[Rumori] Upcoming Negativland Shows

[Tim Maloney]

This just in from Negativland HQ:

Negativland returns to the live stage on Saturday with an encore  
performance of "It's All in Your Head FM", our "theater of the mind"  
pseudo-radio concert.  We played this show in October of 2005 and  
were asked to bring it back, so here it is.  It's evolved slightly,  
but is same essential show.  We're also doing it in Los Angeles at  
the Silent Movie Theater the following Monday (June 12).  And our  
mailorder-only double-CD recording from 2005 is now available, both  
at our web site and at the upcoming concerts.


"It's All In Your Head FM" encore performance

NEGATIVLAND
THOMAS DIMUZIO
Performing "It's All In Your Head FM" (a version of their weekly  
radio broadcast "Over the Edge", now in its 24th year on Berkeley's  
KPFA-FM) "Negativland's new live show mixes music, sounds, voices,  
"personalities" and sound effects into a "theater of the mind," just  
as they do in their live radio broadcasts. The show, "It's All In  
Your Head FM", is a two-hour-long, esoteric look at monotheism in all  
its fundamental forms worldwide, and the all-important role played by  
the human brain in those belief systems. Dr. Oslo Norway is the  
founder of an all-new radio network, and his provocatively-reasoned  
position of god-less objectivity can actually start arguments. Why do  
we believe what we believe? Is monotheism now doing more harm than  
good? Christianity and Islam are this year's featured religions as  
Negativland asks you to contemplate some rather complex ideas about  
human belief in "documentary collage" form." Thomas Dimuzio opens the  
evening with his secular sonicisms and born-again bedlam.

June 10, 2006
Great American Music Hall
859 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA 94109
(415) 885-0750
http://www.gamh.com
$25 General Admission - Seated
8P Doors
9P Show


NEGATIVLAND
Since 1980, the 4 or 5 Floptops known as Negativland have been  
creating records, fine art, video, books, radio and live performance  
using appropriated sound, image and text. Mixing original materials  
and music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture,  
Negativland re-arranges these bits and pieces to make them say and  
suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of  
cultural opposition and "culture jamming" (a term coined by  
Negativland in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright  
infringement.

Okay, but what, you still ask, is Negativland exactly? That's hard to  
answer. Negativland definitely isn't a "band," though they may look  
like one when you see their CDs for sale in your local shopping mall.  
They're more like some sort of goofy yet serious European-style  
artist/activist collective - an unhealthy mix of John Cage, Lenny  
Bruce, Pink Floyd, Bruce Connor, Firesign Theatre, Abbie Hoffman,  
Robert Rauschenberg, 1970's German electronic music, old school punk  
rock attitude, surrealist performance art, your high school science  
teacher, and lots more.
http://www.negativland.com

THOMAS DIMUZIO
San Francisco-based Dimuzio is one of those unsung artistic figures  
whose influence and abilities have substantially outstripped his  
visibility. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer,  
experimental electronic musician, collaborator and recording studio  
owner - Dimuzio has been busy doing his thing(s) since the late  
1980's, but is still only known to a small circle of electronic music  
enthusiasts. A true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music  
events out of almost anything, Dimuzio's listed sound sources on his  
various CDs include everything from "modified 10 speed bicycle" and  
"resonating water pipe" to short-wave radios, loops, samplers and  
even normal instruments such as clarinet and trumpet. And while his  
wide range of musical interests make it impossible to pin a label on  
him, Dimuzio clearly has an insider's knowledge of older experimental  
musical forms such as musique concrete and electroacoustic, as well  
as more current ambient, industrial, noise and post-techno styles.  
Among his collaborations include Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Dan Burke  
(Illusion Of Safety), David Lee Myers, Nick Didkovsky, Paul  
Haslinger, Due Process, 5uu's, Matmos, Wobbly, DJ Qbert, and many  
others.
http://www.thomasdimuzio.com

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