Hi all,
Sadly Alexandra Cardenas can't join us this Thurs at Cafe OTO, but
happily xname can, more details here:
http://lurk.org/2/
Hope to see some of you there!
alex
On 7 July 2013 21:00, alex <alex_at_lurk.org> wrote:
> "Lurk … elegantly draws attention to this world of burgeoning activity
> in enchanting language; humanising the creative use of machine
> instructions, reminding us that with software code, as with any other
> human tool, it’s what you do with it that counts." Ollie Bown,
> RealTime Arts magazine
>
> Date: 8pm, 15th August 2013
> Where: Cafe OTO, London
> Tax: £6 tickets online: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/221841
> (or £8 on the door)
>
> More info: http://lurk.org/2/
> or read on...
>
> Lurk is back in for Summer 2013, with four diverse performances at
> Dalston’s Cafe Oto. Making software to make music to drink beer to:
>
> LEAFCUTTER JOHN is a songwriter and improviser based in London, known
> for spinning stories and constructing soundscapes from his handmade
> instruments which include software, magnets, light sensors, and a
> guitar. Through his stunning and varied solo work and membership of
> Polar Bear he has brought refreshing new ideas to improv, jazz,
> electronica, folk, sound art and the spaces in between.
> http://leafcutterjohn.com/
>
> PAUL HESSION and ALEX MCLEAN are a new duo from Yorkshire, fusing
> improvised percussion with live code, exploring rhythm at the
> boundaries. Paul has played with many of the great free improvisers,
> including Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee and
> Lol Coxhill as well as musicians from other spheres, such as Paul
> Woolford and Squarepusher. Alex has rocked crowds with his code at
> festivals across Europe as one third of the band Slub since the year
> 2000, humanising abstraction as co-founder of TOPLAP, Algorave and
> Chordpunch.
> http://www.softdrum.com/
> http://yaxu.org/
>
> ROGER DEAN joins us from Sydney to bring together live algorithms with
> the acoustic piano, celebrating unpredictability between musical
> relations with people and machines. Improvisation is core to his work,
> and ranges from free (e.g. with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker) to more
> heavily pre-structured (e.g. with Graham Collier and austraLYSIS).
> http://www.australysis.com/rdean.htm
>
> ALEXANDRA CARDENAS is a composer and improviser from Bogota, currently
> based in Berlin. Her work focuses on experimentation using live
> electronics, improvisation and hand-made interfaces. While living in
> Mexico City Alexandra was based in Centro Multimedia, CENART, as one
> of the pioneers of the vibrant live coding scene there. Her
> compositions have been performed in concert halls in Colombia,
> Venezuela, Mexico, United States, Europe, China and India. For lurk#2
> she will perform with guitar and supercollider.
> http://cargocollective.com/tiemposdelruido/Alexandra-Cardenas
>
> http://lurk.org/2/
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Received on Tue Aug 13 2013 - 13:47:26 BST