Pubcode 2009 May 29

by pixelpusher on Wednesday 27 May 2009
[Performances, Upcoming Performances]

++ PUBCODE ++

The first series of livecoded music events in London.

http://toplap.org/uk/

pixelpusher in action livecoding

Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is
starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire
the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or
visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure.

When:
7pm - 11pm Friday 29th May

Featuring:
Yee-King
(spasmic drumming)
slub
(ambient skiffle techno)
Click Nilson
(slurs, arrows, slurring)
Pixelpusher vs The Cane Toads
(dirty pixel raga)
Scott Hewitt
(patching things)

Place:
The Roebuck
50 Great Dover Street
London
SE1 4YG

Map:
http://is.gd/CL5G

Door tax:
Free

Tube:
Borough (5 mins walk)
London Bridge (9 mins walk)

More info:
http://toplap.org/uk/

TOPLAP UK gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS Foundation.

Livecoding at Resonance Ghent 28 Feb 2009

by pixelpusher on Monday 16 February 2009
[Past Performances, Performances]

PixelPusher wil be joining veteran livecoders Dave Griffiths and Gabor Papp as part of a livecoding workshop and performance night for Resonance, Ghent, Belgium.  I promise to crash my laptop at least once duting the performance, just so you know its live!

This Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Feb 27-Mar 1) we have:

* Fokke de Jong (.nl) and Jan-Kees Van Kampen (.nl). Pulsecode versus
SuperCollider.
* Dave Griffiths (slub, .uk), Fluxus. Alex McLean joins virtually.
* Gabor Papp (No Copy Paste, .hu), Fluxus.
* Graham Coleman (.us), database madness?
* Antti Jadertpolm (.fi), Photoshop.
* Evan Raskob (”Pixelpusher”, .us), Fluxus.

Maybe:

* Kuz.b (.fr), Supercollider versus System 100

And all of this, supported by http://www.resonanceghent.be/ (
Machinefabriek, Eavesdropper, Alva Noto, Move D & Benjamin Brunn,
Efdemin, Claro Intelecto & Andy Stott, Peter van Hoesen, Mokira,
Deepchord presents Echospace ).

Immersion Wrap-up 7 Aug 2008

by pixelpusher on Monday 15 September 2008
[Visuals, images, video]

Thanks to all who packed in The Flea Pit to hear and see the last Immersion night.  Alias had his Immersion pixelist debut during Dr. No’s and Straight’s rather laid-back sets.  I rolled out my new Jellotail live drawing software during Michael Santos’s richly textured tones and got so immersed in the performance that I forgot to change visuals.  Special gues VJ and VJ Loops impresario Kyle Lyons was in from Spain to provide some visual cover to the machine gun synths of Jamka, while Dr. Mo accompanied the very danceable beats of Manchester’s MOQ.  Somehow, though, it was slub who brought the house down at the end with their autonomous-robot-drum-machine-livecoding-textual-based-computer-sound-madness culminating in crashing (or at least shutting down in a not-so-safe manner) all their laptops at the apex of their sonic madness.

Thanks to all who came, and those who performed! Definitely one of my favorite Immersion nights.

Area10 Media Lab Gig

by pixelpusher on Sunday 13 April 2008
[Blog, images]

the beardos

Originally uploaded by yaxu

Yaxu (Alex McLean of http://lurk.org) captured this great shot from Area 10 Medialab launch gig this weekend. I have a nice hi-res video of the event, plus some of the other performances, which I’ll upload soon. I also have some great audio and video (audio straight from the soundboard, really clean and clear as a mountain spring) from the last Immersion that I’ve been meaning to post. My computer had a Quicktime meltdown, but is back in fine working shape again and ready to spend hours rendering quality video once more.

UPDATE: Oli (yesyesnono.com) has some more photos

Some video and more can be found here