Big Ears Festival 2009 [Knoxville, TN]

ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS
FENNESZ (solo)
FENNESZ/LINKOUS/MINOR
MICHAEL GIRA (Swans / Angels of Light)
PHILIP GLASS
JON HASSELL + MAARIFA STREET
MATMOS
THE NECKS
NEGATIVLAND
PAULINE OLIVEROS
WENDY SUTTER

The weekend of February 6 – 7 – 8, 2009 will see the maiden voyage of a new “boutique” music festival concept called BIG EARS in Knoxville, Tennessee. The mission of BIG EARS is to create a dynamic cross-genre music and arts festival experience. Spearheaded by Ashley Capps, president of AC Entertainment and longtime fan of cutting edge music, the BIG EARS experience will include concerts by legendary innovators along with young cutting edge visionaries and experimentalists crossing a variety of genres. The festival will also include art installations, exhibitions, performance art, seminars with artists, and interactive experiences.

Perhaps best known as a founder and producer of the acclaimed mega-festival, Bonnaroo, Capps envisions a very different experience at Big Ears, “Big Ears is conceived as a boutique festival, appealing to a very focused audience of music fans with adventurous tastes. We’re hoping to sell a thousand tickets to our inaugural event, but we intend for everyone who attends to have an extraordinary experience.”

Capps envisions BIG EARS as happening several times a year in different cities – with each festival loosely defined by a unifying thread. In keeping with its moniker – BIG EARS is a term often used to describe especially gifted and insightful listeners- the inaugural festival’s concept is about listening. “I have a compelling interest in music that demands your complete attention, that quietly insists that you slow down and listen - and that transports you into another world. It seems that there are others who long for that experience as well. And this is a quality common to the music of many of the artists performing at BIG EARS in February,” says Capps.

Discussion stations will be located throughout the Big Ears festival where festival goers can take a break, relax and meet each other. Live and evolving ambient music will be provided by musicians at each location. As part of this process, the musicians will interview willing festival attendees and may include portions of the shared conversation into special musical pieces. The newly created pieces will be provided online and often on-site throughout the festival. Be sure to bring a jump drive. Special high quality green and black teas and herbal infusions will be served at these venues, sometimes by the musicians themselves.

thinking about going down for this. i haven't been back to knoxville in a while, be a nice excuse to visit. like i said on the other thread, i think it's great ashley's doing the fest there. it's a cool thing for the city, even if most of the city will inevitably not appreciate it. (the perky local tv news coverage of it will be guaranteed hilarious.)

Happy and excited for this. Come crash on my floor if I know you and you are not a crepe.

a crepe:

http://funhouserock.com/funhouse/blab/picture.php?albumid=33&pictureid=394

^ I wouldn't want that crashing on my floor either

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/sunsphere.jpg

world fail

holy crap I will not miss this

(the perky local tv news coverage of it will be guaranteed hilarious.)

― tipsy mothra, Friday, December 19, 2008 2:32 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

While the names might not be as familiar as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, music fans from around the world are expected to attend the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville Feb. 6-8.

http://www.knoxville.com/news/2008/dec/06/big-ears-festival-will-feature-philip-glass/

Capps says that, although Knoxville seems like an unlikely city for this music festival, it made sense because of the wealth of good venues, restaurants and hotels for visitors.

queen of rox, please spill the beans on all the delicious knoxville eats.

stefano's pizza

naples

KING TUT'S

buddy's barbecue

Big Ears is excited to announce the following additions to the line up for our inaugural festival, Feb. 6 – 8, 2009, in Knoxville, TN:

* Violinist and electronics composer C. Spencer Yeh will perform with his visionary Burning Star Core

* Electronic pioneer and hardware hacker Nic Collins will lead a workshop building electrical instruments from unlikely sources

* Master electronic party impresario Dan Deacon will be bringing his Baltimore Round Robin

* Avant folk gypsy Larkin Grimm will perform her spellbinding songs

* Internationally acclaimed woodwind virtuoso Ned Rothenberg will perform solo as well as collaborate with others

* San Agustin will create their power metal drone pieces

* Improvisational sorcerers the Shaking Ray Levis will conjure up their “old timey” avant-garde

Eats: Tomato Head, ftw.

This looks like a ton of fun.

was that in an email, tipsy?

make us a trip, Trip Maker

It has been a while since I spent any time in Knoxville. But this can not happen in february, unfortunately. And passes are like 200 bucks! If I could afford it I would be all over it.

xxpost: ashley just posted it on a kxville message board. i think there's a press release going out.

I have a compelling interest in music that demands your complete attention, that quietly insists that you slow down and listen - and that transports you into another world. It seems that there are others who long for that experience as well. And this is a quality common to the music of many of the artists performing at BIG EARS in February.

Wottan a-hole. His interest in music quietly insists I slow down and listen. It compels me and demands my complete attention. His interest in music transports me into another world. I'm Doctor Who when Ashley's along.

Maybe after 7 years of Bonnarroo he wants to watch a band where a hippie isn't bumping into him, asking for cloves and regaling him with "this one time I saw Oysterhead" stories.

ashley's a good dude. i'm sure he's pissed off plenty of people over the years (find a music promoter who hasn't), but he does a lot of things like this just to spotlight stuff he likes. there were plenty of shows he brought to knoxville while i was there that there was no way he was going to make money on, but it was people he wanted to bring town. (like, booking dave douglas and charms of the night sky into a converted bank lobby.)

Well, I certainly hope this makes tons of fucking money so I can go again next year. You in tipsy?

thinking hard about it. gotta sort out my vacation sked for next year. (i was gonna go down for bonnaroo, but this is more appealing.)

His interest in music quietly insists I slow down and listen. It compels me and demands my complete attention. His interest in music transports me into another world. I'm Doctor Who when Ashley's along.

― bamcquern, Friday, December 19, 2008 4:47 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Literal lol. Though I am loathe to hate on the dude for obv reasons.

Oh and re: restaurants, there is a stupid amount of restaurants in Knox. We have a thread about Knoxville where we talk about some of 'em.

A shortlist:
KING TUT (sokno, too much to say, see other thread probably)
LITTON'S (north, best burger in knox, best lemon cookie anywhere)
MARY'S HOT TAMALES (east, an institution)
tomato head (mkt square)
nama (downtown, kinda $$$)
naples (west, a little $$)
big fatty's (west)
java in the old city is my second home and they have good coffee and some el cheapo vegan chili and hummus and some good sandwiches and are A+ good people (though poster bamcquern^ has no use for one of them, regrettable really)
harold's r.i.p. had to list it anyway, loved u harold

Thursday through Saturday evenings you can go to Dixson's on Magnolia, real close to the Old City, for a pulled pork sandwich or ribs. Cheap and delish!

"Poster bamcquern"? Your friend, you pretender!

I love Harold and his hot pink trucker hats, too.

I LOVE YOU MARY

that was supposed to be a joke, bryce! haw

I knew that.

for breakfast downtown: pete's diner on union. cheap, good folks, good grits.

i thought pete's finally closed

did it? my info's predictably out of date. i just thought someone would have told me... anyway, that's sad. i like pete.

actually scratch that, they're still open/reopened

and their menu is here: http://www.petescoffeeshop.com/html_version.html

haw

oh good. not that it's all that special, but it's cheap and there's not a lot of breakfast options downtown. plus, this:

Grits Served Upon Request w/ Egg Order

it is in a different place than it used to be, but tis still on union

and it is a good cheap breakfast

Oh so now, NOW Knoxville gets a global fucked-up music festival, in 2009, a decade after my WUTK veterans' noise band broke up and all left town.

God dammit.

Son of a bitch.

Piss.

wait i didnt realize you were in a noise BAND here

yeah, me and wolfgang, we totally opened for windy & carl at the tomato head even.

i almost went to that windy&carl show but i think i went and got drunk somewhere instead. what was your band?

Inbred Misanthrope

it is a small assed world

I got a greatest hits collection from our monday night radio sessions I should totally put out on cdbaby so I can start clocking those crazy emusic dollars

srsly roxy you have no idea. after I went off and joined the USAF and got stationed in maryland I found out wolfgang was teaching at a DC school. Actually managed to meet up and even jam together a couple of times. Haven't heard from him in a long time though.

Tom you need to come to this wingding.

I guess? I can take advance leave in Feb so maybe, let me check with the lady.

If anyone knows Ashley, tell him that this would be as good a time/place as any for Rhys Chatham to do a make-up date for the 100 guitars performance that got rained out in NYC

yeah, me and wolfgang, we totally opened for windy & carl at the tomato head even.
I was totally at this show.

what an amazing lineup. too bad I am like 4000 miles away until March.

looking foward to hearing about it on this thread, though.

A tip: a smart place to reserve a room would be the Hotel St. Oliver which is affordable, beautiful, right across the square from the Square Room, and within short walking distance of the other venues for Big Ears. Small rooms there are $75/night.

The fact that Chandler's - the greatest soul food restaraunt in the country, located in the, err, heart of Knoxville - has not been mentioned is alraming and sad. Anyone not on a diet would be wise to go there first

Buddy's BBQ seconded despite it's 'chain' status - delicious

It's mentioned on the KNOXVILLE THREAD.

And Chandler's has mediocre or horrible anything except ribs. There are better joints!

^simply a floridian h8er

chandler's seriously has good everything

Then I dare you to go there with me and eat all of the peach cobbler.

Dude, I'll go with you in 3 hours and eat as much peach cobbler as you can handle.

I'm in Florida. Flying in and will arrive tonight. I suppose I haven't talked to anyone about picking me up. Uh, hello, Joseph?

I'm moving down to Florida (Gonna bowl me a perfect game) to go to school in, like, less than a week.

Plans are proceeding for me to make this scene. But it's like a 6+ hr drive, plus losing a time zone, so I think I'm going to come up on Thursday so I can chill out in Knoxville on Friday and not be road-tired when the shows start.

Or, I can get going crack of dawn Friday and catch a power-nap in the hotel if the shows don't start too early. (lol oldtimer)

Bryce, if you keep suddenly moving like this, I'm gonna scream bloody murder.

I might go to this festival if it was 40 dollars and I lived close by. I can't believe that there is a single person in the world who would pay 200 dollars for this festival.

I'm sorry that you can't conspicuously consume, "Reatards Unite"!

An assload of my favorite musicians all convening in one city to play concerts over a single weekend? Durrrrr...hell yes, I'll pay $200, and gas to drive there and back, and hotel and meals. I've spent more to go to FIMAV, twice, and this lineup compares favorably.

I will have to walk about 3 blocks to go to this, but I'd probably travel farther, depending.

"I have a compelling interest in music that demands your complete attention, that quietly insists that you slow down and listen"

http://www.carparkrecords.com/dan_deacon_asheville_live4.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2699159671_e7b92f2616.jpg?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2696340501_2e1f33d66d.jpg

there is an ilxor in that last shot!!!

this looks amazing and i am jealous of all of you.

(side note: am i the only one baffled by the inclusion of antony and the johnsons on this bill?)

xpost oh yeah holy shit there is!

Comedian Neil Hamburger will be joining the lineup for a weekend of riotous humor.

Luminescent Orchestrii with Sxip Shirey will bring mondo-gypsy punk sounds to Knoxville all weekend long.

Fence Kitchen from Philly brings the singular vision of puppeteer Tim Harbison, set to live and prerecorded sounds.

Dear Knoxville,

The fair city of New York is officially over capacity with shitty "gypsy-punk" bands, so we're just gonna start unloading them on you if that's perfectly OK.

Love, Mayor Bloomberg.

we've got too many, too

decided the timing and budgeting doesn't work for me to come to this. but i look forward to accounts of fennesz tomato head sightings.

covering this is turning into a full-time job.

hey, wonder if someone will be on assignment for pitchforktv!?

Bought my ticket this morning.

I'd consider going if there were an OR reunion...

(!)

So I am going to be soooo broke at this due to moving to new apartment Feb. 1st, but still excited for this. Are most of y'all arriving on the Friday or

Hey Mike: Was it you who wrote that old MP article about OR?

We need http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/English/faculty/talbird.asp back in town for a reunion, though.

(Was that Heave Ho-ish?!)

ohh yeah i wrote that bit about OR -- there's a far better version (w/o me "explaining post-roc!," doh) that ran in the awesome and ill-fated ny-based indie-fluxus-y 'zine MUSIC, which really was a tremendously done 'zine that lasted three issues.

OR really was such a great live band, too bad only like 20 people knew that at the time.

this fest really does look worth attending of course -- i've yet to see fennesz live, myself -- i hope the econopalypse doesn't drive everyone away.

--miguel

ps: hey, is mr. k's in oak ridge still around? just curious. i used to work there (with 2/3's of OR) when it was a mckay's and afterwards for as long as i could stand...

yeah its still there

i used to work at mckays with 2/3rds of or!

as in, the one in knox

So damn tempting, this thing.

ned!!!! you must!!!!!!

Couple of trips coming up I need to budget for first but...I won't entirely rule it out. Would be great fun!

I don't want to be zombified from driving all day and trying to stay awake for the shows on Friday (lol I'm old), so I'll probably be coming up on Thursday and staying the first night at the nearest Motel 6.

i'm flying in v. early on Friday. If no bands are playing in the afternoon, me and my gf are goin to the old swimming hole

aka, the swimming pool in the hotel.

hope you aren't staying at the marriot

the marriot aka the mayan temple

http://cache.marriott.com/propertyimages/t/tysmc/phototour/tysmc_phototour02.jpg

I actually kinda love the Marriott, but the pool is COLD.

it's also not superconvenient to the heart of downtown. (although not much of a walk by nyc standards.) used to go to big-band dances there, when i used to big-band dance (lol '90s). it was sweet, there were all these little old couples foxtrottin' up a storm.

the marriott is one of the four hotels they're saying is right next to the venues. are they lying, tipsy? (i'm not staying there btw, so who carez)

these r the 4:
-Knoxville Marriott Downtown
-Holiday Inn Select Knoxville-Dwtn@Conv Center
-Hilton Knoxville - Downtown
-Crowne Plaza Knoxville

it's not SUPER-convenient, but it's very convenient, i'd say you could walk in 5 minutes to Gay St., right?

The most convenient of those would be Crowne Plaza. But tbh, why aren't you all staying at Hotel St. Oliver?! It is ON Market Square and so pretty and inexpensive.

For people who have spent all their money on the ticket price, there is also the Knoxville Hostel, which is across the street from my apartment.

this thread is way helpful for us out of towners coming down for this, so kudos guys

if anyone needs advice on anything plz ask, i know it's nigh on impossible to travel to a smaller city with 0 knowledge of the place and feel comfortable about it

yeah the marriott's walkable, it's just outside of downtown proper, across a freeway viaduct (and like a lot of things in knoxville, designed more to drive to than walk to). the others are all within the downtown grid.

and i totally second the st. oliver. it's quirky (after midnight, you have to let yourself in), but has a lot of personality and location can't be beat. it's the only hotel i ever stay in there.

hotel st. oliver post: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=296392&boardid=41&threadid=67911

again it is about $75/night

xpost there is sidewalk the whole way, maybe it is more walkable than last time you visited? it's really not bad

yeah, there are sidewalks. just sorta ugly there crossing the parkway. and it always irked me when chamber of commerce ppl referred to it as a "downtown hotel," because it said a lot to me about how they thought about downtown. (i.e. a place where you drove from one place to another.) but that was 10 years ago, when the idea that people might actually want to walk around downtown (might want to go downtown at all) was still sort of novel to the powers-that-be.

(one of the amazing things about this festival to me as a veteran of the downtown development wars is that it used to be almost impossible to plan anything downtown. when the v-roys did that first big show on the square -- and served beer! -- the cops were convinced there would be, i don't know, riots or something. and a lot of other people were convinced that nobody would come downtown for anything, because downtown was dead.)

(i used to take my guitar down to market square in the middle of weekday afternoons sometimes and it would be me, three homeless guys sleeping on benches, and a bunch of boarded-up storefronts.)

I remember those times (not you playing your guitar, haw, but the square being full of boarded-up shopfronts). The square doesn't have a single empty spot these days! It's completely full of businesses. It makes me feel great to go to the square now.

I have a 80-minute Big Ears mixtape all sequenced and ready to post as soon as someone can rip me one of the songs off this to MP3:

http://www.myspace.com/fencekitchen

What is the song?

"Shuttlecock" I guess? If someone turns the stream off the Fence Kitchen MySpace into an MP3, I'll add it to my mix and upload a big 21-track Big Ears warm-up CD for all to have! :D

The version of Audacity I have doesn't have an option for "Stereo Mix" and FreeMusicZilla doesn't work on macs. More importantly, this puppet guy should honestly have some music on iTunes or eMusic or his own website or some fucking thing but doesn't.

Mixtape of all the announced bands. Live it. Love it.

Big Ears 2009.zip - 108.08MB

^rocking this at work

roll call!?

-me

me

me

Banned and temp-banned posters who will also be going:
--Catsuppp dude
--and what

Roxy, thanks for the St. Oliver recommendation, I just made our reservations there. They still have a lot of availability for that weekend.

ILXor hotel pool party?

lol nobody wants to see my beer belly, least of all me

Schedule is up: http://www.bigearsfestival.com/schedule.html

This is the hardest decision of the weekend:

NOON
Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Workshop
------------
NOON
Neil Hamburger's Architectural Tour of Downtown Knoxville

Will bars/venues be able to sell bouze on Sunday?

HARDWARE HACKING WORKSHOP WITH NICOLAS COLLINS
Hmmm... This or Philip Glass! Decisions, decisions!

2:30pm Saturday • 5th Floor of the Woodruff Building
Nicolas Collins, author of the underground classic Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, offers a workshop in converting common household electronics into musical instruments. Participants will combine old loudspeakers, batteries and rusty metal into “Victorian Oscillators”, and will transform portable radios into expressive, touch-sensitive synthesizers. No previous electronic experience is required. The workshop will culminate in the premiere performance by the Knoxville Hacking Orchestra.

Each participant in the workshop should bring the following items:

1) A portable, battery-powered radio, with appropriate batteries. Make sure the radio works before you come! It should be cheap enough that you won’t be too angry if it never works again. The AM band is more important than FM, but it doesn’t matter if the radio picks up both. It should have analog tuning (i.e., a dial) rather than digital presets or scan buttons. Larger radios are easier to work with than tiny ones, and older ones always sound better than new ones. It should have a built-in speaker, not just a headphone jack. And most importantly: IT MUST BE BATTERY POWERED! Beware: an alarm clock radio with a built-in “backup battery” is not suitable, since it requires AC power to function as a radio.

2) One or more raw loudspeakers of any size (just the speaker, not enclosed in a cabinet or box). These can come from a car stereo, an unused boombox, an old HiFi, a TV, etc. Bigger is better.

3) 2 nine-volt batteries.

4) Some small pieces of corroded or rough-surfaced scrap metal.

Nicolas Collins, 'Devil's Music', sampling record from 1986

http://www.nicolascollins.com/Devils_Music.htm

i'll be here. there.

There's a less expensive pass for $100 that includes admission to all shows except three: Philip Glass, Antony and the Johnsons, and Michael Gira & Fennesz/Linkous/Minor feat. Larkin Grimm.

http://www.bigearsfestival.com/tickets.html

I'll be with the Shaking Ray Levis - check 'em out, 1/6 (Fri.), 10 PM, Pilot Light...they're a hoot. And we're doing a workshop on Sunday at noon.

were you with the SRL when they did that tour with Amy Denio? Cuz that was a wonderful thing to see.

Oops, let me clarify...I'm part of the SRL entourage (and helping with the workshop), but I'm not performing with them. I wish I could've seen 'em live with Amy Denio...she's pretty amazing. Here's a video with the SRLs, Amy, and Jessica Lurie:

let's have breakfast on saturday y'all

I would waffle down with ilxors

check out this insane broth yall

i would go if it's OK with my gf and I can be out in time for the Oliveros workshop.

i'm in!

i hear that ben ratliff and jon caramanica from the new york times are coming. i'm almost as excited about the journalists who are going to be here covering it as i am for the music. almost.

waht

what waht?

why are you excited that journalists are going to be somewhere? do you work at the festival or something?

mte is a shameless journalist autograph-chaser. you should see his ann powers collection.

(but for real, you have to understand that knoxvillians get very excited at the prospect of anyone outside knoxville paying attention to them. i still feel that way, kinda, and i don't even live there anymore. the excitement is usually followed by assorted grievances about all the way the outsiders got things wrong...)

i work for the knoxville alt-weekly (formerly under the supreme editorship of tipsy mothra).

i figure all the big city reporters descending on town will make for an impromptu professional convention, especially considering the concentration of them. that's all.

i expect to take very little umbrage.

mte, i just realized who you were, haw

ok so if y'all are down for breakfast on sat, lets do it. my choice would be pete's.

i miss living in the same town as the shaking rays!

they don't tour the states too much...

eh, it's not like i'm around here enough to give too many clues away.

I AM POSTING FROM INSIDE THE BIG EARS FEASTIVAL 2009

Speaking of feastival, if you are into brunch tomorrow webmail or text me.

How is the rock

PLZ TELL M GIRA I'M SORRY I SOLD SWANZ ALBUMS

roxy hope I run into you, I was only at the thing we played at because of packing / hotel transfer of gear / missing suitcase drama / dinner I missed the Hassel/Burning Star Core gigs . . . sigh . . .

but I'm enjoying Big Ears and so far ran into JWCatsupppppdude.

Great music so far. I saw ILXors at the opening thing at the museum. Shyness gripped me and I didn't introduce myself to anyone, but if a time and place for b'fast gets posted here I'll show up.

envy all u fuckers

Bistro at 11

EVERYBODY WHO HAPPENS TO CARE TAKE NOTE: THE SATURDAY NIGHT MATMOS SHOW IS MOVING FROM THE SQUARE ROOM TO THE CATALYST. SAME TIME (10:00 pm, the Lord willing) BUT NEW LOCATION.

me and ethan did the lean + snap to matmos

also, motherfuck the sq room

Photos.

as you know, ethan is unphotographable

i did get a shot of whiney giving jw a massage though

will up later?

All good. (And I take it the Matmos show was brilliant/wonderful/etc.)

I felt that people were essentially good. And I lost 200 dollars.

!

Roxy it was nice to meet you and Ethan, sorry I was so spaced out when we were speaking, the whole moving venues and then forgetting where our tour van was parked thing was kinda unnerving. The show was fun and the people at the fest were sweet. I ran (twice) through the Dan Deacon friendship snake vortex thing with JW and somehow wound up with his hat in the process. JW your hat wants you back! Hit me up with the mailing address and it is yourz.

Ok I lost like 200 dollars during that snake thing so I have beef with it

It was fun though!!! and really nice to meet you, drew!

sorry i missed the brunch. but wow damn what a weekend. highlights for me were all on saturday: ned rothenberg, glass, and the necks. i missed a lot of the fun party stuff.

Great festival, really glad I went. Roxy, thanks for the email...I should have been checking my mail closer this weekend, plus the wifi at the St. Oliver was kind of in & out the whole time.

Oh, no problem!

I have like hours of recaps that I don't feel like typing right now.

So for now I'll say:

Roxy - thanks for all the help in discovering local stuff and having an awesome town. i will come back next year.

Ethan - Nice meeting u. "I think some people fronting with this whole quail egg thing" joke was lols.

Drew - I ran past you twice and neither of those times seemed like great times to say hi. So hi! Your set at the Museum was v awesome.

WmC and mte - Dunno who u guys were @ fest. But glad u had fun.

whole thing got big ups (and mte gets a shout-out) in the nyt.

Very jealous of all who went, but it just wasn't going to happen for me this time. But if it does happen next year, hmm...

<3 whiney it was great to meet you, sorry i gave you so many recommendations you were unable to reach, haw

guys i forgot to post this but my tailbone was fractured at matmos lol, it is official

consult this dude
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2246043/Tailbone-Coccyx-PainTailboneDoctor-main_Full.jpg

i have consulted with someone similar to him, iirc!

Did you make sure to have them sample it, Roxy?

lol

never found my hat u_u

yeah, me and wolfgang, we totally opened for windy & carl at the tomato head even.

― El Tomboto, Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:20 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

A friend of mine who was also at this show kept a flyer and put it up on his wall.

wait, was that jw who never found his hat?

from an email:

Terry Riley has officially committed to being “Artist in Residence” for Big Ears 2010 during the weekend of Feb. 5 – 7.
Terry will be turning 75 years old in 2010. During the Big Ears weekend, he will perform several of his pieces...plus there will be performances of his string quartets...and probably a full-scale realization of his seminal work, “In C,” including a who’s who of artists playing the festival plus perhaps local musicians as well.

ok, definitely going to this one.

sweeeeet

yes!

I'd srsly buy a ticket w/o any other announcements

yall lets get hotel rooms at the st oliver and throw down this year correctly

I'm down w that plan. Are those dates confirmed anywhere besides tipsy mothra? U better get a pass for real this year, rox.

God bless Ashley Capps for real. The extreme metal/African pop/r&b axis was so high quality at bonnaroo this year. Dude really understands nerds.

the "official" announcement is supposed to be next week. with more acts announced in october.

official announcement huh!!

Ashley Capps going to be talking about his compelling taste in music in press release again.

dag

hahaha i still think about that and laugh, bryce. particularly when you said "im ____ when ashley's along"

[insert some space explorer or whatever in blank]

i died over that

Can't wait to mark the occassion with a new thread tbh

And a trip to the Knoxville cereal bar

we are going to party like it is 2010 imo

u better get a ticket for real this year

if whiney & ethan show up again i might make the trip over tbh

i can play the role of deeznuts this time

haha here is the quote. Doctor Who! i was way off

His interest in music quietly insists I slow down and listen. It compels me and demands my complete attention. His interest in music transports me into another world. I'm Doctor Who when Ashley's along.

― bamcquern, Friday, December 19, 2008 4:47 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

loool

xpost lol. please do!

JS, I'm 80% in based on last year's line-up and the Terry Riley rumor

wasnt there something about guitars

Maybe I will make it up this year, what with $80 airfares.

xpost apparently someone would play one

Read it in Dusted.

lol

actual lol

I might go to this

yeah i've heard nothing more re riley or the lineup. but i guess they'll have to say something soon.

i know i heard something about guitars

I know there's a Knoxville thread around, but really, tht cereal bar rules a lot

ive actually still never been inside it except once on a mission to break in the back door of pilot light

the lady working was super sweet, and they had cereal

sure

xxpost Why would you wanna do that?

Cereal bar - good in theory, less so in practice.

I maybe just have a crush on Knoxville

its a cute place

I really must try and go to this thing if it happens again.

xpost yeah, it is despite everything

i know i heard something about guitars

crimson grail would be a good idea.

I emailed Ashley once or twice about please bring Rhys Chatham please please please

free passes iirc

!!!

Hmmm

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/jencheng/car-crash-1-pool.jpg

ssshh guys ned's considering something

Sorry, I was just coughing.

so it's apparently moved back to march or april. dates still not set.

I wish that I could do this.

WHY DONT YOU "MAKE" THE "TRIP"???

haha, caps unintentional.

School, work, life. I make trips with no movement.

google earth huh

psychedelics

the combo is undeniable

combo of big ears + hiking sounds a+
thinking of going to this

doing it in the spring instead of february will definitely enhance the hiking opportunities...

i'm not averse to hiking in the cold, but april sure sounds better than february

how long is this imo i can maybe swing it

Big Ears 2010: March 26-28

excellent, that fits my work schedule and misses my niece's wedding

here we go:

For Immediate Release November 17, 2009

Big Ears Festival Returns in 2010
March 26-27-28

Composer Terry Riley Confirmed As Artist In Residence

KNOXVILLE, TN. The BIG EARS FESTIVAL is proud to announce another weekend of visionary
music, exploratory art, and southern hospitality for March 26, 27, and 28 in historic Knoxville, Tennessee.
This time, BIG EARS is especially proud to host the legendary American composer TERRY RILEY as
Artist in Residence for the weekend with a series of concerts throughout the weekend celebrating Riley’s
75th Birthday year. In addition, the weekend will feature an exciting array of artists and performers from
the worlds of rock, jazz, classical, and avant-garde music along with installations, exhibitions, interactive
experiences, talks, and workshops.

One of the most influential musicians and composers of the past century, TERRY RILEY’s impact and
influence on contemporary music and art cannot be overstated. In 1964, his revolutionary composition, In
C, launched the Minimalist movement in music and his influence is still heard today in the work of Philip
Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams and other classical composers. His subsequent early works, A Rainbow
in Curved Air and Poppy Nogood, with their kaleidoscopic, psychedelic atmospheres, sent waves across
the musical worlds of the 1960s, strongly reflected in the music of The Who, Pink Floyd, and other rock
bands of the time. That influence continues today in the music of Radiohead and Animal Collective and
even The National and Bon Iver. It’s no surprise that TERRY RILEY was recently selected by the
London Times as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century.”

“It’s a tremendous honor to have Terry Riley participate in our festival this year. It’s a dream come true.”
says Big Ears founder, Ashley Capps, also a creator and producer of the renown Bonnaroo Music and Arts
Festival.

RILEY himself will perform in several different concerts of his work during the weekend, with a variety
of musicians. Also, the Calder String Quartet will present a program of his work. And a sure highlight of
the weekend will come when many of the artists performing during the weekend join together for an
unforgettable performance of In C, “one of the definitive masterpieces of the 20th Century.”
Additions to the BIG EARS line up along with ticketing information will be released in early December.

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