JUNE TUESDAYS POST in collaboration with Music Hackspace

WHEN: Tuesday 17th June, 8pm-midnight
WHERE: The Strongroom Bar again. 120-124 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3SQ
FREE ENTRY

Featuring:

STEVE BERESFORD, BLANCA REGINA & SHARON GAL

Blanca Regina – White Emotion. Born in Madrid, Spain 1980, Blanca Regina is currently lecturing at University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid and is a visiting research fellow at University of the Arts London (2011-2014). Her practice encompass expanded cinema, free improvisation, moving image, photography and audiovisual performance. Her research is focused on the study of sound and image processes, multimedia language aesthetics and content. In 2010, she has been awarded a doctorship in Humanities in the University Rey Juan Carlos with the thesis·” El VJ y la creación audiovisual performativa: una estética radical de la performatividad.”

Steve Beresford – http://www.discogs.com/artist/123904-Steve-Beresford
Internationally known as a free improviser on piano and electronics, Steve Beresford has also scored feature films and music for TV and commercials. Steve has worked with hundreds of musicians, including The Slits, Han Bennink, Christine Tobin, Ivor Cutler, Prince Far-I, Alan Hacker, Ray Davies, Ilan Volkov, David Toop, Najma Akhtar, Evan Parker, Adrian Sherwood, The Flying Lizards, Otomo Yoshihide and John Zorn and has an extensive discography.2014 sees the third tour of ‘Indeterminacy’, in which comedian Stewart Lee reads one-minute stories by John Cage whilst Beresford and fellow pianist Tania Chen play music. Beresford plays with and conducts the London Improvisers Orchestra every month. He also regularly collaborates with musicians such as Elaine Mitchener, Blanca Regina, John Butcher, Satoko Fukuda and Shabaka Hutchings, playing at venues like Café Oto in Dalston, London.Steve was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.

Sharon Gal – Voice / electronics / free improvisation / collaborative group compositions / field recordings / radio / mixed media /

Performing solo, and in regular collaborations with Steve Beresford, Steve Noble, Alex Ward, John Edwards, Dylan Nyoukis, Phil Minton / Feral Singers and Andie Brown
Also performing a series of collaborative group compositions ; L’esprit d’escalier – for voices in a staircase,
Long Drone – for a large ensemble of various instruments, Gals with Guitars – For female guitar players,
Toy Orchestra – for children and adults.
I’m a founder member of London’s arts radio, Resonance 104.4 FM and over the past eleven years, have been presenting and producing various programmes, including; Diggers, with Edwin “Savage Pencil” Pouncey, Venus Rising,
In Search of Inspiration , and Stereo Cilia, a weekly sound-diary.
My music was released by Ash International/ Paradigm records/ Chocolate Monk / Emanem / Ecstatic Yod.
with the most recent 7” release, Melancoholic, on American Tapes Label.

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CASSIEL

Nick Rothwell [cassiel] is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper (choreographer Michael Klien) and for Braunarts, and interactive installations for Sonic Arts Network, TECHNE (Istanbul) and the Kinetica kinetic art fair (London). He has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe) and has composed soundtracks for choreographers Aydin Teker (Istanbul) and Richard Siegal (Laban Centre), and performed with Laurie Booth (Dance Umbrella, New Territories), and at the Different Skies Festival (Arcosanti, Arizona), the ICA, and the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.

As part of the Monomatic project he worked on the design and programming of a laser-controlled virtual church bell tower as the headline art commission for Sound and Music’s Expo Festival in 2009, and a magnetically-triggered modular music box shown at Kinetica, Netaudio London (at the Roundhouse) and the BEAM festival.

He has collaborated with body>data>space to develop performance systems and sound scores for projects at CIANT (Prague) and in London. He is currently working on 3D software-based visual artworks for Wayne McGregor|Random Dance at the Wellcome Trust, music composition for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, algorithmic visuals for choreographers Kate Sicchio and Nina Kov, and with Simeon Nelson and Rob Godman, having designed and programmed algorithmic physics animations for large-scale outdoor projection in Poland (Skyway Festival), Estonia (Valgus Festival, Tallinn), Cambridge Music Festival and Lumiere Durham.

Web http://www.cassiel.com/
SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/cassiel
Twitter @cassieldotcom

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DARKROOM & GEORGINA BRETT

Georgina Brett- ‘s music is created using her voice and effects pedals, creating instant choirs of sound often in an hypnotic style. The point of this music is not only to captivate with extraordinary timing and melodic style but also to help the listener to relax, in our ever increasingly fast world.
Her double album of vocal works with no lyrics, called Nonsense A and Nonsense B highlights the voice as an instrument, and as a vehicle for emotional expression. “So much music is to make us feel something so as to manipulate, buy or to follow.. this album let’s your thoughts be whatever they want to be.” Intellectually, Georgina’s music adheres to some modernist and avant-garde principles but using harmonious parameters, instead of the more dissonant style of it’s post-WW1 WW2 exponents. Georgina’s music is also gradually becoming a great vehicle for more experimental work delving into expressive work which plays with the rich world of the media, politics, history, using matrices, semiotics and phonetics.

latest news?
Youtube of Georgina Brett live at April 2014 Tuesdays Post Here:

New Soundcloud recording of Performance April 25th at St Mary Aldermary, London Here: https://soundcloud.com/georginabrett/bach-c-major-prelude-but-not-as-you-know-it-live-extended-version

Darkroom- The UK-based duo of Michael Bearpark (guitars) and Andrew Ostler (synths) expertly ride the line between luscious, old-school progressive rock and modern ambient electronics. At times reminiscent of early Tangerine Dream, with hints of Fripp and Eno, Darkroom creates clouds of sequenced synths, chewy grooves, and looped phrases to support a variety of acoustic and electric guitar melodies that twist and turn in surprising, occasionally aggressive, ways. Moody and well-orchestrated, this release takes you places.

“The term “progressive electronica” is definitely an apt one for this duo. It’s accessible and addictive, while remaining expansive and exploratory. Quite a feat. I’ve been listening to these guys for nearly 20 years. Darkroom is a constant source of intrigue, wonder and invention.” Anil Prasad April 2014

latest news?
Soundcloud upload of Darkroom live at April 2014 Tuesdays Post here:
https://soundcloud.com/darkroom/tuesdays-post-15th-april-2014-part-1
Great interview by Anil Prasad with Michael Bearparkhttp://innerviews.org/inner/bearpark.html

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TADEO SENDON

Tadeo Sendon (untitled): Evolving audio samples mixed with a selection of full tracks, generated randomly with a simple button Max based interface. This performative work experiments with the notion of generative sampling and aleatory sound sources used in live sets, while it also confronts the authorship of the performer against the restrictions and lack of decision provided by a generative software.

We are excited to announce that Music Hackspace is hosting a one day Hackathon during NIME 2014 Open Day event on Friday 4th of July, at Goldsmiths Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building.

To welcome participants, introduce challenges and form groups, we are launching the Hackathon in advance, this Thursday 12th June as part of our regular meet ups.

Meet us this Thursday with Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut and Adam John Williams to get involved and hear more about the Hackathon challenges presented by Heart n’ Soul and Drake Music.

Registration and further details of the Hackathon will be announced in the meetup. The theme of this Hackathon will be assistive and adaptable musical interfaces.

Hackathon Launch: Thursday 12th June 7pm, at Troyganic Cafe, 132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DY

Open Day and Hackathon: Friday 4th of July (all day), at Goldsmiths Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building.

About NIME:
NIME is the premier conference in designing human-computer interfaces and interactions for musical performance. NIME gathers researchers and practitioners around lectures, installations, concerts and workshops. For more details about the NIME 2014 conference please visit http://www.nime2014.org

When: Thursday 29th May, 7:00pm
Where: 132 Kingsland Road London E2 8DY Shoreditch

Patchblocks are stand-alone programmable synthesizer modules. Turn them into filters, sequencers, oscillators, or anything you can think of with an easy to use visual programming environment. Plug them into each other or use them with other music gear. You can also easily share your patches online and learn from the community.

Sebastian Heinz, the creator of Patchblocks, will be giving an introduction to the software and hardware. Whether you are already a Patchblocks user or new to the platform come on down and meet other like-minded individuals for some hands-on fun and noise at the London Music Hackspace.

http://www.patchblocks.com

When: Wednesday 21st May 7.00pm
Where: Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, near Hoxton station, at the corner of Cremer street.

Faust [Functional Audio Stream] is a Domain Specific Language designed for real-time signal processing and sound synthesis. It is a fully compiled language, the Faust compiler translates Faust programs into equivalent imperative programs (typically C++, LLVM, Java, etc.), taking care of generating efficient code. The generated code is self-contained and suitable for embedded systems, like OWL pedal for instance, plug-ins as well as standalone applications.

A Faust program says nothing about audio drivers, GUI toolkits and more generally how to relate the computation on signals it describes to the external world. This information is provided by architecture files. This separation of concerns, between the computation and its usage, allows a same Faust program to be compiled for a large variety of platforms (Web, Android, iOS, Linux, OSX, OWL, Raspberry PI, Windows) and formats (Csound, Jack, LADSPA, LV2, MaxMSP, PD, VST, etc.).

This hands-on session will be the opportunity to discover Faust and its eco-system. Participants are encouraged to bring their own equipments (computers, Android or iOS smartphones, Raspberry PI or OWL pedals) to try it. The Faust distribution is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/faudiostream/

Yann Orlarey has been a member of Grame since 1983, and is currently the scientific director of this organization. His own research is concerned mainly with formal languages for musical composition, and real-time operating systems. He is the co-author with is colleagues Dominique Fober and Stéphane Letz of the Faust programming language.

On Thursday 8th of May, Paul Pignon will be sharing his 50-year experience of free improvisation and engagement with electronic music instruments.

WHERE:  Troyganic, 132 Kingsland Road, near Hoxton station, at the corner of Cremer street.

WHEN: Thursday 8th of May 2014, 7pm

 

WHAT: Paul said: “I had imagined it would be some kind of general forum where people talked about what they’re doing or have done, and if anyone was interested I could say a few words about the studio I helped set up in Belgrade and the Synthi 100 custom built for that studio, and/or about some of the programming and composing I have done at EMS Stockholm, and/or about Fylkingen and/or my 50 years experience in free improvisation.

Just off the cuff and brief.

AND ALSO: We invite everyone to come and bring their project to share, get or give advice!

Music Hackspace event: Sound performance with SQ
When: Wednesday 30th of April, 7.30pm
Where: 132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DYSQ

SQ (Sound Quartet) explores music inaccessible to contemplative composition. Devoting many hours to develop skills which circumvent learning and amplify responses to the moment. Each piece is a sortie into uncertainty along paths never followed before, with assiduous unpremeditation and susceptibility of mind and body as our guides. States far from equilibrium can branch on barely perceptible quantum quivers to sublime and unexpected trajectories, even a false step can open a new passage if grasped as a sign.. We hope the listeners will come along and find the journeys rewarding.

SQ will showcase a set of wind and electronics live improvisation, interspersed with short EAM pieces. Visuals will be provided by Viktor Zeidner of Deadpixel. There will also be a chance to talk about their work, practise and upcoming events.

Thomas Bjelkeborn is a sound artist, electronic musician and acousmatic composer from Sweden. He is also a curator for the PUSH festival and Club Lamour in Gävle and Stockholm. He has performed at many electroacoustic and electronic festivals on all continents.

Thomas will play Alpha Position U, composed in autumn 2007 in Studio Alpha at Visby International Center for Composers in Sweden with a grant awarded by The Swedish Society of Composers.

Paul Pignon:
Playing and composing music of almost every kind for nearly 60 years, physics degree, pioneer in EAM. First foray into non-idiomatic improvisation in 1962 (Oxford). Has lived about equally in the UK, Yugoslavia and Sweden.

Paul’s contribution will be the first movement from Adagio Lugubre.

Digital Design Drop-in: Music Hackspace
What: Free talks and tours
When: Saturday 26 April, 13.00-16.00
Where: V&A, Room 21a
Entry: Free, Drop-in, no booking required

Music Hackspace will be taking over the next pop-up studio showcase at the V&A. Drop-in anytime between 13.00 and 16.00 to meet great examples of work and Music Hackspace members including:

Tasos Stamou‘s circuit bended toys.
Andy Farnell.
Oscilla, by Andrea Santini.
Water Speaker, by Saif Bunny and Tim Yates.
Silly Beats, by Eshan Ziya.
Untitled work in progress by 0AH (Borja Caro).

When: Thursday 17th April, 7.30 pm
Where: 132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DY

Oscilla is a scalable interactive audiovisual instrument designed & developed by Andrea Santini at UBIKteatro (Venice), which enables musical interplay between multiple users within a responsive, projected visual environment.

Inspired by the Latin ‘Oscilla’ (votive objects that would swing in the wind) and by the Victorian ‘Harmonograph’ (a mechanical instrument for visualising frequency relationships), OSCILLA is a playful exploration of the oscillatory roots of sound, of its visualisation, of the foundations of music and, ultimately, of the ‘harmonic’ relationships within groups.

A projected scalable interface allows for context-specific adaptability and for a variety of intuitive physical interaction paradigms whereby the positions and movements of people or objects, optically tracked within a given area, determine the volume and pitch of a set of sine-wave oscillators.Each position and frequency value is projected on the main surface, along with music notation, while a visual representation of the resulting combination of sounds (Lissajous curves) is plotted in real-time on a second screen.The oscillators’ outputs, when discretely amplified by multiple loudspeakers, also provide different auditory spatial perspectives into each harmonic structure, while enhancing natural acoustics and resonances of the installation space.

Participants can thus create morphing chords and harmonies, explore unusual microtonal intervals and beat frequencies while discovering the fascinating relationships between harmonic structures and their visual counterparts.

London-based producer Antwerp will showcase at the Music Hackspace presenting a polished blend of dreamy-ethnic sounds with field recordings and feel-good electro music.

When:Thursday 10th of April, 7.00pm
Where:132 Kingsland Road, Corner of Cremer Street, London E2 8DY, Shoreditch

Join us!

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