april 9: tuesday

noon: On The Way & Surface of Sound

R.I.P Hayman (USA) discusses an installation based on a near-death experience. Yuji Sone (Japan) presents a mocked lecture on the notion of sound. Center for New Music and Audio Technologies

4:00pm: Audio Fictions

Intersection For the Arts. A panel focusing on representations of sound in literature featuring panelists reading from and discussing their work. Panelists include Elizabeth Bloc (USA), Jim Brashear (USA), Robert Gluck (USA), Valerie Jeremijenko (Australia), and Kathy Lou Schultz (USA). Moderated by Nancy Peters (USA).

7:30pm: Cinema for the Ear

An unusual evening - almost totally in the dark - reversing the movie theatre emphasis on visuals over sound. Audio and video pieces by many artists (follow link for details). Pacific Film Archive. Admission: $5.50

9pm: Western Emergence Performances

An evening of diverse ambient and trance inflections by Ambient Temple of Imagination, Deeper Than Space, Dreams Without Number, Arthur Dent, and The Rythmist. Presented by Silent Records at Western Emergence. Admission: $5

11pm: The Eleventh Hour

Audio works by sound artists from the Pacific Region. 94.1 FM