The Sixteenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)

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The second edition of Screen Compositions is again a collection of intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/ film artists and sound/ music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Nathalie Bujold / Gerard Leckey/ Lary Seven; Tony Cokes / Mike Bell-Smith; Angie Eng / Simon Hostettler / David Weinstein; Katherine Liberovskaya / Al Margolis (If, Bwana); Mika Taanila / The User; Sami van Ingen / Petri Kuljuntausta; Fred Worden / Tom Hamilton

Live generated and manipulated sound in virtual and analogue environments collides with video projections; Devens generally questions the seemingly naturalized conceptions of the reality surrounding us; in those works the feeling of uncertainty and surprise provided by the unexpectedness of the situation is always a central element; events within pre-constructed frameworks, soundworks, installations and charged minimal acts (in video) are all important parts of his research; www.pauldevens.nl

dAtA, a new series of audiovisual performances; sounds and music produced and 'dissected' in several sonic parameters and mapped to visual parameters in order to have a direct relation between musical gestures and visual processes; www.sciajno.net; Sponsorship www.antitesi.org

Belford (video artist / film maker) and Govrin (sound artist / musician) will present their latest audio-visual work called - Free Field; abstractly, a free field is a field which can be described by linear partial differential equations and has a unique solution given an initial data; it consists of a theoretical infinite sound space and a 3D visual space transformed into a 2D plot; www.duprass.com / www.interval-recordings.com

Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa, a memorial fellowship named for the Portuguese Intermedia Artist, sponsored by the Luso-Americana Foundation and the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, coordinated by Isabel Alves, presents an intermedia performance:

"Body of Work" Is about a body as a work structure, where a piece of cloth plays the musical instrument as a second skin, all the movements are translated into vibrations, beats and steps, all to translate the movement into sounds; the cloth is a giant baby growing with a corset in the center of the body to give support to a Portuguese guitar, adapted to be played as a harp or a cello by pulling the strings when the body puts itself in a harp look-a-like position, provoking unexpected melodies interacting with the video projections of captured footsteps doing the beats, expressing the need to go forward; the body becomes useful, the body as an instrument; www.ye77a.net

The "Swim This" trio of master musicians: Michael (big clarinets, electronics), Nick (guitars, computers), and Gerry (percussion, sonics) will present a sound circus of compositions and improvisation; including a rare viewing of Ron Nameth's film "11'22'; to delight and confuse the best of us

Envyloop: the dynamic live-electro-improv-acoustic-meltdown duo formed by composer/ performers Maiss (electric 6-string cello, BassCello, electronics, vocals) and Rovan (alto clarinet, laptops, vocals); with their combination of acoustic and electric instruments, live electronics, interactive video and found objects, they create an eclectic mix of musical styles and persona that is ENVYLOOP; www.envyloop.com

TIHM, part 1(tension) for solo real-time computer (45 min); STATIC, part 1 for BassComputer (20 min); Lärmesmitte, for BassComputer - which will be premiered on March 12 at GRM (Paris) - (25 min) - an evening of heavy density and fuzzed drones; www.sleazeArt.com