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12k artist Sawako brings her own brand of sonic alchemy to Leicester on the 16th July for a special performance in the atmospheric surroundings of St Nicholas' Church, plus support from Annelie Nederberg.
Friday 16th July 2010, £5 on the door
doors open 7.30pm concerts starts at 8pm
St. Nicholas Church, St. Nicholas Circle, Leicester, LE1 5LX
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Bathysphere take over the gallery space at Fabrika for a 2 week exhibition of DIY electronic sound art, installations and hardware hacked instrumentation.
Buttons to press, knobs to turn, strange and bizarre sounds to be heard.
Works by Stu Smith (A.S.M.O), Michael Emanuel Gatt, John Richards, Neil Unreal, Circuit Ben
The exhibition runs from Monday 14th to Saturday 26th June at FabrikaIndependent Arts Centre, 68 - 70 Humberstone Gate, Leicester.
Open daily 10am to 5.30pm
On Friday 18th there will be a special concert with performances by John Richards, A.S.M.O., Circuit Ben, Neal Unreal, Gez McCoy and hardware hacked visuals by Iain Sharp.
£5 on the door, bring your own beer
tench presents another great line-up of the finest electronic and experimental music featuring:
- Cursor Miner (Live Album Preview) / http://www.myspace.com/cursorminer
- Threep (Live) / http://www.myspace.com/threepspace
- The Stylus Scribbler (Live) / http://www.myspace.com/thestylusscribbler
- Myoptik (Live/DJ) / http://www.myspace.com/myoptik
- Plutonic Pleasures / MSB (Live)
- Visuals from theLAB, Cuttlefish and others
- Installations and artworks
At the Independent Arts Centre on Humberstone Gate, Leicester. Entry £5.
www.stench.org.uk
Kanta Horio
Kanta Horio studied acoustics and sound art at the Kyushu Institute of Design in Fukuoka, Japan. He present audio performance using physical phenomena with electronic devices, kinetic objects, and assorted self-built gadgets. In recent presentations he has explored installations too. He has performed widely both internationally and throughout Japan. Alongside his performance activities, he organizes some unique events such as “dorkbot tokyo - people doing strange things with electricity”.
He also works as a developer of electronic devices and develops the project with musical instrument company Yamaha.
http://kanta.but.jp/
A.S.M.O.
ASMO (Anti Social Musik Order) is the ‘circuit bending’ project of artist and musician Stu Smith. He works with self made instruments custom built from the modified circuits of electronic toys, keyboards and other discarded gadgets. His work explores the sonic landscape of ‘circuit bent’ instruments and their integration into existing modular synthesizer systems. He writes and performs with the groups Threep and The Buoys and has performed at concerts and festivals across the UK, Europe and New York.
http://asmo23.wordpress.com/
Geist FND vs Auxilec
a live improvisation in the vein of Raster Noton / Pan Sonic using a combination of diy electronics, live sampling and custom coding plus realtime visual effects in Jitter.
DJ Myoptik
http://www.myspace.com/myoptik
£4 on the door
*note, there will be no bar, bring your own bottle*
Bathysphere are currently working with Michael Pinchbeck on an audio installation at the Cope Auditorium, Loughborough University.
The installation rums from Wed 13- Sat 16 & Wed 20- Sat 23 January, 2-6 pm.
Michael Pinchbeck remembers plays The Falcon Players have performed at Loughborough University. This sound installation brings back to life old stage directions (the words that were never meant to be heard) and sets them alongside personal reflections from members of the group.
The installation at the Cope Auditorium will sit somewhere between the amateur and the academic, onstage and offstage.
And The Curtain Falls marks the end of a series of projects stemming from an interest in amateur dramatics as both a mode of performance and a meditation on memory, nostalgia and loss.
25th October, 2009 - 4pm to 8pm @ The Art Organisation
Come to the Art Organisation on Sunday 25th October from 4pm for an afternoon and evening of the best in experimental and electronic music featuring:
- Myoptik DJ / stench.org.uk/profiles/myoptik
- Annelie Nederberg / stench.org.uk/profiles/annelie_nederberg
- Neal Unreal / stench.org.uk/profiles/neal_unreal
- James Kelly / stench.org.uk/profiles/james_kelly
- Pete Wyeth / pineapster.com/profiles/peter_wyeth
Followed by leading local bands and DJs presented by FD2D magazine from 8pm:
- Local DJs
- Masfino
- Starko / pineapster.com/profiles/starko
- Charlie and the Martyrs / pineapster.com/profiles/charlie_and_the_martyrs
- Deap People / pineapster.com/profiles/deap_people
Art expo and various happenings throughout the day. Part of OXJAM (wristband available for £5 in advance and gives access to 10 venues around Leicester) or £6 on the door (also gives access to all 10 venues). Also part of the FD2D Weekender.
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Max/MSP/Jitter is an extremely powerful and flexible toolkit for visual artists - but it can often seem daunting to get to grips with. In this course Sean Clark will be showing how Max/MSP/Jitter can be used to create customised video mixing and playback systems, how it can be used to control lighting and how it work with sensors an actuators. The course is intended for those who are fairly new to Max/MSP (and certainly Jitter), but it is suggested that you try to familiar yourselves with some of the basic concepts behind the software before the course starts. Attendees should bring a laptop (Mac or PC) with the latest Max/MSP and Jitter software installed on it (the free one month trial will be sufficient). There will be a short amount of time at the beginning of course to make sure that all student laptops are configured correctly. The lastest Max/MSP Jitter software can be downloaded from www.cycling74.com. During the course we will focus on Max/MSP/Jitter basics, followed by the creation of a simple video mixer, the processing of live video, then using MIDI controllers and DMX lighting and finally using the Arduino micro-controller. Whilst this *will* be a technical day, the ultimate goal of the training is to show artists how they can use the Max/MSP/Jitter to create interactive and responsive visual artworks. Sean Clark will be demonstrating examples of such work from his own practice and there will be plenty of opportunities for discussion about the creative aspects of working with interactive media.
When : Saturday 24th October 2009 10.30am to 5pm
Where : Bathysphere (click for map)
Cost : £80 (inclusive of VAT)
Limited to 10 places, book early to avoid disappointment.
email Stu ph@bathysphere.co.uk to book a place
Threep will be performing at A Thing About Machines Festival in Coventry on Friday 25th September 2009. A Thing About Machines is Coventry's first and best OTHER Art Festival dedicated to local hero Delia Derbyshire exploring art and music that uses, reinterprets, reviews or renews technology invented in the past 100 years.
The gig takes place at St John's Church, 188 Spon St, Coventry, CV1 3.
Also on the bill is British composer of the year, turntablist and sound artist Janek Schaefer and sonic and visual manipulators Modulate.
for more info on the festival and tickets go to athingaboutmachines.co.uk
Bathysphere's roving surround sound arts venue, the Nanoplex will be making it's next stop at the Luton Summer Festival on Wednesday 12th August. We'll be camped up in St Georges Square from 11am to 3pm so come along and see us for an immersive audio visual treat.
For this years Summer Sundae Fringe Festival Stench.org.uk are putting on a mini "Stenchival" hosted by Bathysphere and PVC.
The event takes place on the 7th and 8th August at the Great Central Gallery and Studios, Sussex St. Leiceter.
Friday 7th : Bathysphere presents an evening of diy electronics, vinyl manipulation, vocal improvisation and audio abstraction with performances from ASMO, Neal Unreal, James Kelly, Sam Dodson, Annelie Nederberg and Biscuit Tin Sound System DJs.
Saturday 8th : Presented by PVC, BJ Cole vs Myoptik (live), Mr.Underwood (live), Phaeleh (live), I-Mitri (live/dj), Wassim (DJ)
each night is £4 or £7 for both nights.
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