Music Lovers' Field Companion - 3 days of Exploration and Discovery May 10, 2007

MUSIC LOVERS' FIELD COMPANION
Friday 11th - Sunday 13th May
The Sage Gateshead + Arika
www.musicloversfieldcompanion.org
www.arika.org.uk

A 3-day survey of all manner of disparate musical activity from some of the greatest and/or most exciting names in experimental music. Activity which at its core shares a basic artistic kinship; one of exploration and discovery. It should be one of the hottest fests of the year.

Friday 11

Junko + Jérôme Noetinger
Gary Smith
Topias Tiheäsalo
Evil Nigg*r by Julius Eastman: performed by Joe Kubera, Kate Thompson, David Murray, Alan Fearon and Simon Passmore
Kan Mikami + JOJO
Peter Evans
Diamanda Galás

Saturday 12

Angharad Davies, Tisha Mukarji, Andrea Neumann
Los Glissandinos (Kai Fagaschinski + Klaus Filip)
Ascension
‘Sage Gateshead 21’ by Radu Malfatti, performed by Northern Sinfonia
John Blum + Jackson Krall
Sanjah (Kan Mikami, Toshiaki Ishizuka, Masayoshi Urabe)
Anoyonodekigoto: (Ikuro Takahashi + Yoko Muronoi)
Polwechsel (Werner Dafeldecker, Michael Moser, Burkhard Beins, Martin Brandlmayr, John Butcher)

Sunday 13

Jean-Philippe Gross
Terry Day + Rhodri Davies
Aufgehoben
Octante (Ferran Fages, Ruth Barberán, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Margarida Garcia)
Hisato Higuchi
William Parker
Junko + Masayoshi Urabe
Daniel Carter, Andrew Barker, Sabir Mateen

Plus talks by Byron Colley, David Keenan, Alan Cummings & Diamanda Galas and a local stage hosting the best of North East experimental talent.

Tickets: day pass: £16/£8, fest pass £39/£20
The Sage Gateshead, St Marys Square, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 2JR UK www.thesagegateshead.org

* - there is a star in Nigg*r to stop this message being quarantined.

Official Website: http://www.musicloversfieldcompanion.org