Services Liverpool Sound City returns
Liverpool Sound City will host the most exciting new names in music this year. Headliners White Lies - already chart toppers with debut album To Lose My Life... - promise to be one of the most talked about acts at the festival which takes place from Wednesday 20th to Saturday 23rd May 2009.
Last year's Capital of Culture will be this year's 'Nucleus of New Music' with pop starlet Little Boots joining the West London band and making her first UK festival appearance this year at SoundCity. Fresh from wowing US audiences it will be a North West homecoming for the Blackpool singer. She is joined at the city centre music festival by hot favourites The Black Lips.
DING>>D0NG: HIVE & DINGD0NG CLOSING EVENT
CATCH HIVE AND THE DINGD0NG CLOSING EVENT IN FACT
Saturday 21st February 2009 12PM - 6PM MICRO RESIDENCY & PERFORMANCE; PART OF THE DING D0NG CLOSING EVENT -
DING>>D0NG is approaching its end, still making all kinds of noise: come in to the MEDIALOUNGEand interact with cutting edge music and art interfaces and artworks then upload to FACTTV to listen & download at home or in the studio; and this weekend features the mighty HIVE in residence.
Lets see what HIVE can do to remix the MEDIALOUNGE!
LISTEN TO THE LATEST RECORDINGS IN THE MEDIALOUNGE USING THE MLOG(Owl Project), Fijuu2 (Julian Oliver/PIX) & Freqtric Drums Home (Tetsuaki Baba) HERE
Centrifuge Manchester open call for Muscians
October 2008 witnessed a new venture from the Frakture organisation called Centrifuge. Centrifuge aims to provide a new opportunity in the North West for musicians, artists and listeners to meet, perform and share. Frakture administrator Phil Morton observes
“That within an hours drive of Manchester there are many musicians from the free improvised music (and associated leaning) who generally do not meet, mix and play on a regular basis: or so it seems. Somehow geography, boundaries keep us apart, where-as in London the same distances either measured in miles /or time travelled doesn’t keep artists apart; i.e. there is more of a mixing up and playing together.
Frakture were pleased, with the responses to the Centrifuge concept, and the first Centrifuge Concert was booked for October 30th, the concert featured musicians from across the region, including Liverpool, Sheffield, Barrow, Buxton and Warrington. On the night they combined in small groupings to deliver a contrasting programme of creative new music. See website to listen to the audio.
Frakture are confident that Centrifuge will become a force pulling together creative artists in the northwest region and provide a rich palette of sounds and music for the listener.
SO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT - Plans are in place to have between 4-8 centrifuge gigs during 2009. Next Centrifuge is late March:
WHO IS IT AIMED AT - musicians from the free improvised music genre, and associated leaning; electronics, soundart, phonography, voice work,
INTERESTED? What Should you do - Joint the mailing list http://www.frakture.org/centrifuge/centrifuge_form.htm
Visit the web page, read the FAQ’s
http://www.frakture.org/centrifuge/faq.htm
http://www.frakture.org/centrifuge/index.htm
Give them a call: 0151 709 6123
Contact Frakture: Centrifuge, C/O Frakture, 36 Windsor Street, Liverpool L8 1XF
m-Log kit for sale!
Purchase an mLog kit and you get a full days workshop and all the materials needed to build & customise an m-Log to your own spec!
m-Log is the latest development in Owl Project Technology; a powered USB controller interface. The m-Log fits in the palm of the hand and is made using this semicircular cross section of a branch (Just like the iLog). Inside the m-Log is the muio interface ( www.muio.org ).
Available with a rage of built in sensor inputs (light sensors, accelerometers etc) it has plug in and play compatibility with a wide variety of applications, notably MAX MSP/jitter, SuperCollider and Open Frameworks.
m-Log owners currently include, Leafcutter John, Kaffe Matthews and Thor Magnusson (IXI software) who were also involved during its initial development. Get your saw* and soldering iron ready and join a community of owners and start developing and sharing your own patches to use on one of the worlds rarest digital interfaces.
Artists submission - WARNING DEADLINE FRIDAY 30TH JANUARY MIDNIGHT
Artist Alan Dunn is seeking short audio submissions within a short turnaround time for his latest 1,000-only copy audio CD compilation.
The compilation will explore the manners in which artists, writers and philosophers have used the term 'revolution' in an audio context. Confirmed contributions include: Aldous Huxley, Chumbawamba, Douglas Gordon, Sara Marlowe, Lennon & Ono, Black Panthers, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Pollard, youtube cover versions, The Pinker Tones, Cyness, Chopin, The Redskins and Herbert Marcuse. See www.alandunn67.co.uk for details of previous works including 'Soundtrack for a Mersey Tunnel' and 'Music for the Williamson Tunnels: A collection of the sound of dripping water'.
All contributors to receive complimentary copies of CD.
Duration of track: 67 seconds
Format: WAV or AIFF
Delivery: email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Deadline: FRIDAY 30TH JANUARY 2009 MIDNIGHT
Liverpool Acoustic Live
"Five great acoustic musicians performing just for you"
Graham Holland, the man behind the It's a Frog's Life podcast, the Liverpool Acoustic Podcast and co-hosts the Made in the UK music podcast has been busy - very busy from the looks of it- now he is going the whole frog sorry hog and appearing live at possibly the best acoustic music venue in the city - View Two on Mathew Street.
Late last year, Graham gave up some of his valuable time to contribute a weekly programme to the Art in Liverpool FM project which ran from September through to November. He is no stranger to producing great content tough, in fact he has been podcasting since July 2006 and has "enjoyed every minute of it" he says.
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