Cryptic continue their 30th birthday celebrations in November, presenting an eclectic evening of audiovisual work.
The word ‘tweet’ is now more often linked to technology than to birdsong, much like how human activity threatens bird habitats. Audiovisual artist Kathy Hinde’s Twittering Machines reflects this by converting John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale into Morse code, using multiple outputs to distort the transmission, creating a chattering, artificial dawn chorus.
Devised & performed by: Kathy Hinde
Software programmed by: Matthew Olden
“it’s when the composer splices together varied electroacoustic elements, with the B-side a mellifluous maelstrom of resonant metal surfaces building to an almost Sunburned Hand Of The Man-like climax, that the composition really catches fire” Noel Gardner The Quietus
Uaxuctum by Scottish multimedia artist Konx-om-Pax offers an audiovisual experience where a diverse soundtrack, influenced by artists like Pauline Oliveros and Krzysztof Penderecki, generates organic, ever-changing visual patterns, merging sound and light into a thrilling, synaesthetic spectacle.
