PhoneMrBiskov

Description (target 750 words):

Time was short. Slub met in a the Foundry pub in East London, UK, setting their laptops next to their pints. Audio was routed from laptops to mixer and back to the improvisers via a headphone distribution amplifier. This was to be a private improvisation in very public surroundings. With the Foundry being well used to unusual events, and Slub being well used to the Foundry, this was a relaxed occasion in familiar, comfortable surroundings.

This is how three people met to drink beer while writing software to make music to drink beer to. Slub improvise music and video with the symbols of computer code, composing structures which are brought to life by dynamic interpreters of computer language. They are "live coders" in the sense of "live electricity", in that they modify their music generating programs while they are running. All three have built their own live coding systems, quite diverse in their operation but united through music.

Due to the comings and goings of life, Slub had not made music for some months, and so it was the second pint and the third take before things happened. A field of cicadas, being sucked into an industrial electronic food processor ready for packaging and distribution to a city of robotic clouds, designed to reproduce the perfect atmospheric conditions befitting a healthy lifestyle with a happy disposition and a generally upbeat attitude despite the onslaught of decay, disease and rot which ravages artificiality, the sad and bitter grey-black matter which seeps into every dark crevice, it's sickening tar coating, suffocating and killing every element like a viral infection, eventually resulting in nature's blank slate - an absolutely average canvas, with no discernible peak or trough nor any other feature, awaiting a splash of brightness in the form of whichever creature should find itself enjoying its utmost perfection.

Bio (target 150 words):

Slub are Dave Griffiths, Alex McLean and Adrian Ward. They have been making people dance to their software since 2000 at such places as Club Transmediale, Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, Sonar Festival, Ultrasound Festival and The Foundry.