TIME MACHINE Laboratory
The TIME MACHINE LABORATORY is an open working space presenting three participatory projects that develop throughout the festival by Angus Deveson, Luke Munn and Jonathan Watts. The Laboratory will also host a series of events and public workshops run by Jonathan Watts, Christian Moraga and Samuel Bruce.
Laboratory Workshops:
(info on RSVP for workshops will be posted on 5.7.2012)
21.07.12
Jonathan Watts
The Sydney Radio Orchestra Workshop
Time: 12-3pm
Location: Serial 002
The Sydney Radio Orchestra is an initiation by emerging, Sydney-based sound artist Jonathon Watts. In this workshop, build your own radio in preparation for The Sydney Radio Orchestra’s performance on Sunday 29.07.12. A live feed of the performance event will be broadcast via radio, creating a radio feedback loop – imagine the sound of 80 radios feeding back on themselves.
22.07.12
Christian Moraga (Cubist Effects & Instruments)
Microsynthlab
Workshop
Time: 12-3pm
Location: Serial 002
The cubist effects Microsynthlab aims to bring a unique approach to making audio instruments with basic electronics to create a collaborative audio performance. This collaboration involves each participant creating a Microsynth “module” that can generate its own audio, but also interact with each of the other modules created by the other workshop participants. Each module creates its own audio signal, however engaging other modules can create a larger instrument. The resulting sound encourages experimentation and is affected by its surrounding environment meaning each time the modules are arranged, a new sound will be created.
As the owner of cubist effects and instruments, Christian Moraga makes bespoke electronic instruments, synthesizers, and circuit bends and modifies effects pedals. Utilising this toolbox of custom-made inventions, Christian also performs as Oscillateur and constructs his sound from a combination of his made/bent instruments electronic instruments and unites them with a mixture of loops – live, recorded and taped. Cubist looks at deconstructing sound to its core tones, and the ways in which these can be manipulated and experimented with to create something new.
Samuel Bruce
Ritual Solar Observance Society
Workshop
Time: 3-6pm
Location: Serial 002
In this workshop, participants shall construct the Ritual Solar Observance Apparatus; a solar powered analog synthesizer based on a hacked supermarket brand rechargeable outdoor light. Following the workshop, new initiates to the Society will have the opportunity to gather outdoors and ritually observe the setting sun by listening to their newly-made synths.
Samuel Bruce is an artist and musician whose practice encompasses generative audiovisual abstraction, handmade electronics, a catalogue of garage sale signs and endurance karaoke. He performs crypto-occult sonic ritual under the name Black Math, and shambolic circuit-bent techno as Knife Crimes.
25.07.12
Jonathan Watts
The Sydney Radio Orchestra Workshop
Time: 6.30-9.30pm
Location: Serial 002
Laboratory Projects:
18.07.12 – 29.07.12
Luke Munn
Volkspost
Location: On display at Serial 002
Volkspost is a free postal system using the journeys of friends and strangers to deliver messages throughout the world. These slow physical messages operate in contrast to tweets and email, bypassing corporate datacenters but also allowing themselves to be delayed or destroyed by chance. By avoiding commercial postal systems, the project circumvents potential censorship and attempts to establish a fallible human delivery system. In this participatory incarnation, messages are sent from Berlin to Sydney using a series of carriers.
Luke Munn is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the immaterial – sound, movement, memory, light and other media – using the body and code, objects and performances to activate relationships and responses.
Angus Deveson
Defence Mechanisms
Location: Serial 002
This project is about creating a combat robot based around solutions found in nature. From the armour plating of the armadillo to the incredible weaponry of the stag-horn beetle, could these forms be translated into an unbeatable man-made combat robot? Over the course of several weeks, these solutions found in nature will be identified and physically combined into a machine destined to compete on the 29th of July against the best of Australia. Supremacy or destruction, the outcome is unknown.
Angus Deveson is an emerging, Sydney-based Industrial Designer with a passion for combat robotics and electronic music. Angus has been building and fighting combat robots since the age of 14, and organised Sydney’s first ever public combat robot competition in August last year.
Laboratory Events:
24.07.12
Dorkbot-Syd
Time: 6:30 – 9:30
Location: Serial 002
Info: HERE
27.07.12
BYOB : Bring Your Own Beamer
Time: 6 – 8 pm
Location: Serial 002
Info: HERE
29.07.12
ROBOWARS
Time: 9am – 5pm
Location: Serial 002
Info: HERE
Ella Barclay, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Gail Priest & Pia van Gelder
The Central Core of Technology
Time: 1:30-3pm
Location: Serial 002
Info: HERE
Image Credit: Pia van Gelder