Megapolis Festival, May 14-16th, Baltimore, MD
Solo performance and workshop with Suzanne Thorpe
Festival website

Friday, May 15th, 2010
8pm – 1am (7:30pm doors)
Performances by:
LEXIE MOUNTAIN
BONNIE JONES
SUZANNE THORPE
ABATTOIR
ANDREW HAYLECK AND DAN CONRAD
@ Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave
Tickets: $10 regular / Free for weekend pass-holders

Saturday, May 16th, 2010
3pm – 3:45pm
B’more Soundwalk – Bonnie Jones & Suzanne Thorpe
@ front of Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave

Join electronic musicians/improvisers Bonnie Jones (Baltimore) and Suzanne Thorpe (NYC) as they guide a workshop designed to expand listening and musical interactions. Jones and Thorpe will guide attendants in listening expansion exercises based on Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening technique, followed by a soundwalk that will enhance their sonic relationship with their environment. During the walk, listeners will evolve into players, creating a composition with their environment and themselves. Participants are encouraged to bring noisemakers (bells, instruments, non-electric guitars etc).

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No Idea Festival 2010 // Seeds + Systems
No Idea Blog
http://noideafestival.com/

edition #3, Mexico City
May 26 – 31, 2010

miércoles, 26 de mayo — 18:00
centro nacional de las artes (centro multimedia)
www.cenart.gob.mx

1) bhob rainey + antonio domínguez
2) bhob rainey + bonnie jones + chris cogburn
3) bhob rainey + bonnie jones + chris cogburn + manrico montero + laura balboa + antonio domínguez

jueves, 27 de mayo — 20:00
laboratorio arte alameda
www.artealameda.bellasartes.gob.mx

chris cogburn + christian galarreta
bhob rainey + vic rawlings + alex bruck
bonnie jones + rogelio sosa

viernes, 28 de mayo — 20:30
la fonoteca nacional
www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx

bonnie jones + bhob rainey + laura balboa + maria lipkau
vic rawlings (solo)
chris cogburn + juanjosé rivas + remi alvarez
vic rawlings + antonio domínguez + fernando vigueras

sábado, 29 de mayo — 20:00
ex-teresa arte actual
website

juan pablo villa (solo)
antonio domínguez + fernando vigueras + laura balboa
bhob rainey + bonnie jones + chris cogburn + vic rawlings

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artistas:
fernando vigueras :: guitarra, medios electrónicos — ciudad de méxico
antonio domínguez :: live cinema — ciudad de méxico
laura balboa :: live cinema — ciudad de méxico
manrico montero :: Grabaciones de Campo y Paisajes Sonoros — la paz, bolivia
juanjosé rivas :: medios electrónicos — ciudad de méxico
rogelio sosa :: medios electrónicos — ciudad de méxico
alexander bruck :: viola — ciudad de méxico
remi alvarez :: saxofón, flauta — ciudad de méxico
christian galarreta ::  medios electrónicos — lima, peru / ciudad de méxico
juan pablo villa :: voz — ciudad de méxico
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The rest of the group including Chris Cogburn, Bhob Rainey, and Vic Rawings continue on to the CHA’AK’AB PAAXIL Festival in Merida, Yucatan.

No Idea Festival 2010 // Seeds + Systems
edition #2, Austin/Marfa

Bhob Rainey // saxophone — New Orleans
Bonnie Jones // electronics — Baltimore
Chris Cogburn // percussion — Austin

AUSTIN
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 8:30pm, AAMP, 411 Monroe, Austin, Texas
$5-15 sliding scale admission

MARFA
Friday, April 16, 2010, 8pm, $8, Crowley Theater, 204 N Highland, Marfa, Texas
Contact: Tim Johnson — 432-729-3906; orpheushead@gmail.com

Ten Pounds To The Sound is proud to present the 2nd edition of No Idea 2010 // Seeds + Systems. This year’s festival is focusing on a series of strong, consolidated smaller events (seeds) in the spirit of connecting international artists, audiences, presenters and organizations with the intention of helping to facilitate greater exchange between creative musicians internationally, and between México and the US specifically (systems).

For the second edition, No Idea 2010 is happy to present a small ensemble featuring three of the leading lights of US improvisation. Local percussionist Chris Cogburn is joined by New Orleans saxophonist Bhob Rainey and Baltimore electronic musician Bonnie Jones. The trio will perform two nights in Austin and Marfa, Texas to share and develop their music in preparation for travels to Mexico City for No Idea events in May 2010. In Mexico City Cogburn, Rainey and Jones will collaborate with a host of Mexican sound artists, visual artists and improvisors from throughout Mexico. Their generative work together in Texas in April 2010 will provide the seed and impetus for future collaborations with US and Mexican artists in Austin and abroad.

Artist bios, venue information and information on performances in Mexico City will be on the No Idea website, posted by April 5, 2010. For the most updated information, please visit: http://www.noideafestival.com

ARTIST INFO
Bhob Rainey
Chris Cogburn

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post_moot convocation | a convocation of unorthodox poetic and cultural practices

April 22- 25th 2010
Friday, April 23rd, 2:30pm–4:00pm
Bonnie Jones, Carla Harryman, Lisa Samuels

Miami University
Dept of English
Oxford OH 45056
postmoot@gmail.com

The second Post-Moot Convocation, an international conference to be held at Miami in spring of 2010 to foster creative exchange among poets in the early 21st Century, will present papers / performances / presentations on a range of contemporary issues in poetics.

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Monday, Apr 26 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, Towson Library, 320 York Road

Chris Mason Presents …An evening of diverse art from Rupert Wondolowski, David Beaudouin, Lauren Bender, Chris Toll, Michael Ball, Bonnie Jones and Les Wade, plus a special performance by Chris’ group Old Songs, a troupe of poets and musicians who interpret ancient Greek texts via song.

Saturday, March 13th, Ann Street Gallery & Safe Harbors of the Hudson,Workshop & concert with Suzanne Thorpe, 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY 12550

On March 13 the Ann St Gallery in conjunction with Safe Harbors of the Hudson in Newburgh NY will be hosting a free workshop on creating electronic music for girls aged 13-18.

Suzanne Thorpe and Bonnie Jones, both electronic music artists will conduct the afternoon long workshop called Electronic Music: Powered by Girls (1-5pm) which will be followed by a public concert performed by Thorpe and Jones at 8pm.

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Friday, March 19th, 9:00pm, Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013.

Bonnie Jones (Baltimore) and Richard Garet (New York City) will create an evolving, undulating, shifting terrain of live video, text, voice, and electronic sounds; the performance will combine both improvised collaboration as well as areas guided by the video and/or text projections; the project explores the creation of environments that explore the real and artificial / the material and ephemeral – in effect, short circuiting the senses. bonniejones.wordpress.com / richardgaret.com/ experimentalintermedia.org

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Sunday, March 21st, The Stone, 8:00pm located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street, NYC.

Carla Harryman with Jon Raskin Quartet and Vocalists
Carla Harryman (poetry) Jon Raskin (saxophones) Ches Smith (drums) Liz Allbee (trumpet, electronics) John Shiurba (guitar) Aurora Josephson, Bonnie Jones, Carla Harryman (voices)

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Monday, March 29th, WFMU 91.1, midnight – 3am broadcast of Samita Sinha/Bonnie Jones duo on “The Brother Lucy Show” with Kurt Gottschalk.  Listen in here on Sunday “night” http://wfmu.org/

CANCELLED due to Snow Saturday, February 6th, 8:00pm, $12, Bowerbird Series, The Arts Parlor, 1170 S Broad St, Philadelphia, 19146,
* this event is limited to 30 seats*

Website

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Monday, February 15th, 8:00pm, LMAKseries, 139 Eldridge Street, NYC.

Ian M. Fraser – Jesse Kudler
Bonnie Jones – Suzanne Thorpe
MPLD (Gill Arno)

http://www.lmakprojects.com
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Tuesday, February 16th, Douglass Street Music Collective, 295 Douglass St. (b/3 & 4 Ave). With Jacob Wick, Wilson Shook, Keir Neuringer, Reuben Radding, Andrew Drury, Bonnie Jones.

http://www.myspace.com/295douglass

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RESCHEDULED DATE DUE TO SNOW: Saturday, January 2nd, 8:00pm, i.e. Reader Book release party! LOF/t, 120 W. North Avenue.

I’m super excited about the new i.e. Reader which showcases several of the poets (myself humbly included) who have taken part in the completely indispensable i.e. Reading Series curated by Michael Ball. Narrowhouse has put together this amazing document.  http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

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Thursday, January 28th, 8:00pm, MIRKWOOD ESTATES, 701 E. 33rd Street. 7pm – 10pm – starts on time.

http://mirkwoodestates.blogspot.com/ w/ Lexie Mountain, Robby Rackleff, Allen Mozek, Jesse Heffler, Noel Freibert

December 12th & 13th, “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” by Ric Royer & The Performance Thanatology Research Society. ANNEX THEATER, Copy Cat Building, Baltimore, MD. http://www.myspace.com/copycatannex

November 8, Cyclops Bookstore, North Avenue @Charles. DUO – Kate Porter (cello) & Russell Kotcher (violin). IN DREAMS – Jonathan Zorn (elec), Michael Bullock (bass, elec), Bonnie Jones (elec, mics). http://www.facebook.com/CyclopsBmore

November 18-22nd, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Institute. An evening of improvised music as part of the conference Sound Unbound: Explorations in the Aural Avante Garde. Trio w/ Chris Cogburn & Liz Tonne. Workshop with Chandan Nararyan & Chris Cogburn.

November 21st, 8:00pm, HeartBeat, Toronto, CA, 960 Queen St. West. In conjunction with Sound Unbound, Abient Edition Presents.

CHRIS COGBURN – percussion (Austin, TX)
BONNIE JONES – opened delay pedals (Baltimore, MD)
LIZ TONNE – voice (Boston, MA)
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JODA CLÉMENT – harmonium, electronics
TOMASZ KRAKOWIAK – percussion
STEVE MCFARLAND – prepared turntables
PAU TORRES – synthesizer
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BLACK SOUL (Montreal)

November 28th, 10:00pm, The Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street, NYC. Performance with Samita Sinha.

September 15-October 24, 2009, Opening, Thursday, September 24, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD.

“The Art of the Set Up”
Curated by Shelly Blake-Plock
Seventh Annual Curators’ Incubator
Sept. 15 – Oct. 24, 2009
Thursday, September 24:
Gallery Talk 6 pm; Reception 7 pm

I’ll be creating an installation/demonstration of my music set up which uses the circuit boards of digital delay pedals. Artists include, Peter B, Melissa Moore, Alessandro Bosetti, Andy Hayleck, Mike Muniak.
MAP Website for more details

September 25, 2009, Belladonna “Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism” Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. Performance with Carla Harryman and more. Conference website & Schedule. Conference is free and open to the public!

The performances for the evening take place after the Plenary discussion around 6:30pm – I’ll be performing around 8:00pm.

Unfortunately Andrea will not be joining me on this short East Coast tour but I’ll be playing with various musicians in VA, DC, and NYC.

Bonnie Jones (electronics)
September 2009 Tour

9/16 University of VA, Charlottesville, VA. Duo with Andy Hayleck. Series curated by Jonathan Zorn – Website

9/17, Silver Spring, MD, Duo with TBA, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

9/19 – Three Days, NYC, Listen/Space, Three Days Website, duo with Tim Albro

9/20 – Three Days, NYC Fotofono, Three Days Website, trio with Andrew Lafkas, Simon Berz