MTI’s
annual audio-visual festival – a feast for ear and eye – everyone welcome!
Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre
4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG
Box Office: 0116 242 2800
Box Office: 0116 242 2800
Wednesday 12th March 2014 3pm till late
Visible Bits,
Audible Bytes
- a one day festival curated by Andrew Hill.
An award-winning
sound and visual artist from Canada is coming to Leicester as part of a one day
festival at Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre. Nicolas Bernier, from Montreal, Quebec
will be launching an exhibition and performing at the Visible Bits, Audible Bytes festival on Wed 12th March.
Nicolas
will be headlining the festival, fresh from being recognised as one of the finest
artists in his field with the top prize at the prestigious Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Visible Bits, Audible Bytes also features talks and performances
from a range of national and international artists, including Alo Allik, Ryo
Ikeshiro, Thierry Gauthier, François Bayle and Piotr Kamler.
The event
begins at 3pm and is completely free. Places can be booked via the Phoenix box
office and website.
Nicolas’s
exhibition Frequencies (a) will launch
at the event and continue at Phoenix until the 22nd March. An
installation of sound and light, the artwork merges the piercing hum of
mechanically-triggered tuning forks with pure digital soundwaves. Streams of
light burst in harmony with the forks, alternately illuminating the exhibition
in stark white light and plunging it into complete darkness.
Programme for the day –
Talks
3pm – 3:30pm: Alo Allik
3:30 – 4pm: Ryo Ikeshiro - Audiovisualisation
4pm – 4:30pm: Paul Prudence
4:30 – 5pm: Nicholas Bernier – ‘Frequencies’ Series of Works
ca.5.00pm - opening of Bernier's Frequencies (a) installation in the DMU cube @ Phoenix
6.30-8.00pm Main Concert (Screen 2) – Audio-visual works
Len Lye - Colour Box
Thierry Gauthier - Portrait D’une Femme
Ryo Ikeshiro - Construction in Kneading
Norman McLaren - Begone Dull Care
François Bayle and Piotr Kamler - L'Expérience Acoustique: Métaphore + Lignes et points
Nicolas Bernier - Frequencies (Synthetic Variations)
From 9.00pm VJs in Bar
Alo Allik – VJ set
Paul Prudence - Transphormetic
Justin Bennett - Raw Materials
About the artists
3pm – 3:30pm: Alo Allik
3:30 – 4pm: Ryo Ikeshiro - Audiovisualisation
4pm – 4:30pm: Paul Prudence
4:30 – 5pm: Nicholas Bernier – ‘Frequencies’ Series of Works
ca.5.00pm - opening of Bernier's Frequencies (a) installation in the DMU cube @ Phoenix
6.30-8.00pm Main Concert (Screen 2) – Audio-visual works
Len Lye - Colour Box
Thierry Gauthier - Portrait D’une Femme
Ryo Ikeshiro - Construction in Kneading
Norman McLaren - Begone Dull Care
François Bayle and Piotr Kamler - L'Expérience Acoustique: Métaphore + Lignes et points
Nicolas Bernier - Frequencies (Synthetic Variations)
From 9.00pm VJs in Bar
Alo Allik – VJ set
Paul Prudence - Transphormetic
Justin Bennett - Raw Materials
About the artists
Nicolas Bernier creates sound performances, installations,
live electronics, and moving image. His sound is somewhere between the old and
the new. It is electronic music made from objects of the past: typewriter, old
machines, tuning forks, soundscape memories and musical instruments.
Estonian
artist Alo Allik has performed his
audio-visual works, compositions, eclectic DJ sets and live electronic music
throughout the world. UK-based Japanese artist Ryo Ikeshiro’s works include live audio-visual performances,
interactive installations, electronic music, and soundtracks.
Thierry Gauthier is a Canadian composer and visual artist
with an experimental approach to composition. François Bayle, born in Madagascar, is one
of the most distinguished living composers of electronic music, having headed
the prestigious Groupe
de Recherches Musicales from 1966-97. Piotr Kamler is a renowned Polish filmmaker known for his cutting
edge work in animation.
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