Part of the Contemporary Music Festival 2009:
Music and Evolution – 200 years of Darwin
2:00pm | Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building. Saturday 28 February 2009.
i-DAT Presents ‘Variations’, a digital composition in three forms:
A10: “These two months at Plymouth were the most miserable which I ever spent”. A lament.
F10: Laws of Variation. (the pigeons orifices, ripe cooing fetishes, ignore poetic fishes, etc)
M10: Gene-Pool (the shallow end).
i-DAT presents Variations a digital audio/visual composition in three forms. Variations is inspired by Darwin’s thwarted attempts to leave Plymouth to embark on his legendary voyage on HMS Beagle. Variations is a collection of generative work that playfully explore some of the concepts revealed by his insights.
Sonic Arts Network and i-DAT present Expo Plymouth 2007.
Expo is the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and beyond and the largest free festival of its kind in Britain. Each Year the festival travels to a different town.
In June 2007 the Sonic Arts Network came together with i-DAT and creative partnerships to produce Expo Plymouth. The event, packed with installations, happenings, workshops and gigs permeated venues throughout the city for four days. This film documents some of the highlights from the weekend.
The Expo festival is a free and fun annual event. It is the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and beyond. Like a sonic circus the festival travels across the UK and this year we make landfall in Plymouth. Join us for a packed weekend of installations, sonic ferry tours, performances, exhibitions, film-screenings, happenings, a large-scale sonic picnic, workshops and gigs. Expo presents something for everyone at sites all across Plymouth. You’ll hear new and amazing things, enjoy places and spaces in new ways and be part of a truly unique event.
[Most of this material is recovered from the Expo2007 DVD]
Images from Sonic Arts Network:
Expo Venues:
Cooperage:
The White Rabbit:
The Hub:
Royal William Yard:
Lido:
And various sites around Plymouth…
Sonic Arts Networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Arts_Network
Expo 2007 Plymouth DVD
Tracks from the Expo 2007 Plymouth DVD
Track 1:
Evan Parker & Behaviour (extract) 8’08”
Track 2:
Vatican X-Ray Department Corporate Blond Fluffer 5’06”
Track 3:
Portable (extract) 5’23”
Track 4:
Sileni (extract) 7’18”
Track 5:
Tom Bugs & Hilary Jeffery: Tromboscillator (extract) 4’41”
Expo Youth @ Expo Plymouth 2007
2007 introduced a new stream of Expo programming where in a diverse range of Plymouth’s young people muscled in on the 2007 Plymouth Expo programme. Supported by Creative Partnerships their work added a virulent avant-local twist to out proceedings. Their work was presented at the main festival sites alongside the work of professional artists.
Expo Youth work commissioned for Expo Plymouth featured:
School of Fish: Ebait – am interactive multimedia installation featuring sub-bass reactive animated fish
5X: Digital Hotdogs – a roving hotdog cart with a twist!
The Sunmaids: Operation Raisins – Conceptual art inspired teens presented an interactive sound sculpture that dispensed both healthy foodsnacks and Casio-raisincore.
Fudge: Sweet Dreams – An interactive sound environment of space hoppers and giant inflatables
Darwin’s Walk – A large kinetic metal sculpture incorporating Soundbeam technology
thesongrooms.org launch concert at The Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Road, London SE1. Featuring children from Richard House Hospice, London, Island Hospice, Zimbabwe and a choir from St Gabriel’s Primary School, London SW1. With support from professional musicians including DJ, MK, Ricky Rankin and Theo Gordon.
i-DAT has produced thesongrooms.org for Rosetta Life. thesongrooms.org is a new web 2.0 online music composition, recording and archiving site that enables marginalised young people with terminal illness to make music and upload it to a website where others can share the pool of sounds and add to it. Musical workshops lead by top professional musicians are taking place at children’s hospices in South Africa, Zimbabwe and the UK. Leading musicians including Sandi Thom, Karine Polwart and Ricky Rankin have agreed to lend their skills to making the top tracks as successful as possible. By July 2008, thesongrooms.org aims to reach more than 6,000 children and young people in hospices and hospitals, as well as involving 12,000 online users from a wider public audience including primary and secondary schools.
Cooperage:
The White Rabbit:
The Hub:
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