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EVNTS
Friday 11 May 2007

A Showcase of 21st Century Happenings and Freak-outs

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SoundNetwork (part 1)

SoundNetwork return to Futuresonic at the Victoria Baths with an adventurous programme inviting visitors to listen, explore and network. Featuring experimental performance, drones & sirens, artist talks & discussion, listening in changing rooms, cement mixers, sand filters, tea, coffee and cake. Featuring special performances throughout the weekend of Siren by Ray Lee - a whirling, spinning spectacle of mechanical movement, electronic sound and light. See soundnetwork.omweb.org for times and details

Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Manchester
11am-5pm, Friday 11 May
Free

IOU Theatre present
Waylaid

A woman awakes to find herself frozen and tethered in a snow-covered desert. The only evidence of how she came to be here is a wrecked car. As she gathers her thoughts, the inhabitants of this wilderness emerge and dissolve in the whiteness...
Cocooned within an igloo-like dome and equipped with your own personal stereo, you join the woman on her journey as she attempts to make an escape. Technology meets edgy physical theatre in an immersive performance that will stay with you for a long time.
www.iouproductions.com

Performances at 7pm and 10pm, Friday 11 May
Platt Fields Park, Wilmslow Rd, Manchester, £10/
£5 with Futuresonic Weekender Wristband BUY
Tickets: 0161 274 0600 www.contact-theatre.org

Any Tempo

Tim G (Vox Pop)
Trusme (Still Music, Chicago)
Cord kicks off a full night of sounds with two of town's favourite tunesmiths. All free. All yours. Head to toe in Cord.
www.cordbar.com

6pm - 9pm, Friday 11 May
Cord, Tib Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester
Free

Mutant Media Freak Show

Performances and video work from a veritable freak-show of artists including Geoffrey Software and Tight Fisted Cow and street artists "Operation Scrub It". The Mutant Media Freak Show is a celebration of grassroots and freak culture and DIY media, spreading a message of independent thoughts, deeds and spirit.
www.mutantmedia.org.uk

8.30pm, Friday 11 May
The Basement Cafe, 24 Lever St, Northern Quarter, Manchester
Free- Donations appreciated

Teatime Sessions

The Good Hurt - Live
GeekGirl - Live
A early evening of live acts featuring The Good Hurt playing an eclectic set on a mixture of synths and guitars. Often described as simply 'raw' the band distil their energy into punk, new wave, pop, Krautrock and a host of other styles. With a huge following, GeekGirl dish up their infectious pop/punk/country sound - a bit like Alanis Morrisette mud-wrestling with The White Stripes in an electrical storm.
www.myspace.com/teatimesession

5.30pm - 7.30pm, Friday 11 May
Koffee Pot, Hilton Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester
Free

Audio-torium

Apple promotions presents:
This Morning Call - Live
Tetchi - Live
The Peterloo Massacre - Live
Olly Farshi - DJ
New Mancunian electronica band, This Morning Call, headline a night of live music with friends Tetchi and local DJ and electronic musician Olly Farshi. Performed in an art installation that aims to capture portraiture of the live event and the interaction of the audience through the use of still images and light.
* Tickets bought for this EVNT include free entry to SubSpace nightclub for the aftershow party.
www.myspace.com/thismorningcall

7.30pm - 11.00pm, Friday 11 May
Space, New Wakefield Street (off Oxford Road), Manchester, £6.50
Free with Futuresonic Weekender Wristband BUY

The Knife 'Silent Shout'

An Audiovisual Experience Film Screening

International film premiere of The Knife live in concert in Gothenburg, in April 2006. The Knife 'Silent Shout' album has been hailed as a modern masterpiece, drawing comparisons with Bjork, Karftwerk and Aphex Twin, and winning the prestigious No.1 Album of the Year accolade from Pitchfork. Features visuals by Andreas Nilsson and brings to life the full stunning audio/visual spectacle of The Knife in concert.

www.myspace.com/theknife

Friendly Fire

Featuring Neil Diablo plus friends
Cord cranks up its night a couple of gears as Neil Diablo and his demonic crew stoke up the fires into the witching hours... www.cordbar.com

9pm - 1am, Friday 11 May
Cord, Tib Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester
Free

Locked

Featuring Lief Ryan - Live (Growth, Input-Output, Bombtrap)
Resident DJs Jay Knight, Adam Rayner and Sam Horam spin quality underground techno alongside this month's special guest Lief Ryan of Growth Recordings. Lief has carved his own musical path of late so this month sees Locked explore the Wonkier side of techno.
www.myspace.com/jayknightlocked

10pm - 3am, Friday 11 May
Joshua Brooks, Princess Street, Manchester
Free

Fuse - 8th Birthday

Radioactive Man
Gooseman
Steve Thorpe
Boabinga and ID
Manchester's longest running monthly breakbeat night celebrates 8 years of providing the filthiest breaks, beats and basslines in town. The Fuse visuals team will be putting together a special interactive audio/visual treat while residents Gooseman, Steve Thorpe and Baobinga and ID, will be joined by living legend Radioactive Man for some of the world's best electroglitch and bassline breaks thuddery.

10pm - 3am, Friday 11 May
Roadhouse, Newton Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, £6 with flyer/£8
Free with Futuresonic Weekender Wristband BUY

El Diablo's Social Club:
Residents Party

Feat: Neil Diablo and Danny Webb
Join two of Manchester's finest DJ's Neil Diablo (Nish Nash Nosh) and Danny Webb (Piccadilly Records) for a rare resident only night in association with Futuresonic. Expect their most excellent selections of cosmic, disco, house, techno and everything in between.
www.eldiablos.co.uk

10pm - 4am, Friday 11 May
Mint Lounge, Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, £5
Free with Futuresonic Weekender Wristband BUY

Audio
Research
Editions

Sited at listening posts in the Contact, you can access soundworks by a broad range of international sound artists, experimental composers, noise makers and other audio creators. Audio Research Editions treats the compact disc as an art space that can be experienced in either linear or random modes.

Contact Theatre Foyer, Oxford Road, Manchester
10am-8pm
Free

Digital Show

Digital Show hosts online exhibitions of international digital art. The theme for this exhibition is 'Psychedelia', in response to the Futurevisual's homage to the 40th anniversary of the multimedia events of 1967. It features 100 digital paintings by some of the world's best artists in this field. Curated by Ian & Minako Jackson. www.digitalshow.co.uk

Bitmapping

One exhibition. A thousand artists. No curator.
Manchester's New Media collective CMYK invites you to take part in a rare experiment in democratic art. Anyone who owns a camera-mobile phone can contribute to a unique, organically evolving exhibition - a consensual roadmap of perspectives and close-ups on the fabric of urban life. To take part text BITMAP SONIC to 60300. There will be a single charge of 50p. Up unitl 1 June you will receive an image from another artist to your phone which you will have 2 hours to respond to through an image of your own. Visit and view the unfolding exhibition in Cornerhouse Cafe Bar.

The Cornerhouse Bar, Oxford Road, Manchester
Viewing Free, Text 50p

Data Mine:
Through the Sound Shaft

Experimental audiovisual artists Augustine Leudar and Brian Benson create bizarre sound installations and music that featured previously at Squat parties, the Czech National gallery and the John Peel show. Leudar's fairytale soundscapes combine with Benson's dark surreal art to form a surround sound tunnel through which listeners have to wriggle.

Thursday 10 May - Saturday 12 May
The Basement Cafe, 24 Lever Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester
Free/Donation