Bathysphere

Following on from on it's very successful visit to Futuresonic in Manchester last month the Nanoplex will be making it's next outing to Expo Brighton, the UK’s largest weekend of free sound art and experimental music, 4-6 July 08.

All the usual Nanoplex favourites will be screened plus new works currently in production. Check out the Nanoplex page for the current programme of work.

expofestival.org
sonicartsnetwork.org

Amsterdam based electronic music institute Steim (studio for electro-instrumental music) is in danger of losing it's funding from the Dutch government.

"Things are not well at STEIM. We are in the danger of losing our structural funding from the government, based on a review from the advisor board which called us 'closed and only appealing to a niche audience'. The outlook isn't exactly bleak, but at the moment our future is unclear."

If you're part of the 'niche audience' for Steim (i.e. you enjoy doing interesting musical things with electricity) then please click here and spend two minutes filling out an email form to write a letter to the Dutch government.

Thanks to Music Thing for the heads up.

Bathysphere's roving surround cinema the Nanoplex will be making it's first outing of the year at Futuresonic 2008 in Manchester on the 3rd and 4th of May.

Bathysphere have collaborated with visual artists and filmmakers to produce a programme of audio-visual work. The current programme includes works by Kangding Ray, Cuttlefish, Vent Media and Flotel, Threep, The Buoys, Steve Friendship, James Tarling, Michael Shaw, Max Crow and Aaron Bradbury, Stu Smith and Barry Hale.

The Nanoplex will be part of 'The Futuresonic Social' which will be in and around Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester.

Steve Friendship's beautiful video for The Buoys track Dehli Handkerchief has been awarded a Platinum Remi for Live Action at the 41st WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
Congratulations Steve.

http://www.worldfest.org/

If you'd walked into the Bathysphere studio over the last few weeks you'd be forgiven for thinking you were in the Brazillian rain forest. Bathysphere have been working with Ph.D student Serena Alexander to realise a version of her composition 'Jungular', an electro acoustic piece for voice and electronics.

Serena Alexander is a Ph.D student in composition at BEAST, the Birmingham Electro Acoustic Sound Theatre, focusing on multi-channel works. Serena recently completed a Masters in Music Technology at De Montfort University, Leicester, where through practice-led research she explored the combination of sung voice with electronics and multi speaker systems, focusing on extended vocal techniques and their mapping in space. She is currently involved in curating and presenting a concert series in Montréal, Canada based on her musicological research into Spatiosonics, the spatialisation of sounds using multi channel systems.

Jungular will be performed at The Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, a comprehensive sound diffusion system for the performance of electro-acoustic music, incorporating over 100 loudspeakers.

The concert will take place at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham on the 9th of March at 8pm.

STENCH II : ELECTRO SPECIAL
FRIDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2007 @ THE OLD MILL, LEICESTER UK
STENCH presents Iris B. Cegarra's documentary 'Darkbeat : An Electro World Voyage'
With dj's UPROKK [transient force / monotone usa], DEXORCIST [control tower / dead silence], PRIMARY INTAFACE [ememtium]
plus live electro bass from
THE HIDDEN PERSUADER [access tonal communications], STEVE AUXILEC [auxilec]
space age visuals from
ASMO . OMEGA MASTER SYSTEM . MORGS + machinima exhibition in the chill out room
stench.org.uk

Friday 5th October, The Y Theater, East Street, Leicester.
STENCH is an artist-led forum that brings innovative and experimental performance to an adapted warehouse space in a former industrial part of Leicester city centre. Events happen on the first Friday of each month during the student calendar that bring together local and international artist. STENCH is interested in the promotion and dissemination of: sonic art, improvisation, installations, noise, silence, dangerous experiments, twisted beats, dirty electronics, deep bass, visualisations, new media, and exhibitions.

Murcof (Leaf), Helena Gough (Entr’acte), Hilary Jeffery (FMR), Bathysphere : Nanoplex Macro, Sally Rose Renner: live drawing, DJ Steve Auxilec, DJ Dushume.
more info stench.org.uk

Friday 31st August | Market Square, Derby City Centre | 6 p.m. til late

Summer's End Festival on the BBC Big Screen showcasing new experimental musical and animated films from across the East Midlands. The event will feature artists, filmmakers and musicians from Derby [Trinity Family and Rukus], Leicester [Bathysphere], Nottingham [Take 1 Studios], plus a range of regionally made films from across the experimental, music and animated film genres

Summer Sundae is almost upon us once again and our 4th year sees us presenting a great line up of live electronic artists on the Rising Stage, a host of new collaborative audio visual work in our Nanoplex and live visual artists in the indoor stage.

Rising Stage full line up (Friday)

Pole (~scape), Kangding Ray (Raster-Noton), Modified Toy Orchestra (Warm Circuit), Badun (Rump), The Buoys (Bathysphere), kREEPA vs ASMO (Monium / Bathysphere), Flotel (Expanding), Saab 900

www.summersundae.com

Bathysphere's own mobile surround cinema, the Nanoplex will be showcasing new colaborative audio visual work, at Faster Than Sound, Bentwaters Airbase, Suffolk on Saturday 9th June.
Featuring exclusive 5.1 mixes from The Buoys debut album "Grillo Parlante" with videos from Sean Cuttlefish, Steve Friendship and Stu Smith.
Nanoplex favourite Freud's Bus Stop directed by James Tarling screens for a second season with a brand new electro-acoustic soundtrack.