Musician and technologist Tim Exile is kicking off his new live performance project with a tour of intimate UK venues where he’ll showcase his new self-made instrument and announce exciting news about the project. Performance is almost always a footnote to composition in the electronic music world and Tim has been working for the last […]
Jan Lee and Tim Murray-Browne are artists who collaborate together to connect the dancing body with music, graphics and interactive experience. They look at the performed moments in which we create our sense of self, in relation to the sensorial worlds that we mould and in turn mould us. This includes interactive dance with body-controlled generative visuals, immersive sound […]
Scanner will present a history of work that has slipped between the borders of performance, installation, music and art, from scanning mobile phone networks, composing sound for the dead and collaborating with fashion designers, choreographers, hospitals and the homeless. And how to do all this without drinking tea, coffee, alcohol, meat or smoking. The talk […]
For the first of a series of events UAL Makers have teamed up with Music Hackspace, a place for artists, innovators, entrepreneurs and hobbyists passionate about music and technology. Register here! The event will feature a talk and workshop hosted by Tom Fox, a craftsman, maker and pioneer in the search for new sounds and […]
Join Teresa Cos for a screening on two recent works combining image and sound emphasising a "collective hypnosis permeating our society". The mechanical repetition of everyday rituals presented in the first video “Eight Chapters in Four Movements” will be seen in relation to the mesmeric reiteration of socio-political concepts of the second one “Astrology of […]
Artist duo Jones/Bulley create large-scale sound installations that translate patterns and data into ever-changing compositions, often sited in remote and wild environments. In this talk, they will discuss composing music for weather conditions and forest ecosystems, describe some of the technological and compositional challenges encountered through their work, and explain why they are switching towards using their own ground-up open-source audio […]
Building high-performance interactive audio systems with the Bela platform This workshop presents Bela, an embedded platform capable of ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing. Based on the BeagleBone Black, Bela features stereo audio I/O, 8 channels each of 16-bit analog I/O and 16 channels of digital I/O. It includes a built-in browser-based IDE including an […]
Join us for a weekend of DIY modular synth making on 14th and 15th May 2016! HANDS ON WORKSHOP: build your own synth modules on eurorack format. We provide all the necessary components to build your device from scratch. Each participant builds her/his own machine during the workshop. REGISTRATION. Please note a minimum number of […]
Join artist Sophie Mallett for an insight into ongoing research around borders, surveillance and sounds. The talk will navigate through a topography of competing technologies that all use sound and radio to define and confine territories. Together we'll explore the politics of control embedded in technologies of sound production and transmission. Sophie Mallett is an […]
Join us at the LimeWharf yard with the London Synth DIY, a group that meets to discuss, collaborate and experiment with electronics that creatively synthesise audio or video. Any skill level welcome, the aim is to create a relaxed atmosphere with no judgment on your knowledge. We want to encourage the exchange of ideas related […]