cracker (javadvent day 22) http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=6653

Thursday, 9th December, 7-10pm-ish
(usually fourth Thursday of the month)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk

• Live audiovisual and sound performances from Mark Pilkington a.k.a. Thought Universe and para_musician  Chris Gladwin;
• Interactive Installations from Mike Blow and The Sancho Plan;
• Informal ‘exhibition’ of personal projects (go on… show some of your own work);
• Free drink and nibbles (but please ‘bring a bottle’ too to supplement our limited bar stock)

InProcess:ing takes a seasonal break from its usual presentational format to showcase creative coding and DIY electronics in practice…

The Xmas Social is an open invitation to everyone who has participated in Cybersonica’s InProcess:ing, Make It Yourself and One Button Challenge sessions and workshops at Madlab, Fab Lab Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery and AND Festival to come together for an evening of socialising and entertainment.

Really hope you can all drop by and join us.

If you have a creative coding or DIY electronics project of your own that you’d like to showcase, is technologically self-contained and can be set up relatively easily for the night then contact Lewis – lewis [@] cybersonica.org to discuss.

For full biogs, photos and links (still in progress)…

Mark Pilkington – Thought Universe
www.markpilkington.org.uk
www.soundcloud.com/thought-universe
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=11054953063

Mark Pilkington is a performer and composer of electronic and electroacoustic music. He works in the areas of screened works, recordings, installation and live performance and is interested in fusing together audio/visual structures that can be manipulated from a score or improvised in real-time thus presenting work that question traditional concepts of art, music and technology.

Mark graduated with an MA in electroacoustic composition from the University of Huddersfield in the UK 2004; completed the Summer Intensive Electroacoustic Workshop at the Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris, France 2005; presented a paper ‘Audio/Visual Composition’ at the BETA conference at FACT Liverpool 2005; and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester (UK).

As the recording artist ‘Thought Universe’ Mark performs electronic music – and Skam (UK), Sonic World Service (UK), Mainline (DK), DalRiada (UK) and Recordcamp (USA) have released his music. He has performed in the UK, Europe and the USA with live and recorded radio broadcasts around Europe via the EBU.

Mark also runs his own audio/visual label called ‘TUM’ – www.thought-universe.co.uk; is a lecturer /educator on the BA Music Production at Futureworks/UCLAN, Manchester; and Sound Designer for various computer games companies.