"BORDERSTORIES" storytelling

sampling and talking

by sonia armaniaco>the talking mouth

work in progress

notes from travelling and dreams

reading and soft sampling

"BORDERSTORIES"

about 25 minutes of soft sampling and talking by sonia armaniaco "amran" -

_text as collection and elaboration of notes, reports thoughts, dreams, associations and

sensibilities, mainly gathered during travels/pilgrimages, mixed with fragments of oneiric expe -

_music as composition of samples, assembled with various digital recording and loops, sampled in different contexts through travelling -

- the geography is a border, a crossing point, one of the many-

PRESS RELEASE-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

Sacramento, CA Performance, Friday July 13, 2001.
WHO:

Sonia Armaniaco, Chachi Jones, Frank Andrick, Michael Pulley & others TBA presenting noise, samples, poetry & performance.
WHAT:

Sonia Armaniaco, a storyteller and computer-sampling composer, is from Genoa, Italy. Her work oscillates between influenced traditions and the latest wave sounds, linking and mixing ancient stories, with dreams and archetypes, through assemblages and mixages techniques, pilgrimaging in a patchworked transparent world of sound, memory, thought, perception, where everything is essential and has relationship with everything else.

Chachi Jones is a Sacramento area innovator, creator and manipulator of unique sounds using a wide variety of instruments from the Speak and Spell toy, to theremin, to an assortment of Roland drum machines and Apple lap tops. He currently has 3 self produced albums, CJ, Mode Switch and his newest the self titled Chachi Jones that has been a mainstay in the KDVS 90.3 FM, the UCD college radio station, top 10.

Frank Andrick is the author of Soluna, a collection of poetry that John Mead has called, "Sound Trancendence. Experimental Mythology! Frank is from Lockford, California and is the co founder of the AMP Press and hosts the San Franciso based spoken word/poetry program The Pomo Literati.

Michael Pulley, Sacramento area journalist and poet, who continulally chases and alters form and content to create pieces of surreal punk, dreamwoven fragements and explorations that become waterfalls and dirt.
WHEN & WHERE:

@ Horse Cow Gallery, 1409 Del Paso Heights Blvd., Sacramento, California -

Friday July 13, 2001. Doors open at 7.00 pm.

For event questions or inquiries please contact Michael Grosse at 916 442 2797 or junglemaniac@netscape.net

Alhambra, CA Performance, Monday July 16, 2001

7:30pm @ JOSLYN CENTER'S PRADO ROOM on 210 N. Chapel Ave.

Featured and Poetry Reading.

sampling and talking: Sonia Armaniaco "Borderstories" storytelling -

Contact: Don Campbell mondaynightpoetry@earthlink.net

http://home.earthlink.net/~mondaynightpoetry/index.html

Los Angeles, CA Performance, Tuesday July 17, 2001

sampling and talking: Sonia Armaniaco "Borderstories" storytelling

@ ZEN THEATRE: 2609 Hyperion Ave, Los Angeles, California -

Contact: Larry Jaffe at 323-666-5600 www.poetix.net

Long Beach, CA Performance, Saturday July 21, 2001

The Word Rave Nine Presented by thee creative people @ Thee Instagon Foundation www.tif.org/wordrave/www.tif.org/tif www.tif.org/wordrave/wr9info.html

127 Bennett Ave., Long Beach, California 90803 -

SONIA AMRAN Genoa, ITALY - LIZZIE WANN San Diego, CA - JERRY QUICKLY Los Angeles, CA - IRIS BERRY Los Angeles, CA - CHARLES ARDINGER Huntington Beach,CA - G.MURRAY THOMAS Long Beach, CA -LOB Lakewood, CA - LARRY JAFFE Los Feliz, CA - CARLYE ARCHIBEQUE Los Angeles, CA - MARY LEARY San Diego, CA -WILL PETTY San Diego - JON KIRCHOFF SCHULZ / LOCKHART PROJECT Orange County, CA - JENNY BATE Malibu, CA MONA JEAN CEDAR Los Angeles, CA - LORI & DANIEL McGINN Fullerton, CA - NATALIE GIACONE Long Beach, CA -KENNON B. RAINES Los Angeles, CA - WILLIAM McCLAIN Los Angeles, CA -

Santa Ana, CA Performance, Monday July 23, 2001

Elmo Martin reading

Sonia Amran's sampling and talking"Borderstories" -

7:30 pm @ Gypsy Den Grand Central Cafe
125th N. Broadway
Santa Ana, CA 714. 835-8840
contact: Jaimes Palacio

San Jose, CA Performance, Tuesday July 24, Wednesday July 25, 2001

Sonia Armaniaco - sampling and talking -

Panika Dillon - poetry slam -

Harmony McGill - poetry slam -

@ The Smokehouse

65 Post Street
San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 885-WAVE

contact: Vadim Litvak