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The festival doesn’t boast the huge headliners it did the past couple years, like Faust and Jandek in 2009, or Fennesz, Magma, and Merzbow from last year. But Sonic Circuits Festival director Jeff Surak points out that the 2011 event brings several local and national premieres—-longtime conceptual group The Haters has never been to D.C. before, nor have cellist Okkyung Lee, German improviser Annette Krebs, Berlin-based tape artist Rinus Van Alebeek, or pan-Atlantic group Voltage Spooks. And of course, the customary eclecticism remains intact. “People will experience a mix of approaches each night,” says Surak, including “free improv, noise, sound art, drone, Hindustani vocal music, minimalism, and really really unclassifiable stuff, sometimes all within the same piece.”
Download the festival program here, or see an HTML version (and buy tickets) at the Sonic Circuits website.