+:+:+A FREE early evening event of live audiovisual noise
performance+:+:+
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av performance, hacked hardware, screaming circuits, hypnotic digital
flickers, dirty electronics, tonewheels, sensory response systems:?:
featuring:>:>:>:>:>:>:>:>:>:>:>:>:>:>:
JOHN BOWERS http://www.onoma.co.uk/
DISINFORMATION http://www.flickr.com/photos/disinfo/
MICK GRIERSON http://www.mickgrierson.co.uk/
DEREK HOLZER http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html
RYAN JORDAN http://ryanjordan.org/
MARTIN L http://www.myspace.com/gokkuchan
JULIEN OTTAVI http://noiser.org/
JOHN RICHARDS http://www.jsrichards.com/
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Wednesday 18th March 2009
6pm-9pm
Small Cinema
Goldsmiths Uni
New Cross
London
The first performance will begin at 6pm
!!!!!!!FREE ENTRY!!!!!!!
Guests:>:>:>:>
DEREK HOLZER
Derek
Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound artist with a background in radio,
webstreaming and environmental recording. His work focuses on capturing
and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban
locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in
improvisational sound and the use of free software such as Pure-Data.
He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR and
Gruenrekorder labels, and has co-initiated several internet projects
for field recording and collaborative soundscapes including
Soundtransit.nl.
JOHN RICHARDS
John Richards’ (1966) work
explores performing with self-made instruments and the creation of
interactive environments. He has worked with many leading improvisers
and musicians in the field of live electronics, and is a founder member
of electro-noise improvisers kREEPA, the post-punk group Sand (Soul
Jazz Records), and the composers’ collective nerve8: an experimental
electroacoustic diffusion group. Recent concerts have included
performances at IRCAM (Paris), Fylkingen (Sweden), the Bent Festival
(Los Angeles), Sonar (Barcelona), and the Purcell Room, Southbank
Centre (London).
In 2002, his work with kREEPA helped initiate the
OIK project at STEIM, Amsterdam, that involved the hacking of
commercially available hardware to create economic musical interfaces.
Since 2005, he has directed the Dirty Electronics Ensemble, giving
workshops and performances internationally that has included
collaboration with Japanese noise artist Merzbow. He performs regularly
with Nic Bullen as Black Galaxy and kREEPA, as well as releasing solo
material on Bullen’s label monium. In 2007, he released a piece on
Gabriel Prokofiev’s nonclassical label for piano and electronics
performed by GéNIA with re-mixes by Vex’d and Max De Wardener amongst
others. Recent work includes collaboration with Tim Wright as
sevenlegspider developing systems for live performance and
installations.
He has written numerous articles on hybridity,
post-digital theory and dirty electronics: DIY and bricolage approaches
to working with sound. John Richards completed a doctorate in
electroacoustic composition at the University of York in 2002, and he
is currently part of the Music, Technology and Innovation Research
Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester. Since 1990, he has also
taught improvisation at Dartington International Summer School.
JULIEN OTTAVI
Mediactivist,
artist-researcher, musician and anarchitect, an active member of apo33,
Julien Ottavi is involved in research and creative work, combining
sound art, new technologies and construction of electronic devices. An
activist in the free software movement, he participated in the
production and the diffusion of APODIO free multimedia software
(www.apodio.org). He participates in, and produces, numerous events
such as conventions of researchers, artists and activists, sound art or
multimedia festivals, workshops on free sofware.
MARTIN L
Bulgarian noise artist Martin l performs at noise=noise for one show of
his European tour.
Electroacoustic improv, no-input harsh noise.
Residents:>:>:>:>
JOHN BOWERS
John
Bowers works with home brew electronics, self-made instruments and
reconstructions of antique image and sound-making devices, alongside
contemporary digital technology. He is concerned with making
performance environments that combine sound, vision and human gesture
at a fundamental physical level. Recent work includes projects to build
a music synthesizer using 19th century techniques (The Victorian
Synthesizer), explorations of random circuitry (Ohm-My-God), a
miniaturisation
of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville's Dreamachine (My Little
Dreamachine), and a reconstruction of early television technology (This
Nightlife Instrument). He was recently artist in residence at Fylkingen
in Stockholm. He is co-founder of the Onoma Research label and also
plays electric guitar in the fundamentalist noise rock band Tonesucker.
John Bowers is part of the Interaction Research Studio, Department of
Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.
DISINFORMATION
Through
his ground-breaking Disinformation project (active since 1995),noise DJ
and installation artist Joe Banks pioneered the use of electromagnetic
(radio) noise from sources such as live mains electricity, lightning,
industrial and IT hardware, laboratory equipment, trains, magnetic
storms and the sun as the raw material of musical and fine-art
publications, exhibits and events. Disinformation
has been the
subject of ten UK solo exhibitions, experienced by over 100,000 people
and described by The Guardian as some of the most beautiful
installations around.
MICK GRIERSON
Mick Grierson is an
experimental artist specialising in real-time interactive audiovisual
research, with specific focus on cognition and perception. He works in
film, music, and software development, both inside and outside
industry, designing, developing and producing new approaches to
creating audiovisual experience. In addition to working in traditional
roles in film and television, he has designed commercial audiovisual
software for the entertainment industries, which has led to several
high profile commissions, including title design and digital
audiovisual installations for the hit TV show Derren Brown: Trick of
the
Mind. In January 2008, he collaborated with the Sonic Arts Network to
create a freely available interactive audiovisual interface for use by
the deaf and hard of hearing. In addition he is lead developer on the
Mabuse Audiovisual Composition Software Environment. He is currently
working on a three year fully funded AHRC project on audiovisual
cognition at Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios.
RYAN JORDAN
Ryan
Jordan is a UK based artist working with home brew interfaces for
musical expression and DIY hardware. He is concerned with making noise
computer performances which incorporate human physical movements and
strobe lighting as the essential foundation for the performance. Ryan
also curates several noise, experimental and computer arts events and
concerts in the UK, such as hac... and noise=noise. He is an active
member of London based open source collective, OpenLab; and has
released music on Bad Sekta, Anithematica/CovenH, and AntiGen. Ryan has
performed his work in many places such as galleries, squats, pub
cellars, theatres, the odd town hall, festivals, academic institutions
and an occasional beach. He is currently living in London studying MFA
Computational Studio Arts at Goldsmiths University, London, UK.
