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Un-Convention- Salford, Manchester 4/5/6th June 2009
Un-Convention 2009 is a not for profit grassroots led music conference for DIY and Independent music makers and companies. Born in Manchester in 2008 as an alternative to the more mainstream In The City event, it has already inspired Un-Conventions in Belfast and Swansea and future events in Glasgow, London, Barcelona and Reykjavík. This year’s UK national event in Salford will have a range of key musicians, bands and industry personnel in attendance.Purgatory
Purgatory
The story of five ghosts trapped within the grounds of the St Lukes church - supernatural struggle between spectres and their fates
Original short pieces have been devised to explore the dark side of our spiritual nature. The performance is held together by an environment of sights and sounds that will turn the church into a cauldron of menace.
The setting provided an amazing opportunity for time and place to meet the needs of the darkness of imagination. St. Luke's, or the bombed out church, has been both a major meeting point and crucial reference within the city for many years. It has also been a magnificent cladding for the more adventurous flow of Liverpool life.
The interior of the church, inaccessible for a long time, has now become a setting for community and culture, thanks to the imagination and drive of Urban Strawberry Lunch, who are managing the location and the events that occur inside. Its history and austerity are the perfect setting for a selection of ghost stories told through music and theatre and involving some of the most respected artists in both Liverpool and Manchester.
The Purgatory project is led by Frakture who have been at the forefront of promoting avant-garde music projects in Liverpool for several years. Leading Frakture musicians will be working alongside invited guest musicians and actors who share a fascination with classic psychological horror.
This will include original pieces created especially for the night from Liverpool's innovative
and electrifying aPAtT, and Manchester's hauntingly atmospheric Mayming. Both of these bands have been recently involved in major multi-media projects, and will provide a unique musical and visual edge to the theatre.
Further information is available from Frakture on 0151 709 6123, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Other events at St. Lukes; http://www.usl.org.uk/, www.myspace.com/lunchatstlukes
To find out more about the bands; www.myspace.com/mayming, http://www.apatt.com/
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Africa Oye announce dates
Break out your Picnic gear as Oye warms up.
Every year I promise that I'll get my blanket ready and head for Sefton Park for Africa Oyé, but every year I turn up and have to sit on the grass but not this year (I hope). I'll also have to make sure I turn up early so the queues at the food stands aren't to long but there is plenty of time as Africa Oye 09 is on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June 2009 - 12:30pm-9:30pm on both days and it's Free
Settee Council Video Archive goes online
"Some of it is still funny even today, other bits are just shit "
The Settee Council back catelogue is going online. The roughly described theatre company produced a number of so called plays early this century which were performed in unusual venues on tours around Merseyside.
Video footage has been unearthed and now we are able to bring this to you via the marvel that is the internet.
Who can forget such classic lines such as "Do you want to go and feed the ducks?" or "I said to Che" along with other more memorable lines.
You may have been in the audience for the memorarble performances on the Ford Estate, Garston Community Centre, The Masque, the Finch and Firkin and Toxteth Town Hall, if you were the Settee Council offers it's sincerest apologies and advises you not to view the material as they can not be held responsible for the consequences.
A spokesman for the Settee Council said "yeah we did a number of plays mostly based around the one idea - now we are going to put all that video that the bloke at the back of the room was filming on the internet. Some of it is still funny even today, other bits are just shit. But is a good opportunity to embarass my old friends."
Start at the wobbly camera beginning on our youtube site www.youtube.com/defnetmedia
London Community Officer SAW red as Health and Safety infringes musicians right to perform
Norwegian musician Ragnhild Zeigler was asked to cease and desist her busking by a Community Support Officer as she performed on Saturday 21st March.
Playing by the London Eye the officers explained that the Sandvik 18 inch wood Saw the 23 year old was playing was “an offensive weapon and health and safety hazard to the public”
Arts and Media workshop - 16th March 09
Socialise your Media - Workshop
Find out
• How can cultural organisations use social networking technologies to engage with their audiences?
• Can blogging, poking and Twittering be more than just a way of showing you’re ‘down with the kids’?
• Could the explosion of new social media possibilities really get more people through the doors of our cultural venues?
They'll be asking all these questions and more at the first in a series of audience engagement workshops on Monday 16th March at FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool.
Liverpool's Voluntary Services face slashing cuts
Cuts to Community Involvement in Liverpool
Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS) needed an extra £500,000 to maintain its engagement and empowerment programmes with Liverpool’s third sector and Liverpool residents after April 2009.
Manchester Theatre in Sound - MANTIS
A series of performances on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th March, Manchester
MANTIS (The Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents several concerts of electro-acoustic music each year, and aims to promote, disseminate and perform new works from composers based at The University of Manchester. Facilities at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama allow, among other things, for the diffusion of work on a 40-loudspeaker sound system in a 350 seat concert hall.
MANTIS has run the festival in co-partnership with organisations like Sonic Arts Network EXPO, taking the festival to numerous venues in Manchester, such as the Victoria Baths. More recently hosted guest distinguised composer Francis Dhomont at his 80th birthday and focused on themes like MANTIS: South-North, including music from Latinamerican composers and a first MANTIS call for pieces which received 186 submissions from all over the world.
Purgatory St Lukes Church
Purgatory is a horror performance set in St. Luke's Church on Friday the 13th of March.
The story of five ghosts trapped within the grounds of the church will be told. Each tale stripped down to its raw emotional impact.
These original short pieces have been devised to explore the dark side of our spiritual nature. The performance will be held together on the evening by an environment of sights and sounds that will turn the church into a cauldron of menace.
The audience will witness an ongoing supernatural struggle between spectres and their fates. The artists involved have dealt with unsettling themes within the stories, but never lost sight of the sheer joy of terrifying people.
A Frakture Concerts Special - Saturday 28th February
A subject-based non-narrative audiovisual multimedia improvisation using digital synthesis, field recordings, prepared electro-acoustic guitar and manually-manipulated projected images by two free-improvising musicians and an image wizard."
A multimedia experiment documenting the vivid sights and sounds of the Purple Garlic Harvest in Las Pedroñeras, Spain, supported by the Frakture Big Band.
Saturday 28th February
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
Doors open 7.30 pm for 8.00pm start
Admission: £5
Box office. 0151 707 5324
http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/
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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.
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