Bonnie Jones: Opening the Circuit / Switching the Power Paradigm
Monday, November 20 at 4 PM – 6 PM
EMPAC Beta Studio

A discussion and open-circuit music performance by Bonnie Jones, Baltimore-based electronic musician, community organizer, and co-founder of TECHNE, an organization that offers DIY audio technology workshops for young female-identifying women and girls.

This event is part of the Open Source Art Music and Culture course at RPI, but is open to the public. It is free. EMPAC Beta is on the south-east corner of the top floor of EMPAC.

Bonnie Jones (Baltimore, MD) joins the USC Experimental Music Workshop (Greg Stuart, director) for an evening of adventurous music-making at Tapp’s Art Center presented by Infinite Room and the USC Luise E. Peake Music & Culture Colloquium Series. Jones will lead the ensemble in “Sounding Points of Light” for light-controlled synthesizers built by members of the ExMus Workshop during Jones’ residency at USC.

The concert will also include a solo set from Jones as well as the world premiere of David Kirkland Garner’s “passage Baptiste” for winds, percussion, and smartphone chorus.

Infinite Room/USC Music & Culture Colloquium Presents:
Bonnie Jones with the Experimental Music Workshop
Tapp’s Art Center
1644 Main St
Friday, 11/3
Doors @ 7:45pm, Concert @ 8:00pm
$8, $5 w/ student ID

Saturday, October 21 at 8 PM – 10 PM
$5 suggested donation
Pearlarts Studios
201 N Braddock Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15208

Soy Sos and STAYCEE PEARL dance project are back at it with the development of a new project, sym. Join us for a live experimental sound and light centered performance project featuring Soy Sos, Bonnie Jones, and Sadie Powers.

Bonnie Jones – electronics, metal, transducers and radio
Sadie Powers – electric upright bass and electronics
Herman “Soy Sos” Pearl – electronics, percussion and radio

sym. is a continuation of our previous project OCTAVIA, which debuted in Spring of 2011 at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater where we explored the work and life of Octavia Butler, esteemed African-American science fiction writer. With sym. we look to her vampire themed novel, Fledgling, to dig deeper into a recurring theme in her work: symbiosis.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects.

Sadie Powers is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, specializing in upright bass and fretless bass guitar. Her music focuses on the tension created through small movements. Powers currently tours as a member of the indie rock band Shearwater.

Herman Pearl (Soy Sos) is head engineer and owner of Tuff Sound Recording, as well as sound designer and co-founder of PearlArts Studios, a sound and creative movement company he formed with his wife, Staycee Pearl. Through PearlArts, Herman creates soundscapes to serve as a component to contemporary dance.

I’ll head to Chicago and Detroit with Suzanne Thorpe and our TECHNE organization to teach young students at GIrls Rock Detroit, Girls Rock Chicago, and to initiate a new program we can Teach the Teachers. This program is designed to get educators in cities across the US trained in TECHNE’s unique pedagogy and workshops.

In addition, Suzanne and I will perform a special benefit concert at Constellation in Chicago on 8/13, 8:30pm
https://www.constellation-chicago.com/event/1523934-techne-benefit-talsounds-chicago/

The night features sets by Bonnie Jones & Suzanne Thorpe, TALsounds, and Young/Marino/Lyle.

The Move Move Collaborative is a temporary ensemble that has met to train together, to eat together, and to perform together. On June 30th, we will be hosting a night of improvised music and dance. There will be five sets. Each 15 minute set will feature a combination of musicians and dancers.

Musicians:
Chuck Bettis
Khristian Weeks
Zoe Bell
Bonnie JOnes
SHakia Paylor

Move Movers:
Domineka Reeves
Laura Farner
slowdanger
Erick Benitez
Kate O’Brien
Peter Redgrave
Lynne Price
Matt Williams
Elise Knudson
Cristal Sabbagh
Jake Freeman
Orlando Johnson

ENDE TYMES 777

http://halfnormal.com/endetymes/

THURSDAY APRIL 27 – 730pm doors – $15 members / $20 general – tickets available here
Issue Project Room (22 Boerum Pl)
featuring:
Denis Rollet & Francisco Meirino
Jenny Gräf
Joe Colley
TRNSGNDR/VHS

FRIDAY APRIL 28 – 730pm doors – $20
Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave)
tickets available here
featuring:
Instinct Control
Mateo Galindo
Lingua Ignota
Hogareño
Zaimph
Gerritt Wittmer
Theories of Forgetting
Bonnie Jones
Blue Shift
Vertonen
Francisco Meirino
Hans Grüsel’s Krankenkabinet
Architeuthis Dux
Dromez
Kazehito Seki
Cruor Incendia
Taskmaster

SATURDAY APRIL 29 – 730pm doors – $20
Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave)
tickets available here
featuring:
Serpentine
Suckling
A Week Of Kindness
Sarah Hennies
Geoff Mullen
Howard Stelzer
Denis Rollet
Midmight
Postcommodity
Werewolf Jerusalem
Tourette
Aaron Dilloway
Boar
Novasak + Human Fluid Rot
Gaiamamoo
Sterile Garden

SUNDAY APRIL 30 – 630pm doors – $15
Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave)
tickets available here
featuring:
Casas
Blessed Thistle
High School Confidential
Express
Dreamcrusher
Kiran Arora
Caroline Park & Asha Tamirisa
Timeghost
Pod Blotz
Kyle Eyre Clyd
SADAF

As part of the Whitney Biennial Film program, Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson will screen Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, with sound by Bonnie Jones.

April 22 – April 23
http://whitney.org/Events/DaniLeventhal 

Location: Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater

Dani Leventhal’s films make palpable the emotional life of disparate animate and inanimate worlds. Using both scripted and found source material, Leventhal creates complex layers of meaning through montage, rendering micro-narratives of mortality and desire.

April 22: 6 and 8:30 pm
Screenings

April 23: 3 pm
Screening followed by a conversation with Dani Leventhal, Sheilah Wilson, co-director of Strangely Ordinary this Devotion, Jared Buckhiester, co-director of Hard as Opal, and Aily Nash, co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial Film Program

Dani Leventhal (b. 1972), Platonic, 2013
Dani Leventhal and Jared Buckhiester (b. 1977), Hard as Opal, 2015
Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson (b. 1977), Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, 2017

Tickets are required ($12 adults, students, and seniors; free for members). Doors open thirty minutes before the program begins. Ticket holders are guaranteed admission until the start of the program, at which time any unclaimed seats will be released.