This is a selection of highlights during the Sonic Acts festival, selected by the curators.
Michael Snow: 'La Région Centrale'
Thu 26 Feb - Fri 27 Feb
10:30 - 16:50
Paradiso, Small Hall
Paradiso, Small Hall
Paradiso, Small Hall
Saturday 28 February
10:30 - 13:40
Paradiso, Small Hall
Sunday 1 March
12:00 - 15:10
Paradiso, Small Hall
Michael Snow
Michael Snow’s classic three-hour film La Région Centrale (1971) will be screened in Paradiso for the duration of the festival.
Mark Williams (with Jan Zalasiewicz): 'The Human Impact from a Geological ‘Anthropocene’ Perspective'
Thursday 26 February
10:40 - 11:10
Paradiso, Main Hall
The history of human evolution extends back for more than two million years, and in all that time humans have been developing technologies that influence the landscape around them.
BJ Nilsen & Karl Lemieux: 'unearthed'
Friday 27 February
22:35 - 23:20
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Main Hall
The border area of Norway and Russia, where the sparse beauty of the Arctic landscape meets industrial decay and heavy pollution, is where BJ Nilsen and Karl Lemieux collected material for their audiovisual collaboration unearthed.
Jananne Al-Ani: 'Shadow Sites'
Saturday 28 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
In the last five years Jananne Al-Ani has developed a portfolio of film and photographic works titled The Aesthetics of Disappearance: A Land Without People, which explores the disappearance of the body in contested and highly charged landscapes by examining the development of film and photography in relation to the technology of flight.
John Foxx and Steve D’Agostino: 'Evidence of Time Travel'
Saturday 28 February
00:30 - 01:20
Paradiso, Main Hall
A sound and video investigation into the terrors and pleasures of temporal displacement, combining the sinister sonic architecture of drum machines and analogue synths with haunting visuals by Karborn.
Raviv Ganchrow: 'Long Wave Synthesis'
Sunday 1 March
15:00 - 17:00
Australiehaven, port of Amsterdam
The field trip to the site of Raviv Ganchrow’s Long Wave Synthesis promises to be an impressive infrasound experience. Long Wave Synthesis is a land-art scale sound installation that investigates infrasound, and probes the relations between how we perceive the landscape and long-wave vibrations.