Retrospective Highlights 2012

Been a bit lax on the blogging, but heres a quick round up of selected highlight from 2012 to start to bring the pages up to date.

  

We did our own audio Visual Arts camping weekend in Hereforedshire more images here

We performed a retro Oscillate / Modulate set, in a geodisic dome at Shambala.
more pics/clps here

And some of us set off on a long road trip to Hungary, where Modulate member Bobby Bird played a Higher Intelligence Agency  live set at the amazing O.Z.O.R.A. Festival , in the beautiful thatched roofed ambient / electonic music stage

Modulate at SONM – May 2011

Modulate were invited to spend a week at SONM in Murcia, Spain – a new Centre for  Sound Art and Experimental Music curated by Francisco Lopez. Here we gave a presentation, performed a concert, and showcased a new  installation , the “Modulate Octophonic Loop System” ,  an 8.1 sound installation developed by Bobby Bird exploring new ways to present Modulate’s unique sound, which remained exhibited at SONM after we left.

Stereo excerpt from The Modulate Octophonic Loop System

More images from SONM 

Excerpt from our live AV concert 

New work was developed by Modulate with support from Arts Council England

Modulate at Flatpack Festival March 2010

In March we gave a 45 minute Live Cinema performance at Flatpack Festival , an  improvised, slowly unfolding abstract sonic visual journey, which was very well received by the audience.

recording of our  performance below :

Prior to our performance we also curated a selection of screenings,  including an exclusive preview of EXP /Frank Bretschneider plus some clips of  a beautiful  video installation ‘Forever’ by Universal Everything

Modulate Perfromance at CocArt Music Festival Poland

Modulate’s performance at the CoCArt Music Festival, at the Center of Contemporary Arts in Torun, Poland, was a big success. The  five members of Modulate performed a new  AV set,  created for CoCart,  to an audience of over 400 people.

Two Youtube clips :

One Here

One Here

Review

“Last weekend, during the final of II CoCArt Music Festvial, the audience took a musical journey with Modulate – a British multimedia collective. The people, gathered in the CoCA’s underground car park were taken aboard a futuristic space frigate, speeding through the void of outer space. The accompaniment to this fascinating voyage was kept minimal, while also being rich in textures and musical figures. The whole spectacle was replenished with abstract and geometrical visualizations, digital  / laptop electronics appeared here as a fully developed rhythmical form … a space cruise of the highest degree”.
Excerpts from a review by Dariusz Brzostek ( translated from Polish)

Venue

Other perfromances we particularly enjoyed included those by Vitor Joaquim + Hugo Olim:

Sunao Inami:

And of course, Hatti, co curators of the festival:

Photos courtesy of Vitor Joaquim , Wojtek Szabelski /  freepress.pl, and Rednail

With thanks to: CoCart and Hatti for inviting us

Arts Council England for additional travel funding

…  and the lovely Polish audience