SPACE

A night of experimental electronica: new, old and somewhere in-between.

Listen to some of the tracks from the night here

Saturday 24th October

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.

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/

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/

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    http://www.virb.com/njw

Dave Griffiths (Slub, OpenLab)
Providing the game magic that is 'al jazari' - and the audience plays too! http://www.pawfal.org/dave/
 
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

The Cane Toad Orchestra

Electro-acoustic cane toads jamming to psychedelic visuals. 

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.

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.  http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/