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FESTIVAL PARTNERS

STEIM are a legendary studio in Amsterdam, founded by Michel Waisviez to celebrate and develop interfaces for music performance. Their emphasis on live electronic music as gestural rather than solely performed at a computer has made STEIM a vital global hub.  They are interface-makers and hackers extraordinaire and now you can learn directly from them in one of their workshops.  *DJ SNIFF performing Friday night*

SARC’s experts in music and emotion (Ben Knapp, Gascia Ouzanian, Eric Lyon) present Music for Sleeping, a sleep-inducing, brain-powered musical extravaganza.

SARU’s Paul Whitty, Stephen Cornford and Felicity Ford present their Lost & Found project, exploring plunderphonics, discarded cassettes, sampling, scores, instructions, and sound-making detritus.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Taking over the Artaud Performance Centre on the Brunel campus, you are free to roam to discover inventions and experiments, with on-site artists displaying their own work and home-makers sharing tips and expertise.  On Friday there are small, intensive WORKSHOPS with STEIM and TOM BUGS, on Saturday free and larger group workshops and by Sunday we’ll have mass participation in an open ‘Play and Display’ session, with an orchestra of massed crackleboxes, WOMs and game controllers.  The BEAM OPEN SPACE will host the OPEN CALL works: get your ideas in quick – DEADLINE 14th May!

There’ll be lots of opportunity to meet-the-artists in the festival hub; student volunteers will be on hand throughout the festival to answer questions and guide you around.  Group open discussions led by the Brunel Music team and visiting artists will contemplate relevant philosophical or aesthetic questions and also enable you to find out how the technology works while pervasive games off-set the indoors activities, allowing you to interact directly with other participants and get some sunshine.

FESTIVAL PASS (Limited number) only £50 including accomodation!*