Immersion
Thursday 01 February 2007.
19:00 - 23:00.
Free entry.
The Flea-Pit
49 Columbia Road
London
E2 –7RG
020 7033 9986
http://www.thefleapit.com/
Immersion is a free-entry experimental music/sound-art event presenting a relaxed soundtrack of ambient journeys, electronic atmospheres, improvised terrain, sonic experiments and tones/drones.
Immersion is an arena for new and established international artists performing live experimental electronic music; using laptops, synthesizers, field recordings, circuit-bent electronics and prepared/processed instruments.
Immersion gives participating artists the opportunity to expand beyond the familiar parameters of their work and to investigate possibilities that they may have previously only touched upon in an informal and relaxed setting.
All sounds are partnered by stimulating projected visuals processed live and tailored for each performance to complete the audio/visual experience.
The Flea-Pit is a unique café-bar/arts venue with comfortable retro furniture - and a gallery/performance area, in the heart of east/central London’s vibrant art scene and is located only five minutes away from Shoreditch High Street. Nearest tube: Old Street (exit 2).
The artists featured in Immersion 01/02 are:
Alex Mein Smith:
‘Alex Mein Smith uses an analogue complex structure to create an extended improvised piece during each live performance. Built from the bare bones of segmented studio recordings, the result is highly dynamic, contrasting aggressive rhythms with gentle pensive guitar.’
http://www.alexmeinsmith.com/
Augustine Leudar:
Augustine Leudar uses cutting edge techniques such as granular synthesis to manipulate field recordings, acoustic instruments and synthesised sounds to create surreal and shifting soundscapes and harmonies. Leudar draws inspiration for rural enviroments and previous works have been inspired by sources such as Celtic Mythology (Goed) Cornish fishing vessels (Astral navigation) and his most recent work installed in the Czech National Gallery "Bosque invisible" which was created entirely from sounds recorded whilst living in the Peruvian Amazon.
http://www.download.com/augustineleudar
krgn:
http://geraeuschfreunde.de/krgn/
Martin Aaserud + André Castro:
‘Improvisations based on abstract sound, through the exploration of textures and timbres driven from Martin's prepared guitar and their mutations sculpted by André's live sampling and processing. The result of this meeting is a sonic landscape, fragile, silent and temperamental as a rusty forest.’
http://www.archive.org/details/martin_aa
power up!
http://www.myspace.com/powerupup
sp:
‘sp started DJ'ing way back in '93. He has promoted his own dontfakethefunk techno/electro nights for the last decade. His own productions often betray his love of sample-based rave tunes but also incorporate elements of lush electronica, ambient melodies and intricate percussion.’
http://www.stuartp.f2s.com/lonehand/
SS_R:
Presents a series of ambient noise/rhythmic feedback and FX loop experiments, originally recorded live onto minidisc. No programming – no overdubs.
pixelpusher:
‘pixelpusher (Evan.Raskob) is a live video performance artist, or "pixelist." After a few years of pixel-pushing across New York City, he now plies his trade on the mean streets of London. pixelpusher generates video out of a controlled chaos of photographic images, simple shapes, animations, sounds, and live video feeds. All software is homemade, all imagery is created live; things may go wrong in beautiful ways, and no performance is ever the same.’
http://www.pixelpusher.flkr.com
http://www.lowfrequency.org
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