF format at 44.1 kHz and 16 bits and no longer than 10 minutes. Pieces may have up to eight tracks, each track should be in a separate file (a work with eight tracks should have eight files, each containing a single track) and should be submitted in CD/DVD format. Click here for full information. Email: caos@sonoscop.net