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Cha’ak’ab Paaxil Festival June 2009 Yucatan, Mexico

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Festival de Improvisación Libre, Free Jazz y Noise “Cha’ak’ab Paaxil” 2009
June 5-6, 12-13, 2009

Bonnie Jones – medios electrónicos (Baltimore, USA)
Chris Cogburn – percusiones (Austin, TX)
Remi Álvarez – saxofones tenor y soprano (Ciudad de México)
Milo Tamez – batería y percusiones (Monterrey)
Manrico Montero – objetos, kalimba, guitarra y medios electrónicos (Ciudad de México)
Lawrence Williams – saxofones tenor y soprano (Londres, GB)
Blair Latham – saxofones tenor y alto, clarinete bajo (Cozumel/Nueva Zelanda)
Armando Martín – guitarra eléctrica y electrónicos (Mérida)
Misha Marks – guitarra y electrónicos (DF/Nueva Zelanda)
Juan García – contrabajo (Mérida)
Leonel Traconis – guitarra acústica y electrónicos (Mérida)
Augusto Palma – laptop y medios electrónicos (Mérida)
Elías Puc – laptop y medios electrónicos (Mérida)
José Luis Gil – laptop y medios electrónicos (Mérida)
Antonio Domínguez – medios visuales (Ciudad de México)
Nadia Escalante – poesía (Mérida)
Jackie Milad – medios visuales (Baltimore)

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I’ll be performing in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico presenting new collaborations with Nadia Escalante, Jackie Milad, Chris Cogburn, Juan Garcia, and Manrico Montero.

This performance is supported by Meet the Composer, Global Connections.

MAY 2009 Shows

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Saturday, May 2nd. 8pm.
The Lab at Convergence
1801 N. Quaker Lane
Alexandria, Virginia 22302

Come see the best, rarest, and wildest of the 20th century underground!

Theatre Classics is Ric Royer, John Eaton, and John Berndt, who will be performing with Geodesic Gnome.

Join us for an evening of early 20th century obscure and experimental theatre works (including dada, surrealist, and futurist plays), as well as a piece by Daniil Kharms, a short play by Konrad Bayer, and new “interpretations” of American classics such as Our Town and The Crucible.

Just to see stagings of Kharms-a poet destroyed by Stalin-is worth the theatrical excursion.

with an opening sound performance by Bonnie Jones, on circuit boards of digital delay pedals.

Hosted by M. Magnus. This production brought to you by Yockadot Poetics Theatre Project and the Alexandria Performing Arts Association, in conjunction with Convergence.

NPR Story on Sonic Circuits

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NPR did a nice story on Sonic Circuits 2008 – I was opening the show that night. Nice story and shout out to the stalwarts in DC who keep experimental music going.

All Things Considered, January 6, 2009 – Washington, D.C., is a gray town, known more for suits than fun. There are lots of lawyers, lobbyists and politicians. But there are also lots of musicians. Washington has a long history as a home to diverse styles of music — from Duke Ellington to hardcore to go-go — and it has been a hotbed of country and bluegrass. Washington and its environs have also been home to some of the hottest guitar players ever to touch the fretboard: Roy Clark, Roy Buchanan, Danny Gatton.

Today, D.C. is home to a different sort of scene: Experimental music is thriving under the city’s official radar. One of its homes is the Velvet Lounge, a neon-lit bar with blood-colored walls on the fringe of the city’s uber-trendy U Street corridor.

An Intense Whine

On a recent evening, a motionless crowd packs the lounge’s dark upper bar. The whine is intense. It’s a relentless, unforgiving, slightly pulsating, shrill cry of a sound. It’s being produced as part of an event called the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, which showcases electronic, experimental and avant-garde music. As a slim, serious young woman with a bow at her throat manipulates circuit boards and digital delay pedals, the whine changes, lowering and distorting. Bonnie Jones was born in South Korea and raised by New Jersey dairy farmers. Now, she lives near D.C.

Read the full story on NPR Web site >>

FEBRUARY 2009 Shows

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no idea festival 2009

http://www.noideafestival.com/

annette krebs guitar, electronics . berlin
bonnie jones electronics . baltimore
chris cogburn percussion . austin
cooper-moore multi-instrumentalist . nyc
dave dove trombone . houston
jason kahn percussion, electronics . zurich
jawwaad taylor trumpet, electronics, MC . nyc
joshua beckman poetry, electronics . nyc
mario de vega electronics . mexico city / berlin
melanie noel poetry . seattle
tatsuya nakatani percussion . pennsylvania

february 26-28 austin
march 1 houston

Igor Satanovsky @Chela

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Performance of Koja Press poets in the Baltimore’s CHELA Gallery, Feb. 22, 2003. Performers: William James Austin, Mike Magazinnik, Igor Satanovsky, Bonnie Jones, Megan McShea, Fred Collins, Charlie Chadwick (cello) & others.

JANUARY 2009 Shows

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January 4th, Load of Fun, 2pm, Free, coffee & cakes. North Ave, Baltimore, MD

Ric Royer’s The Weather Not The Weather, a serial poem, was released
Dec. 14 by Outside Voices Press. Cover and internal design by Justin
Sirois of Narrow House.

I will be reading with “The Bbbbbbbb Writing Group” (starring Megan McShea, Rupert Wondolowski, and Bonnie Jones).

*** This will also be a sneak peek at the new theatre space that is being constructed at load of fun***

January 22, The Hexagon, 9pm, $5. 1825 N. Charles Street. Baltimore, MD

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Steve Bradley, bunny & chick, Andy Hayleck, Bonnie Jones, and David Kim-Boyle.

January 24, Red Room, 8:30pm, $6. 31st Street, Baltimore, MD.

Bonnie Jones / Gust Burns / Gregory Reynolds

January 31, StudioSeries, Studio34, 8pm. Philadelphia, PA
Organized by Nicole Bindler

Carolyn Merritt – tango
Bonnie Jones/Liza Clark – movement/sound/text
Sara Yassky – dance
Ashley Deekus – percussion
PIMA Group – music/dance
Michelle Stortz – dance