CENTENARY OF POWERED FLIGHT
		4th December 2003 Cube Cinema, Bristol www.bureauit.org/plane

 

THE CENTENARY OF POWERED FLIGHT
With NETHERWORLD AIRTOURS (live)
Films: BUREAU OF INVERSE TECHNOLOGY and DAVID HOPKINSON

100 years after the Wright brothers opened the sky to the future with their first successful powered flight, Blackout invites you on a journey to the margins of aviation. This alternative centennial commemoration features the live sonic excursions, films and readings.

NETHERWORLD AIRTOURS is a live musical experience featuring DAVID COULTER on airflow, violectra and analogue loop effects (Young God Records; Test Department; Kronos Quartet); CHRIS LONG on midi accordion (cinestatic.com - Day 2); and JEM NOBLE on turntable-object-feedback interaction (Defcon Stylus; Lateral Cuts, Lovewig). Accompanying the band with decadent meditations on flight will be distinguished gentlemen MEDLAR LUCAN and DURIAN GRAY.

THE BUREAU OF INVERSE TECHNOLOGY is an information agency servicing the information age. The Bureau's work includes BITPLANE (1999; 15 mins): a highly compact spy plane, wingspan 20 inches: radio-controlled, video-instrumented and deployed over areas of controversial scenic interest. TAKING OFF (1992; 8 mins) is a short mockumentary by DAVID HOPKINSON.

 

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