Negativland Live!
Co-presented with the Art Guys and D.M. Allison Art
Wednesday, June 18th, 7PM and 9:30PM
$10 members, $15 non-members

Aurora Picture Show is pleased to welcome back Negativland, an unclassifiable and uniquely American experimental music and art group for Negativland Live! on June 18th at 7PM.  Co-presented by The Art Guys and D.M. Allison Art, Negativland Live! will be a unique evening with media pioneers who have been cutting up analog audio tape to "sample" long before the term existed.

For the first time in 34 years of presenting unique one-of-a-kind stage shows, Negativland performs radically new audio-visual versions of many Negativland fan-favorites that have never before been heard live. Negativland's current performance project finds them teaming up with with electronic musician Wobbly, and "live cinema" video artist Steev Hise, to create a visually and sonically unique performance that reinvents favorite past and present dialog cut-ups, while showcasing Negativland's homemade electronic noise-making devices that they call "Boopers."

Boopers, in case you were wondering, are intentionally unstable homemade analog feedback boxes, first created in 1975 by David Wills, a founding member of Negativland. By taking a simple clock radio amplifier and sending its output back into its input to create feedback, and then adding multiple transistors, capacitors, and resistors, along with various knobs and switches to unpredictably control and modulate the signal, the sound that emerges is wildly variable. This creates a dynamic where the Negativland member playing the Booper becomes a fellow collaborator with the device. Using as many as seven Boopers on stage at once (all based on Wills' original design), Negativland further structures, manipulates, and augments these sounds with found voices, cut-up spoken word, ungainly pulsing rhythms, and live collaged visuals.

Since 1980, the 4 or 5 or 6 Floptops known as Negativland have been creating records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text. Mixing original materials and original music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture and the world around them, Negativland re-arranges these found bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural archaeology and "culture jamming" (a term they coined way back in 1984), Negativland has been sued twice for copyright infringement.

For more information on Negativland, please visit: http://www.negativland.com