Only Connect Festival of Sound:
Machine Dreams
Machine Dreams is a festival exploring the machine in all its glory. Not only as a paean to obsolete mechanisms and the soundscape that disappears with them, but as a celebration of the machine as a model for thinking.
Only Connect brings you celebrations of the vanishing white noise between FM stations where voices are heard fading in and out of range; an examination of the vocoder, a human-voice scrambling machine born within the US military which went on to define the sound of electro; explorations of time machines; mechanical pianos; machines transforming images into sound and vice versa; customised sonic tools as well as obsolete technology which seemed to offer the possibility of communication with another world altogether.
Anne Hilde Neset
Artistic Director, nyMusikk
Program
Wednesday 5 June
Guitar Machine
Transformer, 18:00
Ullevålsveien 75
Guitar Machine by Nils Henrik Asheim and Alf Terje Hana for 50 guitarists. Outdoor performance.
The Bad Tempered Piano
Kunstnernes Hus, 20:00
Conlon Nancarrow
George Antheil
Fernand Léger
Rex Lawson
Øyvind Torvund
Christian Blom
and more
Thursday 6 June
The Bruce Lacey Experience
Cinemateket, 14:00
Documentary film by Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams.
The Museum of Mechanical Dreams
Teknisk Museum, 19:00-23:00
Biosphere
Ina Pillat
Bjørn Erik Haugen
Aki Onda
Christian Blom
Tore Honoré Boe
Friday 7 June
Machine Dreams Symposium
Kunstnernes Hus, 10:00–15:30
Aura Satz
Peter Zinovieff
Jonny Trunk/BBC Radiophonic Workshop
David Toop
Frode Weium
Cracked Codes
Blå, 20:00
Maia Urstad
Oren Ambarchi
Dave Tompkins
Club
Saturday 8 June
Machine Kids
Teknisk Museum, 12:00–15:00
Workshops and sound experiments for kids.
Smooth Automators
Kunstnernes Hus, 20:00
Stefan Goldmann + Pinquins
Aura Satz/Maja Ratkje/Anton Lukoszevieze
People Like Us
+ Guest DJs
5 - 8 June 2013

onlyconnect.no
nyMusikk’s annual festival of adventurous music, Only Connect, will this year focus on machines: futuristic, obsolete or fictional, machines as utopian instruments of ideas, or as dystopian mechanism. With screenings, a symposium and live performances, the festival will explore the Machine Dreams.
Tickets
Tickets are sold at billettservice.no, Narvesen, 7-eleven and at the venue.