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The wondrous effect of small, scratched and drawn coloured lines when projected can be quite spectacular. In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to make an animated film without the use of a camera. By scratching and drawing directly on to 16 mm film stock, you will create amazing motion with fluid lines and colour. The finished animations will be spliced together and screened later in the day at 17.10. Free - all ages welcome.
An intense and improvised layering of infinite loopsâ using 10 turntables in magnificent fashion. A locked groove is a circular groove cut into vinyl Ñ a closed loop, as opposed to a spiral Ñ that will play forever if left unhindered. LGO comprises multiple turntable operators, each selecting and playing a collection of locked grooves that are layered and spatialised by a mix producer. The result is a tide of scattering, shifting rhythms and textures, building, surging and retreating in cycles. This performance will feature 10 turntables played by the following artists: 2Katz; RLF; Tom , Ed and Mark (Clean Cut); Mr Hopkinson; Motorboy (Language); TomdaFlow; Darren Giddings, Kim Giddings (Ultramodern). Mix engineer: Cedric Hurricane.
A dazzling collection of urban short films representing Bristol and the South West, including Hip-Hop promos and assorted urban visionaries. Digital Traffic is a platform for urban filmmakers, promoting a fraction of the immense filmmaking talent present in this region. All the films shown are shot on digital format. The subject matter for these films is varied, from music promos to short hard-hitting documentaries.
Phonographies is a multi-speaker soundscape event exploring the sounds around us, presenting a cinema for the ear that stretches from the sublime to the ridiculous. Phonographies of Exeter is a composition taking as its subject the public spaces of Exeter , Devon , commissioned by Exeter Phoenix and funded by South West Arts New Commissions Fund. Drever has performed his work at many major international festivals including performances in Granada , Chicago , Sheffield, Beijing , Paris , Prague , Florida , Belfast , Havana and Glasgow . Phonographies Ñ Glasgow, Frankfurt, Exeter is out now on the Sound-Marked label.
Characterised by dislocated rhythm and infectious angular pop melody, the eccentrically English Eftus Spectun has been building an oddball reputation with jerky performances and home recordings since its inception in 1999. Recently featured live on London 's Resonance FM, the band has been recording an album which will be released through US label Public Eyesore. Influences include Beefheart, Mr Bungle, The Dillinger, Escape Plan, US Maple and The Cardiacs. Surely one of the most unique bands in Bristol Ñ and cooks and porters to boot.
Remember the Walrus set that set the tent on fire last year? Well, they've mutated and they're back, featuring members. Once again the quality of performance will be breathtaking: vital, dramatic, thundering metal extravagance and lush orchestral bravura with delicate tinctures of melody; panoramic virulent grandeur and broadsword -clashing mania mix of seismic bite and flaring, cascading incandescence with undeniably dramatic cloisters.
An uncontrolled experiment bringing together two differing approaches to improvised noise: Team Brick is a local lad who aims to Ôkill your ears off' with his harsh, evil sound, armed only with FX pedals, taped war speeches, and a scream that would do goatboy proud; vi Ñ volt increment Ñ is one third of improvised electronics outfit vi trio. vi employs analog machines for sequencing rythmic noisescapes, from sinewaves, whitenoise and PWM to industrial sub-spectrum drones. 'There will be no resonant frequency in this tent -suck my orange ass.'
For one night only the shadowy cartel behind Metol Disko bring you Neon , an audio-visual performance inspired by and encapsulating the synthetic decadence of Bristol 's Metol Disko club nites. A post-industrial assembly line of DJs provide nu-wave elektro soundtracks to a glittering array of film and performance that will combine to provide the ultimate in sensory pleasure. Dangerously sexy, hideously kinky this is glamour but not as we know it. Robots, leather boys, disko dollys and sex dwarfs dance beneath the neon lights, together but ultimately alone as they lose themselves to the beat of the Metol machine.
V/Vm, the famous plunderphonic butchers of the Krankies, Aphex Twin and Chris DeBurgh return to Bristol with a and turbulent re-scoring for a powerful re-edit of David Lynch's first feature film, Eraserhead (1976). This stark, abstract classic weaves a dark and troubling tale, encompassing issues of commitment, responsibility and sexuality, underpinned throughout by a foreboding sense of isolation, hopelessness and post-apocalyptic industrial decay. The meat of Lynch's surreal psychological horror here comes under the scalpel from Language duo Motorboy and Uberdog, as they hack his dislocated, monotone imagery into a laconic, hard-hitting remix. Stockport's infamous noise-terrorists V/Vm weld on their own meticulously sculpted sound score, enhancing the darkness with their trademark approach to uncompromising audio experimentation.
The scorching sound of this US four-piece explodes with fierce desire, frustration and the sacrilegious sound of the blues. This is compelling hardcore and a truly awesome, live cathartic experience brimming with metaphysical heaviness and freak-out. Having worked with Steve Albini, Marianne Faithful and Lydia Lunch, Oxbow has been described as the greatest art-rock band in the world. Armed with material from new album, Evil Heat , the band brings songs full of buried melodies and crushed, detuned progressions that seem to slide off the earth with a force that sucks the air from your lungs. Bring drinking fluids - searing conditions expected.
50 stories high, 5000 metres deep... it's RLF and his orCHESTra.
Stormin' out of the depths comes an electronix/garage/rudebigband sound featuring one-helluva-man and his trombone, a scratch DJ, mysterious effects and affects, drummer and backing band. Specially made films will back up the jams. Pulling out a full-on party set with messed up FUNKadelic proportions, this will get feet and hips moving in the tent like Shakin' Stevens after 10 espressos. RLF's new EP Blow Your Mind and the Speakers Will Follow is out now on Rex Records and has been described as Andy Weatherall versus Steve Albini in a no-holds-barred soundclash.