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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…
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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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During a few beers at GLI.TC/H a few months ago myself and notendo noticed the arcade machine in the corner was totally glitching out! These kind of natural glitches happen all around us every day when we least expect it, but if you’re lucky enough to have caught these glitches on camera submit it…
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Planning any sort of meeting? Don’t leave it to common sense to decide on the most appropriate time, use this random date generator instead! Originally built for a.a.s, you can download a copy for yourself. Once loaded press Enter to stop on a date. The date is generated in the format dd/MM/yy/hh/mm/ss. You’ll need…
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Somewhere in late December 2008 I was frustrated with the apparent lack of a local hacking scene. Luckily a few other people felt the same and in January 2009 fizzPOP was formed. I once had all the time and energy in the world to pump into helping to organise events such as the fizzPOP…
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For the last few months I’ve been lending a helping hand to organising of the very first Birmingham Zine Festival! The main events of the festival kick off on September 10th with the Film Night at The Edge and continue until September 12th with events such as zine printing workshop and a picnic in…
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August was a particularly quiet month whilst I sorted out many things, including redesigning my website. There are still a few pages to reformat, but if you notice anything wrong please let me know. Lots of news coming soon!
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Stenchival 2010 took place in Leicester on the 7th and 8th August. The festival was held at the Fabrika Independent Arts Centre in the heart of Leicester. The first day saw us all at a workshop where we made our very own Atari Punk Console. At a past fizzPOP event Jimmie Rodgers brought a…
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Recently there’s been a trend amongst glitch artists to do more video glitches. I’ve been pretty quiet on that front whilst I work on my techniques. Here’s the first results of my experiments using Chris Cunningham‘s short film Rubber Johnny as a test subject Just from these tests I can see the opportunities that…