This year BEAM is scheduled 22-24 of June – put it in your diary!
BEAM is a high-tech music weekender, a playground of homemade instruments and sonic installations, where you can listen to, watch and learn how to create your own physically living electronic music. BEAM was devised by Artistic Director Sarah Nicolls to explore the potential physicality of electronic music. The focus on electronic music being created LIVE is explored through a programme of performances, demonstrations, installations and workshops. BEAM brings together a global audience of artists, researchers, DiY electronics builders and enthusiasts, from beginners to veterans.
The Symposium starts at 11am on Friday with Sergi Jorda’s keynote – inventor of the ReacTable – currently scheduled for 4pm. The Festival proper begins at 5pm on Friday and runs through until Sunday afternoon.
This year we have an even bigger BEAM Open Space hosting new instruments, interfaces, demonstrations, installations and performances submitted through the BEAM Open Call. And on Saturday evening the main auditorium will be transformed for the BEAM sleepover as Jana Winderen explores the audio topography of the oceans and the depth of ice crevasses, revealing the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath in a one-off night-long performance.
Atau Tanaka (iPhone performer in BEAM 2011 and currently Director of Culture Lab, Newcastle) also joins us as BEAM 2012′s Guest Curator.
BEAM 2012 is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, PRS for Music Foundation and Brunel University.
