29/04/2006

Threshold Live

8pm - 2am

Artists: Janek Schaefer, Maix Mayer & Scanner, Klaus Janek & Matt Wade, Slub with Dave Griffiths and The Sancho Plan

This very special evening presents a lineup of some of the most innovative artists currently exploring sonic art, electronic music and media art collaborations.

Tickets for Threshold Live:
£8 at the door, or
£7 prebook by emailing tickets@eventnetwork.org.uk

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[for one night only]

Maix Mayer and Scanner
A collaboration between East German artist Maix Mayer and UK digital artist Scanner, Orbital Glider / Raumgleiter is situated in the still-closed Leipzig Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Performed live, Scanner’s sound track conveys a complex and mysterious chronicle, offering up a space for contemplation and reflection as the sound track weaves an imaginary narrative through the building. With only the barest suggestion of human presence, we are offered a way to approach the physical environment through sound and the memory of having walked through similar places in the past.

Janek Schaefer
UK Sound Artist Janek Schaefer will be presenting Location Stories - a collage of various types of location recordings together with a cluster of sound effect LP’s of different places. This will be presented as a live score for a new short film Vacant Spaces which is a work in progress that will juxtapose a series of unfolding domestic interiors. The performance unfolds as an audio/visual overlay to the chitter chatter of the E:vent Bar.

Klaus Janek and Matt Wade
A collaborative performance by Janek and Wade will combine a unique music composition created for this performance from a sample library and a computer manipulated electric doublebass, with a reactive projection that is sensitive to the quantity and quality of the musical output. As each narrative unfolds, a unique architectural landscape is generated through the interrelationships of the gallery space, the audience and the musical composition. Softening the boundary between the virtual and physical, the landscape acts as a visual bridge connecting spaces, the people, and the sonic experience, through multiple projections across varying surfaces and spaces.

Slub & Dave Griffiths
Slub perform ambient house folk gabba using their own software. Their system has progressed since the year 2000, getting to dancing point late 2001, when a room in Amsterdam raved to their algorithms. In 2004, realising their system was as interactive as a rock hitting water, they got bored and deleted it (live on stage). Since then they've been working on a total rebuild with a strong focus on livecoding, preferring to write software live thereby freeing themselves from restrictive interfaces.
Slub will be joined by Dave Griffiths for the evening's performance, who uses scheme livecoding to generate realtime visuals and audio.

The Sancho Plan
The Sancho Plan explore the careful combination of animation, sound, music and live performance to produce striking, interactive AV shows. They perform their music live while simultaneously controlling a varied cast of animated characters and virtual performers through an evolving musical adventure via their customised software and MIDI instruments, in particular their trademark drum pads. They focus on the live environment - delivering their work through physical, skilful and carefully choreographed performance using cutting-edge technology to push at the forefront of live audiovisual work, but in such a way that the complexity of the machinery is almost invisible.