SONIC FAULTLINES PLAYLIST
Day 1 - Friday, November 24, 2023 ($10/Ticket)
7:00 pm Power Fantasy
8:00 pm Hypha
9:30 pm Pan Thorarensen (Iceland)
Sonic Faultlines Festival - “Big Nature, Big Sound” will premiere at Placerville's Green Room Social Club on November 24 - 26, 2023, with a line-up of international and local experimental music, sound art, film projects and art installation together with a panel discussion with European sound artists. Produced by Myrtle Tree Arts, the Placerville-based arts collaborative founded by Ameera Godwin and Paul Godwin, and co-sponsored by Sacred Roots Collective with tour support by a Czech Recovery Grant, the events will feature Icelandic/Czech artists, fyield, and a premiere of the film, Invisible Landscapes, by Ivo Bystřičan.
Global and Local Experimental Music, Sound, Film, Art, & Conversation
The festival will include local musical projects, Hypha, Power Fantasy, The Haelp, Hyperion Beats, Laika’s Last Wish, Catrina Lessley’s Sound Bath and Dogon. In an experiment in transcontinental Internet performance, Dogon’s co-founder, Venezuelan composer, Miguel Noya will appear live from Caracas with Placerville partner, Paul Godwin. The duo will perform new music from the upcoming RIPE AREA project, funded in part by the CA Arts Council and Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture. This performance on Sunday, Nov. 26th will also feature an appearance by Laika’s Last Wish, a duo of analog synthesizer generative composers, Dustin Koupal (of Ent) and Zack Dowell (of Folsom Lake College Innovation Lab.) Ameera Godwin will exhibit a selection of recent prints that merge nature with historic military architectural forms.
“This is El Dorado County’s first ambient music festival that will combine innovative, experimental work about nature and industrial impacts using sound, music, film, art, and conversation,” says Paul Godwin, festival organizer.
A free panel discussion on sound art and field recording will feature sound artists from Iceland and Czech Republic, moderated by Myrtle Tree Arts co-founder, composer/sound designer Paul Godwin..
ABOUT “fyield/Future Landscapes”
The Czech-Icelandic collaboration fyield is touring the US for the very first time from fall 2023 through winter 2024. On their debut album, Future Landscapes, fyield explores the European locations related to power consumption, food production, and other industries. The musicians accompanied by field recordists, Sara Pinheiro of Portugal and Magnús Bergsson of Iceland, visited eight locations in the Czech Republic and Iceland. With the help of special instruments such as hydrophones, geophones and electromagnetic sensors, their combined recordings and music compositions bring us close to, or inside, the organs of geothermal, hydroelectric or coal-fired power plants, an aquaponic farm, melting glaciers, and an oil well. The Czech Republic and Iceland represent countries with contrasting approaches to CO2 production.
This unique live experience will also include a screening of Invisible Landscapes, a film by Ivo Bystřičan (awarded as the best film documentary at the AFO: The 58th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Academia Film Olomouc of Palacký University 2023). They head to places in the Czech and Icelandic countryside both marred by industry and untouched by man to discover and understand the sound of catastrophe – the sound of ongoing climate change, which in itself can be far more beautiful, and more imaginative, than what it heralds.
EVENT DETAILS:
This festival of music and film includes artists from Iceland, Czech Republic, Portugal and Venezuela combined with local artists and aims to expand our understanding of the sonic landscape, the climate moment and experience the world through the sounds of nature and human industry.
Sonic Faultlines Festival is made possible through the generous support of Sacred Roots.
The fyield/Invisible Landscapes tour is supported by the Czech Recovery Grant.
RIPE AREA is created by American River Conservancy and Myrtle Tree Arts. The project is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a State agency, and funded in part by the Capital Region Creative Corps of the Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture, with support from the City of Sacramento.
Contact: Paul Godwin, phone: 415-225-3858, email: myrtletreearts@gmail.com
About Myrtle Tree Arts (www.myrtletreearts.com)
Focused on the intersection of art, media, music, nature, and community, Myrtle Tree Arts is an artist collaborative founded in 2022 and based in Placerville, CA, with the mission to develop and present new creative works and performances in El Dorado County and beyond.
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Day 2 - Saturday, November 25, 2023 ($10/Ticket)
3:30 PM Field Recording Panel Discussion - Free to the Public
7 PM Film Premiere: Invisible Landscapes Film
8:30 PM Concert with “fyield”
10 PM The Haelp (vinyl DnB DJ)
Sonic Faultlines Festival - “Big Nature, Big Sound” will premiere at Placerville's Green Room Social Club on November 24 - 26, 2023, with a line-up of international and local experimental music, sound art, film projects and art installation together with a panel discussion with European sound artists. Produced by Myrtle Tree Arts, the Placerville-based arts collaborative founded by Ameera Godwin and Paul Godwin, and co-sponsored by Sacred Roots Collective with tour support by a Czech Recovery Grant, the events will feature Icelandic/Czech artists, fyield, and a premiere of the film, Invisible Landscapes, by Ivo Bystřičan.
Global and Local Experimental Music, Sound, Film, Art, & Conversation
The festival will include local musical projects, Hypha, Power Fantasy, The Haelp, Hyperion Beats, Laika’s Last Wish, Catrina Lessley’s Sound Bath and Dogon. In an experiment in transcontinental Internet performance, Dogon’s co-founder, Venezuelan composer, Miguel Noya will appear live from Caracas with Placerville partner, Paul Godwin. The duo will perform new music from the upcoming RIPE AREA project, funded in part by the CA Arts Council and Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture. This performance on Sunday, Nov. 26th will also feature an appearance by Laika’s Last Wish, a duo of analog synthesizer generative composers, Dustin Koupal (of Ent) and Zack Dowell (of Folsom Lake College Innovation Lab.) Ameera Godwin will exhibit a selection of recent prints that merge nature with historic military architectural forms.
“This is El Dorado County’s first ambient music festival that will combine innovative, experimental work about nature and industrial impacts using sound, music, film, art, and conversation,” says Paul Godwin, festival organizer.
A free panel discussion on sound art and field recording will feature sound artists from Iceland and Czech Republic, moderated by Myrtle Tree Arts co-founder, composer/sound designer Paul Godwin..
ABOUT “fyield/Future Landscapes”
The Czech-Icelandic collaboration fyield is touring the US for the very first time from fall 2023 through winter 2024. On their debut album, Future Landscapes, fyield explores the European locations related to power consumption, food production, and other industries. The musicians accompanied by field recordists, Sara Pinheiro of Portugal and Magnús Bergsson of Iceland, visited eight locations in the Czech Republic and Iceland. With the help of special instruments such as hydrophones, geophones and electromagnetic sensors, their combined recordings and music compositions bring us close to, or inside, the organs of geothermal, hydroelectric or coal-fired power plants, an aquaponic farm, melting glaciers, and an oil well. The Czech Republic and Iceland represent countries with contrasting approaches to CO2 production.
This unique live experience will also include a screening of Invisible Landscapes, a film by Ivo Bystřičan (awarded as the best film documentary at the AFO: The 58th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Academia Film Olomouc of Palacký University 2023). They head to places in the Czech and Icelandic countryside both marred by industry and untouched by man to discover and understand the sound of catastrophe – the sound of ongoing climate change, which in itself can be far more beautiful, and more imaginative, than what it heralds.
EVENT DETAILS:
This festival of music and film includes artists from Iceland, Czech Republic, Portugal and Venezuela combined with local artists and aims to expand our understanding of the sonic landscape, the climate moment and experience the world through the sounds of nature and human industry.
Sonic Faultlines Festival is made possible through the generous support of Sacred Roots.
The fyield/Invisible Landscapes tour is supported by the Czech Recovery Grant.
RIPE AREA is created by American River Conservancy and Myrtle Tree Arts. The project is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a State agency, and funded in part by the Capital Region Creative Corps of the Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture, with support from the City of Sacramento.
Contact: Paul Godwin, phone: 415-225-3858, email: myrtletreearts@gmail.com
About Myrtle Tree Arts (www.myrtletreearts.com)
Focused on the intersection of art, media, music, nature, and community, Myrtle Tree Arts is an artist collaborative founded in 2022 and based in Placerville, CA, with the mission to develop and present new creative works and performances in El Dorado County and beyond.
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Day 3 - Sunday, November 26, 2023 ($10/Ticket)
2 PM Sound Bath with Catrina Lessley, Dogon (Venezuela/USA)
3:30 PM Laika’s Last Wish
5 PM Hyperion Beats
Sonic Faultlines Festival - “Big Nature, Big Sound” will premiere at Placerville's Green Room Social Club on November 24 - 26, 2023, with a line-up of international and local experimental music, sound art, film projects and art installation together with a panel discussion with European sound artists. Produced by Myrtle Tree Arts, the Placerville-based arts collaborative founded by Ameera Godwin and Paul Godwin, and co-sponsored by Sacred Roots Collective with tour support by a Czech Recovery Grant, the events will feature Icelandic/Czech artists, fyield, and a premiere of the film, Invisible Landscapes, by Ivo Bystřičan.
Global and Local Experimental Music, Sound, Film, Art, & Conversation
The festival will include local musical projects, Hypha, Power Fantasy, The Haelp, Hyperion Beats, Laika’s Last Wish, Catrina Lessley’s Sound Bath and Dogon. In an experiment in transcontinental Internet performance, Dogon’s co-founder, Venezuelan composer, Miguel Noya will appear live from Caracas with Placerville partner, Paul Godwin. The duo will perform new music from the upcoming RIPE AREA project, funded in part by the CA Arts Council and Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture. This performance on Sunday, Nov. 26th will also feature an appearance by Laika’s Last Wish, a duo of analog synthesizer generative composers, Dustin Koupal (of Ent) and Zack Dowell (of Folsom Lake College Innovation Lab.) Ameera Godwin will exhibit a selection of recent prints that merge nature with historic military architectural forms.
“This is El Dorado County’s first ambient music festival that will combine innovative, experimental work about nature and industrial impacts using sound, music, film, art, and conversation,” says Paul Godwin, festival organizer.
A free panel discussion on sound art and field recording will feature sound artists from Iceland and Czech Republic, moderated by Myrtle Tree Arts co-founder, composer/sound designer Paul Godwin..
ABOUT “fyield/Future Landscapes”
The Czech-Icelandic collaboration fyield is touring the US for the very first time from fall 2023 through winter 2024. On their debut album, Future Landscapes, fyield explores the European locations related to power consumption, food production, and other industries. The musicians accompanied by field recordists, Sara Pinheiro of Portugal and Magnús Bergsson of Iceland, visited eight locations in the Czech Republic and Iceland. With the help of special instruments such as hydrophones, geophones and electromagnetic sensors, their combined recordings and music compositions bring us close to, or inside, the organs of geothermal, hydroelectric or coal-fired power plants, an aquaponic farm, melting glaciers, and an oil well. The Czech Republic and Iceland represent countries with contrasting approaches to CO2 production.
This unique live experience will also include a screening of Invisible Landscapes, a film by Ivo Bystřičan (awarded as the best film documentary at the AFO: The 58th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Academia Film Olomouc of Palacký University 2023). They head to places in the Czech and Icelandic countryside both marred by industry and untouched by man to discover and understand the sound of catastrophe – the sound of ongoing climate change, which in itself can be far more beautiful, and more imaginative, than what it heralds.
EVENT DETAILS:
This festival of music and film includes artists from Iceland, Czech Republic, Portugal and Venezuela combined with local artists and aims to expand our understanding of the sonic landscape, the climate moment and experience the world through the sounds of nature and human industry.
Sonic Faultlines Festival is made possible through the generous support of Sacred Roots.
The fyield/Invisible Landscapes tour is supported by the Czech Recovery Grant.
RIPE AREA is created by American River Conservancy and Myrtle Tree Arts. The project is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a State agency, and funded in part by the Capital Region Creative Corps of the Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture, with support from the City of Sacramento.
Contact: Paul Godwin, phone: 415-225-3858, email: myrtletreearts@gmail.com
About Myrtle Tree Arts (www.myrtletreearts.com)
Focused on the intersection of art, media, music, nature, and community, Myrtle Tree Arts is an artist collaborative founded in 2022 and based in Placerville, CA, with the mission to develop and present new creative works and performances in El Dorado County and beyond.
