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  • Dirty Bristow issue Two launch – 13th August 2011

    Dirty Bristow, an independent magazine from local bloggers/twitterers/social media/internet fellows Jon Bounds and Danny Smith, is holding a launch party for their second issue on Saturday 13th August from 8pm at The Edge in Digbeth: Just like Issue 1 I provided an illustration for one of the articles, a preview of which you can…

  • Self-inflicted Haircut

    I provided some post-production effects for a new video by local jazz/metal fusion outfit Meatfeast. They’re doing a release party for the video and for their new EP on 5th August 2011 at Scruffy Murpheys, Dale End, West Midlands, B4 7LN, Birmingham, UK [map]. More information is available at the Facebook Event invite. Hopefully…

  • Glitched Badges

    A limited amount of glitched badges featuring stills from this video are now available for £2.25 plus postage and packaging. Sold in packs of two randomly chosen designs. Can also be exchanged for beer</joke>

  • Adventures in Vector Quantization

    Ever since seeing Radio Dada by Rosa Menkman I’ve been forever trying to reproduce the style of compression/glitches it uses. In my limited knowledge about the production of the video I do know what it uses compression artifacts found in the Cinepak codec. So, I set out to try and find a way of…

  • BiLE at SONICpicnic, 29th July 2011

    BiLE will be performing alongside a whole host of musicians at SONICpicnic on 29th July at VIVID. BiLE had their very first performance at the first SOUNDkitchen event – see, we’ve got proof – so we’re really happy to be performing again. We’ll be performing a few pieces including XYZ, which was recently played…

  • Internalised

    Back in April Film Division took part in the 2011 Sci-Fi-London 48 hour film challenge: We’ll give you a randomly generated film title, some dialogue and a prop list. You’ll then have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a complete five minute film… hard work but fun! I provided some glitches – using…

  • Zen audio hack

    Awhile back I acquired a Creative ZEN Stone mp3 player. It was a a little scuffed around the edges but otherwise a perfectly functional mp3 player. For some time I was using a pair of regular headphones but then I tried using in a pair of iPhone headphones (and then later HTC headphones). The…

  • BiLE at Laptops Meet Musicians Festival, 11-12 July 2011

    From 10th-13th July I’ll be in Venice (which is in Italy, apparently) with another three-sevenths of BiLE for the Laptops Meet Musicians Festival. We’ll be performing two pieces, Partially Percussive (recording below) and XYZ, which was recently performed when BiLE was in Norway for NIME: XYZ (or ‘Sonic Arm Wrestle’) is a structured improvisation…

  • BiLE at Light House Media Centre, 18th June 2011

    BiLE will be performing alongside Thee Moths and Noise Research at Light House Wolverhampton on the 18th of June As well as performing with BiLE I’ll be doing visualness throughout the whole night. Did I mention it’s all free?

  • FreeCode/FreeJazz video

    FreeCode/FreeJazz was a great way to spend a nice day in the park! Thanks to all those who came down! 🙂 Fierce has written a great overview of the evening and other events that happened at the Burningham space: The evening saw the first live performance as a collective who were complimented by the…