EUROPE TOUR 2011

FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Ny Musikks lokaler
Platousgate 18, Oslo
12:00 til 13:00
w/ Ida Bryhn
http://www.nymusikk.no/?p=2647

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Grønland Kirke og Ny Musikks lokaler
Platousgate 18, Oslo
21:00
w/ Agnes Hvizdalek
http://www.nymusikk.no/?p=2658

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FEBRUARY  28, 2011

Labor Sonar at KuLe Theater
Kunsthaus KuLe, Auguststraße, Berlin
w/Axel Doerner
http://www.fernwaerme-berlin.net/laborsonor

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MARCH 1 – 10th, 2011
Residency at Q02 with Andrea Neumann and Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui
www.christineabdelnoursehnaoui.jimdo.com
http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/A_multimedia/femmes_savantes.php
www.bonniejones.wordpress.com

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March 4, 2011

Les Maitres Fous
Liege, Belgium
Stranded Horse – Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui + Andrea Neumann + Bonnie Jones, + DJs (Liège, An vert)
http://lesmaitresfous.blogspot.com/

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March 10th, 2011
Concert at Q-O2 werkplaats
Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussel
Andrea Neumann/Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui/Bonnie Jones
http://www.q-o2.be/nl/

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March 12, 2011
Teatr Weimar, Malmo, Sweden
8:00pm
Andrea Neumann/Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui/Bonnie Jones

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March 14 – 16, 2011
Dartington College of Arts at University College Falmouth
Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4RH
Performance & QA of new solo multimedia piece “We’ve”
http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/

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March 17th, 2011
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus, Plymouth. Devon, PL4 8AA
Performance & QA of new solo multimedia piece “We’ve”
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/

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March  19th, 2011

Arch 1
1 Cranberry Lane London, E16 4BJ, London
w/ Ute Kanngiesser, Jenny Allum, Paul Abbott, Ross Lambert, Eddie Prevost, Seymour Wright, Grundik Kasyansky
http://www.myspace.com/arch1membersclub

January 8th, Red Room, Baltimore, MD
8:30pm, $6
Performance of Chuck Bettis visual scores with Audrey Chen
redroom.org

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January 22nd, Red Room, Baltimore, MD
8:30pm, $6
SAMITA SINHA
BONNIE JONES
redroom.org

January 23rd, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD
7:00pm, $8
BONNIE JONES
SAMITA SINHA
JANEL LEPPIN
http://www.dc-soniccircuits.org

Samita will be performing her solo performance piece called “Cipher.” Vocalist Samita Sinha excavates stories from tarana sounds using the range of her voice and body. Drawing from her deep grounding in khayal (contemporary north Indian classical singing; literally means “thought” or “imagination”),
See a video clip here: http://www.samitasinha.com/cipher.html

Jones will be presenting a text sound performance called “We’ve.”  “We’ve” uses field recordings, video, and texts creating a multimedia performance that explores new forms of written and spoken language and electronic noise.

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January 29th, 30th, Naya Collective, Tokyo Japan
John Cage’s Variations VII
http://www.purple.dti.ne.jp/naya/

I was asked by Adachi Tomomi to participate in John Cage’s Variations VII via audio streaming from Baltimore, MD through USTREAM. The musicians at the concert were accessing and “playing” over 30 streams from around the world.  Check out various documentation.

December 10, 2010

Collaboration with Richard Garet and Wolfgang Gil
(as part of Richard’s Issue Project Residency)
Issue Project Room, @the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Details:
Rupture: Material Landscape consists of a single video channel, presenting a moving image piece, originated from treated and processed 16mm film. Accompanying the moving image presentation Garet prepared an aleatoric sonic system based on sounds recorded from processed and modified audiocassette tapes. Garet invited as a special guest programmer and sound artist, Wolfgang Gil, to distribute in real time throughout the overhead multichannel audio system, Garet’s sonic material during the presentation of the footage. Garet also invited, as a special guest, interdisciplinary artist Bonnie Jones to contribute to the piece with live text and voices, which Wolfgang Gil will also be spatializing throughout the overhead multichannel sound system.

The sonic material for this work consists of utilizing, as a source, the sound from modified audiocassettes tapes. These tapes were submitted to processes of deterioration such as data corruption, erasing, magnetic interference, and tape feedback. The sound that resulted from these processes were played back at various speeds and methods, and then digitally recorded. Each recording from the tapes was digitally cut and spliced by making editorial decisions and erasing the non-desired sections of the recordings. All audio files vary in duration and content.

Garet’s approach to moving image examines technology, process, color, motion, digital glitches, RGB phenomena, afterimage, and the sensory responses of the eye and the mind. These methods combine analog and digital processes to treat light and image, rigorous and repetitive systems of digital corruption, degradation, and saturation. The original 16mm footage was bleached and treated by hand. Each time the film was played back through the projector it changed its structure, form, speed,  and frame rate. Also due to the film’s heavy marking, process, and ruptures, it broke several times during playback, each time adopting a different and interesting image quality. All takes were ultimately digitized and treated further for compositional purposes.

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December 11, 2010
SEGUE READING SERIES
@Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, North of Houston
4-6pm, $6 admission goes to support the readers
ANNE WALDMAN
BONNIE JONES

The Segue Reading Series is made possible by the support of The Segue Foundation. For more information, please visit www.seguefoundation.com.

Curators: Kareem Estefan & Kaegan Sparks (Oct-Nov), Thom Donovan & Sara Wintz (Dec-Jan).

TXT FST
Reanimation Library, 7:30pm
543 Union Street, Brooklyn
Admission by Donation

A series of multiple artist performance / workshops aimed at fostering the development of performative text works, “TXT FST” provides an opportunity for writer musician artists and/or writers, musicians and artists to find ways to approach the use of the written word (or non written, or non-word) in performance.

These performances are not necessarily about poetry or song, (though we’re not trying to start a debate about terms either), but they are about the notion of “text”. Riffing on how we comprehend the use of speech, writing and the functionality of words in general, “TXT FST” aims to express the mutability of language within conundrums it may fall prey to. Conceived and curated by Kurt Gottschalk / Tamara Yadao

TXT FST beta – November 9
Aki Onda
Dust – Marie Evelyn (voice) and Kurt Gottschalk (tenor banjo)
Richard Kamerman / Paul Haney
Mētis Workshop

TXT FST charlie – November 16
Aaron Siegel – Kitty Hawk (Brother’s Tears)
Tom Swirly / Robert Hardin
MPLD
Jay Rozen performs Monologue by Tom Johnson (tuba)
Mētis Workshop

TXT FST delta – November 23
Bonnie Jones
rahrahree! (Kurt Gottschalk / Tamara Yadao)
Radio Ruido
Tamara Yadao (solo)
Mētis Workshop

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Experimental Series:
Ideas, Process, Material

The events start at 8pm, are all free, however donations are more than welcome.
All concerts take place at The Invisible Dog Art Center 51 Bergen Street, NYC

Experimental Series consists of four evenings curated by artist Richard Garet, alternating with his audiovisual installation ELECTROCHROMA, where Garet invited some of the most exceptional artists from today’s East Coast experimental music-and-visual arts scene  to come and perform live.

9/29
Maria Chavez – Jeremy Leclair – Keiko Uenishi

10/13
Gill Arno – Zack Layton

11/3
Jesse Kudler – Ben Owen

11/24
Kamran Sadeghi – Bonnie Jones – Richard Garet

Text & Textiles Exhibition
October 22nd, 2010
Opening 7:00pm doors open, performances @8:00pm

I’ll be premiering a new text video with live music called “We’ve”

809 Powers Street
Baltimore, MD

Sam Garner
Clarissa Gregory
Stefani Levin
John Bylander
Neil Coterill
Jon Powell
Joanna Fields
Sarah Jablecki
Mika Smith
Justin Sirois
Bonnie Jones
Dina Kelberman
Virginia Warwick

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Monday, October 25th
October Last Monday with Hybridge Arts Collective
Broad Street Ministry, Sunday School Room
315 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5839

5 multi-disciplinary performances and a home-cooked dinner for only $5

7pm: Doors open and food is served!
Jenna Horton
Carless
Bonnie Jones
Bech and Doh Sketch Comedy Show
Nicole Bindler

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ANDREA NEUMANN / Inner piano
BONNIE JONES / Electronics, mics, cassettes
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9/28 BOSTON, MA >>>>>>>
Goethe Institut / NON EVENT
http://www.nonevent.org/
w/ Mike Bullock

9/30 MONTREAL, CANADA >>>>>>>
Filles à L’envers
http://www.myspace.com/lenvers185
w/ Magali Babin and others

10/1 NEW YORK, NY >>>>>>>
Issue Project Room
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/
w/ Bob Bellerue

10/2 PHILADELPHIA, PA >>>>>>>
Vox Populi Gallery
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/
w/ Gene Coleman + Werner Dafeldecker

10/3 NEW YORK, NY >>>>>>>
fotofono
http://www.fotofono.net
w/Tim Catlin, Chris Cogburn, Andrea Lafkas, Barry Weisblat, Margarida Garcia, Gill Arno
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ANDREA NEUMANN (b. 1968, Freiburg) studied piano at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin. Since 1996 she has been primarily active as improviser and composer in the areas of experimental and new music. In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, she has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds, she has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and ways of preparing the dismantled instrument, which she calls the “inside-out piano.” Neumann has released recordings on Erstwhile, Sedimental, Rossbin, Charhizma, Zarek, and the Japan Improv label. Since 2000, she has co-organized “Labor Sonor,” a series for experimental music, film and performance in Berlin. http://www.japanimprov.com/profiles/aneumann/

BONNIE JONES (b. 1977, Seoul), lives in Baltimore, MD. Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American interdisciplinary artist working primarily with sound and text. As a composer and improviser she re-purposes digital delay pedals as circuit-bent electronic instruments, directly playing the exposed circuit boards with instrument cables to produce raw and often chaotic electronic sound. Her sound palette challenges the accepted languages of contemporary music as well as the conventional modes of playing associated with electronic musicians. Jones’ multimedia performance works use projected text and live writing to improvise with musicians, video artists, dancers, and other writers. The work draws on her background as a poet and explores a form of writing “off-the-page” that directly interacts with the audience and other collaborators. https://bonniejones.wordpress.com/

TOUR SUPPORTED IN PART BY HIGH ZERO FOUNDATION & MEET THE COMPOSER

Christian Marclay: Festival – Screen Play: w/Marina Rosenfeld & more

SCREEN PLAY: PERFORMED BY MARINA ROSENFELD, LEILA BOURDREUIL, BONNIE JONES, TOMMY MARTINEZ, AND SERGEI TCHEREPNIN

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2010 4 PM
FOURTH FLOOR

Christian Marclay: Festival features multiple daily performances of Marclay’s musical scores by individual musicians and ensembles.

This event is free with museum admission; no special tickets or reservations are required.

http://whitney.org/Events/ScreenPlay19

There are several concerts taking place during the duration of the exhibit, the full schedule can be seen here.

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ChristianMarclay

Primate Arena USA proudly presents:

The 2nd edition of

THRICE

3 days of experimental music and film

July 9-11, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

Participating Artists:

Amos Elkana, Eran Sachs, Eyal Maoz, Bonnie Jones, Richard Garet,

Zach Layton, Fritz Welch, Bryan Eubanks, Vic Rawlings, Abraham Gomez-Delgado,

Kamran Sadeghi, Laetitia Sonam, Doron Sadja, Alfredo Marine,

Benjamin Vida & Sergei Tcherepnin, Nick Buffon, Fern Silva, Andrew Lampert, Cat Lamb, Byron Westbrook

https://sites.google.com/site/thricefestival/

June 26, 2010 / Noise! 2010

Ontological Theater
St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th St.
Manhattan, NY

Curated/Organized by: Tianna Kennedy, Danny Snelson, Caspar Stracke
http://www.free103point9.org/events/2281

Noise! 2010 is a one-day, marathon event, featuring a staggering array of artists and works including performance, sound, moving image, language, and culinary craft.

Tickets are cash-only at the door.
Full event = $30
Noon – 10 p.m. (including dinner & Parish Hall performances)
Partial event = $10 – $15 sliding scale.
Noon – 8 p.m. (Black box only)

This year, curators Caspar Stracke, Danny Snelson, and Tianna Kennedy contribute an exciting and expansive approach to the event’s theme—mapping signal innovation, distortion, and destruction from the historical avant-garde to contemporary media art practitioners.

Noise! 2010 will mark the conclusion of free103point9’s organizational residence at the Ontological; join us on Saturday, June 26 to celebrate what has been an extraordinary partnership since 2006.

Artists
(in order of appearance)

[In the Black Box Theater]

Film/Video Works by:
Viking Eggeling
Paul Sharits
Rose Lowder

Live Performances by:
Bruce McClure
Kevin Medal
Ric Royer and G. Lucas Crane
Jeremy JF Thompson and Mashinka Firunts
Bonnie Jones
Jena Osman
AMJ Crawford
Nectar Bats – Chris Balint and John Bowman
DUBKNOWDUB – STO and Eli Lehrhoff
Falopian Groove
Kamran Sadeghi
Zach Layton
David Linton
Judd Morrissey & Mark Jeffery
C. Spencer Yeh
cris cheek
Patience Dalessi
Ed Bear
Sebastián Patané Masuelli
Eddie Hopely
Gregory Laynor
Diana Hamilton
J. Gordon Faylor
Steve Zultanski

[Downstairs in the Parish Hall]

Performances by:
Ian Page

Dinner with/by:
Andes Sprouts Society
Able Brown & Casey Farnum
Forrest Gillespie
Dylan Gauthier
Nsumi Collective
Ben Flanner / Brooklyn Grange

Works on Paper by:
Matt Volla