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)  
> zip
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>  you through the streets of Bangalore mobile in hand in. Be a Wifi-Hog  
> (US).
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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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> ----------Conference
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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  
> explore
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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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