Rational Rec - Tuesday 4 April and call for films

RATIONAL REC presents WE'LL COUNT YOU!

You are invited to the 7th thrilling installment of Rational Rec, the 
monthly inter-art social occasion, incorporating sound, music, text, 
performance, film and psychological experiments. Come along and be 
artistically, intellectually and alcoholically stimulated.

Tuesday, 4th April 2006
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
44 Pollard Row, London E2
(5 mins from Bethnal Green tube)
£5 on the door
DOORS OPEN AT 7PM.

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WE'LL COUNT YOU!
instrumental and body compositions
Performed by Pauwels / Anaraki / Helbich - The Calculators

First
Would you keep your countanance, if you were counted up by three 
counts, who counter every counterfeit with country-songs?
Not us.
We count on you.

Second
That's what we will do for you:
- 'Counting Song' by Fluxus artist Emmett Wiliams.
- 'Go Guitars' by Lois V Vierk for 1 electric guitar & 4 electric 
guitars on tape
- 'Foxfire Eins "Natriumpentothal"' for guitar by Helmut Oehring
- Pieces for guitar and air-guitar by David Helbich.
- '12! Ein Zahlengedicht' by experimental poet Gerhard Rühm
- 'aldinorm' and 'aldidivers' for toy piano & tape by David Helbich

Third
That's what you will have to do yourself:
- feel invited
- remember or invent your favorite number
- guess, what's next
- win our favorite number!
- find the way home after...

THE CALCULATORS
DANCER Shila Anaraki (Germany, b.1976) works as a dancer and actress; 
her favourite directors inlcude Wanda Golonka (Frankfurt), Sophie Kokaj 
(Brussels) and Armel Roussel (Brussels).
GUITARIST Tom Pauwels (Belgium, b.1974) is an artistic advisor of 
Ictus, and also plays with Plus-Minus, Black Jackets Company and 
Elastic 3. He teaches at the Conservatory of Gent.
COMPOSER David Helbich (1973, Berlin) studied composition with Mathias 
Spahlinger in Freiburg. As a composer he has worked with groups such as 
Ensemble Modern, Black Jackets Company, Cornelius Cardew Ensemble, +- 
and Maulwerker.

Rational Rec is run by Russell Martin, Cecilia Wee and Matthew 
Shlomowitz
http://www.rationalrec.org.uk/



CALL FOR FILMS:

For Rational Rec's first annual film night, Rational Reels, we are 
looking for films for single-screen digital projection at Bethnal Green 
Working Men's Club on Tuesday 6 June 2006.

To submit a film, send it to:

Russell Martin
5A Norland Road
London W11 4TS

by Tuesday 2 May.

Please note that this is also a Rational Rec night, and films can be 
submitted directly if you come along to the event.

Submissions:
- Films must be a maximum of 10 minutes in length.  Preference will be 
shown to films around 3-5 minutes, but longer and shorter films are 
welcome.
- If you would like your film returned, please send a suitable envelope 
with the correct postage and a return address.
- Please only send films on MiniDV.
- Films will be projected on a single-screen via digital projection.
- We are unable to pay an exhibition fee.
- You are welcome to send text / information about your film, but this 
is not necessary.  No CV's please.