Saturday 12 July 2008

Part 1

NOISE CLUB

St John's Shopping Centre
3pm - 5pm
FREE

Part 2

MACHINEFABRIEK (NL)

MATTHEW FAIRCLOUGH/ KATHY HINDE (UK)

HIVE VISUAL ARTISTS

HIVE DJS

The Box at FACT
6pm - 8pm
FREE

Part 1: The Hive Collective invite you to transform the St John’s Centre into an interactive musical instrument

Part 2: Live Perfomance: Retail Envoronments and Everyday Objects

Hive Twilight City: Shopping remixed

Hive present a unique interactive audiovisual event which explores and interacts with the soundscapes of the city's retail environment.

Part One: You Are Sound, St John's Shopping Centre/BBC Big Screen 3pm - 5pm

In an inversion of the usual passive 'background music' associated with shops and malls, Shopping remixed will engage with the city’s physical environment and its shoppers to turn the St John’s Shopping Centre into an interactive musical instrument.

NOISE CLUB

Sound Art collective Noise Club will use elements of the shopping environment (such as the physical space of the centre and shoppers themselves) to control sound producing electronic circuits. These sonic interventions will combine with an especially composed ambient sound work which will be simultaneously broadcast throughout the centre. The event will be linked to the BBC Big Screen in Clayton Square.

Part 2: Retail Enviroments and Everyday Objects remixed, FACT, The Box 6-8, Free

Footage of the St John's intervention will form the visual core of an electronic music event which will take place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) culminating in a performance by the electronic musician Machinefabriek, an artist internationally renowned for weaving the acoustic ambiences of everyday spaces into beautiful, dreamlike and often unsettling music.

MACHINEFABRIEK

Machinefabriek is one of the rising stars of electronic music. His prolific output of releases on numerous labels such as 12K and Type have earned him international critical acclaim. In this performance he will be integrating specially recorded ambient soundscapes of Liverpool’s retail environment into beautiful, dreamlike and often unsettling music.

MATTHEW FAIRCLOUGH/ KATHY HINDE

Internationally renowned audiovisual team Matt Fairclough and Kathy hind bring everyday objects to life an eclectic mix of electronica inspired by the musique concrète tradition. Fairclough and Hinde have collaborated with some of the most famous names in contemporary music such as the Elysian Quartet and Joanna McGregor and have toured extensively in Europe and China. For this event they will use the everyday objects of commerce (such as a bicycle, a Le Creuset dish and some decorative wind chimes) for a performance in which music and visuals are created in real time.