The Olympia Experimental Music Festival, also known for a time as The Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics,
[Christopher Delaurenti]
Classical, Jazz, & Avant: Experimental Music Festival
'' The Stranger'', June 26 – July 2, 2003 issue. Accessed online July 3, 2008. has been produced annually in
Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region.
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since 1995. Organizers have included festival founder L. Jim McAdams,
[Tiffany Lee Brown, "Bleepy-Bloopy Noises"]
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. Accessed online July 3, 2008. Arrington de Dionyso
Arrington de Dionyso (b. ) is an Olympia, Washington-based artist and experimental musician. He was a member of Old Time Relijun since the 1990s. During Old Time Relijun's hiatus, he formed a new band based on Indonesian music called Malaikat dan ...
(founder of the Olympia Strange Music Society),
Aerick Duckhugger,
[ and Domenica Clark.][Program, 14th Olympia Experimental Music Festival, p. 10.] During de Dionyso's tenure as chief organizer (festivals 9–12) the festival was primarily known by the alternate name ''The Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics''.
History
Performers have included Acre,[Olympia Experimental Music Festival]
13th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival (2007) listing on Yahoo!
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Upcoming Events and Things To Do. Accessed July 7, 2008. Alps of New South Wales,[Tiffany Lee Brown, "Bleepy-Bloopy Noises"]
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Accessed online July 3, 2008. Wendy Atkinson,[Tiffany Lee Brown, "Bleepy-Bloopy Noises"]
Accessed online July 3, 2008. Cabinet of Natural Curiosities,[Program, 14th Olympia Experimental Music Festival, p. 4.] Dead Air Fresheners
The Dead Air Fresheners are a Portland, Oregon-based experimental and post-punk musical group with a somewhat fluctuating membership. They have been described by Portland's KPSU as "A long-time mainstay of the Experimental Rock Scene." They coun ...
,[Tiffany Lee Brown, "Bleepy-Bloopy Noises"]
page 3
. Accessed online July 3, 2008. Amy Denio
Amy Denio (born June 9, 1961) is a Seattle-based multi-instrumental composer of soundtracks for modern dance, film and theater, as well as a songwriter and music improviser. Her inspirations include world music, and is mainly known as a vocali ...
,[Program, 14th Olympia Experimental Music Festival, p. 3.] Dendrites,Evolution Control Committee
The Evolution Control Committee (The ECC) is an experimental music band based in Columbus, Ohio. The ECC was founded by Mark Gunderson (a.k.a. TradeMark G.) in Columbus, in 1986. They create music that falls within the borders of the sound col ...
,[Tiffany Lee Brown, "Bleepy-Bloopy Noises"]
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Accessed online July 3, 2008. Steve Fisk
Steve Fisk is an American, Washington-based audio engineer, record producer and musician. As a musician, he has been in bands such as the instrumental alternative/indie rock band Pell Mell and the electronic band Pigeonhed. He has long been as ...
,Gino Robair
Gino Robair is an American composer, improvisor, drummer, percussionist, and magazine editor. In his own music work (as a soloist and in improvisation ensembles), he plays prepared/modified percussion, analog synthesizer, ebow and prepared piano ...
,[Tiffany Lee Brown, "Bleepy-Bloopy Noises]
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. Accessed online July 3, 2008. White Rainbow,Yahoo News
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in 2007 called it a "summer festival to watch".[Author unknown]
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Accessed online July 3, 2008. In ''Signum'', writer Tiffany Lee Brown
Tiffany Lee Brown is an American writer and artist. She is from Oregon, currently living and working in Central Oregon. For many years she was known for her work in Portland.
Author of ''A Compendium of Miniatures'' (Tiger Food Press, 2007), Brow ...
commented in 2001: "This was no overpriced, fancypants event full of goatee-stroking theorizers or a showcase of overserious minimalist compositions, but a romp through the tangled underbrush of homegrown experimentalism."
See also
*List of electronic music festivals
The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitar and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (EDM ...
*List of experimental music festivals
The following is an incomplete list of experimental music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on experimental music. Experimental music is a compositional tradition that arose in the mid-20th century, particularly in North Ame ...
Notes
References
* Tiffany Lee Brown
Bleepy-Bloopy Noises: Creepy-crawly creatures emerge for the Olympia Experimental Music Festival
''Signum'' magazine, ''Marrow'' section, issue 12, 2001. Accessed online September 23, 2007.
* Christopher DeLaurenti
Classical, Jazz, & Avant Experimental Music Festival
"The Stranger", Jun 26 – Jul 2, 2003 issue. Accessed online November 25, 2007
* Program, 14th Olympia Experimental Music Festival.
*Daniel Ahrendt
Olympia Experimental Music Festival: Paintings for Animals, LA Lungs, Eurostache, and More
"SSG Music", June 16, 2011
External links
Olympia Strange Music MySpace page
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Music festivals established in 1995
Music festivals in Washington (state)
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