[PD] [OT] Hy/brids festival

[Jonathan Impett]

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 slowdiveŠ 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.
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