Following his workshop over the weekend on creative electronics and synth design, we’re hosting a discussion with Casper Electronics (Peter Edwards), founder and synth engineer at Bastl Instruments. Edwards will talk about the hows and whys of synth design, with a focus on the personal and emotional aspects of a traditionally technical medium. Doors for […]
Sheryl Cheung works with sound, installation and performance to explore a material concept of life. Perceiving life as a force, a mobility that drives our innate persistence to live, Sheryl is especially interested in the potential of vulnerable, ambiguous, and internal efforts that lead us to deeper awareness of the nature of being. Through ongoing […]
https://youtu.be/abH6AX24cGU Taiwanese artist Yen Tzu Chang presents an artist talk followed by her Whose Scalpel performance. Whose Scalpel is a sound performance combined with visuals and a 3D printed installation, realised with a framework for medical image processing. Mixing several methods from art and science, it is an imagination of the future and presents […]
Following his workshop, Lien-Cheng Wang will deliver an artist talk on his practice around generative art, as well as a performance, titled Horizon. Horizon is an audio-visual performance which is based on an interactive program. This program allows users to enter keywords and it can use the result of images from Google's engine into a […]
Somerset House Studios residents Music Hackspace have joined forces with London event curators Individual Collective; to present a panel celebrating the 25th anniversary of the eponymous electronic music label: Downwards. Born in 1993, Downwards was launched from the gritty industrial heartland of Birmingham. In doing so, founder Karl O’Connor AKA Regis, crystallised a definitive direction […]
We're pleased to welcome accessibility instrument builders Human Instruments presenting their new project, Haptic Baton, a conductors baton that communicates to visually impaired players. The baton captures the speed, angle, attack and sway of the conductor’s hand in real time and beams it directly to all players wearing receiver bands. They feel the expression and timing […]
The second instalment in a series of participatory rituals, based on the 12 mythic Labours of Herakleos. Forming part of an ongoing research & development project considering the relationship between sound & movement performance & altered states of consciousness. Each session of the laboratory focuses on balancing a sequential zodiacal energy. We begin with Aries […]
Meet Jordan Rudess, the legendary keyboard of Dream Theater. Jordan is also very well known for embracing technology in any form that allows him to seek more expressivity and performing abilities. Jordan is at heart a music hacker, who can make music with anything, and his insight has been valued over the years by many […]
Prof Atau Tanaka is a well known figure in the New Interface for Musical Expression network, an international conference he helped get started in the early 2000s. Atau is both an academic (head of the Embodied AudioVisual Interaction group at Goldsmiths, university of London) and an artist who performs internationally. His artistic practice with muscle […]
Live-stream with PA Tremblay, one of the most talented bass player and improviser of his generation. PA will share his unique improvisation approach with examples.