CYBERSONICA SOCIAL: KINETICA ART FAIR
Sunday 1st March, 8-10pm | P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
VIP OPENING PERFORMANCE EVENT: £15 (Limited tickets available)
FULL TICKET: One day Art Fair entrance plus all events and performances: £12/£10 conc
ONE DAY: Art Fair entrance only: £5
WEEKEND PASS: Includes Art Fair entrance for Sat, Sun, Mon and all Art Fair events and performances on these days: £20
Please note that Full and Weekend Pass ticket holders must sign-up to events on the day.
For bookings please go to Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk
Nearest tube: Baker Street
Nearest overground: Marylebone
www.kinetica-artfair.com
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Threep & Vent Media
VC Kristi & Oddscene
Steve Nosurname & Barry Gene Murphy
Cybersonica Social creates a little slice of Cybersonica - London’s annual celebration of music, sound, art and technology - for a brief but enjoyable two hours this Sunday evening at the Kinetica Art Fair.
The seventh in a now somewhat irregular night, the evening features a select line-up of new and previously featured talent including the idiosyncratic granular textures and analogue rhythms of Threep accompanied by the minimalist visual waveforms of Vent Media; the edgy electronic grooves and live, gutsy vocal FX of VC Kristi with the evolving and surrealist imagery of Oddscene; and the old-skool electro to 8-bit freakouts to drum n’ bass mentalism of Steve Nosurname with the kinetic and potent visuals of moving image artist Barry Gene Murphy.
Kinetica Art Fair, the UK’s first art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and time-based art opens in London on Friday 27 February - and carnivorous art, man-animal-machine hybrids, mechanical drawing machines, subliminal installations, pole dancing robots, light sculptures and cybernetics are just some of the exhibits to be found there - providing unparalleled opportunities for the public and collectors alike to view and buy work from this thriving international movement and to participate in the programme of talks, workshops and performances.
Longtime Kinetica Museum collaborators, Cybersonica’s contribution to the Art Fair showcases established names and emerging talent who make their own music or audiovisual work using inventive technologies and then perform it live (as opposed to just pressing play in Ableton Live). We strongly recommend progressive electronic music makers, audiovisualisers, digital artists and fans looking for somewhere to meet like-minded people, share ideas and enjoy fresh, vibrant music and performance to come along and check it all out.
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NEW YEAR NEWS
After a bit of deliberation over the Xmas and New Year break we’ve kinda decided to put Cybersonica Social on the back burner for a bit. It’s winter… brrr… and folks aren’t too sociable when it’s cold.
Like the snowdrops we’ll peek our heads out again in the early Spring - perhaps at the Kinetica Art Fair in late February? More news to follow.
CYBERSONICA SOCIAL: XMAS PARTY
Thursday, 11th December, 7-11pm | The Flea-Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG | £4/£3 concs
CANCELLED
We’re sorry to announce that due to the ill-health of the organiser we’ve been forced to cancel the Cybersonica Social Xmas Party. It’s a real shame - but what can you do?
Future plans to be announced here soon.
CYBERSONICA SOCIAL: The Sound Of Games
Wednesday, 12th November, 7-11pm | The Flea-Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG | £4/£3 concs
gwEm & Counter Reset
Random
Jellica (Kittenrock)
bakteria.org
soundtoys.net
Nipplecat
Julian Baker & Adam Hoyle
Cybersonica Social creates a slice of Cybersonica for a few brief but enjoyable hours once a month in the friendly, vibey surroundings of the The Flea-Pit - and takes a new approach - themes. Each month investigates a different strand of work associated with Cybersonica with line-ups to suit.
Our second Social of the season is part of the London Games Fringe - a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008, organised by artists, academics, gamers, game developers, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media
‘The Sound Of Games’ features: live performances and DJ sets from 8-bit music makers gwEm vs Counter Reset & Random and Game Boy DJ Jellica of the Kittenrock label (streamed live from his studio in Cambridge); a live ‘remote’ performance of Arcangel Contantini’s interactive online animation project bakteria.org (controlled by Arcangel from Mexico City); an exhibition of Stanza’s soundtoys.net project - a repository of exciting new works by a growing community of audio visual artists; interactive playful works from digital artists Nipplecat and Julian Baker with Adam Hoyle; as well as screenings of innovative short films and animations. More details on the 12th November line-up and a selection of live mixes from past events can be found at the Cybersonica Social website
With live music and audiovisual performances, screenings of short music films and promos, DJ and VJ sets, playful interactive audiovisual artworks and demonstrations of creative work and techniques from established names and emerging talent Cybersonica Social is our ‘hang-out’ for progressive electronic music makers, audiovisualisers, digital artists and fans looking for somewhere to meet like-minded people, share ideas and enjoy fresh, vibrant music and performance.
CYBERSONICA SOCIAL: In 3 Dimensions
Friday, 10th October, 7-11pm | The Flea-Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG | £4/£3 concs
Martyn Ware - Illustrious
D-Fuse
squidsoup
Daniel Jones
Fat Butcher
Cybersonica Social (formerly known as Çonic Social) relaunches after a summer break and at a new venue - The Flea-Pit <http://thefleapit.com> - a cafe-bar on Columbia Rd right next to the park and a place where art and socialising go hand in hand… “A perfect pit-stop” says Wallpaper Magazine 2006 (London’s Best New Destinations).
Cybersonica Social creates a slice of Cybersonica for a few brief but enjoyable hours once a month in the friendly, vibey surroundings of the The Flea-Pit - and takes a new approach - themes. Each month investigates a different strand of work associated with Cybersonica with line-ups to suit. We kick off with an exploration into 3D sound and visuals - installing the Illustrious 3D-AudioScape surround system to deliver ‘ultra real’ three dimensional audio.
‘In 3 Dimensions’ features a set of 3D music by Martyn Ware of Illustrious - 80s pop icon and co-founder of The Human League and Heaven 17 - with live visuals by Fat Butcher; a screening of the D-Fuse & Illustrious 2007 FPS–A LONDON CONVERSATION - a commission for the opening of the new BFI building; a range of work from squidsoup including Driftnet - a spatialised musical environment navigated by bird-like flight; Daniel Jones‘ AtomSwarm - a three dimensional sonic ecosystem; and screenings of works from The Sancho Plan, Tal Rosner and the D-Fuse ‘VJ Culture’ book DVD.
This will be the fifth in a regular monthly night hosted by Cybersonica - London’s annual celebration of music, sound, art and technology. Future themes include November’s ‘The Sound Of Games’ a tie in with the London Games Fringe and December’s not too unexpected “Xmas Party’.
With live music and audiovisual performances, screenings of short music films and promos, DJ and VJ sets, playful interactive audiovisual artworks and demonstrations of creative work and techniques from established names and emerging talent Cybersonica Social is our ‘hang-out’ for progressive electronic music makers, audiovisualisers, digital artists and fans looking for somewhere to meet like-minded people, share ideas and enjoy fresh, vibrant music and performance.
If you make your own music or audiovisual work with interesting technology, are keen to play your music live (as opposed to just pressing play in Ableton Live) and would like to perform at Cybersonica Social then we’d like to hear from you. Contact us at <social [AT] cybersonica.org> with some personal info and links to your music, videos and images and we’ll check it out and get back to you. If you’re interested in helping us to document these events or generally want to get involved then get in touch too.
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