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EVNTS
Thursday 10 May 2007
A Showcase of 21st Century Happenings and Freak-outs
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EVNT Competition Winner
Sex With Robots Futuresonic Special
Kavinsky - Live
Surkin - Live
Kissy Sell Out - Live
Herve - Live
It's Paris vs London as SWR bring four acts currently at the forefront of the electro scene to Manchester for the first time. The event also features two unique visually based installations: PixelScape and Candeography. PixelScape is capable of displaying fully interactive 3D VJ sets through multiple projections onto it's complicated structure. Candeography is a light exposure based installation that utilises LED pens and a strobing ultra violet light to create a variety of temporary images and artworks. www.myspace.com/sexwithrobotsmcr
10pm - late, Thursday 10 May
Music Box, Oxford Road, Manchester, £10
Free access with Futuresonic Weekender Wristband BUY
65daysofstatic
65daysofstatic reach new depths with their wide-open sounds, melding seamless guitar shapes with ferocious drum 'n' bass styled beats, live drums and c-c-computer g-g-glitch. They are a bold new soundtrack to a dimension where rock, dance and electronica meet. Live, the band are viciously euphoric and like all good rock performers often bordering on chaos. www.myspace.com/sixtyfivedayso
7.30 pm, Thursday 10 May
Manchester Academy 3, Oxford Road, Manchester, £8
Free access with Futuresonic Weekender Wristband BUY
EVNT Competition Winner
Rare As A Green Dog
caro snatch - Live
Hybrids - Live
Shirokuma - Live
DJ Connectionist
RaGD's daring night is kicked off by caro snatch and guest djs emitting rare tunage from emerging and established electronic artists. Manchester's Shirokuma's quirky electronica pop project, is followed by a beats, bass and poesie live set by caro snatch. The third live act, Hybrids, is a totally rare collaboration between a minimal techno dj and an opera singer to be followed by Manchester's own DJ Connectionist. VJ Caroline will complement the sounds with her powerful and energetic visuals. www.myspace.com/rareasagreendog
10pm - late, Thursday 10 May
The Attic, Oxford Road, Manchester, £3
Free access with Futuresonic Weekender Wristband BUY
Tears On The Golf Course
Jo Apps - Live
Worried about Satan - Live
National Forest - Live
Jeffrey Baker Powers - Live
Samuel Oliver Bear - DJ set
Jo Apps, best known for her work with Patrick Wolf & Venetian Snares, now releasing work for Planet Mu records. Brooding electronica courtesy of Leeds' Worried about Satan & local hero Dan Cowley of National Forest, Pixels & Sir Yes Sir, presenting something very special. As well as interactive projections, competitions and heeeavvvyyy tunes. www.myspace.com/tearsonthegolfcourse
7.30 pm, Thursday 10 May
The Bay Horse, Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester
Free
Exodus
What happens when two people meet - when one image merges into another, when time becomes a witness and a judge, when space is all that remains to tell a story? Exodus is a dynamic piece of sound-visual installation art that explores the transparency of image in the process of becoming something 'else', something 'new' through a series of explosive encounters with one's own reflections.
Written and directed by Eve Katsouraki, music by Dave Morris and Andreas Friberg.
Images by Denis Buckley.
3pm screening, 7pm performance, Thursday 10 May
Centro, Tib Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester
Free
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. www.audioresearcheditions.com
Contact Theatre Foyer, Oxford Road, Manchester
10am-8pm, Thursday 10 May - Saturday 12 May
Free
Digital Show 2x
@Futuresonic 2007
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. www.mutantmedia.org.uk
Thursday 10 May - Saturday 12 May
The Basement Cafe, 24 Lever Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester
Free/Donation