Just a quick reminder of selections from the event which instigated
this month's theme:
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> Futuresonic04
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> April 27th-May 8th 2004
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> Urbis and city wide
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> Manchester UK
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> A festival of electronic music and media arts
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> Featuring 250 artists & 50 projects and events
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> Est. 1995
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> Futuresonic live
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> Saturday May 1st
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> Free outdoor May Day event
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> Unite and Love Music Hate Racism present Dizzee Rascal stablemate
> Wiley (UK),
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> former N.A.S.T.Y. MC D Double E (UK), Metz & Trix (UK) and Virus
> Syndicate (UK)
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> showcasing the cutting edge new urban sound of Grime.
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> Sat May 1st
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> Location live
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> Live sound art in the unique surroundings of a fifteenth-century hall
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> Glide by Echo and the Bunnymen's Will Sergeant (UK), Mathew Gregory
> (UK), Vergil
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> Sharkya' (UK), Phil Mouldycliff (UK) and Colin Potter (UK). Curated by
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> Colin Fallows.
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> Saturday May 8th
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> Arrange and Process Basic Channel live
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> Closing party and profile club event of Futuresonic04 - a rare UK
> live set and
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> Futuresonic04 exclusive, Scion (DE) plays re-arranged and re-worked
> tracks from
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> the back catalogue of the legendary German techno outfit Basic
> Channel (Moritz
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> von Oswald and Mark Ernestus). Plus very special guests.
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> Mobile Connections
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> Exploring new horizons in wireless and mobile and the diverse ways in
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> artists and DIY technologists are pushing the limits, and soliciting
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> unexpected or unforeseen results from communication media past and
> present.
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> April 30th
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> Mobile Connections live
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> Renegade rollergirls from RICHAIR2030 (UK+++) patrolling the city in
> search
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> of wireless hotspots and SIGNAL_SEVER! (SLO/US/UK/FR/DE/RA) surfing
> the radio
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> zones of the electromagnetic spectrum
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> April 30th to May 2nd
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> Mobile Locations - Interactive experiences in the city streets
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> Set off into the city with InterUrban (US) to uncover an interactive
> story.
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> Try to make sense of a world in which you hear things 10 seconds
> after they
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> happen with Sonic Interface (JP). Text the numbers on the (area)code
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> signposts that have sprung up around Manchester to discover secret
> histories
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> or leave your own digital graffiti. Put on a pair of Aura (UK)
> headphones
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> and navigate the virtual sound environment in Cathedral Gardens.
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> April 28th to May 8th
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> Mobile Connections exhibition
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> Trace a journey in sound through Tokyo's bustling streets with
> Streetscape
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> (JP). Explore the immersive environment of Come Closer (UK). Play
> Schminky
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> (UK) while sat at the bar. Remix the city with The Central City (UK).
> Listen
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> to Disembodied Voices (US) plucked from the air. Let Auto Mobile (IN)
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> you through the streets of Bangalore mobile in hand in. Be a Wifi-Hog
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> Just say Telenono (UK).
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> April 28th to May 8th
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> Location installations
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> Sound installations curated by Colin Fallows. With John J. Campbell
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> Max Eastley (UK), Colin Fallows (UK), Lee Ranaldo (US), Russell Mills
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> Ian Walton (UK)
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> April 30th to May 2nd
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> Mobile connections workshops
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> Create your own animations and ringtones for mobile phones with
> the-phone-
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> book Limited (UK). Collaborate in close-proximity network communication
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> through Oscillating Windows (US). Build your own wireless network with
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> Consume (UK). Explore the interactive creative possibilities of the
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> Soundbeam (UK) sensing technology. Road test cutting edge location
> aware
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> technologies with Locative Media Lab (CA/UK/US).
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> The Mobile Connections conference at Urbis explores how geographical,
> cultural
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> and perceptual space are being reconfigured by wireless and mobile
> media.
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> Specific focus on the interventions of the freenetworks, how locative
> media
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> opens up new ways of experiencing the city, and how sound artists
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> space and the urban environment.
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> Friday April 30th
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> Introduction Drew Hemment (Futuresonic/UK)
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> Keynote Sadie Plant (UK)
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> Network Commons with Armin Medosch (AT), Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US),
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> TAKE2030 (UK+++).
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> Locative Media with Anthony Townsend (US), Marc Tuters (CA), Ben
> Russell (UK),
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> Anne Galloway (CA) - In association with Locative Media Lab
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> Creative Crossings with Tapio Makela (Programme Chair, ISEA2004/Vice
> Chair,
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> m-cult/FI), Susan Kennard (Executive Producer, Banff New Media
> Institute/CA),
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> Derek Freeman (UK) - Followed by reception. In association with Banff
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> New Media Institute, ACE and ISEA2004
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> Saturday May 1st
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> Keynote Matt Adams/Blast Theory (UK)
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> Wireless Interface with Marko Peljhan (Projekt Atol/Makrolab/SLO),
> Fee Plumley
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> (the-phone-book Limited/UK), Tom Melamed (Mobile Bristol/UK), Zoe
> Irvine (UK).
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> Sonic City with Christa Sommerer (AT) and Laurent Mignonneau (FR), Tom
> Wallace
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> (resonance.fm/UK), Steve Symons (UK).
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> Location with Colin Fallows (Chair, UK), Tim Cole (SSEYO/Tao Group
> UK), Hugh
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> Davies (UK), Max Eastley (UK), Russell Mills (UK)
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