Bees in a Tin line-up announced!
It is with very great pleasure that we’ve just announced the details for Bees in a Tin, an event I’ve co-curated with Hannah Nicklin and Jen Southern.
Bees in a Tin will feature talks and workshops from key makers and thinkers from around the country as well as two panel sessions for audience questions. If you’re interested in the spaces where the arts, science, technology, and games crash into one another, apologise, and then buy each other a drink: then this is for you.
The talking throne made by East London Kinetics
Even if we do say so ourselves, the line-up is outstanding, with contributions from
- Dr. Rebekka Kill
- Kate Andrew
- Holly Gramazio
- Hamish MacPherson
- Stuart Nolan
- Nigel Reid
- Tim Wright
- Pete Ashton
- Katie Day
- Alice O’Connor
- Gareth Briggs
- Henry Cooke
You can find out more about them all and what they’ll be talking/doing about on the Many & Varied website.
We’re also very excited to have a keynote commission from Sarah Angliss:
According to Sarah, the stage is a tricky place to deploy a machine with an unusual interface. Your audience may be encountering the interface for the first time. They’ll have to grasp its function as the music unfolds, even though they can only see and hear it in action, rather than get their own hands on it. These days, musicians often have to face the challenge of laptop-based interfaces, where so much of the function is embedded in invisible, intangible code. As Sarah talks about these issues and her experience with unusual machines on stage, she looks at the importance of ‘coupling’ – in particular, the audience’s sense of cause and effect between a musician’s actions and sound. What are we gaining – or losing – by loosening this coupling? Does it matter if the audience have no intuitive sense of the musician’s influence on the music? And how can we deploy coupling to turn any gig into an unforgettable event – one which could never be replaced simply by listening to recorded music at home.
Tickets are only £4.50. Buy some.