06.02.10 // 15:30 // Wyoming Building

Lillevan talks about his project Screen Tests Revisited, explaining the background of Warhol’s original Screen Tests. He describes techniques employed in the project, as well as those he uses generally in his work. One of the most renowned video artists working with producers of electronic music, Lillevan is also an entertaining and informative speaker, and this workshop is not to be missed.

Tickets: Free

07.02.10 // 11:00 // Harvestworks

Producers of electronic music show kids and young adults how to create music using simple technologies, found objects, and their own ingenuity. Participants will perform in Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday, opening a night of experimental music. Co-presented with Dis-Patch and Communikey festivals, from Serbia and Boulder, Colo., and Harvestworks. Until 5pm. First of 4 sessions.

Tickets: $25 for four sessions. To sign up send paypal payment of $25 to [email protected]. After payment organizers will send you further information and forms.

07.02.10 // 14:00 // Wyoming Building

What does it mean to write well about music? A panel of working music journalists discusses issues related to the art of music-writing, as well as the changing practice of covering music in an eclectic and diversified world. When so much is available globally, how does one search for the new? Andy Battaglia and Simon Reynolds lead a discussion with other working writers in the field.

Tickets: Free

07.02.10 // 15:30 // Wyoming Building

Explores hidden challenges involved in producing music events in New York, from small club parties to big concerts. This includes everything from obtaining legal U.S. work permits for international artists to dealing with agents and gatekeepers. A range of participants includes Wordless Music's Ronen Givony, The Bunker's Bryan Kasenic and artist/organizer Jessica Schmitz.

Tickets: Free

07.02.10 // 17:00 // Wyoming Building

How do you create sounds that have never been heard before? What is the connection between music consumption and creation? And how does technology and music-making software influence this quest? Do we program machines, or do they program us? Vladislav Delay, Sebastian Meissner, Jacek Sienkiewicz and Ezekiel Honig talk about the process of finding an original voice in electronic music.

Tickets: Free

08.02.10 // 16:30 // Harvestworks

Second session. Until 7:30 pm.

Tickets: $25 for four sessions. To sign up send paypal payment of $25 to [email protected]. After payment organizers will send you further information and forms.

08.02.10 // 18:30 // Wyoming Building

Two films on the roots of electronic music includes the NY debut of Kara Blake's 2009 documentary The Delian Mode, exploring the life of pioneer Delia Derbyshire, the woman behind the distinctive Doctor Who theme music created at the BBC. "The Future Is Not What It Used To Be", directed by Mika Taanila, is about Erkki Kurenniemi, a Finnish scientist, musician, filmmaker and cybernetic pioneer.

Tickets: Free

09.02.10 // 16:30 // Harvestworks

Third session, in anticipation of a live concert at Le Poisson Rouge the following night. Until 7:30 pm.

Tickets: $25 for four sessions. To sign up send paypal payment of $25 to [email protected]. After payment organizers will send you further information and forms.

11.02.10 // 18:00 // Wyoming Building

Unsound leads a walking tour to composer LaMonte Young’s Dream House in Tribeca. A discussion of the installation, in process now for 17 years, will help provide context at the Wyoming Building, followed by an experience of the work on-site, in a loft with plush carpeting, pillows on the floor, and banks of big speakers.

Tickets: Free

12.02.10 // 18:30 // Wyoming Building

Repeat session.

Tickets: Free.

13.02.10 // 15:30 // Wyoming Building

How have bass-heavy forms of music shifted in recent years? Where did the genre called dubstep come from—and where is it leading? How does it differ in New York, London, Berlin, Minsk and Bucharest? Writer Mitch Strashnov (URB, Electrodrone) will lead a discussion featuring Pole, TRG, FaltyDL, Dave Q, and Olof van Winden.

Tickets: Free

13.02.10 // 17:00 // Wyoming Building

In the U.S., sound art remains a fluid catchall term for a range of acoustic activities. Conversely, in Europe, sound as art occupies narrower practical methods and concepts. Kabir Carter leads a discussion on the role of sound in the arts with curator/writer Regine Basha, philosopher/writer Christoph Cox, composer/artist Michael J. Schumacher and installation artist Asa Stjerna.

Tickets: Free

13.02.10 // 18:30 // Wyoming Building

Storied disco critic Vince Aletti, one of the first to cover disco during its 1970s heyday, talks about the history of the formative dance-music as it happened in New York. Discussion focuses on Aletti’s recent anthology The Disco Files: 1973-78, as well as his memories of the scene as he saw it firsthand. In discussion with music journalist Andy Beta (Spin, Village Voice).

Tickets: Free

14.02.10 // 15:30 // Wyoming Building

Presentation of “Eastern Promise,” emerging from ideas integral to Unsound and its international projects - in New York, Poland, Eastern Europe. This includes “Connections," which linked Belarus and Western European electronic musicians. With “Connections” co-ordinators Stefan Betke (scape) and Mat Schulz (Unsound), as well as Pavel Ambiont (Belarus), Zenial (Poland), Petre Inspirescu (Romania).

Tickets: Free

14.02.10 // 17:00 // Wyoming Building

A talk with electronic-music pioneer Morton Subotnick, whose career goes back to the 1960s and includes some of the most important early work with modular synthesizers in the popular realm. Anecdotal talk focuses on Subotnick’s work, both as it plays into history and as it has evolved into the present. In discussion with music journalist Andy Battaglia (A.V. Club, Pitchfork).

Tickets: Free