Make Do & Bend – Live Music, Audiences & Technology
A ONE DAY EVENT FOR MUSICIANS, COMPOSERS, PRODUCERS, CURATORS AND ARTS MANAGERS WITH AN INTEREST IN LIVE PERFORMANCE AND MAKING DIGITAL PROJECTS.
Fresh from our Make Do & Bend IdeasLab on 7 June, we’ve put together mind-blowing one-day event that will explore the future of live music, getting inside how innovations in technology are being embraced by composers and musicians, and disrupting what being ‘in the audience’ means.
Taking over Central St Martins in bustling Kings Cross, our ideas-busting 6 hour programme includes:
- Two ‘big-picture’ panels, one focused on what the direction of travel is for live music and technology, and the other exploring what good digital R&D looks like
- ‘Postcards from the future’ of how composition, live music and digital technologies will interact
- ‘Tasting menu’ sessions, where some of the biggest innovators in the country share their favourite live performance and digital projects
- Hands on demo opportunities… your chance to explore how VR, augmented reality, 3D audio and the internet of things could provide new directions for your gigs and performances
- Workshops exploring some of the ideas developed in our Make Do & Bend Ideas Lab
THE LINE UP
As well as some of the fantastic creative technologists, musicians and composers who took part in our Ideas Lab, our stellar line up of contributors includes:
- Katy Beale, Caper
- Jack Churchill, Ogilvy Innovations Labs
- Rachel Coldicutt, Dot Everyone
- Kealy Cozens, Sound and Music
- Sarah Ellis, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Leafcutter John (musician)
- Leila Johnson (artist and creative technologist)
- Nick Luscombe (DJ and broadcaster)
- Louis Mustill, Artists & Engineers
- Tim Plyming, NESTA
- Nick Ryan (composer and sound designer)
- Erika Shorter, Uniform
All this, plus the chance to demo a whole load of kit and get inside the ‘back end’ of some brilliant projects with Kinicho, the mi.mu Gloves project and Uniform, and Mária Júdová and Andrej Boleslavský, currently technologists in residence at Rambert.
Tickets are limited, but are free (with a £10 deposit you’ll get back on the day), and you can book them here.
Make Do & Bend is a partnership project, developed by London Sinfonietta and the hub, with additional partnership support from Nesta and Sound and Music, and funding from Arts Council England, The Fenton Arts Trust and Hinrichsen Foundation.