FUTURESONIC 2007
http://www.futuresonic.com
FESTIVAL
PROGRAMME
The future is here…
Futuresonic 2007, the
urban festival of art, music
and ideas takes place
on 10-12 May 2007
in Manchester.
A sensational line-up of performances, exhibitions and events across
Manchester city-centre featuring over 30 major events, and more than
100 acts and artists from around the world, crammed into 3 days of
sounds, sights and delights.
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MUSIC FOR
THE BEEP
GENERATION
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/beepgeneration.html
The main live music programme of the festival. Expect stunning live
performances in Manchester's main music venues, numerous diverse
events across the city, and low-slung live music at the Futuresonic
lounge. Artists include…
Thursday 10 May
TTC + DJ ORGASMIC + KODE 9 + TRAMP! DJS + SEED STUDIO SHOWCASE +
PETERLOO MASSACRE
Friday 11 May
FAUST + THE CHAP + APPARAT + TRANSFORMA + SLEEPARCHIVE + MADE + NAIVE
MELODY + VINCENT OLIVER + ANDREA'S KIT + BATFINKS + FELIX + THE ONE
MAN RAVE MACHINE + LO & LOAF DJ'S
Saturday 12 May
WOLFGANG FLUR (KRAFTWERK) + BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB + CLARK +
ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK + HOPPY (UFO CLUB) + JACK HENRY MOORE (UFO CLUB)
+ CEEPHAX ACID CREW + CYLOB + LEGOWELT + ULTRE + COMPUTER CONTROLLED
+ THE MATINEE ORCHESTRA + OLLY FARSHI + RHYTHMK
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FUTUREVISUAL
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/futurevisual.html
Futurevisual celebrates the 40th anniversary of seminal multi-media
events that took place in the halcyon year of 1967. Futurevisual
brings together legendary figures from the 1960s with some of the
most cutting-edge AV artists working in the world today.
The famous 1960's club UFO, the focus of the 60's London multi-media
scene, is reborn is reborn in a Futuresonic exclusive. A presentation
by legendary underground activist Barry Miles is followed by a very
special screening of iconic films and AV from the last 40 years,
drawing a shimmering arc between '67 and '07, and highlighting how
the creative ferment of the 60s has echoed through the subsequent
decades, presented by Michael Connor.
Semiconductor and Telcosystems perform stunning live audio-visual
sets. Screenings and installations can be found in the relaxed
setting of the Futurevisual Lounge, with a special champagne cocktail
bar for the discerning audio-visual voyager.
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ART FOR
SHOPPING
CENTRES
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/shoppingcentres.html
30 years after Brian Eno's Music For Airports, Futuresonic presents
Art For Shopping Centres, exhibition of major, world-premiere artworks,
after which you will never look at a shopping centre the same again.
Includes MediaShed with Methods of Movement presenting a freerunning
(parkour) installation created with the GEARBOX free-media video
toolkit,
staged overnight the Manchester Arndale shopping centre, filmed using
only the in-house CCTV system, and screened in the shopping centre
as a part of the exhibition. Plus new commissioned artworks from
Katherine Moriwaki and Graham Harwood.
Art For Shopping Centres is the centrepiece of Urban Play, continuing
Futuresonic's focus since 2004 on taking artworks out of the galleries
and into urban space.
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SOCIAL
TECHNOLOGIES
SUMMIT
The 'ideas strand' of the Futuresonic festival, the Social
Technologies Summit, brings together leading figures to explore "a
whole new way of doing things in the air".
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FREE STUDIO
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/freestudio.html
A part of the Social Technologies Summit
There is today a grass roots open source movement that is sweeping
across Brazil like wild fire and captivating the world's imagination.
Claudio Prado is the leading figure in the Brazilian movement. A
friend of Gilberto Gil and one of the original organisers of the
first Glastonbury Festival in 1970, Claudio now works in a very new
frontier in digital and open source culture. He is joined by
Cristiano Scabello, a walking collision of Brazilian dub sound system
and open source activist, plus James Wallbank from Access Space and
Rob van Kranenberg from Bricolabs.
Followed by a Manchester Free Studio workshop, focusing on the
initiation of a local Estudio Livre (Free Studio) in Manchester,
based on the Brazilian model.
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USE YOUR IMAGINATION
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/imagination.html
A part of the Social Technologies Summit
A man falls in slow motion from a high building. Upon impact the
concrete paving gives way and ripples in concentric waves as it
absorbs the energy of his fall. There is an idea out there that the
world is not solid any more. Now that everyone can speak to anyone
while on the move or open a web page from anywhere, the ground
beneath our feet is no longer hard, but 'soft', as in 'software'.
We live in an age when the future of the next few hundred years is
being written. Just as the printing press and the steam engine
changed history, so the decisions made now about the design of the
technologies we use will shape our lives tomorrow.
It is not just scientists who are engineering this future, but
artists and DIY technologists also. Use Your Imagination is a one day
event with the goal of 'open sourcing' some of the technologies and
concepts that are reshaping our lives today.
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ENVIRONMENT 2.0
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/environmenttalks.html
A part of the Social Technologies Summit
Environment 2.0 is a new international initiative seeking to explore
the sustainability of future arts and technologies. It is a part of a
3 year project by Futuresonic seeking to minimise the environmental
impact of the Futuresonic festival and also to explore broader issues
connecting Futuresonic's interest in mobile and social technologies
with the new urgency surrounding climate change.
In Environment 2.0 two worlds collide. When the environment is
mapped, tagged and digitised it becomes navigable, computable and
manipulable. How can this approach to environment, one which is
iconic for our times, be reconciled with the need to address climate
change? Environment 2.0 will also explore Open Source Energy, looking
at low cost and free ways that people can generate energy locally.
The Social Technologies Summit at Futuresonic 2007 will include a
series of talks on culture and climate change, followed by a network
meeting for Environment 2.0.
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EVNTS
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/evnts.html
EVNTS is a strand of the Futuresonic festival which showcases the
best new and ground breaking events from around the world. The EVNTS
Competition winners in 2007 are Sex With Robots, Licktronica,
Monatronic and Rare As A Green Dog.
EVNTS was launched in 2005, with more than thirty events over one
weekend, with acts from as far afield as New York, Moscow, Berlin and
Dallas. It has since grown into a community of people who each year
return to give the festival an extra edge.
The EVNTS community is hosting a public meeting the ECAS European
music festivals network, with Directors of 15 new music festivals
attending on the first day of the Futuresonic 2007 festival.
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OTHER
FUTURESONIC
EVENTS
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MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Futuresonic has been commissioned by Manchester
International Festival to present Manchester : Peripheral
by Alastair Dant, Tom Davis & David Gunn (The Folk Songs
Project). An interactive SoundMap enables audience members
to be an 'urban sound jockey', remixing and replaying the
sounds of Manchester. An online version of the project was
launched during Futuresonic 2006 and can be found at
www.manchesterperipheral.com. The full large-scale
installation will be debuted at the inaugural Manchester
International Festival in summer 2007.
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ENTER and LOVEBYTES
Futuresonic is presenting a series of events and gatherings across
the UK, in association with MediaShed, Enter, Lovebytes and Access
Space.
Enter Festival (25-29 April 2007, Cambridge)
The launch of MediaShed's GEARBOX free-media video toolkit, artist
talks, and a national network meeting for people working in free-media.
Lovebytes Festival (13-20 May 2007, Sheffield)
A workshop with Access Space introducing free-media and "video
sniffing", where signals are intercepted from wireless CCTV cameras
in the city centre.
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TICKET
INFORMATION
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/bookings.html
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