Upcoming

Idiopreneurial Entrephonics Festival, Wesleyan

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Friday, February 17, 2023
8:00pm
World Music Hall, Wesleyan University

The first evening of the Idiopreneurial Entrephonics II festival of live electronic music begins with performances by Bonnie Jones and John Bischoff.

Bonnie Jones presents samesame, a multichannel electronic music, sonic counter-narrative. Using field recordings, circuit-bent electronics, samples, and historical recordings, samesame considers how the specificities of our individual experience and perception of the world are reflected and refracted within geopolitical and historical narratives.

John Bischoff presents Bitplicity and Visibility Study. Both works employ pulse-wave analog circuits sounding in audio and sub-audio realms that are animated by performer actions—primarily the momentary shorting of conductive points in each circuit. He rounds off the concert with Calliope, a take-off on Leon Theremin’s realization of Henry Cowell’s Rhythmicon, an instrument which automatically reiterates its tones at rates corresponding to the ratios of the sounding pitch combinations. But in Calliope the instrument is designed to have internal drift in all dimensions so the tones migrate out of tune and disassemble in time as each phrase develops.

https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/2023/02-2023/02172023-bischoff-jones.html

LAMPO, samesame

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December 10, 2022
7:00pm
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Bonnie Jones premieres samesame, a multichannel electronic music, sonic counter-narrative. Using field recordings, circuit-bent electronics, samples, and historical recordings, samesame considers how the specificities of our individual experience and perception of the world are reflected and refracted within geopolitical and historical conditions.

Presented in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; organized in conjunction with the exhibition, Monochrome Multitudes

Workshop: In this informal session, Bonnie Jones and participants consider her Lampo Folio score, Tetraphobia: a ritual for a now. She asks you to remember and briefly perform a sound from childhood. If you can’t attend in person, perform your sound for Bonnie by calling (845) 445-7587. Monadnock Building, 53 W. Jackson Blvd. #826. Sunday, December 11, 12 p.m.–12:30 p.m.

https://lampo.org/archive/bonnie-jones-2022/

Catalytic Sound Festival, Rhizome

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Saturday December 3, 2022
5-10pm
Rhizome, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington DC 20012

Two days of improvised performance featuring some of DC’s most forward-thinking musicians alongside stellar representatives of various East Coast communities.

Part of the month-long international Catalytic Sound Festival.

Saturday December 3 :: 5-10pm :: TICKETS // livestream tix
Marcia Bassett + Samara Lubelski
Bonnie Jones + Luke Stewart
Joe Morris
Dave Ballou + Mike Kuhl
Sarah Hughes

Sunday December 4 :: 5-10pm :: TICKETS // livestream tix
Mutual Aid Music [Nate Wooley / Joshua Modney / Lester St. Louis / Luke Stewart]
Chris Corsano
Sam Newsome
Janel & Anthony
No Trick Pony [Amy K Bormet / Brian Settles / Keith Butler Jr.]

Catalytic Sound is a music based co-operative designed to help create economic sustainability for its artists through patron support.

Made possible by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Poster by Nate Scheible.

https://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2022/catalyticsoundfestival

Still life with groundswell @fringepvd

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Friday, July 22 at 7pm
​Saturday, July 23 at 7 pm
Wilbury Theatre, 475 Valley St, Providence, RI
​$10
https://www.fringepvd.org/still-life-with-groundswell.html

Still Life with Groundswell takes inspiration from personal stories of dislocation, disruption, and transformation. Emerging from a time of sustained isolation and uncertainty, we consider imaginative acts of reinvention and response.

t minus 2 is composed of the multidisciplinary artists Bonnie Jones, John Kolodij, and Mary-Kim Arnold. We make collaborative, improvisational, and conceptual sound and image work that privileges experimentation and chance. At times melodic and at others, discordant and noisy, our work offers multiple ways to receive and relate to sonic performance.

​Photo Credit: Xander Marro​

black mountain college museum + Art Center

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Thursday, July 14th 2022 at 7PM
Streaming to Vimeo and Facebook
Free
https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/bonnie-jones/

Memory for Intentions (2022)

For this commission, I used some archival performance footage from the past two years of the pandemic to make a hybrid, palimpsestic contemplation of the present. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the tension inherent in how we hold ourselves responsible to the past and how we allow ourselves to move past – move from the past in order to make. The call to “make it new” that is the legacy of experimental art practices is shifting – for there is nothing new, and those who want to erase the past are those who have less to lose from doing so or more to lose if the past is brought to bear in accountable ways in the present. Nothing is without history and no history is without the movement, flux, and relationality that shape the material of time. There is nothing new, but I believe there is transformation, re-weaving.

Sonorium

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Saturday, June 4, 2022, 8PM
SATV – 285 Derby Street #2, Salem, MA 01970

HOUSEFIRE – techno noise immolations from Providence, RI
BONNIE JONES – echoic memory musics from Baltimore, MD & Providence, RI
MARY STAUBITZ – turntable / objects / trash from Pawtucket, RI
ROSS WIGHTMAN – jumbled audio visual collage from New Haven, CT

Masks are required.
Doors at 7:30PM – Music at 8:15PM
Suggested donation: $10
More info: www.sonorium.net