Marching Rocks Gloves & Code
A night of experimental electronica: new, old and somewhere in-between.
SPACE and Culture Lab (Newcastle) teamed up to bring together a night of electronica with performances from: Chip Tune Marching Band, Jamie Allen's circuitMusic, PixelH8, Jo Kazuhiro, Will Schrimshaw & Nick J Williams, Adam Parkinson, The Cane Toad Orchestra and Dave Griffiths.
Listen to some of the tracks from the night here
Saturday 24th October
DJ RE:ROOT (Marc Garrett) Part of the Furtherfield.org media arts collective, gave us a blast of early electronica.
Chip Tune Marching Band
The marching ended here and kicked off the night with some DIY electronic instruments powered by alternative energy.
http://chiptunemarchingband.com
Jo Kazuhiro (CultureLab, The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA, Monalisa, AEO, and a co-organizer of dorkbot Tokyo and Chiptune Marching Band.)
Showing two contrastive instruments “Lighting Wave” with photosensitive sine wave objects and "Colored Noise" with an isolated white noise generator.
http://jo.swo.jp
Jo Kazuhiro @ SPACE - 24.10.09 by spacestudios
Jamie Allen's circuitMusic
Jamie Allen makes interactive art and sound makers with his head and hands. circuitMusic is a platform for improvisational audio circuit building with raw op amp components.
http://heavyside.net
Jamie Allen @ SPACE - 24.10.09 by spacestudios
PixelH8
Internationally renowned chip tune musician brings his unique blend of electronica.
http://pixelh8.co.uk
Massive Black Mountain (Will Schrimshaw & Nick J Williams)
Environmental interaction and sonorous individuation: improvised performance built upon reaction, circuits, earth and code.
http://willschrimshaw.net
Massive Black Mountain @ SPACE 24.10.09 byspacestudios
Dave Griffiths (Slub, OpenLab)
Providing the game magic that is 'al jazari' - and the audience plays too!
http://www.pawfal.org/dave
Dave Griffiths @ SPACE - 24.10.09 by spacestudios
Adam Parkinson
His musical activities include textural laptop improvisations, loping hip hop, preposterous electro and hard, glitchy techno- which one will we get?
http://www.myspace.com/rareandglorious
Adam Parkinson @ SPACE - 24.10.09 byspacestudios
The Cane Toad Orchestra
Electro-acoustic cane toads jamming to psychedelic visuals.
Cane Toad Orchestra @ SPACE - 24.10.09 byspacestudios
DJ Reroot (Marc Garrett)
playing early electronic music from his own personal collection (vinyl only) from between 1976 - 84. Consisting of sounds which inspired a generation of energetic musicians and audiences who took control of their own culture, through a period which was part of the punk, new wave, no wave, electro, post-punk, cultural explosion.
Supported by Culture Lab and SPACE
Newcastle based Culture Lab- an interdisciplinary research center devoted to intersections of creativity and technology- present a selection of experimental performances alongside OpenLab London- Making art and music with open source / free software.