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An album in 1,000 variations
5-6pm, Sun 2nd Oct
The electronic music duo Icarus (Ollie Bown and Sam Britton) have experimented with electronic music production and live performance for over a decade. In 2011, they have been working with a combination of generative and traditional music making techniques to produce a ‘parametric’ album that will be available as a digital download, so that anyone who buys the album will get a download that is different from those. The project was inspired by Icarus’ experiments with generative music techniques, the use of parametric design techniques in design and architecture, and the problems of uniqueness, value and distribution on the modern world of digital music commerce. The album was also made feasible by new tools and technologies that bring together the typical utility of a digital studio with the power and flexibility of algorithmic composition tools.
Ollie Bown will discuss the pleasures and perils of composing parametric music in the light of this venture.
Artists
Ollie Bown
Venue
Renew Newcastle Church
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Media Lab Melbourne Presents
5-6pm, Sat 1st Oct
Media Lab Melbourne is a new initiative starting up in Melbourne that seeks to bring together practitioners excited about the possibilities at the intersection of art, design and technology.
The aim of Media Lab Melbourne is to cultivate the creation, discus- sion and distribution of media art and artists locally + globally + virtually.
Media Lab Melbourne is in an open collaboration with local + global media art communities.
Functioning as a lab for creation and education, a gallery/boutique for sale and distribution of work, a consultancy for the application of hybrid and new media in industry and a locally and globally connected network of artists and designers founded in Melbourne, Australia.
The Lab will be holding several workshops in 2011 on diverse themes such as fashionable technologies for the everyday, sport and technology and pervasive, public uses of the XBOX360 Kinect 3D camera.
Artists
Pierre Proske
Tim Devine
Venue
Elderly Citizens’ Centre
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Digital Freestyle
11:30am-12:30pm, Sat 1st Oct
Digital Freestyle will be a series of ensemble performances using newly developed experimental digital instruments developed specifically for this event. The concert will feature new instruments built with laptops and electronics and music that ranges from electronic, to ambient, to beats and noise. Performers will have built their instruments for this concert at the course, Experimental Digital Instruments and their Performance, held just prior to Electrofringe.
Artists
Andrew Brown, Toby Gifford, Jim Chapman and Nathan Scott
Venue
Festival Club (The Great Northern Hotel)
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Virtuosic Interaction: linking performers, audience and spaces with technology
12-1pm, Sun 2nd Oct
Charles Martin talks about his practice and work, including Transcendence – an interactive performance/installation from Canberra’s favourite future/past explorers, Last Man to Die.
Transcendence is an interactive performance/installation from Canberra’s favourite future/past explorers, Last Man to Die. From the distant future, we present a personality construct of a human female abandoning physical form to become… who knows?
N.B. Your brain/image will be sampled for incorporation into our performance A.I. Have fun living forever.
Last Man to Die are a cross-artform collective based in Canberra, Perth and Sweden. Their works tread a knife’s edge between technical masterpieces linking audience, performer and computer and total failures resulting in the Blue Screen of Death. In spite, or because, of this, their works have been featured in the Brisbane Festival 2010’s Under the Radar Programme, The Blue Room, Perth, The Street Theatre, Canberra and at This Is Not Art’s Crack Theatre Festival 2009.
Artist
Charles Martin
Venue
Elderly Citizens’ Centre
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