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- Ether festival
I went to SouthBank for the Ether festival the other night, and caught two very inspiring performances by Anna Meredith and James Blake (among others). Anna Meredith Anna Meredith [homepage] is a composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. Her acoustic material has been performed around the world by many leading orchestras and […]
- A Space Odyssey Live with Philharmonia Orchestra
Went to the SouthBank Centre the other night, to see Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Live with Philharmonia Orchestra. Very very nice, almost moving even if I’ve seen the movie a dozen times already! Following a sell-out success in June 2010, Southbank Centre presents Stanley Kubrick’s seminal film 2001: A Space Odyssey with live music. […]
- Livecoding Xmas event at Goldsmith College
Thursday Club Xmas party [ event-site | facebook | flier | map ] 6:30pm sharp til 8:30pm, 2010/12/16 at Goldsmith Digital Studios Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or […]
- Ozric Tentacles live @ Islington Academy, London
The lineup featured Ed Wynne (guitar, synths), Ed’s wife Brandi Wynne (bass, keyboards), Silas Wynne (synths, keyboards – Ed’s son) and Oliver Seagle (drums, percussion). Can’t say I haven’t missed the old line up, with “Jumping Jon” Egan, who used to dance around the stage in a trance-like manner while playing a variety of flutes… […]
- Jeff Beck live at the Royal Albert Hall
Quite an amazing evening with Beck rocking the RAH out the other night; the man is well over 60 (born 24 June 1944) but still performs with great confidence and inventiveness. I loved every minute of it!
- Listen to the RainForest at Kew Gardens
If you happen to be going to London’s Kew Gardens, make sure you don’t miss this nice sound installation by Chris Watson. The installation is on till September 5th and it’s called Whispering in the Leaves: Whispering in the Leaves features two sound pieces – Dawn and Dusk – composed by Chris from memory using […]
- Bernstein’s Mass at Royal Festival Hall
The other day I went to a concert at the Southbank Centre in London, as part of the Leonard Bernstein season. Its the Mass by Leonard Bernstein. A bit hard to follow, maybe because of the mix of latin and english in the lyrics, but the musics and the theatrical bits were quite entertaining. (wikipedia […]
- Ozrics back on the road!
Good news, mythical Ozric Tentacles [official website] are going to have a number of gigs in the UK in the coming fall. All the dates are available at allgigs.co.uk . They’ll play in London on Thu 28th Oct 2010 at the Islington Academy, it’s only 25 quid, get in touch if you want to join […]
- BBC article on interactive art at Goldsmith University (London)
“That’s what makes science great, and technology great and art great,” he said “It’s about playing with ideas. “You try a few things out and see what happens, then try more and more and you come up with something that is genius,” he said. Only by building it, seeing and shaping it, can they truly […]
- Livecoding night @ kings college coming up
If you happen to be around London next Thursday (14th) you might be interested in joining us for an evening of livecoding! It’s free entrance, and it’s going to be a dense evening of algorithmically generated music and graphics. >>> pdf version here