Beginning on Wednesday, August 27 at 7:00pm and running continuously until Sunday, August 31 at midnight, KBOO will become a generator of altered states of consciousness as we do our best to shed the world of reason and rules and explore the Marvelous with a rich and wildly varied collection of material created locally, nationally and internationally over the almost 100 years since it all began.  For more information, on the One hundred one hours of innumerable small events which may or may not be related to one another, please see the special page.

Midnight—Nequaquum Vacuum present two hours of live improvised music, playing metal sheets and found objects in ways alternating between soothing and ferocious.

2a—2001 at 2. Every early morning between 2-4a during the festival we will be presenting material which we produced for our 2001 Dada/Surrealist Festival. Tonight we focus on recordings from the 2001 CABARET VOLTage AIRwavEs which included performances of works by Hugo Ball, Francis Picabia and Tristan Tzara. Also included will be readings of The Meaning of the Treat, a Paul Delvaux painting in words by Alain Joubert and “The Prophet's Ascent” from Tenderenda the Phantast by Hugo Ball in readings by Joanne Oleksiak and Richard Francis with music provided by Jessie Isaac and Michael Stirling.

6a—Rev. Jim Dancing Trout will host three hours of ethereal madness by artist Larry Carlson, the “Salvador Dali of the Next Century” according to G4Tech TV, who gives us a kind of disjointed representation of the slippery nature of the unconscious mind, driven to Dionysian extremes. Also tossed into this brain salad will be the likes of Alan Watts, Richard Brautigan and the fabulous Ken Nordine.

9a—John Cage Theater. Indeterminacy is a piece in which Cage mixes Zen with the chance operations of Dada and Surrealism. Ninety short koan-like stories of varying lengths whose order is determined by chance operations are read by Cage, each within a one-minute framework while simultaneously out of ear shot in another room David Tudor performs brief selections from Cage's work also chosen and arranged by chance operations and fit within each one-minute frame.

Noon—Noon Classics: Hugo Ball and Richard Hulsenbeck. Material taken from Ball's Tenderenda the Phantast  and Hulsenbeck's Fantastic Prayers read by Richard Francis to music by Jessie Isaac, Rolf Semprebon and Michael Stirling, plus other performances in recordings both historic and contemporary.

2p—Surrealist Theater. Etre Dieu is Salvador Dali's opera/poem with music by Igor Wakhevitch. First plotted in 1927 with Federico Garcia Lorca but not realized until 1974. With Alain Cuny, Delphine Seyrig, and of course, the Divide Dali as himself. In French and Spanish. If time permits we may be mounting an English translation on our website.

4:30p—Music by Arrington de Dionyso who performs live on bass clarinet.

5p—KBOO News. But what kind of news and from where exactly? Timeless news ripped from the writings of Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Robert Desnos, Pierre Reverdy, Jacques Rigaut and Tristan Tzara.

6p—Surrealist Game Show and/or Open Mic. As our brochure goes to press we plan on having the 6-7p slot open each day of the festival for either a surrealist phone-in game show, some late scheduling event, or perhaps an open microphone where listeners can walk or phone in and read/perform their own Dada/Surrealist material. In a Surrealist Game Show the game is not about competition but a game in which a Surrealist art work is created. What will actually appear in this slot will be found in our complete schedule at www.kboo.fm/dada.

7p—The Guts perform live The Origin of the Feces, or A Brief History of Slime in gutteral sounds somewhere between text and music.

7:30p—William Batty is scheduled to conduct a Dadaistic interview/performance.

8p—Cesar Vallejo. KBOO poet Barbara LaMorticella reads from the works of this great Peruvian poet who helped to invent surrealism, pronounced it dead, and then produced a body of passionate Communist/Surrealist work.

9p—The Dead Air Fresheners provide music and spoken word.

9:30p—Chuckles the phantom laugher appears live.

10p—Jennifer Robin provides a live reading of Lovely Italicized Queens Sing Sonatas of Shame.

10:20P—Mykle Hansen reads live.

10:50p—Spoken word by Mustafio.

11p—Naughty Bits: Eloge de la Betise ou les Peripeties des Ubu by Jacques Lejeune provides a musique concrete presentation of Ubuin French.