Sonic Arts Network and UEA Studio/ARiADA present HYBRIDS Festival
Friday 6 -Sunday 8 July 2001 @ University of East Anglia, Norwich
A free-flowing weekend festival celebrating the innovative edges and fault-lines of music and digital technology - genuinely interactive systems, real-time and just-in-time composition solutions, home-grown interventions in consumer electronics, generative music, circuit bending, web-based and network distributed performance.
Booking Festival pass: £30 (£20 concessions - SAN members or current students); Festival pass with 2 nights B&B on-campus accommodation: £75 (£65 concessions). Booking tel: 01603 592450/2 between 9.30-12.30 or 14.00-16.30 Mon-Fri. Booking by cheque only. To book by post send details of your name and address with a cheque made out to 'University of East Anglia' to Alex Flack, Music Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TT (indicating whether you have Sonic Arts Network membership/enclosing proof of concessionary status if applicable) The Festival Pass includes entry to all events*
*Workshops have a limited number of spaces.
Accommodation Hybrids has secured accommodation at UEA. Located in the heart of the festival, the on-campus, low cost B+B accommodation means you will be immersed in the weekend's events. This accommodation is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis only, so book early. n.b. accomodation is for Friday and Saturday nights only.
Venue University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ Hybrids is at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, a concrete example of modernist architecture surrounded by Norfolk parkland, lakes and woodland. Opened in 1963, UEA is set on a campus with award-winning architecture by Sir Denys Lasdun, Rick Mather and Norman Foster and is home to the internationally famous Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Spaces Main Stage 250 seat concert hall with multi-speaker system Green Room 8-channel interactive/installation space Black Box Dedicated sound diffusion-video projection space Grass Amphitheatre Outdoor amphitheatre mix space
Access info Information for wheelchair users and for people with disabilities can be obtained by phoning 01603 592 450.
Travel The University and the city of Norwich are well served by road, train and air connections from all regions of the UK. By car: From London take the M11/A11; just outside Norwich take the A47 (Southern Bypass) in the direction of Swafham; the University is signposted off at the next exit. If you are driving from the North or the Midlands, you can use the A47 via King's Lynn, or the new A14 as far as Newmarket and then take the A11 to Norwich. UEA is situated on the outskirts of Norwich, around two and a half miles west of the city centre, just off the Earlham Road (B1108) which is one of the main roads out of the city. By coach: National Express coaches run from all major cities in Great Britain to the Surrey Street Bus Station in the city centre. Buses 4, 5, 26 and 27 run regularly from nearby Castle Meadow and St Stephen's Street in the city centre to the University campus. Bus and coach enquiries: 0500 626116 (freephone from UK only) National Express enquiries: 0990 80 80 80 By train: Norwich is less than two hours from London by train (£30 saver return) and there is an InterCity link with the Midlands, the North of England and Scotland via Peterborough. Trains run from London Liverpool Street approximately every hour. The easiest way to reach UEA from the station is by taxi, which costs about £4.00 and takes approximately 15 minutes. There are regular buses direct to the University from just outside the station on nearby Thorpe Road (numbers 4 and 5), and the number 25 bus runs straight from the bus station to the University. Rail enquiries: 0345 484950 By Air: Norwich Airport has regular flights to and from Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Manchester and Paris, and international connections to 200 cities worldwide through regular direct flights to and from Schipol Airport in Amsterdam. The easiest way to reach UEA from the airport is by taxi. Flight enquiries: 01603 411923
Local Information For further information about Norwich and the University: http://www.uea.ac.uk - University website http://www.norwich.gov.uk/ - City of Norwich website http://www.go-planit.com/tourism/tourism.htm - Tourism website
Documentation Rob Flint will be filming the weekend's events and mixing and projecting the results on the surrounding buildings at night. Rob Flint (aka scopac) is an artist whose video performances reverse the convention of a sound artist/DJ improvising a live soundtrack to a pre-existing movie. Instead he uses video feedback and samples to make live audio-responsive cinema. He is also a member of the electronic ensemble "Ticklish" and performs occasionally with The High Llamas. He recently co-curated 'motor:show' at proof showing the work of Brian Catling, Hayley Newman, Brown Sierra and others.
Programme of events
Friday 6 July
12:00: Registration: UEA Music Centre
12:00: Open-air zone - Grass Amphitheatre Matt Olden presents 'I am the Mighty Jungulator' - a real-time Max/MSP performance Matt Olden's Jungulator is a real-time granular synthesiser. "it makes wicked shindig and bangs away all night. AIFF samples can be synchronised then beaten up. samples can be sped up... slowed down..turned around....chopped up...rearranged...chopped down... timestretched.... shortened....frozen.....panned...ponged...VST plug-in effects applied...any little ting can go in....jungle through to ambience.....speed garage through to slowdive mimick or originate...."
14:00: 8 channel zone -Drama Green Room Project VLSI Shigeto Wada hosts this interactive MAX/MSP improvisation space in which programmed performances alternate with participatory workshop jams - featuring Jonathan Impett's metatrumpet.and Wada's 'Sphere' Max/MSP improvising environment.
14:00: Black Box Sound & Image zone - Music Centre Concert Room The Chromasone Walter Fabeck demonstrates and performs with The Chromasone, an instrument employing motion and position sensing technology developed at STEIM, Amsterdam. The chromasone combines a unique chrome and perspex structure and a pair of specially made data-gloves. Performances take the form of structured improvisations, moving quickly between extremes of rhythmic and textural density; from bands of noise to focussed quasi-melodic lines; from driving percussive patterns to floating ambience.
18:00: Open-air zone - Grass Amphitheatre The Zapruda Trio The Zapruda Trio (John Bowers, Simon Vincent, Sten-Olof Hellstrom) explore the extreme dynamics of glitch electronica alongside environmental sound, combining sonic materials into laminal improvised forms. The Zapruda's work incorporates physical modelling synthesis on the Nord Modular synthesiser, complex Max/MSP patches, found objects and contact microphones
20:00: Main Stage - Drama Studio Transatlantic Experimentation Matt Rogalsky and Gregg Wagstaff present a programme of works which explore the North American experimental tradition, including David Tudor's 'Rainforest 3', John Cage's 'Mureau' and new solo work from Rogalsky. Digital artist and musician Rogalsky studied with Alvin Lucier and Ron Kuivila, and is currently pursuing doctoral research on Tudor. Environmental/ Soundscape artist Wagstaff's most recent and ongoing project involves working with the community in the Western Isles of Scotland. Rogalsky will also premiere work using his latest SuperCollider patch, which emulates devices used in US 'talk-radio' shows by digitally editing 'redundancy' from speech and other sound sources in real-time. Whereas the function in the US is to make way for as many as eight extra advertising minutes in an hour, Rogalsky is characteristically more interested in the 'sweepings from the virtual cutting room floor'.
22:00: Open-air zone - Grass Amphitheatre Wired Wired, the ever popular Norwich club night joins forces with Hybrids for a night featuring MSP improvisations, circuit bending and glitch with performances by Lone Shark and Sebastian Lexer.
Online SARA The Sonic Arts Research Archive is a new publicly accessible hypertext/multimedia/digital audio research resource. A national resource, offering online access to a wide cross-section of Sonic Arts Network's collections of compositions and published texts, a comprehensive composer/institution/work/contact/sound database including all Sonic Arts Network members and others working in the field in the UK. It will also offer access to much of UEA's vast archive of electroacoustic music in digitised form, in addition to electroacoustic video, and to papers on aesthetic and technical issues relating to electroacoustic music and areas of 'electronic arts' activity associated with it - Sonic Art, Soundscape, Sound Installation Art, and multimedia work.
Saturday 7 July
10:00: 8 channel zone -Drama Green Room Exploring SuperCollider - presented by Andrew Deakin and Martin Robertson An intensive workshop exploring the real-time possibilities of James McCartney's groundbreaking programme. A day-long adventure with SuperCollider, incorporating demonstrations, participatory workshops and performances curated by Extractor's Martin Robinson. Extractor are sonic artists concerned with creating real-time sonic landscapes using diffusion and ambisonic techniques. They custom build hardware and software systems into unique gestural interfaces and instruments. SuperCollider is an environment for real time audio synthesis which runs on a Power Macintosh with no additional hardware. SuperCollider features: a built in programming language with real time incremental garbage collection, first class functions/closures, a small object oriented class system, a mini GUI builder for creating a patch control panel, a graphical interface for creating wave tables and breakpoint envelopes, MIDI control, a large library of signal processing and synthesis functions a few of which are found nowhere else, and a large library of functions for list processing of musical data. The user can write both the synthesis and compositional algorithms for their piece in the same high level language. This allows the creation of synthesis instruments with considerably more flexibility than allowed in lower level synthesis languages. Since it is easy to create control panels and graphic displays, SuperCollider is well suited as a tool for teaching various synthesis techniques. SuperCollider reads Sound Designer II and AIFF files and writes Sound Designer II files. It can input and output audio from either the Sound Manager or streamed from/to a file.
10:00: Black Box Sound & Image zone - Music Centre Concert Room Clive Walley animations, featuring 'Divertimenti'. Animator Clive Walley's most recent project involved creating the visuals that formed an interactive backdrop to singer Faith Hill's live performance of her song 'Breathe' at this year's Grammy Awards in February. Clive is best known for the unique 'multiplane' paint-on-glass animation technique used in the making of his award winning film series 'Divertimenti'. The Wales-based animator shows his work in a multi-loudspeaker environment, and discusses the relationship between sound and image with composer Simon Waters.
12:00: - Main Stage - 'Saw Nonet' (tbc) A solo performance by Johannes Bergmark 8 recorded saw solos + one live saw, including the Whalefish, the Brillolin, the Metal Harp, the Finger Violin, the saw, live electronics with the Micro Moog (if it's back from repair), radios, fuzzbox and voice.
14:00: Black Box Sound & Image zone - Music Centre Concert Room Sonimation + Audible Communities The eight collaborative works commissioned by Sonic Arts Network as a result of this year's call for works from animator/composer teams, shown with other recent Sound & Image work in a state-of-the-art multi-loudspeaker diffusion space. Audible Communities - Studio Tonne has created a series of sound toy utilities played live as sound and image instruments.
16:00: Black Box Sound & Image zone - Music Centre Concert Room John Bowers - Keynote presentation: 'Machines, Bodies & Interaction'. John Bowers draws on his background in computing, sociology and music to make provocative suggestions about our understanding of machines, our concept of order, our use of the body and our notions of improvisation. John Bowers works as an improviser of electroacoustic music (currently most notably with the Zapruda Trio) and as a computer science researcher and lecturer. He is concerned to design, develop and use new interfaces to technical systems, as well as to reflect on the cultural significance of machines and human engagement with them. His presentation at HYBRIDS will attempt to develop some 'against the grain' orientations to improvised music, electronic and computer treatments within improvisation, performance aesthetics, and approaches to interactive computer systems.
18:00: Open-air zone - Amphitheatre Extractor - Andrew Deakin and Martin Robertson perform work utilising SuperCollider
20:00: Main Stage - Drama Studio World premiere performance by Evan Parker, Jonathan Impett & Richard Barrett: The saxophone virtuoso works with two of his previous duo partners for the first time ever in this trio formation using real-time computer systems and acoustic instruments. The concert also features Impett's groundbreaking 'metatrumpet' in several works.
22:00: Open-air zone - Grass Amphitheatre Tom Wallace hosts 'Diffusion' featuring Brown Sierra), with VJ Rob Flint. Sonic Arts Network's own listening space mixes analogue to digital, digital to analogue, manipulation, transformation, and stimulation. At Hybrids it features Tom Wallace and guests Brown Sierra (aka Paddy Collins and Pia Gambardella, a performing duo whose work remains resolutely analogue in a scene where digital sound is the norm. Although referencing (and resembling) kinetic works of the 1960s and'70s, their sculptural objects engage in an entirely contemporary way with the physicality of sound.
Online Virtual Rainforest Matt Rogalsky presents online sketches of this major work in progress: an online physically remodelled realisation of David Tudor's Rainforest. In association with the Digital Arts Network.
Sunday 8th July
10:00: - Lake Sound Walk Listening Walk led by members of the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community (UKISC). We walk. We listen. Come rain or shine. The route takes in the lake and UEA campus. Approx. 45 mins.
10:00: - 8 channel zone -Drama Green Room Continuous replay of 8 channel works - bring work on ADAT or DA88 format to participate.
11:30: Black Box Sound & Image zone - Music Centre Concert Room Hans Tutschku presents Open Music and IRCAM software Since 1997 Hans Tutschku has been teaching computer music at IRCAM. He has given master classes at the University of São Paulo, the University of Singapore, the Music Academy in Budapest and at 'Tempo Reale' in Florence. Here he presents an advanced workshop demonstration of IRCAM software.
14:30: Black Box Sound & Image zone - Music Centre Concert Room Jo Hyde, Matt Olden and Nathan Hughes Olden, Hughes and Hyde make semi-improvised performances, representative of an evolving, practical research process, each performance being a snapshot of an experimental multi-media conversation.
At present, the primary source material is audio generated by Matt Oldens' real time manipulation of his own I Am The mighty Jungulator program, written in Max/MSP. Joseph Hyde uses versatile NATO.0+55 software. Nathan Hughes uses Arkaos X<>pose software to respond to, and prompt both of the above.
16:30: Open-air zone - Grass Amphitheatre Tom Wallace hosts 'Diffusion' Sonic Arts Network's listening space returns with Tom Wallace. Sound artist Tom Wallace's solo work is primarily in the acousmatic medium. Recent work has included sound design for the architects Foster and Partners as well as many projects at LMC studios. He DJs regularly in London at the SAN Diffusion nights which he co-runs and also at festivals with Ecotrip's 12Volt Solar Sound System.
17:30 Close
Sonic Arts Network Sonic Arts Network is a performance, education and information resource with members worldwide. Founded as the Electroacoustic Music Association in 1979, our focus lies in experimental approaches to sound and the ways in which new technology is transforming the nature and practice of music.
UEA The electroacoustic music studio at UEA has formed the hub of consistent research activity over the past 25 years, maintaining a position within the top three UK centres for the composition, performance and aesthetics of music involving electronic technologies.
Hybrids is presented in association with the University of East Anglia and is supported by East England Arts. llllll