It’s our first concert of electronic and electroacoustic music, and we’re making up for lost time! All Wired Up is a micro-festival packed with top performers, video art, a huge array of electronic instruments and styles, modern dance, wild visuals and more. This family-friendly, come-and-go-as-you-please festival is full of artistic surprises.
It all happens Saturday, April 20th, 4-8 PM at The Old Church in Portland. Tickets are $25 general, $15 seniors / Cascadia members, $5 students. Kids under 12 are free. Ticket price includes admission to all concerts, a discussion / lecture, and all sound installations and exhibits. Available through The Old Church website or at the door.
Activities begin at 4PM on the main stage. Look forward to an exciting mix of works for a wide variety of live performers, plus ambient tracks, projections, dance, even an aerial drone! Cascadia members heard from include Timothy O’Brien, Paul Safar, Dana Reason, Nicholas Yandell, Matthew Neil Andrews, Ted Clifford, Tristan Bliss, Antonio Celaya, Greg A Steinke, Brian Field and Jennifer Wright.
Then (if you like), take part in a fascinating discussion with Steve Joslin and Mei-ling Lee, who’ll come up from Eugene to demonstrate, and expose a few of the mysteries about, data-driven instruments. Will these come to share the stage with the familiar instruments of the past? Come and see, and hear, for yourself!
Finally, at 7PM in the reception room, on a relaxed mix of regular and lounge seating, hear colorful and imaginative works for electronics, audio tracks, and video. Cascadia members heard from include Jeffrey Ericson Allen, Vivian Elliott, Stacey Philipps, Mei-ling Lee, Joshua Hey, and Greg Bartholomew, plus a special collaboration between Daniel Brugh and Jennifer Wright.
Between events, feel free to grab a drink at The Old Church bar, make some (sound)waves in Jennifer Wright’s glowing, water-filled, interactive “Surface” exhibit, and enjoy a deep-listening experience of Susan Alexjander’s video-sound art piece “Into Being, The River”.