Bathysphere

Bathysphere presents an evening of surround sound and 360 degree projections

Armed with a bewildering array of bakelite knobs and patch cables Threep bring to the National Space Centre’s Planetarium a live incarnation of their audio / visual project 'Serious Play', exploring the sonic landscape of circuit bending, granular synthesis, and unconventional methods of musical composition. Pixel pushing projection specialists Vent Media will accompany Threep with a full 360 degree video show.

+ Chris Cousin’s Many Coloured Days

a meditation on changing mood presented as an audio visual work in surround sound, with video show by multi-media artists Sean Clark and Stu Smith.

Saturday 8th November
doors 7.30pm show starts 8pm

National Space Centre,
Exploration Drive,
Leicester,
LE4 5NS

This event is part of the Arena Festival of Contemporary Art

tickets £8 + booking fee, available from Rockaboom, 4 St. Martins Square, Leicester.
tel. 0116 253 8293

or contact : promo@bathysphere.co.uk to reserve tickets to pick up on the door.

The first in a regular podcast from Bathysphere is now online. First up is a 20 minute live set from hardware hacker A.S.M.O recorded at Add-Noizeum in Sheffield earlier this month.

http://www.bathysphere.co.uk/podcast.html

Bathysphere's resident circuit bender ASMO will be performing this coming Saturday 6th September at the Lantern Theatre, Kenwood Park Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield.
Add-Noizeum is an evening of circuit bending, electronic noise and weird music.
Tickets are £4 and available from Rare and Racy, Devonshire St, Sheffield. tel. 0114 2701916

http://addnoizeum.wordpress.com/

Summer Sundae Weekender
DeMontfort Hall and gardens, Leicester
8-9-10 August 2008

Now in our 5th year at Summer Sundae Bathysphere are proud to announce a veritable cornucopia of audio visual delights over all three days of the festival. Featuring some of the best the world of electronica has to offer, the cream of DMU's music tech students (past and present), a healthy slab of bass heavy dubstep and retina singeing video projections.
In association with DeMontfort University Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre
Clichk here for lineup

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