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Bursting out of the bi-monthly night at Bristol's Cube Microplex, Bluescreen presents an extravaganza of local moving-image talent. With a remit as diverse as the content is strong and a maximum length of eight minutes per film, the line-up will encompass all film media and styles, from bedroom Super 8 experiments to big-budget short films, art installations and animations.
Congratulations! You have won a return ticket for a glass-bottomed zeppelin cruise to the darker regions beyond 'the painted veil'. The house band aboard this prized vessel will enhance your journey with an improvised excursion into resonance, tonality, harmony, organic electrostatic punctuation, being and non-being. Try our selection of dark cocktails at the bar and our unearthly vol-au-vents in the buffet room. Cameras, radios and mobile communications devices may be subject to inexplicable interference.
David Coulter: didjeridu/violectra
Chris Long: accordion/keyboard
Jem Noble: turntable/FX/feedback/steel rule
Bristol-style club night, rePUBLIC (DJ Dad, MC Idle and Majestic 1-2) is joined by special guest singer, Sandy Dillon, to create a performance of turntable beats, impassioned rap and dainty buzzsaw vocals. All this is mashed up through the laptops and twisted imaginations of the Luxrama artists (Jon Dovey, Rik Lander and VJ Splice) into an entertaining AV theatre. Audience perception shifts as narrative video moments slide into performance interventions and surreal scratch mini-breaks - and you can dance too - bonus!
Bash Money and Nick Fury spin a live score of beat-heavy good-groove to 50/50 skateboards' latest film, JUS' FOOLIN - Face Off, mother f***er! Firmly established as the premier Skate shop in Bristol, 50/50 is a creative hub for local up-and-coming and world-class skate talent. Into more than just retail, the crew produces fine videos, promotes cinema/dj nites and D.L.H. gigs. Witness the fitness.
Two special live audio-visual performances from some of Bristol's best horizontal head-spinners. Live electronix celebrating a love all things feverishly Satanic, Bronnt Industries Kapital performs a set of darkest Teutonica accompanied by a visual feast of Super 8 film and slides, plus excerpts from the band's soundtrack to the 1922 witchcraft documentary Haxan . Mole Harness and Knowledge Of Bugs provide a live score to Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasuredome . Moving from live guitar, bass and iron chains to a climax of ecstatic beats and interlocking synths, the duo capture the hypnotic feel of Anger's masquerade of the Gods. Previously performed at Duncan Fleming's Silent Night .
Silent Age Records - From the arcane to the explosive
The Shmooz collective creates bespoke visual environments for music and arts-based performance, including residencies at The Big Chill and Bristol's immensely successful Seen club night. In this specially composed audio-visual performance, the group works self-originated visual flavours into a specially created immersive soundscape - sit back and slide into sunday's songs of gaze as Grainy, Muffled Visions And The Ombudsman explore the ambient electronic, dub edged and downtempo beat with their unique palette of textures and forms.
The shifting concerns and boundaries of authorship, influence and authenticity are points of fixation symptomatic of self-awareness/possession in a creative culture that can't quite shake the feeling that it is caught in a mirrored loop at the end of history. What better a motif for this than the DJ - the music-medium-turned-star-of-the-show; the busy cultural curator, ever arranging and re-arranging brief collections of other people's things and, in so doing, creating something else: differentÉ new? Drawing heavily on these concerns in his work, internationally acclaimed artist Gavin Turk will be creating a wealth of symbolic cross-wiring by taking to the turntables to chart a personal course for the outer limits of modern music. Ponder the wiring-diagram or let go your mind and sink in sound.
Comprising stalwarts of The Klinker 'London's oldest Free Music club' The Hugh Metcalfe Band does dirty improv-rock encompassing the sagely ramblings of Sir Gideon Vein and the impossible vocal talents of Phil Minton. 139-year-old Sir Gideon, the self-professed Ôworld's greatest thespian', projected his voice to a bemused and transfixed Blackout audience last year, while his body was in London. Phil Minton is one of the most versatile and talented vocal improvisers of his generation. He has the ability to produce sounds that range from full-blooded pub tenor to stuck pig; from wet cat trapped in a spin drier to Donald Duck on speed; it's a wonder he has any vocal cords left at all. The right honorable Hugh Metcalfe will course the catastrophe with strings, percussion and gas mask.
The bad gals of the missylaneous collective, Miss Gina Carpenter and DJ Miss Tukats, bring you a jaw-dropping video-sonic tribute to inner-city life - a dedication to the everyday trials, tribulations and inspirations from the badd side of town. From St Pauls to Gunchester; gang wars; drug crime; pimps; police; housing grime; music - music - music! Big bass-lines pulsate and loud sirens cut the air in an orgy of booty-shakin' indulgence, so watch, listen, get up and dance to the sound of the city night.
A jaw-dropping end to the festival with this high-flying dubbed-out circus
troop. Bath-based Stereophonic Circus has been exploring the integration of
physical and video-sonic performance media through a variety of its own club
promotions and festival-based events over the past five years. In a collision
of contemporary circus, music and multi-layered projections, tightly woven
into a show that seizes all the senses simultaneously, its new performance
was premiered at this year's Brighton Circus Festival. Described as 'a very
tight and refreshing anarchic spectacle', the show explores the relationships
between people and art forms: one moment dark, another humorous, beautiful
and then, for an instant, inexplicably strange.