CYBERSONICA 05: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC, SOUND AND TECHNOLOGY

Thursday, 28th April - Friday, 29th April 2005, 12-10pm
<2005.cybersonica.org>
Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: Events are free but places must be booked by calling 020 7942 4040 or by emailing: <bookings[AT]cybersalon.org>
Nearest tube: South Kensington, Gloucester Road

Friday, 29th April - Sunday, 1st May 2005, 12-8pm
CYBERSONICA 05 @ Encompass: LONDON'S MUSIC CONFERENCE
The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 <www.encompass-london.com>
Cost: 3 Day ProPass £150*, 1 Day ProPass - £60, 3 Day CompPass £95, 1 Day CompPass £35
Nearest tube: Liverpool Street, Old Street, Aldgate East, Shoreditch

* Encompass is delighted to offer Cybersonica subscribers a 35% discount on ProPass tickets which gain you full access to the amazing array of label showcases plus the industry conference taking part during the day. The ProPass usually retails at £150 for a three day pass however with the 35% discount we are offering, the price is brought down to £97.50. Please email Alexandra Donald at Encompass - alex[AT]encompass-london.com - to receive your discount code quoting Cybersonica as the reference. You can then use this code to claim your discount when booking your ticket.

Sunday, 1st May 2005, 7-12pm
CYBERSONICA 05 in step with XFM's FLO-MOTION and REMIX LIVE: A UNIQUE 5-HOUR LIVE SHOWCASE
The Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH <www.ica.org.uk>
Cost: £10 / £8 Concs, ICA Members and Encompass ticket holders; £3 for entry to the ICA Bar only. Call the ICA Box Office on 020 7930 3647 or email - <tickets[AT]ica.org.uk>
Nearest tube: Charring Cross, Piccadilly Circus

Cybersonica 05, London's leading international festival of music, sound and technology, invites you to a celebration of 'playful noise'.

In 1977, in a time before the iPod, Napster, 303s or even the Walkman, French theorist Jacques Attali described the imminent arrival of "an age of composition" – a period in which music would be liberated from the confines of pre-recorded media. We are transformed from being passive consumers of music into co-creators, co-authors and co-producers. Music begins to change each and every time we listen to it and indeed, becomes not so much something to be listened to, as played with.

Nearly 30 years later, Attali's ideas have never been more relevant. The future, it seems, is live. Through its programme at the Dana Centre and The Art at Encompass, Cybersonica 05 showcases a range of playful works that tease new and exciting sights and sounds out of the machine at every turn - creating aural environments and interactive audio-visual fusions in which people can begin to experience sight and sound as a living organism, responding to their presence and their behaviour.

Cybersonica 05 at the Dana Centre and Encompass includes a two-day symposium, keynote addresses, live performance, soundtoys.net exhibition and sonic installations, which explore how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, artists, DJs, VJs, and animators make and present their work. Cybersonica 05 brings together a whole community of sonic originality - from practitioners, theorists, developers and record labels to music, sound and technology lovers.

Festival contributors include: Golan Levin, Addictive TV, soundtoys.net, Cinefeel, VJs.net, the Digital Research Unit (organisers of the Ultrasound festival), Waveswarms, Type Records, Stanza, Toxi and Pelado, I Am The Mighty Jungulator, DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog, SOMETH;NG, Thomas Kitazawa, Studio Troika, Amjad Chaudry & Vikesh Bhatt, Anthony Elliott, Dave Lawrence & Joanna Hoffman.

On Sunday, 1st May Cybersonica 05 teams up with XFM and the ICA for a unique 5-hour live radio broadcast. DJs Nick Luscombe and Eddy Temple Morris bring their Flo-Motion and Remix shows out of the studio, DJing and broadcasting alongside live acts hand picked to provide a varied and exciting musical experience. Cybersonica and vjs.net present live visuals and audiovisual shorts plus a label showcase in the ICA Bar.

Live (Theatre)
Husky Rescue (Catskills)
Break Reform (Abstract Blue)
AMillionSons
Flat Pack

Live (ICA Bar)
Maki Mannami and Isao Osada

DJs (ICA Bar)
Type Records label showcase

Full details of Cybersonica '05 can be found at the Cybersonica 05 website <www.cybersonica.org>