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MUSIC FESTIVAL // A hi-tech musical weekender</b></p>
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FEBRUARY 2012 // BIRMINGHAM (UK)</b></p>
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Music Festival returns to Birmingham to present a weekend
of innovative hi-tech musical performances and
installations from local and international artists. </b></p>
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the success of the first <b>Network Music Festiva</b>l in
January 2012 the festival will return to Birmingham on <b>22-24th
February 2013</b>. </p>
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are working with some of the artists from NMF 2012 to curate
what promises to be an exciting and diverse line-up of
network artists. Benoît and the Mandelbrots (CO/DE),
Wrongheaded (UK), Glitch Lich (UK/USA) and Birmingham’s own
network band BiLE have each curated a concert at the weekend
long festival. Alongside this, local curator Samuel Rodgers
(Consumer Waste) has programmed a sound installation
exhibition which addresses the theme of networking. NMF2013
will feature specially invited artists, including
audio-visual laptop duo <b>Alo Allik</b> (EST) and <b>Yota
Morimoto</b> (BRA), and artists selected from the
festival's Open Call, which received more than 90 proposals
from Europe, the Americas and Australia.</p>
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festival will take place in venues across Birmingham’s
lively arts quarter, Digbeth, with performances and the
festival hub located once again at the home of the Friction
Arts collective, the newly expanded The Edge warehouse. </p>
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year's very special guests are <b>The Hub</b> (USA) -
considered by many to be the inventors of network music -
making a rare visit to the UK. This legendary band first
started wiring computers together for live performance in
the 1980s and remain a seminal influence for computer music
bands today. </p>
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highlights include the live-coding band <b>Slub</b> (UK),
inventors of the ‘Algorave’: that is, dance music produced
using computer algorithms, written live in front of the
audience. The festival will also welcome another highly
innovative act, <b>PB_UP</b> (DE), who were the first laptop
band to perform entirely wirelessly. The German group
describe themselves as an 'acoustic computer folk band' in
that they perform completely 'unplugged,' without any
external power or amplification. </p>
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composer <b>John Eacott</b> (UK) will present his piece
'Floodtide', which is based on the natural movements of the
river Thames. It will see Eacott collect real-time data on
the river's tidal movement, which is automatically
translated into musical notation, and transmitted via the
internet to be performed by a chamber group of classical
musicians in Birmingham. </p>
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festival will also include a chance to explore the
inner-workings of network music with a variety of general
interest and specialist talks and workshops - open to all
levels of experience.</p>
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for NMF 2013 are available now from: <a
href="http://networkmusicfestival.brownpapertickets.com/"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://networkmusicfestival.brownpapertickets.com</a>.
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information about the festival can be found at the festival
website: <a href="http://networkmusicfestival.org/"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">networkmusicfestival.org</a> or
you can follow us on facebook: <a
href="http://facebook.com/networkmusicfestival"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">facebook.com/networkmusicfestival</a> or
twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/netmusicfest"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@netmusicfest </a> </p>
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Music Festival // 22-24th February 2013 // The Edge, 79-81
Cheapside, Birmingham, B12 0QH</p>
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href="http://networkmusicfestival.org/"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">networkmusicfestival.org</a></p>
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href="http://twitter.com/netmusicfest"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@NetMusicFest</a> Hashtag:
#NMF2013</p>
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href="http://www.facebook.com/networkmusicfestival"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/networkmusicfestival</a> </p>
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href="mailto:networkmusicfestival@gmail.com"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">networkmusicfestival@gmail.com</a></p>
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<p
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featured over 70 artists from Birmingham’s home-grown talent
to UK and international artists from as far afield as USA
and Colombia in 5 concerts. They presented a diverse range
of performances including live coding, multiple-location
performances, trans-atlantic streaming, new instruments for
network performance, installations, workshops and talks. The
festival was featured on BBC 5 Live’s Outriders program and
mentioned in several national and international publications
including The Financial Times and The Computer Music
Journal. This year is set to feature just as many artists
showcasing cutting-edge approaches to high-tech musical
performance. Expect a diverse programme of laptop
performances, live coding, multi-location performances,
communicating home-made musical gadgets, immersive sound
installations, interactive workshops and more!</p>
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