checkpoint 303
Please join us for the second artist's talk/performance of the Spring quarter. Checkpoint 303, sound artists working between Palestine, Tunisia, and France will speak about their work and and do a performance at Warner Graduate Studios on April 11th at 6pm.
Please come and bring your friends to this very special event!
Checkpoint 303
April 11th, Friday, 6pm
Warner Graduate Studios
8535 Warner Drive
Culver City, CA 90232
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CHECKPOINT 303
Artist Statement (see attached bio)
Checkpoint 303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) is a non-profit avant-garde activist sonic project launched in 2004 by sound-catcher SC Yosh (Palestine) and sound-cutter SC MoCha (Tunisia). Checkpoint 303 creates experimental electronic music that aims at raising international awareness about the ongoing injustice and suffering of the civilian populations throughout the Middle East and especially in the occupied Palestinian territories. Checkpoint 303 combines field recordings performed in Palestine with electronic beats, FX and subtle oriental tunes.
The band's recent live shows included electronic performances as supporting act for UK trip-hop band Massive Attack in a series of benefit shows in the UK in February 2007 (Birmingham and London's Brixton Academy) as well as numerous live concerts in France, Sweden, Belgium, Tunisia, Canada, The Netherlands, Palestine (including East Jerusalem and West-Bank cities of Ramallah and Jericho), etc.
Through its compositions, collected sounds and noise, Checkpoint 303 spreads a message of peace and a call for the respect of human rights. Contrasting with the mainstream media's exclusive depiction of violence and suffering in the middle-east, CP-303's sound collages also report on the heroic hope that subsists in the region as well as the seemingly banal but ever so meaningful little things that make up daily life in Palestine and that embody a daily search for normality in a state of emergency.
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posted by DangerousDerrida at Thursday, April 03, 2008
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