Thursday 14th March 2012, 6.30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 1: Allopoiesis

Technology isn’t just changing the way poetry is produced and disseminated, and it isn’t just creating new media forms for poets to colonise. It’s also creating a context in which many techniques characteristic of experimental poetry practice have become commonplace.

The first instalment of Syndicate will explore the raw intersection of avant-garde poetics, technology and cyberculture through a series of live performances, installations and dialogues. Join us to debate the meaning of authorship and identity in a digital context.

FULLY BOOKED

Sunday 15 April 2012, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 2: Real Time Strategy

Bram Gieben, Justin Katko, Lisa Otty and Jo L Walton will perform / present under the broad rubric of Real Time Strategy. The term chiefly refers to a genre of computer game, and thereby hints at Syndicate’s large, even ontologically nosy, exploratory remit.

Real Time Strategy also has an aura of the ad hoc, of acts on the fly. Just as allopoiesis elides with autopoiesis, so “real time” suggests a raft of unreal types of time: turn-based time, false time, untimeliness, being out of time, and – ahead of all – being before one’s time.

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Monday 10th December 2012, 7:30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

SoundFilmMusic celebrates its third year as a collaborative platform for composers, sound designers and film makers to work together producing short film projects. The goal is to explore how sound design and music can enhance the moving image and create greater resonance and meaning.

Featuring the critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra in a live concert, performed works will include music for films and video games composed by Ennio Morricone, Jian Xiong, Wojciech Kilar, Josh Sabin and J. Jensen. The orchestra is directed by Yati Durant.

FULLY BOOKED

11th & 13th December 2012, 8pm. £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Konk Pack brings together three major figures in contemporary music, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn and Roger Turner. This is a band that stretches free improvisation, opens out an architecture in which shifting space and detail of sound can explode into zones of accelerated high volume electronica & sonic detritus.

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Saturday 8th December 2012, 8pm. £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

notes inégales are one of the most innovative new ensembles in Britain. Described as ‘post-fusion’ they combine playing written new music with improvisation/collaboration – and playing rhythmically ‘funky’ (inégales!) as well as straight.

The ensemble have their own club in London, club inégales. At each session notes inégales play, then guests play, then a new collaboration together. The sheer range of guests - in a friendly interactive environment - constantly invites the audience to ‘hear fresh’.

To book a ticket click here.

Thursday 6th December 2012, 7.30 for 8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Take a trip back in time...way back in time, to the Big Bang. An immersive short history of the Universe with astrobiologist Dr Duncan Forgan, who brings us right up to date with Scottish exoplanet research. Includes a screening of the short documentary 'Into Deep Space'.

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Thursday 18th October, 2012, 8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide.

It is curated in Edinburgh by Gordon Duffy, Principal of architecture practice Studio DuB. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds.

FULLY BOOKED

8th to 18th November 2012.
Festival Hub, 14 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow

Sonica is a new programme of events dedicated to world-class sonic arts, presenting emerging British talent alongside exceptional international artists in collaboration with renowned co-producers and venues.

Sonica was devised by three curators each with a strong interest in sound and art, particularly in the way artists and composers deal with sound across various mediums in today’s highly developed visual culture.

www.sonic-a.co.uk

Wednesday 28th November 2012, 7:30pm. £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

In a unique collaboration, KinoKlub present experimental films of the 1920s including work by Hans Richter, Eugene Deslaw, Walter Ruttman, Dziga Vertov and Fernand Leger.

The lab will be filled with multi-screen projections that have been orchestrated by VJ Robert Motyka, all accompanied by an original soundtrack from DJ Red Crayon Spiders.

FULLY BOOKED

Saturday 10th November 2012, 12 - 1pm. £12
York St Mary's, Castlegate, York YO1 9RN

As part of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Lyndsay Mann has taken the true story of poet Pedro Garfias, briefly exiled in Scotland after the Spanish Civil War, and explores the nuances and dynamics of the obscene, in its literal meaning ‘out of the scene’.

The script is formed from interviews conducted with specialists from several fields. Engaging sculptural installation and hypnotic repetition, the film follows a conversation: silence and language, performance and rhythm, action and memory.

To book a festival day ticket click here.