29/05/2019
19:00 -21:00 _Workshop: Collaborative Animated Light Graffiti with Urban Projections
Location: Phoenix Conference Rooms
Price: Free with reservation. More info here

Mobile light projections from the workshop will be shown in the city, starting around 22:00.

In this community workshop, participants will learn how to use special software on iPads to craft collaborative animations with music. A selection of the workshop pieces will then be displayed around Leicester at night with a custom ‘light cycle’ portable high-definition projection system.
Urban Projections is the work and collaborations of multimedia artist Rebecca Smith. Fusing hand-crafted art-forms with digital technologies, her work seeks to surprise and engage audiences with its playful tone and interactivity. Constantly striving and seeking ways to push the boundaries of her discipline, Rebecca creates unique digital experiences.

For questions about the workshop, contact Professor Bret Battey at De Montfort University (bbattey@dmu.ac.uk).
Visit the official page of the workshop here.

30/05/2019
13:00_ LCB Depot installations start
• Davide Baldazzi, Molekules
• Bruno Iglesias, Frame of Phase

31/05/2019
13:00-22:00_Installations

Curve Theatre
• Peter Batchelor, Contraption
• Rob Chafer, Innermost
• Danny Ingram, Balloon Bridge
• Francesc Marti, Speech 2
• John Richards, Death and the Shell
• Stewart Worthy, Tungsten Ghost
• Sam Topley, Playground/Giant Noisy Pompom

Exchange Bar
• Donggyu Lee, Window ≠ Wall

14:00-16:00_Artist's Talks
Location: Phoenix Conference Rooms
A selection of artists involved in the Interfaces Leicester project will discuss their work.

17:00-21:00_Installation: Myriam Boucher – Empty Spaces
Location: Phoenix Screen Room
Free, with reservation. More information HERE

Myriam Boucher’s Empty Spaces is a video and sound-based installation that acts as a companion or ‘prelude’ to her audiovisual composition by the same name, which will be premiering in this year’s Visible Bits, Audible Bytes. The installation explores the genesis of her project: the village where she grew up – concerning the source of the desire to run away, to escape from reality.
Visit the official installation page HERE

18:00-19:30_Screening: Visible Bits, Audible Bytes
Location: Phoenix Screen 1
Reservations via Phoenix recommended. More information HERE

Visible Bits, Audible Bytes shows how artists and musicians from around the world are using new technologies to animate imaginative audiovisual worlds. Going beyond the bounds of traditional narrative, abstract flows of image and sound invite wonder and contemplation. With the support of the EU Interfaces project, Visible Bits, Audible Bytes has commissioned award-winning Montréal video artist and composer Myriam Boucher to premiere a new work at Phoenix as part of the screening.

Evening_ Installation: Sam Underwood – Heed
Time: starting evening of May 31, open all day thereafter
Location: Phoenix Café
NO reservation needed

For this installation, sound artist and musical instrument designer Sam Underwood is placing a series of sonic devices in and around Phoenix. A variation on his long-term Sonic Graffiti project, Sam has chosen to reflect on our current divisions. Each piece encourages close listening and quiet reflection as an antidote to the bombast that seems so commonplace at this time.

About Sam Underwood...

Visit the official installation page HERE

01/06/2019
11:00-19:00_Installation: Empty Spaces – Myriam Boucher
Myriam Boucher’s Empty Space is a video and sound installation that acts as a companion to her audiovisual composition premiering in this year’s Visible Bits, Audible Bytes
Location: Phoenix Art Centre

Myriam Boucher’s Empty Spaces is a video and sound-based installation that acts as a companion or ‘prelude’ to her audiovisual composition by the same name, which will be premiering in this year’s Visible Bits, Audible Bytes. The installation explores the genesis of her project: the village where she grew up – concerning the source of the desire to run away, to escape from reality.
Structured from several short and overlapped video segments, the installation presents a duality between the other world – presented by imaginary and dreamlike places, which are overlooked as the crow flies – and the real world, presented by empty and ‘tough’ places. This duality is also reflected in the sound and music: a harsh and very ‘cold’ sound from modular synthesizers and recordings of a dog barking, a snowstorm and a snow removal truck, all cohabit with sounds from a violin, cello and tubas.
In addition to this installation and the screening in Visible Bits, Audible Bytes, Boucher will also be presenting a VJ Workshop on Sat 1 Jun.

15:00-16:30_Screening: Punto y Raya Festival Retrospective
Location: Phoenix Cinema -Phoenix Screen 2
Reservations via Phoenix recommended. More information HERE.

Spain’s Punto y Raya fosters Audiovisual Arts in their purest state: form, color, motion and sound – no representation. Its mission is to recapture the spirit of Cinéma Pure and Absolute Film formulated by the European avant-garde in the 1920s, consolidating this unique artform lying at the intersection between Art and Media. This screening presentation by festival co-founder Nöel Palazzo offers a review of the festival’s 12-year trajectory, focusing on contemporary works and the many diverse techniques the artists have explored and developed.
“Punto y Raya fosters Audiovisual Arts in their purest state: Form, Colour, Motion and Sound. No representation! This renders it Universal and Timeless. Its mission is to recapture the spirit of Cinéma Pure and Absolute Film formulated by the European avant-garde in the 1920s, consolidating this unique artform laying at the intersection between Fine Arts and Media. This presentation by festival co-founder Nöel Palazzo offers a review of their 12-year trajectory, focusing on contemporary works and the many diverse techniques the artists have explored and developed.”

Visit the official page HERE 

19:00-21:00_Workshop: VJ Workshop with Myriam Boucher
Location: Phoenix Conference Rooms
Reservations via Phoenix required. Click here to learn more.

Participants can bring their own laptop computer with the Resolume demo installed, or can use computers provided at the workshop.This workshop is an opportunity to learn VJ technique – the emerging art of live performance of visual projections with music – hands-on from an award-winning artist who is master in both visuals and music production. Montréal-based video and sound artist Myriam Boucher will teach aspects of her approach to live performance with Resolume software, with special attention to questions of how to work with musical structures and to create organic visual textures and transformations.
Computers with Resolume software will be available.
VJing is the emerging art of live performance of visual projections with music. Here is your opportunity to learn VJ technique hands-on from an award-winning artist who is master in both visuals and music production. Montréal-based video and sound artist Myriam Boucher will teach aspects of her approach to live performance with Resolume software, with special attention to questions of how to work with musical structures and to create organic visual textures and transformations.

About Myriam Boucher
For questions about the workshop, contact Professor Bret Battey at De Montfort University (bbattey@dmu.ac.uk).
Visit the official page about the event here.

Installation: Sam Underwood – Heed
Time: starting evening of May 31, open all day thereafter
Location: Phoenix Café
NO reservation needed

For this installation, sound artist and musical instrument designer Sam Underwood is placing a series of sonic devices in and around Phoenix. A variation on his long-term Sonic Graffiti project, Sam has chosen to reflect on our current divisions. Each piece encourages close listening and quiet reflection as an antidote to the bombast that seems so commonplace at this time.

About Sam Underwood
Visit the official page about the event here.

3-4/06/19
9:00-17:00_Installations from DMU Music and Audio Technology
Price: Free
NO reservation needed

Curve Theatre:
• Peter Batchelor, Contraption
• Rob Chafer, Innermost
• Danny Ingram, Balloon Bridge
• Francesc Marti, Speech 2
• John Richards, Death and the Shell
• Stewart Worthy, Tungsten Ghos

Exchange Bar:
• Donggyu Lee, Window ≠ Wall

LCB Depot:
• Davide Baldazzi, Molekules
• Bruno Iglesias, Frame of Phase

Installation: Sam Underwood – Heed
Fri May 31 – Tue 4 Jun
Time: starting evening of May 31, open all day thereafter
Location: Phoenix Café
NO reservation needed

For this installation, sound artist and musical instrument designer Sam Underwood is placing a series of sonic devices in and around Phoenix. A variation on his long-term Sonic Graffiti project, Sam has chosen to reflect on our current divisions. Each piece encourages close listening and quiet reflection as an antidote to the bombast that seems so commonplace at this time.

About Sam Underwood
Visit the official page here