24 SEP: ONEDOTZERO X CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL
onedotzero are excited to travel to the historical city of Cambridge, to present a screening of our family friendly programme sprites at the 31st edition of Cambridge Film Festival. sprites showcases a range of fun and visually stimulating animations from around the world that promise to entertain, enchant and delight – perfect for kids and adults alike. More
While spending numerous hours at the office, The Athens Video Art Festival Production Team spins tones of old dusty vinyls, listens to monster mixes by Dark Sky and rhymes over old school samples. A few days ago, during a fever of laptop keyboard bleepin and sweet nuthins Shotz started listening to a series of massive BBC Radiophonic Workshop tunes. This is the third volume and there are three more yet to come! Stay tuned…
SCULPTRESS OF SOUND
Born in Coventry, United Kingdom Delia Derbyshire was the oldest daughter of a working class background family. Her cleverness was soon discovered at the age of four, when she started teaching other children in her class to read and write, whereas she started playing the piano at the age of eight.
Her inclinations to mathematics lead her to be accepted by both Oxford and Cambridge, a quite important fact for a working class girl in the 1950s. Apart from her success in mathematical theory of electricity, she claimed that she did badly and the right next year she switched to music education graduating in 1959 with a degree in Mathematics and Music.
Right after her graduation she applied for a job at Decca Records but she was not accepted due to the company’s policy not to hire women. Instead she moved to Geneva where she made a living by teaching piano and mathematics to the diplomats’ children. In 1960 she returned to Coventry joining BBC as a trainee assistant studio manager and crabbing the opportunity to work for the Radiophonic Workshop. For eleven years she worked at Maida Vale creating music and sound for more than 200 programmes including the original score of Doctor Who. In 1966 she joined forces with Brian Hodgson and Peter Zinovieff in creating Unit Delta Plus, an organization specializing in creating electronic music exhibiting its works in several experimental festivals such as The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave. One year later the trio disbanded because of a false performance at the Royal College of Art.
Derbyshire continued following her vision by founding Kaleidophon studios with the aim of contributing electronic music to theatre plays, whereas she released an album in collaboration with Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus, under the White Noise moniker. Their debut album entitled «An Electric Storm» is nowadays considered as one of the most influential albums in developing electronic music, while its followers include several contemporary names such as Stereolab, Aphex Twin, Add N to X and Broadcast. During the late 1960s and 1970s she continued to have exploratory encounters with Paul McCartney, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Martin, Pink Floyd, Brian Jones, Anthony Newley, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson. In 1973 she left BBC, while right after her contribution to the OST of The Legend of Hell House she stopped creating music.
The unsung heroine of British experimental music rested in peace in Nothampton, England on July, 3rd 2001 leaving behind the legacy of her vision that the way and ear / brain perceives sound should have dominance over any basic mathematical theory.
Quayola is a visual artist based in London. He investigates dialogues and the unpredictable collisions, tensions and equilibriums between the real and artificial, the figurative and abstract, the old and new. His work explores photography, geometry, time-based digital sculptures and immersive audiovisual installations and performances.
Quayola’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; British Film Institute, London; Royal Albert Hall, London; Gaite Lyrique, Paris; Church of Saint Eustache, Paris; Forum des Image, Paris; Grand Theatre, Bordeaux; Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille; Empac Centre, New York; Yota Space, St. Petersburg; MIS, Sao Paulo; Casa Franca, Rio de Janeiro; BAC, Geneva; Sonar Festival, Barcelona; Elekra Festival, Montreal and Clermont Ferrand Film Festival.
Strata #1 from Quayola on Vimeo.
Strata #4 - Teaser 1 from Quayola on Vimeo.
17 SEP: DATA HACK DAY WORKSHOP
Love facts, stats, data and great design? Release your inner geek and delve into the beautiful and instructive world of data visualization at the London Transport Museum. Inspired by the Sense and the City exhibition, participants will be given a set of data and asked to produce a graphic output that displays the material in an interesting and visually appealing manner. onedotzero and partners Protein will bring together anyone a little nerdy with a love of facts, stats, data and great design. Designers, developers, techies and competent amateurs - all are welcome. More
Balam Acab :: Apart
15 SEP: ONEDOTZERO AT CAMPFIRE WITH SHANE WALTER
If you can’t wait until November for the onedotzero_adventures in motion at the BFI (23-27 November), then head for Campfire, where onedotzero’s creative director and co-founder Shane Walter has been invited to launch ditto agency’s super popular talks programme for the Autumn. More
Syd Tha Kyd :: Flashlight
BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC #2
While spending numerous hours at the office, The Athens Video Art Festival Production Team spins tones of old dusty vinyls, listens to monster mixes by Dark Sky and rhymes over old school samples. A few days ago, during a fever of laptop keyboard bleepin and sweet nuthins Shotz started listening to a series of massive BBC Radiophonic Workshop tunes. This is the second volume and there are three more yet to come! Stay tuned…
LOVE WITHOUT A SOUND - BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP
Based in BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in Delaware Road, London, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was created in 1958 in order to produce sound effects and new music for the radio having a huge impact on innovative and electronic music ever since.
The workshop’s early form was set up to cover the needs for radiophonic sounds from a series of BBC producers, such as Desmond Briscoe and Daphne Oram. During the early 1950’s innovative music and sounds were in demand to accompany several outputs of the BBC Third Programme. Due to the lack of traditional techniques to «describe» their ideas, the radio producers started to create music by using non – conventional means such as reverse tape manipulation allowing them to compose the precise soundscape that they envisioned. Soon BBC established a radiophonic effects committee granting the nowadays legendary rooms 13 and 14 to the Workshop that began to releasing journals of their findings and techniques confirming its radical role in the development of electronic music. The Workshop’s early work included radio effects for experimental dramas, poems, science – fiction and comedy. As the time went by the team was enriched by young talented composers such as Delia Derbyshire, Maddalena Fagandini, Brian Hodgson and jazz pianist John Baker.
In 1963 the most significant recording of BBC Radiophonic Workshop came when they have been asked to compose a theme for the upcoming television series, Doctor Who. Delia Derbyshire created a piece of musique concrete that related the workshop with the British sitcom forever.During the rest of the 1960’s the Workshop started to experiment with synthesizers setting a new era for itself by the usage of EMS VCS 3 and the infamous Delaware, nicknamed by the address of its studio, and old members’ withdrawal. By the end of the next two decades more than 300 programmes used sound effects produced by rooms 13 and 14 of BBC’s studios, whereas the techniques used influenced the upcoming waves of electronic music experimentalists.
On April, 1st 1998 the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s archive have been collected leading to the final chapter of its history with its closure due to the station’s will to reduce its costs.
Anti Pop Consortium :: Volcano (Four Tet Remix)
Digital Design Drop-in, Tinkerspace
Saturday 10 September: Ele Carpenter
Porter Gallery, V&A 45-minute sessions at 13.00, 14.00 and 15.00
Ele Carpenter is a curator, writer and artist based in London. Her creative and curatorial practice investigates specific socio-political cultural contexts in collaboration with artists, makers, amateurs and experts. She is a lecturer in Curating at Goldsmiths College, Univeristy of London, and recently completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HUMlab in affiliation with Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden (2008-10). Since 2005 Ele has facilitated the Open Source Embroidery project using embroidery and code as a tool to investigate the language and ethics of participatory production and distribution.
The Open Source Embroidery exhibition (Access Space, Sheffield, 2007; Furtherfield, London, 2008, BildMuseet Umea Sweden, 2009, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, 2011) presented work by over 30 artists, and included the finished Html Patchwork which is now on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.
Ele is currently facilitating the ‘Embroidered Digital Commons’ a distributed embroidery exploring collective work and ownership 2007 – 2013. Ele received her PhD on the relationship between politicised socially engaged art and new media art, with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland in 2008; and was previously Curator, NGCA Sunderland (1997-2002); Associate Curator, CCA Glasgow (2003-5).
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