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| Phoneme for Sunshinedna |
30 Oct 2006
Sunshine is the new sci-fi film by acclaimed director Danny Boyle. The website has a selection of behind the scenes and promo videos, a few of which utilise and tiny excerpt from the end of HAL's "Phoneme" in their opening section. HAL even got paid ! Never let it be said that attention to detail in sound design isn't worthwhile ;-)
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| Openlab3 |
29 Oct 2006
Group Show, 4/11-11/11/2006, 1-7pm
Opening Event and Private View 4/11/2006, 4 -12 pm
Closing Event 11/11/2006, 4-12 pm
Auto-Italia South London Gallery
82-86 Queens Road
SE152QX Peckham, London
OpenLab is delighted to present OpenLab3, an group exhibition with an opening and closing event featuring musical performances by more than 20 artists and musicians of the OpenLab collective. OpenLab engages in the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture. Free Software Culture seeks to emphasise transparency of the creative process by making all stages of development available to others, enabling them to learn how the creation works and alter it for their own purposes. When this idea is applied to artistic practices, the boundaries between the artistic usage of software tools and their collaborative development become blurred. The workings of the artist's tools are exposed, and the artists are actively engaged in developing media technologies. They can modify them to suit their goals, rather than creating works by using existing tools that impose "their way of doing things" on the artwork.
This group exhibition brings together interactive installations, sonic interventions, video works and animations which explore the audio-visual code of this network culture: computers start to paint pictures on their own, expose their internal circuits and "commit suicide"; birds will sing and fly around in multiple realities, the skylines of two cosmopolitan cities merge, language, meaning and time burst into fragments and recombine. The range of the combined works points to the strength of Open Source Culture – its increasing versatility as artistic playground essential to contemporary debates and its continued importance not just in the invention of new media realities but also in tackling themes of "real" time and space.
The two music events feature sound and multimedia performances of artists who use and develop open-source tools such as PD, Supercollider, Processing and Fluxus. They will perform prepared sets and code their music live in various programing languages. Musicians will also experiment with a set of live instrument swapping. By exchanging PD-Patches, they will challenge each other in an uncharted space of sonic manipulation. The performances will span from excursions into the symphonica, experimental noise and soundscapes to electronica and beat-oriented minimal techno-sets.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Rob Canning, Chun Lee, Claude Heiland-Allen, Carl Forsell, Sabine Gottfried, Karsten Gebbert, Paul Webb, Rob Munro, Chiharu Kaido, Evan Raskob, U-Sun, Ryan Jordan, Oli Laruelle, Robert Atwood, Luke Jordan, Rene, Monica Subrotova & Daniel Kordik, Michael Woelkner, Andy Farnell, Martin Aaserud, Ryan Jordan & Rachel Horne, Dave Griffith & Alex McLean
For more information please visit :
http://www.fexia.com/openlab
http://openlab.pawfal.org
http://www.midnightbluecollective.com
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| Netaudio Festival Report |
29 Oct 2006
The Netaudio Festival is already a distant memory but there's a nice report [pdf] available in the press section of the site that gives a really good coverage of the event and successfully captures the spirit of the festival. Polymorphic hugely enjoyed being involved in this celebration of netaudio culture :)
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| Sepia Hours Release |
| Netaudio 06 : Hyperlangauge preview |
30 Aug 2006
This preview release of Hyperlanguage acts a precursor to the improvised sound installation at this years Netaudio 06 festival. It aims to give the listener an aural context for the project whilst introducing the fundamental themes of investigation with which the participating artists are concerned.
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| Level Release |
| Netaudio London 06 |
22 Jul 2006
Netaudio London '06 Festival takes place on 15-16th September with daytime sessions at the Candid Arts Gallery and evening parties at the Electrowerkz club next door. The programme is now confirmed with a wide range of performers, DJs and VJs. The daytime sessions include a knowledge fair, workshops (one on Pure Data by some of the Openlab guys) and coffee table discussions, one exploring the cultural impact of netaudio. Polymorphic will be participating with an sound installation by Level and a daytime performance by Sepia Hours.
This exciting event will bring together artists [pdf] from an international scene and provide a taster of the diverse sounds available form within this growing underground network of communities. The daytime sessions will be a more laid back affair covering many forms of electronica complimented by some guitar based and experimental audio whilst the evening sessions are dancefloor orientated including minimal techno and dubbed out beats.
Tickets can be bought for the event as follows :
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| Real DJs Code Live |
06 Jul 2006
Check this Wired.com article for an intro to Livecoding. About as improvised as you can get with a laptop..
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| Incoming.. |
30 Jun 2006
It's been a busy couple of months down here so the site has taken a back seat for a while. Rest assured we have quality releases lined up from Level , Gareth Dickson and Sepia Hours. We've also been getting involved in organisation for the Netaudio London '06 Festival which takes place in September. The line up is being confirmed as we speak and the event looks set to be a real success. Watch this space..
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| Lembrouille Mix |
27 Apr 2006
New mix from guest DJ Lembrouille available here. This marathon 43 track mix is freely downloadable / distributable and features a variety of quality dancefloor music from the netlabel scene.
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| Frequenzen plays Remote_ |
19 Apr 2006
The excellent Frequenzen radio show has restarted on Resonance FM and featured a track from the Polymorphic Sampler CDR by Remote_ on the first session. Check out the show for the best in minimal sounds.
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| STFU Glasgow |
16 Apr 2006
Check out the fantastic Hippocamp video download that covers the STFU event in Glasgow. The video provides a valuable insight into netaudio culture, copyleft aesthetics and the power of collaborative, decentralised organisation in it's coverage of the showcase event. A extremely valuable document with some great audio visual content. Very nice..
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| Gremlins squashed |
06 Apr 2006
Jukebox working as normal... Enjoy !
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| Gremlins in the Jukebox |
06 Apr 2006
We seem to be experiencing problems loading up the Flash movie that allows MP3 streams via our Jukebox. Looks like there may be problems at our remote host as another visitor reported strange DNS problems yesterday...
In the mean time you can still download material from the Releases / Mixes section and listen offline..
We apologise for any inconvenience :(
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| OpenLab2 - Post Mortem |
04 Apr 2006
OpenLab2
was a great success and provided an interesting variety of aural delights for
the adventurous listener ! Almost too much to choose from but some of the highlights
were Rob Cs' processed toys, Rob As' purity through feedback, Andy-Gnomadics'
low bit leanings, the fantastic drummer from Wojciechs' group and Chun-Sonicvariables'
frenetic closure (couldn't resist kranking the volume for that one). Big thanks
to ALL the artists involved, a good time was had all round..
For more info on the people involved be sure to check out the OpenLab site.
We dumped a playlist
from the mixing software if your interested in investigating any of the music
that was played between sets.
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| OpenLab2 - Open Source Digital Art |
28 Mar 2006
OpenLab2 is happening 16:00 - 24:00 this Sunday 02/04/06 at the Vibe Bar, Brick Lane, London :
"Sound and visual artists from the Open Source collaboration, OpenLab will take audiences through a stimulating journey through the sonic space.
The event builds on what is now an increasingly blurred line between artists and software developers. The broad expansion of the Internet and the democratization of computers have left audiences more than ever confronted with new, hybrid software conceived by a blend of artists and programmers.
As intellectual property is a fiercely debated issue, some people cling on to their little bits of territory, while others choose to share knowledge, art and collective work. This day will be a platform for OpenLabs digital artists, musicians and programmers, to present their collaborative works."
Full details www.pawfal.org/openlab
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| Netlabel 15 |
27 Mar 2006
Wire magazine printed the following Netlabel chart submitted by Polymorphic in their April issue. The genre tags are largely culled from the Phlow directory and should be used as a guideline only ! Go check these guys out.
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| Sampler CD charts with the Head Gardener |
05 Mar 2006
The Polymorphic sampler release features in the March charts over on the Garden Of Earthly Delights radio show ensuring that material from the CDR will be featured weekly throughout the month. This highly successful alternative music session is set to go global with an Internet stream in the pipeline ensuring that the Gardeners weird wired sounds are as far reaching as possible. In the mean time you can download mixes form the site or tune in on the FM dial if your within range.
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| Radioactive FM #2 |
26 Feb 2006
Music from Polymorphic artists featured in another broadcast on Radioactive FM . The session featured tracks from our promo CDR and finds us in good company :) .You can find a full playlist here.
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| Polymorphic Sampler CDR Release |
| Radioactive FM |
25 Jan 2006
Tracks from Polymorphic are to feature on New Zealands' Radioactive FM this Thursday 26/01/06 @ 08:00 - 10:00 (GMT) - that's 21:00 - 23:00 NZ time. You can catch the show online at Radioactive FM
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| Cycla lauch party |
22 Jan 2006
Smallfish are hosting the release party for Levels' "Cycla" this Thursday 26/01/06. It should prove to be a nice evening and a chance to hook up with a few people in the the physical domain !
Polymorphic will be giving away promo CD samplers on the the night to showcase the cross section of music we have available. Come down if you can, the night is free entry. So, that's a free live set from Level, BYO beer and a free CD sampler. What more can you want :)
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| Grounded Circle Release |
| HAL Mix |
17 Jan 2006
New mix from HAL available here. Dancefloor mix of quality sounds from the netlabel community.
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