programs available online<\/a>), so check it then.<\/p>\nTo me, the two highlights of yesterday’s festival, then, were the improvisational collaboration between Joa\u00c3\u00c9o Orecchia and Carlo Mombeli, and the kinetic-sculpture-installation-performance thing by Maxime Rioux. The former was a loop masters experimental noise jazz electroacoustic yumminess, while the latter used about 30 sculptures of speakers attached to noise and musical instruments on springs, and triggered by electrical impulses to the analogue devices.<\/p>\n
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\nnot quite a still of -part of- unyazi 2005 by maxime rioux<\/small><\/p>\n
Man, it was hot. More…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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