XENON Act 1

Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival
15th May 2010, 11am-5pm
Whitefriars shopping arcade
Canterbury
Kent


Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival presents the first part of a new collaborative project, XENON, by artist Mikhail Karikis, that explores with the theme of ‘strangers’. In response to our continued exploration for life in outer space and our fascination with making contact with extraterrestrials, the artist will create a hovering choir of messages to aliens sent by the general public. At Whitefriars shopping arcade in Canterbury, Mikhail will create an audience participatory sound installation. First, he will record your messages, then he will create a composition, and at 4pm on the same day he will launch a spectacular bouquet of balloons singing your messages toward the sky.

XENON is an interdisciplinary project with concerts and public-participation events commissioned by six East Kent festivals forming the East Kent Festival Cluster. XENON Act 2 continues at the Whitstable Biennale on 27th June 2010.