FARMINGTON — The eighth annual Frantasia Festival of Out Music and Arts will begin Thursday at the University of Maine at Farmington and move Friday and Saturday to the Treat Memorial Library auditorium in Livermore Falls.
Musicians and artists from around the world will perform during the three-day festival.
Frantasia founder and organizer Fran Szostek and Gustavo Aguilar, UMF professor of experimental music and the UMF Department of Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry, have partnered to present the opening day events.
Suggested donations at the events are $5 to $7.
They will begin with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at the UMF Art Gallery for “Untame Audiovision,” a video-audio installation, Szostek said. This exhibit presents collaborative work produced by Katherine Liberovskaya and Al Margolis at the Experimental Television Center in Oswego, N.Y.
The show includes “Frogfields,” a 15-minute experimental video controlled by audio via synthesizer based on footage of frogs at the Brooklyn Zoo, and “Rantdance,” a single channel video-audio piece based on the movements of a pair of cormorants filmed in Ghent, Belgium.
The exhibit is free and open to the public and will also be open from 12 to 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19, and Saturday, Aug. 20.
Szostek of Livermore Falls has been organizing concerts for years that highlight musicians and artists challenging themselves to produce something different and beyond their traditional music zones.
The festival will run from 7 p.m. to midnight on Friday and Saturday at the Livermore Falls library on Main Street. The entrance is in the back of the library.
Classical pianist Adriana de los Santos of Argentina, who is also into experimental music, will perform Friday.
De los Santos, 56, of Entre Rios has been a musician all her life, she said Wednesday during a telephone interview from Massachusetts. She started out on the piano playing classical music and expanded 20 years ago into experimental music. De los Santos has been involved in shaping new music throughout Latin America and has played in Australia, New Zealand and Europe among other countries.
De los Santos said she composes her own music and organizes concerts. She also works a lot for film music, she said. She also performs using two different violins including a Toba violin with electronics. She also experiments with homemade motors and uses them to process acoustic instruments, mostly the piano.
On Friday, other musicians and artists include Marc Bisson, BreadRose, Lucio Menegon, Junko Simons and Id m Theft Able.
On Saturday performers include Flandrew Fleisenberg, Stanley Schumacher, Nicole LePera and Josh DeScherer and Crank Sturgeon.
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- Classical pianist Adriana de los Santos of Entre Rios, Argentina, who also performs experimental music, is one of several musicians and artists who will perform during the three-day Frantasia Festival of Out Music and Arts on Thursday, Aug. 18, at the University of Maine at Farmington and on Friday, Aug. 19, and Saturday, Aug. 20, in the auditorium of the Treat Memorial Library in Livermore Falls.
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