ST2K Sydney Street Art Fest.

Chris Tamm / Konsumterra – co-organiser of the Sydney street art festival, ST2K, has been kind enough to post a plethora of images from the ST2K exhibition, Here Comes Trouble.  We are very excited to see our little gameboy lieblings on display, and are both humbled and grateful to be a part of the festival.

Here Comes Trouble, ST2K, Sydney, October 2008

ST2K brings together street artists, zinesters, poets and performers for a giant, fuzzy celebration of all things DIY.  With many thanks to Christie Torrington and Chris Tamm.  Visit his stuff at:

www.flickr.com/photos/konsumterra/

Inspiration.

Its hard to stay inspired.  Especially when the TV’s are full of US election campaigns, the newspapers are full of financial crises, and the internets are full of facebooks.  Here are some places in which I have found safe havens whilst journeying through the dark winter of creative absentia.

1. Fecal Face

—> Weird name, awesome art.  Based in SF, the site is fun-filled with artist interviews, features, reviews, user-submitted galleries, forums, weekly art competitions… oh, the list goes on!  Please check it out – it is so much fun!

2. Computerlove

—> For some of that warm, fuzzy design-lover’s satisfaction, I use Computerlove.  Go to ‘Public Feed’ and then ‘topics’ to find all sorts of exciting things on your favourite medium/ style.  Or, alternatively, just click random links and see what happens!

3. Etsy

—> For the hand-made, home-grown, and dearly affordable, go and get yourself some original art, craft and design, and help a starving artist in the process.  Everybody wins!

4. Soopkichn

—> If you want to know anything about great contemporary Australian illustrators, artists and designers, Soopkichn is the… wait, we need capitals here… THE website to visit.  With regular updates on exhibitions and artist news, as well as a whole plethora of buyable goods (tasty!), it is worth regular visits.

5. Pink Tentacle

—> Ah, those crazy Japanese!  What will they think of next?!  To find out, visit Pink Tentacle.  From the wildly creative and amazingly electronic, to the scientifically insane and the simply beautiful, Pink Tentacle is like a newspaper for the Fantastic Planet.  Go get some ‘tentacle love!

Sound Bytes, Melbourne

little-scale

10k

Celsius

Cid

Derris-Kharlan

little-scale

10k

10k

celsius, 10k

celsius

gear

gear

little-scale, 10k, cid.

fun with NES, SNES & projector

With thanks to 10k for his dance beats and general sarcasm, to Derris-Kharlan for his post-exam guitar work, to Kristy for driving us, cleaning up after us and being a great host, to Cid for his wonderful early-morning chauffeuring and for being such a champ, a huge thanks to Celsius for getting us to Melbourne, organising the Sound Bytes event and doing a damn good job of it. Warmest thanks to little-scale for always having me there, and to all the other people that helped cart stuff, set gear up and stuck around to drink beer with us into the early hours.

Dorkbot Adelaide – 15 October 2008

Dorkbot Adelaide is proud to present !!NETBOT!! this Wednesday evening.

Presentations by:
Vinny Bhagat – networks FOR music
Martin Victory – networks AS music

Discussions by:
Hidden Village (brief Electrofringe report)
You! – if you have any ideas/ projects please feel free to bring them along to show the group or discuss them over a coffee and tim tam or two!

Date: Wednesday 15 October 2008 (THIS WEDNESDAY!!!)
Time: 7:30 – 9:30
Location: Schulz Building, University of Adelaide (off Kintore Avenue)
Its Free

Get involved, or get in touch:

Web: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotadelaide/
Email: dorkbotadelaide@dorkbot.org

Mailing List: http://dorkbot.org/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotadelaide‐blabber
RSS: feed://dorkbot.org/dorkbotadelaide/?feed=rss2

Sound Bytes chiptune gig, Melbourne – 17 Oct 2008

We of Hidden Village will playing alongside Ten Thousand Free Men and Their Families, Derris-Kharlan and Slurry Beats as part of an all-chiptune gig in Melbourne this week.  If you happen to be in Melbourne, drop by and say hello – it should be fun!

Where: Bunker Lounge

When: 17 October

Hidden Village at Electrofringe

We (Hidden Village – Lauren Sutter and Seb Tomczak) were fortunate to be able to give a workshop and presentation as part of This Is Not Art (TINA) / Electrofringe festivals in Newcastle, New South Wales last fortnight.  It was a fantastic festival in which we were humbled to take part.  From the plethora of artists, writers, musicians and electronic creatives, we left with plenty of inspiration and new ideas.

Topics we covered in the workshop included:

+ Things that we did during the workshop:
- circuit bending very cheap toys using pots, LDRs, capacitors and the human body
- a basic digital logic sequencing / synthesis demo
- introduction to little sound dj, a game boy music program written by Johan Kotlinksi
- the underclocking of game boys, as presented by Gieskes and first pioneered by Kbud

Things that we spoke about during the presentation:
- Music for Two Desklamps
- Atari Christmas Lights
- Black Dog, White Dog
- Imaginary Menagerie
- 24 Points of Articulation
- The Starmaker EP
- Sega Mega Drive Interfacing
- Sync Devices
- Printer Drum Machines
- Vectrex Interfacing
- Tape-o-tron
- Sega Master System
- Toriton (Water Music)

You can download our EP here.

Workshop:

Presentation:

Thanks to everyone who came along.  And thanks to Seb for being such a wonderful person and an inspirational musician.