Alpha-ville 2010
Visionary Cities
DAY 2 Programme
Saturday 18th September @ the Rich Mix - London
Visionary Cities Welcome to Alpha-ville, London's new International Festival of Digital Arts, Music and
Culture. We have prepared a jam-packed agenda of two evenings with groundbreaking live music and visual performances including advanced electronic music, live cinema, interactive media installations, 3D visual performances, a moving image competition and a screening programme.
”OUR CITIES ARE IN CRISIS AND THEIR FUTURES DEPEND ON ARCHITECTS AND URBANISTS WHO ARE WILLING TO LOOK BEYOND TODAY’S REALITIES TO DRIVE THE DIRECTION FOR
OUR INCREASINGLY URBAN WORLD. CONTEMPORARY CITY DESIGN IS FULL OF OBSTACLES STANDING IN THE WAY OF VISIONARY THINKING. IT IS TIME FOR US TO TAKE A POSITION ON HOW WE WANT TO LIVE IN THE FUTURE…IT IS TIME FOR A VISIONARY CITY”. (FROM THE BOOK “VISIONARY CITIES” BY THE WHY FACTORY, 2009).
Under the theme 'Visionary Cities' this 2010 edition is opening a discourse about the city
and society of the future as seen through the eyes of artists and participants. The festival will be a live and virtual itinerary for you to discover. Enjoy these 2 days and we hope to see you back again next year!
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Unique evening dedicated to "live cinema" - a newly formed movement consisting of live digital music and real time visual performances. “Live Cinema“ today stands for the simultaneous creation of sound and image in real time by sonicand visual artists who collaborate to elaborate concepts on equal terms. The traditional parameters of narrative cinema are expanded by a much broader conception of cinematographic space, the focus of which is no longer the photographic construction of reality as seen by the camera’s eye, or linear forms of narration. The term “Cinema” is now to be understood as embracing all forms of configuring moving images, beginning with the animation of painted or synthetic images.” Transmediale, Berlin 2005.
Live Cinema Performances at Venue 1 20:00 - 20:45 | ZAN LYONS (UK)
VIOLINIST, ELECTRONIC COMPOSER AND FILMMAKER, HIS LIVE SHOW FUSES LIVE
VIOLA LOOPING WITH FRENETIC DISTORTED BEATS AND REAL-TIME REMIXING OF HIS OWN STUNNING FILMS, SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN SCREENED AT CANNES AND RAINDANCE.
21:00 - 21:45 | 'THE SPACE IN BETWEEN' Alba G. Corral + Nikka (ES)
CREATIVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN TWO FEMALE ARTISTS WORKING ACROSS
DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES IN WHICH DIGITAL MUSIC AND GENERATIVE ART EMBARK UPON A UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP. 'THE SPACE IN BETWEEN' IS AN IMPRESSIVE EXAMPLE OF HOW VISUAL COMPOSITIONS CREATED WITH REAL TIME PROCESSING GRAPHICS
AND MELANCHOLIC DIGITAL SOUNDS CAN CREATE COMPLEX NEW PERFORMANCE PHENOMENA.
22:00 - 22:45 | GANGPOL UND MIT (FR)
GANGPOL & MIT ARE SYLVAIN QUÉMENT AND GUILLAUME CASTAGNE. BREAKING
THE BOUNDARIES OF TRADITIONAL DISCIPLINES THIS INNOVATIVE FRENCH DUET WILL PRESENT A UNIQUE BLEND OF MUSIC AND ANIMATION. A WORLD OF CARTOON
INHABITED BY COLORFUL AND GEOMETRICAL CREATURES ACCOMPANIED BY A
CONTRASTED MIX OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC, PASSING FROM THE CALMEST MELODY
TO THE WILDEST NOISE. 23:00 - 00:00 | 'VISIONARY CITY'
Pixel (Raster Noton, DE) / Graphset (Alpha-ville, FR)
ALPHA-VILLE IS PROUD TO PRESENT AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLABORATION IN WHICH
PARIS-BASED DIGITAL ARTIST (GRAPHSET) JOINS FORCES WITH PIXEL (JON EGESKOV) A PIONEER OF THE GERMAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC LABEL, RASTER NOTON. THIS
INNOVATIVE AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMANCE WILL EXPLORE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 3D VIRTUAL CITY AND ITS SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE MUSIC
PLAYED, CREATING INTENSE SOUND AND VISUAL ATMOSPHERES, AURAL TEXTURES AND LANDSCAPES.
AND LANDSCAPES.
Inspiration Lab at Venue 2
19:00 - 00:00 | IN ADDITION TO THE LIVE PERFORMANCES, THE EVENING OF 18TH SEPTEMBER WILL
SEE RICH MIX TRANSFORMED INTO A CREATIVE SPACE WITH AN “INSPIRATION LAB” –
AN AREA BETWEEN DESIGN, INTERACTION, MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY. THE SPACE WILL FEATURE THE NEW YAMAHA TENORI-ON AS WELL AS THE EXCITING IPOD/IPAD BASED
SOUND INSTALLATIONS AND INTERACTIVE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE BY REACTIFY MUSIC & RJDJ. DISCOVER ALSO ESPERANTO 2.0 BY AGNESE MOSCONI, A MULTI-SENSORIAL MUSICAL INTERACTIVE 3D WORLD WHERE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CREATE MUSIC THROUGH 3D GRAPHICS.
SUPPORTED BY YAMAHA.
Alpha-ville 2010 After Party JOIN THE ARTISTS AND TEAM TO CELEBRATE THE END OF THE 2010 FESTIVAL AT THE LORD NAPIER IN HACKNEY WICK - FREE WITH YOUR WRISTBAND. GET THE 388 BUS
FROM OUTSIDE RICH MIX AND STOP IN HACKNEY WICK, TROWBRIDGE ROAD, OR CALL RUSKIN PRIVATE HIRE TAXIS ON 0207 739 8787
THANK YOU
Alpha-ville would like to thank its partners, supporters and collaborators.
Araceli Pino // Priscilla Granozio // Livia Rao // Olivia
Bellas // Ben Romberg // Louise Brailey // Tom Carter // Agnese Mosconi // Glen Kristensen // Amanda George // Ludovica Gioscia // Carole Mendy // Gut Simon // Jess Reid // Rebecca Page // Alyssa // Achim
Borchardt Hume // The Whitechapel Gallery Press &
Technical Team // Joy Campbell // Diana Mondle & The Rich Mix Team // Anne-Sophie Lehec // Nic Clear // All
Unit 15 Students // Clare Callan // Tom Vaughan // Paul Hanford // Jamie McLaren // Blake Whitman // Alex
Ljung // Miguel Marin // Steven Music // Lince // Truss // Sergi Perez // The Sempatiza Team // Meghan
Goodeve // Giuseppe Ganino // Mario Chejab // Giulia Baldi // Sandra Kazlauskaite
A big thank you to all the artists and volunteers that have worked with us to make this happen.
Festival of Digital Arts, Music and Culture www.alphavillefestival.co.uk