THE COOPERATIVE: SOUNDNETWORK CALL OUT DEADLINE MONDAY 9th AUGUST
The Cooperative is a high visibility gallery space
and artistic hub space for the duration of the Liverpool International Biennial,
creating a platform on which the permanent, quality artist groups in Liverpool
can showcase their practise, interests and influences to the international
community.
This is a ground-breaking initiative run by seven artists
groups in Liverpool... Arena, Mercy, Red Wire, The Royal Standard, Jump Ship
Rat, SoundNetwork and The Lost Soul & Stranger Service Station.
Collectively we are
taking over a disused shop in the heart of the city centre and installing an
exhibition space, portfolio library and information centre for the duration of
the festival.
SoundNetwork are planning an artist's hackspace framework to support selected ideas from this open submission.
A hackspace is a workplace where people from a range of disciplines sound, new music, visual art and technology can work together informally and make something: an installation, a performance, an action, a robot, an instrument or an online thing!
14th August 10-5pm FREE World Museum
William Brown Street
Liverpool
DIY Music Day is a co-production between SoundNetwork and the PRS for Music Foundation's New Music Plus Northwest Scheme.
Explore the world museum through music. Make thumb pianos, listen to instruments from all over the world and perform music with DIY instruments. No musical experience necessary!
Jelly's a casual work
event where everyone's invited. It's for anyone who'd like to work
alongside other creative people in a welcoming environment. You bring
your laptop and some work, and Jelly provides wifi, a chair, and smart
people to bounce ideas off of and collaborate with.
Fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, social, local, global—Ignite is all
of these and more. It's a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by
people who have an idea—and the guts to get onstage and share it with
their hometown crowd.
Run by local volunteers who are connected through
the global Ignite network, Ignite is a force for raising the collective
IQ and building connections in each city. And, via streaming and
archived videos of local talks, local Ignites share all that knowledge
and passion with the world.
How Why DIY is an open festival of DIY
technology and art which will be presented as a hands on friendly car
boot sale taking place in the old Rapid Paint Shop August.
Artists,
designers, entrepreneurs, makers and hobbyists will be showing the
public how to use technology in their own way and on their terms. But
they need you to run a workshop or could you contribute
to the afternoon seminar or would you be interested in sponsoring an
element of the event.
Workshops
identified so far for what sounds like an exciting day or techy
exploration are
Reuse and
rewire your old iPpods Arduino’s – building from the ground up Citizen reporting,
blogging, podcasting, vidcasting, Live streaming and social media Retro Gaming and Wii
phonics Music
workshops Open Sourcing your computer Computer recycling and
rebuilding
How?
Why? DIY! are also looking for people to add to this series of
workshops - especially in the areas of Micro blogging, on line radio,
wordpress or joomla workshops, or anything else that fits with the
theme.
The
seminar At the end of the day they will be holding
an open to all seminar to discuss how can Liverpool have a more joined
up approach to it's use of creative technology. If your interested in
getting involved then can i encourage you to join up to the network. How? Why? DIY!
The dates are
yet to be confirmed but we have heard that it is going to be either Saturday
21st August or Sunday 22nd August
Venue: Old
Rapid Paint shop on Renshaw Street, Liverpool
Def Net Media continues to be the Liverpool hub for tech based media, podcasts and cultural activity with great links to people like die-hard arts supporters and lovers ArtInLiverpool
DEFNET links up to HowWhyDIY?, Ignite Liverpool, Liverpool Jelly ArtInLiverpoolFM
An EP of 5 selected live improvised, minimal composition experiments from
2010 and one from 2009. The tracks ‘Six Lines’, ‘Buddha Book Taps’ and
‘Accidental Ending’ are taken from the same recording. ‘Buddah Book
Taps’ features samples from the FM3 Buddha Machine II and the end to ‘Accidental
Ending’ is a genuine accident with the main loop cutting off instead of
fading out. The sounds are made with; amplified books, contact mic,
broken cymbal, small cymbal, toy xylaphone, wire rack, pill packet,
typewriter, breath, 3 band pocket radio, tape recorder, found field
recording tape, ‘Steam In The 50s’ tape, turntable, ‘Golden Age of
Steam’ record, fence brace, various found objects, reel-to-reel tape
recorder, digital delay, Loopstation. Available as a free download.
