COMPETE !! - in person, remotely, anonymously or otherwise in - FIVE KINDS OF WRONG
IN PERSON AT THE UPCOMING HEADLANDS MYSTERY BALL THIS OCTOBER 28
(.. entries can be done before or after the fact by emailing MP3s or texts to jonbrumit ATTT gmail DOTTT com or dropping off in person at the Headlands Mystery Ball on October 28th prior to judging and awards ceremony ..)
FIVE KINDS OF WRONG
Ongoing competitive events will be happening throughout the night, followed by judging and awards ceremony.
All events are designated as group and / or solo below and each entry will be timed, measured, recorded, and even weighed.
Some entries can be done anonymously in recording booth if desired, although points will be added for bravery!
1. Best or worst pick-up line
solo - event will be recorded
2. Largest volume of food or gum chewed at once
group or solo - event will be measured, weighed and recorded on a volume-per-person basis
3. Best or worst electric guitar solo
solo - event will be recorded and timed
4. Best or worst fight story, with or without drugs or alcohol
group or solo - will be recorded, drawings made if necessary or relevant (groups must tell the same story together)
5. Most disturbing or offensive story about bodily functions or excrement, resulting from human or other sources
group or solo - event will be recorded (groups must tell the same story together)
Each contest will be judged by an ad-hoc audience just prior to the fantastic Awards Ceremony featuring hand-made prizes, objects, and free services. Each contest is to be judged with regard to weights, measures, times, and records. In the case of the more subjective contests each participant's entry will be judged with respect to facility or lack thereof, adherence or diregard to social norms and customs, whether it was a public or private event, level of dis / comfort on behalf of the storyteller, crowd response, and unusual plot twists
Thank you,
Jon Brumit
www.jonbrumit.com
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festevil • june 6, 2006 • international and local sound festivals • do it • do it • yes!
look how easy it is to make loud sounds in public!! do it at 6:06:06 pm in your own time zone on June 6, 2006 !!
FESTEVIL
June 6, 2006
(more info at http://jonbrumit.com/festevil.html )
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call for participants in 2 parts:
1. VIRTUAL FESTEVIL - decentralized and simultaneous sound events
2. LOCAL FESTEVIL - centralized sound event at 21 Grand in Oakland
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1.
VIRTUAL FESTEVIL
International Noise Festival
June 6, 2006
6:06:06 pm (in your own time zone)
at 6:06:06 pm, wherever you are, make very loud or very evil sounds
make sounds with anything you have at hand - car horn - bike bell - voice - machines - ??
please post your documentation tagged FESTEVIL:
photos at flickr.com & videos (or) photos w/ sounds at youtube.com
or send documentation to me directly
all documentation will be compiled from these public repositories into one super evilllll document
send in your noise!! - 06/06/06 only happens once every 100 years! - make the most of it! - think of your noise as both contributing to and vanquishing evil, simultaneously!
THE SIGNS ARE ALL AROUND YOU
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2.
LOCAL FESTEVIL
Improvised and Conducted Sound / Noise Event with Storytelling and MORE!
June 6, 2006
Starts at 6:06:06 pm
@ 21 Grand in Oakland
FESTEVIL
this event will be feature several wonderful and evil things:
1. sound off at 6:06:06 at 21 Grand (coincides with virtual festevil)
stoner fantasy vans leave with live performers and visit other 6/06/06 shows
2. improvised / conducted soundtrack for whatever film we decide is most evil (faces of death and sound of music simultaneously ?)
3. evil show and tell (ongoing through the evening), steve lambert, sam gould,
doom and death metal covers by an electric appalachian folk metal band
4. performance of a new (jb) composition (a variation of his Vendetta Retreat suite) for 6 hardcore / noise trios (6 each: guit / dr / elec)
5. numerous improv noise battles amongst small groups
6. morse code ensembles
7. drum machine circles around a sacrificial burning drumset
improvising pentagram
8. glorious and truly evil finale
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WE NEED MORE EVIL WOMEN!!
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we need more stoner fantasy vans with loud soundsystems to cruise live performers around!
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we need players! for the momentary 18 pc ensemble to perform the
newest variation of my 'Vendetta Retreat' piece ...
6 guitarists, electric, 6 electronicians/processors, etc, 6 drummers
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we will also need string players, pianists (or other keys), and vocalists for the conductions / improvisations/ noise battles for the
evil film / montage ... the omen? faces of death? both ??
for a recording of the second 'Vendetta Retreat' variation performance ....
visit (--- http://jonbrumit.com/vr-sextet-live.mp3 ---)
thanks much!
repost or share this if you can!
jon
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and here's the tentative production schedule ...
everything subject to radical and evil changes determined by the group at large OR MORE PROPOSALS!!
there are plenty of opportunities for other non-sound activities, send me an evil idea!
6;06;06 pm - sound off
6;06;06 pm - 6 stoner fantasy vans leave 21 grand with live performers and 150 watt bass amps
... meanwhile back at the 21 grand ranch ...
Sarah Lockhart's morse code ensemble
6;36;36 pm - (everyone) short improvisations / conductions / open to proposals / ideas !!
Marc Horowitz with creepy LA stories .. ?
evil show and tell stories: phone-in reports from the stoner fantasy vans
7;07;07 pm - 18 pc ensemble performs my new VaRiation (graphic score for 6 hardcore noise trios (6 guit, 6 dr, 6 elec)
Tom Messmer's electric appalachian folk instrument band plays DOOM (and even a death metal cover or two)
7;37;37 pm - quick (group divided into thirds) jams / conductions / improv
morse code ensemble
evil show & tell: Sam Gould (Red 76) brings tidings of joyous evil from the northwest
return of van withs performers and they join each other for an outdoor / mobile trio / quartet while still in vans
8;08;08 pm - evilest film with live soundtrack from XXX big band
Steve Lambert's evil show and tell stories on Edward Bernay's role in the creation of the public relations industry
evil show and tell stories: phone-in reports from the stoner fantasy vans and other 6;6;6 events
morse code ensemble
10;10;10 pm - drum machine circle around a sacrificial drumset
11;11;11 pm - improvising pentagram of musicians
schedule subject to change! check back for updates! thanks!
jon
www.jonbrumit.com/festevil
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