Documentation
PRESS RELEASE
March 20, 2010 Los Angeles, CA -
New Music In New Places - New Music Takes to Hybrid Space
Airwaves, Internet and live performance use crowd-sourced content and collaborative creation to emphasize the consequences of a hyper-connected world.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, Guelph, Winnipeg and elsewhere online and on air – March 20, 12 p.m. EST
Los Angeles live performance – March 20, 8 p.m. PST
(Toronto, ON) – The Canadian Music Centre continues its 2009 - 2010 New Music in New Places series on March 20 with LoK8tr, a collaborative project inspired by and written directly for performance using the airwaves, internet media and social networking tools. The project, which is already unfolding on Facebook, is active under a number of names that play on the word “Locator” – LKTR, LoQuator, Lo Katr. The intent is to emphasize themes of identity/self, location, loneliness/facelessness and virtual interconnections that can be amplified or obscured by the distortions and dissonances of online relations. The play on words also references the growing difficulty of trying to remain anonymous in an increasingly hyper-connected world.
On Saturday March 20, Lok8tr teams up with collaborators from Berkeley, Los Angeles, Guelph, Winnipeg and elsewhere for a live mix broadcast. LoK8tr will collaborate with the on-air, improvising audio collage collective Mannlicher Carcano for this performance. The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour airs at 12 p.m. EST on CFRU,
93.3 FM and will also be streamed live at http://www.cfru.ca/. The performance will include an additional video layer distributed via the internet, which will be made accessible to those who sign up to receive the Facebook updates that make up this unfolding virtual work.
Later the same day, LoK8tr and Mannlicher Carcano will team up for a live performance at Echo Curio - The Echo Park Curiosity Shop and Art Gallery on Los Angeles’ notorious Sunset Boulevard. Some of the project collaborators will appear live, while others will contribute remotely via the internet. The performance kicks off at 8 p.m. PST.
LoK8Tr invites you to participate!
LoK8Tr encourages anyone to become his/her Facebook friend and to become more involved in the project. Individuals can contribute audio or video to be used as part of the March 20 live remix. Full instructions are available on LoK8Tr’s Facebook page under the name Lo Katr.
Individuals are also encouraged to download Revolutions per Minute - a short piano piece composed by LoK8Tr for the project. RPM is based on a transcription of the Muslim Call to Prayer, combined with the sounds of car horns and cell phones, as it resonates through the city of Chennai, India. The score may be downloaded for free from the CMC website at http://www.musiccentre.ca/media/downloads/en/NMINP-Lok8tr-Mar202010.pdf. Collaborators are invited to record an improvisation based on this material, and send it by e-mail to lok8tr [at] rocketmail [dot] com for inclusion in the live mix broadcast on March 20.
Lok8Tr is just one of over 20 events in CMC’s 2009-2010 New Music in New Places festival series, designed to showcase the work of Canada’s talented composers outside of the concert hall and in the communities where they work and live.
EVENT DETAILS
WHO: LoK8Tr
Mannlicher Carcano
A world of willing collaborators
Canadian Music Centre – Ontario Region
WHAT: The Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New Places festival series presents
LoK8Tr – a collaborative project inspired by and written for performance using the airwaves, internet media and social networking tools.
WHEN: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Broadcast live mix at 12 p.m. EST
Live Performance at 8 p.m. PST
WHERE: Broadcast live mix performance on CFRU, 93.3 FM or www.cfru.ca
Live Performance at Echo Curio - The Echo Park Curiosity Shop and Art Gallery
1519 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles , CA USA
HOW MUCH: FREE
New Music in New Places acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund, administered by The SOCAN Foundation.
The complete New Music in New Places concert schedule is available online at www.musiccentre.ca.
