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BEAM (Brunel Electronic and Analogue Music) was founded by Sarah Nicolls in 2011 to explore the physical performance of electronic music, and has since hosted events at Brunel University and Cafe Oto, showcasing a variety of innovative artists, including Plaid, Tim Exile, Jana Winderen and Philip Jeck. The BEAM Festivals are high-tech music weekenders and playgrounds of homemade instruments, where people experience and learn how to create living electronic music. Through performances, installations and workshops, BEAM brings together global audiences of artists, researchers, DiY electronics builders and enthusiasts, from beginners to veterans.
BEAM is now collaborating with NIME to present BEAM@NIME for NIME 2014. Funded by Arts Council England, we are inviting artists to compliment the NIME programme through performances and installations. We will connect an exciting area of academic research with the ‘regular’ world of concerts, exhibitions and club nights, and foster connections between gig-goers, musicians, technologists and researchers. BEAM@NIME provides a portal to a world where technologies are used in creative, strange and wonderful ways to enhance and extend human bodies and the music they make. We believe that the installations and performances have something to offer to people of all ages and tastes. We can’t promise anything, but you might just find the future of music here, and even if you don’t, it’s probably worth having a look…
Concerts range from daytime events on the Goldsmiths’ campus to late night club nights in Corsica Studios, and interactive installations will be running throughout the day in Fordham Park and on the Goldsmiths’ campus.
For any enquiries about the events, from tickets to accessibility concerns or arranging school visits, please contact nime2014music@goldsmithsdigital.com
We gratefully acknowledge funding from PRS for Music Foundation, Arts Council England and the European Research Council (ERC) project “Meta-Gesture Music”.
http://prsformusicfoundation.com
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
http://erc.europa.eu
IMOGEN HEAP
Tuesday 1st July, XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, London EC2A 4AP
Imogen Heap combines pop success with a constant drive for innovation and experimentation, whether through performing with new technologies or using social networks to change the very dynamics of how she connects and even performs with her audience.
She has recently launched a Kickstarter for The Mi.Mu Gloves project, a new performance interface which she will be performing with for BEAM@NIME.
http://imogenheap.com/thegloves/
Ticket link to be announced here.
LEAFCUTTER JOHN
Tuesday 1st July, XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, London EC2A 4AP
Leafcutter John will be presenting his new light powered synthesiser: an immersive audio visual performance with a thrilling synaesthesic dimension. Bike lights and candles generate glorious landscapes of playful, glitched techno in a performance that is simultaneously accessible and enchanting.
Ticket link to be announced here.
JOHN BUTCHER
Wednesday 2nd July, Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Rd, London SE14 6TY
With a conference looking at ‘new’ interfaces for musical expression, we think it is important to look at how ‘old’ interfaces are still used in innovative ways, and how musicians can creatively (mis)use instruments in ways the makers never intended. John Butcher is one such musician who has developed advanced extended techniques on the saxophone. He has played with many of the great improvisers of our age, and is one of the most important musicians both in the local London and international improv scenes.
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/
Ticket link to be announced here.
KAFFE MATTHEWS
Tuesday 1st July – Thursday 3rd July, Fordham Park, New Cross, London
From her early performances with MIDI violin to newer works such as the Sonic Beds, sound artist and composer Kaffe Matthews has consistently brought sensuality, feeling and a sense for the human body into the world of electronic music.
She will be creating a special piece, Pedalling Games, for BEAM@NIME, taking place in Fordham Park, New Cross. Building on her Bicycle Opera, which has been shown across Europe, she will be creating a fleet of bikes equipped with sensors and synthesisers so that participants can generate sound by riding the bikes.
http://www.kaffematthews.net/
Free entry
KATHY HINDE
Tuesday 1st July – Thursday 3rd July, New Academic Building, Goldsmiths, New Cross
Bristol based artist Kathy Hinde is creating a new sonic installation and performance, Tipping Point, concerned with our relationship with water. The installation creates soundscapes from the movement of water through glass vessels. The piece is being developed with Bristol University’s Scientific Glass Workshop along with custom made software.
http://tippingpointwater.wordpress.com/
Free entry