CYBERSONICA 06

CYBERSALON @ THE DANA CENTRE

The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost & Bookings: Details on the Cybersonica 06 website <www.cybersonica.org>
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

Cybersonica <www.cybersonica.org> is London’s annual festival of electronic music, sonic art and audiovisual fusion. Now in its fifth year, it is a leading international event for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work. The festival brings together a vibrant community of sonic and audiovisual innovation, nurtures new talent and showcases the freshest and latest work in the field. Cybersonica is organised by Cybersalon, currently artists in residence at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.

Cybersonica 06 commissions and showcases both live, cutting edge audiovisual performance and sonic art works that contain the most exciting contemporary approaches to creative interactivity - moving beyond the screen, keyboard and mouse and responding to sound, kinetics, elapsed time and the surrounding environment.

Gathered through invitation, a commissioning programme and an ‘open call’ for existing artworks, Cybersonica 06 brings challenging new work to an international audience. It profiles the latest developments in music, sound and audiovisual fusion and showcase the latest work of some of the most innovative artists and practitioners in the field.

Cybersonica 06 is presented in association with the Science Museum’s Dana Centre <www.danacentre.org.uk> and in partnership with the Encompass Festival <www.encompass-london.com> - navigating the business and art of cutting edge music at Shoreditch Town Hall, EC1 and five East London club and performance venues, 11-13th May 2006 and b.TWEEN 06 <www.btween.co.uk> - the Festival of Future Entertainment, at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, 24-26 May 2006.

Collaborators and contributors to the Cybersonica 06 programme include Soundtoys.net <www.soundtoys.net>, Trampoline <www.trampolinesite.net>, Toplap <www.toplapsite.net>, Threshold <www.eventnetwork.org.uk/threshold/>, Umami <www.umami.tv> and many others. Cybersonica 06 is sponsored by the national ISP, UK Online and supported by Arts Council England.

Full details of the festival are available at the Cybersonica 06 website <www.cybersonica.org>.