Observatory Community Hall, Station Rd, Observatory, CT

— 11am: Interview with Matt Burnett (ODORBABY) and Anatole Petit (Tatie Petanol) —

Matt Burnett’s practice focuses on listening experiences, quadraphonic sound projection/composition, and noise/social media interaction. Listening experiences are the foundation for his radio show that he uses to combine and present what he calls ‘listening objects’. His website is: http://mattburnettmusic.com

Anatole Petit is an entertainer and works with drums. He is interested in mistakes and the ways in which these provoke new expressions. He is part of the collective RPT that focuses on DIY, noise, nonsense and happiness. More information can be found here: http://reactionpowertrio.tumblr.com/

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— 12pm: Multiversal in Europe & Beyond - Anja Tedesko —

Devoted to DIY and anti-establishment politics and action, Anja co-curates and coordinates Multiversal, a roaming series of gatherings around Europe, focusing on non-genre oriented sounds and other forms. She also single-handedly runs, Philoxenia and Soul Food Kitchen, initially a mobile kitchen project which started as an immediate response to the so-called "refugee crisis" in Greece in 2015. After being active in Turkey and Serbia, now running the project is the sole kitchen that prepares and serves food without any breaks twice a day every day in Thessaloniki, Greece, for people on the streets, refugees, homeless/poor and others who are in need.

At Edge of Wrong, she would be interviewed by her partner in crime Utku Tavil, regarding politics of DIY organization, its aspects as a political action and her projects.

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— 1pm: Ectopic Music: Panel Discussion —

The range of electronic and experimental music found today has engendered new desires: for noise, for discomfort, for disrupting hierarchies of music knowledge and so on. To what extent are these forms of music ectopic and how do they engage with that which is ectopic?

The organisers of Edge of Wrong, Lliezel Ellick, Rosemary Lombard, Morten Kristiansen, Daniel Mackenzie and Aragorn Eloff, will be in conversation with each other.

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— 2pm: Noise Music, Parasites and Stranger Things —

Chantelle Gray is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Gender Studies, Unisa (University of South Africa). She is interested in the gendered complexities of the music industry, particularly in noise music, and is currently working on a series of music philosophy articles suited for the contemporary experimental scene, such as noise music, electronic arrangements, experimental forms of music and gestural composition. In this talk, she will explore noise music through the concept of the parasite. She can be found here: https://chantellegray.bandcamp.com/ and https://unisouthafr.academia.edu/ChantelleGrayvanHeerden