[Event Chat] monomania festival - Aid & Abet/The Junction 08/03/14

Monomania is a one-day cross-arts festival of solitary and obsessive creativity, both productive and counter-productive from listening, performing, making and inventing to reclusiveness and self-obsessive and all-consuming fixations.

Solo artists across live art, live music, sound art and visual art explore how this is part of art, technology and everyday life.

monomania will happen at Aid & Abet artspace as its final event and also at various spaces throughout the Junction plus the route between them. With live music from Richard Dawson, Sarah Angliss, Land Observations, C Joynes, Pete UM and Liam Wells with a special live sound performance by acclaimed sound artist Lee Patterson specially commissioned for Aid & Abet's final event at their warehouse space.
Live art performances include Tim Spooner 'The Telescope', John Boursnell, Jack James and more.

The festival also includes workshops and a screening of F. C. Judd 'Practical Electronica' presented with a Q & A by Ian Helliwell. Plus Mr Underwood Sonic Graffiti.

The day ends with Extended Play ... with Heatsick -- a multisensory multiroom installation with a 3-hour live performance, screenings and a play area taking over the foyer and J3 areas at the Junction.

http://www.monomaniafestival.co.uk/
@monomaniafestival

(a bad timing project with Aid & Abet and Cambridge Junction)

Not long now until this. Diverse music, art, performance and technology from an international assembly of lone operators, inventors, writers, musicians, artists.

Land Observations -- James Brooks (ex-Appliance) makes meticulous works about roads ancient and modern as post-rock music, films and drawings
http://vimeo.com/53342851

MrUnderwood 'Sonic Graffiti' New interactive electronic and mechanical sonic pieces made especially for the festival and the redevelopment area around Cambridge Station.
http://vimeo.com/47517817

Sean Dower(formerly of industrial performance pioneers Bow Gamelan Ensemble) is creating intense visual and sonic environments at Aid & Abet for experimental noise/metal percussion performance. Including a quadrophonic electrostatic system and intense bass frequencies.
www.seandower.com

Heatsick ... Extended Play
At the end of the night, Berlin's Heatsick takes over the Junction J2 foyer and J3 to create a multi-room club environment with 3 hours of live house music created on Casio keyboard, snacks, toys, heat, films and fragrances.

More details:

www.monomaniafestival.co.uk

Tickets:

http://www.junction.co.uk/artist/6169

I am going to this.

Will there be loose times / a sort of programme available nearer the time? Or is it sort of ad hoc, whenever things fit in sort of thing? Obviously a lot of the art exhibits are going to be on all day. :)

There will be a schedule, especially at the Junction. Some of the performers at Aid & Abet have asked to perform as part of their installation at random times, and some other stuff is going on all day, but mainly you should be able to plan around it. It mainly finishes by 11 for people to travel, except for Heatsick, which continues till 12.

"Will there be loose times"

Published by Silent Rob at 2:09pm on Tue 25th February 2014.

Let's hope so

Cool, sounds good BT.

I will be on The Visitor tonight between 9-10pm on Cambridge105 talking to Rich Hughes about monomania playing some of the music and giving away a pair of tickets. (Yes I know it should probably be one ticket for the 'solitary audience' theme. :-)

This looks good . . .

Leaving for this now. Very excited! *does a funny little dance*

Everyone should leave for this now too. You don't want to be LATE do you?

This has been brilliant so far. We dropped pins, saw pete um, watched a documentary about electonic music then I left at 4.30 to go to another concert at one of the collages at 5. Now I'm having dinner and then am heading back to monomania soon.