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*• Highlights live performances & films*
*• New festival website with complete programme online *
*• Tickets for all Sonic Acts events available now*
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*• Highlights live performances & films*

*Sonic Acts - The Poetics of Space*
/Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology /
25 – 28 February 2010, Amsterdam

*Deep Spaces - 25 February 2010*
The opening event /Deep Spaces/ presents a selection of audiovisual adventures in spaces defined by sound, light, smoke and lasers. Immerse yourself in *Thomas Köner*’s mesmerizing spatial sound tapestries, while his colleague, *Jürgen Reble*, takes you on a visual journey through the darker side of his alchemical chemograms. *Haswell & Hecker* will perform their radical UPIC Diffusion Session, an infinity of extreme sound and engulfing lasers. And *Monolake *and *Tarik Barri* will transport you through their spatial audiovisual universe. http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/thursday/deep-spaces

*Expanded Space - 26 February 2010*
The /Expanded Space/ programme revisits the heyday of Expanded Cinema. The magnificent film /Color Sound Frames/ by *Paul Sharits* is dusted off for the big screen, *Bruce McClure *will show us a new performance he made with beautiful 16mm recordings of pelicans, from a 1950s nature documentary, and *Greg Pope *en* Gert-Jan Prins *will join forces to bring an homage to the 70s solid light film /Line Describing A Cone/ by Anthony McCall.
http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/friday/expanded-space

*Acoustic Spaces - 27 February 2010*
This more than four-hour-long programme is devoted to various approaches to soundscape composition and features works produced by several generations of composers and musicians. From acoustic ecology to extreme field recordings: *BJ Nilsen* will present his latest thunderstorm recordings, Booming dunes from the Oman deserts by* Jacob Kirkegaard*, and *Gilles Aubry* will take us on a sonic journey across european airports. http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/saturday/acoustic-spaces

*Beyond Space - 28 February 2010*
An extraordinary programme in a remarkable location: the Beyond Space event in the Artis Planetarium includes the international premiere of a composition by the recently deceased innovative composer *Maryanne Amacher*, a new audiovisual work by the Italian multi-talent *TeZ*; *Evelina Domnitch* and *Dmitry Gelfand* will explore the space with laser and soap bubbles, accompanied by live audio by *Francisco López*; and the British designer *Paul Prudence* brings a visual spectacle specially designed for the Planetarium dome.
http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/sunday/beyond-space

*• New festival website with complete programme online *
As of this week the new festival website is online with the complete programme, background information, a timetable and much more.
http://2010.sonicacts.com

Also now available for download the programme booklet as PDF.
http://2010.sonicacts.com/SA13_programme.pdf

*• Tickets for all Sonic Acts events available now*
Ticket pre-sale for all Sonic Acts events has started via de Balie, Paradiso, Ticket Service, and other regular pre-sale addresses.
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