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Nathan Scott

electrofringe — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:24:48 +0000

Nathan Scott was born and educated in Newcastle. He completed a Bachelor of Music at the University of Newcastle and received further education at the SAE (School of Audio Engineering) International Technology College (Sydney) studying a Certificate IV in Audio Engineering. Nathan commenced lecturing in Music Technology at the Faculty of Music in 1998. Nathan’s interests lie in the use of electronics and computers from a musical perspective. He has experience with many software applications and the use of MIDI. He is familiar with aspects of multimedia and Internet website production. Nathan has produced a number of localised compact discs and has experience in recording live classical performances, including working with the ABC on live national broadcasts. Nathan currently works as a music technology teacher at the University of Newcastle.

Events
Digital Freestyle

Jim Chapman

electrofringe — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:21:46 +0000

Jim Chapman is a guitarist and an expert in african fusion music. He is an improvisor and composer with deep roots in the use of music technologies and has managed research projects into the innovative uses of mobile technologies in team collaborations.
His current album ‘Afro No-Clash’ contains eleven compositions performed by a variety of groups including Kabombo Kombo, The Esplanados, Topology, The String Quartet of the Southern Hemisphere and Quinte Bentos. Jim received his PhD in music from the Queensland University of Technology in 2009 and currently works as a music teacher at the University of Newcastle.

http://www.jimrhythm.com/

Events
Digital Freestyle

Toby Gifford

electrofringe — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:18:10 +0000

Toby Gifford has received national acclaim for his Jambot interactive music system, with appearances on the ABC New Inventors, live performances on Radio National, and numerous live performances around Brisbane. As an acoustic performer and sound designer he has appeared at festivals nationally and internationally, including the European Capital of Culture Festival in Greece, the Woodfork Folk Festival, Electrofringe and Splendour in the Grass. His interactive music installations have been installed in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image the Victorian State Library and the Museum of Melbourne. He currently works as a research fellow and teacher at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane.

http://dr.offig.com

Events
Digital Freestyle

Andrew Brown

electrofringe — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:16:04 +0000

Andrew Brown has a background as a professional keyboard player and musical director, a music educator and is a leading figure in the Live-Coding international community having been invited to perform solo and as the duet aa-cell around Australia, in Europe and the USA, and contributed significantly to research in generative arts creative practice. He is also a leading computer music researcher and educator having previously worked at the University of Melbourne, The Queensland University of Technology, the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (Paris), and now the Queensland Conservatorium where he teaches music technology and digital arts.

http://explodingart.com/arb/

Events
Digital Freestyle

Eng Tat Khoo

electrofringe — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:31:08 +0000

Eng Tat Khoo is actively practicing in few areas of interactive media, as a researcher, educator, technology consultant and media artist/designer. Presently he is completing his PhD at Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore (NUS). He has worked extensively with various arts collectives, for example, NUS Center for the Arts, Singapore TheatreWorks and Design and Performance Lab, Brunel University. He was the artistic advisor of the 6th Asia Europe Art Camp, organized by Asia-Europe Foundation in partnership with International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) 2008. He was teaching electronics and circuit bending at Lasalle College of the Arts, and is currently developing new curriculum for PSB Academy new School of Arts and Design.

www.midealab.org

Events
BodMusic: 3D Encounter with Chinese Culture

Samuel Bruce

electrofringe — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:15:12 +0000

Samuel Bruce is an artist and musician living in Western Sydney whose practice encompasses generative audiovisual abstraction, handmade electronics, a catalogue of garage sale signs and endurance karaoke. Current work involves making electronic devices either as musical instruments for use in performance, or functioning autonomously as installed works.
He performs crypto-occult sonic ritual under the name Black Math, and shambolic circuit-bent techno as Knife Crimes. Recordings are available from the futuristic virtual record label, Crypt Designers Guild.

http://cryptdesignersguild.com/
http://samuelbruce.net/

Events
Electrofringe in Newcastle

Danny Ford

electrofringe — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:33:47 +0000

Danny Ford is a multidisciplinary artist, working within self imposed parameters of Painting Projects, Sculpture Projects and Image Capture Projects (video, film, photomedia). Ford’s artwork is process based, and concerned with the application of tactics and procedures to existing forms. Within this ongoing investigation,

Recently completing his MVA Ford’s work has been exhibited in exhibitions nationally and in 2007 was awarded the Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship Award and the Jean Clarice Searle Research Award.

Ford has founded and co-founded a number of community initiatives, including artist-run initiatives The Office, Tracer Projects and Stable Gallery. He is a director of the project-based record label The Last Record Label and ongoing experimental media group Eccs Benedigt, and his new project Cassette Project (cassetteproject.net) invites musicians and performers to participate in new forms of collaboration and reception, and is currently the research basis of his PhD at COFA.

Events
Electrofringe in Newcastle

Welcome to the 2011 Electrofringe Festival!

electrofringe — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:18:27 +0000

Electrofringe welcomes you to its 14th festival of electronic arts and culture.

This year we’re offering you the same feast of all that is eclectic and experimental, in a program carefully curated for you to be able to experience all that is on offer. We’ve worked really hard to make the festival
accessible, so if you’ve ever thought you might like to learn how to make glitch art, or find out what the hell
these Arduinos things are and what to do with them, come to a workshop! If you’ve ever wondered how people get into the world of tinkering and hackery, strike up a conversation with one of our artists after their presentation. And if you’re curious about the fun and games of festival planning, when you see us around and about Newcastle, stop
us, say hi! (Or better still, buy us a beer at the Festival Club and we’ll tell you some stories. It’ll be a laugh.)

Thanks for coming. Now get into it and have fun.

An album in 1,000 variations

electrofringe — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:30:14 +0000

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.

www.icarus.nu

Artists
Ollie Bown

Venue
Renew Newcastle Church

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BodMusic: 3D Encounter with Chinese Culture

electrofringe — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:27:15 +0000

1.30-4.30pm, Thur 29th Sep
The installation aims to technically reconstruct a traditional Chinese Guqin string instrument, to invite bodily interpretation of the classical instrument. Guqin has a special place in the Chinese history as a symbol of the high-culture of the nobles and intellectuals (Junzi, Superior Man). It’s also seen as the vessel for pursuing harmony. Guqin is sometimes referred to by the Chinese as “the father of Chinese music” or “the instrument of the sages”.

The installation allows the performer and audience to experience three dimensions of the culture: sound, movement and emotion. The setup consists of an interactive instrument with “strings” created by laser sensors network, designed to allow meaningful intervention of movements to trigger the sound. The performer will also wear bend and pressure sensors at different parts of the body to create layer of sound effects. The emotion of the performer will be sensed by an ECG heatbeat sensor, which in turn translates into the temperature actuation (heating and cooling) at the palm rest of the audience, so that they could feel the additional sensation of the performance.

Artists
MiDEA Lab and EON Reality

Venue
Mahjong Room, Crackhouse

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