================================================= ULTRASOUND / 2004 / 25 / 26 / 27 November / ================================================= Ultrasound is a three day international festival exploring experimental sound, electronic music and the creative use of new and emerging technologies. Ultrasound 2004 presents a diverse programme of live performances, workshop, installation, presentations and DJ night. The live sets present UK and international creators of contemporary electronic music who use experimental programming techniques to create a range of musical performances embracing fractured, impossible rhythms and delicate organic sounds. + Please note - all events are FREE. www.ultrasound.ws ================================================= WORKSHOP / PURE DATA / WED 24 - FRI 26 / ================================================= Workshop Leaders: Andy Gracie, Enrike Hurtado, Thor Magnusson and Aymeric Mansoux. BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL! A hands on workshop designed for all skill levels; anyone can attend, but it will be of special interest to artists, new media practitioners, video artists, musicians, graphic, multimedia, and 3D designers. The workshop explores open source coding environments and tools, new instruments, concepts, and play for multimedia. Introducing Pure Data, Python, SuperCollider, Processing, and Max/MSP. After a short introduction to these environments, we explore how they can communicate with each other via a new protocol called OSC [Open Sound Control]. We present the fundamentals of device control, using the Teleo system within Max/MSP. A Digital Research Unit event, part of the Creative Labs series of workshops. Supported by Yorkshire Forward as part of the Centre of Excellence in Digital Design at the University of Huddersfield. To book please contact Clare Danek on: 0870 990 5007 or email: [log in to unmask] http://gem.iem.at http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html http://processing.org ================================================= ALKU DJs [ES] / THU 25 / 7.30pm - Late / ================================================= Anna Ramos and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros have been active in the area of computer music and digital arts since 1997, both creating music and installations and publishing other artists material on their home label, Alku. These include: Jliat, Edwin van der Heide, Hecker, Charlie Ferrari, Wobbly, Yasunao Tone, Team Doyobi, Powerbooks for Peace and Pita. Alku return this year with an eclectic DJ set, playing classic computer music, early electroacoustics, whale songs, bluegrass, black metal and everything in between. http://personal.ilimit.es/principio ================================================= SHOWCASE / FRI 26 / 10am - 4.30pm / ================================================= A Digital Research Unit event featuring presentations, demonstrations and discussions relating to the application of new technologies to creative practice. Chaired by Drew Hemment, Director, Futuresonic. Steve Symons | Aura A sonic multi-user augmented reality that allows users to create a personal audio landscape through their actions within a defined space, and in doing so, they also alter the soundscape for other users. Alex McLean | TOPLAP The application of live programming to composition and performance. TOPLAP advocates treating algorithms as live artistic material, allowing them to be written and manipulated on the fly. Andrew Wilson | Anywhereblogs A locative media project which allows anyone with a mobile phone to join in location based conversations with others. Tuomo Tammenpää | Creative R&D Computer vision and video tracking within a Max/MSP environment. Combined with physical computing prototypes these experiments form a basic set of participatory tools for installation based interactive artwork. ================================================= FARMERSMANUAL [AT] / FRI 26 / 7.30pm - Late / ================================================= Farmersmanual is a pan-European, multisensory disturbance conglomerate creating new instruments for improvisation, networked performances and remote collaboration, developing ways of recording that encourage openness and reinterpretation. Farmersmanual have created a series of performances and installations since 1996, continuously expanding their performance and publishing practice from music concerts to interdisciplinary cultural, aesthetic and political experiments, which move away from static representations of art and culture, towards environments where the public becomes an essential part of the work. Their latest experiments focus on integrating virtual and physical space to create synaesthetical objects, presenting an interconnected, holistic view of the world by layering sensual experiences. Extracting a shadow from the skeleton of network flow. A layer of technological reality usually hidden becomes accessible through mediation into sound and visual flicker. Erratically shifting from chittering machines into the human realm. Replay in different timescales. Different times. Different speeds. Useless information still unpredictable. During Ultrasound, Farmersmanual will produce a networked concert between Huddersfield and elsewhere. http://www.farmersmanual.co.at ================================================= KLIPP AV [UK/SE] / FRI 26 / 7.30pm - Late / ================================================= Presented in accordance with the TOPLAP manifesto, so we can see [as well as hear] beat cutting and body rocking algorithms develop. Fredrik Olofsson works with visual and audio art, programming, secret intelligence agents, and cafés. Fredrik is the more important and generally better turned out half of klipp av. Nick Collins is secretly a hard working music researcher who develops new technologies for laptop performance. Nick is the more important and generally better turned out half of klipp av. Live audiovisual cutting is the linking of interactive generative beats with video and computer graphics. A klipp av performance is extremely live all algorithmic composition runs in realtime under a host of user controls, including the difficult but powerful method of live coding, that is, programming SuperCollider on the fly. The audience witness the use of live video, scratched and cut up in sync with the audio cutters running in the music. Stutters in sound translate into stutters in video, while the performers themselves dance frantically for the cameras; the audience is involved through video and audio capture. More subtle and abstract mappings are used, aside from live video, some fantastic demonstrations of the techniques come with the control of generative 3D graphics. http://www.klippav.org ================================================= MILEECE [UK] / FRI 26 / 7.30pm - Late / ================================================= Mileece was born in 1978 in London, England. She has a degree in Sonic Art where she specialised in generative computer programming languages. Her first album Formations [Lo-Recordings] is comprised of a series of compositions, wholly or partly derived from programs she wrote in SuperCollider. The compositions themselves were inspired by formations in nature: the rotating progression of sparse then condensed spouts of growth in plants, the changing hues and intensities of light, the sudden changing gusts to wisps of the wind, the unfathomably intricate structures of snowflakes, the random patterns of raindrops as they fall to ground. Mileece believes that the computer can be transformed from an inanimate object to something capable of participating in the creation of music in a way which is interactive with the composer as well as the audience. In her programs, the computer assumes the role of performer within a spectrum from the spontaneous to the directed [even at times co-composer], navigating through restricted chance operations to generate its uncannily human sounding formations and sundry levels of listening. http://www.mileece.net ================================================= STEPHAN MATHIEU [DE] / SAT 27 / 7.30pm - Late / ================================================= Stephan Mathieu is a digital artist who lives in Saarbrücken, Germany. He spent a good part of the 90s as an improvising drummer in Berlin but now works mainly in the field of digital music. Stephan¹s music [either released under his own name or as Full Swing] is infused with a warmth and glow usually associated with analogue sound production. Using extracts of melodies and texture from various sources, he weaves deep, beautiful evolving soundscapes bathed in swathes of static and hiss. He also creates sound installations, graphic design and teaches digital arts and conceptual practice at the University for Arts and Design, Saarbrücken and works as a guest lecturer at the Bauhaus University, Weimar and the Merz-Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany. Stephan¹s music has been released on Fällt, Ritornell, Korm Plastics, EN/OF, Lucky Kitchen, Brombron, Hapna and Orthlorng Musork. |--- -- | --- | - -| || http://www.bitsteam.de ================================================= MARK FELL [UK] / SAT 27 / 7.30pm - Late / ================================================= Topology is a branch of mathematics concerning possible spaces and objects: curves, surfaces, knots, manifolds, phase spaces, symmetrical groups, etc. The work explores spatial and temporal deformations, twistings, rotations, reflections and stretchings. Here spaces and objects are not self-evident and singular, but multiple, irregular, anomalous. The work began as a documentation of recent installations some in public spaces, some gallery works, some large works, some small. Inspired by the problems brought up by this activity, instead of using recordings to document them, ten processes came about, each of which relates to the spaces and works in a different way; a recording, or system used to run the work, a pattern, a method or technique, a way of working, a name, or a reference point outside the work. Mark Fell was born and educated in Sheffield. His works, usually interactive, time based or generative, draw upon an interest in contemporary philosophy, computer science, and being human. With collaborator Mat Steel he works as snd, releasing on Mille Plateaux [Frankfurt], with other projects on OR [London], Line [New York], and Fals.ch [Vienna]. Mark¹s major works have been show at Hong Kong National Film archive, ISEA [Paris], Sonar [Barcelona], Creativity Cognition Studios [Sydney], Siggraph [LA], Mutek [Montreal] and others. http://www.markfell.com ================================================= TABLEX [UK/FR] / SAT 27 / 7.30pm - Late / ================================================= TOPLAP [Temporary Organisation for the Promotion of Live Algorithm Programming], was set up to explore the application of live programming to composition and performance. TOPLAP advocates treating algorithms as live artistic material, allowing them to be written and manipulated while they create music or video, perhaps in front of an audience. Tablex is a collaboration between Alex Garacotche of Voodoo Muzak and Alex McLean of slub. Garacotche plays processed drums, his software chopping up and restructuring his sound into fractured, impossible rhythms. McLean writes Perl software live according to the TOPLAP manifesto, working with his code as musical material, generating wigged-out skiffle. Two unusual directions towards the simple end of making very live, improvised computer music. http://toplap.org ================================================= SI-CUT.DB [UK] / SAT 27 / 7.30PM - LATE / ================================================= Hailing from Brentford, West London, Douglas Benford has been releasing his digital music under the alias SI-CUT.DB since 1991. As well as the SI-CUT.DB moniker, with seven albums released under this guise, Benford has also recorded as Radial Blend, Pantunes Music, Phoenix Jig and Media Form. Benford has collaborated with Scanner, Rechenzentrum, Janek Schaefer, Iris Garrelfs, Stephan Mathieu, Benge [currently as Tennis], and Tonne. Ranging from microsound and electronica to dub, Benford has released music on Fällt, Bip Hop, Back Ground, Highpoint Lowlife and 12K. Benford's current approach to his SI-CUT.DB work tends, with perfomances and recordings, to use a variety of softwares [generative and file morphing is a trademark] and sound sample source techniques from improvised acoustic recordings and lo-fi childrens keyboards, which are then edited, effected, and sequenced. The latest SI-CUT.DB album entitled Offices At Night is recently released on the Fällt label, with remixes up-coming from Mitchell Akiyama, Akira Rabelais, Hrvatski and others. He has played Ars Electronica, Tate Modern, Nokialab, Transmediale, Sintesi and New Forms festivals, and has been a co-curator of Sprawl electronic music events and label for over eight years, as well as founding the Suburb Of Hell and Pantunes labels. http://home.earthlink.net/~efrans/benford ================================================= ULTRASOUND / INSTALLATION / rand()%lab / ================================================ by Tom Betts and Joe Gilmore. rand()% is commissioned by Media Centre Network. rand()%lab is a group exhibition created by Tom Betts and Joe Gilmore. rand()% is an automated internet radio station broadcasting real-time generative music by sound artists and programmers. rand()%lab features installations by Joe Gilmore, Tom Betts and Alku, and a selection of audiovisual works by Dextro, Lia, Miguel Carvalhais, Steinbrüchel, Brusa, Renox, Thor Magnusson, Runar Magnusson and Birta Thrastardottir. http://www.r4nd.org/lab ================================================= VENUE / ================================================= The Media Centre 07 Northumberland St Huddersfield HD1 1RL England +44 [0]870 990 5007 [log in to unmask] ================================================= ================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Holley | Creative Director | Media Centre Network | ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.mcnetwork.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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