Cybersonica 10

Friday, 5th – Sunday, 8th August
Swap Meet in The Enchanted Garden, The Big Chill, Eastnor Castle Deer Park, nr. Ledbury, Herefordshire

After a successful first event at The Barbican in February, Swap Meet headed to The Big Chill Festival this summer! A nod to the infamous Roadium Open Air Market swap meets of the 80s, where Dr Dre distributed his mix-tapes including lyrics from artists LL Cool J, 2 Live Crew and samples from Kraftwork.

Extending contemporary mix-tape and bedroom studio culture Swap Meet facilitates live and physical face-to-face exchange of material between artists operating from different genres enabling experimentation and infinite collaging possibilities.

Swap Meet invites a broad spectrum of artists and organisations to the Big Chill. From pioneering contemporary classical record label and classical music super club promoters Non-Classical, to youth music organisations including Urban Development and Rising Tide. With a good dose of sonic arts and experimentation provided from organisations including MFA Computational Studio Arts at Goldsmiths University, FACT and Cybersonica.

http://www.bigchill.net/festival/line-up/swap-meet

Cybersonica at Swap Meet

With support from the PRS Foundation music, sound, art and technology agency Cybersonica gathered a talented crew of artists for an eclectic mix of audiovisual installation, ‘hands-on’ workshop and performance at Swap Meet including:

• Tristan Brady-Jacobs’ aka digiteyes aka TV-LUX – spinnies video grid, light graffiti and VJ set
• Tony Langford of Fish Nights – DJ set of deep house and melodic grooves for a Saturday night
• Madlab’s (Manchester Digital Laboratory) ‘bristle-bot’ workshop
• Me and The Machine’s When We Meet Again  – a wearable film and one-to-one performance
• The Northern Light Painters’ light painting portraits and landscapes and various DJ sets
• Nick Rothwell a.k.a. Cassiel – live electronica set and particle animation system in Field+Processing
• Evan Raskob a.k.a. PixelPusher – VJ set and surrealist, hand-animated music video installation ‘Drawn Together’
• Lewis Sykes aka Prodical – electronica DJ set and DIY music-making workshop
• Olly Venning’s stop-frame animation workshop
• wesellcolours’ The Radial Instance Archive – a DIY Matrix style ‘bullet-time’ camera rig

For artist biogs, descriptions of works and more details visit the Programme page.

For photographs visit Cybersonica’s Swap Meet at Big Chill 10 Flickr set – or PixelPusher’s PixelPusher and Co at Big Chill 2010 & Best of Big Chill 2010 Flickr sets.

A compilation video of various outputs from The Northern Light Panters’ light painting portraits and landscapes, TV-LUX’s spinnies video grid and light graffiti, Olly Venning’s stop-frame animation workshop and wesellcolours DIY ‘bullet-time’ camera rig will be available shortly via Cybersonica on Vimeo.