June 3, 2012
NewIdeas MusicSeries XIX
158 Ludlow Street
8PM, free admission

Phill Niblock
Bonnie Jones + Jason Lescalleet
David First + Michael Waller + David Watson

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Soundworks
19 June 2012 – 16 September 2012

listen to contributions on the Soundworks website

London Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

As part of our season on sound, this exhibition presents one hundred new sound commissions produced by artists from all over the world. Selected by our curators and art institutions worldwide, the artists have been invited to submit a sound file, taking its stimulus from the themes evoked in Bruce Nauman’s Days, which will be presented in the lower gallery during the exhibition.

Soundworks embraces the ephemeral nature of sound, creating an online platform that doubles as a virtual exhibition space. The online presentation aims to make the works internationally accessible, a site to explore the genre as a medium which is simultaneously inclusive, interactive, and subversive.The exhibition includes a wide range of audible approaches by artists who have been working with the medium for many years, as well as artists taking their first venture into the sonic arts.

MAY 6, 2012
Sonic Circuits, @Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD
Contact Microphone Workshop & Concert with Suzanne Thorpe

Workshop – 2 p.m – 5 p.m
Concert – 8 p.m. 

Sonic Circuits Website
More information about Techne

Bonnie Jones and Suzanne Thorpe present Electronic Music: Powered by Girls, a workshop for young women that utilizes the creative arts of sound and improvisation to introduce young women to technology. In an afternoon, our participants will learn how to build their own contact mics, and use them to turn everyday objects into instruments. Once participants have constructed their sound, Thorpe and Jones will lead them in a group improvisation with their new instruments. Participants are encouraged to keep their microphones, to use in their own creative ways.

The workshop Electronic Music: Powered by Girls is a very unique opportunity to introduce young women to electronic music. The workshop fosters familiarity and confidence in areas of science and technology via the arts in a setting free of cultural preconceptions around gender roles, allowing for unfettered exploration. All workshops involve creative improvisatory methods, and engender skills in listening, dialogue, sharing, and vocalizing, building self confidence and participatory acumen.

Workshops are followed by performances by Bonnie Jones and Suzanne Thorpe, performing solo works that utilize analog and digital technologies. The presentation contextualizes electronic music being composed by women who are often a minority in the field of electronic music, allowing young woman a reference point to identify with.

Age group: 12 – 18
Length: 3 hours
Number of participants: up to 10.

For questions please contact Suzanne Thorpe at (518)526-3375 or at feminumelectric@gmail.com.

Sunday May 6th 2012 2 p.m.

FREE

Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD (map)
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/

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MAY 17, 2012
SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM
CriSAP post-graduate Research Event
Screening: WE’VE (let me run on ahead and see what the future looks like), 2012 | 11:21 | bw | silent

Sound::gender::feminism::activism is a postgraduate event focused on the role of gender in the sonic arts. The aim is to stimulate dialogue around discourses related to feminism and sound, and to establish a network of researchers and practitioners working in these areas.

http://crisapdotcom.wordpress.com/soundgenderfeminismactivism/

APRIL 20, 2012

Bonnie Jones/Kelvin Pittman
Calendonian Laughing Bags (Robert Hardin/Richard Kamerman/Khristian Weeks)
Andy Hayleck/Paul Neidhardt/Tyler Wilcox

9:00pm
5th Dimension, H&H Building, Baltimore, MD

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APRIL 29, 2012
Harvestworks Presents: No-input Summit
Toshimaru Nakamura, Philip White, Bob Bellerue, Bonnie Jones and Phillip Stearns
6:00pm Panel, 8:00pm Concert
Website 

On Sunday, April 29, 2012, Harvestworks will produce an investigation into the phenomena of no-input, a style of sound art using internal mixer feedback to generate sound. Presentations will feature No-input icon Toshimaru Nakamura who will be joined by sound artists Philip White, Bob Bellerue, Bonnie Jones, and Phillip Stearns in a panel that will explore the limits of the sound-generating technique, it’s influence on the audience and how each artist has expanded their equipment to address stylistic concerns. The panel will be followed by a performance with special guest Gene Coleman where participants will exhibit the their idiosyncratic approaches to controlling an instrument that defies control.

MARCH 24, 2012

Bonnie Jones
Vio/Miré
Liz Isenberg

8:00pm
186 Carpenter St, Providence RI

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MARCH 25, 2012
THE COINCIDENTAL HOUR, hosted by Ric Royer

9:00pm, $6
AS220
115 Empire Street, Providence, RI

The Coincidental Hour is a night of curious meetings at the crossroads of performance. It’s an unconventional cabaret hearkening back to the days when this kind of cabaret never occurred because it hadn’t happened until now. Master of ceremonies Ric Royer will be your guide through a feast/feat of daredevilish crossings of striking and uncanny artistic occurrences.

Episode 3/25/2012: “I am most likely a ghost dreamed by a dreaming ghost”

In this episode, Ric can’t believe it. None of the performers are real. Mark Baumer, Laura Brown-Lavoie, Diana Joy, Stephanie Barber, Bonnie Jones and especially Lance Romance and his band of chicken federalists: No way, they are just figments of his imagination, or worse yet, images of coolness uploaded into my memory by Scion (the car). And what the hell are all those instructional videos on how to tie knots REALLY telling us? That’s what Ric asks in this most hypnagogic Hour of Coincidence.
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http://ricroyer.com/coincidentalhour.html

Show starts at 9pm
$6

FEBRUARY 2 – 6, 2012
NO IDEA FESTIVAL 

http://noideafestival.com/

2/2 Austin
2/3 Austin
2/4 Austin
2/5 Houston
2/6 San Antonio

Andrea Neumann piano, electronics → berlin
Bonnie Jones electronics → baltimore
Bhob Rainey saxophone → new orleans
Greg Kelley trumpet → boston
Jason Lescalleet tapes, electronics → maine
Chris Cogburn percussion, electronics → austin
Bryan Eubanks electronics → new york city
Vic Rawlings prepared cello, surface electronics → boston
Maggie Bennett dance, constructions → new york city
Nick Hennies percussion → austin
Rick Reed electronics → austin
Gill Arnò slide projectors, electronics → new york city

JANUARY 13, 2012
DC POETS, RUTHLESS GRIP READING SERIES
7pm
Black Fox Lounge, 723 Connecticut Avenue (near Dupont Circle)

DC Poetry Website
Bonnie Jones / Ric Royer / Sara Wintz

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JANUARY 20, 2012
14 KARAT CABARET
9:00pm
14 Karat Cabaret
218 West Saratoga St., Baltimore, MD

First time collaboration between filmmaker Stephanie Barber and Bonnie Jones

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JANUARY 21, 2012
THE RED ROOM
8:30pm
Red Room, Baltimore, MD

Collaboration with: 
John Berndt
Khristian Weeks
Andy Hayleck
Tyler Wilcox
Paul Neidhardt

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January 26, 2012
Rhythms of Time Sharing (RoTS) in collaboration with Vox Populi, Philadelphia
7:30pm
Aux/Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA
Kiosk Collective

On Thursday 26 January, 7:30pm, AUX presents the second Art Writing event, following November’s kick-off. Curated by London-based collective KIOSK, who will remain “present” throughout the night via a Skype screening, the evening features art writing and performance from artists in the UK and the USA by Nightwatch, The Collect, The Original Copy, Bonnie Jones, and Helen Kaplinsky.

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JANUARY 28, 2012
PHILADEPHIA SOUND FORUM & AUX
8:00pm
Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA
View press release

This event will feature two pieces in composer/improviser Eric Laska’s Vigilance Improvisations framework:

“Mutability” performed by Bryan Eubanks and Eric Laska
“Recursion” performed by Bonnie Jones and Reed Evan Rosenberg

Vigilance Improvisations is a series of structured frameworks for improvising electronic musicians. The archetypical design consists of two musicians, one working with computer and the other with non-computer electronics,  improvising together while following unique visual scores. Each score corresponds to material changes related to the opposing musician’s instrumental sound source. The musicians are instructed to watch a designated meter vigilantly over the course of an improvisation all the while remaining conscious of the possible visual correlations that may or may not be provoked by a chance correspondence between a reading of the meter and the score. The scores are hosted in a folder online and the visual content therein is entirely sourced from the Internet. No recommendations are made concerning sound.

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December 7th, 2011, The Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, PA
7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1211.php#7 

MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION: AN INVESTIGATION IN TEXT AND MOVEMENT AS ARTISTIC MATERIALS

A participatory event with Meg Foley of Moving Parts, Bonnie Jones, Laura Neuman, Megan Bridge and Peter Price of Fidget Space

In artistic practice and production, TEXT and MOVEMENT are materials with distinct texture, history, function, possibility, charge. This evening’s program includes (five) artists, working in choreography, performance, sound and the written word. Through a variety of multimedia performance, “reading” and participatory workshop, each of these artists will lead audience members through an embodied and communal investigation of TEXT and MOVEMENT: what they are, what they do, the overlap and interstice, the way instances of each construct space, bodies, and community, the possibility of a map, the relationships we find and make.

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December 2nd, 2011, Red Room, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Video and Performance Artists

PROJECTIONS

Window Projections, Eric Franklin and Bob Wagner
the hunch that caused the winning streak and fought the doldrums mightily, Stephanie Barber
Untitled, Andy Hayleck
Rui, Jorge Martins
if the atomic bomb should go off, sitting on top of the world, Heather Romney
ARP Face, M.C. Schmidt

PERFORMANCES
Eric Franklin, banjo
Bonnie Jones

http://www.redroom.org/