A curious event next weekend from the Modulate peoples as part of their monthly Sonic Culture Salon. International sound artist Francisico Lopez will give a ‘Total Darkness’ performance in Birmingham. The audience will be required to be lying down, or seated, in darkness, to promote ‘profound listening and immersion into the sound matter’. Blindfolds will … [Read more…]
From the Ten4 blog: We’re scouring the country for the UK’s hottest new creative talent for the 4Talent Awards 2007. Spanning the whole of the creative industries, from filmmakers to fashion designers, screenwriters to illustrators, architects to actors, writers to web designers – we want to hear from YOU. Completely free to enter. Open to … [Read more…]
Living in a Box. The BBC’s Rajesh Mirchandani spends a night in the Micro Compact Home curently set up on the Festival of Extreme Building site near Masshouse. Andrew Dubber’s 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online is now available as a 96 page PDF which you can download for free. If you don’t … [Read more…]
From suselstahl Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.
Regarding commenting on this site, it was brought to my attention that the system was requiring you to register before letting you speak. This is obviously unacceptable and I have had words with the system. You can now comment freely. My deepest apologies for this tedious infringement on your liberty. Comment away! (I suspect this … [Read more…]
Tindal Street Press are having a launch for Mick Scully’s new crime novel Little Moscow next Tuesday 12th June from 7.30pm onwards at the Bond Company, 180–182 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, B5 5SE. The event will feature author Mick Scully reading from Little Moscow and discussing his fiction with Nicola Monaghan, creative writing fellow at Birmingham’s … [Read more…]
Artpeeps is a new group portfolio site for West Midlands illustrators and cartoonists who’ve come out of the Hi8us workshops. Fifteen artists are featured so far and you can track new additions to the site with this RSS feed. Here’s a piece by Amera Mussa, a Finnish illustrator based currently in Birmingham.
Interesting looking spoken word piece coming up at The Drum on June 15th. If you though you understood Africa in relation to your own life in the West, even just a little, think again… Africa attacks all the senses – an unparalleled cacophony of sounds, smells, colours and feelings from a continent with a rich, … [Read more…]