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Creative Midlands South

Summer Party and MK Calling preview

Posted: 16 May 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Thursday 27.6.2013
Exhibition Events

Summer Party and MK Calling Preview

Thursday 27 June 2013 / 6 - 10 pm / All Welcome

MK Calling is the Gallery's summer programme, featuring 100 artists, musicians and performers from Milton Keynes. This dynamic season of painting, video, dance, music, poetry and much, much more will showcase MK's finest emerging and established talent.

Speeches from 7pm followed by music by a New Orleans jazz band and a hog roast.

Find out more / RSVP

Improv Night

Posted: 17 May 2013 09:55 AM PDT

Thursday 20.6.2013
Thursday Scratch Nights

Live Music: Improv Night

Thursday 20 June / 6 - 8.30pm / Free

This event is an open session for musicians, sound artists and non-musicians who are interested in exploring improvisation and developing new musical relationships. Bring your own instruments/ equipment/ objects (and amplification should you require it). MK gallery will provide the PA, Mics, DI's and the space for exploration.

Email us for more information with the subject title 'Improv Night'.

Town Planners presents: TX-OGRE, Carousel Soundlab, Hipnoninja and Circuit Breaker

Posted: 16 May 2013 06:31 AM PDT

Saturday 22.6.2013
Saturday Live Music

Town Planners presents:

TX-OGRE, Carousel Soundlab, Hipnoninja and Circuit Breaker

Saturday 22 June 2013 / 7.30pm / £3 on the door

This gig offers an insight into the nascent local "BIY" (build-it-yourself) music scene which includes DIY electronics, circuit bending, and instrument-building in the pursuit of new and different methods of music-making. TX-OGRE is the current recording alias of Bristol-based Henry Collins (Planet Mu), Having abandoned the jungle-gabba-mashup madness of his SHITMAT project, Henry has since turned his attentions to making wildfire noise from scratch; sound art, instrument building, circuit-bending and abstract noise. When playing live, TX- Ogre uses familiar household tools and items in unusual ways, promising "cassette player guitars", a stringed chair, vacuum-cleaner "doom guitar", and possible "noise tombola"!

See examples of Henry's instruments HERE

Carousel Soundlab is a music studio based in Great Linford, geared towards sonic experimentation." Visitors are encouraged to construct their own instruments, or devise their own methods of working with the existing collection. The approach of building simple but functional instruments from basic materials is partly inspired by experimental luthier Yuri Landman; two of his instruments are part of the Soundlab's permanent collection".

To visit Soundlab's instruments or get involved see HERE

Hipnoninja is the solo multi-media project of the very dreadlocked Tim Stapley, who as Hipnoninja performs live his live funk/d'n'b sets using many instruments he has built himself, including "cello-sitar" and double-bass, augmented with loops, gadgets, and synth-pads. Among his many experiences as a technician (including playing guitar on the "Have I Got News For You" theme) and as sound man for Jools Holland, he is currently working on new music with Ninja Tune artist EMIKA.

Listen to examples of some Hipnoninja music HERE

Circuit Breaker is the longtime noise/electronic project of brothers Peter and Ed Simpson, originally from Leighton Buzzard. Circuit Breaker have been providing dementedly mashed-sounding gigfuls of damaged, PiL-inflected electronic noise around Milton Keynes since 2006. They have played alongside such noise-music luminaries as Cold Cave, Prurient, and Bo Ningen, and were recentlygiven a favourable review by Julian Cope who wagered that "you'll soon be wandering around impersonating troubled vocalist Peter Simpson, declaiming and denouncing portentously as you engage with the housework".

Find out more HERE
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