WOODSTOCKHAUSEN 2003 A Tiny Festival of Esoteric Music

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                           WOODSTOCKHAUSEN 2003
                           A Tiny Festival of Esoteric Music
                           Sept.27th 2003 5pm-Music recital Hall
                           University of California,Santa Cruz

                            Sept.25th,2003-7pm Free Reception/Tape Concert
                            Cayuga Vault,Santa Cruz

                            FOLK MUSIC FOR THE 21st CENTURY


         Now in it's 6th year Woodstockhausen is an annual showcase for
acoustic innovators and and practicioners of visual art whose work falls
outside the pinprick of popular culture. The concert includes;live and
recorded music,live video,sound art installations, and more.

         This year's concert will include over 50 performances from both
local and visiting artists.Featured compsitions include new worls rendered
on custom electronics and software-based instruments,often invented by the
artists themselves,as well as abstract performances for more tradtitional
instrumentation.
as an additional bridge between academia and the experimental scene the
festival will open with a New Music Works Ensemble performance of a work by
the student composer winner of theSound Horizons ELSA orize(still to be
determined).

         Animated video art courtesy of Tristam Visuals will be projected
throughout the evening,providing a captivating visual component to all of
the performances.

         Tickets for the festival are on a $10.sliding scale,available at
the door on the night of the show.Please make sure to eat an early dinner
and bring snacks for consumption in the lobby during intermissions,as we
start earlier than usual this year.

          This year's festival is brought to you  by the volunteer
contributions of time enthusiasm,and expertise from many private
individuals.Our sponsors include:ELSA Productions,and the University of
California Santa Cruz

History

        What is this compulsion to get up in the middle of the night and
putter around making strange new noise? Not even the sirens call of
television,the physical need for exercise,or threats of dire consequences
from employers about nodding off during meetings seem to keep them from it.

        Despite the plaintive urging from spouses to feed the cat  and
return to bed,their pallid visages ramain lit up by the ghostly glow of
computer monitors,or they can be heard running power tools behind the 
locked
doors of their workshops building god knows what.They realize that no
conventional radio station would ever play their work,that no coffee house
would let them set up in a corner and blat away at the customers,and that
their exrended realatives will respond with polite incomprehension or
outright incredulity when they try to describe their passion.Untold 
millions
throughout the world suffer this experimental obsession.Theirs is an
often-misunderstood grass roots form of self expression


        Since 1998 ,Woodstockhausen has served as a creative outlet for
creators of the experimental and the just plain weird.

        Woodstockhausen has been an annual event since 1998 when it started
in the Boulder Creek back yard of Wayne Jackson.

        Wayne held a few modest experimental music concerts at his home in
Davis and spawned an addiction that would later grow.A few years after
moving to Silicon Valley,living the rat race and fathering a child,his
friend and participant in many of the musical soirees,Doug Cook,more than
gently nudged Wayne into reviving the habit in the form of 
"Woodstockhausen"

         The original Woodstockhausen featured the hidden private work of
engineers and technologists from the E-mu Technology Center,whose 
enthusiasm
and dedication really infused the event with a life of it's own.David
Tristram's video art was projected on a screen made of PZVC pipe and
construction paper which lasted right up until the last act before
dramatically disintegrating in a light breeze.Later screens built of mosaic
bed sheets fared somewhat better.

         The origin of the name Woodstockhausen coined by Brian Salter lies
at the confluence of the classic 60s folk music concert Woodstock and
Karlheinz Stockhausen,the legendary German experimental music icon.

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