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Aside from a brief post announcing our performance at SOUNDkitchen a few months back I’ve failed to actually talk about the Birmingham Laptop Ensemble (BiLE). BiLE (Birmingham Laptop Ensemble) are a collaborative group of composers and performers of instrumental and electroacoustic music. Six artists were brought together through their shared interest in live performance…
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On Tuesday 19th April 2011 I’ll be doing some visual jamming with other local patchers at FreeCode/FreeJazz in Birmingham MAX/MSP, VVVV, PD, Quartz Composer: Node based creation tools for a new generation of artist. Long used by artists to trigger installation pieces in galleries, these pc based junction boxes have transcended their initial intentions…
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What Revolution? is featured in the Showcase section of issue 1.2 of Libre Graphics Magazine. The theme for this issues is Use Cases and Affordances: Our software tools, in their affordances and potential use cases, define for us, to a certain extent, what we may and may not do. Those decisions are put in…
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On Thursday 17th March from 8pm I’ll be providing visuals for BiLE (Birmingham Laptop Ensemble) at SOUNDktichen Balkan Fusion at the Hare and Hounds BiLE are a collaborative group of composers (instrumental and electroacoustic), performers and programmers who are all active members of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre). The core group of six artists…
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For the What is Your Glitch? videos I wanted to build up on some of the extensive work that has already gone into the documentation, deconstruction and glitching of file formats. Rosa Menkman has already done a great job of documenting some of the more well-known file format glitches in the Vernacular of File…
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A series of videos exploring the types of glitches and compression artefacts available from different image and video file formats. Audio by defaultxr anddomesticflight A collection of the scripts used to create these videos will be available shortly
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In December 2009 I was in the chorus for the Birmingham Opera Company production of Verdi’s Othello. Just over a year later and it’s now finally being screened on BBC 2 tomorrow, Saturday February 19th at 16:25. Graham Vick’s radical production of Verdi’s Othello for Birmingham Opera Company. Set in a former industrial plant,…
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What Revolution? is the first in a series of images challenging the ideas of celebrity and idols. The 1960 photograph of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda has been endlessly mutated, transformed, and morphed. It can be found advertising anything from belts and “hip and cool” t-shirts to health insurance. It is tacked onto political…