September 22-27, 2009 - Washington, DC

The Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music was initiated by the American Composers Forum (ACF) to provide DC's music and art communities with the opportunity to sample experimental and avant-garde electronic music, with an emphasis on improvisation and artistic use of new technologies.

Now heading into its ninth year, the Washington DC chapter of the ACF has expanded the scope of the festival to include electro-acoustic compositions, free jazz, noise rock, electronic drone and experimental folk, as well as live video and film programs, presented year round.

Sonic Circuits seeks to foster the spirit of collaboration through the diversity of participating artists, and its varied programming appeals to arts enthusiasts of all types.

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District of Noise Vol.2

District of Noise Vol.2 is the second installment of this popular series of CDs documenting experimental audio activity in and around Washington DC. It will be released September 15, but you can order it now.

1. Jeff Carey - databurst0
2. TL0741 - SILK PJS
3. Nine Strings - The Ladder of Metals
4. Dave Vosh - Electron Flux (For Janis)
5. Nicholas Szczepanik - Phyllotaxis
6. Sean Peoples - Planting Trees on Hills
7. Insect Factory - you’re tougher than you think
8. soft pieces - Rise of the Usurper
9. Blue Sausage Infant - Solstice Queens
10. Pilesar - Save Village from evil spirit
11. Bushmeat and Gut Head - Dosimeter/Dance of Organless Bodies
12. RDK - Gaia Hypothesis
13. Kuschty Rye Ergot - The Night Country
14. Second Land - low push
15. Twenty First Century Ensemble - Excerpt from Bluroom session
16. Fast Forty - No Negation
17. Canid - Juvenalia
18. Chris Grier - soudai gomi
19. VLT_BLK - 8D38C9_000000_21-0377
20. Myo - lets see you transform outta this one mother fucker

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New disc of molten silvery plastic containing 17 of Washington DC’s best, brightest, and unable to categorize masters of music from beyond the fringe.

“District of Noise provides a welcome snapshot of Washington’s most bizarre, marrying the work of industrial/experimental pioneers like Maurizio Bianchi and Stockhausen with the new-school noise antics of NYC stable No Fun Productions. It may not have quite the subterranean notoriety of the latter’s annual No Fun Fest, but Sonic Circuits still provides an impressive array of art and innovation, putting a uniquely D.C. spin on the concept of experimental music.” - Washington City Paper

* BLK W/ BEAR
* BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT
* CASH SLAVE CLIQUE
* CAUTION CURVES
* ECHOLALIA
* JANEL & ANTHONY
* T.A. ZOOK
* MIND OVER MATTER MUSIC OVER MIND
* NORTHERN MACHIN
* RDK
* CORPUS CALLOSUM
* CUTEST PUPPY IN THE WORLD
* TONE GHOSTING
* MYO
* BARSKY/ALLISON
* TWILIGHT MEMORIES OF THE THREE SUNS
* VIOLET

Released in conjunction with the 2008 Sonic Circuits Festival and curated by zeromoon. CD, $10

mp3s: Cash Slave Clique, “Sonicervex”

Janel & Anthony, “Improvisation 61″

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