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slub at pubcode2

Lately, aside from external pressures like childbirth and sutdy, lurk’s energies has been drawn to TOPLAP UK.  Thanks to some funding from the PRSF we’ve been spurred into organising live coding events around the UK this year.  Two ‘pubcode’ events in London so far, and a big planetarium projection event in Plymouth coming up in September.  Head over to TOPLAP UK for all the info.

6 Nights at Shunt in June

June 13/14/15 and June 20/21/22 2007, Shunt, under London Bridge station

£5 entry, free for Shunt members. See the shunt website for venue information.

Lurk are proud to be part of this fine event series in a fine location. We are just one spoke of a wheel featuring Shunt, Not Applicable, Interlace, Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios, Rump Recordings and ONGAKU:enjoy_sound.22

• 13th / Unsound experiments by Goldsmiths EMS, details tba.
• 14th / Ben Drew, Phil Durrant, John Lely, Sebastian Lexer & Mattin, Tom Arthurs & James Allsop
• 15th / Assembly, Icarus, Badun, Karsten Phlum, Eg0
• 20th / Evan Parker, Marcio Mattos & John Edwards, Rhodri Davies, Ross Lambert & Matt Samson, Seymour Wright, Ben Drew & Louisa Martin.
• 21th / Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios performances, details tba.
• 22th / Vektormusik, Cracktux, ClaudiusMaximus, Slub, Sarah Angliss, Robert Atwood, Mikkel Meyer, Evan Raskob, DJ U-Sun

The lurky “making software to make music to drink beer to” is sprinkled throughout the fortnight, although things will get most lurky on the Friday nights… But hope to see you at all of them!

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Making software to make music to drink beer to

A collaboration between yaxu, [no.signal], state51 and the fine artists below, lurk started like this.

Place: state51, 8-10 Rhoda Street, London E2 7EF
Date: 24th February 2007

slub

Slub sound emerges from slub software; melodic and chordal studies, beat processes and video games. Software is coded from scratch during a performance using slub-made language environments, music and video growing in complexity with the code. The result is a kind of improvised ambient gabba.

slub is composed of Adrian Ward, Dave Griffiths and Alex McLean. Their performance at lurk #1 will include specially choreographed frowns and elbow nudges. All three screens will be projected for your pleasure, in full compliance with the TOPLAP manifesto.

Hamster Ate My GarageBand

HAMGB is the current solo project of Ollie Bown, a musician and computer music researcher known for his involvement in the duo Icarus, and more recent collaborative projects with improvising musicians in the Not Applicable Artists Project. HAMGB strives for free improvised mangling of funky beats using found sound (some of which were found on Ollie’s new computer when it was delivered) and elementary number crunching.

Yee-King

Yee-King plays live digital percussion with algorithmic melodies and effects.


Mabuse v0.87 – Mick Grierson + Daniel Herbert

Mabuse is live real time networked audiovisual performance software and personnel generating structured free form audiovisual experiences – sound and image driven artworks which create and destroy each other through artificial intelligence and interactivity. Mabuse is also about something other than itself – it’s about culture interference, attitude and expression.