London Placard Headphone Festival

Placard@Netaudio, Shunt, 24th October 2008

The netaudio festival is a four day offline festival for online music, and london placard is very pleased to be contributing to the friday night festivities.  A headphone room will run throughout the evening.  As ever you’ll have to bring your own headphones to hear the music!

The link to the internet stream is here: http://slab.org:8000/

The headphone session will go from 7:30pm until 11pm, featuring a packed schedule of 20 minute performances from the following:

Pausal
Immersive beautiful ambient droneworks with warped film projections.

Sarah Angliss (Spacedog)
Sarah performs with robotic thereminists, wireless bells and musical saws, bringing us quirky audio/visual landscapes from hand-built technology reminding of a bold new future where everything will work out to be OK in the end. Her diverse solo and collaborative work explores a diversity of subjects including “infrasonic music, Category 4 diseases, cyborgs, extreme reverb, the uncanny valley, genetic privacy, evolutionary music, dogs in space, hurdy gurdies, Swinging London and a host of other topics.” Expect something special.

Ed Kelly
Audio/visual loveliness made with pure data by an electronic mind.  His algorithmic rhythms and synthetic sounds will make you happy.

Cormac Heron
Placard veteran Cormac Heron has served up some sonically compelling and visually arresting performances over the years. He returns with a production that he has worked on for two years which was staged only twice in two sell-out performances during this summer. Hailed as a “tour de force” by Pogues’ banjo player (and ex-Placard performer) Jem Finer, Cormac has re-edited and hacked down this one-man, multi-media, musical extravaganza as a one-off Placard special.

John Bowers
John Bowers works with homebrew electronics, self-made instruments and
reconstructions of antique image and sound devices, alongside
contemporary digital technology. His performance will combine binaural
recordings and live-sound, drones and noise. He is co-founder of Onoma
Research and also plays electric guitar in the fundamentalist noise
rock band Tonesucker.

APO33’s BOT PROJECT
APO33, as an interdisciplinary laboratory drawing on the artistic and technological fields, fosters various collective projects associating research, experimentation and social intervention. In the continuity of the dynamics that has been opened by the free software movement, apo33 is structured as a modular space, initiating collaborative projects and creative processes, as well as exploring new artistic and creative modes of production and diffusion.  Initiated by apo33, BOTs make up a virtual community, in the continuation of the ‘POULPE’ project, with a view to assemble a collection of entities in one location in order to diffuse their production to many more places. They stand for a new approach to digital phenomena : networks, multi motionless geolocation, interconnection of on-line produced or processed data, automation in the treatment of reality and, especially in the case of BOTs, sites for experiments, always accessible, and from anywhere.

Mischa Twitchin
A spoken word piece from the shunt founder member.

Cheapmachines
Philip Julian has been an active part of the experimental music underground since the late 1990’s recording numerous works under the name Cheapmachines. Recordings and performances are improvised using contact microphones, amplified objects/surfaces and electronics. He has also created various computer based works.

Cacao
Cacao is a collaboration in sound between Anil (London) and Mimi (Caracas), exploring microtones, delay, generative composition and granular synthesis. Their first release was inspired by domes, their second was a re-working of Schubert’s last three piano sonatas and their third is an unfinished trilogy entitled Tropisms.

Cane toad orchestra
The cane toad orchestra was formed out of the openlab free software art meetings.  Their diverse background brings together Indian classical music, algorithmic cut-ups and abstract visuals, all harmonised in handmade software.

Remember to bring your headphones!

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